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  • Fugro to Start Geotechnical Surveys on Neart na Gaoithe

    18 November 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Nearshore geotechnical surveys along the Neart na Gaoithe export cable corridor route are due to start off the Fife coast in Scotland later this month. The survey work is being carried out by Fugro using a ‘walking’ jack-up barge, Wavewalker 1. The survey is planned to start no earlier than 25 November and last approximately […]

  • Energinet Issues Thor Environmental Study Call

    5 July 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Energinet has issued a tender seeking a consultant to provide a strategic environmental assessment (SEA) for the Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark. The work will include a number of surveys to be carried out, as well as technical reports of specific environmental and other themes, for the construction, operation and decommissioning phases of the […]

  • Heerema Scoops Hollandse Kust Zuid Deal

    15 May 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Heerema Marine Contractors has won a contract by Petrofac for the transport and installation of the Alpha platform at the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm zone. Heerema will perform the installation by one of its newest vessels, the semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir. According to the company, during the tender preparations the feasibility of the […]

  • DeepCwind Maine Offshore Wind Report (USA)

    24 February 2011
    R&D

    The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center and the DeepCwind Consortium released the Maine Offshore Wind Report today. The report is available for download online at DeepCwind.org/offshorewindreport. UMaine Prof. Habib Dagher is leading statewide efforts to develop the technology and infrastructure that will enable Maine to capitalize on deepwater offshore wind as an […]

  • Hollandse Kust West Alpha OSS Jacket Ready for Installation

    14 July 2022
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has loaded out the jacket foundation for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust West Alpha offshore substation in the Port of Vlissingen and the structure is now ready for transport to its final location in the Dutch North Sea. The jacket, weighing more than 2,300 tonnes, was loaded out at HFG’s yard in Vlissingen […]

  • Second Turbine Up at Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project

    29 June 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Vole au vent has installed the second and final turbine at the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) pilot project in the U.S. The two Siemens Gamesa SWT-6.0-154 units, which are the first wind turbines installed in U.S. federal waters, will now undergo acceptance testing before being energized later this summer. According […]

  • DONG Picks Steelwind to Build 36 Borkum Riffgrund 2 Foundations

    31 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy has awarded Germany’s Steelwind Nordenham with a contract to manufacture 36 monopiles and transition pieces for the 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm. This is not the first time Steelwind Nordenham was contracted by DONG to build foundations for an offshore wind project, but it is the first time the company will produce transition pieces […]

  • Seatricity to Redeploy Oceanus 2

    3 April 2015
    R&D, Technology

    Seatricity will redeploy its Oceanus 2 Wave Energy Convertor at Wave Hub following the winter refit. Over the next few days, a patented hydraulic pump which was stripped down over the winter for component analysis, will be reassembled at The Cylinder Service Center Ltd of Washington, Tyne & Wear, and is expected to return to […]

  • Rhode Island CRMC Adapts OSAMP for Offshore Wind

    14 August 2019

    The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) has approved changes to the policies in the Ocean Special Area Management Plan (OSAMP) with an aim to better address proposed offshore wind farm developments. According to CRMC, a number of issues were raised during the federal consistency review process for the Vineyard Wind project, which the agency […]

  • Rough Seas Delay Block Island Subsea Cable Installation

    7 June 2016
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Adverse sea conditions have pushed back the installation of the 20-mile National Grid submarine cable from Narragansett, Rhode Island, to Block Island by one week. The cable laying barge Big Max was initially scheduled to install the cable last week, however, rough sea conditions postponed the works and the vessel is expected to start working off […]

  • Australia: Global Cleantech Cluster Association Shortlists CWE

    11 September 2012

    Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (CWE) announces that it is one of only two Australian cleantech companies shortlisted as a Global Top 30 2012 semi-finalist by the Global Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA). The GCCA announced its Global Top 30 semi-finalists for its 2012 Later Stage Award for “rising stars” in the industry who […]

  • Two important new offshore windfarm contracts signed by Nordsee – GeoSea (both DEME Group) in German waters

    1 September 2010
    R&D

    The Joint Venture Nordsee Nassbagger- und Tiefbau Gmbh – GeoSea NV, both of them members of the Belgian dredging, marine engineering and environmental Group DEME, has been awarded two different contracts for prepiling and installation works to construct both the EnBW Baltic 2 wind farm, 32 km north of the island of Rügen, and the Trianel West Borkum II wind farm, 45 km north of the East Frisian Island Borkum in German waters.

  • DeepOcean Buries Race Bank Inter-Array Cables

    9 October 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    DeepOcean has completed the installation and burial of all 91 inter-array cables at DONG Energy’s 573MW Race Bank offshore wind farm off North Norfolk.

