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  • Keppel’s Subsidiary Acquires OWEC Tower

    2 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Keppel Corporation’s wholly owned subsidiary KV Ventus B.V. has acquired a 50.1% equity interest in OWEC Tower, from NorWind AS, TronderEnergi AS, InnoVent GmbH, Per Bull Haugsoen and Gunnar Foss for NOK 2,8 million (approx. EUR 327,827).  As KV Ventus already holds the remaining 49.9% equity interest in OWEC Tower (AS) following an acquisition in January […]

  • Date Set for Taiwan’s First Offshore Wind Supply Chain Conference

    30 December 2019
    Business & Finance

    The Asia Wind Energy Association and the World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO) are organizing the first offshore wind supply chain conference in Taiwan. The 1st Annual Asia Offshore Wind Supply Chain Conference will be held on 4 March 2020 in Kaohsiung. The event is the first conference in Asia-Pacific dedicated to the supply chain development […]

  • Vattenfall Sets Aside EUR 5.5 Billion for Wind Development

    30 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Swedish utility Vattenfall plans to invest EUR 5.5 billion in on- and offshore wind energy development by 2020, the company’s Head of Business Area Wind Gunnar Groebler was quoted by German media as saying. The amount is equal to what the state-owned power company invested in wind power development in the past ten years. Vattenfall expects this investment […]

  • USA: Council of Narragansett Against Deepwater Wind’s Transmission Line

    12 March 2012
    Grid Connection

    Last Monday, the Town Council of Narragansett voted against the Deepwater Wind’s transmission line across Block Island Sound. Council President Glenna Hagopian thinks they need more specification about this matter to make a decision. “I want to see what you are bringing to the table before we move forward,” Hagopian said to South County Independent. […]

  • Leask Marine’s C-Fenna Completes Borssele 1&2 Works

    19 February 2018
    Environment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Leask Marine’s vessel C-Fenna has completed the recovery of ten seabed frames and buoys at Ørsted’s Borssele 1 and 2 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands on behalf of Fugro.

  • Leask Marine Completes Hornsea One Job

    24 April 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Leask Marine’s vessel C-Fenna has completed wave buoy works on the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the UK. The vessel completed wave rider recovery and deployment operations for Fugro GB, who performed a variety of maintenance service operations on each buoy at the 1.2GW offshore wind project. Each buoy was retrieved onto the deck for servicing and […]

  • Vattenfall Acquires Global Tech II Project

    10 August 2016

    Vattenfall has acquired Global Tech II offshore wind project located in the German North Sea some 85 kilometres north of the island of Borkum. The project is currently under development with up to 79 wind turbines in an area of 47 square kilometres. The realization of the project depends on obtaining a capacity contract in the […]

  • Unitech Offshore Wins TetraSpar Floater Contract

    7 November 2019
    Grid Connection

    Unitech Offshore has secured a contract to provide dynamic power cable and grid connection for the TetraSpar demonstration project in Norway. Unitech said it had been working together with the project partners and investors under an Early Work Agreement up to the signing of the main contract at the end of October. The FWT Zefyros, […]

  • Leask Marine Completes East Anglia One Task

    19 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    Leask Marine has completed a range of supporting activities for ABCO Marine at the East Anglia One offshore wind farm. The UK-based company was in charge of laying concrete mattresses and placing rock bags on the seabed, as well as supporting the Fugro 1200 jack-up. Leask Marine carried out these four-month marine operations with its vessel C-Fenna. East Anglia […]

  • USA: LEEDCo Changes Wind Turbines Supplier

    16 July 2012

    Since GE has abandoned plans to develop products for the Great Lakes, Lake Erie Energy Development Company, LEEDCo, has switched suppliers, reports WKSU news portal. Namely, Siemens will be supplying turbines for the wind energy project in the Lake Erie instead of GE. Siemens’ wind turbines are smaller than GE’s and are less expensive to […]

  • Top News of the Week Dec 28, 2015– Jan 3, 2016

    3 January 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Vessels

    US Team Developing Mega Turbines Inspired by Palm Trees A US-based team of scientists plans to use a USD 3.56 million grant to develop wind turbines able to protect themselves in severe weather by folding in their rotor blades like palm trees in a hurricane. Vattenfall Sets Aside EUR 5.5 Billion for Wind Development Swedish […]

  • Vattenfall Preparing ‘Offshore Hotel’ for Sandbank and DanTysk

    3 October 2014
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    During a press conference at WindEnergy Hamburg last week, Vattenfall stated that they will launch the Sandbank project in the summer of 2015, after they complete the DanTysk construction works. Due to their proximity and technical similarity of DanTysk and Sandbank, Vattenfall has come up with the concept to have one crew servicing both wind […]

  • Taiwan Power Company Picks SMC’s Brain on Offshore Wind

    6 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    Delegates from the Taiwan Power Company (TPC) have visited Specialist Marine Consultants at their head office in Hunmanby, UK, to discuss offshore wind as TPC wishes to accelerate their activities in the Taiwanese offshore wind market.

