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  • Support for Offshore Wind Gathers Momentum in New York

    15 August 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment

    New York’s business, environmental, labor, and community leaders gathered yesterday, 14 August, in Rockaway Beach in support of Governor Cuomo’s plan to make offshore wind a key component of the state’s strategy to increase renewable energy and stimulate economic development. This coalition has come together in advance of a series of New York City public […]

  • Penguin Finishes 3rd Test Season with Success

    11 December 2014
    R&D, Technology

    Wello has successfully completed the third test season of the Penguin wave energy converter. During this test season, the device was deployed on site six months continuously. All components inside the device are still original from 2011 building further confidence to the durability and survivability of the design. The Penguin wave energy converter solution is […]

  • Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Tourism Fund Opened in Rhyl, UK

    24 April 2013

    THE FIRST completed project to be funded by RWE npower renewables’ Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Tourism Fund was officially opened in Rhyl yesterday. The £250,000 Rhyl Beach Access Project includes a new ramp to make it easier for disabled visitors to get down to the beach, and will also help people wanting to […]

  • SeaZone Teams Up with Snowflake to Launch ‘HydroView Now: Features’ (UK)

    9 July 2013

    Comprised of key marine and nautical feature types from vector charting supplied by official International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) chart producers, HydroView Now: Features is an ideal complement to the free-to-use HydroView Now: Basemap. Delivered through an authenticated geography mark-up language (GML) web feature service, organisations can utilise the service via an application programming interface (API) […]

  • Orion Loads First Coastal Virginia Foundations, Work on Project’s Second Offshore Substation Begins

    13 May 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The first six foundations for Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project have been loaded onto DEME Group’s installation vessel, Orion. In addition, work on the second offshore substation for the 2.6 GW project has started at CS Wind Offshore’s production site in Aalborg, Denmark. The first six monopiles, which are produced by EEW […]

  • Vattenfall Reveals Offshore Wind Research Projects

    20 June 2017
    Environment, R&D, Training & Education

    Swedish utility company Vattenfall has announced the first successful projects for its EUR 3 million research programme aimed at examining the environmental and socio-economic impacts of offshore wind farms.

  • Fugro to Showcase R30 Marine Drill in Frankfurt, Germany

    13 November 2013

    Fugro Renewables will present a new marine drill, R30, which was built by Fugro Seacore on the Fugro Renewables stand (30A100) at EWEA Offshore in Frankfurt, Germany. The drill was built for the renewables market at Seacore’s facility in Falmouth, UK. Matthew Chappell, Offshore Geotechnics Manager at Fugro Seacore explains: “It is a modular ram […]

  • Electro-Tech Set for Ambitious Growth in Enterprise Zone (UK)

    20 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    This week, Electro-tech, a specialist source and supply company servicing the energy sector, is moving into the Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft Enterprise Zone, created by the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership. Electro-tech offers UK and global clients a simple and cost effective way to purchase goods from one supplier. Items range from audio cables to […]

  • GE Has the World’s 2nd Largest Order Backlog (Interview)

    18 November 2015

    Eize de Vries has spoken to Anders Søe-Jensen, CEO of GE’s offshore wind unit, at the EWEA 2015 event in Paris, where the company introduced its new Renewable Energy business, following the acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid businesses. GE Offshore Wind’s brand new nacelle factory in St Nazaire is currently manufacturing five Haliade 150-6MW turbines for the US […]

  • Severn Provider Reaches Safe Transfer Milestone at Meerwind

    4 July 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Severn Offshore Services’ 26-metre Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV), Severn Provider, has completed 5,000 safe passenger transfers since starting her charter at the 288MW Meerwind offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea in April 2015. The Severn Provider is now in her second season of operation for the same client and since her […]

  • DOE Awards USD 1.1 Mln for Wildlife-Wind Power Study

    11 September 2014
    R&D

    Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) and collaborators HiDef Aerial Surveying, University of Maine at Orono, and First Wind have received $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to further develop technology to understand how birds and bats avoid wind turbines. The collaboration will refine a stereo-optic, high-definition camera system already under development by HiDef Aerial […]

  • Rabobank Issues Report on Offshore Wind Installation Vessels

    21 January 2014
    R&D

    Rabobank has issued a report called Navigating the future of offshore wind energy, which states that a radical redesign of offshore wind energy installation vessels is needed in the long-term to lower installation costs and realise projected capacity growth. The high growth rates in offshore wind energy have led to an influx of new installation […]

  • BOEM to Discuss Virginia’s Offshore Renewables Activities

    13 September 2016

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will host a Virginia Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force meeting on 22 September in Virginia Beach to discuss the current status of activities offshore Virginia. The meeting will start at 10:00 a.m. and end around 3:45 p.m. with participation during the meeting limited to Task Force members only. A public question and […]

  • Mabey Bridge Makes Senior Sales Appointment to Strengthen Its Offshore Renewables Sector (UK)

