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  • Esvagt CEO Resigns to Take Same Role at Blue Water Shipping

    20 December 2017
    Business & Finance

    Esvagt CEO Søren Nørgaard Thomsen has left the company to become the CEO of Blue Water Shipping, where he will replace the company’s founder and CEO Kurt Skov. 

  • Iceni Defender Officially Named, Iceni Legend to Hit the Water in March

    8 December 2016
    Vessels

    Iceni Marine is holding a naming ceremony for its new vessel, Iceni Defender, at Alicat Workboats’ facilities in Great Yarmouth, where also Iceni’s next vessel – Iceni Legend – is being built and is scheduled to be launched in March 2017.  South Boats IOW and Alicat Workboats launched the Iceni Defender at the beginning of November. Iceni […]

  • USA: Fishermen’s Energy Places Wind Sentinel Buoy in Federal Waters

    6 June 2013

    After more than a year of preparations and near-shore testing, the Fishermen’s Energy Wind Sentinel buoy was relocated from a test site near Atlantic City to an offshore area leased from the U. S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Located eleven miles east of Ocean City, NJ, this site is within […]

  • USA: Water Power Program Offers Funding to Wave Energy Devices

    27 March 2012
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    On Tuesday, March 20, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Water Power Program notified potential future applicants of an upcoming Funding Opportunity Announcement tentatively titled, “In-Water Wave Energy Conversion (WEC) Device Testing Support.” DOE intends to fund one industry-led project that will deploy and test a WEC device for one year. The device will be […]

  • Reasurchers test floating wind turbines for deep-water installations (USA)

    13 July 2010
    R&D

    Wind turbines may be one of the best renewable energy solutions, but as turbines get larger they also get noisier, become more of an eyesore… [mappress] Source: dcnonl, July 13, 2010;

  • Floating Concrete TLP Platform Passes MARIN Tests

    12 June 2014
    R&D, Technology

    Mocean/DBD Systems/Ewind was selected by Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) to conduct a 2 week long wave tank tests on a unique TLP foundation for deep water sites suitable for the Siemens SWT 6.0-154 6MW offshore wind turbine generators (WTG) and other similar WTGs. The results of the tests conducted on a 1:50 scale model […]

  • Harnessing Waves with Nanostructured Hydrophobic Surface

    21 April 2014
    R&D, Technology

    The American Chemical Society has published a paper on a new way to harvest wave energy. Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems at Chinese Academy of Sciences and School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology gave their contribution to this report, which looks into liquid–solid electrification-enabled generator based on a fluorinated […]

  • Block Island Project Secures Financing, Steel in Water Planned for Summer

    3 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Deepwater Wind, the US wind energy developer, has fully financed its Block Island project, reaching financial close on more than $290 million in project financing. Mandated Lead Arrangers Societe Generale and KeyBank National Association provided the funding for the wind farm. With these major agreements, Deepwater Wind has now secured all debt and equity funding needed […]

  • Water Wall Turbine Selects Switch 500 kW Power Converter

    16 September 2014
    Technology

    Vancouver-based Water Wall Turbine Inc. (WWT) has selected The Switch to provide a 500 kW full-power converter for its innovative self-floating power plant. This new commercially viable system extracts potential and kinetic energy from large, fast moving water currents for conversion into electric energy. The Switch will supply its first 500 kW full-power converter in […]

  • Blue Water Shipping to Bring Offshore Wind Opportunities to Bandholm Port

    5 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    As of 1 January 2015, Blue Water Shipping (BWS) will take over the daily operation as well as sales and marketing responsibility for the private Port of Bandholm on the island of Lolland in Denmark. ”We believe that the combination of Blue Water Shipping and Knuthenborg/Bandholm port is perfect. Our strong, local and regional port […]

  • Australia: South Boats Chooses Arctic Steel Water Strainers for Workboats

    19 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    South Boats, Britain’s flagship work boat builder, has chosen to fit Marine OEM Supply´s Arctic Steel water strainers to provide clean cooling water to the high performance engines powering their workboats. The high spec vessels, built to DNV certification, demand the absolute best from the equipment fitted. The ruggedly built Arctic Steel cast 316 strainers […]

  • BPU Accepts Applications for Offshore Wind Development in NJ Waters (USA)

    17 May 2011
    Authorities

    The state Board of Public Utilities has opened the application process for prospective developers of offshore wind projects that… (newjerseynewsroom) [mappress] Source: newjerseynewsroom, May 17, 2011;

  • U.S. DOE Releases Critical Materials Strategy

    28 December 2011
    Authorities

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released the 2011 Critical Materials Strategy. The report examines the role that rare earth metals and other key materials play in clean energy technologies such as wind turbines, electric vehicles, solar cells and energy-efficient lighting. The report found that several clean energy technologies use materials at risk of supply […]

