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  • 14 January 2022
    Jobs & Recruitment

    We are excited to announce that from now on it is possible to book your stand at the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) 2022. The 15th edition  of OEEC will take place on the 29th and 30th of November 2022 at RAI Amsterdam. OEEC is the place where different sectors of the energy sector […]

  • 16 February 2022
    Authorities, Environment, Industry, Jobs & Recruitment

    The Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have set out recommendations on how to deploy offshore wind more quickly in a report adopted on Wednesday, 16 February. As reported, the EU Offshore Renewable Energy Strategy sets out the goals of reaching at least 60 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and 300 GW by […]

  • 11 October 2011

    Although the deployment challenges of developing offshore wind power generation facilities are significantly greater than on land, developers, manufacturers, governments, and investors are now turning their attention to offshore wind farms as a means of further expanding wind power capacity. The reasons for this interest are several: Some of the world’s best wind resources are […]

  • 1 July 2022
    Industry

    Offshore wind had its best year ever last year with 21.1 GW of new installations bringing global capacity to 56 GW, with China contributing 80 per cent of new offshore installations in 2021, leading offshore wind for the fourth year in a row. This is according to the latest Global Offshore Wind Report launched by the Global […]

  • 1 April 2011
    Business & Finance

    Catch the Wind Ltd. announced today that its exclusive licensing partner, AXYS Technologies, has sold a WindSentinel™ buoy, a custom marine floating platform bundled with a Vindicator® Laser Wind Sensor (LWS) unit, to each of the Fishermen’s Energy LLC and the Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center (MAREC) of Grand Valley University. The sales mark […]

  • 17 April 2012

    South Boats Special Projects Ltd. announced the launch and commissioning of its 54th offshore wind farm crew transfer vessel, ‘Iceni Pride’. The vessel is a South Catamaran 13m Rapid Response Vessel (RRV) built to fulfil a 5 year contract Iceni Marine Services has in place with Scottish & Southern Energy on their Greater Gabbard Offshore […]

  • 3 February 2022
    Authorities

    The US state of Louisiana has set a target of 5 GW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2035 in its first ever Climate Action Plan, which was unanimously approved by the state’s Climate Initiatives Task Force on 31 January. Louisiana’s Climate Action Plan contains 28 strategies and 84 specific actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) […]

  • 24 February 2011

    Global Marine Energy, Inc. today announced the opening of its office in Boston Massachusetts. Global Marine Energy is an American owned licensee of Global Marine Systems Ltd, the market leading offshore cable installation and marine engineering company. For over 160 years, Global Marine has been successfully installing cable throughout the world’s oceans and for the […]

  • 20 January 2022
    Authorities, Ports & Logistics

    New York Governor Kathy Hochul, together with Division of the Budget Director Robert F. Mujica Jr., outlined the State’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Executive Budget on 18 January, confirming the USD 500 million investment in offshore wind infrastructure, announced in her 2022 State of the State address at the beginning of this month. The USD 500 […]

  • 2 April 2015
    R&D

    The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) launched its flagship publication the Global Wind Report: Annual Market update yesterday in Istanbul. The report details wind power’s remarkable growth in 2014, as well as updating GWEC’s rolling 5 year market projections, which show continued growth for the rest of the decade. Led by China and Brazil in the first […]

  • 10 May 2010
    Business & Finance

    Allianz Global’s insurance expert, Robert Maurer, gave some interesting insight into offshore wind energy project risks. Usually, offshore projects are watched and assessed from the technical or economical point of view, but we thought it would be interesting to cite this article as a different way of looking at offshore wind. First off, the difference […]

  • 14 February 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) have extended their cooperation on offshore wind and energy efficiency which was established back in 2017. The renewed cooperation now involves DEA assisting the Californian authorities with optimising the legislative framework for offshore wind and also covers Power-to-X. The main goal of the partnership’s work […]

  • 9 September 2012
    R&D

    With the countries all over the world developing their wind energy potential, South Korea has also joined the trend by initiating a massive wind energy program that is expected to relieve the country of its huge fossil fuel imports that currently energize the country. South Korea has recently realized the vast wind reserves which has […]

