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  • DONG Seeking Local Content for Walney Extension OWF

    24 February 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy held a special supply chain event held in Barrow-in-Furness today to help local businesses get involved in the delivery of the 660MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm, to be built off the Cumbrian Coast. DONG Energy’s Walney Extension project team and key suppliers to the project presented to a full house at the town’s […]

  • DONG Gives Walney Extension Construction Update

    22 June 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    40 per cent of the turbine foundations are now in place at the 659MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm, DONG Energy said.

  • Chancellor’s Incentive to Boost East of England

    21 March 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Incentives from the Budget will help steer the East of England ever closer to becoming the heart of the UK offshore wind industry. A three-year extension on business rate discounts for companies moving to the Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft Enterprise Zone was among the Chancellor’s measures in what is predicted to be a pivotal year […]

  • Statoil, innogy and SSE Divvy Up 4.8GW Dogger Bank

    10 August 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Statoil has signed a swap agreement with innogy and SSE for equity interests in the Dogger Bank offshore wind development project.

  • US Congress Passes Five-Year Offshore Wind Tax Credit

    23 December 2020
    Authorities

    The U.S. Congress has passed a year-end spending package which includes a provision that would extend the Tax Credit (ITC) for offshore wind facilities at 30% through 2025. The provision is part of the Offshore Wind Incentives for New Development (WIND) Act, introduced by Senator of Massachusetts Edward J. Markey, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Jim Langevin last […]

  • Two OWFs Bring Big Supply Chain Opportunities to East of England

    4 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Two international wind farm developers have committed themselves to massive developments off the Norfolk coast in a major confidence boost to the East of England wind power sector. Delegates at an offshore wind seminar in Lowestoft, held on April 3, were told that both had the potential to offer big opportunities for the energy supply […]

  • Ofgem: Over £2.5 Bln New Transmission Investment Delivered since 2009

    21 August 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    By granting West of Duddon Sands (WoDS) Transmission plc a licence to own and operate the £269 million transmission link to the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm, the total new transmission investment delivered by the OFTO regime to date is over £2.5 billion, of which nearly £1 billion has now been delivered through the […]

  • Swire Energy Services Scores UK Offshore Wind Farm Work for Ørsted

    6 April 2022
    Contracts & Tenders

    Ørsted has awarded integrated service provider Swire Energy Services (SES) a routine maintenance campaign contract covering Irish Sea offshore wind farms for summer 2022. Under the new contract, SES will provide services including blade maintenance and the provision of service operation vessel (SOV) and crew transfer vessel (CTV) logistics for two of Ørsted’s wind farms […]

  • SNS2013 Conference Attracts Over 500 Delegates (UK)

    11 March 2013

    Hopes for new business generated by the offshore windfarm boom and a new North Sea ‘gas rush’ attracted a record-breaking 500-plus delegates to the SNS2013 Conference at Norfolk Showground,Norwich. The turn-out and extensive media coverage delighted Simon Gray, chief executive of organisers EEEGR (East of England Energy group), who said the region’s energy trades group […]

  • Jones Bros Helps Build New Quayside for Walney Extension

    25 October 2017

    DONG Energy has appointed Jones Bros to help build new quayside infrastructure for the 659MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm being built in the Irish Sea.

  • IHC IQIP Moving to New Location

    23 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    As of 28 November 2016, IHC IQIP will relocate to its new head office in Sliedrecht and transfer all its Kinderdijk- and Delfgauw-based activities to the new location. The company said the new yard in Sliedrecht offers ample space for further expansion and the capacity to handle multiple activities, such as the assembly of Hydrohammers, tools […]

  • UK: Hatston Pier in Orkney Officially Opens

    1 May 2013

    A ceremony took place yesterday to mark the opening of a pier in Orkney that will serve as a major base for the marine renewable energy industry. At 385 meters – almost a quarter of a mile – the newly extended Hatston Pier is now Scotland’s longest commercial deep-water berth. The 160-metre extension to the […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Group on Asia Tour

    23 March 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Training & Education

    The UK Department for International Trade (DIT) has organised a mission to China and Taiwan to promote British expertise in the offshore wind industry and assist in the development of the sector in these two countries.

  • First Siemens Gamesa 7MW Turbines Start Producing on Walney Extension

    22 January 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Power is now being generated from the final phase of Walney Extension which will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm on completion later this year, Ørsted, the developer of the wind farm, said.

