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  • Deutsche Bucht Delivers First Power

    29 July 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    The first MHI Vestas 8.4MW wind turbine at the 269MW Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm has been commissioned and is delivering power to the German grid, Northland Deutsche Bucht GmbH said. “This is a great achievement for our Deutsche Bucht project,” said Jens Poulsen, Project Director of Northland Deutsche Bucht GmbH. “The rapid progress on installation and commissioning […]

  • Steelwind Dispatches First Batch of XXL Monopiles for Gode Wind 3 Offshore Wind Farm

    28 February 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    German offshore wind foundation manufacturer Steelwind has shipped off the first three monopile foundations for Ørsted’s Gode Wind 3 project in Germany. The offshore wind farm will comprise 23 XXL monopiles which will be connected to the wind turbines without transition pieces (TPs).  The first batch of the TP-less foundations was shipped from Steelwind’s manufacturing […]

  • BiFab Taps Francis Brown For Beatrice Turbine Boat Landings

    9 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Teesside-headquartered Francis Brown Ltd has won a contract to fabricate 26 steel boat landings for the wind turbines that will be located at the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm.

  • All Monopiles Installed at Arkona Offshore Wind Farm, TPs Next

    9 November 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The installation of monopiles at the Arkona offshore wind farm site has been completed ahead of schedule with the last of the total of 60 monopiles now in place, allowing for an early start of the installation of the transition pieces.

  • Expertise Hub on Offshore WIND

    6 July 2017

    Offshore WIND marked the beginning of this month by posting the first videos from its latest Expertise Hub series on Monday, 3 July, and our team decided to add a new batch of interviews each week with the final Expertise Hub interviews scheduled to go online by the end of August.

  • Dutch Intelligence Warns Russia May Be Preparing to Sabotage Offshore Wind, Gas and Cable Infrastructure in North Sea

    22 February 2023
    Authorities

    Dutch General and Military Intelligence and Security Services (AVID and MVID) have sent a letter to the government together with an update on the latest insights into activities being covertly conducted by Russia, including those that are potentially being carried out in preparation for sabotage of the Dutch energy infrastructure in the North Sea. On […]

  • BREAKING: UK Puts Massive Amount of New Offshore Wind Capacity on Fast Track

    26 September 2022
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The UK will speed up planning and development consent processes for projects from the recently completed, currently ongoing, and upcoming (floating) offshore wind leasing rounds to bring new energy capacity online faster and facilitate economic growth and job creation. In this article: Will the UK Now Need to Set New Offshore Wind Target? Pre-Brexit Era […]

  • Register Now for Offshore WIND Conference 2017!

    6 July 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    Want to find out what the future holds for Offshore WIND? Then now if the time to register your participation and book your seat for Offshore WIND Conference. This edition boasts speakers from Siemens Gamesa, Van Oord, DONG, TNO Energy, Bladt Industries, the Dutch Government and the European Space Agency– to name but a few.

  • GE Renewable Energy Names New Offshore Wind CEO

    29 June 2021
    Business & Finance

    GE Renewable Energy has appointed Jan Kjaersgaard as the new CEO of its Offshore Wind business. Kjaersgaard will succeed John Lavelle who is retiring after a 40-year career and plans to stay on board to assist with a transition over the next several months. Kjaersgaard joins GE from FLSmidth, where he was most recently President […]

  • Offshore WindForce Using LDD’s Pre-Piling Template at Wikinger

    15 June 2016

    LDD, in collaboration with its sister companies from Acteon Group, UTEC and MENCK, has delivered a subsea Pre-Piling Template (PPT) to Offshore WindForce (OWF), which is installing 70 foundations at the Wikinger offshore wind farm. LDD’s PPT is being used by OWF, a joint venture between Boskalis and Volker Stevin International, to pre-install foundation piles into the […]

  • Windfarm Update: Sandbank

    1 December 2014

    In August Vattenfall and Stadtwerke Miinchen (SWM) reached an investment agreement for the Sandbank offshore wind project, with an investment value of approximately €1,2bn, to be built 90km west of the island of Sylt. A special project company, Sandbank Offshore GmbH, is set up for this purpose whereby Vattenfall holds 51% and SWM 49% of […]

  • Hi5Jack Aims at Lighter, Cheaper Jacket Foundations

    15 November 2019
    R&D

    The EUDP (Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program) is funding a newly established project collaboration that seeks to reduce the weight and cost of jacket foundations for offshore wind turbines using a high strength steel tubular joint design. Jacket foundations are characterised by having tubular main legs and in between smaller cross stiffening tubulars welded […]

  • BizMDOSW Wraps Up Meeting with European Offshore Wind Experts

    19 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Representatives of over 250 of the world’s most experienced offshore wind companies attended the Business Network for Maryland Offshore Wind’s (BizMDOSW) International Offshore Partnering Forum in Baltimore from November 12-14, 2014. This 3-day gathering of European and American business executives, government officials, technical experts and academics consisted of over 18 separate workshops and 88 speakers. […]

