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  • Bold Tern Gets New Crane

    26 April 2022
    Vessels

    The new crane for Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s Bold Tern has been fitted onto the jack-up vessel, which now has double the lifting capacity it had before it was equipped with the 1,600-tonne leg encircling crane. The crane, manufactured by Huisman, was placed aboard the vessel a few days ago through a tandem lift by Asian Hercules […]

  • Van Oord Offloads Blauwwind Stake

    12 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has sold and transferred its 10 per cent stake in the Blauwwind joint venture to the renewable energy asset manager Luxcara In 2016, the Blauwwind consortium was awarded the concession to design, construct, operate and maintain the Borssele III and IV offshore wind farm. The project is comprised of 77 Vestas 9.5 MW […]

  • EDF Renewables and DP Energy Form Celtic Sea Floating Wind Partnership

    12 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    EDF Renewables has formed a joint venture partnership with DP Energy to generate up to 1 GW of floating offshore wind energy in the Celtic Sea, with the project likely to span English and Welsh waters. Work including identification of a refined area of search and detailed constraint studies for the proposed location of the […]

  • Vattenfall’s Danish Nearshore Pair Clears Legal Hurdles as UXO Survey Starts

    14 July 2021
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Denmark’s Energy Board of Appeal has completed the processing of a number of complaints filed against the Danish Energy Agency’s (DEA) authorisation of Vesterhav Syd and Vesterhav Nord nearshore wind farms. The Board confirmed the DEA’s decisions from 14 December 2020, when the authority granted Vattenfall the permission to build the two wind farms, after an assessment of […]

  • Vestas and Port of Gdynia Readying For Offshore Wind Boom in Poland

    13 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has begun technical discussions with the Port of Gdynia to drive the port’s development as a key infrastructure site for offshore wind in Poland. The collaboration is intended to support the attractiveness of the port to project developers as a major hub in the impending buildout of offshore wind in […]

  • Greek Conglomerate and CIP to Jointly Develop Wind Farms Offshore Greece

    29 June 2021
    Business & Finance

    Greece-based industrial conglomerate MYTILINEOS has signed an agreement with Copenhagen Infrastructrure Partners (CIP) to jointly develop wind farms offshore Greece. MYTILINEOS entered the agreement through its Power & Gas Business Unit – Protergia, and CIP on behalf of its fund CI New Markets Fund I, for a joint cooperation (CIP 60 per cent / MYTILINEOS […]

  • Wind Turbines at Sea Reach 5 Per Cent of Total Wind Energy Capacity

    27 April 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Global installed offshore wind capacity increased in 2020 and reached around 5 per cent of total wind capacity, according to the latest statistics from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Overall, wind energy expansion almost doubled last year with 111 GW, compared to 58 GW in 2019. Of the 111 GW, around 34.4 GW of […]

  • DNV GL to Provide Project Certification for German North Sea HVDC Platforms

    4 September 2019
    Grid Connection

    DNV GL and TenneT have signed a four-year framework agreement covering project certification of new high-voltage direct current (HVDC) substations in the German North Sea. The transmission system operator awarded DNV GL the contract following an independent EU tendering process. The agreement includes the certification of the planned DolWin5 converter platform which features a grid […]

  • Welcome to the Improved OffshoreWIND.biz!

    15 January 2019

    From today OffshoreWIND.biz readers can enjoy an optimised news website with enhanced usability, performance and a fresh look & feel. Great news for all those readers interested in the latest and in-depth news on all things offshore wind as the whole process of improving the website was driven by user experience. The new clean design […]

  • Walney Extension Ready to Take Over London Array’s Title

    31 August 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Walney Extension, a 659MW wind farm in the Irish Sea, is scheduled to become the world’s biggest offshore wind farm in a few days and throw the 630MW London Array off the throne. 

  • ABB Power Pack for Hornsea Project Two SOV

    30 May 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has awarded ABB with a contract to equip a wind farm service operation vessel (SOV) which once built will operate on the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm in the UK.

  • Papertrail’s Cloud-Based O&M Business Gains Momentum

    21 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    The North Wales-based software company Papertrail, a provider of cloud-based inspection management and data capture technology for the wind energy industry, has informed that it won several new contracts last year and that it sees further growth as its platform is being used increasingly for operations and maintenance (O&M) in both on- and offshore wind.

  • APQP4Wind Project Goes Global

    24 January 2018
    Training & Education

    In a year since its launch, close to 1,500 APQP4Wind manuals has been distributed and over 450 APQP4Wind training courses held worldwide, with more training courses planned in the USA, China, Spain, Turkey, Denmark and possibly India in 2018.

