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  • Industry Primer: Wind Energy 2010

    28 January 2011
    R&D

    Wind energy has become the most widely adopted source of renewable energy around the world, with approximately 300,000 wind turbines installed globally, representing an aggregate generation capacity nearing 200 gigawatts. In 2009, wind energy accounted for approximately 2.1% of the total electricity generated worldwide and 55% of electricity generated from renewable sources. Despite its considerable […]

  • Germany: Borkum Riffgrund 1 Substation Installed

    29 August 2013
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The first important milestone in the installation of the Borkum Riffgrund 1 Offshore Wind Farm has been achieved: The installation of the offshore substation for the wind farm in the North Sea is completed. “Though we have more than 20 years’ experience in offshore wind, it’s a very special moment,” said Christoph Mertens, Senior Director […]

  • Inter-Array Cable Installation Underway at Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm, UK

    19 March 2013
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The latest stage in the construction of Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm, off the North Wales coast, has got underway with the start of inter-array cable installation. The subsea cables will connect all 160 turbines to the two offshore substations already installed more than eight miles off North Wales in Liverpool Bay. The work […]

  • WeserWind and Alstom Bag Contract for Baltic 2 Substation (Germany)

    23 November 2011
    Grid Connection

    EnBW has commissioned a consortium consisting of the WeserWind and Alstom to build the substation for Baltic 2 offshore wind farm. Wind farm will consist of 80 Seiemens’ 3,6MW wind turbines located 32 km north of the island Rügen. Alstom will be in charge of electrical construction and Weser Wind in charge of steel construction. […]

  • Elia Seeks Vessel Co-Ordinator for Belgian Offshore Grid Project

    21 June 2013

    Elia is seeking to appoint a vessel co-ordinator to control vessel traffic movements for the Belgian Offshore Grid project. Belgian Offshore Grid project will connect future wind farms situated in the Belgian part of the North Sea as efficiently as possible with the onshore grid by creating a genuine Belgian Offshore Grid (BOG). This will […]

  • Orion Starts Installing Hollandse Kust West Alpha Jacket

    16 August 2022
    Grid Connection, Vessels

    DEME’s vessel Orion has begun the installation of the jacket foundation for the Hollandse Kust West Alpha platform in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The jacket set sail from the Port of Vlissingen to the offshore construction site on 14 August, a few weeks after the load out at the Heerema Fabrication Group […]

  • Statkraft All Set for Surveys at Irish Offshore Wind Farm Site

    23 December 2021
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The Irish government has granted Statkraft a foreshore licence for site investigation in waters off Ireland where the company plans to build a 530 MW offshore wind farm. The developer submitted an application for the licence in December 2019, requesting approval to undertake site investigations at the project site located off the coasts of County […]

  • Rotech Subsea Continues Taiwan Offshore Wind Streak

    8 January 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Rotech Subsea has secured a contract for a follow-up phase of sand wave clearance and seabed leveling work at an offshore wind project in Taiwan. In Q3 2020, the company mobilized its TRS2 Controlled Flow Excavation (CFE) and Suspended Jet Trenching tool, setting sail from Aberdeen to Taiwan, where the TRS2 completed a sand wave […]

  • TenneT Reveals Borssele Beta Topside Sail-Out Date

    20 March 2020
    Grid Connection

    The Borssele Beta offshore substation topside will sail out from HSM Offshore’s yard in Schiedam to the installation site in the Dutch North Sea on 22 March, TenneT said. The 700MW offshore grid connection is scheduled to be operational on September 1. From then on, the 731.5MW Borssele III and IV wind farm that is […]

  • Tekmar to Provide Northwester 2 Cable Protection

    31 January 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    Tekmar Energy has secured a contract by Jan De Nul to provide its cable protection system (CPS) for the Northwester 2 offshore wind farm in Belgium. Under the agreement, Tekmar will supply its TekLink Mechanical Latch Generation 8 CPS for all of the project’s inter-array and export cables. The system will be produced at the company’s manufacturing […]

  • Innogy Names Sofia Offshore Wind Farm Project Director

    27 July 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Innogy SE has appointed David Few as Project Director for the largest project in its current development portfolio, the 1.2 GW Sofia offshore wind farm, sited on Dogger Bank in the North Sea.

  • Trianel Windpark Borkum II Reaches Financial Close

    10 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The 200MW Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) offshore wind farm project in the German North Sea has reached financial close, Green Giraffe said. Green Giraffe was the sole financial advisor to TWBII, initially owned by EWE and Trianel. Green Giraffe helped arrange the sale of a minority stake to ewz, the Swiss utility, and compatriot […]

  • European Commission Nods to GE’s Acquisition of LM Wind Power

    21 March 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Technology

    The European Commission has approved unconditionally the acquisition of LM Wind Power of Denmark, by General Electric Company (GE) of the US after concluding that the proposed acquisition would not result in a significant reduction in competition in the EU’s Single Market.

