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  • UK: Heritage Organisations Oppose Vestas’ Plans for Port of Sheerness

    30 April 2012
    Ports & Logistics

    Last year in May, Vestas signed an option agreement for land at the Port of Sheerness to build a fully integrated offshore wind turbine manufacturing and installation facility. To realise these plans Vestas will need to demolish existing buildings in this location, to which Heritage campaigners are objecting, reports Times Guardian. The company’s plans include […]

  • Partrac to Exhibit at RenewableUK’s Event

    19 December 2012

    Partrac Ltd are to exhibit and present at next year’s RenewableUK Wave & Tidal 2013 conference and exhibition. The event will take place on 27th – 28th February 2013 at the QEII Conference Centre, London. Dr Kevin Black (Director) will be speaking at the event. His presentation, “Overcoming the Challenges of Measuring Marine Turbulence Using […]

  • FORCE Uses Radar Imaging for Turbine Placement

    17 March 2015
    R&D, Technology

    New time lapse radar imaging at FORCE has shown flow features in western Minas Passage over two tide cycles (approximately 25 hours) in December 2014. While they appear to derive from a satellite, these images were created using FORCE’s marine radar system, perched atop its visitor centre. Typical marine radar filters out sea clutter, but this radar […]

  • AOE Receives 2014 Innovation Award

    30 April 2014

    AOE Accumulated Ocean Energy Inc. (AOE) received the 2014 Innovation Award presented by the Victoria Chamber of Commerce at the black tie event held at the Fairmont Empress on April 24th , 2104. “This is a great honour and all of us at AOE are excited for the recognition,” stated AOE CEO Jim Matei, “We […]

  • Massive Offshore Wind Event Comes to Aberdeen

    8 January 2015

    Scotland’s largest offshore wind and supply chain event comes to Aberdeen this month. Businesses from across Europe will flock to the city on January 27 and 28 to discuss hot topics like the Contracts for Difference funding regime, cutting-edge technology innovations and the huge amount of post-consent work still to be undertaken. Every major commercial […]

  • Barbados to Get New Renewable Energy Centre

    31 August 2015

    A Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency is to be established in Barbados. News of this came from Minister with responsibility for Energy, Senator Darcy Boyce, as he met with Mr. Paolo Serpi, Italy’s Special Envoy to the Caribbean, last Monday. Senator Boyce told the Italian diplomat that the Centre, which is expected […]

  • First Power Flows from Windpark Fryslân

    12 April 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The first wind turbine at Windpark Fryslân has begun producing electricity, according to a project update published on social media on 12 April. The first of the total of 89 Siemens Gamesa 4.3 MW wind turbines was installed at the project site at the end of the last month. Located in the IJsselmeer Lake in […]

  • CARGO TRANSFER SYSTEM: Paving the way for the transfer of larger cargos

    15 December 2014

    In the very first edition of Offshore WIND we reported on access systems as the means for safe transfers of personnel to offshore wind turbines. At that time it was still a relatively new topic in this industry. We discussed the systems by Dutch company Ampelmann Operations B.V. and by Offshore Solutions. Now, five years […]

  • Scotland Invites Manufacturers to Homeport at Floating Wind Port Cluster

    2 June 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Jobs & Recruitment, Ports & Logistics

    Scotland’s Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has partnered with Scottish Development International (SDI) and the Department for International Trade (DIT) to launch a global initiative to attract overseas manufacturing companies of scale to the Scottish Floating Wind Port Cluster. The main target of this international initiative under the DIT’s High Potential Opportunities (HPO) programme is […]

  • NWA Develops Nordergründe Insurance Package

    18 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Nordwest Assekuranzmakler GmbH & Co. KG (NWA) has developed the insurance concept for the offshore project Nordergründe. The insurance specialist is thus providing a key building block for financing the project, which will cost 410 million euros. The Nordergründe wind farm, which is located 15 kilometres north-east of the island Wangerooge, is owned by wpd […]

  • All-Energy 2014 Opens Tomorrow

    20 May 2014

    All-Energy 2014, the UK’s largest renewables exhibition and conference, opens tomorrow (Wednesday 21 May) at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre with a plenary session featuring both the Secretary of State for Scotland, Rt Hon Alistair Carmichael MP, and Fergus Ewing MSP, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism with other speakers including Rob Cormie, Group Operations […]

  • New East Quay Opened at Port of Nigg

    4 July 2022
    Ports & Logistics

    The Port of Nigg in Scotland, owned and operated by Global Energy Group (GEG), has unveiled its new East Quay, which increases the port facility’s deep water quayside to over 1,200 metres. The new quay will enable the port to service multiple large-scale energy sector projects simultaneously and ensure the port facility has the required infrastructure […]

  • First Borssele Alpha Cable Makes Landfall

    15 April 2019
    Grid Connection

    The first cable that will connect the Borssele Alpha offshore high voltage substation in the Dutch North Sea to the transformer station at Borssele has made landfall, TenneT said. On Friday, 12 April, Boskalis started to pull in the sea cable on land and early Saturday morning the cable reached the newly built transformer station. […]

  • Vos Prodect to Showcase Its ‘Monopile Cable Entry System’ at Global Offshore Wind 2014

