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  • TenneT Raises EUR 500 Million for DolWin Trio

    12 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    TenneT issued its inaugural EUR 500 million Green Schuldschein, a type of privately-placed German debt similar to a bond, which will serve to finance DolWin 1, 2 and 3 projects. The offer with an initial volume of EUR 300 million was more than two times oversubscribed, which allowed TenneT to upsize to an overall issuance volume of […]

  • TenneT Awards New Multi-Billion-Euro Contract for Three Offshore Grid Connections in Germany

    20 April 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    After recently awarding EUR 23 billion worth of contracts for eleven offshore grid connections, the German-Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has now signed a new, EUR 7 billion contract with a consortium of Siemens Energy and Dragdos Offshore for three more such projects in Germany. Under a framework agreement with TenneT, the Siemens Energy-Dragados […]

  • ABB to Connect German Wind Farm to Mainland Grid

    23 April 2012
    Grid Connection

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won a significant order from the Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT to supply an AC (alternating current) power transmission link connecting Nordergründe, an offshore North Sea wind farm, to the mainland grid in Germany. The order was booked in the first quarter. The link has a […]

  • Germany: Nordic Yards Improves its Position in Offshore Platform Sector

    23 April 2012
    Training & Education

    Nordic Yards, manufacturer of innovative special ships and major maritime projects, has vacancies for well-trained and qualified skilled staff, particularly but not exclusively in the field of engineering, to work on projects such as the order placed in February by Siemens Energy for a third offshore HVDC platform. Personnel are required to work in particular […]

  • CG Wins Veja Mate Substation Deal

    18 May 2015
    Grid Connection

    Avantha Group Company CG, along with other consortium partners Cofely Fabricom and lemants, has been awarded the contract for the supply and installation of HV offshore substation for the 400 MW Veja Mate Offshore Project GmbH. The scope of work for CG includes the electrical engineering, grid compliance studies, HV/MV equipment supply, installation and commissioning. […]

  • NorWind Installer Provides Vessel for Tidal Energy Foundation Installation (Scotland)

    17 August 2011

    NorWind Installer (NWI) provided the construction vessel “North Sea Giant” owned by North Sea Shipping when BAUER Renewables Ltd., a subsidiary of BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH, successfully installed a drilled-in monopile foundation structure for a tidal energy turbine at the offshore test site of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland, in late July. […]

  • MHI Vestas PCM Factory Up and Running at Port of Esbjerg

    5 October 2017
    Ports & Logistics

    MHI Vestas today (5 October) informed that it officially opened the Power Converter Modules (PCM) factory at the Port of Esbjerg, adding that the assembly of PCMs for its V164 offshore wind turbine has begun.

  • Van Oord’s Dig-It Debuts on Borkum Riffgrund 2

    9 May 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord’s new tracked remotely operated vehicle (TROV) Dig-It has begun burying the inter-array cables at Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm, marking its first deployment.

  • Dock Laying Ceremony for SylWin Alpha Held at Nordic Yards (Germany)

    3 September 2012

    With the dock laying of SylWin alpha, Nordic Yards has reached another milestone in the production of the offshore converter platform. In Warnemünde, the traditional ceremony – which is known as “keel laying” in the case of ships – was held in the presence of representatives of the client Siemens Energy and the end customer, […]

  • HelWin Alpha Offshore Platform Arrives to Wismar Yard (Germany)

    4 November 2011
    Technology

    Nordic Yards, manufacturer of technologically sophisticated and innovative special ships and maritime structures, brings the HelWin alpha offshore platform to dock at its Wismar yard. The self-erecting transformer platform is being built for Siemens Energy in separate sections at Wismar and Warnemünde. The HelWin alpha is almost identical in design to the BorWin beta offshore […]

  • Atlas Secures North Sea Deal with TenneT

    29 July 2015

    Atlas Professionals has been chosen as the 1st tier supplier for Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT for the supply of senior personnel to the North Sea. The contract will allow for Atlas’ senior personnel such as Client Representatives to oversee operations of some of TenneT’s Offshore Projects including the various stages of BorWin, DolWin, HelWin […]

  • Vattenfall Adds Deutsche Bucht Offshore Wind Farm to Direct Marketing Portfolio

    21 August 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has gained the 252MW Deutsche Bucht (DeBu) offshore wind farm project as its newest direct marketing customer.

