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  • 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 […]

  • Blue Offshore to Use Swan Hunter Shipyard for Cable Installation System Assembly (UK)

    5 December 2011
    Grid Connection

    Blue Offshore, a specialist subsea construction contractor, have today announced that they have reached agreement to use the former Swan Hunter shipyard facilities at Wallsend, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK), for assembly and construction of their cable installation system. Blue Offshore will operate the facility by arrangement with North Tyneside Council. The agreement has started with preparation works […]

  • Equinor Selects Polish Offshore Wind Home Port

    27 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Equinor has completed the acquisition of a site at the port of Łeba to serve as the operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the Polish Baltic Sea offshore wind projects. This makes Equinor the first developer to confirm an offshore wind maintenance port in Poland together with the joint venture partner Polenergia, the Norwegian offshore […]

  • North Sea Union Potential for Offshore Wind Cost-Reduction

    31 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    First calculations show that cost-reduction of up to 30% could be achieved by the North Sea countries cooperating on offshore wind roll-out in comparison to each country connecting its own wind farms, according to Lars Barfoed, Board Chairman at Energinet.

  • Cost reduction and fabrication efficiencies for Jacket-based foundations

    30 March 2022

    Neart Na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Project By Joost den Herder & Martin van der MeerArcelorMittal Energy Projects – Offshore Wind For the 450MW Neart Na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Project, ArcelorMittal Energy Projects (Energy Projects) brought global partners from Europe and Asia together by supplying jacket tubular sub-assemblies. Jacket-based foundations for offshore wind projects make use […]

  • Expertise Hub VIDEO: SOVs to Stay In Demand (Esvagt)

    11 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Esvagt’s Service Operations Vessels (SOVs) currently working, and those set to work, in the offshore wind sector have a bright future after their initial offshore wind contracts expire as they will still be in demand, according to Ole Ditlev Nielsen, the company’s Business Development Manager, who joined Offshore WIND Expertise Hub at the beginning of June.

  • North Sea Wind Power Hub Consortium Adds Gas and Storage to the Mix

    13 September 2017
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    Dutch energy infrastructure company Gasunie has joined a consortium of TenneT Netherlands, TenneT Germany and Denmark’s Energinet formed to develop the North Sea Wind Power Hub.

  • Hexicon Adds London Marine Consultants to Floating Offshore Wind Team in UK

    6 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    London Marine Consultants (LMC) has been selected as Principal Designer for Hexicon’s 32 MW TwinHub floating wind project in the UK upon receiving the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for the project. LMC specializes in marine engineering design and provision of mooring systems and has experience in offshore projects requiring installation, logistics, heavy lift […]

  • Norwegian Oil and Gas Project to Run on Offshore Wind?

    7 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Environment, R&D

    Norwegian oil and gas major Aker BP has tabled a proposal to power the NOAKA project on the Norwegian Continental Shelf with electricity from shore combined with offshore wind.

  • Brave Tern Braves New Heights

    19 June 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Brave Tern is ready to tackle the largest turbines currently in the market after completing a crane boom extension at Damen Shipyard in Amsterdam.

  • Highlights of the Month: August 2016

    1 September 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    USA Just Got Its First Offshore Wind Farm “The Block Island Wind Farm is now fully constructed,” Jeff Grybowski, Deepwater Wind’s CEO, informed via social media on 18 August. Bilfinger Exits Offshore Wind Foundations Business Germany’s VTC Group Munich has bought Bilfinger’s share in Bilfinger Mars Offshore, a Poland-based manufacturer of steel foundations for offshore […]

  • SeaRoc Equips Hornsea One RCS with SeaHub Communications System

    22 August 2018
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    SeaRoc Group has deployed its SeaHub Communications System on Hornsea Project One’s Reactive Compensation Station (RCS) – the world’s first offshore RCS – thus delivering the third SeaHub system for Ørsted’s 1.2GW offshore wind farm in the UK.

  • MingYang Turbines to Spin on Hexicon’s Floating Offshore Wind Project

    22 September 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Hexicon has selected China-headquartered Mingyang Smart Energy (Mingyang) as the preferred turbine supplier for its flagship 32 MW TwinHub floating offshore wind project in the UK. Hexicon has also awarded Mingyang the wind turbine generator Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for the project, which is located 16 kilometres off the coast of Cornwall, England. TwinHub […]

  • Muehlhan Bags Kriegers Flak Contract with Siemens Gamesa

    18 December 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics

    Siemens Gamesa has awarded Muehlhan Wind Service (MWS) with a lump sum EPC contract for the Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in Denmark, under which Muehlhan will provide pre-assembly and ground logistics services. The company will be carrying out the complete mechanical and electrical pre-assembly work for 72 wind turbines, including all crane and lifting […]

