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  • Ørsted Submits Bid for 760 MW Wind Farm Offshore Maryland

    8 July 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has submitted a bid to the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) to build a 760 MW wind farm off the state’s coast. The company has filed its proposal for the Skipjack Wind 2 project in response to the Commission’s call for Round 2 offshore wind projects, through which the Commission can award at least […]

  • The Netherlands: VEKA Delivers Catamaran to Royal Wagenborg

    10 April 2013

    The first high speed VEKA Catamaran for the Offshore Wind Farm industry has been delivered to Royal Wagenborg. The catamaran will supply remote wind farms in the North Sea with crew, equipment and various supplies. Later this week VEKA will launch a second catamaran for a shakedown cruise, and it will not be long before […]

  • Carnegie’s Desal Plant Connected to CETO Wave Plant

    23 October 2015
    Technology

    Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (CWE) has announced that the world’s first wave energy powered seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant is fully integrated and operational. Carnegie’s desalination pilot plant on Garden Island (co-located with the Perth Wave Energy Project) was commissioned off the electricity grid earlier this year, and is now fully integrated with the CETO wave energy power plant, meaning […]

  • Pipeline Installation Starts at Perth Wave Energy Project (Australia)

    3 February 2014
    Technology

    Pipeline installation works have now commenced at Carnegie’s Perth Wave Energy Project. The first stage of installation is the shoreline conduit crossing which involves the installation of a 400mm diameter high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe, which will hold the high pressure delivery and return pipes that transmit the high pressure water between the offshore and […]

  • BVG Associates: 2016 Is the Year of New Offshore Wind Markets

    6 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    There is every reason to believe that 2016 will see a series of developments for renewable energy, especially in new markets in offshore wind, according to Bruce Valpy, Director at BVG Associates. The year ahead of us will see the commissioning of the first offshore farm in the US, at Block Island, off Rhode Island State. 2016 will […]

  • UK: Offshore Turbine Services Picks CTruk Boats’ Vessels

    29 March 2012

     Offshore Turbine Services Ltd is a new entrant into the rapidly expanding offshore wind turbine support market and having carried out a great deal of research, identified the CTruk Boats’ vessel as a very viable solution to all its needs so have two under construction and they are due to be in service shortly. OTS […]

  • Equinor, Polenergia Tap RockWave for Polish Offshore Wind Project

    7 March 2024
    Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Research & Development, Supply Chain

    Equinor and Polenergia have awarded RockWave a contract for subsurface data reprocessing for the 1,560 MW Bałtyk 1 offshore wind farm in Poland. The contract scope involves the reprocessing of sparker ultra-high resolution seismic (UHRS) data to create an optimised subsurface image. The new data will play a “crucial role” in upgrading the engineering ground […]

  • Block Island Wins Major Environmental Approval

    9 May 2014
    Authorities, Environment, Wind Farm Update

    In a major advancement for the Block Island Wind Farm, Deepwater Wind has received the first major environmental permit approvals needed to begin deployment of this path-breaking project. The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) issued Deepwater Wind Water Quality Certificates, deeming the Block Island Wind Farm and Transmission System in compliance with state […]

  • Wind Measurement Campaign to Start at Falck and BlueFloat’s Floating Wind Sites in Scotland

    15 February 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Spanish company Eolos Floating LiDAR Solutions is preparing to deploy two of its FLS200 floating LiDAR buoys at two sites offshore Scotland, where partners Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy plan to build floating wind farms. The LiDAR buoys will be installed this month out of the Peterhead port, where Eolos has engaged ASCO to provide […]

  • Wind Turbines Offshore Netherlands Open to Sea Life

    4 April 2022
    Environment, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore wind developer Vattenfall and De Rijke Noordzee (The Rich North Sea) are jointly investigating the effect of water replenishment holes in wind turbine foundations on the surrounding sea life. The research is being carried out on Vattenfall’s 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm, the world’s first subsidy-free offshore wind farm. Hollandse Kust Zuid […]

  • Photo of the Day: Block Island Turbine Towers Lined Up in Providence

    8 June 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    GE Renewable Energy has shared a photo showing offshore wind towers for the 30MW Block Island wind farm being arranged in a line in Providence after completing their journey from Europe to Rhode Island, US. The five-turbine offshore wind farm is being developed by Deepwater Wind some three miles off the coast of Block Island. Once commissioned in […]

  • Rudderless Cargo Ship Drifts Around Dutch Offshore Wind Farm, Hits Platform Foundation

    31 January 2022
    Authorities, Vessels

    A rudderless cargo ship is drifting around the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea following a collision with an oil and chemicals tanker in heavy seas in the anchorage area near IJmuiden on Monday, 31 January, the Dutch Coastguard said. In one of its most recent updates on the incident, […]

  • DONG’s Wirral Base Ready For Burbo Bank O&M Team

    4 August 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Construction has finished on DONG Energy’s new offshore wind farm operations base on the bank of the Mersey.

