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  • CWind to Invest GBP 14 Mln in Six New Vessels

    11 March 2015
    Vessels

    CWind has decided to invest in excess of fourteen million GBP in six new build, crew transfer vessels. The purpose built vessels will be a mix of vessels manufactured in both composite materials and also in aluminium delivering on CWind’s ambition to create a diverse logistics mix to meet the individual needs of our customers.The sizes of […]

  • RenewableUK Hails Hornsea Two Decision

    16 August 2016

    RenewableUK has welcomed the news that DONG Energy’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm has gained planning consent from the UK Business and Energy Secretary, Greg Clark.  Wind power is currently delivering over 12% of the UK’s electricity, which is expected to increase to 20% by 2020 with offshore wind alone providing 10%. Offshore wind’s costs have […]

  • BlueFloat Pinpoints Location, Layout of Taiwan’s First Floating Wind Farm

    9 August 2024
    Floating Wind, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    BlueFloat Energy has identified an exact location for the first phase of its Winds of September floating wind project off Hsinchu City, Taiwan, as the developer plans to enter Winds of September Phase 1 into the floating demonstration programme which the Taiwanese government is expected to launch later this year. Winds of September Phase 1, […]

  • Colombia Launches Offshore Wind Roadmap, First Project to Be Built in Barranquilla

    4 May 2022
    Authorities

    Colombia’s President Iván Duque and Minister of Mining and Energy, Diego Mesa, launched the country’s Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap on 3 May at an event in the city of Barranquilla, whose waters will become the home of the first offshore wind farm in Colombia. The objective of the roadmap is to build a transparent and […]

  • EEW SPC Delivers Hornsea One Monopile No. 116

    1 October 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Rostock-based EEW SPC has loaded out and delivered 116 out of 174 monopiles for Ørsted’s Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm.

  • Denmark: Anholt Offshore Wind Farm in Legoland

    13 July 2012
    Training & Education

    Ambitions are high in DONG Energy when it comes to renewable energy. At the moment, the energy company is constructing Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm between Grenaa and the island of Anholt in the Kattegat. The first LEGO bricks for the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm have now been laid in LEGOLAND®, where both adults and […]

  • Jan De Nul, LS Cable Install First Hollandse Kust West Alpha Sea Cable

    26 January 2023
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul and LS Cable & System have completed the installation of the first sea cable for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust West Alpha substation in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. In recent weeks, the cable-laying vessel Connector and the remote-controlled cable-laying vehicle UTV1200 laid more than 60 kilometres of cables between Heemskerk beach […]

  • Gallery: DONG Energy’s Technicians Flying to Work

    10 August 2016

    A thousand hoisting operations from helicopters to wind turbines have been carried out so far at DONG Energy’s offshore wind farms, the offshore wind developer said via social media. “The distances to our offshore wind farms are increasing, and flying to work is becoming reality for many of our technicians who maintain our wind farms in the UK,” DONG […]

  • UK: Positive Trend Recorded in Skilled Offshore Wind Workers, Despite Predictions

    16 November 2012
    Training & Education

    Even though many experts have predicted that the UK will face a skilled workforce shortage, Shrewsbury based employment agency, A&D Recruitment is proving them wrong. Namely, the agency said that it has a lot of Offshore Wind engineers with no jobs. This shows a current positive trend in available skilled offshore wind workforce, which may […]

  • Amazon Books Over Half of Moray West Offshore Wind Capacity to Power UK Operations

    30 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Amazon has signed a corporate power purchase agreement (CPPA) for a total of 473 MW of Moray West offshore wind farm’s generation capacity to help power its operations when the project becomes operational later this year. The technology giant signed the CPPA with ENGIE, which owns the Moray West project through Ocean Winds, the 50-50 […]

  • VOS Sugar Sweetens Vroon’s Wind Farm Support Fleet

    8 February 2016
    Vessels

    Vroon has taken delivery of a DP2, SPS-coded, 68-metre subsea-support vessel (SSV) VOS Sugar, expected to provide advanced, efficient and versatile options in offshore sub-segments such as wind farm support, walk-to-work and IRM operations. The vessel was handed over to the company in a short ceremony held on Tuesday, 2 February 2016, at Fujian Southeast Shipbuilding in China. VOS […]

  • Siemens Looking for Apprentices with X-Factor for Green Port Hull

    2 March 2016
    Training & Education

    Siemens today advertised the first apprenticeships as part of its offshore wind power investment in Hull, making 14 Advanced Apprenticeships in Wind Turbine Blade Manufacture available. The apprenticeships programme will run for up to four years, leading to the apprentices gaining a NVQ Level 3 Extended Diploma in Composite Engineering and BTEC Level 3 Diploma in […]

  • UK: Maersk Training Given Go Ahead by GWO

    15 August 2012

    The stage is set for North East England to become a global leader in wind turbine training after Maersk Training Newcastle becomes the UK’s first – and one of only a handful around the world – to be given the go ahead to run courses approved by the Global Wind Organisation (GWO). Maersk Training Newcastle […]

