912 results found for 'momentum wind'

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  • Crown Estate Announces Record Profit of USD 369.1 Million (UK)

    7 July 2011
    Business & Finance

      The Crown Estate earned a net profit (income surplus) of £230.9 million in the year ending 31 March 2011, up 9.6 per cent on the previous year. This marks a record return for the business, which pays its profit to the Treasury for the benefit of the nation’s finances. For the first time The […]

  • Ocean Winds and Bord na Móna Strike Up Offshore Wind Partnership in Ireland

    23 November 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Industry, Wind Farm Update

    Ocean Winds and Bord na Móna have launched a new offshore wind partnership in Ireland at an event with Leo Varadkar, Tánaiste and Ireland’s Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in Dublin. The long-term, exclusive partnership will see Ocean Winds and Bord na Móna, one of Ireland’s oldest semi-states working at the forefront of energy […]

  • UK: Jee Celebrates 25 Years in Business

    26 June 2013

    This year, leading independent subsea engineering and training firm Jee Ltd celebrates 25 years in business. During its history the company has experienced significant growth, expanding from one entrepreneurial engineer to a team of 90.  Jee Ltd managing director and founder, Trevor Jee, said: “Reaching our 25-year anniversary is a significant milestone for the company […]

  • RWE Completes Nordsee Ost Operations Base

    6 June 2014

    RWE Innogy has completed its service and operations station on Helgoland. A two-storey building with warehouse, offices and workshops has been built in around a year on a site of around 3,000 square metres in size at the island’s southern harbour. The offshore wind farm Nordsee Ost will be operated and maintained from here for […]

  • Offshore Wind Power: Critically Needed Clean Energy for Wildlife

    2 October 2014
    Environment, R&D

    Collin O’Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), has written a blog post on American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) website, in which he discusses offshore wind power in terms of its effect on wildlife.  Our treasured wildlife and wild places are sending powerful signals that now is the moment to act on […]

  • First Foundation at London Array Installed by A2SEA’s Seaworker (UK)

    8 March 2011
    Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy, E.ON and Masdar today (8th March) announced that the first of 177 foundations has been installed at the London Array Offshore Wind Farm, in the Thames Estuary. The monopile, weighing 268 tonnes – the equivalent of around 35 double decker buses – was supplied and installed by joint venture company Per Arsleff Bilfinger […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Sinks Further Into Red, Takes Action to Stabilize Business

    2 August 2022
    Business & Finance

    Wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa has reported a loss of EUR 343 million pre PPA and before integration and restructuring costs recorded in the third quarter of the Fiscal Year 2022. The company reported revenue of EUR 2.436 billion in the three months up to 30 June, a ten per cent decrease year-on-year. The reported […]

  • Wind Bankers III: PensionDanmark

    3 February 2013

    PensionDanmark, one of Denmark’s largest pension funds with 629,000 members employed in 26,000 private and public companies, is one of the first, if not the first pension fund to take offshore wind very seriously. It has already invested in 2 offshore wind farms and it is eyeing more. The organisation has embarked on an ambitious strategy to more than double its investments in […]

  • UK: Interest in Grimsby Enterprise Zone Becomes High

    1 March 2012

    Strong interest has been expressed in the enterprise zone currently being finalised to help Grimsby realise its ambitions to become a hub for offshore wind farm operations and maintenance. Two areas on the North Wall have been selected, after the application was made to increase the zones already confirmed in the Humber region, following the […]

  • First Jacket In at Deepest Fixed Bottom Offshore Wind Farm

    11 October 2021
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The first wind turbine jacket foundation has been installed at the 1.1 GW Seagreen, Scotland’s largest and the world’s deepest, fixed bottom offshore wind farm, SSE Renewables said. Two jackets operated by main contractor Seaway 7 made their way on a barge from Global Energy Group’s Port of Nigg in the Highlands of Scotland to […]

  • Denmark: Vestas Names New CFO

    27 April 2012

    Vestas Wind Systems A/S has appointed Dag Gunnar Andresen, 48, as new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the Executive Management. He is expected to take up office around 1 August this year. The new CFO not only has considerable experience within financial management. Dag Andresen also has extensive knowledge of the energy sector, […]

  • Eolink, Kranendonk Eye Floating Wind Foundation Gigafactory

    27 April 2021
    Business & Finance

    French floating wind foundation developer Eolink and Dutch robotics company Kranendonk are looking into setting up a gigafactory for automated production of floating wind foundations. Eolink said it had slightly adapted its detailed design to be fully compatible with automated welding robots which would be used in Kranendonk production line. The flow-rate and the infrastructural […]

  • US to Hold Seven Offshore Wind Auctions in Next Three Years

    14 October 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) plans to organise up to seven new offshore wind lease sales by 2025, according to the country’s Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. Offshore wind auctions are expected to be held for Wind Energy Areas in the Gulf of Maine, New York Bight, Central Atlantic, and Gulf […]

