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  • ZTT Enters Offshore Wind Construction Market, Orders Three Vessels

    20 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Zhongtian Technology (ZTT) has signed an agreement with China Merchants Heavy Industry for the construction of two wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) and one crane vessel, after the Chinese power cables manufacturer entered the offshore wind construction market this summer.

  • Seajacks Scylla Christened in Great Yarmouth

    3 March 2016
    Vessels

    The Seajacks Scylla, the world’s largest wind turbine installation vessel, was christened in Great Yarmouth on Thursday afternoon, 3 March.  The ceremonial champagne bottle was released by the vessel’s Godmother, Akiko Inoue, the wife of Seajacks’ chairman, Soichi Inoue. Seajacks’ CEO, Blair Ainslie, told almost 400 guests at the reception held on the quayside of […]

  • MMT Installs Kongsberg EM2040 Echo Sounder on Its Multi-Purpose Vessel

    25 March 2014
    R&D, Technology

    MMT Group has acquired a Kongsberg EM2040D. A 0.4 x 0.7 degree dual head multibeam system has recently been installed on MMT’s long term charted multipurpose support vessel (MPSV) Stril Explorer. This is a highly developed multibeam echo sounder that combines all of the advanced features of deepwater echo sounders to the shallower water or […]

  • Scottish Renewables Comments Launch of Marine Energy Park

    30 July 2012

    Scottish Renewables comments on today’s launch of a new Marine Energy Park in the Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters by Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker. Lindsay Roberts, Policy Manager for Scottish Renewables, who attended the official launch of the marine park in Thurso, said: “The designation of Scotland’s first Marine Energy Park is […]

  • UK: Gardline Signs Charter Contract with Red7Marine

    10 May 2012

    Gardline Geosciences Limited announces that it has signed a contract with Red7Marine for the long term charter of the 91 m, DP2 vessel DP Reel.  The addition of the DP Reel increases Gardline’s geotechnical fleet to 7 units, of which 3 are based in European waters.  This vessel will undertake borehole, seabed sampling and cone […]

  • ABPmer Publishes Appraisal About Effect on European Designated Sites (UK)

    22 March 2011

    An appraisal undertaken by ABPmer for Marine Scotland, that considers the effect on European designated sites of planned offshore wind developments in Scottish Waters, has recently been published. The Scottish Government has prepared a draft Plan which considers the potential of Scottish Territorial Waters to accommodate Offshore Wind Energy. ABPmer was commissioned to complete a […]

  • Densit Completes Substation Grouting at Borkum Riffgrund 1

    10 December 2013
    Operations & Maintenance

    The turn-key grouting solution was provided to Volker Staal en Funderingen by Densit. The complete grouting package included the supply of UHPC grouting material, grouting equipment, supervisor assistance, as well as the overall planning and coordination at all stages of the project. The installation works were performed on board of Rambiz vessel owned by Scaldis […]

  • Metocean Studies Underway for First Welsh Floating Wind Farms

    27 July 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Metocean studies for the Erebus and Valorous projects, the first floating wind farms to be built in Welsh waters, are now underway, the developer Blue Gem Wind reported on 27 July. The studies, which will support the design of the two floating wind projects, are being performed by ABPmer, which will deliver the certifiable metocean […]

  • Australia’s First Offshore Wind Project Needs Environment Effects Statement

    26 May 2020
    Business & Finance, Environment, Wind Farm Update

    The Victorian Minister for Planning has decided that an Environment Effects Statement (EES) is required for Star of the South, the first offshore wind project in Australia. The Minister explains that the project has the potential for a range of significant effects on native vegetation, habitat of terrestrial and aquatic species, water environments, Aboriginal cultural […]

  • IHC IQIP Turns Offshore Installation Silent Mode On

    13 June 2019
    Technology

    IHC IQIP has developed a new dampening system add-on said to considerably reduce noise levels during the installation of offshore wind foundations. The system, called Pulse, reduces noise levels at the source creating an environmentally friendly installation while being positioned between hammer and sleeve. According to IHC IQIP, it reduces the Sound Equivalent Level (SEL) from […]

  • Statoil Floats First Hywind Scotland Foundations off Stord

    29 May 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The first two of the five SPAR-type floating foundations built by the Navantia-Windar consortium for Statoil’s 30MW Hywind Scotland floating wind farm have arrived to the project’s assembly base in Stord, Norway. The two floating foundations were loaded onto the semi-submersible vessel Albatross at Navantia’s Fene shipyard in Spain in early May. The two foundations […]

  • German Lower Saxony Funds Research Project on Lobster Settlement at Offshore Wind Farms

    19 April 2013
    Environment, R&D

    With just under EUR 700,000, Lower Saxony is supporting a pilot project for the settlement of the European lobsters at the offshore wind farm “Riffgat”. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, have started to rear 3,000 lobsters, which they will release back into the water in 2014. They […]

