375 results found for 'Gwynt y Môr'

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  • Gwynt y Môr Fund Goes Big with GBP 50,000 Grants

    3 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Gwynt y Môr Community Investment Fund is inviting groups and charities from North Wales to apply for grants of up to GBP 50,000.

  • UK: First Steel Jacket Installed at Gwynt y Môr

    9 May 2012

    Installation of the first offshore components at Gwynt y Môr, one of the largest offshore wind farms in Europe, has begun off the north Wales coast yesterday. Work to install two steel jacket foundation structures was started earlier yesterday the Seaway Heavy Lifting crane vessel ‘Stanislav Yudin’, and is continuing approximately 10 miles off the […]

  • Sea Comfort Accommodates Gwynt y Mor Technicians

    28 July 2014

    TP Offshore utilized its hotel ship at the 576MW Gwynt y Môr offshore project in the Irish Sea. Sea Comfort can accommodate up to 12 passengers plus 4 crew members living in private cabins. Besides accommodation, this vessel can be used as crew transfer, stores supply, seabed surveys and VIP vessel. Built by Tuco Faaborg/Grenaa […]

  • Gwynt y Môr OWF Funds North Wales’ Community Projects

    17 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm has announced a £570,000 donation to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in North Wales and the appointment of Community and Voluntary Support Conwy (CVSC) to administer its £multi-million Community Fund. The substantial funding package for the RNLI will support a new rescue support vehicle to be based at St […]

  • RWE Innogy to Use Liverpool for Gwynt y Môr Installation (UK)

    5 October 2011

    RWE Innogy today signed agreements on the use of areas at Birkenhead port near Liverpool. From October this year, RWE Innogy will use these areas as a base port for constructing the offshore wind farm Gwynt y Môr (Welsh for “sea wind”). The lease agreements concluded between RWE npower renewables and the Cammell Laird shipyard […]

  • Balfour Beatty to Run Gwynt y Môr’s Offshore Transmission

    26 January 2015
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Ofgem has decided to grant an offshore transmission licence for the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm to a proposed licensee entity set up by a consortium comprising Balfour Beatty Investments Limited and Equitix Limited.  Ofgem noted that the final confirmation of its decision has not yet been made. Gwynt y Môr is a greater than £2billion offshore wind farm which is capable […]

  • 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 […]

  • UK: Ofgem Selects Preferred Bidder for Gwynt y Môr Connection

    26 July 2013
    Grid Connection

    Ofgem has appointed the Balfour Beatty Equitix Consortium as the preferred bidder to own and operate the high voltage transmission links to the Gwynt y Môr wind farm. At 576MW it is currently the second largest project to have reached this tender stage. The estimated value of the transmission assets is £346m. Balfour Beatty Equitix […]

  • RWE Cuts Renewables Budget

    13 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    German utility, RWE, has slashed its renewables investment plans to EUR 1 billion from 2015 to 2017, having invested the same amount between 2008 and 2014. This move comes after the company’s debt reached EUR 31 billion due to crisis in the power sector. Hans Buenting, chief executive of RWE Innogy, said: “These are the […]

  • Wind Turbine Installation Complete at Gwynt y Môr

    17 June 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    All 160 wind turbine generators at the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm are now installed. A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Worker,  supported by Sea Bravo and Sea Echo, was deployed to install Siemens’ 3.6MW turbines. Now, the work is underway on the last wind turbine to fit the blades. Cable laying vessel Sia, owned by […]

  • Busy Summer at Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm

    10 June 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Works at the Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm are in full swing, as several vessels are currently carrying out their job. The cable maintenance vessel Ndurance is expected to start operations at the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm today (June 10). Ndurance will work for six weeks in the eastern part of the […]

  • Demag Cranes Receives Order to Supply 164 Rope Hoists for Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

    23 August 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

      Demag Cranes has won an order from Granada Material Handling Ltd to supply 164 electric rope hoists for a renewable energy project – the new Gwynt y Môr offshore windfarm in Wales. The order comes in the wake of a contract, awarded to Granada by RWE npower renewables, to design, supply, certify, deliver, test […]

  • UK: First Turbine Components Arrive for Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm

    28 January 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    The first sets of wind turbine towers, blades, hubs and nacelles have arrived into the Port of Mostyn for installation at RWE npower renewables’ Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm. The Siemens 3.6 megawatt turbine components arrived on board a RoRo ferry, SeaTruck Pace, from Denmark on Friday (18th Jan). The three sets of complete […]

