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  • Seajacks Scylla All Set for East Anglia One

    20 June 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Wind farm installation vessel Seajacks Scylla has completed maintenance checks and is ready for its deployment at the East Anglia One offshore wind project in the UK.

  • UK: Maritime Craft Services Takes Delivery of New WFSP

    25 June 2012

    A LEADING Scottish maritime services company has taken delivery of a new offshore wind farm support vessel, further demonstrating its intent to be a major player in the burgeoning worldwide renewables sector. And today (Monday June 25) Maritime Craft Services’ MSC Sirocco  goes straight into service, working on the Thornton Bank Offshore Wind Project in […]

  • Van Oord Shares Experience with Innovative Foundations (Interview)

    28 October 2015
    Vessels

    As promised, we bring you the second part of the interview with Van Oord’s Commercial Manager of Offshore Wind Projects, Theo de Lange. In this part we have focused on new technological developments, offshore wind projects they worked on and their vessels. First part: Van Oord: Dredging Companies Venturing into Offshore Wind (Interview) OW: Earlier this year, you have […]

  • The Netherlands: Post Workboats Develops New Vessel for Offshore Industry

    30 July 2012
    Operations & Maintenance

    Post Workboats has developed a unique Tornado RIB with water jet propulsion especially for the offshore and the wind farm industry. “It is the first time that such a RIB has been equipped with water jets”, says entrepreneur Klaas Post. “And what is more it offers many important advantages. With water jets you can maneuver […]

  • VIDEO: SeaGen, Generating Electricity from Tides

    15 March 2013

      Dr. Peter Fraenkel invented the tidal power plant SeaGen. His idea? To plunge a windmill (headfirst) into the water. Fraenkel shows just how it works by using household items – all in just 60 seconds. A mini windmill, an aquarium and a cup of tea are used to demonstrate. [mappress] Offshore WIND staff, March […]

  • UK: London Array O&M Base Boosts Local Job Market

    18 May 2012
    Operations & Maintenance

    London Array’s Operations & Maintenance (O&M) base at the Port of Ramsgate was officially opened by local MP Laura Sandys on Friday 9 March. The base will be home to around 70 wind farm technicians and up to 20 support staff, who’ll be responsible for operating and maintaining London Array for the next 20 years. […]

  • Gurit Presents 2011 Product Portfolio at China Wind Power 2011 (China)

    18 October 2011

    Gurit, a world-wide leading supplier of composite materials and technical solutions to the global wind energy market is to exhibit at the forthcoming China Wind Power 2011 exhibition, from Wednesday 19th October to Friday 21st October 2011. The exhibition to be held at the New China International Exhibition Center, Beijing, China, is an annual meeting […]

  • Spain: IREC, XaRmae to Organize Workshop on High Temperature Superconducting Wind Turbines

    27 November 2012
    Technology

    The Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) and the XaRmae are organizing the workshop “Electrical Machines with High Temperature Superconducting Technology for Wind Power Applications “. The event will take place on Thursday 13 December. The workshop is an opportunity to analyze the types of superconducting materials that can be used in electrical machines, current […]

  • Norwegians Developing Monopile Foundation for 100-Metre Depths

    19 October 2022
    R&D, Technology

    Norway’s Entrion Wind and Techano AS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) through which Techano AS will join the ongoing development and test project planned to take place in Kristiansand, Norway for the patent-pending fully restrained platform (FRP) offshore wind foundation technology said to extend the operating depth of the monopile technology to up […]

  • The Netherlands Plans to Nearly Double 2030 Offshore Wind Target

    11 November 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    The Netherlands plans to develop additional 10.7 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 in order to meet the EU’s current goal of reducing CO2 emissions by 55 per cent by 2030 compared to the 1990 levels. The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management has now issued the Additional Draft North Sea Programme 2022 […]

  • Carnegie Announces Design Completion for Perth Wave Energy Project (Australia)

    21 December 2011

    Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited announced the completion of the basis of detailed design for its Perth Wave Energy Project (the Perth Project) at Garden Island and the corresponding fourth milestone payment from the Government of Western Australia. The basis of detailed design of the CETO power generation system for the Perth Project […]

  • EMU Limited Bags Prestigious Seabed Survey Contract (UK)

    11 August 2011
    R&D

      The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has awarded marine survey specialists EMU Limited (EMU) a multi-million pound hydrographic contract as part of its programme to systematically survey the waters around the UK. Using the latest dual-head high-resolution multibeamechosounders to obtain seabed depth in unprecedented detail, EMU will cover the Shallow Water Lot of the […]

  • Singapore to Study Feasibility of Building Marine Renewables Testing Facility

    30 October 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Classification society ClassNK has announced the launch of a new feasibility study for a new marine renewable energy testing facility to be built in Singapore. The announcement was made at the 2014 Asian Clean Energy Summit held in Singapore on 28-29 October 2014. The study will pave the way for the establishment of the world’s […]

  • Nordsee Ost Ready for Winter after Annual Maintenance Campaigns

    27 October 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Innogy has completed the annual maintenance of its 295MW Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm in Germany, including inspection of wind turbine blades and foundations, and maintenance of the offshore substation.

