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  • Asia’s Leading Maritime Gathering Opens with Sparkling Ceremony (Singapore)

    12 April 2011

    Sea Asia, the leading maritime exhibition and conference in Singapore showcasing the international and regional maritime industries, opened today with fanfare at a packed opening ceremony in Singapore (April 12, 2011). The show, which articulates the Voice of the Asian maritime communities, has captured the imagination of the global shipping community. It was officially opened […]

  • Gamesa Announces Plans to Base the Worldwide Centre of its Offshore Business in the UK, Investing up to 150 Million Euros Through 2014

    25 October 2010
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Gamesa, a world leader in wind energy technology, intends to choose the United Kingdom as the worldwide centre of its offshore wind energy business, and plans to invest up to 150 million euros there by 2014. The offshore industrial plan, which Gamesa plans to implement beginning in 2011 in the UK, calls for the creation […]

  • Energy Skills Scotland Announced with Double Funding

    10 May 2013
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Training & Education

      A doubling of planned funding to improve oil and gas training facilities and develop other energy sector skills courses has been announced by the First Minister. Led by Skills Development Scotland and located at Robert Gordon University, Energy Skills Scotland (ESS) is being backed by an investment package worth £6.5 million – double the […]

  • Offshore wind in France – The state of the industry

    13 January 2012

    The last major economy in Europe that is not a member of the offshore wind club is due to knock on the clubhouse door this year. France will be joining the club with a huge 3GW enrolment fee. This month, to be precise, 11 January 2012, was the deadline for the tenders to be submitted […]

  • UK: SSE Reports End of Year Highlights

    30 March 2012

    SSE plc will enter its close period on 1 April 2012, prior to the publication on Wednesday 16 May 2012 of its financial report for the year to 31 March 2012. It continues to expect to deliver a full-year dividend increase of at least 2% more than RPI inflation, and of around 80 pence per […]

  • New Bedford Becomes Cape Wind’s Staging Area

    15 September 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    On Friday, September 12, Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick joined Cape Wind Associate’s Jim Gordon to announce that Cape Wind has entered into a lease agreement with the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) to stage its historic, first-in-the-Nation offshore wind project out of the South Coast Marine Commerce Terminal located on New Bedford harbor, a project […]

  • 2016: When Great Things Happened

    30 December 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    We are leaving what has arguably been the best year for offshore wind so far with a hope that the one ahead of us will be at least as eventful and successful as 2016 was, if not better. The Eurocents This year, we saw several tenders resulting in remarkably low prices. First, there was Borssele […]

  • Offshore Wind Power Development Blows Across North America

    6 May 2011

    Europe’s love affair with offshore wind may at last be venturing across the Atlantic as the first approved project in the US continues apace. However, the switch to this large-scale renewable energy form – which has the potential to displace both coal and nuclear in providing the bulk of energy consumed by coastal populations – […]

  • The Netherlands: Bureau Veritas Developing Offshore Wind Farm Certification

    12 November 2012

    On the second day of the Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference held in Amsterdam RAI, one of our reporters made an exclusive interview with the Director Industry of Bureau Veritas Mr. Yvo Jansen. Hereby we are bringing you a part of their conversation. – What is the process behind acquiring a regulatory certificate in the […]

  • Scientists Develop Lightning Shield for Wind Turbine Blades

    10 August 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a lightning protection system for wind turbine blades using a new composite and an innovative thermal welding process. Created in partnership with General Electric and LM Wind Power and with funding from the US Department of Energy’s Technology Commercialization Fund, the wind turbine ”lightning shield” […]

  • CONNECTING OFFSHORE WIND FARMS: TSO TenneT uses German experience for Dutch offshore challenge

    12 January 2015

    In the Netherlands, the government aspires to build new offshore wind farms with a combined output of 3,450MW by 2023. The Minister of Economic Affairs recently decided that Transmission System Operator (TSO) TenneT will have the responsibility of building the offshore grid to accommodate these wind farms. Offshore WIND asked Mel Kroon, the CEO of […]

  • First Minister Launches Industry-Led Energy Skills Academy

    23 March 2012
    Authorities, Training & Education

    First Minister Alex Salmond today launched an industry-led energy skills academy, established with over £900,000 public funding, to deliver training for thousands of workers across key sectors including oil & gas and renewables. Nigg Skills Academy (NSA) has been built at Nigg Energy Park, which was purchased by Global Energy Group (GEG) in October. Highlands […]

  • Sandia Researchers Use Wind Knowledge for Tidal and Wave Industry (USA)

    15 September 2011

      A dearth of public information, complicated marine environments and even the corrosive effects of bubbles are among the challenges for companies trying to produce energy from river currents, tides and waves, but Sandia National Laboratories is working on solutions. Sandia is helping companies on the frontier of the coming marine hydrokinetics (MHK) industry navigate […]

  • Green Investment Bank: GBP 2.3 Bln for UK’s Low-Carbon Infrastructure

    9 May 2013

    The UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) has today announced the investment impact of its first five months of operation (up to 31st March 2013): · Committed funds to 11 transactions with a total value of £2.3 billion; · Directly committed £635 million, resulting in a funding ratio that sees £1 from GIB mobilising almost […]

