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  • Asia Pacific to Become Largest Wind Market by 2016

    4 December 2013
    R&D

    With an expected addition of 221GW of new wind capacity from 2013-2020, wind development in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region remains solid. The lion’s share of capacity growth will continue to be supplied by China and India, but high growth rates will be expected from emerging markets in South-East Asia and the Pacific. Energy produced […]

  • The Netherlands: TenneT Opens New ‘Renewable Energy Highway’

    10 September 2013
    Grid Connection

    Dutch TSO TenneT has marked the official incorporation into the national grid of the Randstad380 South Ring, a new 380kV high-voltage connection. This ultramodern ‘power highway’ has been constructed using the latest technologies and includes a number of underground cable sections and TenneT’s innovative Wintrack pylon design. TenneT CEO Mel Kroon: “The Randstad380 South Ring […]

  • Finland: Bugsier and Wärtsilä Develop New Wind Farm Installation Vessel Concept

    5 August 2013
    R&D, Technology

    Reducing costs for offshore wind generated electricity is one of the major challenges in the European energy market. The novelty about the jointly developed concept for reducing costs during installation, from the Bugsier-, Reederei- und Bergungs- GmbH & Co. KG and Wärtsilä is, that the tasks for transport and installation are separated, by which loading […]

  • Installation Vessels: Reaching the Limit and Beyond

    27 March 2017

    Fourteen years ago in 2002 the Sif Group made 80 monopiles for the Horns Rev wind farm off the Danish coast near Esbjerg. These piles were four metres in diameter, the thickness of the steel was five centimetres, and they weighed between 180-230 tonnes depending on their length. In 2016, Offshore WIND was invited to visit the new Sif Group production, storage and load-out terminal built on Maasvlakte 2, the new area of reclaimed land extending the Port of Rotterdam even further out into the Southern part of the North Sea.

  • Communities Minister, BARONESS Hanham CBE Visits Narec (UK)

    8 March 2011
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    BARONESS Hanham CBE, Communities Minister from the Department of Communities and Local Government will today (TUESDAY MARCH 8) officially unveil European funding towards a multi-million pound project at the National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) in Blyth, placing the North East at the centre of offshore wind turbine developments. Lady Hanham is visiting the North East […]

  • ACCOMMODATION VESSELS: THE PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE

    5 October 2015

    The concept of using vessels as hotels, or floatels, accommodation vessels, or recently, SOVs, or whatever name you give them, has been available in the market for a while. With some of the current and more future projects being built further at sea in harsher sea states this concept is now gaining ‘ground’. Not only […]

  • Company announcement from Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Denmark)

    19 August 2010
    Business & Finance

    All-time high order intake. Results in line with expectations. Full-year guidance revised downwards. The second-quarter wind energy order intake was 3,031 MW, which was the highest level ever recorded and on a level with the order intake for the whole of 2009. Vestas generated second-quarter revenue of EUR 1,007m, a drop of 17 per cent […]

  • Researchers Investigate Hearing of Marine Mammals

    1 April 2014
    Environment, R&D

    Researchers from the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation (TiHo) are investigating the hearing of gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) under the leadership of Professor Dr. Ursula Siebert and Dr. Andreas Ruser. They published the first results in the online specialist magazine Plos one. The investigations were […]

  • Rhode Island CRMC Gives Go-Ahead to Block Island OWF

    18 November 2014
    Authorities, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) unanimously approved the final submerged lands lease and two joint licenses and assents for the five-turbine wind farm project off Block Island at its meeting last week. These were the final permits needed as stipulated by the CRMC in its original decision for Deepwater Wind, the developer […]

  • Iberdrola Invests EUR 220 Million into R&D (USA)

    31 July 2011

    IBERDROLA has published its 2009-2010 R&D Report. The document includes the Group’s main initiatives and most significant milestones in R&D, in which it has invested over €220 million over the last two years. The Group considers R&D a strategic pillar of its activity when confronting with guarantees the challenges facing the energy sector, and to […]

  • Australian Government Grants AUD 10 Million to Carnegie’s Perth Wave Energy Project

    1 May 2012
    Authorities

    Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited announces the award of a $9.9m Federal Government grant from the Australian Government’s Emerging Renewables Program (ERP) to support Carnegie’s world leading, grid-connected wave energy project. The Minister for Resources and Energy, Martin Ferguson AM MP, announced the grant today at Carnegie’s Wave Energy Research Facility inWestern Australia. […]

  • Floating Offshore Wind Could Be Bigger Than Fixed-Bottom by 2050, But There Is Catching Up to Do in Supply Chain

    15 December 2022
    Industry, Ports & Logistics, R&D

    “We are looking at a market today that is immense. It is new and unprecedented when you look at the numbers. Floating wind is expected to be, in 2050, bigger than fixed offshore wind. But we got some catching up to do, and catching up to be done is really in the supply chain”, GustoMSC’s […]

