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  • Norway: Oceanteam Shipping and WIND B.V. Enter Joint Venture

    12 September 2012
    Grid Connection

    Oceanteam Shipping has announced a joint venture with WIND B.V. from the Netherlands to offer a complete range of submarine cable storage and handling services to cable manufacturers, contractors and operators. OceanWind Cable Storage Solutions joint venture provides, at its cable facility in Velsen, The Netherlands, submarine cable storage and handling services, such as: – […]

  • Denmark: Sirris Wins Best Scientific Poster Award at EWEA 2012

    18 April 2012

    The Sirris initiative won the „Best scientific poster“award at the EWEA 2012 event yesterday. The prize has been awarded for the company’s state-of the –art testing at the Belwind offshore windfarm under the flag of OWI-Lab. Namely, in October, after a couple of offshore training days, people from Sirris and VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel – […]

  • E.ON in Talks with Potential Offshore Wind Investors (Germany)

    21 February 2012
    Business & Finance, R&D

    The energy company Eon is in preliminary talks with financial investors so as to discuss the possibility for potential investors to join the company’s offshore wind projects, reported FTD, quoting Mike Angle, CEO of E.ON Climate & Renewables. The new funding would most probably enable the company to tackle even larger projects in the future. […]

  • Roxtec to Supply Cable Seals for Gwynt y Mor (UK)

    10 January 2012

    Roxtec, a Bury based international company, has won a contract to supply cable seals for the Gwynt y Mor wind farm, reports Menmedia. The company  will supply cable seals for around 160 cranes. Gwynt y Môr is going to be built with an installed capacity of 576 megawatts in Liverpool Bay, around 18 kilometers off […]

  • Malta Hosts FP7 Meeting

    17 January 2012

     Demonstration of first ocean energy farms, is now open. DEXAWAVE had the first and initial consortium meeting in Malta in week 2. The target is to collaborate with up to 18 different partners across Europe, and involving smaller and larger companies, universities and other RTD’s. In particular, this project aims at continuing and accelerating the […]

  • US Proposes First Gulf of Mexico Offshore Wind Lease Sale

    22 February 2023
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The US Department of the Interior has proposed the first-ever offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. The Proposed Sale Notice (PSN) includes a 102,480-acre area offshore Lake Charles, Louisiana, and two areas offshore Galveston, Texas, one comprising 102,480 acres and the other comprising 96,786 acres. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) […]

  • Final Inter-Array Cables Loaded and Ready for Hywind Tampen Site

    19 May 2023
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The final inter-array cable loadout has been completed for Equinor’s Hywind Tampen, the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm in operation. The remaining eleven kilometres of 630mm2 dynamic cabling including accessories were loaded onto the Normand Vision, a construction support vessel (CSV) from Ocean Installer, the company in charge of installing inter-array cables on the […]

  • Vestas Setting Up Assembly Plant for Flagship Offshore Wind Turbine in Poland

    13 October 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, R&D, Technology

    Vestas has announced plans to establish a new factory in Szczecin, Poland, which will assemble components for the company’s flagship offshore wind turbine, the V236-15.0 MW model. The factory will produce nacelles and hubs for Vestas’ flagship unit which was introduced by the firm in February last year. Vestas said that the new factory will […]

  • Carnegie to Deploy 3MW Array at Wave Hub

    1 April 2014
    R&D, Technology

    Carnegie Wave Energy has signed a commitment agreement to secure the final berth at Wave Hub, the offshore renewable energy test facility in Cornwall, to demonstrate its next generation wave technology. Carnegie is advising the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that its UK arm, CETO Wave Energy UK (CWE UK), has secured a berth at Wave […]

  • UK: HVPD, JDR, Principle Power Win GBP 2.3 Million from DECC’s Offshore Wind Scheme

    1 March 2013
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Offshore wind innovation has yesterday been given a real boost with the announcement of the first three winners under the second call of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Technology Strategy Board’s (TSB) Offshore Wind Component Technologies Development and Demonstration scheme. High Voltage Partial Discharge (HVPD) Ltd, JDR Cable Systems Ltd […]

  • Offshore Wind Farms Off Suffolk Cause Death of Three Whales?

    23 May 2017
    Environment

    Three minke whales washed up dead on the UK’s east coast during the weekend, with another two reported as distressed, Mirror reports. According to John Cresswell from the Felixstowe Volunteer Coast Patrol Rescue Service, offshore wind farms off Suffolk coast may have affected the sonar whales use to navigate.

