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Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
A geotechnical survey will begin at the Codling offshore wind farm in Ireland at the beginning of June as part of the consenting process for the project. Operations are expected to commence on 6 June at the earliest and are likely to finish on 4 July, weather permitting. The works will consist of a geotechnical […]
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Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
EDF Renewables and Fred. Olsen Seawind have applied for a Maritime Area Consent (MAC) for the proposed 1.5 GW Colding offshore wind farm in Ireland. The project is one of the seven that the Irish Government invited to apply for MACs earlier this year after the country launched this new consent process under the Maritime […]
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Authorities, Wind Farm Update
ESB Wind Development Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Irish utility company ESB, has applied for a licence to carry out site investigations for its Sea Stacks Offshore Wind project, one of the projects on which the company was joined by Equinor, before the Norwegian developer decided to withdraw from offshore wind development in Ireland […]
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Authorities, Wind Farm Update
Irish Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan TD, has invited applications from the first batch of offshore wind projects for Maritime Area Consents (MACs), the first of which are expected to be issued in the second half on this year. The invited projects include seven developments that were designated as “relevant projects” […]
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Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Mayflower Wind has merged its two projects that were selected in Massachusetts’s offshore wind solicitations into one development now known as the SouthCoast Project. The first Mayflower Wind offshore wind farm has now been decided to also connect to the grid at Brayton Point in Somerset, instead in Falmouth on Cape Cod as initially planned. […]
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Shanghai Electric Wind Power Group has produced the first EW8.X-230 offshore wind turbine generator at the Putian manufacturing facility in China on 10 June. Based on the Poseidon platform, the EW8.X-230 is a generator designed for the medium-low wind speeds normally experienced just above the sea surface off the Chinese shoreline, as well as the […]
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Belgium-headquartered DEME has revealed that the “revolutionary” offshore installation vessel Orion officially joined its fleet. The vessel arrived last month at DEME offshore base near Vlissingen in the Netherlands after sailing out of Bremerhaven, Germany. Orion is equipped with Liebherr’s Heavy Lift Crane 295000 which has a maximum capacity of 5,000 tonnes and a maximum […]
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Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) has partnered with ABB to develop what is said to become the world’s largest mobile grid simulator that will enable testing of next-generation offshore wind turbines. The simulator is being developed under the Mobil-Grid-CoP project launched in 2020 and publicly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic […]
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Italy-based subsea power cable supplier, Prysmian, has signed a purchase agreement with Commercial Development Company (CDC) for a site at Brayton Point in Somerset, Massachusetts, which housed a now-closed coal-fired power plant and will soon be home to a USD 200 million offshore wind cable factory. Prysmian said that finalisation of the plans for the […]
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Ørsted and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Denmark) are testing how 3D-printed reefs can benefit biodiversity in the Kattegat, a strait between Denmark and Sweden, which is experiencing a historically low cod stock, the Danish energy company said. This is the first time 3D-printed reefs are used in Danish waters, and they will […]
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Security and independence were the most important words in recent days. The war in Ukraine has shown how fragile is the energy industry based on fossil fuels imported mainly from Russia – gas, oil, and coal. What will replace Russian coal? The answer to this question are Renewable Energy Sources (RES), especially wind energy, which […]
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Business & Finance, R&D, Technology
Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) has manufactured its first 13 MW typhoon-resistant offshore wind turbine. Developed in-house by DEC, the 13 MW model is based on the company’s 10 MW offshore direct-drive platform. The new model features 103-metre blades, also developed in-house by DEC, providing a rotor sweep area of 34,967 square […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Guangdong Electric Power Development has awarded a contract to MingYang Smart Energy, under which the wind turbine manufacturer will supply its MySE 11-230 typhoon-proof hybrid-drive turbines for a 1 GW offshore wind project. The project, located in deep waters offshore Guangdong Province, comprises two phases: 600 MW Qingzhou 1 and 400 MW Qingzhou 2. According […]
