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  • UK: New £11m Energy Skills Complex to Go Ahead

    4 July 2013

     Work could start next spring on an £11million centre at Great Yarmouth to become the flagship for urgently needed energy skills training across the East of England. Business bosses want the EPISCentre project to move on quickly to prove the region’s long-term commitment to producing skilled workers for the energy industry. It could prove vital […]

  • Switch Shares Buzz from EWEA Offshore 2013

    5 December 2013

    With everyone looking forward to a new era of business, the main feeling at Offshore 2014 this year was one of optimism and huge excitement. Business is still quite slow. But future plans look bright with turbine manufacturers getting their offshore products ready, and marine infrastructure is ready to support the growth. Jussi Vanhanen, marketing […]

  • Oregon in Pursuit of Marine Renewables

    12 March 2014
    Authorities, Technology

    The U.S. State of Oregon is on a path to put a wave energy bill into legislation. Namely, Deborah Boone, a Democratic member of the Oregon House of Representatives, is working on further development of marine renewable energy in the state. Boone has sponsored a renewable energy bill (House Bill 4042), which would allow marine […]

  • Sweden: Vattenfall to Invest EUR 4.2 Billion in Offshore Wind Projects

    21 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall will invest a quarter of its planned EUR 16.6 billion into European offshore wind projects through the 2012-2016 period. Probably, the most of the EUR 4.2 billion amount will be invested in offshore wind sector in Germany and the UK, the Windpower Monthly news site informs. While waiting for the DanTysk offshore wind station’s completion, […]

  • Maersk Supply Service Names Offshore Wind Director

    3 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Maersk Supply Service has appointed Lars Blicher at the position of Director for Offshore Wind.

  • Liebherr-LTR 11200, Solution for Offshore Wind Turbine Maintenance (Germany)

    13 December 2011
    Technology

    The Liebherr LTR 11200 crawler crane was developed pri-marily for operations involving wind farms, and it has since proved its value in that sector many times over. The most powerful telescopic crane in the world has now also mas-tered its first commitments on the high seas – and has shown itself to be a champion. […]

  • Largest Irish Offshore Wind Farm Applies for Maritime Area Consent

    28 June 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    EDF Renewables and Fred. Olsen Seawind have applied for a Maritime Area Consent (MAC) for the proposed 1.5 GW Codling offshore wind farm in Ireland. The project is one of the seven that the Irish Government invited to apply for MACs earlier this year after the country launched this new consent process under the Maritime […]

  • Offshore Wind of Change for China

    30 December 2011

    The two figures of “100 million” and “10 million” are extremely meaningful to each Chinese people. By the end of October, the total installed capacity of China Guodian Corporation surpassed 100 million kilowatts, among which wind power 10 million kilowatts, the symbolic WTG is located at Jiangsu Rudong Offshore (Intertidal) 150,000 kilowatts Large-Scale Demonstration Wind […]

  • Inwind Attends Offshore Wind 2011 Conference and Exhibition (UK)

    16 June 2011

    This years Offshore Wind 2011 conference will include a stand by Inwind. A team of 4 will travel to Liverpool to present the Inwind Installer and their logistical solutions, as well as network with industry colleagues. Meeting room facilities have been secured in order to carry out one-to-one meetings or discuss business opportunities. Inwind can […]

  • Danish Heavyweights Sign Offshore Wind Power Purchase Agreement

    16 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Denmark’s Danfoss and Ørsted have signed a corporate power purchase agreement for 27 MW of the capacity of the Horns Rev 2 offshore wind farm. Danfoss, a global industrial manufacturer of energy-efficient solutions, signed a ten-year fixed price CPPA with Ørsted to offtake the portion of the renewable electricity output of the 209 MW offshore […]

  • Energinet.dk Gets Approval to Build Kriegers Flak Grid Connection System

    18 December 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    On December 16, the Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Building issued an investment approval for units to be erected by Energinet.dk in order to connect the forthcoming offshore wind turbines at Kriegers Flak in the Baltic Sea to the onshore electricity grid. The approval allows Energinet.dk to enter into contracts for a total of […]

  • UK: Contractor Selection and Management Defines European Offshore Wind Leaders

    7 February 2013

    Project managers, technical assessors and risk evaluation teams work hard in their roles at keeping costs under control and avoiding supplier contracts that could turn bad for both sides. The reasons are worth stating aloud; a bad contract decision could bankrupt the supplier, delay the project build and cause ripple effects through insurance claims, loss […]

  • Academia and industry – an essential combination

    23 August 2013

    It has become clear in the previous interviews with industry players that in certain areas of the offshore wind industry companies are ‘fighting’ over experienced and qualified people to fill their, mainly engineering related, job positions. They are not the only ones though. On an academic level, research departments of universities are also struggling to […]