  • Dong, ESG Complete Largest Wind Turbine Piles Testing

    1 September 2015

    DONG Energy and ESG have tested 28 piles on two different onshore sites in order to assist the development of new design methods for offshore wind farms. Initial results show great cost reduction potential. The testing has been undertaken by the joint industry project PISA and was performed to assess and validate a new design method […]

  • UK: Hull City Council Gives Green Light to Siemens

    11 May 2012
    Authorities

    Hull City Council’s Planning Committee gave its consent to the proposed Green Port Hull facility following the submission of plans by Associated British Ports (ABP) and Siemens plc.  Negotiations to secure and sign a commercial agreement between the two companies continue, with a deal expected to be finalised later in the year, though the planning […]

  • Svanen Installs First Foundation at Anholt Offshore Wind Farm (Denmark)

    3 January 2012

    While others were about to enjoy their New Year’s Eve dinner, the installation vessel Svanen started installation of the first monopile at Anholt Offshore Wind Farm, and the construction of Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm has now started. According to the original schedule, Svanen was supposed to start work on 1 January, but the mobilisation […]

  • Saipem Adds Acteon to French Offshore Wind Team

    3 June 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Marine energy and infrastructure services company Acteon has secured an integrated project with Saipem for casing installation and drilling support on the Calvados (Courseulles-sur-Mer) wind farm offshore France. The contract was signed by LDD, a product and service line brand in the Acteon foundations and cables segment, and will be managed by the Acteon integrated […]

  • Production Problems, Cost Overruns Behind BiFab Crisis

    14 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    Production problems and cost overruns related to the Beatrice jacket foundations order are at the root of financial issues that the Scottish company BiFab is currently facing, resulting in its staff coming to work as usual despite the company having no money to pay their wages, just so the Beatrice order placed by Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) could be kept at BiFab.

  • Nordsee Ost Substation in Place

    21 July 2014
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    A wedding was celebrated on the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm construction site of RWE Innogy: This is what the construction process is called when the foundation is successfully married to the substation platform. As a result the sea-based transformer substation and all its electrical components have now been successfully completed. The journey of the […]

  • NWEI Successfully Installs Wave Energy Device in Oregon, USA

    5 September 2012
    Technology

    After a multi-day installation operation, Northwest Energy Innovations (NWEI), a Portland-based company, has successfully installed a wave energy device off the coast of Newport, Oregon. The device, known as Wave Energy Technology-New Zealand (WET-NZ), is now deployed at the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center’s (NNMREC) open ocean test facility. “This is a huge milestone […]

  • Borssele 1 & 2 Fully Commissioned

    27 November 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted’s first offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, Borssele 1 & 2, has been fully commissioned. Located 22 kilometres off the coast of the province of Zeeland, the 752 MW project has now become the largest offshore wind farm in the Netherlands and the second largest operating offshore wind farm in the world, providing enough […]

  • SCORE Programme to Announce First Grant Awards

    7 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    OrbisEnergy will soon announce the first awardees of the GBP 6 million SCORE fund, launched by OrbisEnergy in July, dedicated to companies developing innovations for offshore renewables. Johnathan Reynolds, of Nautilus Associates, said: “We have had far more early applications in this programme than the previous one. The first grant panels have met and we are about to […]

  • IHC IQIP Equipping SHL for Beatrice Foundation Installation

    28 February 2017

    IHC IQIP will provide jacket pile grippers, the Hydrohammer S-2500 with two specially designed hammer sleeves, and an internal lifting tool to Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL), the EPCI contractor in charge of foundations for the Beatrice project.

  • Scotland Invests GBP 750 Million in Renewables in Last Twelve Months

    1 November 2011
    Authorities

    New figures from Scottish Renewables show that £750 million of new renewable electricity projects began generating in Scotland in the last twelve months. The figures are highlighted in a submission to the Scottish Parliament’s Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee as part of their analysis of the Draft Scottish Budget. Commenting on Scottish Renewables’ submission to […]

  • New York Bight Lease Sale Day 1

    23 February 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    This is an article following Day 1 updates of the New York Bight offshore wind lease sale. To read the updates from Day 2 and Day 3, or news on the final results of the lease sale, go to the articles below: The biggest offshore wind lease sale ever organised in the US is resuming […]

  • DEME Picks Thyboron Port as Foundation Base for Danish Offshore Wind Farms

    15 February 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    DEME Group and the Port of Thyboron have signed a contract regarding the installation of foundations for Vattenfall’s Vesterhav Nord and Syd offshore wind farms in the Danish North Sea. The foundations that DEME will be installing include 41 monopiles and transition pieces (TPs). The 77-metre-long monopiles, each weighing around 622 tonnes will be produced […]