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  • Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s New MD Comes from MHI Vestas

    2 June 2016

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier appointed Casper Toft as its new Managing Director this week.  Toft comes from the position of Sales Director for MHI Vestas Offshore. He was working for seven years in business development, sales and marketing at Vestas Offshore. Toft was also involved in the commercial launch of the 8MW platform and was the key account director for […]

  • First Power at Eneco Luchterduinen

    25 May 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    Last Friday saw a completion of the 240-hour test phase of the first of 43 wind turbines at offshore wind park Eneco Luchterduinen. This means that the wind park is now generating green energy for the Dutch grid. According to Van Oord, the installation of the wind turbines is progressing well with offshore installation vessel Aeolus […]

  • Tidal Transit’s Tia Elizabeth Goes to Gwynt y Môr OWF

    16 April 2015
    Vessels

    Tidal Transit’s personnel transfer vessel (PTV) Tia Elizabeth is following its sister vessel, Kitty Petra, to fulfill a contract at Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm off the Welsh coast. While the contract for Kitty Petra ended in September 2014, after which she moved on to the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm, the contract for Tia Elizabeth, due […]

  • ‘Njord Odin’ Nails Sea Trials (Video)

    7 April 2015
    Vessels

    BMT Nigel Gee (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, has completed sea trials for Njord Odin, the first of a series of advanced 26m wind farm support vessels (WSV) for Njord Offshore. These are the largest BMT designed vessels built to date. Njord Odin is 26.3m in length with a beam of 9.3m with each of the […]

  • MHI Vestas Extends Sprogø Contract

    30 March 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has been awarded an extension of the service contract at the 21 MW Sprogø offshore wind power plant in Denmark owned by A/S Storebælt. The contract extends the cooperation between MHI Vestas Offshore Wind and A/S Storebælt by three years with the option to extend the contract for a further year. […]

  • Dogger Bank Creyke Beck’s Examination Complete

    18 August 2014
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The six-month examination of the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck development consent order application by the Planning Inspectorate concludes today (August 18). The examination started in February this year and included one open floor public hearing and an additional nine days of issue-specific hearings plus two site visits to the proposed landfall and onshore cable route. The […]

  • Dong Reviews Its Offshore Wind Plans for Germany

    21 April 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Technology

    Faced with reduced funds for German offshore wind energy, Dong Energy has been revising its plans in Germany, with a possibility of scaling them back, writes the German manager magazin online edition. The company’s manager for German offshore business, Trine Borum Bojsen, said that ambitious policy goals are needed for a technology breakthrough to take […]

  • MMO Examines Westermost Rough OWF’s Noise Issues

    3 March 2014
    Environment, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    The UK’s Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is currently looking into concerns about noise in Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire and the Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm.  The MMO regulates development in the seas around England, this includes offshore wind farms construction with a capacity of up to 100 megawatts. The organization licensed DONG Energy to […]

  • UAE: James Moffat Takes Up Role as Lamprell CEO

    4 March 2013

    Lamprell, a leading provider of diversified engineering and contracting services to the onshore and offshore oil & gas and renewable energy industries, announces that, further to its announcement of 3 December 2012, James Moffat has now taken up his role as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Group. Peter Whitbread, who has been acting in […]

  • Oceanflow Wins WATERS-2 Funding from Scottish Enterprise

    29 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Oceanflow Development Limited has been successful in winning WATERS-2 (Wave and Tidal Energy R&D Support) funding from Scottish Enterprise for the development of a twin-turbine variant of its floating, tethered Evopod technology. This latest award follows WATERS 1 funding in 2010 to demonstrate Oceanflow’s mono-turbine device, a quarter scale version of which is currently being […]

  • MaRINET Accepts Applications for EMEC Till March (UK)

    20 February 2012
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Overseas wave and tidal energy technology developers have to apply, until the end of February, for funds to help them access the “scale” test facilities at EMEC, the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre. The MaRINET wave and tidal testing funding scheme runs until March 2015 and further calls for access will be made during that […]

  • Chris Huhne Responds to Renewable Energy Review (UK)

    12 May 2011
    Authorities

    In response to the Committee on Cllimate Change (CCC) Review on Renewable Energy, Chris Huhne, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change said: “Renewables will be absolutely crucial to securing our energy supplies and reducing our carbon emissions in the decades ahead. We are reforming the electricity market to help bring forward a surge […]

  • The Netherlands: Korwind Aquires Major Stake in Typhoon Offshore

    25 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    Typhoon Offshore B.V. and Korwind GMBH have reached an agreement for Korwind to acquire a substantial minority share in Typhoon Offshore. In Europe, Korwind serves as a representative of top South Korean industrial firms looking to gain a leading position in the international offshore wind industry, including such prominent firms as Daewoo Construction, Hankook Machine […]

