Top News of the Week Oct 6 – 12, 2014

October 12, 2014

Siemens has confirmed that they are in talks over future offshore wind contracts.

Vattenfall Preparing ‘Offshore Hotel’ for Sandbank and DanTysk

During a press conference at WindEnergy Hamburg last week, Vattenfall stated that they will launch the Sandbank project in the summer of 2015, after they complete the DanTysk construction works.

DNV GL Shares Floating Wind Turbine Vision for 2050

Last Friday, Johan Sandberg, service line leader for offshore renewable energy at DNV GL, held a presentation about a global vision for floating offshore wind power in 2050 at the University of Maine campus at the Advanced Structures and Composite Center.

Block Island Construction Starts in 9 Months

Deepwater wind provided an update on their wind farm project off the coast of Block Island at AWEA Offshore Windpower 2014 event yesterday .

Vattenfall to Focus on Renewables

Vattenfall’s new CEO Magnus Hall visited the company’s wind centre in Esbjerg, Denmark on Monday. Hall came to Esbjerg as the company is about to break the barrier of 1000 wind turbines to be controlled from its surveillance centre at the Danish North Sea coast.