  • Video: Rotterdam Ready for Offshore Wind with Sif Group

    3 October 2016

    Dutch manufacturer of offshore wind foundations, Sif Group, is working full steam at its new facilities in Rotterdam after assembling the first monopiles there at the end of the last month. Expecting to have more than 150 people working in Rotterdam in two years, the company is continuously looking to recruit. The first monopiles that will leave […]

  • Offshore Wind to Account For 80 Per Cent of Infrastructure at Sea by 2050 – DNV

    9 March 2023
    Collaboration, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    The amount of ocean space occupied by installations will grow five-fold by 2050, driven by offshore wind, which will account for 80 per cent of stationary infrastructure at sea by midcentury, followed by aquaculture (13 per cent) and oil and gas (5 per cent), according to DNV. Whilst ocean space is plentiful, industrial activity will […]

  • Monobase Wind Starts Gravity Based Foundation Testing

    19 November 2014
    R&D, Technology

    Monobase Wind BV has started testing its new Gravity Based Foundation at the MARIN, the Netherlands. The testing will last until November 28.  The tests include transportation, installation and the in-place condition for water depth of 45 m and a 6 MW turbine. Nacelle elevation is 97 m above sea level. The first transportation analysis (transport survival conditions) […]

  • DolWin3 Project Moving Forward

    8 March 2016
    Grid Connection

    Two 685 MVA power transformers have been delivered and installed in the land-based converter station Dörpen West, which is part of the DolWin3 project. The power transformers have been developed, manufactured and tested according to the specific needs of the project at GE’s site in Mönchengladbach. The DolWin3 project, the third network connection in the DolWin wind […]

  • Belgium to Decide on Wind Energy Storing Island in 2015

    17 December 2014
    Authorities, Grid Connection

    Belgium will have their say in early 2015 about a project that would see excess energy stored and used later when needed. The project aims to store energy produced by offshore wind farms when there is low demand, or storing it for when there is no wind,  writes Reuters. It comprises a donut-shaped island, located […]

  • Teco Electric, CSMC Form Offshore Wind Joint Venture

    15 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    On May 13, Taiwanese company Teco Electric and Machinery and China Steel Machinery (CSMC) have signed an agreement to set up a joint venture dedicated to offshore wind energy.  The primary task of the joint venture is to use TECO’s wind power generating technology and CSMC’s steel construction expertise to develop its own brand of domestic offshore wind […]

  • World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Turns Four

    4 July 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The 630MW London Array, the world’s largest operating offshore wind farm, has marked four years since its official opening on 4 July, 2013.

  • HeliService Orders Another AW169 Helicopter for Offshore Wind Ops

    13 October 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    HeliService International has ordered another AW169 helicopter for offshore wind farm operations from Leonardo-Finmeccanica. The contract was signed around month and a half after the first AW169 was delivered to support Siemens’ O&M works on the Dutch Gemini offshore wind farm. The new aircraft will be delivered in 2017 and will be used for offshore wind farm support missions in the North Sea. […]

  • Winergy Appoints New CEO

    3 July 2015

    Aarnout Kant has taken over the Winergy management. He succeeds Stefan Tenbrock, who at the same time takes over the management of the Siemens Mechanical Drives Business Unit as CEO. Kant has been with the company for 24 years and since 2014 has been manager of Strategy and Marketing at Winergy. Like Tenbrock, Kant originally […]

  • Triton Knoll: Electrical System Application on the Table

    22 May 2015
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The application for the electrical infrastructure for RWE’s Triton Knoll offshore wind farm has been accepted for examination, the UK Planning Inspectorate notified on its website.  RWE seeks an order granting development consent for its proposed electrical system, comprising onshore and offshore buried export cables, an intermediate electrical compound, and a substation located in the vicinity of the grid […]

  • Bladt Sends Off Final Beatrice Jacket

    8 June 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Danish offshore foundations specialist Bladt Industries has shipped out the final jacket foundation built for the Beatrice offshore wind project in the Scottish North Sea.

  • Navingo’s Casper Kunst Looks Back at Two Energetic OEEC Days

    4 November 2021
    Business & Finance

    Casper Kunst, Commercial Manager at Navingo, the organization behind the OEEC and Navingo Career Event, shares his experience of the event and announces the next edition scheduled for November 2022. “The past two days have been really productive. I spoke to a lot of people, seen a lot of happy, smiling faces, as everyone is […]

  • UK: Seajacks to Exhibit at Global Offshore Wind

    11 June 2012

    Seajacks will be exhibiting at the RenewableUK Global Offshore Wind Conference and Exhibition on the 13th and 14th June in London ExCel. Seajacks will be at stand number 439. RenewableUK’s 11th annual offshore conference and exhibition will have a global focus. UK and emerging markets will showcase their strengths and opportunities. Seajacks currently operates self-propelled, dynamically positioned, […]

  • UK: Gardline to Provide Crew Transfer Vessels to Dong Energy

    3 May 2012

    With more than 20 years experience in the wind power industry, Dong Energy is one of the leading offshore wind farm developers in the country and Gardline, with its fleet of specialist turbine transfer vessels will be transporting personnel to and from offshore wind turbines, offshore sub-stations and other vessels at sea. Michael Martins, Coastal […]

  • Benj Sykes from DONG Energy to Discuss UK’s Energy Situation

    4 March 2014

    On Thursday evening, March 6, DONG Energy’s Benj Sykes will be part of a panel debate at Durham Energy Institute discussing whether the UK can keep the lights on. Here, he explains part of his opening arguments around offshore wind, one of DONG Energy’s key business areas and how the technology will contribute to UK […]