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  • Belgium: GWEC Realeses Global Wind Market Report

    17 April 2013

    The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) released its Annual Market Update today, with a comprehensive snapshot of the global wind industry at the end of 2012, along with a 5-year forecast out to 2017. Although policy uncertainty in the main OECD markets is a cause for concern, strong markets in China, India and Brazil, as […]

  • UK: Adam Bruce Named Chairman of New Offshore Wind Programme Board

    19 October 2012

    Adam Bruce has accepted the position of Chairman of the new Offshore Wind Programme Board. The Offshore Wind Programme Board has been established following the recommendations in the Offshore Wind Cost Reduction Task Force report. It will comprise a small number of senior representatives from industry (including developers and supply chain), Government and Statutory Nature […]

  • UK Government to Support Major Marine Energy R&D Projects

    29 August 2012
    Authorities, R&D

    The UK Government is to support a range of major collaborative research and development projects, worth in excess of £13 million, that will help to show how wave and tidal energy can be generated at scale, and with lower energy production costs. The UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board and Scottish Enterprise – in […]

  • UK: Aquamarine Power Names New Chairman

    2 July 2012

    Wave energy developer Aquamarine Power has today named Paul Capell as its new chairman. He replaces Mervyn Jones who has served as the company’s chairman since 2007. An experienced CEO and chairman, Capell has worked extensively in the renewable energy, water, oil and gas sectors and has a 30 year track record in starting, acquiring, […]

  • Siemens Launches Round 3 Website in London, UK

    15 June 2012

    Siemens has launched its new Round 3 website at the Global Offshore Conference at ExCel, London (13-14 June).  Siemens, a leading provider of global wind power solutions, unveiled its vision for Round 3, the largest offshore wind programme to date, with the launch of a new dedicated website.  Focused on informing external audiences about the […]

  • Gamesa, NREL Join Forces on R&D Project (USA)

    30 January 2012

    The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Gamesa Technology Corp., Inc. will study and test a variety of components and systems that will guide development of the next generation of wind turbines designed specifically for the U.S. marketplace. The public-private partnership expects to focus on innovations that will enhance the capabilities […]

  • Carnegie Applies for Foreshore Licence (Ireland)

    20 December 2011

    Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited announced that it has formally applied for a Foreshore Licence to continue investigations for a proposed 5MW CETO commercial demonstration project offshore from County Clare, Ireland Carnegie, through its Irish subsidiary CETO Wave Energy Ireland (CWE Ireland), recently completed a detailed site evaluation and conceptual design study. The […]

  • Texas to Install First Offshore Wind Farm in USA

    8 August 2011

      Texas has pulled ahead in the final stretch of getting the nation’s first offshore wind farm and will win the race against long-announced project, Cape Wind. After achieving a major milestone in 2010 with more than 10,000 MW of installed onshore wind energy capacity, the state will now erect the first offshore production wind […]

  • REpower: 295 MW Contract Signed for Thornton Bank Offshore Wind Farm (Germany)

    26 November 2010

    REpower to deliver 48 turbines of the 6M type for phases 2 and 3 Biggest project financing in the offshore wind industry Installations planned for 2012 and 2013 respectively REpower Systems AG (WKN 617703) and the Belgian offshore project development company C-Power have signed a contract agreeing the delivery of 48 wind energy turbines of […]

  • Scandia Wind Offshore asks Ludington approval (USA)

    1 June 2010
    Authorities

    In Ludington, Michigan, a city located in close vicinity to Lake Michigan, the city Commissioners are being asked to approve a plan put forth by Scandia Wind Offshore, a wind farm development company. This plan establishes a wind farm made up of 50 to 100 turbines that would be placed along the waters edge in […]

  • RWE Takes Full Ownership of 1.6 GW German Offshore Wind Project

    26 May 2023
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    RWE has decided to strengthen its position in the German offshore market by becoming the sole owner of the 1.6 GW cluster of offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. The Nordseecluster, consisting of four sites located north of the Juist island, was formerly co-developed with Canadian company Northland Power, which has now sold […]

  • NOWI Inks MoU with OPITO to Support US Offshore Wind Market

    3 May 2022
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    UK-headquartered OPITO and National Offshore Wind Institute (NOWI), based at Bristol Community College in Massachusetts, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which could support thousands of new jobs in the growing US offshore wind market. Under the MoU signed at the IPF conference in New Jersey, the two companies agreed to cooperate to optimise […]

  • Berkeley Lab to Develop Fiber Optic Sensor Solutions

    31 March 2020
    R&D, Technology

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) in California, U.S., has been awarded USD 3.5 million (approximately EUR 3.2 million) in new grants to develop fiber optics for monitoring offshore wind operations and underground natural gas storage.

