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Authorities, Business & Finance, Industry, Wind Farm Update
Ocean Winds and Bord na Móna have launched a new offshore wind partnership in Ireland at an event with Leo Varadkar, Tánaiste and Ireland’s Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in Dublin. The long-term, exclusive partnership will see Ocean Winds and Bord na Móna, one of Ireland’s oldest semi-states working at the forefront of energy […]
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Vessels, Wind Farm Update
DEME Offshore has completed the installation of the final XXL monopile at the 257 MW Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. This was the first project executed by DEME’s new floating installation vessel, Orion, which installed the foundations using its DP3 system. Manufactured by Steelwind in Germany, the 28 XXL […]
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SSE Renewables submitted the application for the 4.1 GW Berwick Bank offshore wind project to Marine Scotland on 9 December, kicking off the consent process with the Scottish Ministers. According to the developer, the project’s site in the Firth of Forth is the only remaining fixed-bottom site in Scotland that could bring forward this kind […]
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Contribution, Environment, R&D
The global pipeline of floating offshore wind projects has more than doubled in the past year from 91 GW to 185 GW, according to a report published by RenewableUK. The number of projects has increased globally during that time from 130 to 230, RenewableUK said. The pipeline includes projects at any stage: operational, under construction, […]
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Contracts & Tenders, R&D, Technology
Environmental Resources Management (ERM), the developer of the Dolphyn technology, has awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract to Principle Power for a 10 MW floating wind-to-hydrogen demonstration project in Scotland. The ERM Dolphyn concept employs a modular design integrating electrolysis and a wind turbine on a moored floating semi-submersible platform which uses Principle Power’s […]
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Germany said goodbye to 2022 with 8,100 MW of offshore wind capacity connected to the grid after all wind turbines at RWE’s Kaskasi offshore wind farm (342 MW) went into operation mid-December. Although this is a step forward, the country is still 22 GW away from its 2030 target and the government needs to take […]
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Technology, Wind Farm Update
Marine Power Systems (MPS) and WavEC, one of the co-managers of the Aguçadoura test site offshore Viana do Castelo, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on deploying MPS modular floating platform technology, PelaFlex, at the Portuguese test site. The news comes shortly after MPS signed a collaboration agreement with RWE which will, inter alia, […]
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The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) is working towards the first Power-to-X (PtX) tender in Denmark and will soon hold a stakeholder meeting to discuss tender timeline and framework. Furthermore, after forming a PtX task force, the DEA has now also established a secretariat for Power-to-X. The tender will be held to procure green hydrogen and […]
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Authorities, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
The New York State Public Service Commission has approved a transmission line that will deliver electricity from the Sunrise Wind farm off the coast of Long Island, to the existing electrical grid in New York State. The 25-mile offshore/onshore transmission line will carry electricity from the wind farm to an existing substation in Brookhaven, Suffolk […]
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Wind energy generation technology is one of the hottest topics on offshoreWIND.biz year after year and 2022 was no different. Over the past twelve months, various updates made headlines, from upgrades to existing platforms and rolling out new models to securing pilot projects for novel designs. Further below, you can find an overview of our […]
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Authorities, Grid Connection
Scotland has 38 GW of offshore wind in its potential pipeline. When added to projects in operation, under construction and awaiting construction, this climbs to over 40 GW, the equivalent to producing enough electricity annually to power every home in Scotland for 17 years, or every home in the UK for over a year and […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance
Lithuanian operator of oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, KN (Klaipėdos Nafta AB), has signed a letter of intent with two companies in the Polish Orlen group, Orlen Neptun I and Energa Wytwarzanie, on cooperation in providing operation and maintenance (O&M) services for offshore wind farms in Lihtuania. “The letter of intent sets out […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Blue Gem Wind, a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Simply Blue Group, has awarded Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) an Owner’s Engineer contract for the pre-FEED of the Valorous floating offshore wind project in the UK. Under the one-and-a-half-year contract, OWC’s scope of work will be to deliver the Owner’s Engineering services for the pre-leasing engineering […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Contribution, Industry, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology
