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  • French Pilot Project Enters Survey Phase

    14 June 2019

    iXblue has begun conducting the geophysical survey at the site of the Groix & Belle-Île pilot offshore wind project in France. Under a contract secured with EOLFI, iXblue’s crew of hydrographic surveyors and geophysicist engineers is carrying out the survey onboard the company’s hydrographic research vessel FeliX. According to the company, the survey began this week […]

  • Top News of the Week, 30 October – 5 November 2017

    5 November 2017

    Most read news published by Offshore WIND in the past week.

  • USA: Renewing Investment Tax Credit for Offshore Wind Will Spur Employment, BlueGreen Alliance Says

    7 October 2012
    Authorities

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the September unemployment numbers on October 5, showing the economy gained 114,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.8 percent. The following is a statement from BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster:  “Capping a summer season of moderate growth on a high note, today’s jobs numbers are encouraging […]

  • Ireland: Rabbitte Announces Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan

    10 February 2014
    Authorities

    Speaking at the Ocean Energy Industry Forum in Dublin last week, Irish Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources, Mr. Pat Rabbitte, T.D.,  launched the Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan. Within this plan, the Government will invest over  EUR 26 million in technology that can harness ocean waves as energy over the next two years. […]

  • Wood Hired on Scottish Floating Wind Project

    2 August 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The engineering and consultancy company Wood has been awarded a contract for the Salamander floating wind project in Scotland, developed by a joint venture between Simply Blue Group, Ørsted and Subsea 7. For the 100 MW floating wind farm, proposed to be built 35 kilometres off Peterhead on the East Coast of Scotland, Wood will […]

  • Offshore Wind Partnerships Form Down Under

    25 November 2021
    Business & Finance

    BlueFloat Energy, Energy Estate, and Elemental Group are partnering to develop offshore wind farms in New Zealand. The partners have launched “Haumoana – New Zealand Offshore Wind Capacity Building”, a report which highlights New Zealand’s untapped potential for offshore wind development and the opportunities to establish a local supply chain as well as create enduring […]

  • NEF Outlines Plan for 160K New Jobs and Additional GBP 7.2Bn in Coastal UK

    17 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    The New Economics Foundation (NEF) will launch its 20-point action plan to revitalise the UK coast in Parliament this afternoon. Called the Blue New Deal, the action plan identifies 20 priorities and outlines measures that could support up to 160,000 additional jobs and create GBP 7.2 billion of additional income in coastal Local Authorities.  Marc Stears, Chief […]

  • Parkwind & Co Reveal ScotWind Bid

    20 July 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    A consortium comprising Parkwind, Quaybridge Scotland, and Maple Power (a joint venture between Enbridge and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board) announced on 20 July that their NextGen consortium was participating in the ScotWind seabed leasing round in Scotland. According to the consortium, early development work on offshore wind sites in Scotland has already been completed from […]

  • Dutch Companies Developing Innovative Pile-Driving Technology

    7 December 2013
    R&D, Technology

    Since 2010 Fistuca BV, a spin-off of the TU Eindhoven, Van Oord and TNO, have been developing BLUE Piling Technology, an innovative method of driving hollow piles into the seafloor that is quieter and more cost effective than traditional methods. This revolutionary offshore piling method, BLUE Piling, is currently being tested at scale at Van […]

  • Buss, Schramm Team Up

    24 February 2015

    Hamburg logistics company Buss Port Logistics and the SCHRAMM group will henceforth cooperate in the supply service for offshore platforms. Logistics and transport service ANTS Offshore, founded by Schramm group in January, will utilize the Orange Blue Terminal (OBT) in the Dutch city of Eemshaven as service port for the operation of the DP II […]

  • Parkwind’s First Move Outside Europe Made Down Under

    27 April 2022
    Business & Finance

    Parkwind is entering the offshore wind market in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, and has made its first move outside of Europe by naming a country manager in the two countries. The Belgium-based offshore wind developer, which says its move reflects the high potential in the region, has appointed Peter Lars Spencer as country manager […]

  • GE Has the World’s 2nd Largest Order Backlog (Interview)

    18 November 2015

    Eize de Vries has spoken to Anders Søe-Jensen, CEO of GE’s offshore wind unit, at the EWEA 2015 event in Paris, where the company introduced its new Renewable Energy business, following the acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid businesses. GE Offshore Wind’s brand new nacelle factory in St Nazaire is currently manufacturing five Haliade 150-6MW turbines for the US […]

  • iXblue DriX USV Completes Work on First French Offshore Wind Farm

    6 May 2022
    Business & Finance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    iXblue has completed the bathymetric survey at the site of the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm using its DriX uncrewed surface vehicle (USV). The purpose of the bathymetric survey inspection was to verify the seabed conditions before the deployment of Jan De Nul Group’s jack-up vessel Vole au vent. Relying on 4G and satellite communication, the operation, […]

  • RollDock On Merkur Run

    15 February 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    RollDock is currently transporting the transition pieces (TPs) for the Merkur offshore wind farm from Aviles, Spain, to the Buss Orange Blue Terminal in the Eemshaven port, the Netherlands.

