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  • Seawork International Registration Open

    16 March 2015

    Online visitor registration is now open for Europe’s largest commercial marine and workboat exhibition, Seawork International. Over 7,500 industry professionals are expected to visit the event, which is running for the 18th consecutive year at ABP Port of Southampton between 16-18 June. Seawork International is home to over 550 exhibitors, promoting a wide range of […]

  • BOEM Sets Massachusetts Offshore Wind Lease Auction Date

    19 October 2018
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold the next offshore wind auction offering nearly 390,000 acres offshore Massachusetts on 13 December.

  • First Subsea Wins Kincardine Contract

    26 July 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    First Subsea Ltd has won a contract to provide platform mooring connectors to the Kincardine floating offshore wind farm situated off the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland. The company, part of the First Tech Group based in Aberdeen, has confirmed it’s secured the contract with Spanish developer and construction company Cobra Group to provide platform […]

  • Renewable UK Urges Next Welsh Government to Embrace Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy

    31 May 2011
    Authorities

    Renewable UK Cymru has published a manifesto ahead of the Welsh general election to urge the next Welsh Government to continue developing… (greenenergy) [mappress] Source: greenenergy, May 31, 2011

  • OWA Advises on Cable Burial Risk Management

    27 February 2015
    Grid Connection

    The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has published a new guidance on risk management of cable burial for the first time. The Cable Burial Risk Assessment (CBRA) Guidance offers a standardised, repeatable and qualitative method to improve risk management of subsea cables for offshore wind farms, improve conservative estimates of residual risk, and ultimately reduce […]

  • UK Urged to Set Floating Wind Targets

    14 March 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Friends of Floating Offshore Wind is calling on the UK to commit to a target of 1GW of floating offshore wind by 2025 and 5GW by 2030.

  • UK: SES Inks Narec Contract

    9 November 2012

    York based building services company, SES, has secured further work at the National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec), writes Nebusiness. The company will work on the world’s largest facility for wind turbine drive-train testing of up to 15MW. Earlier this year SES completed the 3MW drive drain test facility for Narec. SES regional director, Steve Joyce, […]

  • ANHOLT WIND Achieves 1,000 Days without LTI

    3 February 2015
    Vessels

    A crew transfer vessel deployed at Anholt Offshore Wind Farm in Denmark, ANHOLT WIND, celebrated 1,000 days without an Lost Time Injury (LTI) on February 2. Also Kirsten Bank Christensen, A2SEA Vice President, Group HSEQ, was very satisfied with the achivement: “At A2SEA we are very proud of ANHOLT WIND who has achieved a benchmark of 1,000 […]

  • TÜV SÜD Helps to Speed Up Taiwan’s OW Development

    4 March 2015

    In the field of energy politics, Taiwan pursues a long-term strategy in order to reduce CO2 emissions. One part of this strategy is the development and expansion of power generation in offshore wind farms. It is planned to have 600 offshore wind turbines with an output of 3.000 MW to go into operation by 2030 in […]

  • TenneT Announces Multi-Billion Investment in Dutch Grid

    6 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    TenneT will invest a total of EUR 6 billion in Dutch high-voltage grid in the next decade. Driven by significant growth in renewable energy capacity in the Netherlands and surrounding countries, the transmission system operator will commit some EUR 2 billion for the expansion and replacement of Dutch high-voltage grid on land and will pour approximately EUR 4 […]

  • France Reveals Potential Developers of Two Offshore Wind Farms

    27 March 2023
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    France has selected candidates who will participate in the competitive dialogues for the two offshore wind farm projects located off the Ile d’Oléron (AO7) and Normandy (AO8). The two wind farms will have a combined capacity of 2.5 GW. The candidates selected to participate in the tendering procedure for the 1 GW Ile d’Oléron wind […]

  • Finland: The Switch Calls Renewable Energy Sector to Embrace Agile Positioning

    12 June 2013

    In a statement released today, The Switch called for the renewable energy sector to embrace Agile Positioning, an industrial model that allows for greater flexibility and responsiveness to market changes. “In the renewable energy industry, we can see enormous shifts during the past year from a mass-production, manufacturing focus to a more customer-centric approach. The […]

  • Hengeler Mueller Advises DONG Energy on Borkum Riffgrund West 1 Acquisition (Germany)

    17 November 2011

    Hengeler Mueller advises DONG Energy on acquisition of project rights for offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund West 1 DONG Energy has acquired the project rights for the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund West 1 from Energiekontor AG. The wind farm could potentially consist of up to 80 turbines with a total capacity of up to […]

  • Yangjiang Nanpeng Island Offshore Wind Farm Fully Connected

    21 December 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The Yangjiang Nanpeng Island offshore wind project in China has been fully connected to the grid. MingYang Smart Energy installed the last of its 73 MySE5.5MW hybrid-drive turbines at the 401.5 MW wind farm at the end of November. According to the company, just from 1 to 16 December the team achieved a record of […]

  • Massachusetts Offshore Wind Showdown Starts

    13 December 2018
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The US Bureau of Offshore Energy Management (BOEM) is holding an auction for commercial wind energy leasing offshore Massachusetts this Thursday, 13 December.