  • First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Vessel Hits the Water (Gallery)

    15 February 2016
    Vessels

    The first crew transfer vessel dedicated to serve the U.S. offshore wind industry was placed into the water for the first time last week, according to social media pages of Rhode Island Fast Ferry and its subsidiary Atlantic Wind Transfers.  “On Wednesday the workboat was lowered down the railway at low tide and left to wait […]

  • Sweden: Blue Water Shipping and Gillis Shipping Cooperate on Offshore Wind

    17 May 2013

    Blue Water Shipping and Gillis Shipping AB have agreed to form an official cooperation with focus on offshore wind activities in Sweden.  “The cooperation with Gillis Shipping AB fits perfectly with our strategy to be represented in the areas where we see possibilities for offshore wind activities. Now, we offer our clients the same service […]

  • Wind and Water Power Program Implements Programmatic and Functional Alignment (USA)

    30 December 2011

    The Wind and Water Power Program recently implemented a programmatic and functional alignment focusing on the advancement of a variety of land-based and offshore wind and water power technologies. The program reallocated staff and realigned projects to advance offshore wind, marine and hydrokinetic, hydropower, and land-based wind energies. As the national leader in wind and […]

  • Floating Wind Bill Introduced in Oregon

    19 March 2021
    Authorities

    A new bill outlining a plan to develop 3 GW of floating offshore wind capacity in Oregon by 2030 has been introduced in the state’s House of Representatives. If enacted, the bill would establish a task force on floating wind energy and enable planning the development of 3 GW of commercial scale floating wind projects […]

  • Siemens Gamesa and Van Oord Partner Up on Windpark Fryslân

    3 August 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Windpark Fryslân B.V. has selected the consortium of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and Van Oord as the preferred contractor for the construction of the Fryslân nearshore wind farm in the Netherlands.

  • Denmark: BWS Appoints Kim Hedegaard Sørensen as Managing Director

    28 September 2012

    Blue Water Shipping has just celebrated its 40th anniversary – founder and Managing Director Kurt Skov at the helm throughout all the years – and is now ready to put a new man in front of the company. 46-year-old Kim Hedegaard Sørensen is appointed new Managing Director for Blue Water Shipping – Denmark’s most versatile […]

  • Nautec on Grouting Duty at Chinese Offshore Wind Farm

    30 May 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    The Singapore-based Nautec is supporting the grouting work at the CTGNE Yangjiang Shapa Phase 1 offshore wind farm in China. The company said that its material specialists and grouting engineers are assisting with grouting for turbine and substation jacket foundations at the 300MW project. Nautec is supplying its NaX grouting materials for a total of 10 […]

  • Nearshore Wind Farm to Be Dismantled

    8 March 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    The wind turbines of the 16.8 MW Irene Vorrink nearshore wind farm, one of Vattenfall’s oldest wind farms in the Netherlands, will be dismantled after 25 years in operation. The 28 wind turbines of the Irene Vorrink wind farm, named after the Dutch politician Irene Vorrink who passed away in 1996, are now in the […]

  • First Steel in Water at New York’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    23 June 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    The first monopile foundation has been installed at the South Fork Wind site offshore New York, the state’s first offshore wind farm. The foundation will support the project’s offshore substation, which will also be installed in the coming days. Boskalis’s offshore installation vessel Bokalift 2 is transporting and installing the foundations, including the one for […]

  • Maine State Waters Now Legally Off Limits to Offshore Wind

    8 July 2021
    Authorities

    Janet Mills, the Governor of the US State of Maine, has signed into law LD 1619 which prohibits new offshore wind projects in State waters. The prohibition is said to preserve Maine’s State waters for recreation and fishing, where up to 75 per cent of Maine’s commercial lobster harvesting occurs, and cement into law Maine’s […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Marks 1,000th Offshore Direct Drive Turbine in Water

    5 December 2019
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa has reached a milestone with the installation of its 1,000th offshore Direct Drive wind turbine. The milestone unit is the 51st turbine that Siemens Gamesa recently installed on the 714MW East Anglia One offshore wind project in the UK. Siemens Gamesa said that a further 1,000 Direct Drive offshore wind turbines have been […]

  • First Subsea Carries Out Open Water CPS Installation & Removal

    28 July 2017
    Technology

    First Subsea has completed its first customer-witnessed open water demonstration of a new Cable Protection System (CPS) for offshore wind farms, the company informed.

  • Denmark: Blue Water, Fred. Olsen Successfully Cooperate on Riffgat OWF

    8 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    Blue Water loaded the last component from the Port of Esbjerg to the German wind farm Riffgat Offshore Wind Farm which is located in the North Sea. The turbines were installed by the experienced Norwegian company Fred. Olsen Windcarrier, who looks back on a positive project. “The cooperation with Blue Water has been excellent and […]