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  • France Receives First Offshore Wind Power

    19 September 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Floating offshore wind turbine Floatgen, the first offshore wind turbine installed off the French coast, has started delivering electricity to the grid.

  • GE Renewable Energy Adds Global Wind Service to Saint-Nazaire Roster

    23 February 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    GE Renewable Energy (GE) has selected Global Wind Service (GWS) as a partner for the load-out and installation of the 80-turbine Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm. Work is scheduled to start during the spring and run throughout the summer and fall, GWS said. The 480 MW Saint-Nazaire wind farm, also known as Parc éolien en mer […]

  • First Floating Foundation for Kincardine 9.6 MW Turbines Arrives in Rotterdam

    15 October 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    First foundation for the Kincardine project, the world’s largest floating wind farm, has arrived in Rotterdam, from where the floating wind turbines will be installed off Scotland. The foundation was transported from the fabrication yard in Spain to Rotterdam on board Boskalis’ semi-submersible barge Fjord, towed by the oceangoing tug Seraya. Boskalis, which has been […]

  • Hornsea One Farm-Down Deal Smashes Financing Records

    19 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    EKF, Denmark’s Export Credit Agency, has provided a GBP 800 million guarantee for the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm, making this the largest financing in EKF’s history and the largest wind financing that any public export credit agency has ever provided.

  • Imenco to Keep Hornsea One Corrosion Free

    22 January 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has awarded Norway’s Imenco Corrosion Technology AS with a contract to deliver equipment for cathodic corrosion protection of the 1.2GW Hornsea Project One wind farm off the Yorkshire coast in the UK.

  • Iberdrola Opens Wikinger O&M Base

    23 March 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Iberdrola has opened the Operation & Maintenance (O&M) building for the 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm in the Mukran Port.

  • SSE Pacifico Emerges in Japan

    1 November 2021
    Business & Finance

    SSE Renewables has closed the agreement to form a new joint ownership company, SSE Pacifico, which will pursue the development of offshore wind projects in Japan. The deal includes the acquisition by SSE Renewables of an 80 per cent interest in an offshore wind development platform from Pacifico Energy. The total consideration at closing is […]

  • French Floating Wind Project Lags Behind

    6 February 2014
    R&D, Technology

    After being announced as imminent on several occasions in 2013, the construction of the floating wind turbine prototype Winflo has still not commenced. For this reason, DCNS and Nass & Wind have decided to reconsider the project. Initially, the developers were planning to deploy a small-scale demonstrator with a 1MW turbine, while the final device […]

  • Three Installation Vessels in Operation at Anholt Offshore Wind Farm (Denmark)

    6 February 2013

    At the beginning of January 2013, the installation vessel Sea Jack arrived at Grenaa Harbour, and a total of three installation vessels are now in operation to exploit the few and often short-term installation windows which the season allows.  At the end of February, A2SEA’s new custom-designed installation vessel, Sea Installer, will arrive to replace […]

  • PivotBuoy Floater Enters Construction Stage

    31 July 2020
    Technology

    The manufacturing of the PivotBuoy offshore wind floating platform has commenced in Santander, Spain. In March, X1 Wind and its partners completed and approved the design of the single point mooring system platform for floating wind turbines. After the design was approved, the manufacturing of the PivotBuoy and the floating platform started at DEGIMA facilities. […]

  • Saint-Nazaire Foundation Installation to Begin End of March

    23 February 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The first transition pieces for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France have arrived at the Port of La Rochelle. Smulders shipped off the first four transition pieces for the 480 MW project in mid-February from Belgium to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from where they were transported to France. DEME’s jack-up vessel Innovation is expected to […]

  • VOS Start at Full Steam on Walney Extension

    22 September 2017
    Vessels

    VOS Start, Vroon’s walk-to-work vessel, performed 200 transfers facilitating more than 850 persons to transition pieces during its first six weeks of operations on DONG Energy’s Walney Extension wind farm in the Irish Sea, Vroon reported.

