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  • ZF Wind Power Fires Up Powertrain Test Rig for 30 MW Turbines

    1 May 2025
    Business development, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    ZF Wind Power has commissioned what the company claims to be the world’s most powerful validation test rig, which is capable of testing machines up to 30 MW. The 30 MW test rig, which is now ready for operation at ZF Wind Power’s Test and Prototype Center in Lommel, Belgium, can validate complete powertrain systems […]

  • Offshore Wind Turbines in 2024: 20+ MW Prototypes Rolling Out in Europe, China; 16 MW Remains Most Powerful Turbine Installed Offshore

    1 January 2025
    Business development, Industry, Supply Chain, Technology, Wind Turbines

    In offshoreWIND.biz‘s 2023 annual wind turbine overview from January 2024, you could have read about the first 16 MW model installed offshore and a 22 MW turbine about to enter development. Fast forward twelve months, a 21 MW prototype in Europe and 22 MW and 26 prototypes in China are expected to soon be installed […]

  • Ten Most Read News on OffshoreWIND.biz in 2024

    1 January 2025
    Business development, Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Operations & Maintenance, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    New wind turbine models, vessels and equipment, and project updates were the most read topics on offshoreWIND.biz in 2024. In this overview, we are bringing the ten most popular news in 2024. In January 2024, Siemens Gamesa received a EUR 30 million grant from the EU for a project called Highly Innovative Prototype of the […]

  • Baltic Power Launches Scheme to Pay Fishermen Affected by Offshore Wind Farm Construction

    2 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Vessels

    The developers behind the Baltic Power project have made the initial compensation payments to fishermen who conducted fishing activities in the wind farm area off the coast of Poland. The transitional compensation scheme is valid for the construction of the offshore wind farm or until ministerial regulations are in place, said Baltic Power, a joint […]

  • Siemens Gamesa to Soon Install 21 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Prototype at Danish Test Site — Reports

    10 December 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Supply Chain, Technology, Wind Turbines

    Siemens Gamesa is transporting a nacelle from its facility in Brande, Denmark, to the Østerild wind turbine test centre, a company spokesperson confirmed to offshoreWIND.biz. The spokesperson declined to reveal any specifics about the wind turbine but Danish media writes that it is the new prototype which Bloomberg reported earlier this year to have a […]

  • GE Haliade – X Prototype Gets a Power Boost

    22 October 2020
    R&D, Technology

    GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X prototype, the world’s most powerful wind turbine operating to date, has been optimized and is now operating at a 13 MW power output. During the following months, the prototype operating in the Port of Rotterdam will undergo a series of tests to perform different types of measurements and obtain its type […]

  • GE Haliade-X Prototype Completes Second Year in Operation

    9 November 2021
    R&D, Technology

    GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X offshore wind turbine prototype installed in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has been operating for two years, making it the first 10+ MW offshore wind turbine to achieve this milestone, the turbine maker said. The prototype was first commissioned in November 2019 at 12 MW. Since then, GE Renewable Energy has uprated the […]

  • Eneco Buys Power from GE Haliade-X 12MW Prototype

    17 December 2019
    Business & Finance

    Dutch energy company Eneco is set to purchase all the electricity generated by GE’s Haliade-X 12MW offshore wind turbine prototype. This was announced during the inauguration ceremony for the prototype held today, 17 December, at the port of Maasvlakte-Rotterdam. According to GE, the Haliade-X 12MW prototype set a new world record the past weekend by […]

  • GE Haliade-X Offshore Wind Turbine Reaches 14 MW Output

    5 October 2021
    R&D, Technology

    GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X prototype in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has started operating at 14 MW. With this new milestone, GE Renewable Energy becomes the first industry player to operate a turbine at this power output, the turbine maker said. The Haliade-X 14 MW is an uprated version of the Haliade-X 13 MW, which received its […]

  • Haliade X-12 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Has Another Record-Breaking Day

    7 February 2020
    Technology

    The HaliadeX-12 MW offshore wind turbine prototype in the Port of Rotterdam has set a new world record by being the first wind turbine ever to generate 288MWh of electricity continuously over the course of 24 hours, GE Renewable Energy said. The previous record of 262MWh of electricity produced by a wind turbine was also […]

  • GE’s Haliade-X 14.7 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Type-Certified

    15 December 2022
    Technology

    GE Renewable Energy has received a full type certificate from DNV for its Haliade-X offshore wind turbine for operations up to 14.7 MW. This type certification follows an earlier certification that the Haliade-X could operate at up to 13.6 MW and makes the Haliade-X the most powerful turbine with a full type certification, according to […]

  • GE Haliade-X 12MW Notches Another Milestone

    18 June 2020
    Technology

    GE’s Haliade-X 12 MW offshore wind turbine prototype has obtained a provisional type certificate by DNV GL. According to GE, this certification demonstrates that the Haliade-X prototype has the highest safety and quality standards. The company expects the full type certificate in the coming months. “This is a very important milestone for us as it confirms […]

  • Highlights of the Month – October 2020

    2 November 2020

    OffshoreWIND.biz brings you the ten most-read articles on the site for the month of October 2020. Crane for Next-Gen Offshore Wind Turbines Coming to Market The Netherlands-based Tetrahedron has developed a new crane for next-generation offshore wind turbines, said to be designed to fit on both existing and new jack-up vessels. Construction Starts on World’s […]

