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  • Japanese Joint Venture Takes Delivery of New Offshore Installation Vessel

    27 September 2023
    Vessels

    PKY Marine, a joint venture (JV) between Penta-Ocean Construction, Kajima Corporation, and Yorigami Maritime Construction, has taken delivery of its new Multipurpose Self-Elevating Platform(SEP) vessel, named CP-16001. The vessel is 120 metres long and 45 metres wide, with a maximum capacity of 100 people, equipped with a large, fully-revolving crane with a 1,600-tonne lifting capacity […]

  • Palfinger Cranes for Japanese Offshore Wind and Battery Storage Project

    1 June 2023
    Equipment, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance

    Austrian crane specialist Palfinger Marine has revealed that 14 of its PF 200 fixed boom cranes are set to be installed at the Ishikari offshore wind farm in Hokkaido, Japan. Each crane features a lifting capacity of 1,000 kilograms and has an outreach of seven metres – the maximum outreach among PALFINGER PF cranes. The company […]

  • Vestas Turbines to Spin on Japanese Offshore Wind Farm

    25 April 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Vestas has won a 238 MW order from Hibiki Wind Energy for the supply of wind turbines for the Kitakyushu-Hibikinada offshore wind project, located off Japan’s Fukuoka prefecture. The order includes the supply and installation of 25 V174-9.5 MW wind turbines as well as long-term Active Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000) service agreement for the […]

  • Penta-Ocean Receives Foundation Order for Japanese Offshore Wind Project

    14 December 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Penta-Ocean Construction has received an order from Hibiki Wind Energy to build wind turbine foundations and to provide marine civil engineering works for the Kitakyushu Hibikinada offshore wind farm project in Japan. For this project, the joint venture of Penta-Ocean Construction and Nippon Steel Engineering was selected as the preferred bidders for the following scope […]

  • MHI Vestas 9.5MW Wind Turbines to Spin Offshore Japan

    25 November 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    MHI Vestas has confirmed that its V174-9.5 MW was selected as the preferred turbine for the 220MW Hibikinada offshore wind farm in Japan. Hibikinada is the first awarded, commercial-scale project to be announced in Japan. The wind farm is expected to enter the construction phase in FY 2022. It will be the first project to […]

  • Kitakyushu City Names Developer of Hibikinada OWF

    17 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The government of Kitakyushu City, Japan, has announced that a consortium comprising Kyuden Mirai Energy, Kyuden Corporation (Kyushu Electric Power), Hokutaku Renewable Energy Service, J-Power, and SAIBUGAS has been selected to install and operate an offshore wind farm off the Port of Hibikinada.

  • Hibiki Wind Energy, Kitakyushu City Ink Hibikinada Agreement

    23 January 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Hibiki Wind Energy signed an agreement with Kitakyushu city on 10 January, laying out the basic matters regarding the project to set up and operate the 229MW Hibikinada offshore wind farm in the Kitakyushu Port area. 

  • Hibikinada Offshore Wind Farm Developers Form Special Purpose Company

    28 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The winners of the tender to build the Hibikinada nearshore wind farm off Kitakyushu, Japan, have established a special purpose company (SPC) – Hibiki Wind Energy.

  • Palfinger Receives Crane Order for Another Japanese Offshore Wind Farm

    15 March 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Palfinger Marine has officially been commissioned to deliver 25 of its stiff boom cranes for the Kitakyusyu-Hibikinada offshore wind farm in Japan. The deliveries of the service platform cranes are scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2024. The Austrian-based company said that the design of the stiff boom cranes with an outreach of […]

  • Renova Sets 560MW Yurihonjo Offshore Wind Project in Motion

    9 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Japanese renewable energy developer Renova plans to carry out a feasibility study on a 560MW nearshore wind farm off the city of Yurihonjo in Akita Prefecture in the northern Tohoku region of Japan. Renova has partnered with Eco Power, and JR East Energy Development to carry out site surveys as well as an Environmental Impact Assessment of the […]

