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  • Dutch Floating Wind Tech Developer to Test Small-Scale Prototype, Strengthens Collaboration with Japanese MOL

    10 May 2023
    Business development, Collaboration, Innovation, Research & Development, Technology

    Dutch start-up TouchWind, the developer of a floating wind turbine with a tilting, angled one–piece rotor, is installing a small–scale prototype at Fieldlab Green Economy Westvoorne, the Netherlands, for testing that is set to start this month. The field lab, located on the north bank of the Oostvoornse Lake in the southwest of the Netherlands, facilitates underwater and nearshore research for […]

  • Construction phase United Kingdom

    17 August 2016

    A wind farm construction project should be meticulously planned involving, as near as possible, the complete supply chain from the very start if the execution is to be as successful as possible. On top of the large Tier 1 organisations involved, delivery of a project often involves a significant number of small to medium sized companies each with their […]

  • Crew transfer vessel update

    2 September 2016

    At the time this article was being written, almost 45 per cent of the purpose built crew transfer vessels in the offshore wind industry were owned or operated by eleven British companies and one Anglo-Dutch company, with 74 of the vessels owned or operated by one of two companies, Turbine Transfers Ltd. and Windcat Workboats. Turbine Transfers is a wholly owned […]

  • Italy: Taranto to Get First Mediterranean Offshore Wind Farm

    8 July 2015
    Authorities

    An Italian offshore wind story that started 5 years ago got its closure at the beginning of this month, when a project proposed to be built off the coast of Taranto got wind at its back after a years-long legal battle. A decision by the Italian Council of State has now opened doors to a company called Beleolico s.r.l. […]

  • 2016: When Great Things Happened

    30 December 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    We are leaving what has arguably been the best year for offshore wind so far with a hope that the one ahead of us will be at least as eventful and successful as 2016 was, if not better. The Eurocents This year, we saw several tenders resulting in remarkably low prices. First, there was Borssele […]

  • The Netherlands: Albert Winnemuller Joins OutSmart

    23 May 2013

    OutSmart announce that an authority in the wind industry, Albert Winnemuller, has joined the company as new Head of Management Services since April. Winnemuller has over 15 years of experience in on- and offshore wind, with a background in several areas, including project preparation, project execution, risk management and turbine engineering. Winnemuller’s career includes management […]

  • Harwich Eyes to Become New Innovation Hub

    19 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Essex County Council, together with Tendring District Council, have set out their vision for Harwich to be an innovation and incubation hub for the offshore renewable energy sector, attracting dynamic businesses to the area and creating new employment opportunities. The councils have commissioned energy industry consultancy Nautilus Associates to undertake the first stage feasibility study […]

  • All-Energy 2014 All Ready to Kick Off

    25 March 2014

    All-Energy 2014 will get off to a flying start on Wednesday 21 May with a plenary session featuring both the Secretary of State for Scotland, Rt Hon Alistair Carmichael MP, and Fergus Ewing MSP, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism, with other speakers including Rob Cormie, Group Operations Director, UK Green Investment Bank and Angela […]

  • UK: 3sun Group Takes on 20 Apprentices

    31 October 2012

    3sun Group, a leading provider of products and services to the energy industry in the UK and internationally, has announced that it has taken on a record 20 apprentices. It is a major achievement for the company as it continues its efforts to train the workforce of tomorrow. The company is exhibiting at stand 189 […]

  • Polenergia Entering Offshore Wind Joint Venture in Lithuania

    4 January 2022
    Business & Finance

    Polish utility and renewable energy company Polenergia and Lithuania-based Modus Energy, also operating in the renewable energy sector, have agreed on the key terms of an agreement which will see the two parties establishing a joint venture (JV) to develop offshore wind projects in the Baltic Sea. According to the Polish company’s report to the […]

  • AvenHexicon’s Floating Wind Projects in Italy Moving Through Public Consultation Process

    2 September 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    After the 1.2 GW floating wind project, proposed to be built by Hexicon and Avapa Energy in the Strait of Sicily, was published for public consultation, Hexicon revealed it had applied for maritime concessions for five floating offshore wind farms in Italy through the joint venture with Avapa. The joint venture applied for a 30-year concession […]

  • Poland Offering Concessions for Three New Offshore Wind Areas

    22 February 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Polish Ministry of Infrastructure has launched a procedure for granting concessions for three more offshore wind areas after launching the same procedure for three areas on 21 January and for further three on 8 February. The Ministry has invited developers to submit applications within 60 days of the announcement which, for the last three areas, […]

  • BARD and Typhoon Offshore Partners in Offshore Wind Farms

    2 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    BARD Holding and the Netherlands based green investment firm Typhoon Offshore have signed an agreement to jointly build windfarms on the North Sea. BARD Holding will focus mainly on the technical realization of the wind farms and Typhoon Offshore mainly on the structuring and financing thereof. Dr. Stephan Bormann, deputy managing director BARD Holding GmbH […]

  • Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Partners with Another Dutch Floating Wind Tech Developer

    16 May 2022
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Dutch floating wind technology developer TouchWind and Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) have joined forces on the development of TouchWind’s floating wind technology. The companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which they will collaborate on developing TouchWind’s floating wind turbine with a tilting angled one-piece rotor which, according to the […]

  • Siemens Gamesa’s Gearboxes for MHI Vestas-Powered Princess Amalia OWF

    4 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Gamesa has won a tender for the supply of gearboxes for Eneco’s ten-year-old Princess Amalia offshore wind farm (Prinses Amaliawindpark) that features 60 V80-2.0MW wind turbines delivered by Vestas and maintained by MHI Vestas, which will continue to carry out the regular preventive maintenance for the next five years.