  • Nicon Industries Preps Pacific Orca for Galloper

    25 April 2017
    Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Danish steel structures specialist Nicon Industries has completed the mobilisation of the wind turbine installation vessel Pacific Orca in Esbjerg as the jack-up prepares for the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm project.

  • Top Industry Players Join WFO’s Floating Wind Committee

    11 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    Several offshore wind companies and organisations have already become members of the World Forum Offshore Wind’s (WFO’s) Floating Offshore Wind Committee, launched in February 2020. The latest ones to get onboard the committee are Japan’s utility company JERA, French wind energy industry association FEE, and Norwegian company Aker Solutions. The three new members join RWE, […]

  • Bold Tern’s New Crane Commissioned, Ready for 15 MW Offshore Wind Turbines

    16 June 2022
    Vessels

    The new 1,600-tonne Huisman leg encircling crane on board Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s vessel Bold Tern has been commissioned, with the vessel now capable of installing wind turbines of up to 15 MW. Load testing of the crane was done earlier this month in Singapore, where the vessel was upgraded at Keppel FELS yard. Bold Tern arrived in Singapore […]

  • UK: Sheffield to Host Renewable Energy Exhibition and Conference

    15 August 2012

    Chairman of the Sheffield City Region LEP, James Newman will be a headline speaker at Rexpo – a new and unique two day conference and exhibition that has been launched in Sheffield for those interested in the growing low carbon and renewable energy marketplace which is projected to reach £4trillion by 2015 as economies around […]

  • Pacific Orca Loads First Galloper Turbine Parts

    4 May 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Pacific Orca has arrived to the Peel Ports Great Yarmouth to load Siemens wind turbine components ahead of her first trip to the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm.

  • Inter-Array Cabling Underway at Galloper OWF

    7 April 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    On 6 April, first inter-array cable was installed at the Galloper offshore wind farm in the UK, according to innogy UK.

  • DMC Invests in BlueView Sonar

    18 June 2014
    Technology

    The Danish company DMC/Drechsler Marine consult has invested in a BlueView sonar to one of their underwater robots which gives even better search options. The sonar is a high performance 2D imaging sonar specially engineered for underwater tasks. It operates while in motion delivering real-time imagery and data – it has really quick updates which […]

  • Installation Vessels: Reaching the Limit and Beyond

    27 March 2017

    Fourteen years ago in 2002 the Sif Group made 80 monopiles for the Horns Rev wind farm off the Danish coast near Esbjerg. These piles were four metres in diameter, the thickness of the steel was five centimetres, and they weighed between 180-230 tonnes depending on their length. In 2016, Offshore WIND was invited to visit the new Sif Group production, storage and load-out terminal built on Maasvlakte 2, the new area of reclaimed land extending the Port of Rotterdam even further out into the Southern part of the North Sea.

  • West of Duddon Sands Team Celebrates End of Turbine Installation

    19 June 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    The team behind the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm is celebrating the successful installation of the final turbine at the 389MW project. The 108th turbine was recently hoisted into position by the Sea Installer. John Hill, Project Director for West of Duddon Sands at DONG Energy said: “We’re delighted to have reached this huge […]

  • Top News of the Week, 9 – 15 October 2017

    15 October 2017

    Offshore WIND’s most read news from 9 to 15 October 2017.

  • EnBW Bolsters Hohe See and Albatros Installation Fleet

    18 February 2019
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The construction of the EnBW Hohe See and Albatros offshore wind farms is continuing with the help of two new installation vessels – GeoSea’s Innovation and A2SEA’s Sea Installer, EnBW said. The Innovation sailed from Eemshaven in the Netherlands on Sunday, 17 February, carrying three 72-metre monopiles. Following a ten-hour journey to the site, the Innovation […]

  • Pacific Osprey Tests New Lifting Gear

    30 April 2020
    Vessels

    Load tests of the new crane boom on Pacific Osprey have started, Swire Blue Ocean (SBO) said. The installation of the jack-up’s new crane boom started in the Port of Esbjerg earlier this month. The reeving of the main hook was completed last Friday, and on Saturday, the boom was lowered into the boom rest, […]