  • China Longyuan Takes Part in CEEC

    10 July 2013

    On July 3-5, the 2013 Clean Energy Expo China (CEEC) was staged in the National Convention Center in Beijing. As a representative of the new energy industry, China Longyuan Power was invited to participate in the great event and drew lots of professional visitors, thus becoming a highlight of the whole expo. During the opening […]

  • Germany: Supply Chain Strategies for Offshore Wind Industry

    6 August 2012

    The economic crisis has had a knock on effect on the supply chain over the past five years, but since the economy has grown in strength, so has the faith in the wind supply chain. Such faith has left the industry at over capacity with regard to turbine components. As a result there is now […]

  • Marco Polo Marine Unveils Plans for CSOV Newbuild

    20 September 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Singapore-based Marco Polo Marine has announced that it will build, own, and operate a Commissioning Service Operations Vessel (CSOV) to meet the rising demand for support vessels required to service the offshore wind farm industry in Asia. Once completed by the end of the first quarter of 2024, the vessel will be the first CSOV to […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Charters Acta Auriga for French Offshore Wind Farms

    24 June 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Acta Marine has signed a contract with Siemens Gamesa for the charter of a walk-to-work service operations vessel (SOV) Acta Auriga to support the commissioning activities of both Fécamp and Calvados offshore wind farms, respectively in 2023 and 2024. The vessel, owned and operated by the Dutch company Acta Marine, will be responsible for providing […]

  • New Jersey BPU Okays OREC Funding Mechanism

    19 December 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has unanimously voted to adopt a proposed rule establishing the Offshore Wind Renewable Energy Certificate (OREC) funding mechanism for the state’s offshore wind energy.

  • Tekmar Scores Doppelpack

    26 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Tekmar Energy has won multiple contracts by Van Oord to supply its Cable Protection Systems (CPS) for the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm and the BorWin3 grid connection system in the German North Sea.

  • Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm to Reach Financial Close by End of May

    18 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Scottish energy company SSE plc expects to reach the financial close for the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm by the end of May. Beatrice, planned for the outer Moray Firth, will be project financed with non-recourse debt, SSE said. Subject to financial close, onshore construction activities will begin in 2016 with offshore construction planned for 2017. The […]

  • Germany: Siemens to Build EUR 200 Mln Offshore Wind Turbine Factory

    5 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Siemens will invest around €200 million to build its first production facility for offshore wind turbine components in Cuxhaven, Germany, the company reported today. The factory, expected to create up to 1,000 new jobs, will accommodate the final assembly of generators, hubs and nacelle back-ends, which are all connected to form complete nacelles, the core of Siemens 7 MW wind […]

  • Fisher Offshore Names New Managing Director

    4 August 2014

    Energy industry service company Fisher Offshore, part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has underlined its commitment to continued growth with the appointment of a new managing director. Jack Davidson has been promoted from the role of operations director to lead the business as it prepares for the next phase of an ambitious strategy. With […]

  • DNV GL Celebrates Double Milestone

    16 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    DNV GL, the world’s leading ship classification society and one of the world’s leading risk and sustainability service providers, is celebrating a double milestone: The Foundation DNV’s 150th anniversary and DNV GL’s first year as a merged company. “This year marks 150 years of proud past for the Foundation Det Norske Veritas and that in […]

  • Germany: Inter Array Cable Installation Starts at Nordsee Ost OWF

    6 August 2013
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    At the beginning of the week, RWE Innogy has started laying the first inter array cable in the construction area of the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm. By mid-2014, 64 kilometers of cable will have connected the 48 wind turbines with the offshore transformer substation. The Dutch company Visser & Smit Marine Contracting (VSCM) is […]

  • Senators Get Answers on Offshore Wind Lease Economic Data (USA)

    7 June 2013
    Authorities

    U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, finally received a response from the U.S. Department of Interior to a November 2012 letter he and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) wrote to former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, requesting data on the economics of offshore wind production. They noted that that […]

  • UK: Scira Celebrates Move from Construction to Operations for Sheringham Shoal OWF

    23 April 2013

    A formal celebration on Friday 19th April 2013 marked Scira Offshore Energy’s move from the ‘Prepare for Operations’ stage of the Sheringham Shoal Wind Farm to its long term ‘Operation and Maintenance’ stage. Norman Lamb, the MP for North Norfolk and Minister of State at the Department of Health, formally opened Wind Farm Place, the […]