  • Equinor and BP Pick New York Offshore Wind Hub Construction Manager

    8 February 2023
    Contracts & Tenders

    Equinor and BP have selected Skanska USA as the construction manager for the port upgrade of New York’s South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT). Port upgrades to redevelop SBMT were part of the Empire Wind 2 and Beacon Wind 1 project proposals Equinor and BP submitted in the 2021 offshore wind power solicitation in the State of New […]

  • REAL-TIME FEEDBACK ENABLES LEARNING ON THE JOB: How vessel display makes maintenance safer, faster and cost effective

    27 April 2015

    Maintenance of offshore wind turbines is important and necessary. The faster a defect turbine is running again, the faster it produces electricity. Time is money. How do you make sure that the valuable time turbine technicians have, is actually spent on offshore wind turbine maintenance? In practice a lot of valuable time is lost; often […]

  • EUR 6.5M Secured for Human Heart-Inspired Wave Tech

    3 November 2015
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    CorPower, a developer of a wave energy converter inspired by the pumping principles of the human heart, has completed a €6.5M funding round, thus securing a critical investment for the next stage of the company’s development and allowing for the third round of testing of its wave energy technology, called the HiWave. Results from the second stage of HiWave […]

  • Vineyard Power Talks Offshore Wind with Cape Cod Fishermen

    17 February 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Representatives from Vineyard Power and Vineyard Wind met the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance on Wednesday in Chatham to get the fishermen’s feedback on an offshore wind project planned to be developed off Martha’s Vineyard.

  • VolkerInfra Gets In On Hornsea 2 Action

    18 October 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Lancashire-based VolkerInfra has signed a multi-million-pound contract with Ørsted to install 360 kilometres of high voltage onshore cables for the 1.4GW Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm.

  • Regen SW: West Coast With no Round 3 Offshore Wind Project

    1 August 2014

    The cancellation of the 4.2GW Celtic Array wind farm by the development partnership of Centrica and DONG, represents a “real blow” to the economy on the west coast of the UK, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, according to independent experts, Regen SW. The announcement comes just eight months after the cancellation of RWE’s […]

  • Ellis Develops Cabling Solution for Siemens

    31 March 2014
    Environment, Grid Connection, Technology

    Ellis has designed an entirely new product in response to a cabling requirement from one of the biggest names in global business, Siemens. Triton is a two-in-one cable guide and clamp that was developed by Ellis following a call to assist in the installation, and subsequent restraining, of seven large diameter high voltage (HV) cables […]

  • Costain Alliance Offers Renewable Power Solution (UK)

    23 August 2010
    R&D, Technology

    As the Government increases its efforts to curb carbon emissions from the power generation sector, Costain is aiming to win a stake in the renewable energy market. Offshore windfarms offer the prospect of more predictable and consistent weather conditions than their onshore counterparts, together with fewer problems in gaining planning permission. However, constructing them in […]

  • OFGEM Announces Eight Bidders for Three More Offshore Transmission Projects

    26 January 2011
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Ofgem has announced the eight bidders which have successfully qualified to compete for three more high-voltage transmission links with offshore wind farms as part of Ofgem E-Serve’s latest competitive tender process. Ultimately the winning bidders will then own and operate the links for the next 20 years. Today’s announcement is the list of bidders which […]

  • Lindø Industrial Park and Smulders Group Sign Lease Agreement for Facilities at Lindø (Denmark)

    18 March 2011

    Lindø Industrial Park and Smulders Group have entered into a conditional agreement for lease of facilities at Lindø. Smulders Group is Europe’s leading producer of foundations and towers for offshore wind turbines. Setting up extra production capacity at Lindø will further boost the position of Smulders Group’s Wind turbine construction division in Northern Europe. In […]

  • Acquired ABB HV Cable Business Boosts NKT’s Revenue, Offshore Wind Fills Orderbook

    15 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    The high-voltage activities acquired from ABB have driven an increase in NKT’s Q3 2017 revenue, which was at EUR 303.2 million, EUR 106.9 million more than in Q3 2016. Looking at the first nine months, NKT posted a revenue of EUR 776.5 million, compared with EUR 559.7 million reported for the same period in 2016.

  • UK Offshore Wind Proves a Hot Ticket

    18 October 2018
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The UK offshore wind leasing Round 4 could be launched in the early part of 2019, maintaining a pipeline of projects through to the late 2020s and beyond, according to The Crown Estate, the UK seabed manager.

  • CWind Taiwan Sponsoring Introductory GWO Classes for 100 Students and Fishermen

    30 December 2020
    Training & Education

    CWind Taiwan will sponsor up to 100 Taiwanese students and local fishermen who want to participate in a Global Wind Organisation (GWO) pilot project, which will provide a general introduction into the offshore wind industry and fundamentals of the GWO working-at-height and sea survival modules. The company is organising five sessions open to individuals from […]

  • APM Terminals Maasvlakte II Goes Green

    16 December 2014

    APM Terminals has signed a two-year, €5 million contract with Amsterdam-based NV Nuon Energy for the supply of environmentally-sustainable wind-generated electricity to power the new APM Terminals Maasvlakte II cranes and container handling equipment. The new deep-water terminal, scheduled to receive its first commercial vessel call later this month, will be the world’s first container […]