  • China Guangdong Nuclear Floats 3GW Offshore Wind Project

    22 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGN) and the government of the city of Jieyang have signed an agreement to develop a deep-water offshore wind project with a capacity of up to 3GW off the Guangdong Province in the South China Sea.

  • Statoil Eyes Floating Wind Opportunities off U.S. and Japan

    7 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has identified Japan the U.S. states of California and Hawaii as prime markets for the development of floating wind farms, Irene Rummelhoff, the Norwegian energy company’s head of New Energy Solutions told Reuters.

  • WATCH: Dominion Energy Launches First US Offshore Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

    16 April 2024
    Project Updates, Vessels

    The United States’ first Jones Act-compliant offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Charybdis, has been launched to water at Seatrium AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas. The vessel, which will be operated by Dominion Energy’s subsidiary Blue Ocean Energy Marine, was launched after the welding of the hull and the commissioning of the vessel’s four legs and related […]

  • Powder Injection Moulding to Lower Tidal Energy Costs

    27 March 2014
    R&D, Technology

    Scientists from Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) are participating in a European research project that involves developing a new type of tidal energy generator that will be cheaper and more efficient. The device would replace conventional magnetic materials for new materials that are made using an alternative technology. The objective of the MAGNETIDE project […]

  • Plans Unveiled for Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon (UK)

    22 March 2013

    Plans have been released for the world’s first, purpose-built, tidal lagoon power plant that will be capable of generating electricity equivalent to Swansea’s entire domestic consumption. The proposed 250MW power plant will produce predictable, baseload electricity for 16 hours each day, using both the ebb and flood tides. It will save over 200,000 tonnes of […]

  • Floating Turbines, Key for Unlocking Europe’s Massive Energy Potential

    25 July 2013

    Deep water wind turbines are key to unlocking the massive energy potential in Europe’s Atlantic and Mediterranean seas and the deepest parts of the North Sea, a new report from the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) shows. The report reveals that floating turbines in North Sea deep waters alone could power Europe four times over. […]

  • UK Extends Offshore Wind Immigration Rules Concession

    30 August 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Vessels

    The UK government has extended the recently introduced concession to the immigration rules to allow the employment of non-European Economic Area nationals who are joining vessels engaged in the construction and maintenance of offshore wind projects in UK territorial waters.

  • Australia: Carnegie Places Offshore Foundations Order for Wave Project

    17 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (CWE) announces that it has made a commitment for the manufacturing and installation of the offshore foundations for the Perth Wave Energy project. The contract for the installation of the foundations was awarded to Fugro Seacore (Australia) Pty Ltd (Fugro Seacore). As a provider of geotechnical services and […]

  • Rhenus Scores BorWin Gamma Gig

    30 January 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Rhenus Offshore Logistics has won the tender to provide the supply logistics for TenneT’s BorWin gamma HVDC platform in the German North Sea. Rhenus will be conducting the supply runs using the Eurus Express vessel from the offshore base in the Port of Emden until the end of the project. The company will also be in […]

  • EVE Inaugurates World’s First Commercial Wave Power Plant Mutriku (Spain)

    8 July 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D

      Basque seaport of Mutriku, located between Bilbao and San Sebastian witnessed a historical day in energy generation history. Utility Ente Vasco de la Energía (EVE) officially inaugurated the Mutriku wave power plant – the first worldwide in commercial operation. Voith Hydro supplied the equipment for Mutriku’s 16 power units that will provide an output […]

  • Bluefort Puts New Boat Landing to Use

    12 September 2018
    Vessels

    Bridgemans Services Group’s floatel MV Bluefort has been fitted with a new boat landing facility that is said to be capable of transferring up to 150 turbine technicians into the field each day.

  • Seajacks Goes Global with Siemens Gamesa Contract in Taiwan

    2 May 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seajacks has won a contract from Siemens Gamesa to install 20 6MW turbines at the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan.

  • Massachusetts Offshore Wind Lease Sale Coming Up

    23 January 2015
    Authorities

    The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold a competitive lease sale auction for four wind energy areas on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore Massachusetts on Thursday, January 29.  A mock auction for the eligible bidders will be held on Monday, January 26, when BOEM will contact each eligible bidder and provide instructions for participation. The monetary auction will begin at 8:30 a.m. […]