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  • Offshore Wind Turbines Make Sediment Plumes in North Sea

    8 November 2016
    Authorities, Environment, R&D

    Offshore wind turbines installed in the North Sea have been giving rise to sediment plumes, satellite images taken by NASA’s Operational Land Imager (OLI) show. For at least the past decade, satellites have spotted white dots cropping up in the North Sea. If viewed from Earth’s surface, you would see that these dots are actually wind […]

  • Surveys Completed for Celtic Sea Floating Offshore Wind Projects

    1 March 2023
    R&D, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    N-Sea Group has finished a series of benthic and geophysical surveys for Llŷr 1 and Llŷr 2 floating offshore wind projects in the Celtic Sea. N-Sea conducted the offshore surveys using its N-Sea Spirit vessel, establishing a baseline ground model which will be developed as the project matures, Floventis Energy said, the developer of the […]

  • Van Oord Taps TKF for Baltic Eagle Inter-Array Cables

    25 August 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has awarded TKF with a contract to provide the inter-array cables for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind project in Germany. TKF is in charge of the production and delivery of approximately 79 kilometers of 66 kV inter-array cables and corresponding accessories. Van Oord’s cable-laying vessel Nexus and the trencher Dig-It will be used for the […]

  • London Array Foundation Design Gets Thumbs Up (UK)

    17 January 2012

    The new type of wind turbine foundation design used by London Array has been given the seal of approval by industry certification experts DNV. London Array is among the first in the world to use a conical joint at the top of its monopiles to prevent transition piece slippage. The design was undertaken in parallel […]

  • IEA Task Exploring Integrated Floating Wind Array Designs

    31 May 2021
    R&D

    The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), French research organisation IFP Energies Nouvelles, and Irish engineering consultancy Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) have joined forces on an International Energy Agency (IEA) Task to advance floating wind. The goal of the Task is to look at the implementation of array scale innovations that will reduce the Levelized […]

  • Bureau Veritas to Certify EolMed Floating Wind Farm

    9 March 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Bureau Veritas has been awarded a contract for project certification for the 30 MW EolMed floating wind pilot project in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Gruissan in France. “This certification will ensure project reliability and sustainability, a critical step for offshore renewable energy development in Occitanie and worldwide”, said Jérôme Billerey, General Director […]

  • Infographic: South West England 2030 Outlook

    8 May 2015

    The South West Marine Energy Park has released a paper outlining the longer term opportunities and ambition for the development of marine energy in South West England. According to the report, the longer term opportunity for the South West will be through the development of new foundation and installation technologies – including floating wind – which will open up […]

  • 500 MW for Statkraft and CIP in First Irish Offshore Wind Auction

    11 May 2023
    Authorities, Business development, Research & Development

    Statkraft and its partner Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have been selected in Ireland’s first auction for offshore wind under the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (ORESS-1) to develop the 500 MW North Irish Sea Array (NISA) offshore wind project. NISA was one of seven offshore renewable projects issued with a Maritime Area Consent (MAC) last December. […]

  • EnBW Hohe See and Albatros in Offshore Construction Mode

    11 April 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    EnBW has started the offshore construction on two wind farms in the German North Sea – the 497MW Hohe See and the 112MW Albatros. 

  • Parkwind Orders Arcadis Ost 1 Inter-Array Cables at JDR

    10 June 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Belgian offshore wind developer Parkwind has awarded JDR with a contract to supply, test, and terminate 33kV subsea cables for the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in Germany. The UK-based JDR will supply the 45 kilometres of 33kV array cable that will connect the wind farm’s 27 MHI Vestas V174-9.5MW wind turbines. The company […]

  • 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 […]

  • Crown Estate Releases Irish Sea Data Collection

    21 May 2015

    A manager of the UK seabed, the Crown Estate, has published a vast collection of new offshore data and information on its online Marine Data Exchange (MDE). This data, totalling over 11.5 terabytes (TB), has been gathered from a wide range of surveys and technical studies from the former Celtic Array offshore wind project off the coast […]

  • JDR to Supply Sandbank OWF Inter-Array Cables

    23 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    VBMS has awarded JDR the inter-array cable contract for the Vattenfall AB Sandbank offshore wind farm. JDR will design and manufacture 105 kilometres of inter-array cable, including a new coilable 630mm2 copper core cable and a range of cable accessories. The Sandbank offshore wind farm will be constructed 90km west of Sylt island, within the […]

