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  • BOEM Investigates US Atlantic Coast Offshore Wind Potential

    5 April 2018
    Authorities, Environment, R&D

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is conducting a high-level assessment of all waters offshore the US Atlantic Coast for potential future offshore wind lease locations.

  • Tata Steel Supporting Offshore Wind Innovation (Interview)

    21 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    In a bid to help reduce offshore wind energy costs by 40% by 2020, Tata Steel recently delivered 400 tonnes of 3D profiled and submerged arc welded (SAW) tubular steel to Bladt Industries.  The Danish wind turbine foundation manufacturer will use the steel to build an innovative suction bucket foundation that will be tested at […]

  • Jan De Nul Orders Twin to XL Cable-Layer Fleeming Jenkin

    17 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Cables, Environment, Grid Connection, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Jan De Nul has ordered a new XL cable-laying vessel (CLV), identical to the Fleeming Jenkin ordered at a Chinese shipyard last year. With a cable-carrying capacity of 28,000 tonnes, the vessels are said to be the largest capacity CLVs in the world. Like Fleeming Jenkin, the new vessel will be 215 metres long and […]

  • DolWin2 Disconnected Due to Repair Work

    22 June 2016
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance

    During the test phase of the DolWin2 offshore grid connection, a cable component had failed repeatedly and TenneT decided to power off the system and has asked ABB to address the issue.  The companies will now investigate whether an individual case or a systemic material error is in question, and then ABB will remove the cause of […]

  • Alun Griffiths Wins GBP 25 Mln Swansea Tidal Lagoon Job

    1 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay Plc has named Abergavenny-based Alun Griffiths Ltd as preferred bidder for one of the main civil engineering and construction packages for the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon. The GBP 25 million contract covers ancillary civil engineering for the project’s public realm works. The scope of works includes the breakwater surface, roads, slipways, utilities […]

  • DNV KEMA: Standards for Floating Offshore Wind Structures (The Netherlands)

    25 June 2013

    In response to the fast-expanding offshore wind market, DNV KEMA, the energy arm of DNV, has developed a new standard that will help accelerate the development of a new generation of floating offshore wind turbines by establishing design requirements for the floating structure and related systems. According to Johan Sandberg, head of renewable energy at […]

  • Rhode Island to Issue 400MW Green Energy Call by Summer’s End

    6 February 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment

    Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo has directed the Office of Energy Resources to work with the state’s utilities to issue a procurement for up to 400MW of clean energy by this summer.

  • Marine Designs Limited to Install Dockmaster Pontoon System Within Grimsby Fish Docks (UK)

    24 June 2011

      Marine Designs Limited, a subsidiary of A&P Group, announced at this month’s Seawork International 2011 exhibition that it has been awarded a contract to build and install their award winning Dockmaster pontoon system within the Grimsby Fish Docks. As part of an ongoing agreement between the Grimsby Fish Dock Enterprise and Centrica the companies […]

  • HIGH WIND: Bringing stability to the industry

    2 February 2016

    In 2000, the offshore wind industry was pioneering ways of installing 2MW turbines in water depths of just 15 meters, only a few miles off the coast. Today, 15 years later, a single turbine can produce a higher output than all the turbines combined in earlier wind farms, the blades are at least 4 times […]

  • Mammoet Enters Offshore Wind Partnership with South Korean Company

    2 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Supply Chain

    The Netherlands-based logistics company, Mammoet, and Samyang Marine Group have entered into a partnership to provide heavy lifting and transport solutions for South Korea’s offshore wind sector. The collaboration is set to establish Offshore Service Port (OSP) facilities to serve projects across sectors in South Korea, with a primary focus on upcoming offshore wind projects. […]

  • VIDEO: Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion

    6 May 2013
    R&D, Technology

    Lockheed Martin is progressing with Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion.The company has recently signed a memorandum of agreement with Reignwood Group to develop an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) pilot power plant off the coast of southern China. Known as OTEC, this technology generates electricity by leveraging the temperature difference between warm surface water and deep […]

  • Windea Two Heads to Baltic 2 after Christening

    26 August 2014

    On 19 August 2014 a new catamaran was christened at Knock Jetty in Emden. The ship’s godmother, Insa Stoidis-Connemann from Leer, gave the name “Windea Two” to the “Twin Axe Bow” type catamaran from Damen Shipyards and she wished: “Safe voyages for the crew and always a handbreadth of water under the keel for the […]

  • UK: Crown Estate Leases Three Sites for Wave and Tidal Energy Projects

    30 April 2012

    The Crown Estate has announced three further agreements for lease for wave and tidal energy projects. The sites result from the third application window in the leasing process for projects in connection with the Scottish Government’s Saltire Prize (in Scottish waters) and demonstration projects (all around the UK), which opened in October 2011. Voith Hydro […]

