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  • Esvagt Mercator SOV Ready for Belwind 1, Nobelwind OWFs

    1 December 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    MHI Vestas and Esvagt’s executives will gather today, 1 December, at Port of Oostende to christen the Service Operations Vessel (SOV) that is now ready to operate at Nobelwind and Belwind 1 offshore wind farms.

  • TenneT Awards EUR 5.5 Billion Offshore Wind Cable Contracts

    5 May 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    TenneT has awarded NKT, Nexans, and a consortium of Jan De Nul, LS Cable, and Denys with contracts to install 525 kV HVDC cable systems for ten offshore wind projects in the Netherlands and Germany. The total volume of the contracts for the production and installation of the ten cable systems amounts to approximately EUR […]

  • Mussel Farming Begins at Belwind OWF

    21 November 2017
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    On 15 November, a bio mussel force line was installed at the Belwind offshore wind farm as part of a research project investigating mussel farming at offshore wind farms. 

  • UK: Kongsberg Maritime Strengthens Renewables Offering

    25 October 2013

    Mark Baldwin has been appointed as a UK business development manager by Kongsberg Maritime Ltd, as part of the plan to improve service offering for the offshore renewables sector, writes Aberdeen Business News. Baldwin joined Kongsberg Oil and Gas Technologies five years ago, where he worked as a sales manager. After this appointment, he will […]

  • Belgium: Installation of Alstom’s Haliade 150 Delayed

    30 August 2013
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Installation of Alstom’s 6MW Haliade 150 offshore wind turbine at the Belwind offshore wind farm has been delayed because of some unexpected problems that occurred during the civil works, the company told Offshore WIND. The wind turbine was scheduled to be completely installed in July, however, pile dredging and grouting of the jacket installation have […]

  • Belgians Start Growing Mussels on Offshore Wind Farms

    2 June 2017
    Authorities, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    A Belgian consortium of research institutions and companies has started a project to investigate if mussels could be grown on offshore wind farms.

  • SGS conducts QHSE services for Belgium client

    13 May 2010
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Training & Education

    SGS received a contract to conduct Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental (QHSE) Management for the Belwind Bligh Bank Offshore Wind Farm… [mappress] Source: prlog, May 13, 2010;

  • Belgium: Pacific Osprey to Deploy 6MW Turbine at Belwind OWF

    13 June 2013

    In the first half of July, the Pacific Osprey, operated by Swire Blue Ocean will bring the 6MW haliade of Alstom from the REBO-site to the Belwind wind farm. As announced in 2011, Belwind NV, the leading Belgian producer of alternative energy from offshore wind farms made part of its latest wind farm concession site […]

  • Masdar and Statoil Ink Batwind Pact

    19 January 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Abu Dhabi-based Masdar and Norway’s Statoil have signed a collaborative agreement to analyse data from the Batwind battery system designed to store energy generated by the Hywind Scotland floating wind farm.

  • Prysmian secures a further major project worth more than €150 m from German transpower for the HelWin1 grid connection of Offshore Wind Farms

    19 July 2010
    Grid Connection

    Following the recent BorWin2 record project, this new award reconfirms. Prysmian’s know-how and market leadership in the fast-growing…   [mappress] Source: prysmian, July 19, 2010;

  • Prysmian to Supply Belwind 2 Inter-Array Cables

    5 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Prysmian Group has been awarded contracts by Nobelwind NV, an offshore wind farm developer, to supply wind turbine inter-array cables for the Bligh Bank 2 (Belwind 2) offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Zeebrugge in Belgium. Prysmian is responsible for the design, manufacture and supply of the 33 kV submarine cables with various […]

  • Belgium: Colruyt Seeks Co-Investors for Offshore Wind Projects

    19 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Colruyt Group is seeking co-investors for several offshore wind projects. The company aims to reduce financial burdens of the investments, reported De Standaard. Colruyt currently owns two offshore wind farms, Belwind and Northwind. Northwind NV, formerly known as the Eldepasco, requires 760 million euros for which the European Investment Bank is evaluating a loan of […]

  • CG Belgian subsidiary installs offshore wind generation project successfully

    17 September 2010
    Wind Farm Update

    CG Holdings Belgium N.V. (a subsidiary of CG and part of the Gautam Thapar-led US$ 4 billion Avantha Group) today announced the successful installation of the company’s first offshore wind generation project – Belwind. The windfarm is located in the North Sea, about 50 km from the Belgian shoreline. The project was set up in […]

  • Eldepasco NV Confirms Vestas as Preferred Partner to Provide Turbines for New Belgian Offshore Wind Farm

    7 April 2011

    After a recent restructuring, Eldepasco NV, a joint venture between the Belgian Colruyt Group and Aspivari, announced that its plans for the establishment of Belgium’s next wind farm on the Bank zonder Naam (bank with no name) in the North Sea will go ahead as planned. In preparation of reaching financial closure, the shareholders approved […]