  • Germans Appealing for 2 GW Offshore Wind Tender

    25 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    Germany’s WAB, Greenpeace Energy and H2BX are calling for the special 2 GW offshore wind tender to be implemented quickly and that areas be put out to tender before the end of the year. In a letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier, the parties claim that long-term framework […]

  • Germany: Survey Companies Gardline and GEO Grab 400MW Wind Farm Deal

    31 July 2012

    IBERDROLA, through its UK subsidiary ScottishPower Renewables, has taken the first step towards construction of the Wikinger offshore wind farm in Germany, the largest project of its kind located at such depth (over 40 metres). It has awarded two contracts, worth €18 million, to British company Gardline Group and GEO of Denmark, to conduct a […]

  • Adwen’s Engineers Develop Automatic Rotor Positioning System

    5 June 2015
    Technology

    Gamesa has celebrated the fifth edition of its Patents and Inventors Competition. This year’s prize has gone to a rotor positioning invention for which the patent application has already been filed. The invention is the brainchild of Ignacio Fernández Romero and Eugenio Plano Morillo, two engineers that currently work for Adwen, the offshore wind joint venture […]

  • USD 30 Billion North Atlantic Offshore Wind Project Launches

    24 May 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Anglo-American joint venture Hecate Independent Power Limited (HIP) has launched its HIP Atlantic Project for installing 10,000 MW of fixed and floating wind turbines in the North Atlantic connected to the UK grid. The long-length, high-capacity, high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission cables which will connect the wind farms to the UK grid are to be […]

  • WoDS: CodaOctopus Real Time 3D Sonar Facilitates Cable Jointing (UK)

    25 September 2013
    Grid Connection, Technology

    On a recent project, DONG Energy contracted VSMC (Visser & Smit Marine Contracting), an international submarine power cables installation contractor specialising in intertidal and offshore markets, for the laying of two high voltage cables to the wind farm of West of Duddon Sands (WoDS) in the East Irish Sea. The project utilised two major vessels: […]

  • First Subsea Nets WindFloat Atlantic Contract

    14 September 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    The UK-based First Subsea has secured a contract to provide Platform Mooring Connectors (PMCs) for the 25MW WindFloat Atlantic floating wind project in Portugal. The company will supply nine PMCs, each with a 5500kN minimum breaking load, to the project’s three MHI Vestas V164-8.4MW wind turbines to be installed 20km offshore Viana do Castelo. The PMCs will be used to connect […]

  • Germany: Windreich Sells ‘Deutsche Bucht’ Offshore Wind Farm

    25 October 2012
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Windreich AG enters into a purchase agreement for the wind farm ‘Deutsche Bucht’ with an Anglo-Saxon financial investor and at the same time acquired the responsibility for the subsequent turnkey erection, commissioning and the expected future operation of the wind farm. Hence this Windreich offshore Project is a success. The Swabian wind power pioneer finally […]

  • OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES: 1991 – 2015

    5 January 2016

    Giant technology and scaling steps The world’s first close to shore offshore wind farm, Vindeby, built in Denmark in 1991, features 11 semi-standard 450kW Bonus B35/450kW turbines (now Siemens) and is still in operation today. From today’s perspective the look of these tiny three-bladed turbines in shallow water is largely similar with today’s 6 to […]

  • SAL Heavy Lift Carrying Out Wikinger OWF Pile Testing (Gallery)

    25 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    In October 2014 the first phase of the pile testing campaign for the Wikinger offshore wind farm project was launched, after the site’s geotechnical investigation on the Baltic Sea had been completed. German engineering and services group Bilfinger was awarded the test pile contract and chose SAL Heavy Lift as subcontractor to transport and install […]

  • Spain: Alstom to Showcase Its Solutions at Bilbao Marine Energy

    16 April 2013

    Alstom presents from 15-19th April at the Bilbao Marine Energy Week -the largest European conference on marine energy- its state of the art technological solutions for renewable ocean energy. This event, organized by the EVE (the Basque Energy Agency) will host a series of symposia, seminars and other activities related to marine energy, where Alstom […]

  • UK: REF Responds to DECC on Offshore Wind Farms’ Costs

    6 February 2013
    Authorities

    Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) has responded to the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) by writing a letter to Rt Hon Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, after the news published a few days ago, where DECC was quoted as saying that REF’s figures regarding the future subsidy income for the […]