  • Ørsted and PSEG to Negotiate Stake Sale in New Jersey Offshore Wind Farm

    30 October 2019
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted and Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), a New Jersey-based utility, will enter into exclusive negotiations for PSEG to potentially become an equity investor in Ørsted’s Ocean Wind project. Subject to negotiations toward a joint venture agreement, advanced due diligence and any required regulatory approvals, PSEG would acquire 25% of Ocean Wind. Ocean Wind is […]

  • Galloper Developers to Hold Drop-In Sessions

    13 November 2015

    Members of the Galloper Wind Farm Ltd (GWFL) project team will be in the Leiston area on Friday the 20th and Saturday the 21st of November to host three drop-in sessions about the Galloper Offshore Wind Farm project. Members of the public and interested parties will be able to find out more about the wind […]

  • NFFO Hosts Meeting on Marine Spatial Planning (UK)

    18 November 2011

    A constructive meeting with the representatives from the Marine Management Organisation was held in the NFFO offices recently to discuss the arrival of marine spatial planning and in particular, the first two draft marine plans. These will be for the East Coast Inshore and the East Coast Offshore. Marine Plans will then be extended to […]

  • EMS Opens Offshore Service Station in Port of Borkum, Germany

    12 September 2013
    Ports & Logistics

    The EMS Maritime Offshore GmbH newly opened up an offshore service station (OSS) in the port of Borkum. From the 1st of October 2013 the EMS Maritime Offshore GmbH is able to offer different services for shipping companies, offshore wind farm operators and / or wind turbine manufactures on the north sea island Borkum. In […]

  • Van Oord Installs All Walney Extension Foundations

    15 August 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Dutch offshore construction specialist Van Oord has installed all 87 foundations at DONG Energy’s 659MW Walney Extension wind farm in the Irish Sea.

  • UK: Hornsea Project One Application Accepted for Examination

    23 August 2013
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The application for Hornsea Project One, the first offshore wind farm that SMart Wind Ltd is developing in the Round 3 Hornsea Zone, has been accepted for examination by the UK Planning Inspectorate. The Planning Inspectorate has approximately three months to prepare for the examination. During this stage, the public will be able to register […]

  • Seatools Presents Pile Cleaning and Dredging Tool

    20 April 2016
    Technology

    A Dutch subsea engineering company, Seatools, has launched a pile cleaning and dredging tool. The Pile Dredge Tool (PDT) is capable of removing soil plugs and cleaning pre-piled jackets, such as those used in the offshore wind industry. The system can also be used for other pile excavation operations as well, such as for the preparation of […]

  • Belgium: ENTSO-E Opens Public Consultation for Network Code on HVDC Connections

    7 November 2013
    Grid Connection

    European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) has today launched a public consultation on the draft Network Code on Connection Rules on HVDC Links and DC-Connected Power Park Modules (NC HVDC). The consultation is open for 2 months from 7 November 2013 until 7 January 2014. A public stakeholder workshop on the code […]

  • BASF Completes Hollandse Kust Zuid Stake Buy

    2 September 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    German chemicals giant BASF has completed the purchase of 49.5 per cent of the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm from Vattenfall, following the approval of all relevant authorities. The closing of the transaction, originally expected for the fourth quarter of 2021, was completed earlier than planned, BASF said. According to the agreement BASF and […]

  • Rentel Makes Topside Travel Arrangements

    10 January 2018
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Rentel NV will start the transport of the offshore transformer substation topside built for the 309MW Rentel offshore wind farm from the assembly yard in Saint-Nazaire, France to the installation site in the Belgian North Sea on 12 January.

  • Siemens Sends Off 1st Beatrice OTM Transformer

    18 May 2017
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The first power transformer built by Siemens for the Beatrice offshore wind farm has left the factory in Dresden and is on its way to Rotterdam. The transformer is expected to arrive on site by end of May, the company’s spokesperson told Offshore WIND.

  • Siemens Commences Green Port Recruitment

    17 December 2014

    Siemens today began recruiting for jobs based in Hull, just under two years before its wind turbine manufacturing and assembly operations in the city are due to become operational. Fourteen positions have been advertised for what Siemens described as the “vanguard” of a phased recruitment operation which will eventually see the company employ 1,000 people […]

  • Kriegers Flak OWF Generating Electricity for Danish Households

    29 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, where half of the turbines have been installed so far, is already generating electricity for Danish households and has contributed to Vattenfall’s Q1 2021 results. The developer reported a decrease in electricity generation in the first quarter of the year as a result of lower […]

  • NIRAS Acquires Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies

    30 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    NIRAS, a provider of marine engineering and environmental consultancy services, has acquired Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies (CMACS), a marine ecology consultancy involved in projects such as Burbo Bank Extension, London Array, and Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farms. Tim Norman, Managing Director of NIRAS Consulting, said: “I am delighted that we have joined forces with CMACS, who have […]