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  • Crown Estate Supports Four Nature-Positive Offshore Wind Research Projects

    3 August 2023
    Business development, Environment, Research & Development

    The Crown Estate has revealed that it is partnering with a range of UK-wide expert bodies to launch four research projects to support nature recovery and the coexistence of offshore wind farms with marine life. The projects aim to fill critical evidence gaps around how seabirds interact with offshore windfarms and how strategic compensation measures […]

  • GE Has the World’s 2nd Largest Order Backlog (Interview)

    18 November 2015

    Eize de Vries has spoken to Anders Søe-Jensen, CEO of GE’s offshore wind unit, at the EWEA 2015 event in Paris, where the company introduced its new Renewable Energy business, following the acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid businesses. GE Offshore Wind’s brand new nacelle factory in St Nazaire is currently manufacturing five Haliade 150-6MW turbines for the US […]

  • US Floating Wind Project Planned Near NASA, SpaceX Launch Site Reaches Agreement with DoD

    11 August 2023
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Wind Farm Update

    Floventis Energy, the company developing a 60 MW floating wind project in California’s state waters near Vandenberg Space Force Base – which hosts launch pads for NASA and SpaceX spacecraft as well as for US Air Force’s intercontinental missiles – has reached an agreement with the US Department of Defense (DoD) to enable the operation […]

  • Shell-EDF Joint Venture Submits Bid in New Jersey’s Third Offshore Wind Solicitation

    7 August 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, a 50:50 joint venture between Shell New Energies US and EDF-RE Offshore Development, has submitted a proposal to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) in the state’s third offshore wind solicitation. New Jersey opened the solicitation in March and is looking to award between 1.2 GW and 4 GW […]

  • Scotland, Brittany Seal Offshore Wind Pact

    4 August 2023
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    The Scottish Government has signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Brittany, a region in France, relating to the offshore wind industry. With this cooperation agreement, the Government said it aims to strengthen Scotland’s position as a leader in Europe’s offshore renewables industry. The MoU will provide Scottish companies with opportunities to capitalise and […]

  • Will Offshore Wind Zero-Subsidy Bids Become the ‘Norm’?

    5 November 2018

    By Jon Harman, Head of Renewable Energy and Portfolio Director, New Energy Update Germany’s first offshore wind auction, in April 2017, was a watershed for the industry. Anticipating fierce competition, Ørsted and EnBW both pitched projects that would not require subsidy support, a concept undreamt of at the time. Since then, more than 2.5 GW […]

  • Floating LiDAR Deployed Offshore Italy for Two Wind Projects

    24 July 2023
    Business development, Floating Wind, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    A floating Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) buoy has been deployed in waters off the coast of Brindisi, Italy, to conduct surveys and preparations for the construction of the Kailia Energia and Lupiae Maris floating offshore wind farms. Equipped with fully autonomous remote sensing devices, the buoy will remain inside the water for a minimum […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Tables 3-Year Strategic Plan

    15 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Siemens Gamesa has unveiled its 3-year strategic plan, with the L3AD2020 program, which includes a series of measures that will unlock EUR 2 billion of cost reductions.

  • Floating LiDAR Deployed in Utsira Nord Area to Support Norwegian Offshore Wind Development

    4 July 2023
    Business development, Research & Development

    TGS has announced the deployment of the “first-ever” LiDAR buoy measurement campaign to support Norwegian offshore wind development. This represents the first industry-led investment and installation toward making large-scale Norwegian offshore wind a reality, said TGS. The buoy has been deployed in the Utsira Nord zone. Throughout the 12-month campaign, it will conduct wind, metocean, […]

  • Germany: Merkel’s Cabinet OKs Draft Law

    29 August 2012
    Authorities

    As Reuters reports, German Chancellor Merkel’s cabinet gave a green light to a draft law aimed at spurring offshore wind development, which is the key part of the German green energy shift. The draft will now go through the parliamentary legislative process. So far the offshore wind development has been falling behind solar and onshore […]

  • Van Oord Installs Inter-Array Cables at Hollandse Kust Noord

    21 July 2023
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has completed installing and burying inter-array cables at CrossWind’s Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. Van Oord’s cable-laying vessel Nexus and trencher Dig-It, a remotely-operated vehicle operated from Subsea Viking, have installed a web of 69 inter-array cables measuring 140 kilometres in total. The offshore wind farm is […]

  • Ørsted Launches Its Own Uncrewed Surface Vessel for Metocean Campaigns, USV Also Validated as Floating LiDAR

    22 June 2023
    Business development, Innovation, Technology, Vessels

    Ørsted has designed and developed its own uncrewed surface vessel (USV) for offshore metocean measurement campaigns. The USV has also achieved DNV’s type validation as a floating LiDAR system and is set to enter serial production. The company, whose employees invented the concept which has now been patented, says its vessel is the first USV […]

  • US Clears Third Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Farm to Start Construction

