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  • The Netherlands: SeaZip Ordered Two Damen Fast Crew Suppliers

    29 November 2011

    Damen Shipyards and SeaZip Offshore Service will sign a contract at the EWEA conference (14:30 hrs, stand 11020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,). SeaZip has ordered two Fast Crew Suppliers of the 2610-type. The first ever FCS 2610 was delivered early 2011 and offers reduced peak accelerations of up to 75%, reduced added resistance in waves of […]

  • 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.

  • Purus Wind Orders Eight-Strong Offshore Wind Vessel Fleet at Damen

    27 March 2023
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Damen Shipyards and offshore wind services provider, Purus Wind, have signed a contract for the construction and delivery of eight new vessels. Purus Wind ordered four Damen Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2710 Hybrid vessels, three Damen FCS 3210 Hybrid Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs), and one 90-metre Construction Service Operation Vessel (CSOV). The FCS 3210s and […]

  • US Updates Visa Guidance for Offshore Wind Vessel Crews

    18 September 2019
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The U.S. State Department has updated its policy guidance to include a visa category for crewmembers who will work onboard vessels deployed in offshore wind operations. The new guidance, part of the Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM), solves a regulatory hurdle that was causing logistical problems for the industry by clarifying the correct type of visa to be issued […]

  • Nervion Buys Siemens Gamesa’s Factory in Spain to Build Offshore Wind Foundations

    22 February 2023
    Business & Finance

    Nervion Naval Offshore, a subsidiary of the Spanish Amper Group, has bought the factory that Siemens Gamesa had built in As Somozas, A Coruña, for wind turbine blade production. The Bilbao-based company plans to open a fabrication facility for jacket and floating offshore wind foundations there as soon as in the second half of this […]

  • Collaboration in Offshore Wind Industry

    16 October 2013

    The world economy is showing signs of recovery after many years of being battered by the financial crisis. This is vital for the wind industry so that investments flow into the industry, and at the same time, transformation still continues. Announcements of investments in Dong Energy as well as Mitsubishi and Vestas joining forces are […]

  • Sif Postpones Expansion Plans, Licenses Its Tech in South Korea

    29 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    The Netherlands-based offshore foundations manufacturer Sif Group has postponed the final investment decision (FID), initially scheduled for this month, for the expansion of its offshore wind foundations manufacturing facility near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. As reported earlier, Sif has been in negotiations with clients for a total of 400kt of launching capacity for the new […]

  • Interview with Giles Dickson: EWEA and COP21

    27 May 2016

    While the European wind energy association (EWEA) welcomes the landmark agreement achieved at the United Nations Paris Climate Summit – known as COP21 – whereby countries will aim to cut greenhouse gas emissions to a level that will restrict the global average temperature to a rise ‘well below’ a 2°C threshold, the new EWEA Chief […]

  • UK Details on OW Compensation for Oil and Gas Discovery

    11 June 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The UK Energy Minister Michael Fallon and the Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing have given strong backing to the UK’s fast growing offshore wind industry at a major conference, with announcements designed to encourage the UK supply chain in offshore wind and remove important areas of uncertainty for developers taking forward offshore wind farms. During […]

  • Able UK Opportunities at THMA’s Offshore Wind Connections

    23 April 2013

    Potential supply chain opportunities at Able UK’s Marine Energy Park (AMEP) and the fallout from the introduction of the Energy Bill are on the agenda at a free breakfast briefing this week. The Team Humber Marine Alliance (THMA) hosted ‘Offshore Wind Connections’, which is being supported by EEF the manufacturers’ organisation, will feature David Shepherd, […]

  • Fraunhofer IKTS Testing EKG Monitor for Offshore Turbine Foundations

    3 March 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Dresden have successfully tested in-house developed sensor rings designed to monitor the condition of wind turbine foundations at offshore wind farms. Working together with staff from Baltic Taucher in Rostock, the researchers successfully demonstrated the viability of the process in an on-site trial […]

  • International Executives Back Germany Offshore Wind Development

    24 July 2013

    Germany has put forward plans to scale back support for Offshore Wind which includes a reduction to the current feed-in tariff [FIT]. Under the current regulations, the FIT will allow 19 cents/kWh to be grant for the first eight years of operation of an offshore wind farm which is fully grid connected by 2017 according […]

  • USA: Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Reports Strong Fundraising

    22 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound (APNS) has reported continued strong fundraising for this past year. According to APNS in 2012 a revenue of nearly $2.1 million was reported. Read the APNS results below: Revenue of nearly $2.1 million was reported in 2012, stable with 2011 levels and up 17 percent since 2010. Of the […]

  • Geoships Expands its Fleet with Two Multi Purpose Offshore Vessels (UK)

    9 November 2011

    SeaHold GEOSHIPS Ltd, specialists in marine and subsea services, has expanded its fleet of multi purpose offshore vessels. The two new vessels ‘Loch Erisort’ and ‘Loch Roag’ brings the Aberdeen-based firm’s fleet up to three, whilst also signifying a US$140 million in additional financial commitment. The new vessels, which are both of Vik & Sandvik […]

  • Schneider Tailors Switchgear Offering to Suit Offshore Wind

    18 September 2018
    Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    Schneider Electric is launching a new 72.5kV variant of its WI switchgear range, developed to optimise the design, safety, cost and reliability of 72.5kV electrical systems in offshore wind farms.