  • EMEC Signs New Health and Safety Accord (UK)

    27 October 2011

    The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has become the first organisation to sign up to a new health and safety accord for the wave and tidal energy sectors, demonstrating its commitment to the safe operation of the renewable energy industry. Founded by RenewableUK, the Offshore Wind and Marine Energy Health and Safety Accord is a […]

  • Eco-Lawsuit Advances Against Cape Wind (USA)

    11 October 2012
    Authorities

    Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound and other conservation groups have filed a brief in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia detailing Cape Wind’s numerous violations of federal protections for threatened and endangered species – including the imperiled North Atlantic right whale, one of the rarest mammals […]

  • France: WW2 Veterans Oppose Normandy Offshore Wind Project

    28 May 2012

    The French government plans for construction of a wind farm off the Normandy coast are being objected because of the historical significance of the area in question, writes the Toronto Sun portal. Though the government said that the turbines will hardly be visible from the beaches, the World War II veterans consider the project as […]

  • Wilhelmshaven Service Port Provides Ideal Conditions for Offshore Wind Industry

    28 January 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Participants of the Wind Working Group, which is a part of the Wilhelmshaven Port Management Association e.V. (Wilhelmshavener Hafenwirtschaft-Vereinigung; WHV), agreed at their fifth meeting that the Wilhelmshaven harbor’s inner port has optimal conditions to become a growing service port for the offshore wind industry. These favorable conditions include a large sea lock, adequate water […]

  • EDF Enters Chinese Wind Energy Market

    14 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    EDF Energies Nouvelles, EDF Group’s subsidiary dedicated to renewable energy, has acquired a majority stake in UPC Asia Wind Management (AWM), which develops and builds wind energy projects in China. Following this acquisition, EDF Energies Nouvelles owns an 80% stake in the UPC AWM, based in Hong Kong. Its partners, UPC China and the US-based […]

  • High Seas Offshore Wind Faces Legal Barriers – Report

    4 December 2019
    R&D

    The development of wind energy in the high seas could unlock offshore potential, but the lack of a legal framework might become a major obstacle, according to a report by Chatham Partners. The Offshore Wind in High Seas: Unlimited potential beyond national control? report writes that if technology allowed the construction of wind farms in the […]

  • BOEM to Kick-Start Ocean Wind Environmental Review

    30 March 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released the Notice of Intent (NOI) to launch the formal environmental review for Ørsted’s Ocean Wind project offshore New Jersey. The NOI announces the preparation of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) submitted by Ocean Wind LLC. This opens a […]

  • Record-Breakers in 2018

    2 January 2019

    It has somewhat become business as usual for the offshore wind industry to mark record-breaking activities every year and 2018 was no different. We bring you a selection of five of the most notable 2018 record-breakers:

  • East Anglia Zone Could Become Center of OW Development

    12 March 2014

    The East Anglia Offshore Windfarm Zone could become an international flagship for the industry, according to its developers. Jonathan Cole, managing director of Iberdrola Offshore Wind, told the East of England Energy Group’s SNS2014 Conference in Norwich it was the perfect zone for reducing the cost of windfarm development – imperative for the industry to […]

  • Saitec Unveils Plans for 50 MW Floating Wind Farm Offshore Spain

    2 June 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Saitec Offshore Technologies wants to build a 50 MW pre-commercial pilot floating wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea, offshore Costa Brava, by 2025. The Spanish engineering company plans to deploy five 10 MW wind turbines installed on its proprietary SATH floating foundations at a site located some 15 kilometres off Cap de Creus on Costa Brava […]

  • Spanish Regulator Suspends Trading of Siemens Gamesa Shares

    18 May 2021
    Business & Finance

    Spain’s National Securities Market Commission (La Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores; CNMV) suspended the trading of Siemens Gamesa’s shares on 18 May. The Spanish stock market regulator cites “the occurrence of circumstances that may disturb the normal development of operations” on the shares as the reason for the trading suspension. According to Reuters, the […]

  • Task Force Set Up to Attract New Manufacturers to North Kent, UK

    26 June 2012
    Authorities

    After the Vestas company resigned from its manufacturing plans that would have created about 1,600 jobs, a task force has been set up to attract new manufacturers to north Kent, BBC News reports. Danish company Vestas was supposed to manufacture wind turbines at Sheerness Dock, a huge new plant on the Isle of Sheppey, however […]

  • Denmark: New DONG Energy CEO to Assume Position on August 27

    17 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Henrik Poulsen says that he is looking forward to meeting his new colleagues and get an introduction to the business units, customers, shareholders and DONG Energy’s different locations from power stations, wind turbines, the production platform in the North Sea to the offices in Denmark and Northern Europe: ”DONG Energy is a strong and well […]