  • The Netherlands: Construction Starts on TenneT’s HelWin Beta Platform

    19 October 2012
    Grid Connection

    The construction of the 690MW platform for TenneT’s offshore grid connection project HelWin2 officially started today. The official steel cutting ceremony was performed by Mel Kroon, CEO of TenneT and Karl Heinz Springer, CEO of Siemens, at the yard of Heerema Fabrication Group in Zwijndrecht (the Netherlands), where the topsides of the platform will be […]

  • Prysmian Takes Piece of BorWin3 Pie

    15 April 2014

    Prysmian Group has been awarded a major project worth in excess of € 250 million by the Dutch-German grid operator TenneT for the grid connection of offshore wind farms in Germany. The project involves supply, installation and commissioning of a High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) 320 kV extruded submarine and land power bipole connection with […]

  • ABB to Provide Maintenance Services for DolWin2 Link (Germany)

    18 October 2011
    Grid Connection

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order from the Dutch-German transmission system operator, TenneT to provide maintenance services for the DolWin2 link bringing power from offshore wind farms, located in the North Sea, to the mainland German grid. This contract follows ABB’s success earlier this year when it won an […]

  • Esvagt Sells Its First Offshore Wind SOV

    4 June 2019
    Vessels

    Esvagt has sold Esvagt Supporter, its first service operations vessel (SOV) that served the offshore wind market. The beginning of Esvagt Supporter’s deployment in the offshore wind sector came after the company needed to access the turbines at the Belwind project in Belgium. Esvagt said it then decided to retrofit the vessel so it fulfills […]

  • Germany: GL Garrad Hassan Advises Mitsubishi Corporation on Successful BorWin Acquisitions

    20 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    GL Garrad Hassan has acted as technical adviser to Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) on their recent acquisition of a 49% stake in the BorWin1 and BorWin2 German offshore high-voltage, direct current (HVDC) links. The company acted as the sole technical advisor to MC providing due diligence assessment of the BorWin assets and follow on support to […]

  • ABB Hands Over DolWin2 Offshore Wind Transmission Link to TenneT

    15 June 2017
    Grid Connection, Technology

    ABB has commissioned and delivered the DolWin2 offshore wind transmission link to the Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT.

  • Econcern’s Directors Held Responsible for Bankruptcy

    28 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Official Receiver of Econcern, the Dutch based international renewable energy developer, is holding the former directors and supervisors liable for hundreds of millions Euros of damage caused by the green energy company’s bankruptcy. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2009. According to the Official Receiver, the directors and supervisors were not fulfilling their duties […]

  • Belgium: Alstom Installs 6MW Haliade Offshore Wind Turbine

    20 November 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    This weekend, Alstom completed the seaside installation of its new-generation offshore wind turbine, the 6-MW Haliade™ 150, off Ostend harbour at the Belwind site in Belgium. This is the largest offshore wind turbine ever installed in sea waters. Thanks to its 150-metre rotor (with blades stretching 73.50 metre), the turbine is more efficient since its […]

  • Bladt, Semco to Build Belwind 2 Substation

    19 June 2015

    Belgian wind farm developer Nobelwind has awarded Bladt Industries and Semco Maritime a new EPCI contract for the manufacturing of the Offshore Substation (OSS) for the upcoming Belwind 2 Offshore Wind Farm. The substation is to be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2016 – only 16 months after the signing of the contract. Bladt […]

  • The Netherlands: Imtech Bags HVAC Contract for HelWin2

    29 March 2013

    On 27 February Imtech Marine Netherlands signed a large HVAC contract with Heerema Fabrication Group (Zwijndrecht, Netherlands). Imtech Marine will provide the Offshore Wind Energy project HelWin2 with all Heating, Ventilation and Airconditioning (HVAC). It is one of the largest platforms built at this moment. The platform connects an enormous wind park cluster in the […]

  • Sumitomo to Take Shares in Two Belgian Offshore Wind Projects

    18 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Sumitomo Corporation, in conjunction with Sumitomo Corporation Europe (collectively hereafter Sumitomo), have entered into an agreement with Parkwind, a Belgian offshore wind company, to take shares in two offshore wind farm projects off the coast of Belgium. Parkwind’s shareholders are the Colruyt Group, Korys NV, the investment holding of the Colruyt family, and PMV. The […]

  • Belgium: Financial Close Indicates Construction Phase of Northwind Offshore Wind Farm

    29 June 2012
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Northwind NV has announced the formal financial close with all key stakeholders and banks for their Northwind Offshore Wind power plant. This ends a series of intense negotiations and deliberations that constitutes one of the largest financial investment transactions in Belgium in recent years. The complex and difficult financial process started in November 2011, and […]