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  • Noppen Hosts 2nd Offshore Wind Power Technology and Investment Congress 2011 (China)

    22 November 2011

    In the next five years, China’s investment in offshore wind is expected to exceed 25 billion RMB. This figure is set to increase along the years with the installed capacity of offshore wind will reach 10 million KWs in 2015 and 30 million KWs in 2020. Noppen hosted the 2nd Offshore Wind Power Technology and […]

  • First Inter-Array Pre-Trenching Campaign Completed at Saint-Brieuc OWF

    16 August 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The pre-trenching campaign along the inter-array cable routes in the northern part of the French Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm has been completed, Ailes Marines reported, adding that the work was done five weeks ahead of schedule. The Aethra vessel, chartered by the inter-array cable supplier Prysmian, left the site on 14 August after completing all […]

  • Bernie Sanders Pushes for Renewables and Clean Energy Jobs

    8 January 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator from Vermont and one of the national presidential candidates, has introduced a bill that would permanently extend the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for advanced clean energy property and expand the 30% credit to offshore wind facilities.  The American Clean Energy Investment Act of 2015, introduced in Senate on 10 December, would also […]

  • Port of Cromarty Firth Bags GBP 10 Million Moray East Deal

    27 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The Port of Cromarty Firth has signed a contract with Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Ltd, the developer of a 950MW offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, which will use the port as an intermediate one during the project construction. 

  • MHI Vestas Plots Offshore Wind Expansion with New Top Team

    16 January 2018
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Vestas Wind Systems have appointed Philippe Kavafyan to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Lars Bondo Krogsgaard to Co-Chief Executive Officer (Co-CEO) of MHI Vestas Offshore Wind.

  • American Wind Energy Association Names New CEO

    25 April 2013

    By unanimous vote of the Board of Directors, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) today announced that Tom Kiernan has been named as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer. Kiernan has served as President of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) since 1998. On May 28, he will officially take the helm at AWEA, the […]

  • Seazip Launches First Tender Service for German Bight Area

    9 April 2013
    Contracts & Tenders

    Seazip Offshore Service recently launched the first ad hoc tender service for the German Bight area. Only after a few hours’ notice the fast crew boat Seazip Hurricane carried out a successful crew change 90 miles offshore at the North sea for a major cable laying company with crew, equipment and provisions. This call was […]

  • SeaRoc Tackles Cable Failure Risks

    26 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    SeaRoc Group has upgraded its marine management and monitoring system, SeaPlanner, to help offshore wind developers and operators mitigate risks associated with subsea cable failures, recently identified as the main culprit for financial losses and project delays. Subsea cable faults contributed to 77% of the financial losses of global offshore wind projects and led to insurance […]

  • Germany: Windreich 6.5 pct Small Business Bond 11/16 Fully Allocated

    5 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    The 6.5%-Bond issue 2011/2016 of Windreich AG, dealt at the Small Business Sector – the quality segment of the Stuttgart Stock Exchange is fully allocated. “We have utilized a good value performance in the last few days to issue an additional 5 million Euros,”  Mr. Willi Balz, the Chairman of the Windreich AG Board and CFO, […]

  • UK: SAS, E.ON Solve Rampion’s Impact on Local Surfing Waves

    10 December 2012

    Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) has announced that after its crucial intervention with E.ON, the Rampion offshore wind farm developers, potentially catastrophic damage to local surfing waves has now been averted. E.ON initially identified a potential reduction in wave height of up to 22% for surfing beaches in and around Brighton as a result of the […]

  • Siemens-Gamesa Merger Moves Ahead, Areva Waives Adwen Contractual Restrictions

    17 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Technology

    French energy company Areva has agreed to waive existing contractual restrictions in Gamesa’s and Areva’s offshore wind joint venture, Adwen, simplifying the merger between Gamesa and Siemens, the binding agreement for which was signed on Friday, 17 June. As part of these agreements, Gamesa – in alignment with Siemens- grants Areva a put option for Areva’s 50 […]

  • Keppel Completes Greater Changhua 1 & 2a Offshore Substations

    29 September 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Singapore-based Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) has completed the construction of two offshore substations for Ørsted which will be deployed at the 900 MW Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan. The detailed engineering, procurement, and construction for the two 600 MW unmanned offshore wind farm substations, which comprise the […]

  • A look back at the development of OWC

    17 October 2016

    As we are gearing up for the Offshore WIND Conference (OWC) we want to take you back a couple of months to how we developed the program together with our OWC advisor and partner Chris Westra. Looking back we asked Westra to reminisce on the initial idea of the program. “Our starting point was to […]

  • Six Buoys Return to CMWS With Data for Offshore Wind Energy Development (USA)

    16 August 2011
    Environment, R&D

      In the parking lot of Coastal Carolina University’s Center for Marine and Wetland Studies (CMWS) in Conway, South Carolina, sit six buoys just back from sea. For 14 months, they were floating miles off the coasts of Myrtle Beach and Winyah Bay, as part of the Palmetto Wind Research Project in South Carolina, taking […]

  • The Road to Renewables

    5 March 2017

    Times are changing in the offshore energy market. Investments in the oil & gas industry are low, while development and investments in offshore renewable energy are high and very much increasing. The shallow waters of the North Sea area, in particular, show an increasing level of investments in renewable energy and more specifically, in wind energy.