  • Top News of the Week, 24 – 30 July 2017

    30 July 2017

    Offshore WIND’s most read news from 24 to 30 July 2017.

  • GL Announces 10th Hamburg Offshore Wind Conference: Developments Leading Offshore Industry (Germany)

    15 December 2011

    The technical challenges, current achievements and future opportunities of offshore wind projects will be discussed and debated at the 10th Hamburg Offshore Wind Conference (HOW) on 7-8 February 2012. The conference, organised by GL Garrad Hassan, invites developers, turbine and foundation manufactures, engineering consultants, investors and operators of wind turbines to consider the market environment, […]

  • Cobra Orders Granada Quayside Crane for Kincardine Floating Wind Farm

    11 October 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    Cobra Wind has contracted Granada Material Handling to design, manufacture, and commission a quayside crane that will be used for loading crew transfer vessels (CTVs) supporting the Kincardine floating offshore wind farm in Scotland. Granada said the crane unit had been specifically designed for quayside application and the challenging marine environment in which it would […]

  • ETV Bodies to Collaborate at Sustainability Live Event

    2 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    The UK’s Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) bodies are collaborating at the leading conference and exhibition for innovative energy and sustainability management in the UK. The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) will join BRE Global, WRc plc, and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) at Sustainability Live in Birmingham on 21-23 April 2015 with a mission to […]

  • Germany Needs Further Research During Offshore Wind Farms Operation

    18 May 2012
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    On 14 May 2012, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Stiftung OFFSHORE-WINDENERGIE, represented by Joergen Thiele and Phd. Silke Eckardt, held a workshop on the need for further research during the operation of offshore wind farms (OWF). The workshop was held at the House of Science in Bremen. Around twenty-five participants from industry and academia […]

  • All Substations, Foundations Installed at Hornsea Two Offshore Wind Farm

    27 October 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Heerema Marine Contractors, using the installation vessel Sleipnir, has installed both of the substations at Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm in the UK. After recently installing the topside of the project’s offshore substation (OSS), the vessel has now also put the Reactive Compensation Station (RCS) in place. With the 165th and final monopile foundation […]

  • New AMI Consulting Report Details Materials Usage in Wind Turbine Blades (UK)

    15 February 2012

    A report from industry consultants, AMI Consulting, published in January 2012, calculates that the global demand for materials in the production of wind turbine blades grew by over 20% per annum in the last five years. The market for wind turbine blades has been one of the fastest growing of any composite application with strong […]

  • Existing End-of-Life Blades Are Recycled into Cement. Next-Gen Ones Could Become Gummy Bears

    24 August 2022
    R&D, Technology

    Researchers at the Michigan State University have developed new composite material for wind turbine blades that can be recycled into, among other things, sweet treats such as gummy bears. This adds to the momentum within the industry which, along with the reuse of other wind turbine components, is recycling existing end-of-life blades into products such as […]

  • Money First, Nstar-Northeast Utilities Merger Later (USA)

    23 December 2010
    Authorities

    The Patrick administration is signaling it will hold hostage the proposed Nstar-Northeast Utilities merger unless the two electric companies agree to buy Cape Wind power and prove they have “outstanding track records” on clean-energy issues. In a recent speech to utility insiders, Gov. Deval Patrick’s outgoing environmental and energy czar Ian Bowles said the regulatory […]

  • Marylanders Support Offshore Wind

    3 April 2017
    Authorities, Ports & Logistics

    The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) held the second offshore wind public hearing on 30 March and saw hundreds of Marylanders, including legislators, business leaders, labour groups, environmental organisations and other citizens joining the meeting.

  • Glomar Wave Wraps Up Rentel Wire Works

    27 November 2017
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Glomar Offshore’s multi-purpose DP2 subsea support vessel Glomar Wave has executed a project for GeoSea on the Rentel offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea.

  • Works Start on Rhode Island’s Offshore Wind Terminal

    13 September 2022
    Ports & Logistics

    Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee and East Providence Mayor Bob DaSilva broke ground on the first phase of the South Quay Marine Terminal project on 12 September, kicking off construction works on what will become a staging area for offshore wind projects in the US Northeast. The construction of the terminal is supported by USD […]

  • Horizon Wraps Up Seabed Testing for Horns Rev 3

    14 March 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Horizon Geosciences has recently used its 200kN Seabed CPT system to complete a geotechnical site investigation for Vattenfall’s 400MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in the Danish part of the North Sea.   Horizon’s scope of work centered around turbine locations and infield cable routes. The programme of work included downhole sampling and CPT testing, seismic CPT […]