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  • Sheringham Shoal Upgrading to Walk-to-Work System

    14 July 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Alpha, a Sparrows Group company, has been awarded a contract to undertake turbine platform modifications in support of a new walk-to-work system at a UK east-coast offshore wind farm. An integrated team from Alpha and Sparrows will manufacture and install push-on plates, access gates, and handrails to 88 turbine platforms as well as the A-deck […]

  • Taiwan Drafts Plan for Further 5 GW of Offshore Wind

    11 May 2021
    Authorities

    Taiwan’s Bureau of Energy (BoE) and Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) have held a meeting on the draft regulation for the 3rd Round of offshore wind auctions, including a new target for 2035. From 2026 until 2035, 1.5 GW of offshore wind capacity would be added each year, instead of previously planned 1 GW. From 2026 […]

  • Massachusetts to Procure Additional 2.4 GW of Offshore Wind by 2027

    30 March 2021
    Authorities

    Massachusetts will procure an additional 2,400 MW of offshore wind energy by 2027, adding to the U.S. state’s previous solicitation that secured 1,600 MW of offshore wind capacity to be installed by 2027. Adding new offshore wind capacity is based on a bipartisan bill signed into law by the state’s Governor Charlie Baker on 26 […]

  • New Esvagt SOV Ready for Action

    11 January 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Esvagt’s service operation vessel (SOV) newbuilding, NHST-146, is now ready to start working for Vestas at Borssele 3 & 4 and Northwester 2 wind farms, the Danish offshore support specialist said. NHST-146, the first of the three SOV newbuildings for Vestas, is ready and accepted by the Class and by Esvagt, and has been ready […]

  • India Sets 2022 and 2030 Offshore Wind Targets

    19 June 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    India’s Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) has announced the country’s medium and long-term targets for offshore wind capacity, aiming for 5GW by 2022 and as much as 30GW by 2030.  

  • First Siemens Gamesa 7MW Turbines Start Producing on Walney Extension

    22 January 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Power is now being generated from the final phase of Walney Extension which will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm on completion later this year, Ørsted, the developer of the wind farm, said.

  • DONG and MHI Vestas Practising for Burbo Bank Extension

    21 April 2016
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy and MHI Vestas Offshore Wind have jointly installed a V164-8.0 MW wind turbine test tower and foundation onshore to test several installation and commissioning procedures, and to act as a critical training tool before the commencement of Burbo Bank Extension offshore installation. In order to further test installation and commissioning procedures, the interfaces […]

  • CLS Offshore Unveils New Headquarters in Great Yarmouth (UK)

    21 July 2011

    Oil, gas and renewable energy services company CLS Offshore today unveiled its new headquarters in Great Yarmouth. A total investment in the region of £300,000 has been made modernising and upgrading the former council offices off Malthouse Lane, further developing the quayside site and centralising its operations.  “The new office facility gives us significantly more […]

  • UK Lawyer Discusses Legal Implications of Overweight Offshore Workers

    7 August 2014
    Authorities

    Kirk Tudhope, employment lawyer and partner with the UK North East law firm Ledingham Chalmers, said that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is currently considering whether being substantially overweight is a “protected characteristic” under EU and therefore UK employment legislation. He said: “If the answer is yes from the ECJ then employees who are […]

  • HUSUM Wind Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

    14 October 2014

    The 25th anniversary of the successful wind fair is being celebrated in Husum today with high-calibre guests from the fields of politics and business. Guests will include Schleswig-Holstein’s Minister-President Torsten Albig and minister for economic affairs Reinhard Meyer. A limited edition wind chronicle is also being launched during the celebrations, charting a quarter of a […]

  • OrbisEnergy Encourages Companies to Use Its Facilities

    11 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    A new initiative is under way to encourage businesses to make even greater use of the OrbisEnergy centre in Lowestoft. After marking the fifth anniversary of the five-storey landmark centre, there is a drive to attract a more diverse range of clients to sample its conference and event facilities. The centre is widely recognised as […]

  • Nova Scotia, UK Partner Up for Tidal Energy Development

    5 March 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D

    Nova Scotia and the United Kingdom will work together to advance tidal research to help the future development of the industry.   A memorandum of understanding between the province, the Offshore Energy Research Association of Nova Scotia and the United Kingdom’s Technology Strategy Board will encourage joint research in order to improve the technology required […]

  • Prysmian Participates in Second Annual Conference of ‘Friends of the Supergrid’ (Belgium)

    19 March 2013
    Grid Connection

    Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry will be present at and strongly supporting “Supergrid 2013”, the second edition of the annual conference of “Friends of the Supergrid” (FOSG) that will take place in Brussels, today March 19. After the success of “Supergrid 2012”, this second conference aims at continuing […]

