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  • BlueFloat, Renantis Press Ahead with 1.1 GW Scottish Floating Offshore Wind Project

    13 February 2024
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The BlueFloat Energy and Renantis partnership have submitted a scoping request and Habitats Regulations Assessment screening report to the Marine Directorate for the Broadshore Hub Wind Farm Development Areas in Scotland. The scoping request seeks the Scottish Minister’s opinion on the scope and details of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report. The Broadshore Hub Wind […]

  • BlueFloat, Renantis Complete Surveys at Scottish Floating Offshore Wind Sites

    9 November 2023
    Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Preparatory survey work on four new floating offshore wind farms has been completed in the North Sea. Geophysical survey work was completed on BlueFloatEnergy and Renantis Partnership’s ScotWind projects, namely the 900 MW Broadshore project, located 50 kilometres north of Fraserburgh, and the 1.2 GW Bellrock project, located 120 kilometres east of Aberdeen. The partnership […]

  • DORIS Leads Design Work on Two Floating Wind Projects Offshore Scotland

    3 August 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind

    BlueFloat Energy and Renantis partnership have appointed DORIS as Principal Designer on its Broadshore and Bellrock floating offshore wind farms in Scotland. As Principal Designer, DORIS will use its knowledge of Construction, Design, and Management (CDM) 2015 regulations plan to plan, manage, monitor, and coordinate design risk management activities, support contractor selection and appointments, and […]

  • US AUV Developer Marks First Step Towards Tech’s Commercialisation, Aims to Accelerate Seafloor Data Acquisition for Offshore Wind

    12 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Innovation, Technology

    Bedrock, the US-based developer of a portable autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for offshore wind surveys, has secured USD 25.5 million in a Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to date to USD 33.5 million and the technology a step closer to commercial use. The company says it will use the funds to bring […]

  • BlueFloat, Renantis Ink Exclusivity Agreements for Scottish Floaters

    19 May 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The BlueFloat Energy and Renantis partnership has signed exclusivity agreements with Crown Estate Scotland to develop its Sinclair and Scaraben innovation projects which will now be part of a phased delivery of the partnership’s Broadshore project. The two 99.5 MW floating offshore wind farms will now be developed as part of a phased delivery of […]

  • BlueFloat, Renantis Award Surveys Contract for Floating Wind Sites Offshore Scotland

    6 April 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Acteon Geo-services brands, TerraSond and Benthic, have been awarded a combined geophysical and geotechnical survey by the BlueFloat Energy and Renantis partnership for its Bellrock and Broadshore offshore wind farms, located northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland. The geophysical scope will involve using the Ocean Fortune, a survey vessel designed specifically for year-round North Sea operations, which […]

  • Could a 30-Kilogram Portable AUV Replace Geophysical Survey Vessels in Offshore Wind?

    9 June 2022
    Technology, Vessels

    The impending shortage of specialised vessels in offshore wind is not limited to the installation phase and could hit areas of project development such as seabed mapping and UXO surveys, according to a US company that recently introduced a solution to this issue in the form of a portable autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). At the […]

  • BLG Wins German Logistics Award

    29 October 2013

    During the 30th German Logistics Congress, BLG WindEnergy Logistics, together with another company, received the German Logistics Award. For the first time in the history of this award, the applications were rated so close together that two projects were presented at the industry meeting from 23rd to 25th of October in Berlin. Andrew Wellbrock from […]

  • BlueFloat, Falck and Ørsted Seal ScotWind Leases

    12 April 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy have signed option agreements for their two joint projects selected in the ScotWind offshore leasing round, and another option agreement for a third project for which the partnership secured a lease in a consortium with Ørsted. The two leases secured by Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy are located east of […]

  • Wind Measurement Campaign to Start at Falck and BlueFloat’s Floating Wind Sites in Scotland

    15 February 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Spanish company Eolos Floating LiDAR Solutions is preparing to deploy two of its FLS200 floating LiDAR buoys at two sites offshore Scotland, where partners Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy plan to build floating wind farms. The LiDAR buoys will be installed this month out of the Peterhead port, where Eolos has engaged ASCO to provide […]

  • UK: Petrofac Appoints Director for Renewables

    6 April 2012

    Oilfield service company Petrofac passed a decision on appointing director of Offshore Projects & Operations (OPO) business by naming Jonathan Duffy to the office, reNews informs. “Jonathan joins us at an exciting time as we are working on our first offshore wind maintenance contract in Germany. We look forward to working with him to further […]

  • SPT Offshore Designs Jackets for Scottish Wind Farm

    23 March 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    The Netherlands-based SPT Offshore has completed the preliminary design of a three-legged jacket, including the suction pile foundation, for an offshore wind farm project at the east coast of Scotland.