  • SEA JACK Hides from Bad Weather in Carrick Roads, UK

    22 April 2013

    The SEA JACK jack-up vessel has anchored in the Carrick Roads in the UK, seeking shelter from bad weather conditions on its way from IJmuiden to Mostyn in North Wales, the Falmouth Packet informs. Along with the sheerlegs vessel Norma 1, which is on her journey to the Suez Canal for wreck removal operations, the […]

  • Gwynt y Mor Project Undergoing O&M Operations

    11 September 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Greatship Manisha vessel is carrying out drilling operations at RWE’s Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm. The activity, including borehole work as part of the geotechnical survey at one of the foundations, will last until the next Tuesday. “During the course of drilling operations the Greatship Manisha will be connected to the seabed by a […]

  • New Offshore Wind Farms Lift RWE

    12 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Germany’s RWE Group recorded an operating result of EUR 154 million at its renewables division in the first quarter of 2016, a slight increase compared to EUR 153 million reported for the same period a year earlier, with two newly commissioned offshore wind farms in the UK and Germany helping offset a one-off income included in […]

  • Fugro Completes Two Tasks at Gwynt y Mor

    10 September 2014
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Fugro has undertaken two key tasks at the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm, successfully completing the trenching and burial of inter-array cables for CT Offshore and providing unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey support. Once complete, RWE Innogy’s 160-turbine Gwynt y Môr, in the Irish Sea off the North Wales coast, will be the second largest […]

  • Innogy’s Renewables Bring GBP 1.4 Million to Wales

    25 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    Innogy has distributed GBP 1.4 million in Wales in 2018 through community funding from its renewable energy projects.

  • Niras Readies for Gwynt y Môr Benthic Survey

    28 September 2016
    Environment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Niras Consulting Ltd (Niras) will be undertaking a benthic drop down camera and Day grab survey for scientific monitoring purposes to the south, west and within the 576MW Gwynt y Môr wind farm site offshore Wales during October 2016, according to a notice to mariners. Niras will use the vessel Aquadynamic to carry out the survey […]

  • Gwynt Y Mor Readies for Export Cable Corridor Survey Following Cable Issues

    14 April 2022
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The Gwynt Y Mor offshore wind farm in the UK is set to undergo a pre-construction survey of its export cable corridor, following a series of export cable issues. Titan Endeavour will carry out the work, starting around 15 April and scheduled to take up to seven days, subject to weather conditions. The pre-survey of […]

  • RWE Sets Aside GBP 2 Million for British Communities in 2015

    13 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    RWE Innogy UK has invested all-time-high GBP 2 million into British communities in 2015 through its community investment funds. 2016 is expected to be another record year as the second largest offshore wind farm in the world, Gwynt y Môr, came on line mid-2015 and so too did its GBP 19 million community windfall, according to RWE . The Gwynt […]

  • UK: RWE npower Funds Tourism Projects

    27 June 2012

    RWE npower, the company that is building 576 MW Gwynt y Môr wind farm offshore North Wales, 13 kilometers off the coast in Liverpool Bay, is making GBP 690,000 available for two tourism boosting project in this area, ITV reports. The money will be used to make major improvements to the Victorian pier at Llandudno, […]

  • Draka to Supply Cables for Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

    14 January 2011

    Cable solutions specialist Draka is to supply subsea array cabling for the 576MW Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm off the North Wales coast. (yourindustrynews) [mappress] Source: yourindustrynews, January 14, 2011

  • Community in Flintshire to Benefit from Offshore Gwynt y Mor Wind Farm (UK)

    13 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    COMMUNITY projects in Flintshire will benefit from more than £19m in funding from the offshore Gwynt y Môr wind farm project, based in…   by Francesca Elliott (flintshirechronicle) [mappress] Source: flintshirechronicle, October 13, 2011

  • Hughes SSE Receives Safety Award for Gwynt y Môr Job

    20 January 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    Hughes Sub Surface Engineering (SSE) Have received another safety award for their work on the world’s second largest wind farm – Gwynt y Môr. Colin Christian of RWE presented the award to Managing Director Ian Hughes at the O&M Base in Mostyn. After Ian Hughes accepted the award, he commented: “Hughes SSE’s operations on the […]

  • 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 […]