  • Prysmian Wins Preferred Bidder Status for Transmission Cable Projects Offshore Germany

    22 August 2023
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Infrastructure

    Italy-headquartered Prysmian Group has been selected by the transmission system operator (TSO) Amprion as the preferred bidder for the BalWin1 and BalWin2 offshore grid connection systems and the underground cable project DC34 in Germany. The final contracts are planned to be signed by 15 January 2024 and they are valued in aggregate at around EUR […]

  • CPS Report: “Renewable Energy ‒ the Most Expensive Domestic Policy Disaster in Modern British History”

    19 March 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    A new report, published by the UK Centre for Policy Studies, claims that renewable energy policy is the most expensive domestic policy disaster in modern British history.  Read the official press release below: In a new report Central Planning with Market Features: how renewable subsidies destroyed the UK electricity market, published Wednesday 18 March, Rupert Darwall shows that […]

  • Kaskasi Offshore Wind Farm Hooked to HelWin Beta Platform

    14 July 2022
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    TenneT has connected RWE’s Kaskasi II offshore wind farm to the HelWin Beta platfrom, the heart of the HelWin2 high-voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore grid connection in the German North Sea. Kaskasi II, located 35 kilometres north of the island of Heligoland, is currently under construction with the wind turbine installation work to commence soon. […]

  • Multi-Turbine Floating Wind Catcher Attracts Strategic Partner

    10 June 2022
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Wind Catching Systems AS (WCS), the Norwegian developer of a floating wind system using multiple turbines, has completed a Series A investment round of up to USD 10 million led by the venture capital arm of an undisclosed global industrial company. The proceeds from the Series A financing will be used to fund the development […]

  • UK Gives Go-Ahead to Hornsea Three Offshore Wind Farm

    1 January 2021
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) gave the development consent to the Hornsea Project Three offshore wind farm on 31 December 2020. Ørsted submitted the development consent order (DCO) application for the 2.4 GW project to the UK Planning Inspectorate on 14 May 2018. The application was accepted for examination […]

  • OPSB Okays Icebreaker Project, Lists 33 Conditions

    22 May 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) has approved the construction of the Icebreaker offshore wind project in Lake Erie, but with certain conditions. Under the terms of the conditioned certificate, Icebreaker must comply with 33 conditions prior, during, and after project construction, as well as during operations. Among the conditions, the 20.7 MW project must […]

  • Norwegians Call For Licensing of Two 500 MW Floating Wind Projects in 2020

    4 May 2020
    Authorities

    Several Norwegian ocean stakeholders have asked their country’s government to start the announcement of two full-scale floating offshore wind farms with the aim of granting licenses during 2020. In a letter sent to leading Norwegian politicians, the stakeholders said that the government should clarify licensing and framework conditions for two floating wind projects with a […]

  • WoodMac: APeC to See 19GW of New Offshore Wind by 2030

    22 November 2019
    R&D

    Up to 19GW of new offshore wind capacity is expected to be added in APAC excluding China (APeC) over the next 10 years, according to Wood Mackenzie. According to Wood Mackenzie’s report, the success of future offshore wind in APeC will depend on costs coming down. Currently, the average offshore wind levelized cost of electricity […]

  • Vineyard Wind LiDAR Campaign Starts

    22 May 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Vineyard Wind is deploying a wind measurement and oceanographic buoy within the project area of its proposed 800MW offshore wind project located 14 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

  • Vattenfall to Lay Off 1500 Employees

    20 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Vattenfall is planning to terminate approximately 1,500 full-time positions in the next phase of the previously announced cost-saving program.

  • Creadis Settles in Lowestoft to Serve UK Offshore Wind Sector

    2 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance

    Danish-headquartered company Creadis, focused on asset management and operations and maintenance (O&M), has opened its first UK base on the East of England coast, in the in OrbisEnergy building in Lowestoft, to serve the UK offshore wind sector.

  • Prysmian Picks Tekmar Cable Protection Systems for Rentel

    16 January 2017
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Cable protection systems (CPS) supplier Tekmar Energy has won a contract to supply Prysmian PowerLink with 84 of its TekLink CPS units for the 3o9MW Rentel offshore wind farm project in Belgium. The supply for the contract will be executed in Tekmar’s production facility in the North East of England and manufacturing is expected to be completed […]

  • TenneT Issues EUR 500 Million Green Bond

    11 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Transmission systems operator TenneT Holding B.V. has issued a new, EUR 500 million Green Bond, bringing its total long-term debt in green format to EUR 3 billion. TenneT launched and priced the 17-year Green Bond issue with a coupon of 1.25% with the support of three banks, Lloyds Bank, Rabobank and Royal Bank of Scotland. The company […]