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  • Atlantic Pioneer Trialled in High Winds (Gallery)

    31 March 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Atlantic Pioneer, the first US-built offshore wind service vessel, will be delivered next week, after recently undergoing sea trials in gale force winds, according to Rhode Island Fast Ferry. The 21-meter crew transfer vessel was built by the Rhode Island-based Blount Boats to service a 20-year crew transfer contract with Deepwater Wind for its 30MW Block Island offshore […]

  • Hywind Tampen Concrete Foundations Move Forward (Video)

    22 April 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Aker Solutions has completed the first part of the construction of concrete foundations for the Hywind Tampen floating wind project at its yard in Stord, Norway. The 11 substructures are currently being towed to Vindafjord where the rest of the slip-forming and mechanical outfitting will be completed. Aker built the first 20 meters of the […]

  • Iberdrola Enters New York Offshore Wind Race

    21 October 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    Spanish energy company Iberdrola has submitted a bid in response to New York State’s second offshore wind solicitation. The bid was submitted on Tuesday, 20 October, Ignacio Galán, Iberdrola’s CEO said while presenting the company’s results for the first nine months of 2020. No further details on the bid have been shared. Back in July, […]

  • Equinor, Nexsphere Ink MoU with Tasmania to Progress Offshore Wind Project

    8 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Research & Development

    The Tasmanian Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the owners of the Bass Offshore Wind Energy Project (BOWE) to work together to supply northern Tasmania with green offshore wind energy. In December 2022, Equinor and Australian renewables developer Nexsphere joined forces to progress BOWE project in the Bass Strait, Tasmania. BOWE is […]

  • Equinor and Partners Hand In Hywind Tampen Development Plans

    16 October 2019
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Equinor and the Snorre and Gullfaks partners have submitted updated development plans to the Norwegian government for the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm. The Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm will consist of 11 8MW wind turbines located some 140 kilometres from shore in 260-300 metres of water between the Snorre and Gullfaks oil and gas platforms. Equinor and […]

  • Iberdrola Returns to Navantia for East Anglia ONE Offshore Substation

    6 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Spanish energy company Iberdrola has awarded the compatriot Navantia with a EUR 65 million contract to construct an offshore substation for the 714MW East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm in the UK’s North Sea.   Under the terms of the contract, Navantia’s shipyard in Puerto Real ”will be responsible for the construction of the various elements […]

  • Centrica and EIG Sell Lynn and Inner Dowsing OWFs

    5 February 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Centrica and its 50% joint venture partner EIG Global Energy Partners (EIG) have agreed a joint sale of the 194 MW Lynn and Inner Dowsing offshore wind farms to a consortium comprising the UK Green Investment Bank Offshore Wind Fund and funds managed by BlackRock. The overall transaction also includes the sale of the 26 […]

  • Hywind Tampen Reaches Final Investment Decision

    11 October 2019
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Equinor and the Snorre and Gullfaks partners have made a final investment decision for the Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind project in Norway. According to Equinor, two updated plans for the project development and operation will be submitted to Norwegian authorities today, 11 October. The Snorre and Gullfaks oil & gas platforms will be the […]

  • ScottishPower Sets Up Offshore Wind Hub in New Glasgow HQ

    12 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    ScottishPower has officially opened its new headquarters in Glasgow in the presence of Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon.

  • First Turbine Installed at World’s Largest Floating Offshore Wind Farm

    7 June 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    The first of the 11 Siemens Gamesa 8.6 MW wind turbines that will make up Equinor’s Hywind Tampen floating wind farm has been installed at the construction site some 140 kilometres offshore the Norwegian coast. The turbine had sailed away last week from the Wergeland’s base in Gulen in western Norway where it was assembled. […]

  • Vard Launches Its First CSOV Hull for Norwind Offshore’s Newbuild

    14 October 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Vard has launched the hull for the first of two Commissioning Service Operations Vessels (CSOVs) ordered by Norwind Offshore at Vard Braila in Romania. The vessel is named Norwind Gale and its hull will be finalised at Vard Brattvaag in Norway, according to the manufacturer. Ordered in October last year, both CSOVs are based on […]

  • Top News of the Week Feb 15 – 21, 2016

    21 February 2016

    VIDEO: Bilfinger Getting Busy at Sandbank The last of the 72 foundations for the 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm was installed last Friday with the help of Bilfinger Marine & Offshore Systems, the company which was in charge of transporting and installing the monopile foundations and transition pieces. Centrica Leaving Wind Energy In its preliminary […]

  • West of Duddon Sands Marks Its Official Opening with Full Power Output

    30 October 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    Full power output has been achieved more than two months ahead of schedule from West of Duddon Sands Offshore Windfarm, a major renewable energy project which has been developed by ScottishPower Renewables and DONG Energy in the Irish Sea. The news came on the day that the 389 megawatt (MW) windfarm was officially opened by […]