  • Mainstream Renewable Power Signs ‘Firm’ Export Link to UK

    10 January 2013
    Grid Connection

    Global renewable energy company Mainstream Renewable Power has finalised negotiations with UK’s National Grid for 5,000MW of “firm” access to be delivered to the UK National Grid from 2017 to 2020. The company’s Board today approved the second payment at a meeting of its Risk and Investment Committee. Since first announcing its “Energy Bridge” export […]

  • East of England Launches Offshore Wind Expertise Campaign

    11 November 2016

    The East of England Energy Group (EEEGR)’s new Offshore Wind Supply Chain Special Interest Group (SIG) has launched a campaign to secure a “footprint” for the East of England’s vast business expertise for new offshore wind farm developments in the UK and worldwide.  The project will also help developers fulfil their UK and local content targets. […]

  • India Gets Report on Grid Integration for Offshore Wind

    23 October 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, R&D

    India has taken another step forward in its effort to develop offshore wind projects off its coast as the FOWIND Consortium launched a report looking at grid integration issues for offshore wind in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu.

  • Seabed Surveys Completed for South Irish Sea Offshore Wind Project

    30 November 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Irish energy provider and renewable energy developer, Energia Renewables, has finished seabed surveys for the South Irish Sea offshore wind project, located off the coast of Wexford and Wicklow. The geotechnical and geophysical surveys, carried out over several months between April and October 2022, following the granting of a Foreshore Licence in 2021, measured important […]

  • Japan: MHI Begins Testing of Large-Scale Wind Power Generation System

    24 January 2013

    In December Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) commenced test operation at its Yokohama Dockyard & Machinery Works of a large-scale wind power generation system that adopts a hydraulic drive train in place of the earlier gear-driven system. The test operation is a part of the project launched in September last year to develop a hydraulic […]

  • Haida Nation Passes on Opportunity to Invest in NaiKun Project (Canada)

    14 December 2011

    In a general vote held December 10, 2011, the Haida Nation made the decision to pass on an opportunity to make a major equity investment in the NaiKun Project. As part of a 2009 agreement between NaiKun and the Haida Enterprise Corporation (HaiCo), HaiCo was entitled to acquire 40% of the project equity on best […]

  • JDR Opens Offshore Engineering Technology Centre

    29 July 2014
    R&D

    JDR, a leading provider of technology connecting the global offshore energy industry, opened a new offshore engineering technology centre in Cambridge. Building out from JDR’s global HQ in North Cambridgeshire, the new centre will put JDR at the heart of Cambridge’s growing oil and gas innovation community as energy research seeks to exploit reserves in […]

  • GRAHAM, Lagan Construction Group Win Green Port Hull Contract

    7 November 2014

    A joint venture between national construction, asset management and project investment firm GRAHAM and civil engineering and building contractors Lagan Construction Group, has been awarded a £100 million contract to carry out construction at the Green Port Hull site on Alexandra Dock. The work was awarded to the GRAHAM Lagan Construction Group Joint Venture (JV) […]

  • DECC Sets Out Plan to Keep UK’s Leading Position in Offshore Wind

    19 February 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Maximising the economic benefit from offshore wind is a key priority for the UK Government, reveals a new report. The Offshore Wind Programme Board (OWPB) annual report explains how the board is pursuing a comprehensive programme of real action to drive down costs and maximise benefits to the UK economy – tackling issues from skills […]

  • ‘World’s First Floating Wind Innovation Centre’ Opens in Scotland

    19 March 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Floating Wind, Innovation, Technology

    Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has opened the National Floating Wind Innovation Centre (FLOWIC), which is said to be the world’s first dedicated innovation centre for floating offshore wind, in Aberdeen, Scotland. The GBP 9 million (approximately EUR 10.5 million) FLOWIC, located in Aberdeen’s Energy Transition Zone and delivered by ORE Catapult in collaboration with […]

  • EIB Bankrolls Three Floating Wind Farms Offshore France

    28 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) has concluded three financing agreements, with the support of the European Commission, for installing and commissioning three floating offshore wind farms off the French Mediterranean coast. These facilities in the Mediterranean are the first floating offshore wind farms to be deployed in France, each using different innovative technologies, EIB said. […]

  • GE-BOND Consortium to Build High-Voltage Electrical Systems for Empire Wind 1

    22 March 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    A specially formed consortium between GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and New York-based BOND Civil & Utility Construction has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) contract to supply a digital onshore substation for Empire Wind 1 wind farm offshore New York, USA. Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor and bp, awarded […]

  • 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 […]