  • Petrofac Building Its Position in Offshore Wind Market

    27 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    Petrofac Limited (Petrofac) today announces its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2013. Ayman Asfari, Petrofac’s Group Chief Executive commented on the interim results: “Operationally, we have made a good start to the year on our portfolio of projects and we have built good momentum in securing new awards. As previously signalled […]

  • BREAKING: Denmark Greenlights North Sea Energy Island Hub

    4 February 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Ports & Logistics, R&D, Technology

    Denmark has reached a landmark agreement on the construction of an energy hub in the North Sea. The energy hub will be an artificially constructed island 80 kilometers from the shore of the peninsula Jutland. Around 200 wind turbines with a combined capacity of 3 GW are expected to be installed in the first phase […]

  • AMSC Licenses Multiple Wind Turbine Designs to a Sixth Wind Turbine Manufacturing Customer in China

    12 January 2011

    American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a global power technologies company, announced today that it has licensed several of its proprietary AMSC Windtec(TM) wind turbine designs to Beijing JINGCHENG New Energy Co., Ltd. (JCNE), a subsidiary of state-owned Beijing JINGCHENG Machinery Electric Holding Co., Ltd., which also owns Beijing BEIZHONG Steam Turbine Generator Co., Ltd. (BSTG). […]

  • WIND FARM UPDATE

    31 August 2015

    Nordergründe The 111MW Nordergründe offshore wind farm reached financial closure. The project developer WPD announced that it has secured funding for the next €410m phase of the wind farm. The funding includes loans from KfW IPEX-Bank and the European Investment Bank (EIB) and equity from WPD. Nordergründe will have 18 Senvion turbines installed 16km off the German coast in the Weser Estatuary, in water depths varying from […]

  • Siemens, ABP Get Green Port Hull Consent

    4 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Hull City Council’s Planning Committee has given its consent to the proposed works at Alexandra Dock, Green Port Hull, following the submission of detailed plans by Associated British Ports (ABP) and Siemens plc in June this year. In March Siemens and ABP announced a combined investment of £310m to develop pioneering new wind turbine production and […]

  • REAL-TIME FEEDBACK ENABLES LEARNING ON THE JOB: How vessel display makes maintenance safer, faster and cost effective

    27 April 2015

    Maintenance of offshore wind turbines is important and necessary. The faster a defect turbine is running again, the faster it produces electricity. Time is money. How do you make sure that the valuable time turbine technicians have, is actually spent on offshore wind turbine maintenance? In practice a lot of valuable time is lost; often […]

  • Latest Offshore Wind Investment Puts City of Hull on the Map

    27 March 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Hull City Council has welcomed the announcement by Siemens Board confirming their intention to develop wind turbine production and installation facilities at at two locations – the Green Port Hull in Alexandra Dock and a rotor blade manufacturing facility located at Paull, to the east of Saltend. Leader of the Council, Councillor Stephen Brady, said: […]

  • Ocean DEMO Greenlights Three Floating Wind Projects

    1 April 2020
    R&D, Technology

    Ocean DEMO, a EUR 13 million Interreg-funded project, has recommended two floating wind technology developers for support packages under the second call.

  • DNV GL Presents Three OW Joint Industry Projects

    10 March 2015
    R&D

    DNV GL today announced three Joint Industry Projects (JIPs) aimed at developing recommended practices for the global wind industry to further develop industrial accepted design practices and methods, lower risks and reduce costs. 1. JIP: Coupled dynamic analysis of floating wind turbines Floating wind provides an opportunity to globalize offshore wind as a technology in a […]

  • Decommissioning the Last Option for Offshore Wind Farms – Analysis

    10 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Environment, R&D

    Fully decommissioning an offshore wind farm is the least cost-effective strategy for owners of projects reaching the end of their lifespan, the latest analysis from ORE Catapult’s new joint industry programme shows. On the other hand, partial repowering of offshore wind farms, which involves installing larger turbines at an old site, is the most cost-effective […]

  • Germany: Sietas Starts Construction of Jack-Up Vessel for Van Oord

    3 April 2012

    In the shipbuilding hall of the Sietas shipyard in Hamburg, a start has now been made on the construction of a German premiere: production has started of the first sections and blocks of the offshore wind power jack-up vessel for the prestigious Dutch marine engineering company Van Oord. In the presence of Peter de Ridder, […]

  • The Netherlands: TU Delft’s Associate Professor Receives Subsidies for Offshore Energy Projects

    3 April 2013
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Pavol Bauer (UHD, Electrical Power Processing section) received subsidies from the top sector Energy for a grand total of three projects. The total subsidy of the projects amounts to one million euros for research and half a million euros for components and equipment. It concerns research on Integrated Offshore Electricity Infrastructure, Electrical Vehicle Supported PV […]

  • Gamesa to Make Decision on Multi-million Pound Factory (UK)

    22 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    BOSSES at a Spanish offshore firm are poised to make an announcement over a multi-million pound factory which could bring 1,000 jobs to Hartlepool. Madrid-based Gamesa will choose either Hartlepool or Dundee to build a UK base to construct wind turbines, and with all other contenders ruled out it is now a two-horse race between […]