  • Anti-Wind Campaigners Prefer Ocean Energy

    15 April 2014

    Opposers of wind power are to gather today in Dublin to express their disapproval of this form of energy generation, writes the Irish Independent news site. They believe ocean energy, especially wave power, has the potential to replace wind energy. Andrew Duncan, from the Lakelands Windfarm Information Group, said: “There is massive potential there with […]

  • ‘World’s First’ O&M Campaign Using Heavy-Lift Cargo Drones Underway at Dutch Offshore Wind Farm

    7 August 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance, Project Updates, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has deployed heavy-lift cargo drones (HLCDs) for maintenance work at the Borssele 1&2 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. This is the first time heavy-lift cargo drones are being used in an operational campaign, according to the company which tested the concept in 2023 at its Hornsea One offshore wind farm in the UK. […]

  • Experience & Investment Key to Renewable Success (UK)

    8 May 2011

      With the advancement of ground-breaking innovation in the renewable marine energy industry, the Cromarty Firth Port Authority has had the opportunity to demonstrate that everything is possible and there is nothing that cannot be achieved via the facilities in the Cromarty Firth. For many years, the Cromarty Firth has been recognised worldwide as a […]

  • Germany: Modular Vibrating of Monopiles for Offshore Wind Farm Riffgat

    26 June 2012

    After Seaway Heavy Lifting chose to use a vibratory hammer to install monopile foundations at the Riffsgat offshore wind farm, APE Holland informed that vibrating 30 steel monopiles started mid-June. The piles will be driven with the Super Quad Kong (SQK), a modular vibratory driver/extractor consisting of four APE vibros, which are connected to four […]

  • BOEM Preparing Revolution Wind Environmental Review

    29 April 2021
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for the Revolution Wind project.  The publication of the NOI opens a 30-day public comment period during which BOEM will hold three virtual public scoping meetings and accept comments to […]

  • China: Ming Yang Announces Change of Board of Directors

    16 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited (Ming Yang), a leading wind turbine manufacturer in China, today announced that, effective November 16, 2012, Mr. Xian Wang has resigned as a member of the Company’s board of directors, for personal reasons. Mr. Wang has been a member of the board of directors since August 2010. Mr. […]

  • Offshore Wind Power Development Blows Across North America

    6 May 2011

    Europe’s love affair with offshore wind may at last be venturing across the Atlantic as the first approved project in the US continues apace. However, the switch to this large-scale renewable energy form – which has the potential to displace both coal and nuclear in providing the bulk of energy consumed by coastal populations – […]

  • E.ON to Invest in Offshore Wind Every Two Years

    7 November 2016
    Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection

    E.ON Climate & Renewables (ECR), the renewables unit of the German energy company E.ON, plans to invest in one offshore wind project every two years as the company halved its renewable energy investment pipeline due to changing market regulations, ECR’s CEO Michael Lewis told Reuters. ECR is cutting its pipeline from 10GW reported in summer 2015 to 5GW this […]

  • Denmark Okays Turbine Test Centers Expansion

    8 June 2018
    Authorities

    The Danish Parliament (Folketinget) has approved the expansion of the Østerild and Høvsøre wind turbine test centers.

  • GeoWAVE Project Launched to Anchor Wave Energy (UK)

    23 January 2013
    R&D, Technology

    A major new research project – lead by the University of Dundee – has been launched with the aim of helping make offshore wave energy a sustainable proposition. Sustainable offshore wave energy has the potential to make a real contribution towards the binding European Union commitment to source 20% of its electricity requirements from renewable […]

  • USA: OMSI to Host Renewable Energy Exhibit

    30 December 2012

    OMSI will open its new renewable energy exhibit on January 17 next year, writes KWG. The exhibition will have exhibit props which will demonstrate how wind and sea power are harnessed. “Using energy to efficiently power our lights, TVs, heaters, toys and more requires engineering, innovation and creativity,” said Chris Stockner, OMSI energy and the […]

  • Keppel’s Subsidiary Acquires OWEC Tower

    2 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Keppel Corporation’s wholly owned subsidiary KV Ventus B.V. has acquired a 50.1% equity interest in OWEC Tower, from NorWind AS, TronderEnergi AS, InnoVent GmbH, Per Bull Haugsoen and Gunnar Foss for NOK 2,8 million (approx. EUR 327,827).  As KV Ventus already holds the remaining 49.9% equity interest in OWEC Tower (AS) following an acquisition in January […]

  • Offshore Wind, Hydrogen in Focus of Shell’s German Business Overhaul

    1 October 2020
    Business & Finance

    Shell is restructuring its business in Germany as the energy transition progresses worldwide, the oil giant announced on 29 September, listing offshore wind and hydrogen as some of the key elements of its operations in the country. The company said it plans to participate in the production of electricity from renewable energy sources in Germany […]