  • China’s First 2,000-tonne Wind Farm Installation Vessel Nears Completion

    9 May 2022
    Vessels

    China’s first 2,000-tonne offshore wind farm installation vessel, named Baihetan, was launched in April in Guangzhou, South China’s Guangdong Province. Built by China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG), the 126-metre long, 50-metre wide vessel has a full load displacement with a total capacity of 37,000 tonnes and integrates functions such as transport, self-elevating, self-propulsion, lifting, and […]

  • Ørsted and NOAA Ink Offshore Wind Data Sharing Agreement

    30 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Environment, R&D

    Ørsted has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with NOAA to share physical and biological information and data in Ørsted-leased waters offshore the United States. Sharing of the data and information resources will be used to plan and ensure the effective deployment, sustainable operation and maintenance,  and the efficient use of weather-dependent and oceanic renewable […]

  • US Awarding USD 14.5 Million for Offshore Wind Environmental Research

    18 January 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is allocating up to USD 14.5 million for environmental research to support U.S. offshore wind development. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support regionally-focused, coordinated research efforts to increase understanding of the environmental impacts of offshore wind, as well as projects that advance and validate tools to monitor and minimize impacts. […]

  • ZPMC Delivers Longyuan Zhenhua 3 Installation Vessel

    28 May 2018
    Vessels

    Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) has delivered the Longyuan Zhenhua 3 jack-up vessel to Jiangsu Longyuan Zhenhua Marine Engineering, a 50-50 joint venture between ZPMC and Jiangsu Longyuan Offshore Wind Power that will use the vessel for the installation of wind turbine components off China’s coast.

  • Euskalforging Delivers Huge Rings for Fistuca BLUE 25M Hammer (Gallery)

    7 April 2017
    R&D, Technology

    Spain-based euskalforging has manufactured and delivered seamless rolled rings for the BLUE 25M hammer from Fistuca which, once built, will be able to drive the largest offshore wind monopiles in the industry.

  • Partrac Takes Part in UK Tidal Resource Assessment Measurements Development

    17 May 2012

    Partrac have led the development of tidal resource assessment measurements in the UK and arguably therefore the world given the pioneering development work being undertaken in the UK. Since 2008, they have completed over 35 deployments of ADCPs at tidal energy sites alone and have achieved a data capture rate of 100% thus far. Partrac […]

  • UK: ABPmer to Present Its Paper at All-Energy

    13 March 2013

    ABPmer will be presenting a paper at All-Energy, titled “Enhancing the Atlas of UK Marine Renewable Energy Resources”. The government sponsored UK Marine Renewables Atlas, first published in 2004 and updated in 2007, remains the most recognised and widely used source of resource information for the marine renewable community in the UK, averaging 125 separate […]

  • Acta Marine’s ‘Coastal Vanguard’ Supporting Cable Laying in UK

    28 August 2013
    Operations & Maintenance

    Acta Marine’s Shoalbusters are currently actively deployed in various Regions of the World. Several Maritime & Offshore construction projects have called upon the specialized Shallow draft fleet of Acta Marine. In Asia the Coastal Victory is engaged upon offshore support activities with a shallow draft pipe lay vessel in Korea and Taiwan. This unique 50TBP […]

  • Huisman Takes Piece of Pile Driving Specialist

    28 May 2015
    Technology

    Huisman has reached an agreement to participate as shareholder and investor in Fistuca BV. Fistuca BV is developing a new pile driving technology, BLUE Piling Technology which will allow silent installation of large piles offshore. BLUE Piling Technology is expected to significantly reduce the foundation installation costs for offshore wind turbines. The technology uses a large […]

  • UK: Cathie Associates Named as Geoscience Advisors at Wave Hub

    9 July 2013

    Cathie Associates have been appointed as Geoscience Advisors to Wave Hub for the recently announced Energy Technologies Institute floating offshore wind demonstrator project, located 10 miles off the north coast of Cornwall. The project aims to develop, build and test a floating offshore wind turbine to investigate whether floating wind farms could play a cost […]

  • Scotrenewables’ SR250 Achieves Full Power of 250kW (UK)

    20 December 2011

    A further testing milestone was achieved when the SR250 was put through its paces in a first full-power tow test. On 7th December the multicat MV Orcadia towed the SR250, north of Kirkwall harbour, achieving full-power of 250kW for the first time. Scotrenewables CTO Mark Hamilton stated “Tow trials allow us to simulate real tidal […]

  • Top News of the Week Feb 15 – 21, 2016

    21 February 2016

    VIDEO: Bilfinger Getting Busy at Sandbank The last of the 72 foundations for the 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm was installed last Friday with the help of Bilfinger Marine & Offshore Systems, the company which was in charge of transporting and installing the monopile foundations and transition pieces. Centrica Leaving Wind Energy In its preliminary […]