  • Damen Receives Fast Crew Supplier Order in Taiwan

    25 February 2019
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Hung Hua Construction (HHC), a Taiwanese dredging and nearshore construction company, has placed an order with Damen for two fast crew supply vessels of the latest FCS 2710 class. The two vessels, for which a contract was signed at the end of January, will be built at Damen Shipyards Singapore and are scheduled for delivery […]

  • HEALTH & SAFETY: Helping to make maintenance safer and more efficient

    11 March 2016

    The long term employment prospects within the offshore wind industry lie with the Operation and Maintenance work that will keep the turbines producing electricity for the next 20+ years.  Hundreds of men and women will be climbing up the towers from boats, or down from helicopter dropping areas, into the nacelles for a long time […]

  • Allianz Global: Offshore wind project risks (USA)

    10 May 2010
    Business & Finance

    Allianz Global’s insurance expert, Robert Maurer, gave some interesting insight into offshore wind energy project risks. Usually, offshore projects are watched and assessed from the technical or economical point of view, but we thought it would be interesting to cite this article as a different way of looking at offshore wind. First off, the difference […]

  • The Netherlands: Offshore Wind Farm Boosts Porpoise Activity

    23 June 2011
    Environment

    It is often assumed that offshore wind farms have a negative impact on marine animal populations but researchers from Denmark and the Netherlands have found that, in some cases, wind farms can act as a haven for certain species. The researchers, from Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands and Aarhus University in Denmark, monitored […]

  • Nordic Yards Starts Building DolWin Gamma

    9 October 2014

    The construction works of the DolWin gamma offshore converter platform started today, 9 October, at Nordic Yards in Warnemünde. This was marked by the traditional first steel cut, which took place at the Warnemünde site in the presence of representatives of the contractor Alstom and customer TenneT.  As general contractor, Alstom had placed an order […]

  • OSD-IMT Introduces Range of New Wind Farm Vessel Designs

    17 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Based on the outcome of four years of extensive discussions with wind farm developers, operators and maintenance companies, OSD-IMT has developed a range of innovative designs of offshore wind farm service operation vessels (SOV’s). These designs fulfill the operational demands of the wind farm maintenance industry and can also provide logistics support services to transformer […]

  • Massachusetts DPU Approves Offshore Wind Power Supply Contracts, Including PPAs for Avangrid’s Commonwealth Wind

    4 January 2023
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) wrapped up 2022 by issuing several new orders, among them also an order approving the power purchase agreements (PPAs) for Mayflower Wind and Commonwealth Wind projects, although Avangrid filed a motion to dismiss the proceedings for the latter in mid-December, with plans to re-apply at the upcoming state […]

  • Various Wind Turbines with Same Goal, to Collect Energy (USA)

    29 July 2011
    R&D, Technology

    Wind turbines are getting really big — some with blades as long as a football field — and more powerful, often generating 50 times more electricity than the first generation of wind power machines built in the 1980s. But scientists are also studying how to harness the wind in different ways that could help allay […]

  • Ørsted Vows Not to Use Wind Turbine Blade Landfilling

    3 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Environment

    Ørsted has announced a ban on the landfilling of wind turbine blades and has committed to either reuse, recycle, or recover 100 per cent of the blades coming from repowering or end-of-design-life decommissioning of its offshore and onshore wind farms. As part of its new sustainability strategy and work towards achieving a carbon-neutral footprint by […]

  • Seagreen to Offer Shorter-Term Corporate Power Purchase Agreements

    2 August 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The 1.14 GW Seagreen wind farm, soon to be Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm, is launching its offshore corporate purchase power agreement (cPPA) offerings. The Seagreen terms significantly shorten the typical cPPA length, providing buyers with an alternative option to standard longer-term cPPAs which are typically ten years or more in duration, Seagreen Wind Energy, […]

  • SCORE Looking to Back Ideas for Maturing OWF O&M, Decommissioning

    26 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    The team behind the GBP 6 million SCORE grant fund is looking to support companies from the oil & gas industry that can bring new ideas for long-term offshore asset management in the offshore wind sector.