  • DONG Upgrades Tendering System

    24 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    DONG Energy has added a new category covering geotechnical investigation services in Northern European waters to the DONG Energy’s Tendering System (DETS). DETS has been established as a scheme in order to improve efficiency and reduce costs of sourcing various services related to offshore wind farms. The system was originally launched in April 2014 as the […]

  • UK: Trident Energy Wins Scottish Enterprise Grant

    21 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Trident Energy, the independent developer of generator solutions for the offshore renewable energy industry, announced that it has been awarded a Scottish Enterprise SMART: SCOTLAND R&D grant to help fund the forthcoming sea trials of its linear generator technology. Together with on-going commitments from existing investors and new funding, the £225k SMART: SCOTLAND grant will […]

  • UK: Tidal Transit to Exhibit ‘Eden Rose’ at Seawork 2012

    1 May 2012

    Vessels on display at Seawork 2012 International [22-24 May 2012] have immediate access to Southampton Water, and visitors to this event who are involved in the offshore wind industry should be sure to visit the Tidal Transit berth [V34] to go aboard Eden Rose.  Eden Rose, the second of Tidal transit’s fleet of wind farm […]

  • Deltares Tackles Corrosion Inside Monopiles with New Tool

    14 March 2018
    R&D, Technology

    Dutch research institute Deltares has developed a new tool to model water replenishment and the chemical reactions of internal ICCP systems.

  • Nation’s First Offshore Wind Test Lab to Open at University of Maine in October (USA)

    17 June 2011

      The effort to capture wind power more than 40 miles off the Maine coast using massive floating wind turbines continues on schedule – with lab trials at the University of Maine just completed in May, a first-in-the-nation offshore wind test lab opening at the University of Maine in Orono in October and preparations under […]

  • Shell and Google Owner Enter Offshore Energy Kite Venture

    12 February 2019
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Experimental wind power developer Makani, owned by Google parent company Alphabet, has partnered with the energy giant Shell to bring its energy kites to offshore environments. After five years of development at X and more than a decade of development in total, Makani is now an independent company and is partnering with Shell to expand […]

  • Blue Gem to Provide Valorous Wave Data to Local Surfers

    31 May 2022
    Environment, Wind Farm Update

    Blue Gem Wind, a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Simply Blue Energy, has redeployed an EOLOS FLS200 floating LiDAR system at the proposed Valorous floating wind project site to continue an offshore metocean campaign in the Celtic Sea. The company said it will share wave data with local surfers. Alfie Wisdom, delivery manager at Blue […]

  • Hollandse Kust Zuid Beta Topside Arrives in Rotterdam

    25 March 2022
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Boskalis has completed the transport of the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Beta substation topside from Dubai to Rotterdam using its semi-submersible heavy transport vessel Mighty Servant 3. The HKZ Beta topside is scheduled to be installed in the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm zone in the Dutch North Sea in the coming days. According to […]

  • Last Pin Pile In Place at Formosa 2 Offshore Wind Farm

    23 August 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Seaway 7 has completed the installation of the last of 188 pin piles on the Formosa 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The installation was carried by the vessels Seaway Yudin and Siem Barracuda. The first batch of pin piles was manufactured and offloaded at the Port of Taichung in July 2020. Each of the […]

  • First Formosa 2 Hardware Arrives in Port of Taichung

    22 July 2020
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The first batch of pin piles for the Formosa 2 jacket foundations have been offloaded at the Port of Taichung and are now waiting for installation, which is about to start soon.  Each of the pin piles – produced by EEW Korea, EEW KHPC and EEW Malaysia – is up to 78.9 metres long, has […]

  • DONG’s UK Chairman Announces Retirement

    6 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    DONG Energy’s UK Country Chairman Brent Cheshire will retire in June after 13 years with the company. Matthew Wright, who comes from a position as CEO of Southern Water, has been appointed to succeed Brent Cheshire and will become the new Managing Director of DONG Energy UK effective of 1 June 2017. Brent Cheshire was […]

  • MPI Discovery Installs First Rampion Turbine

    10 March 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    MPI Offshore’s jack-up vessel MPI Discovery installed the first of 116 3.45MW MHI Vestas wind turbines at the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm off Sussex in the early morning hours of Friday, 10 March.

  • Azura Generates First Power

    7 July 2015

    Almost a month after it was deployed by Northwest Energy Innovations (NWEI) at the United States Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) near Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawai’i, Azura, the wave energy device, has started generating power. This pilot testing is now giving U.S. researchers the opportunity to monitor and evaluate the long-term performance of the nation’s […]