  • UK: Centrica and Dong Energy Prepare Application for 2.2 GW Offshore Wind Farm

    16 July 2012
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Celtic Array Ltd., a joint venture of Centrica and Dong Energy, plans to submit an application for a 2.2GW offshore wind farm, the UK National Infrastructure Planning portal, delivered by the Planning Inspectorate, the Government agency responsible for examining applications for nationally significant infrastructure projects, said on Friday. According to Reuters, the application for the […]

  • Van Oord to Install Foundations, Inter-Array Cables on Iberdrola’s German OWF

    23 July 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has signed a contract with Iberdrola for the installation of monopile foundations and the supply, transportation and installation of inter-array cables for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. The offshore construction specialist will deploy its heavy lift installation vessel Svanen to install the project’s the 50 foundations, starting in 2023. Van […]

  • Bilfinger Berger to Produce Offshore Wind Foundations with Polish Partners

    10 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Bilfinger Berger, together with Polish partners, have established a joint venture for the production of steel foundations for offshore wind turbines. The Group, together with steel construction specialists Crist and the state-owned investment fund MARS, will manufacture steel structures that will be used as foundations for wind turbines in deep waters. Investment volume for the […]

  • Tekmar Kit for Kriegers Flak

    22 January 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Tekmar Energy Limited has secured contract awards from Global Marine Group and JDR Cables for the supply of TekLink® cable protection systems and cable hang-off assemblies for the Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm. Global Marine Group has contracted Tekmar Energy to supply 150 patented TekLink® Mechanical Latch cable protection systems to protect the subsea array […]

  • UK: North Wales Pylon Plans Face Opposition

    21 November 2012
    Grid Connection

    National Grid, an international electricity and gas company, has faced opposition in their intention to install electricity pylons across North Wales, BBC informs. Namely, the grid would connect Horizon’s proposed nuclear power station at Wylfa of up to 3.6 gigawatts (GW), together with 2 GW of offshore Irish Sea wind energy being proposed by Celtic […]

  • Centrica Renewables Operating Profit Takes a Dive

    19 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    Centrica renewables operating profit for 2014 took a dive of 60 per cent comparing to the previous year. The company named a reduced contribution from the disposal of assets and increased costs associated with writing down developments as the reason for the profit drop. After reviewing the economic viability of the Round 3 Irish Sea […]

  • Global Offshore Lays Kriegers Flak Inter-Array Cables

    4 March 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Global Offshore has laid all of the inter-array cables at Vattenfall’s Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Danish Baltic Sea. Using the cable lay vessel Normand Clipper, Global Offshore has now installed all 72 inter-array cables at the 605 MW wind farm. This is an interim milestone on the project, Global Offshore said, as […]

  • Prysmian Hooks Up Wikinger Offshore Wind Farm

    24 September 2018
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Subsea power cable specialist Prysmian Group has announced a successful commissioning of the inter-array cable system for Iberdrola’s Wikinger offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea.

  • Vattenfall Issues Array Cable Tenders for Danish Offshore Wind Farms

    26 September 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    Vattenfall has issued two tenders searching for inter-array cable manufacturing and installation on three Danish offshore wind projects: Kriegers Flak, Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd.

  • Video: Offshore Wind Farm Undergoes Subsea Exfoliation

    29 December 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Yeovil-based Atlantas Marine has recently completed a week long project at an offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, undertaking an array of underwater inspection and de-fouling tasks. Pertinent to this project was the ability to clean marine growth from the seal glands and sacrificial anodes without causing any damage to the structure, for which […]

  • First Acta Marine 24 Pax CTV on Arkona Duty

    9 July 2018
    Vessels

    Acta Marine’s first 24-passenger capacity crew transfer vessel (CTV) Offshore Wielingen is currently working at the Arkona offshore wind farm, which marks its first mobilization.

  • Irish Offshore Wind Developer Starts Work on 800 MW Project

    4 March 2022
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    ESB has applied for a foreshore licence for site investigation works in an area offshore Ireland where it plans to build a wind farm with an installed capacity of between 700 MW and 800 MW. The site is located to the south of County Waterford and to the southeast of County Cork. There, ESB plans […]

  • SGS to Certify Veja Mate Offshore Wind Farm

    9 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The certification company SGS has been commissioned for the certification of the Veja Mate offshore wind farm project in the German North Sea. The certification work ranges from the examination of the project’s fundamentals to its final design — in accordance with the standards of the German Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). Dr Malte Posewang, Due Diligence Project […]