  • 5 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Marine Power Systems (MPS), a Swansea-based company that is developing revolutionary technology designed to capture the energy from ocean waves, has boosted its team with three new members of staff. Andrew Grabham is the new Design/Development Engineer. Andrew brings with him 14 years’ experience in mechanical design and project management roles having previously worked for […]

  • 12 June 2013

    DCNS has developed considerable expertise in maritime safety & security (MSS) software to improve the efficiency of maritime rescue missions, shipping traffic management and pollution prevention and control. DCNS also positions itself as a world leader in marine renewable energies On Thursday 6 June 2013, Frédéric Cuvillier, France’s Minister for Transport, Sea and Fisheries, paid […]

  • 22 October 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm was inaugurated today (22 October) in La Turballe. The facility, which has 1,250 square metres, including 751 square metres of warehouse, was designed to be functional, innovative, and to have a lower carbon footprint, according to EDR Renewables, which owns the Saint-Nazaire offshore […]

  • 18 April 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The Buss Orange Blue Terminal Eemshaven has signed a contract with GeoSea for port logistics services of 87 monopiles and transition pieces for the 497MW Hohe See and the 112MW Albatros offshore wind farms in the German North Sea.

  • 30 October 2012
    Business & Finance, R&D

    A boat with suspension inspired by Paris Dakar-winning rally cars that can remain stable and a ‘seahorse’ vessel consisting of a towering keel that minimises movements in the ocean swell are two of the six innovative concepts that will receive further funding from the Carbon Trust’s Offshore wind Accelerator (OWA), its flagship collaborative RD&D programme. […]

  • 1 October 2020
    Vessels

    Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), Ørsted, and Eversource have signed a long-term charter agreement for the provision of the first-ever US-flagged, Jones Act-compliant Service Operations Vessel (SOV). The SOV will be engineered, constructed, and operated by ECO as an integral part of the operation and maintenance of the Revolution Wind, South Fork Wind, and Sunrise Wind […]

  • 25 November 2014
    Authorities

    Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Acting Director Walter Cruickshank announced that more than 742,000 acres offshore Massachusetts will be offered for commercial wind energy development in a January 29, 2015, competitive lease sale. “Thanks to the leadership of Governor Patrick and the Commonwealth […]

  • 23 November 2020
    Authorities

    European Union’s Offshore Renewable Energy Strategy, published on 19 November and targeting as much as 300 GW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2050, also outlines the goal of supporting green hydrogen production. In anticipation of the launch of the new Renewable Hydrogen Coalition, it is ever so evident that EU’s (offshore) wind and hydrogen […]

  • 20 January 2014

    New research from a global group of scientists and engineers, including from the University of Southampton, has been published in a special issue journal of the Royal Society. The work is in support of tidal power, which has the potential to provide more than 20 per cent of the UK’s electricity demand. In order to […]

  • 27 May 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Enterprize Energy (EE) has signed a contract with PTSC G&S and Fugro to supply, install and operate a floating LiDAR at the site of the Thang Long Wind project offshore Vietnam. Fugro and PTSE will deploy Fugro’s SEAWATCH Wind LiDAR Buoy to collect detailed wind resource, meteorological, and oceanographic data across the 2000 km2 project […]

  • 10 October 2012
    R&D

    SSE and Scottish Enterprise (SE) are to invest up to £20 million to create an offshore wind turbine test centre, capable of hosting three full scale wind turbines designed for offshore deployment. SE has committed up to £4.3 million from the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund towards the joint venture with SSE which will in turn […]

  • 7 May 2014
    Training & Education

    Under the series “Top Things You Didn’t Know About…”, US Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is now focusing on the offshore wind. Besides these facts, the department has released Energy 101: Wind Turbines video. 1. Offshore Wind Resources are Near Most Americans: More than 70 percent of the nation’s electricity consumption occurs in the […]

  • 27 April 2021
    Business & Finance

    French floating wind foundation developer Eolink and Dutch robotics company Kranendonk are looking into setting up a gigafactory for automated production of floating wind foundations. Eolink said it had slightly adapted its detailed design to be fully compatible with automated welding robots which would be used in Kranendonk production line. The flow-rate and the infrastructural […]