  • Offshore Wind Debuts and Final Bows

    2 January 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    From the commissioning of the world’s first commercial floating wind farm, to the dismantling of the world’s first offshore wind farm, 2017 was a year of major industry milestones. Here we bring you a list of wind farms that were put into operation last year, as well as those that disappeared from the horizon. Sandbank […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Farms End 2017 In Overdrive

    29 March 2018
    Authorities

    Offshore wind farms generated a record 7.8TWh of electricity in the fourth quarter of 2017, spurred on by increased capacity and higher wind speeds compared to the same period a year before, according to a report by the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

  • UK Government Awards FID Contracts to Five Offshore Wind Projects

    23 April 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The UK Government today awarded five offshore wind projects with Financial Investment Decision (FID) enabling contracts. The Government today unveiled eight major renewable electricity projects, which are awarded under the Final Investment Decision (FID) Enabling for Renewables process, allocating the first Contracts for Difference (CfDs) that are being introduced through the Electricity Market Reform programme. […]

  • CWind Wins Gwynt y Môr OWF Contract

    11 February 2014
    Technology

    CWind has announced that it has won a contract to support CT Offshore in the installation of 63 of the 161 inter-array cables at the 576MW Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm off the North Wales coast. CWind’s role involves sending a team to the Netherlands to perform both an OTDR fibre and an insulation […]

  • Offshore Renewables Bring LOC to UK North East

    12 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    LOC Longitude, part of LOC Group, has opened an office in Newcastle to better serve the offshore renewables market in the UK North East. According to LOC, the office will host geotechnical, geological, naval architecture and marine systems consulting engineers to serve its client base in the region. “The opening of our Newcastle office demonstrates Longitude’s […]

  • Watson, Farley & Williams Advises Dong on Irish Sea Projects

    13 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Watson, Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised Dong Energy on its successful tender in the Isle of Man Offshore Wind Generation Leasing Round. Dong has been selected exclusively as the Isle of Man Government’s preferred partner in respect of the development of a 700MW offshore wind farm, which could power around 400,000 homes. This success […]

  • Second Race Bank OSS En Route to UK

    6 March 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The second offshore substation for the Race Bank offshore wind farm set sail to the UK on 5 March, ENGIE Fabricom and Iemants reported.

  • JDR CEO Joins Offshore Wind Industry Council

    10 March 2016
    Authorities

    David Currie, CEO of the UK-based supplier of subsea umbilicals and power cables to the offshore energy industry JDR, has joined the Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC). “I am very excited to join the Offshore Wind Industry Council and bring our unique perspective as a supplier across the energy sector. JDR is now the leading […]

  • US Offshore WIND Act Gets Another Go

    26 June 2019
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Senator of Massachusetts Edward J. Markey, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Jim Langevin have reintroduced legislation said to spur the growth of offshore wind in the U.S. by extending tax credits for the renewable energy industry. The Offshore Wind Incentives for New Development (WIND) Act would extend the 30% Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for offshore wind through 2025. Offshore wind […]

  • N-O-S to Provide Seven CTVs for Ørsted’s UK OWFs

    7 January 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Northern Offshore Services (N-O-S) has signed a contract with Ørsted for seven crew transfer vessels (CTVs) which will support offshore wind farm operations from the developer’s UK West Coast Hub. Under the three-year agreement, the CTVs will operate on Walney, Walney Extension, West of Duddon Sands, Barrow, Burbo Bank and Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind […]

  • Dong Energy, Nexans Close Another Offshore Wind Cable Deal

    27 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    On July 1, Dong Energy and the Nexans signed another framework contract, this time for the delivery of up to 1,750 kilometers of submarine cable for wind farms off the UK coast. The cables are used for connecting the wind turbines with each other and for their connection to an offshore transformer platform. The framework […]

  • DONG to Invest GBP 5.4 Billion in East Irish Sea Wind Farms by 2019

    21 June 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy will have invested GBP 5.4 billion in developing offshore wind farms off the coast of North West England by 2019, a new report has revealed. The overall GBP 5.4 billion investment includes GBP 2.7 billion investment across the four currently operational wind farms – Barrow, Walney, Burbo Bank and West of Duddon Sands – and a […]