  • Denmak: ZephIR Dual Mode Delivers Simultaneous Measurements to DTU Wind Energy

    19 May 2013
    Technology

    Industry-leading wind lidar company ZephIR Lidar have confirmed, to the best of their knowledge, the world’s first simultaneous measurements taken upwind and downwind of a wind turbine for the Technical University of Denmark, Wind Energy department, formerly known as Risø DTU. The measurements were taken using two ZephIR Dual Mode systems deployed at the front […]

  • Vattenfall to Build Two Nearshore Wind Farms in Denmark

    12 September 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has won the Danish nearshore wind tender after submitting the final bid for Vesterhav Syd and Vesterhav Nord sites on 1 September and offering the lowest bid of DKK 0,475/kWh. There were five possible locations within the tender and Vattenfall bid for two sites on the west coast of Jutland. As a result, the company will now develop […]

  • Sea Worker Capsizes off Denmark

    3 February 2016
    Vessels

    Due to harsh weather, the offshore installation vessel Sea Worker has capsized during the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, A2SEA reported today. No pollution has been detected from Sea Worker, but the focus remains on preventing any oils or fuels leaking from the vessel. A special operations team and vessels Esvagt Connector and Emile Robin are onsite closely […]

  • Vattenfall’s Vice President of Offshore Wind Resigns

    5 November 2019
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Vattenfall’s Vice President of Business Unit Offshore Wind Michael Simmelsgaard has decided to leave the company. Simmelsgaard, who joined Vattenfall in 2015, will continue his career outside the company. Head of Engineering Offshore Wind Jacob Nørgaard Andersen will take over the role as Danish Country Manager. “Vattenfall’s has developed a strong offshore business over the […]

  • Ulstein to Power Up Jan De Nul’s SRI Vessels

    1 October 2015
    Vessels

    Ulstein Power & Control has been awarded a contract with AVIC Weihai Shipyard Co. Ltd. on power and control deliveries for two subsea rock installation vessels for Jan De Nul Group.  The Ulstein Power & Control delivery includes the Power package consisting of generators, switchboards, motor control centre, thruster frequency converters and motors, the automation […]

  • Vattenfall Shines More Light on Hollandse Kust Zuid 1 & 2 Win

    3 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The industry has been waiting for Vattenfall to give out more information on its Hollandse Kust Zuid 1 & 2 zero-subsidy bid after the company won the Dutch tender in March, especially since Ørsted – world’s leading offshore wind developer and one of the first to have unsubsidised projects in the pipeline – decided to pass on bidding to build the offshore wind farm. 

  • Leask Marine Finishes Work in UK Waters

    14 August 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    Leask Marine has completed buoy activities at the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the UK North Sea.

  • China Ocean Engineering Establishes UK Presence

    6 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    China Ocean Engineering Shanghai Co (COES) has launched its first UK subsidiary with an aim to support the offshore renewables and decommissioning industries.

  • MacGregor and Kongsberg Maritime Launch Pile-Gripper Solution

    7 May 2018
    R&D, Technology

    MacGregor and Kongsberg Maritime have unveiled a new monopile installation solution which is said to eliminate the need for temporary mooring during the installation process.

  • First Monopiles In at Horns Rev 3

    20 October 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The first four out of the total of 49 monopiles have been installed at the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm site in Denmark and GeoSea’s installation vessel Innovation is now set to install the next batch.

  • Vattenfall Gives Its Wind Business a Strategic Boost

    1 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall has strengthened the senior management team of its wind business with the appointment of one of the industry’s leading strategists. On 1 October, Michael Simmelsgaard will be new Vice President of Strategic Projects as well as a member of the Management Team at Business Area Wind. He has a strong track record in the energy […]

  • Vattenfall Ready for German Offshore Wind Tender with 3 Projects

    31 January 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    Vattenfall is expected to participate in the first competitive offshore wind tender in Germany with three projects.

  • Vattenfall On Point with Danish Offshore Wind Projects (Expertise Hub VIDEO)

    14 December 2017
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall’s three Danish offshore wind projects are progressing on schedule following the order of wind turbines from Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Gunnar Groebler, Senior Vice President Business Area Wind at Vattenfall, said.