  • Lead-free Cables: The future for offshore wind farms

    6 September 2021

    Wind power continues to emerge as one of Germany’s key energy sources. Offshore turbines are being engineered for ever greater capacities, which presents new challenges for energy transmission in the turbines themselves and in the offshore wind farms. As well as the technical challenges, health and safety considerations are another important factor. Operators of offshore […]

  • TetraSpar Demonstrator Floater Hooks to Norwegian Mainland

    26 August 2021
    R&D, Technology

    The TetraSpar Demonstrator floating wind turbine has been connected to the Norwegian mainland, RWE said. The fully-assembled floating wind turbine, comprising the TetraSpar floating foundation and a 3.6 MW Siemens Gamesa direct-drive wind turbine, was towed from Denmark and installed at the METCentre test site off the island of Karmøy near Stavanger in late July. […]

  • ENGIE Fabricom Starts Cathodic Protection Inspection Offshore UK

    9 November 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    ENGIE Fabricom has secured a contract to analyse the current performance and suitability of over 50 monopile foundations at a wind farm off the UK. Operating from five sites located across the UK, the company has been commissioned to carry out complete cathodic protection and pH monitoring of the internal water within each monopile on […]

  • Chinese Jack-Up Installs Its First Turbine

    16 April 2019
    Vessels

    Huadian Wenqiang, the Chinese self-elevating jack-up vessel, has installed its first turbine at an offshore wind project. According to Hengtong Group, the vessel installed the turbine at the project site offshore Zhanjiang in the Guangdong Province on 9 April. The company said the construction site is located in a typhoon-prone area with complex geological sea conditions, extreme working […]

  • Siemens Gamesa, REBO Ink SeaMade Deal

    17 December 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    On 14 December, Siemens Gamesa and REBO (Renewable Energy Base Oostende) signed a contract for Belgian SeaMade offshore wind farm, which will feature 58 Siemens Gamesa offshore wind turbines. 

  • Horns Rev 3 Monopiles Stand Ready (VIDEO)

    9 January 2018
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    GeoSea’s heavy-lift jack-up Innovation installed the 49th and final monopile on Vattenfall’s Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea just after the New Year. 

  • VIDEO: VBMS and Boskalis Getting Busy at Rampion

    20 December 2016
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    In December 2016, VBMS completed the installation of two 16 kilometre-long 150kV HVAC export cables for the Rampion offshore wind farm situated off the coast of Worthing, UK. To overcome some environmental challenges in this very shallow water, VBMS had to extend the pre-installed landfall HDD’s with duct extensions of approximately 480 metres each. VBMS […]

  • Top News of the Week, 24 – 30 October

    30 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Marks 1000th Turbine in Water DONG Energy has become the first company worldwide to have installed 1,000 offshore wind turbines, after recently installing the landmark turbine at the Gode Wind 2 offshore wind farm in German North Sea. DONG Upgrades Tendering System DONG Energy has added a new category covering geotechnical investigation services in […]

  • Columbia Power to Deploy StingRAY at Navy’s WETS

    26 November 2014
    Technology

    Columbia Power Technologies has announced its newest project – the open-water demonstration of a utility-scale StingRAY at the US Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS).  It is the culmination of an intensive product development effort that includes over 10,000 hours of in-water, scaled prototype testing. The grid-connected StingRAY deployment at WETS, which is located off […]

  • VIDEO: KNRM at OEEC2022

    30 November 2022
    Business & Finance

    Jeroen Wooning is Relationship Manager and Fundraiser at the KNRM. The Royal Dutch Rescue Society (KNRM) rescues and helps anyone in distress on the water, free of charge. They are an independent organisation with its own funding, maintained by donations, gifts and bequests. KNRM provides assistance 24/7 and in all circumstances. They will tell you […]

  • Spain: IREC to Organise Symposium on Offshore Wind Technologies (OffWindTech)

    14 May 2013

    IREC to organise the Symposium on Offshore wind technologies (OffWindTech) in the frame of the project KIC-Offwindtech. The aim of this project is to identify the main challenges and limitations in offshore, especially deep water offshore wind energy, and to seek and analyze viable alternatives in the field of power transmission, and offshore blades. [mappress] […]

  • Van Oord-Led Consortium Wins Borssele Demo Site Tender

    6 April 2018
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Two Towers BV, a consortium comprising Van Oord Renewable Finance, Investri Offshore and Green Giraffe Holding has won the Dutch tender for the fifth site at the Borssele zone, designated as the demonstration site for innovations in offshore wind.

  • DTU Develops New Wind Turbine Monitoring Method

    5 May 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have developed a simple method for monitoring wind turbines using the symmetry created by the wind turbine when the blades rotate.

  • USA: Northwest Energy Angels Invests in Columbia Power Technology

    24 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Northwest Energy Angels, the Pacific Northwest’s only angel group focused exclusively on providing early-stage capital to cleantech entrepreneurs, continued its mission of building a vibrant cleantech community in 2011 by investing more than $880,000 in nine cleantech companies, one receiving a second round of funding.  “Despite the economic downturn, our members continued to support […]