  • Dutch Offshore Wind Project Attracts Major Investor

    8 January 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Private market investment managers, Partners Group, has signed an agreement to join the Blauwwind consortium developing the Borssele III & IV offshore wind farms as an equity investor on behalf of its clients. 

  • Global Offshore Wind O&M Market to Reach EUR 10 Billion by 2029

    10 March 2021
    Business & Finance

    The global offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M) market is expected to grow 16 per cent annually and reach EUR 10 billion by 2029. Europe will remain the biggest O&M market by region, while China will become the biggest single market in terms of national markets. This is according to the latest report from Wood […]

  • Houlder Installs Pile Gripper Arms on MPI Discovery (UK)

    16 August 2013

    Houlder has installed 650t pile gripper arms on the MPI Discovery jack-up vessel. “The challenge of handling offshore wind turbine piles has grown along with their size,” commented Frederic Perdrix, Chief Technical Officer, as Houlder delivered its latest piece of bespoke equipment. The pile Gripper Arms, installed this week, stabilise 6m diameter 650t steel piles […]

  • China Longyuan Power Hosts Symposium on Offshore Wind Power Development

    15 May 2013

    On May 7, the symposium on offshore wind power development organized by China Guodian Corporation and undertaken by China Longyuan Power was held in Nantong, Jiangsu province. Xie Changjun, member of the Party Leadership Group and vice President of China Guodian Corporation, Liu Xuehai, director of Hydropower and New Energy Development Department, Li Enyi, President […]

  • UK: Navitus Bay Invites Public to Provide Feedback on Latest Wind Park Plans

    11 January 2013

    From the 1st February, members of the public are being given an opportunity to view and comment on the latest plans for the proposed wind park off the Dorset coast. Navitus Bay Development Limited (Navitus Bay) has said throughout that it is committed to hearing the views of the local community and so far has […]

  • UK: Boskalis to Co-develop WoDS for EUR 110 Million

    2 May 2012
    Wind Farm Update

    Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has acquired three energy related contracts for projects in Northwest Europe with a combined contract value of approximately EUR 110 million. Boskalis has signed a contract with partners DONG Energy and Scottish Power Renewables for the partial construction of the “West of Duddon Sands” offshore wind park in the Irish Sea. The […]

  • Gamesa Looks to Establish Offshore Wind Technology Centre in Scotland

    20 January 2011
    Business & Finance

    * Proposals unveiled for technology centre in Glasgow, creating 130 jobs * Scottish authorities have been informed of the company’s interest in developing an industrial base for manufacturing, logistics and operation and maintenance (O&M) activities in the Dundee area, conditional upon development of offshore wind projects in the area, securing government support and the availability […]

  • UK: Health & Safety Culture at CWind Delivers Zero LTI

    21 February 2013

    Since 2009 CWind has logged over 600,000 working hours with a zero LTI record (Lost Time Incidents) on project solutions with the offshore wind farm sector. This means 4 years working without any Lost Time Incidents. CWind ‘s high SHEQ (Safety, Health, Environmental & Quality) standards, reflect the company’s core commitment both to its staff […]

  • TetraSpar Demonstrator Floating Wind Turbine Starts Operating

    1 December 2021
    R&D, Technology

    The TetraSpar Demonstrator floating wind turbine has been commissioned and is now operating some 10 miles off Norway’s coast in water depths of 200 metres. The fully-assembled floating wind turbine, comprising the TetraSpar floating foundation and a 3.6 MW Siemens Gamesa direct-drive wind turbine, was towed from Denmark and installed at the METCentre test site […]

  • Siemens Energy Makes EUR 4.04 Billion Siemens Gamesa Takeover Offer

    23 May 2022
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Energy has launched a voluntary cash tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares in Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, or approximately 32.9 per cent of Siemens Gamesa’s share capital which it does not already own. The wind turbine manufacturer’s minority shareholders will be offered EUR 18.05 per share in cash, representing a premium of 27.7 […]

  • Maersk Wind Turbine Installation Vessel to Be Built to ABS Class

    4 April 2022
    Vessels

    Sembcorp Marine will build the next-generation wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) ordered by Maersk Supply Service to ABS Class, American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) said. Two new feeder barges and two diesel-electric hybrid tugboat units will also be built to ABS Class by Kirby Offshore Wind (KOW), to supply the WTIV with towers and turbines […]