  • ENGIE and Iemants Team Up on Merkur OSS EPC Contract

    29 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    ENGIE Fabricom-Tractebel and Iemants have joined forces to carry out engineering, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning of an offshore substation and an associated jacket for the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.  ENGIE Fabricom is in charge of the overall integration of all systems of the offshore substation which will be built throughout 2016 […]

  • DeepOcean Wins Race Bank Cabling Gig

    26 October 2015
    Grid Connection

    DeepOcean 1 UK Ltd, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, has won a contract for the provision of cable installation and trenching work for DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm. Offshore work will be undertaken in 2016/2017 with DeepOcean’s in-house fleet of dedicated cable installation and trenching vessels. David Summers, DONG Energy’s Race […]

  • Windreich Welcomes TenneT’s Initiative to Speed Up Connection to German Electricity Grid

    24 February 2012
    Grid Connection, R&D

    The CEO and the sole shareholder of Windreich AG, Willi Balz, welcomed the TenneT’s initiative to accelerate the connection of the offshore wind farms to the German electricity grid. The proposal presented by TenneT demands that the offshore connecting cables – like the onshore transmission grid – are constructed on the basis of a 10-year […]

  • Bilfinger to Produce Steel Foundations for Polish OWF

    5 December 2013

    The engineering and services group Bilfinger, along with Polish steel construction company Crist and the state-owned investment fund MARS, will together produce steel foundations for offshore wind turbines in Szczecin, Poland. At a celebratory ground-breaking, Poland’s Finance Minister Włodzimierz Karpiński and Member of the Executive Board at Bilfinger Joachim Enenkel signaled the start of construction […]

  • Europe Could Spend GBP 2 Billion Annually by 2020 for Wind Turbine Blades (UK)

    19 July 2011

      BVG Associates in a report commissioned by The Crown Estate, concludes that, by 2020, £2 billion will be spent annually on the manufacture of wind turbine blades alone for offshore wind farms in Europe. The report also shows that the annual composites demand for European offshore wind will reach 100,000 tonnes by the end […]

  • Dale Power Solutions Targets Humber Offshore Renewables Industry

    13 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    Dale Power Solutions of Scarborough, which makes and services uninterrupted power systems and generators, is the latest company to join Hull-based Team Humber Marine Alliance (THMA), as the company is targeting the Humber region because of its increasing importance as a renewable energy hub. Mark Carter, business support manager at Dale Power, said there was endless […]

  • Dale Power Solutions Targets Humber Offshore Renewables Market

    9 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Dale Power Solutions of Scarborough, which makes and services uninterrupted power systems and generators, is the latest company to join Hull-based Team Humber Marine Alliance (THMA), as the company is targeting the Humber region because of its increasing importance as a renewable energy hub. Mark Carter, business support manager at Dale Power, said there was […]

  • Denmark: DONG Uses ‘Floating Hotel’ to Utilise Periods with Good Weather

    18 December 2012

    While the installation activity at Anholt wind farm is intensified, the personnel logistics is also optimised in the week before Christmas. On 1 December 2012, the floating hotel Wind Perfection arrived at Grenaa Harbour to be ready to take its position in the wind farm to act as floating hotel for the many technicians involved […]

  • RWE Builds R&D Purposed Wind Turbines in Eemshaven, The Netherlands

    3 July 2012
    R&D

    Last week construction started on the first turbine at the Wagenborg Stevedoring premises. A huge crawler crane (type LR13000) with power boom took care of spectacular lifting work and could be seen from afar. When the construction of the first windmill is finished, the crane will be (partially assembled) moved  to the location of the […]

  • Scottish Energy Minister: Offshore Renewables Bar Needs to Be Set High

    23 June 2016

    Speaking at RenewableUK’s Global Offshore Wind conference in Manchester, Scottish Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse said that Scotland has the potential to be at the forefront in all stages of offshore renewable energy and that it is important to have high ambitions. He pointed out the fact that the Scottish Government has granted consent for the world’s largest floating offshore […]

  • TenneT Announces Multi-Billion Investment in Dutch Grid

    6 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    TenneT will invest a total of EUR 6 billion in Dutch high-voltage grid in the next decade. Driven by significant growth in renewable energy capacity in the Netherlands and surrounding countries, the transmission system operator will commit some EUR 2 billion for the expansion and replacement of Dutch high-voltage grid on land and will pour approximately EUR 4 […]

  • Erie County Council Joins LEEDCo

    23 April 2015
    Authorities

    On April 21, the County Council of Erie County, Pennsylvania voted unanimously to join the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo), the non-profit organization based in Northeast Ohio leading the effort to develop the offshore wind industry in Lake Erie. Erie County becomes the first county outside of Ohio to join the public-private partnership. Membership […]

  • DeepOcean Launches New Base at Port of Blyth

    17 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    DeepOcean has opened a new offshore services base at the Port of Blyth in the UK.