  • E.ON and Kyuden Mirai Form Offshore Wind Partnership in Japan

    23 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    German energy company E.ON and Japan’s Kyuden Mirai Energy signed a cooperation agreement to jointly develop offshore wind projects in Japan. The cooperation is focused on fixed bottom projects and starts with a study to jointly select a project for development, construction and operations in the Kyushu area, the southernmost island of Japan. The companies […]

  • Japan Launches 1.42GW Offshore Wind Study

    18 March 2015
    Authorities

    In a bid to develop more offshore wind the Japanese Environment Ministry has selected three sites with combined capacity of 1.42GW. Iwate Prefecture and the town of Hirono were selected by the ministry to study community acceptance and environmental impact on the construction of a 200MW offshore wind farm. Also, the authorities in the city […]

  • Offshore Wind Consultants Settling in Japan

    18 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) is setting up an office in Tokyo to support the Japanese offshore wind market. OWC stated that it had previously worked in Japan’s offshore wind sector from its office in Taipei, Taiwan. “The Japanese government has announced big ambitions when it comes to renewables in general and offshore wind specifically. We […]

  • J-POWER and ENGIE Form Offshore Wind Bond

    6 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, R&D

    Tokyo-based Electric Power Development Co., Ltd. (J-POWER) and ENGIE have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to a non-exclusive collaboration for power projects, particularly in large-scale commercial offshore wind projects.

  • Deutsche Windtechnik Partners with NSE to Offer O&M Services Offshore Japan

    16 January 2023
    Contracts & Tenders

    Deutsche Windtechnik and Nippon Steel Engineering (NSE) have signed an agreement to jointly offer offshore wind farm operation and maintenance (O&M) services in Japan. With this agreement, NSE and Deutsche Windtechnik will jointly be able to provide competitive and comprehensive O&M services for offshore offshore wind farms in Japan by integrating Deutsche Windtechnik’s O&M technology […]

  • Danes Heading to Japan to Talk Offshore Wind

    20 February 2017
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    A group of Danish offshore wind industry investors, developers and manufacturers is heading to Japan to meet with this country’s key stakeholders in Kitakyushu and Tokyo.

  • MHI Vestas Appoints Asia Pacific Regional Manager

    8 April 2020
    Business & Finance

    Offshore wind turbine manufacturer MHI Vestas has appointed Masato Yamada as the Regional Manager Asia Pacific, to oversee the company’s growth across the Asia Pacific region. Yamada was formerly the company’s Chief Strategy Officer based in Aarhus, Denmark, and will now be based in MHI Vestas’ Tokyo office. He initiated Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ pre-joint venture […]

  • Japanese Offshore Wind Project Starts Gathering Construction Team

    26 April 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Japan’s Penta-Ocean Construction has been selected as the preferred bidder for the construction of wind turbine foundations and marine civil engineering works for the Kitakyushu Hibiki-nada offshore wind farm project. Penta-Ocean Construction was also selected for base port construction for operations and maintenance of the wind farm, the company said. Back in February 2017, the […]

  • Penta-Ocean and DEME Form Offshore Wind Pact in Japan

    24 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    Japanese marine contractor Penta-Ocean Construction and DEME Offshore have concluded a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding comprehensive cooperation for the construction of offshore wind farms in Japan. In light of recent regulations which promote offshore wind power generation in the general sea areas, as well as in port and harbour areas, the development of offshore […]

  • Highlights of the Month – November 2019

    2 December 2019

    We are bringing you a list of ten most read news on offshoreWIND.biz in the month of November 2019. Japanese Trio Orders Big Wind Turbine Installer Penta-Ocean Construction, Kajima Corporation, and Yorigami Maritime Construction have agreed to jointly construct a wind farm installation vessel capable of installing foundations and turbines with a capacity of between […]