    6 July 2023
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has given the go-ahead to the Ocean Wind 1 project, New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm and the third commercial-scale project of this kind in the US. The developer Ørsted is now set to begin construction this autumn, starting with onshore infrastructure. BOEM has issued the Record […]

  • Romania Preparing Framework for 3 GW of Offshore Wind and Contract for Difference Auction

    20 July 2023
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The Romanian Ministry of Energy has published a draft law on the requirements for the development and procurement of offshore wind energy projects. If enacted in its current form, the proposed framework would enable auctioning off 3 GW of offshore wind capacity in the country’s sector of the Black Sea and supporting the projects through […]

  • Shell and Eneco Joint Venture Looks to Build Greener Offshore Wind Farm

    16 June 2023
    Environment

    Ecowende, the joint venture (JV) of Shell and Eneco, has unveiled plans for building an offshore wind farm that will be in harmony with nature, with minimal impact on birds, bats, and marine mammals. Ecowende, which presented its holistic approach at WindDay 2023, said it is going to implement various innovations, large-scale mitigating and stimulating […]

  • Hornsea Project Three Hearings Scheduled for Early March

    6 February 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    The UK Planning Inspectorate plans to hold the next round of issue-specific hearings on the Hornsea Project Three in Norwich in early March as part of the examination of Ørsted’s application for an order granting development consent. The hearings will be held between 5 and 8 March at Mercure Norwich Hotel and will cover topics […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Reveals New CEO as Tacke Steps Down

    18 June 2020
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Markus Tacke is stepping down as CEO of Siemens Gamesa, effective immediately. According to the company, the Board of Directors and Tacke mutually agreed to terminate the CEO contract. Andreas Nauen, who was head the company’s offshore activities, has been appointed the new chief with immediate effect. A new CEO for the offshore division is […]

  • Project Ireland Selected in First Offshore Wind Auction Now Overlaps with Proposed Bird Protection Area

    20 July 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Industry

    The North Irish Sea Array (NISA), one of the four offshore wind projects selected in Ireland’s first offshore wind auction, could end up overlapping with a bird protection area. The Irish offshore consultancy Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) voiced concerns about the government letting this happen and warned that the project is now at risk […]

  • Latvian, Estonian Cross-Border Offshore Wind Project Receives EU Funding

    13 July 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Business development, Research & Development

    The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) has approved a EUR 18.7 million co-funding for ELWIND, a 1 GW Latvia-Estonia cross-border offshore wind project. The co-funding is said to enable research to determine the environmental impact of the Latvian-Estonian ELWIND offshore wind farm sites and to plan the transmission network cross-border connections and […]

  • Chancellor Merkel Opens Arkona

    16 April 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and Norwegian Petroleum and Energy Minister Kjell-Børge Freiberg have officially opened the Arkona wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. The commissioning comes after transmission system operator 50Hertz connected the Arkona and Wikinger offshore wind farms to its transmission grid. The projects were connected via the Ostwind 1 grid connection. “I […]

  • Tacke CEO of Siemens Gamesa, Hannibal CEO of Offshore Operations

    9 May 2017

    At a meeting held on 8 May, the Board of Directors of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy appointed Markus Tacke as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with Michael Hannibal, previously CEO of the offshore division at Siemens Wind Power, now CEO of Siemens Gamesa’s offshore business.

  • Beatrice Impact Measured in Billions – Report

    24 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    The development, construction and 25-year lifetime operation of Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm, Beatrice, is expected to generate GBP 2.4 billion of value for the UK economy, a new analysis has found. The 84 turbine, 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm – the fourth largest offshore wind farm in the world – was completed last month, […]

  • OPUS MARINE to Measure Vessel Motion

    24 July 2014

    German operator of crew transfer vessels, OPUS MARINE GmbH, has decided to invest into innovation and report impact forces applied to boat landings in offshore wind farms. Also body forces which the service technicians have to experience during the transit will be reported. For this purpose OPUS MARINE has signed an agreement with MIR Maritime […]

  • Jersey Starts Measuring Offshore Wind

    2 September 2013
    Environment

    Within a three-year project which could herald setting up of an offshore wind farm, a small weather measuring mast has been installed at Grand Rousse on the Ecrehous reef, off Jersey, reports Chanel Online. The data from this station will also be posted online benefitting mariners who are to head out to sea. The station […]

  • Partrac Finishes Oceanographic Measurements in UK

    28 February 2011

    Oceanographic measurements at the fifth tidal energy site in the UK have been completed by Partrac.     [mappress]   Source: renewableenergyfocus, February 28, 2011  

  • Gamesa Shareholders Approve Merger with Siemens

    26 October 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Gamesa’s shareholders representing 99.75% of the company’s share capital ratified the merger with Siemens Wind Power during an Extraordinary General Meeting held in Zamudio, Spain, on 25 October. Through this transaction, Gamesa will absorb Siemens’s wind power assets in exchange for newly-issued shares in Gamesa. Siemens will own 59% of the new company, while Iberdrola will retain […]