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Kongsberg Maritime will deliver propulsion systems for two Commissioning Service Operations Vessels (CSOVs) to be built by Vard for Norwind Offshore, a ship-owning company established last year in Norway. The propulsion technology for each of the CSOVs will include new permanent magnet (PM) PMAZ 2600PM azimuth thrusters, PM tunnel thrusters, and a retractable azimuth thruster. […]
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Aker Solutions AS has awarded MRC Global Norway AS with a contract to provide the complete scope of valves, instrumentation, piping, tubing, and fittings for the Sunrise Wind offshore wind power project in the US. Last year, Aker Solutions AS won a EUR 309 million contract to deliver the offshore converter platform, consisting of a […]
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Register before the 24th of June and receive a 25% discount on your event ticket. From today, it is possible to register for the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) 2022. Europe’s leading exhibition and conference connects the entire offshore energy sector. The two-day event taking place on the 29th and 30th November 2022 will […]
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The 150 GW of offshore wind capacity pledged to be reached by 2050 by Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands under the Esbjerg Declaration, signed yesterday (18 May) at the North Sea Summit, will contribute to large-scale onshore and offshore production of green hydrogen, one of the focal points of the European Commission’s REPowerEU strategy, also […]
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EOLOS Floating Lidar Solutions has won a tender held by PGE Baltica for its Baltica 1 project in Poland, an 896 MW offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea that obtained grid connection terms in 2020. The Spain-based floating LiDAR provider has signed a two-year turn-key contract with the Polish offshore wind developer for a […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Industry, R&D, Technology
German energy company RWE and steel producer ArcelorMittal have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to develop, build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities that will supply the renewable energy and green hydrogen required to produce low-emissions steel in Germany. The partnership centres on driving forward the production of carbon-neutral steel, […]
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Orient Cable (NBO) has been awarded a EUR 240 million contract for a 1 GW offshore wind project developed by Guangdong Energy in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, China. The EPCI contract includes the supply, engineering, transportation, installation, and pre-commissioning of two 60-kilometre-long 500 kV 3-core export cables. According to the company, the project marks the world’s […]
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China Longyuan Power Group connected the 606.3 MW Dafeng Phase II offshore wind farm to the grid on 24 December, according to a press release from the company which joined several other developers in China in rushing to have their offshore wind projects operational before 2021 ended together with a favourable Feed-In-Tariff (FIT). The company […]
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Authorities, Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics
Massachusetts’s Baker-Polito Administration has announced its plans to invest USD 100 million to support offshore wind ports in Salem, New Bedford, and Somerset. Governor Charlie Baker made this announcement on 18 May in Salem at the site of what will be Massachusetts’ second offshore wind port. The investment is part of the government fiscal year […]
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The 300 MW Yangjiang Nanpeng offshore wind farm in China, developed by China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP), has been fully connected to the grid after its 55th and final wind turbine was installed at the end of the last month. According to CECEP, this was the first time wind turbine installation works […]
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Rise Light & Power and Delaware River Partners (DRP) have partnered up to collaborate on developing the first offshore wind cable manufacturing facility in New Jersey, the US. The development of the manufacturing facility at the Repauno Port & Rail Terminal in Greenwich Township is subject to the Board of Public Utilities (BPU) approval of the […]
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US-based Keystone Engineering Inc. and the German civil engineering company Jörss-Blunck-Ordemann GmbH (JBO) have entered into a strategic partnership to jointly provide offshore wind farm designs that are tailor-made to the growing US offshore wind market. The parties said that, as the US offshore wind industry gains more momentum, it is becoming more apparent that […]
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Vattenfall is working on a hydrogen demonstrator project named Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1), which involves installing hydrogen production equipment on one of the wind turbines at its Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm (European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre) in Scotland. The company has already submitted a couple of applications for pipeline route surveys with Marine Scotland, as […]