  • 13 Bidders Stay in Race to Build Floating Wind Farms Offshore France

    2 August 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The French government has selected 13 companies and consortia to advance to the second phase, the competitive dialogue phase, of the tendering procedure to build two 250 MW floating offshore wind farms in Golfe du Lion in the Mediterranean Sea. The selected candidates include Iberdrola; Vattenfall; Ocean Winds; Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios, S.A.; Eni Plenitude; […]

  • CWind to Install Fibre Optic Cable at Rampion Offshore Wind Farm

    17 August 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    E.ON has awarded CWind, part of the Global Marine Group, with a contract to install a fibre optic cable at the Rampion offshore wind farm, under construction 13 kilometres off the coast of Sussex, UK.

  • Siemens Mechanical Drives Unit to Run as Flender from October

    30 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    As of 1 October, the Siemens Mechanical Drives unit will be operating in the market as Flender GmbH. The mechanical drives division comprises Flender and Winergy, which worked on the gearbox for Adwen’s AD 8-180 offshore wind turbine. The business with gears for wind turbines will also be part of Flender and will continue to operate under the Winergy brand.

  • RWE Abandons Galloper OWF Project

    13 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    RWE has recently reviewed the development status of the Galloper offshore wind farm as a ROC accredited project. “Despite positive investor interest, including that of the Green Investment Bank, and support from the project’s supply chain partners we are disappointed to announce the decision not to continue with the development of Galloper in its current […]

  • Matthew Simmons, who founded the Ocean Energy Institute and embraced Maine, dies unexpectedly (USA)

    11 August 2010

    Matthew Simmons, an international oil expert who most recently focused on developing renewable energy from the waters off Maine, died Sunday…   By Tux Turkel (kjonline) [mappress] Source: kjonline, August 11, 2010;

  • Seacat, Siemens Gamesa Add a Bit of Mischief and Magic to Beatrice Works

    3 July 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Seacat Services has been awarded a new charter agreement for the Beatrice offshore wind farm, following two previously signed contracts under which two of its vessels are already supporting the works at the project site off Scotland.

  • Carbon Trust: Why Offshore Wind Cost Reduction Must Now Take Precedence (UK)

    8 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    In the following article, Phil de Villiers, Head of Offshore Wind at the Carbon Trust, looks at why the UK offshore wind industry must embrace cost reduction to reduce uncertainty:  It’s been a busy few weeks for the UK’s offshore wind industry. David Cameron provided a welcome boost by generating some long overdue positive headlines […]

  • Hornsea Two Monopiles Order Lands on EEW SPC Desk

    11 July 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has placed an order with EEW Special Pipe Constructions (SPC) for 165 monopiles for the 1.4GW Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm in the UK.

  • UK/Scotland: ‘Friends of Floating Offshore Wind’ Group Formed

    18 May 2016

    No less than 10 technology developers and associations gathered to found “Friends of Floating Offshore Wind”, a group which will promote the interests of floating offshore wind in Scotland and UK. The group, comprising Pilot Offshore Renewables, Hexicon, RES Offshore, IDEOL, Floating Power Plant, Glosten PelaStar, Principle Power Inc, Atkins, ACS Cobra and GICON, aims at creating favourable conditions for further development of the sector. Global […]

  • HeavyLift@Sea Readies for Arrival of Floaters

    26 August 2016
    R&D, Technology, Vessels

    Hamburg-based engineering and design company HeavyLift@Sea has responded to an expected surge in construction of floating offshore wind farms built farther from the shore and in deeper waters by designing a floating foundation installation vessel – the FFI 1700. With the dimensions of 165m in length and 43,5m in width, FFI 1700 provides a working deck for stowing […]

  • Iberdrola Requests Permits for Two Offshore Wind Farms in Spain

    7 June 2021
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Iberdrola has submitted applications for two 490 MW wind farms off Galicia, according to the local media. The Spanish renewable energy giant filed the necessary documentation to the Ministry of the Ecological Transition on 27 May, Galiciapress reported, saying that one 490 MW wind farm is planned to be built off San Cibrao (Cervo, Lugo) […]