  • Ørsted Hires Taylor Hopkinson for German Offshore Wind Couple

    30 March 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Ørsted has awarded Taylor Hopkinson with a framework agreement to supply contract personnel for its Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind projects in Germany. Under the deal, Taylor Hopkinson will provide personnel across a broad range of roles within the allocated lots, from construction, engineering and O&M to project management and commissioning. […]

  • East Anglia ONE Survey Work Continues

    5 October 2015

    A jack up vessel has been based in River Deben collecting riverbed samples ahead of East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm construction. The materials would be used to analyse the type of bedrock and soil composition, according to Ipswich Star. The next phase of survey activity will include digging trenches along parts of the proposed […]

  • Offshore Wind Consultants Spots Geohazards in Poland

    14 October 2020
    Environment

    Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) has completed the identification of geohazards in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea that offshore wind developers should address when planning projects. According to OWC, Poland’s Baltic Sea is covered by various kinds of sediments, ranging from loam through fine‐grained sand and coarse sands, to gravel and stones, with sediment […]

  • Ventnor Residents Concerned over Tidal Energy Centre

    17 March 2014

    Ventnor residents have raised concern regarding the announced tidal energy development in the area. The proposed Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC) would be located around 2.5km south of St Catherine’s Point, near Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. ”The site in St Catherine’s Deep is on the brown crab migratory route that runs from the […]

  • Ørsted, Falck and BlueFloat Support Cromarty Firth Green Freeport Bid

    23 May 2022
    Jobs & Recruitment, Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Ørsted UK, Falck Renewables, and BlueFloat Energy have expressed their support for the bid to give Scottish Green Freeport status to the Cromarty Firth. The three companies, which have secured seabed leases in the recent ScotWind round, have become members of Opportunity Cromarty Firth (OCF), the partnership of private, public, and academic sector bodies committed […]

  • Awel y Môr Completes First Seabed Study

    21 October 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The RWE-led Awel y Môr offshore wind farm has completed its first offshore geophysical exploratory works with Fugro GB Marine Ltd taking the helm. As part of the development of the Awel y Môr wind farm offshore Wales, studies of the seafloor have to be carried out. These in turn will help inform the final […]

  • TEPCO to Celebrate New Year with First Commercial Turbine

    6 December 2018
    R&D, Technology

    Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) is launching its first commercial offshore wind turbine in Choshi, Japan, on 1 January 2019.

  • GDG Presents LEANWIND Results at EWEA Offshore

    16 March 2015
    R&D

    Recognising the critical role that substructures play on the Levellised Cost of Energy, a dedicated session was held on Tuesday 10th March at EWEA Offshore that discussed various foundation solutions. One of the session speakers was Dr. Azadeh Attari from engineering consultants, Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions (GDG), who presented preliminary results from the European Commission […]

  • Ramboll to Design Westermost Rough Offshore Substation (UK)

    26 September 2011
    Grid Connection

      Ramboll has won the detailed design of the offshore substation for DONG Energy’s Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm in the UK, which is estimated to make a significant contribution to the UK government goal of installing 33GW of wind production by 2020. The contract with DONG Energy includes the conceptual and detailed design of […]

  • TEPCO Testing Japanese Seabed

    12 November 2018
    R&D

    Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) has begun a seabed survey off the coast of Chiba Prefecture, Japan, to ascertain the bedrock structure of the seabed for a possible offshore wind farm.

  • Bauer Tests Onshore Piles at French Offshore Wind Project

    4 October 2019

    Bauer Spezialtiefbau has tested onshore piles at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project in France to gather data for the design of foundations. Bauer Spezialtiefbau designed, installed and tested a total of 14 drilled and grouted piles at the Routin Quarry near Cap Fréhel, Brittany, under a contract signed with project developer Ailes Marines last year. “The aim was […]

  • Stars for Global Tech I Come from Wilhelmshaven, Germany

    6 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    BLG and EUROGATE have jointly with AREVA Wind developed a logistics concept for handling, storage and assembly of rotor stars for the Global Tech I offshore wind park approximately 110 km off Germany’s North Sea coast. Overall responsibility for this project lies with BLG, which today signed the contract with AREVA Wind. In the search […]

  • Crown Estate Releases BGS Geological Assessment of Irish Sea

    15 December 2015
    R&D

    The Crown Estate has published a study by the British Geological Survey (BGS) summarising the geological conditions of the Irish Sea, thus providing a valuable resource for the development of offshore infrastructure in the region. The study follows the Crown Estate’s publication of a wide range of data collected for the discontinued Celtic Array offshore wind […]

  • Rampion Unearths Ancient Execution Scene

    7 June 2018
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Human remains dating back to the 11th century were found during excavation work on the South Downs for the Rampion offshore wind farm, with the body showing signs of a traumatic death, E.ON said. Archaeologists from Archaeology South East, UCL, working on behalf of the Rampion project, uncovered the well-preserved remains of the adult male […]