  • UK: World’s Largest Wind Turbine Construction Complete

    22 October 2013

    The world’s largest and most powerful offshore wind turbine is now standing at Energy Park Fife. The Samsung Heavy Industries prototype offshore turbine is due to become operational later this year. The structure is situated 50 metres offshore in the Firth of Forth and the tip of its blades stretch 196 metres above the sea. […]

  • Germany: SAL Puts “Svenja”, the World’s Largest Heavy Lift Vessel, into Service

    10 December 2010
    Technology

    With a lifting capacity of a total of 2,000 tonnes and speed of 20 knots, it’s the world’s largest heavy lift vessel to date: SAL Schiffahrtskontor Altes Land puts the first of two new buildings of Type 183 into service. The company, which ranks among the leading international heavy lift shipping companies and is based […]

  • Shell Setting Up ‘New Energies’ Unit. Oil & Gas Companies to Cause Clash of Giants in Offshore Wind?

    17 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    Shell has created a new division called New Energies, through which the oil and gas giant will invest in wind energy, along with its hydrogen, biofuels and electrical activities, according to The Guardian. Even though Shell has not yet officially confirmed this, it is expected that the new unit will be unveiled in early June. […]

  • Offshore Wind Partnerships Form Down Under

    25 November 2021
    Business & Finance

    BlueFloat Energy, Energy Estate, and Elemental Group are partnering to develop offshore wind farms in New Zealand. The partners have launched “Haumoana – New Zealand Offshore Wind Capacity Building”, a report which highlights New Zealand’s untapped potential for offshore wind development and the opportunities to establish a local supply chain as well as create enduring […]

  • Offshore ReWIND: The Most Read News in the First Half of 2017

    21 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Vessels

    To remind you of just how interesting the first half of 2017 was, the Offshore WIND editorial staff compiled a list of the most read articles published during first six months of this year. Even though the industry has been notably active since the beginning of July as well, our team has decided to set the time parameter to end with 30 June and thus provide a new overview in addition to our annual Offshore ReWIND.

  • Ørsted First Customer for Vestas’s Blades Made Through New Recycling Process

    8 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Collaboration, Environment, Industry, Innovation

    Ørsted and Vestas have entered into a partnership that will see Ørsted using low-carbon steel towers and blades made from materials obtained through the newly developed recycling process in all of its future offshore wind farms which will feature Vestas wind turbines. When ready for commercial manufacturing, Ørsted will procure recycled wind turbine blades made […]

  • Building floating wind installation and O&M strategies on oil and gas experience

    14 November 2023
    Business development, Equipment, Floating Wind, Industry, Operations & Maintenance, Storage, Transition

    Floating assets have long been installed, operated and maintained to support oil and gas (O&G) production. The emerging floating wind sector has specific challenges to overcome, but also opportunities to build strategies informed by O&G experience. Opportunities and challengesThe global offshore floating wind market is expected to soar from 60 MW to more than 25 […]

  • New York Offshore Wind Acreage Up For Grabs

    3 June 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has announced the proposed lease sale of 81,130 acres offshore New York for commercial wind energy leasing. The proposed lease area, approximately 11 miles south of Long Island, is identical to the New York Wind Energy Area, which Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) identified earlier this year […]

  • Van Oord Shares Experience with Innovative Foundations (Interview)

    28 October 2015
    Vessels

    As promised, we bring you the second part of the interview with Van Oord’s Commercial Manager of Offshore Wind Projects, Theo de Lange. In this part we have focused on new technological developments, offshore wind projects they worked on and their vessels. First part: Van Oord: Dredging Companies Venturing into Offshore Wind (Interview) OW: Earlier this year, you have […]

  • UK: Vattenfall, ScottishPower Invest GBP 15 Million in East Anglia Region

    25 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall and ScottishPower Renewables, joint venture partners behind the East Anglia Offshore Wind Zone, have awarded over £15m in contracts to businesses operating in East Anglia. Since 2010, 28 firms located in the region have benefited and it is estimated that this has helped support well over of 100 jobs. In November last year the […]

  • PASSER Eyeing Floating Wind

    27 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Cables, Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Foundations, Green Hydrogen, Grid Connection, Industry, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Vessels

    The work on the vertical lay-up machine (VLM) for JDR’s new cable factory in the UK is now well underway in Klaipeda, Lithuania, where Norway-headquartered PASSER Group recently opened a new fabrication facility. The Group has revealed that, besides expanding its production capacity, it is also looking into areas for future business expansion, with floating […]

  • China’s Offshore Wind Market Expected to Hit USD 16 Billion

    28 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    Despite the considerable challenges and bottlenecks faced by China’s offshore wind power market, the country’s efforts in technologies for development of offshore wind power have remained strong. Thanks to years of coordination and cooperation between the government and domestic offshore wind power players, the first batch of offshore wind power license projects, most of which […]