  • Helios Remote Sensing Systems Wins DOE Award for Offshore Wind Radar

    22 June 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced nearly USD 32 million in funding for small business-led projects to further develop clean energy technologies that have a strong potential for commercialisation and job creation.

  • Oil&Gas Company Wins SCORE Grant to Diversify into Renewables

    8 June 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Training & Education

    The first oil & gas company to be awarded a SCORE grant to diversify into renewables will use it to create 13 new jobs.

  • First UK HVDC Test Centre Open for Business

    27 April 2017
    Grid Connection, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has opened a new technology centre in Cumbernauld that will allow the energy industry to simulate real life conditions to test and de-risk the use of high voltage direct current (HVDC) on the electricity network in Great Britain.

  • Eni Makes Another Renewable Energy Move. After GE, Teams Up with Statoil

    15 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    After entering renewable energy development partnership with GE last year, Italian oil and gas company Eni made another move into the sector as it signed an agreement with Statoil for the development of clean energy projects on 14 March.

  • Drones Lift SgurrEnergy’s Turbine Inspection Game

    7 March 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    SgurrEnergy, part of Wood Group’s clean energy business, has introduced unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to its existing inspection service offering after obtaining the Civil Aviation Authority‘s Permission for Aerial Work.

  • Seacat Services Musters Troops on Isle of Wight Ahead of Busy 2017

    9 January 2017
    Vessels

    Seacat Services informed today that it had moved into its new purpose-designed headquarters in Cowes, Isle of Wight, and strengthened its operational team ahead of the major offshore wind construction phase beginning in April this year. With a number of high-profile multi-gigawatt offshore wind developments poised to enter construction from April 2017, the industry is preparing for a prolonged period […]

  • South Korea to Set Up 96.8MW Offshore Wind Farm at Saemangeum

    9 January 2017

    An offshore wind project with a total capacity of up to 96.8MW will be built at South Korea’s estuarine tidal flat Saemangeum. On 6 January, the Saemangeum Development and Investment Agency (SDIA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Saemangeum Offshore Wind Power, a special purpose company established between KEPCO KPS and Mirae Asset, as well as […]

  • Grid Expenses Hurt innogy’s Earnings

    11 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    innogy, a renewable energy, retail and grid spin-off of the German energy company RWE, issued its first independent financial report following the Initial Public Offering (IPO) in October, reporting a dip in earnings in the first nine months of 2016. The results were negatively affected by  high expenditure on grids and absence of positive one-off effects […]

  • Foundation Monitoring System Brings Zensor EU’s Rising Blue Star of the Year

    14 September 2016

    Zensor, a Belgium-based provider of monitoring packages for offshore wind support structures, won the Rising Blue Star of the Year award at the first edition of the Blue Economy Business Awards. The ceremony was held as part of the first Blue Economy Business & Science Forum at the International Maritime Museum of Hamburg. Zensor provides condition monitoring systems for the foundation […]

  • German Parliament Approves EEG Reforms, Wind Development Limited

    8 July 2016

    German parliament today approved an amended Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG 2016), which replaces feed-in tariffs with competitive auctions and limits wind energy deployment to allow for the grid development to catch up. The offshore cap, which will apply from 2021-2030, will vary from year to year to ensure that Germany reaches its 15GW wind energy target in the next […]

  • Horizon Wraps Up Seabed Testing for Horns Rev 3

    14 March 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Horizon Geosciences has recently used its 200kN Seabed CPT system to complete a geotechnical site investigation for Vattenfall’s 400MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in the Danish part of the North Sea.   Horizon’s scope of work centered around turbine locations and infield cable routes. The programme of work included downhole sampling and CPT testing, seismic CPT […]

  • Gallery: SLP Upends, Jacks Up Dudgeon Substation Platform Jacket

    14 March 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Lowestoft-based Sembmarine SLP Ltd (SLP) upended and jacked up the jacket structure for the offshore substation platform to be installed at the Dudgeon offshore wind farm at its Hamilton Road site this month. The platform comprises of a topside and jacket structure, the latter of which uses suction bucket technology, a first for a substation in UK waters, with […]

  • RMS and Eos Help Vattenfall Kentish Flats Extension Team Beat the Deadline

    12 January 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    UK-based RMS Submarine Ltd. and Germany’s eos projekt GmbH have recently provided consultancy and client representative support on behalf of Vattenfall Wind Power UK for Kentish Flats Extension (KFE). RMS/eos were contracted between February and September 2015 and provided multiple services such as project documentation review, onshore mock-ups, cable factory witness/inspection/ reporting, inshore survey client representation, […]