  • The Netherlands: New O&M System to Cut Down Offshore Wind Costs

    10 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    A new system for wind farm operations and maintenance is set to significantly reduce the maintenance costs. The system has been developed by the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) using data from energy company Essent/RWE. It efficiently collects and analyses data from offshore wind farms and is used in order to continuously improve […]

  • Kvaerner Teams Up with DOF Subsea for Hywind Tampen Marine Operations

    31 October 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Following the award of a contract for the Hywind Tampen project, Kvaerner has joined forces with DOF Subsea to deliver marine operations for the floating wind farm in Norway. Kvaerner’s contract for the Hywind Tampen project is worth about NOK 1.5 billion (approx. EUR 146 million). In addition to engineering, procurement, and construction of the […]

  • Smulders, ENGIE Start Working on Hollande Kust Noord Substation

    25 September 2020
    Grid Connection

    The joint venture between ENGIE Solutions and Iemants, a subsidiary of Smulders, has cut the first steel for the topside of the offshore transformer station for the Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm zone in the Netherlands. The joint venture partners, together with TenneT representatives, officially marked the beginning of works at a steel cutting ceremony […]

  • Navantia Rolls Out East Anglia ONE Offshore Substation

    4 July 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Navantia has completed the construction of the East Anglia ONE offshore substation (topside), which is scheduled to set sail from the shipyard at Puerto Real in Spain in early August and arrive at the UK construction site in early September. 

  • Perpetuwave Introduces New Wave Power Technology

    13 May 2015
    Technology

    Perpetuwave Power has unveiled Xtracta (Patent Pending), its new wave energy technology. The Xtracta technology integrates a low cost design with a proven high performance energy extraction system, which is destined to deliver a step change improvement in the viability of wave powered renewable electricity, the developer said. The reduction in cost of the Xtracta is gained […]

  • Centrica Prepping Sale of Last Wind Asset

    28 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Centrica is currently developing plans to dispose of its 50% interest in the 270MW Lincs offshore wind farm, after which the British utility will complete the strategy to dispose of its interests in wind power. The wind farm’s remaining share is held by DONG Energy (25%) and Siemens Project Ventures (25%). Centrica started the wind asset disposal strategy in […]

  • WindSentinel Stands Strong Against Storm

    29 October 2014
    R&D, Technology

    AXYS Technologies Inc has announced the EDP Inovação (EDPi) WindSentinel floating LiDAR system has survived a major storm that ravaged the coast of Portgual near Viana do Castelo on October 16, 2014. Enduring gale force winds with gusts of over 90 km/hr and waves the size of three-story buildings (10 metres high), the WindSentinel remained on-station, […]

  • Four Minority Shareholders Opt to Participate in DONG Energy’s Capital Increase

    17 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    In continuation of the announcement that the Danish pension funds Arbejdsmarkedets Tillægspension (ATP) and PFA Pension Forsikringsaktieselskab (PFA) and funds managed by Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division through New Energy Investment S.a.r.l. (Goldman Sachs funds) will invest a total of DKK 11 billion in DONG Energy A/S, four of the existing five minority shareholders have […]

  • Iberdrola’s Renewables EBITDA Boosted by West of Duddon Sands OWF

    23 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Iberdrola has published its interim results for the half year to the end of June, which show that group’s EBITDA rose by 5.7% % and its renewables business EBITDA was boosted by increased capacity from West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm. “In the first half of 2015 Iberdrola invested more than £2 million each and every day to keep […]

  • East Anglia ONE’s Price of £119/MWh Confirmed

    27 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC), a UK government-owned company created to deliver key elements of the Electricity Market Reform Programme, confirmed that Contract for Difference (CfD) milestones for East Anglia ONE have been fulfilled. With the CfD milestones achieved and confirmed by the Low Carbon Contracts Company, the project will be delivered at a price of £119/MWh, a […]

  • ScottishPower All In on Wind Power

    16 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Environment

    ScottishPower has become the first integrated energy company in the UK to shift completely from coal and gas generation to wind power, after completing the sale of its traditional generation business to Drax for GBP 702 million.

  • Ventizz’s Firm Takes Over North Sea Offshore Wind Farm (Germany)

    10 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    The Danish firm SSP Technologies Holding ApS, a portfolio company of Ventizz Capital Fund IV, LP (“Ventizz IV”), has ended a legal dispute with PNE Wind AG via an amicable settlement. The dispute, which began in 2009, was in relation to the acquisition of the Danish rotor blade specialist SSP in 2008. Alongside an arrangement […]

  • Wikinger Substation Ready For Sail-Out

    8 August 2016
    Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Iberdrola, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, and Navantia hosted the delivery ceremony of the substation built for the 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm at Navantia’s premises in Cadiz, on Monday, 8 August. The substation was christened as Andalucía and was built by Navantia entirely at the company’s Puerto Real shipyard. The entire structure, which includes a substation, jackets, offshore […]