  • TenneT Drafts New Offshore Grid Rules in Germany

    24 May 2017
    Grid Connection

    TenneT has presented a first draft of new offshore grid connection rules (O-NAR) in Germany.

  • Prysmian Inaugurates New Submarine Power Cable Plant in Finland

    6 June 2012
    Grid Connection

    Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, inaugurates its new submarine cable plant in Finland, having invested approximately €40 million to increase its production capacity at the Pikkala facility, already one of the Group’s centres of excellence for high voltage cable production. In particular, the Pikkala plant has started up […]

  • WindPowerCluster Looses BMBF Competition (Germany)

    20 January 2012

    The jury decided that the WindPowerCluster is not among the winners in the competition organized by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). “It’s a shame because we had a good chance to win this competition. Nevertheless, the application process for the cluster partners paid off, because there were numerous networks, which gave new […]

  • BLP Advises Macquarie on Taiwanese Offshore Wind Partnership with EnBW

    19 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    International law firm, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has advised Macquarie Capital on the introduction of EnBW Energie Baden-Württenberg AG (EnBW) to its partnership with Swancor Renewable to jointly develop three offshore wind projects in Taiwan.

  • Seajacks Scylla Loads First Deutsche Bucht Steel

    3 September 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The jack-up vessel Seajacks Scylla has left Cuxhaven loaded with the first three monopiles and transition pieces to be installed on the 269MW Deutsche Bucht wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • The Netherlands: HFG to Construct HelWin2 Offshore HVDC Platform

    13 June 2012
    Grid Connection

    On 4 June 2012 Heerema Fabrication Group in the Netherlands secured a contract for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) of an HVDC offshore platform for Siemens in Germany on behalf of grid operator TenneT. The contract consists of an offshore platform which will be equipped with Siemens’ High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology […]

  • 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 […]

  • Deutsche Bucht Offshore Wind Project Reaches Financial Close

    21 August 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Northland Power’s EUR 1.3 billion Deutsche Bucht (DeBu) project has reached financial close, with all of the equity contributed to the project and all debt required for the project now fully committed by the project lenders.

  • ORE Catapult’s Innovation & Research Director Chairs IEA Wind

    23 October 2015

    Ignacio Marti, Innovation & Research Director of the UK-based Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, has been newly elected as the Chair of the Executive Committee at the International Energy Agency Wind Energy Group (IEA Wind). Marti and newly elected Vice Chair Dr. Stephan Barth, Managing Director of ForWind Center for Wind Energy Research in Germany, […]

  • Italy: Prysmian Among Founders of Norstec

    8 October 2012

    Prysmian Group, the world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry, is participating in the creation of Norstec, an association uniting the main players in the energy industry at the global level with the aim of supporting the production of renewable energy using offshore wind farms in the Northern Seas. Norstec, supported […]

  • SHL Awards CAPE Holland with Contract for APE Model 600 Tandem Vibratory Hammer Set

    25 April 2013
    Business & Finance, Technology

    CAPE Holland has announced it has been awarded for a purchase contract for an APE Model 600 Tandem vibratory hammer set (Tandem Super Kong). For the installation of the Helwin 1 and BorWin 2 base frames, Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) will use the Tandem Super Kong to install a total of 16 piles with diameters […]

  • Petrofac and Hitachi Energy Form Offshore Wind Partnership

    28 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology

    Transmission, distribution, and grid automation solutions provider Hitachi Energy has entered into a collaboration with Petrofac to provide grid integration and associated infrastructure to support the offshore wind market. This collaboration builds on the complementary core technologies and expertise of both companies in offshore wind to support the decarbonization of power systems and deliver clean […]

  • Rotork Supplies All-Electric Valve Actuation Package for DanTysk (Germany)

    13 November 2012
    Technology

    Rotork is supplying an all-electric valve actuation package encompassing isolating, regulating and modulating actuators with two-wire digital control for the DanTysk offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Almost one hundred Rotork quarter-turn electric actuators will control butterfly valves on the DanTysk transformer platform, situated 70 kilometres west of the German island of Sylt. The […]

  • ABB Brings Renewable Energy Infrastructure to Life With Augmented Reality, Scottish First Minister and Energy Secretary Sample AR

    17 November 2010

    ABB Power Systems UK has become the first engineering company to use cutting-edge Augmented Reality (AR) technology to showcase an example of critical energy infrastructure. Among the first people to try out the new animation were Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne. Produced by leading […]