The following article is a guest post by Mark Goalen, Director – Offshore Engineering, Houlder. The scaling up of renewable energy capacity will be essential for the success of the global energy transition. Increasing offshore wind capacity is, in turn, key to scaling up renewable energy production but is reliant on developers installing high-capacity farms […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Parkwind has awarded Semco Maritime a five-year service contract for the offshore substation at the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. From 2022 to 2027, Semco Maritime will perform service assignments at the offshore platform northeast of Rügen island in Germany. The company’s scope of work will include scheduled and […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Vessels
EnBW has selected Njord Offshore and FRS Windcat Offshore Logistics to provide crew transfer vessels (CTVs) that will operate on the Baltic 1 and the Baltic 2 offshore wind farms in the German Baltic Sea. Njord Offshore will provide two 12-PAX CTVs for each of the wind farms, and FRS Windcat will supply one 18-PAX […]
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Finland-based Elomatic Oy has established a design and consulting subsidiary in Wismar, Germany, called Elomatic Maritime Technologies, that will focus on ship design and offshore wind structures. According to the parent company, Elomatic Maritime Technologies will draw on the city of Wismar’s renowned shipbuilding competence and pioneering work in the offshore wind power segment. The […]
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Authorities, Environment, Industry
US President Joe Biden has announced that the Department of the Interior is advancing the development of offshore wind areas in the Gulf of Mexico and the Southern Atlantic. These areas cover 700,000 acres and have the potential to power over three million homes, President Biden said in his remarks on actions to tackle the […]
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Authorities, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
German offshore transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz has submitted application documents to construct and operate a submarine cable that will connect 50Hertz’s own transformer platform at the Windanker wind farm in the Baltic Sea to the national grid as part of the Ostwind 3 grid connection system. The application documents for the approximately 24-kilometre submarine […]
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The Port of Roenne, located on the Danish island of Bornholm, has started working on an upgrade to meet the upcoming increased demand from the offshore wind sector in the Baltic Sea. On 29 June, the port said it was advancing its planned future security from the Master Plan 2050 which will begin in 2023, at the […]
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Green Rebel Marine will undertake a geophysical site survey campaign at the site of the Emerald floating offshore wind project in the North Celtic Sea, off the south coast of Ireland. The surveys will be conducted by the vessel Roman Rebel, using multibeam echosounders and ultra-high-resolution survey equipment, and will start on 13 July and […]
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Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Industry
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has published a draft of the offshore wind area development plan and the environmental reports for the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The area development plan serves as a basis for the future expansion of offshore wind energy and the associated grid connections, and is already implementing […]
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Operations & Maintenance, R&D
Denmark-based Port of Roenne has announced a new study that will investigate the possibility of using renewable energy from the upcoming Bornholm Energy Island in the Baltic Sea, to produce green fuels on Bornholm. The study will be led by Port of Roenne and will include a number of local and national partners such as […]
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18:00 It’s a wrap Thanks to all participants, partners, sponsors and media partners for making this event such a great success! See you next year on 28 & 29 November 2023! 17:30 Drinks at Navingo stand Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference is almost coming to an end. The best way to celebrate these two days […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Norway-based Cloudberry Clean Energy has partnered with its compatriot Hafslund to develop the Stenkalles Grund shallow-water wind project in the lake Vänern in Sweden. The companies will form a 50/50 joint venture by Hafslund acquiring 50 per cent of the shares in Cloudberry Offshore Wind which indirectly owns the Swedish nearshore wind farm. The transaction is […]
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Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Industry, Wind Farm Update
The Danish Energy Agency and Energinet have invited potential tenderers and relevant industry associations to participate in a market dialogue concerning the upcoming procurements related to the Bornholm Energy Island offshore wind farm and other future wind farms. Denmark is currently in the process of establishing two energy islands, one in the North Sea, and […]