  • Parkwind Orders Arcadis Ost 1 Monopile Foundations at Steelwind

    3 July 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore wind developer Parkwind has signed a contract with Steelwind for the fabrication of the monopile foundations for the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm. The contract was signed at Steelwind’s headquarters in Nordenham, Germany. This signature follows Parkwind’s recent order of the wind farm’s offshore substation at Bladt Industries. Under the contract, Steelwind will […]

  • Fraunhofer IWES Wraps Up Survey in Baltic Sea

    13 January 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Fraunhofer IWES has conducted a boulder detection and geohazard survey of 50 turbine locations and the associated OSS at the Baltic Eagle offshore wind project for Iberdrola. The three-week measurement campaign took place in October and November 2020 using the novel proprietary Manta Ray G1 system developed by Fraunhofer IWES for data recording. The acquired data is […]

  • Wikinger Update: Navantia Sends Off Last Jackets, Turbine Parts Arriving in Sassnitz

    23 November 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Works on Iberdrola’s Wikinger offshore wind project are in full swing as the foundation installation is underway and is expected to be completed soon, as Bladt and Navantia dispatched their final jacket foundations and first components of Adwen 5MW wind turbines arrived at the Port of Sassnitz-Mukran.  According to Spanish media, the last four jacket foundations […]

  • European Offshore Electricity Grid to Save Billions of Euros (Belgium)

    5 October 2011
    Grid Connection

      New results on offshore electricity grid infrastructure in Europe: the EU “OffshoreGrid” project analysis reveals tremendous cost saving potential. Report published in Brussels today. Offshore grids, connecting North and Baltic Sea wind farms to electricity consumers, will be substantially cheaper to build than expected. Building “hub connections” at sea instead of using cables to […]

  • PM Backs European Supergrid Plan

    21 January 2011

    Plans to explore linking up green energy projects in the North, Baltic and Irish Seas were backed by Prime Minister David Cameron today as part of the UK-Baltic-Nordic Summit held in London. The Prime Minister announced that Energy Ministers will work together through the North Seas Offshore Grid Initiative and share experience with Ministers in […]

  • DONG Energy, Schneider Electrics to Boost Renewables on Remote Islands

    6 December 2013

    Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, and DONG Energy, one of the leading energy groups in Northern Europe, have entered an agreement to cooperate on a technological and commercial partnership. The ambition is to enable electric network operators of remote or isolated island grids to increase the share of renewable used while maintaining […]

  • ESB and Rosslare Europort Strike Up Offshore Wind Partnership

    23 February 2023
    Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    Ireland’s ESB and Iarnród Éireann (Port Authority for Rosslare Europort) have signed a joint Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate on the organisations’ respective development plans to support offshore wind projects in the Celtic and Irish Seas. With ESB developing a portfolio of offshore wind farms, and Rosslare Europort progressing plans to establish the port as […]

  • Iberdrola Adds Three Irish Projects as Its Offshore Wind Pipeline Tops 30 GW

    5 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Iberdrola has agreed to take a majority stake in DP Energy’s 3 GW offshore wind pipeline in Ireland, marking the Spanish energy company’s entry into the Irish offshore wind market. The projects are located in three clusters on the east, west, and south coasts of Ireland, of which some will be eligible for the forthcoming […]

  • DTU on Mission to Cut North Sea Energy Hubs Failure

    28 October 2019

    The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is developing digital solutions for controlling long-distance power flows in order to avoid blackouts and failure at energy hubs in the North Sea. The multiDC project focuses on developing intelligent digital solutions for controlling long-distance power flows to avoid blackouts and severe failure and looks into how to design the power […]

  • E.ON Selects Nexans Subsea Cables for Arkona

    4 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Nexans Deutschland has won a contract to supply 76 kilometres of subsea energy cables to E.ON for the 385MW Arkona offshore wind farm. The cables, which will be manufactured in Nexans’ Hanover plant, are designed for operation at 33 kV and will serve as the internal cabling for the wind farm which is to be built between the […]

  • German Next-Gen Floating Foundation Gets EUR 1 Million

    9 May 2016
    R&D, Technology

    ESG Edelstahl und Umwelttechnik Stralsund GmbH, a member of German GICON Group, and the Endowed Chair of Wind Energy Technology at the University of Rostock have secured EUR 1 million for the development and full-scale testing of a sub-structure for third generation wind turbines with a capacity of 6MW or more. The funds for the development of […]

  • International Business Guide: The Cross Media Interconnector for the Offshore Wind Supply Chain

    17 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    In 2018 there will be plenty of offshore wind projects starting construction, and others reaching full operation, and perhaps even one or two ready for decommissioning.