    5 June 2014
    Grid Connection, Technology

    Vos Prodect Innovations will be exhibiting at the Global Offshore Wind 2014, which will be held between 11-12 June, in Glasgow.   Vos Prodect will be showcasing its newest development, “Monopile Cable Entry System” for the protection of offshore wind farm inter array cables at stand 33. Over the last year engineering, development and test program […]

  • Irish Government Sets New Offshore Wind Rules, Industry Warns They Could Delay Projects

    15 March 2023
    Authorities, Industry

    The Irish government has approved a new framework for offshore wind project procurement and development that will be in effect for auctions and projects that will follow after the country’s upcoming, first-ever offshore wind tender. The wind energy industry in Ireland has voiced concerns about some of the changes the new policy brings, saying it […]

  • Research and Markets Adds ‘Analyzing the Wind Power Industry in Denmark’ Report to Its Offering

    25 April 2013
    R&D

    Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Analyzing the Wind Power Industry in Denmark” report to their offering. Wind power provided nearly 20 percent of the Denmark’s electricity in 2007, a significantly higher proportion than in any other country. Denmark was a pioneer in developing commercial wind power during the 1970s and today […]

  • DOI Announces Commercial Lease for Offshore Wind in Delaware, USA

    24 October 2012
    Authorities

    As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above strategy to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau have announced that BOEM has reached agreement on a lease for commercial wind energy development in federal waters that covers 96,430 acres […]

  • Gdansk Shipyard to Lead Offshore Wind Revolution (Poland)

    25 July 2011

    The Gdansk Shipyard, where the Solidarity movement that ended the communist era in Poland was born, is now trying to lead another Polish revolution … in offshore wind power. The European Union has laid out clean energy targets to be reached by its 27-members by 2020. To hit those marks Poland must break its coal […]

  • Organisations Opposing Normandy Offshore Wind Farm

    20 March 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    Opponents of a wind farm planned to be installed off the coast of Normandy will gather in front of the D-Day Landing Museum in Arromanches, France, on 8 April for demonstration against the project, claiming it will ruin the landscape of the historic site of Normandy landings from WWII, for which a UNESCO World Heritage classification procedure is under way.

  • First Turbine Stands at Dutch Lake Farm

    24 March 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The first of the 89 Siemens Gamesa 4.3 MW wind turbines has been installed at Windpark Fryslân, the world’s largest wind farm in inland fresh waters. Located in the IJsselmeer Lake and some six kilometres off the Frisian coast, the Netherlands, the 382.7 MW Windpark Fryslân wind farm is being constructed by the Zuiderzeewind consortium […]

  • The Netherlands: BMO Offshore Sells First Vessel Black Box

    24 September 2012
    Technology

    BMO announces the first sale of the Vessel Black Box to Frisia Offshore, Germany. The Vessel Black Box is a flexible, integrated vessel movement monitoring system. Innovative sensor solutions from the aerospace industry are used, with superior performance and much lower cost than conventional sensors used in the offshore industry. A complete system will be […]

  • Photo of the Day: Extra Muscle Needed for Nordsee One Monopiles

    7 October 2016
    Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Schmidbauer GmbH & Co. KG has recently used a Modulift spreader combined with a 45m-long beam attached to a gantry and a crawler crane to tandem lift 750t monopiles from pontoons onto land in Cuxhaven on Germany’s North Sea coast. Schmidbauer was challenged by Cuxport GmbH to develop a solution for lifting the monopiles bound for the […]

  • TÜV SÜD Joins AquaVentus Membership Roster

    10 February 2022
    R&D, Technology

    The international provider of testing, inspection, and certification services, TÜV SÜD, has joined the AquaVentus consortium as a member, supporting this lighthouse project of German offshore hydrogen production. The European Union and Germany have set the target of becoming climate neutral by 2050. As a storage medium for energy from renewable sources, hydrogen will play […]

  • ABB Wins $180 Million Order for Norway-Denmark Power Transmission Link

    10 February 2011
    Grid Connection

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth about $180 million from utilities Statnett of Norway and Energinet.dk of Denmark to supply an HVDC Light® (high-voltage direct current) converter solution to support the interconnection of the Norwegian and Danish power grids.The 500 kV (kilovolt) link is a new record in […]

  • IRENA: New Smartphone App Delivers Global Renewable Energy Data

    23 June 2015
    Technology

    Smartphone users can now access the most reliable data on global renewable energy potential, for free, thanks to an application launched by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). The Global Atlas pocket, now available on all platforms including BlackBerry® 10, iOS, Android™ and Windows Phone®, is the only global tool of its kind, combining 1,000 […]

  • World’s First Commercial Wave Power EmployesVariohm EuroSensor’s Technology (UK)

    30 January 2012

    Voith Hydro Wavegen, the Inverness based marine renewable wave power specialists recently completed installation of the world’s first commercial wave power plant. Located in Mutriku in Northern Spain the 300 kW plant is based upon Wavegen’s Nearshore Oscillating Water Column (OWC) technology which employs Novotechnik RFC4800 series ‘touchless technology’ non contacting angle sensors supplied by […]