  • Vattenfall and GE to Form Haliade-X 12MW Alliance

    16 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Vattenfall and GE Renewable Energy plan to join forces in the deployment of GE’s new wind turbine, the Haliade-X 12 MW, in Europe. With a capacity of 12MW, the Haliade-X is the largest offshore wind turbine on the market to date. Development and production of the new 12MW turbine will mostly take place in France. […]

  • GE Haliade-X 12MW Prototype Finds Home in Rotterdam

    16 January 2019
    Business & Finance, Technology

    GE Renewable Energy and Future Wind, a joint venture of Pondera Development and Sif, have signed an agreement to install the first Haliade-X 12MW wind turbine prototype in the Port of Rotterdam this summer. The agreement, which will see the Haliade-X 12MW prototype installed onshore to facilitate access for testing, includes five years of testing and […]

  • GE Haliade-X Wind Turbine Now Typhoon-Proof

    29 April 2021
    Technology

    GE Renewable Energy has secured Typhoon certification (Class T certification) from DNV for the Haliade-X offshore wind turbine. The certificate shows that the Haliade-X can operate safely and efficiently under extreme wind conditions which can often be found in Asia but also in the U.S., where hurricanes occur every year, the turbine maker said. ”Typhoon […]

  • GE Haliade-X 12 MW Turbine Obtains Full Type Certificate

    12 November 2020
    Technology

    GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X 12 MW prototype has received a full type certificate from DNV GL. This full type certification, which follows a provisional type certification announced in June, provides independent verification that the new turbines will operate safely, reliably, and according to design specifications, the turbine maker said. The process of certifying the Haliade-X […]

  • GE Haliade-X 13 MW Turbines to Spin on Vineyard Wind 1

    11 October 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    GE Renewable Energy has received a firm order from Vineyard Wind to supply Haliade-X wind turbines for Vineyard Wind 1, the first utility-scale offshore wind installation in the US. GE was announced as the preferred turbine supplier for the project in December of 2020. Vineyard Wind 1 recently became the first offshore wind farm in […]

  • Haliade-X 12 MW Project Triggers Hiring Spree in France

    3 July 2019
    Jobs & Recruitment

    GE Renewable Energy plans to recruit more than 200 employees at its LM Wind Power wind turbine blade manufacturing site in Cherbourg, France. 60 out of the additional employees were recently recruited and just began intensive training at the factory’s ‘Center of Excellence’. Opened in April 2018, the Cherbourg facility became the first wind turbine […]

  • Siemens Gamesa’s Flagship Prototype Offshore Wind Turbine Starts Taking Shape

    23 September 2021
    Technology

    Siemens Gamesa has started installing the SG 14-222 DD prototype offshore wind turbine at the test centre in Østerild, Denmark. The wind turbine’s tower has now been erected at the site, Siemens Gamesa said. Upon completion, the prototype unit will become the most powerful wind turbine installed in the world, surpassing GE’s 13 MW Haliade-X […]

  • Offshore Wind Turbines in 2022: 15 MW Prototypes Starting to Spin in Europe, Chinese Rolling Out 16 MW Models, Windcatcher and VAWTs Secure Demo Projects

    5 January 2023
    Technology

    Wind energy generation technology is one of the hottest topics on offshoreWIND.biz year after year and 2022 was no different. Over the past twelve months, various updates made headlines, from upgrades to existing platforms and rolling out new models to securing pilot projects for novel designs. Further below, you can find an overview of our […]

  • New Method for Developing Recyclable Bio-Derivable Wind Turbine Blades Unveiled

    23 August 2024
    Business development, Industry, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have found a practical path for manufacturing bio-derivable wind turbine blades that can be recycled and reused, potentially ending the practice of landfilling old blades. The paper “Manufacture and testing of biomass-derivable thermosets for wind blade recycling” involved work from investigators at five […]

  • GE Haliade-X Breaks 300 MWh Daily Output Ceiling

    11 November 2020
    R&D, Technology

    The prototype GE Haliade-X offshore wind turbine has produced 312 MWh of electricity in a single 24-hour period, once again setting a new world record. This is according to John Lavelle, CEO Offshore Wind at GE Renewable Energy. The prototype turbine, installed in the Port of Rotterdam, produced its first power in November 2019 and […]

  • Haliade-X 12 MW Prototype Coming in 2019

    5 June 2018
    R&D, Technology

    A full prototype Haliade-X 12 MW wind turbine will be installed at a yet-to-be-determined site in 2019, GE Renewable Energy said.

  • Haliade X- 12MW Prototype Nearly Done

    16 October 2019
    Technology

    The third and final 107m blade has arrived in the Port of Rotterdam and is awaiting to be installed on the prototype GE Haliade-X 12MW offshore wind turbine. To remind, the first blade was installed on the Haliade-X 12MW turbine located at Sif’s Maasvlakte 2 terminal on 14 October, with the second piece following the day […]

  • Haliade X- 12MW Prototype Stands Complete

    17 October 2019
    Technology

    The third and final 107m blade has been installed on the prototype GE Haliade-X 12MW offshore wind turbine in Maasvlakte, the Port of Rotterdam. The first blade was installed on the Haliade-X 12MW turbine located at Sif’s Maasvlakte 2 terminal on 14 October, with the second piece following the day later. LM Wind Power manufactured the 107m blades, the world’s largest, at its […]