    30 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Mabey Bridge – the UK leading wind turbine tower manufacturer and international bridge builder – has appointed Gerry Voller as Sales Director – Tubular Products. The company – which employs 600 people in the UK and internationally with a turnover exceeding £80m per annum – is expanding and investing in sales leadership as it widens […]

  • First Coastal Virginia Transition Pieces Begin Journey to US

    29 April 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The first transition pieces (TPs) for Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project have been loaded onto the heavy load carrier, Sun Rise, and are en route to the US East Coast. On 24 April, MV Sun Rise left the quayside of CS WIND Offshore (previously known as Bladt Industries) in Aalborg, […]

  • The Netherlands: Post Workboats Develops New Vessel for Offshore Industry

    30 July 2012
    Operations & Maintenance

    Post Workboats has developed a unique Tornado RIB with water jet propulsion especially for the offshore and the wind farm industry. “It is the first time that such a RIB has been equipped with water jets”, says entrepreneur Klaas Post. “And what is more it offers many important advantages. With water jets you can maneuver […]

  • Pile Driving Nearing Completion at Butendiek

    17 July 2014
    Environment, Wind Farm Update

    The Bremen-situated planner and operator wpd takes positive stock for the construction of the offshore windfarm Butendiek. “We are about to complete pile driving, we are well within our time schedule and we have fallen short of the predefined sound levels”, said Achim Berge Olsen, managing director of Butendiek and wpd offshore. Of the 80 foundation […]

  • 3sun Turnover Almost Triples Since 2010/2011

    28 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Great-Yarmouth based 3sun Group, a specialist provider of products and services to the global energy industry, has reported a turnover of £13.7 million for the financial year 2012/13. The company’s turnover increased almost three-fold from 2010/2011, going from £2.4million to £6.5million, and almost doubled from 2011/2012 with an increase to £11.4million. Its projected turnover for […]

  • Federal Officials to Announce New Initiative Designed to Promote Offshore Wind (USA)

    7 February 2011
    Authorities

    Top federal officials will be in Hampton Roads Monday to announce “new initiatives” designed to promote offshore wind energy projects.   By Cory Nealon (dailypress) [mappress] Source: dailypress, February 07, 2011

  • Triton Knoll Moving Into Turbine Installation Phase

    6 October 2020
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The first turbine components for the Triton Knoll wind farm are expected to arrive at MHI Vestas’ logistics and pre-assembly hub in the Able Seaton Port in Hartlepool next month. MHI Vestas has now moved in to Able Seaton Port in preparation to start installing 90 of its V164-9.5 MW turbines at the site 32 […]

  • Mainstream’s Chairman Urges Companies to Shift to Clean Energy

    4 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Sir Roy Gardner, Chairman of the Mainstream Renewable Power’s Board of Directors, last night addressed delegates at the Sustainable Brands Conference in London. In his address he told delegates: “It’s a smart move to replace expensive dirty fuels with cheap clean energy. It’s good for business and good for the environment. It is rightly claimed […]

  • Oil & Gas Company to House Offshore Wind LiDAR on Its New Zealand Gas Platform

    24 August 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Australian oil and gas company Beach Energy will install a Doppler Light Detection and Ranging system (LiDAR) on its Kupe platform in the gas field located offshore South Taranaki, New Zealand, and will share the obtained data with multiple offshore wind developers. On 23 August, the consortium between BlueFloat Energy, Energy Estate and Elemental Group […]

  • USA: Narragansett and Deepwater Wind Discuss Block Island OWF Transmission Route

    4 July 2013
    Grid Connection

    A meeting between the Narragansett Town Council and the CEO of Deepwater Wind, Jeff Grybowski, was held on June 26 in the Town Hall, where they discussed a transmission route for the proposed Block Island offshore wind farm, The Block Island Times writes. The transmission line comprises a subsea cable from the offshore wind farm, […]

  • USA: Fluor Expects Fast Resolution of Greater Gabbard Dispute

    3 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Fluor held a second quarter 2012 conference call yesterday. The company’s management reviewed results and discussed the trends seen in the second half of the year. Among other things, Fluor’s Chairman and CEO David Seaton commented on Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm, saying that the project is “substantially complete” and that the company is currently […]

  • All Foundations Installed at Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm

    31 May 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    DEME Offshore, using its installation vessel Innovation has now installed all 80 foundations at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France, the industry’s first project to employ drilling to install XL monopiles. Eolien Maritime France (EMF), the consortium that owns the wind farm, awarded an EPCI contract for the 80 foundations to DEME Offshore and Eiffage […]

  • Airbus Helicopters Delivers 1st H135 for Offshore Wind Ops

    3 August 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first H135 to HTM Helicopter Travel Munich GmbH for offshore wind operations, marking a new milestone for the enhanced version of Airbus Helicopters’ lightweight rotorcraft previously known as the EC135 T3. The H135 is well adapted to the full range of offshore operations, benefitting from the helicopter’s excellent performance, especially in […]