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  • TenneT and Vattenfall Pen Hollandse Kust Zuid Grid Agreements

    15 January 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Grid operator TenneT and wind farm developer Vattenfall have signed agreements for the offshore grid connection for the Hollandse Kust Zuid I and II wind farms in the Dutch North Sea. The agreements relate to the realisation of the connection and the transmission of electricity between Vattenfall’s wind farm and the TenneT Hollandse Kust Zuid Alpha offshore […]

  • Belgium: EWEA Names Thomas Becker as CEO

    13 December 2012

    The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has appointed Thomas Becker as its new Chief Executive Officer. A former Danish civil servant, Thomas Becker has since 2010 been CEO of Genan – a company that recycles used tyres on a very large scale globally (and has a turnover of 100 million Euros per year). Prior to […]

  • China Leads in New Offshore Wind Capacity Second Year in Row, Likely to Preserve Top Position in 2023

    20 February 2023
    Business development, Industry

    In 2022, 9.4 GW of offshore wind capacity was installed worldwide and China alone installed 6.8 GW of this. The country’s top position in adding new offshore wind capacity will likely be preserved in 2023, as well, as China is also leading in projects currently under construction, according to a new report from World Forum […]

  • Cape Wind Foe Aids GOP With $100,000 (USA)

    26 October 2010
    Business & Finance

    A month ago, as the battle over a proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound was being heard by state regulators, William I. Koch, the fossil fuel magnate and Cape Cod summer resident, donated $100,000 to the Republican Governors Association. Koch, a longtime opponent of Cape Wind and cochairman of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, […]

  • Vattenfall and AMF Sign Ormonde Partnership Deal

    18 December 2015
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Sweden’s power company Vattenfall has signed a GBP 237 million (EUR 327 million) deal to partner up with Swedish pension group AMF on the 150 MW Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm. The partnership agreement means that AMF will take a 49% share in Ormonde, with Vattenfall continuing to operate the wind farm as majority shareholder. ”AMF manages the pension […]

  • China Dominates Offshore Wind Rankings, Global Operating Capacity at 55 GW – WFO

    7 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Industry

    6,759 MW of offshore wind capacity went into operation during the first six months of 2022 compared to 1,627 MW during the same period a year earlier, World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO) said in its Global Offshore Wind Report HY1 2022. This growth was mainly driven by China which installed 5.1 GW of new offshore […]

  • Royal Inauguration for Horns Rev 3

    22 August 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Denmark has inaugurated Vattenfall’s 407MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm at an event held in the Port of Hvide Sande. Mette Frederiksen, Denmark’s Prime Minister, and Dan Jørgensen, Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities, also attended the inauguration of the wind farm. Located 25 to 40 kilometres […]

  • Safeway’s Gannet Gangway to Go All-Electric

    17 February 2022
    Technology

    Dutch offshore access specialist Safeway and its sister company Techano AS have signed a corporation agreement with Intellilift AS from Norway to create an all-electric version of Safeway’s Gannet 3D motion compensated gangway for service operation vessels (SOVs). The gangway will feature an all-electric hybrid battery, a bridge control system, and will be capable of […]

  • Global Offshore Wind Capacity Tops 27GW as 2019 Sets New Record

    20 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    5,194MW of offshore wind capacity went into operation during the last year, making 2019 a new record year in terms of new global offshore wind installations with a 24% growth as compared to 2018, WFO said.

  • Vattenfall Ready to Build Danish Record-Breaker

    2 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Swedish state-owned energy company Vattenfall is about to start the construction of the 400MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm off the west coast of Denmark, which once commissioned in 2018 will be the largest offshore wind farm in Danish waters. The total investment into the project will be just over EUR 1 billion, Vattenfall said. The wind farm […]

  • DanTysk Officially Opened

    30 April 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall and SWM officially opened the 288MW DanTysk offshore wind farm today. The ceremony, held in Hamburg, was attended by German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Sigmar Gabriel, Swedish Minister for Enterprise and Innovation Mikael Damberg, Hamburg Mayor Olaf Scholz and Torsten Albig, Prime Minister of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, joined Magnus Hall, President and CEO of […]

  • NordLink Interconnector Starts Trial Run

    9 December 2020
    Grid Connection

    TenneT, Statnett, and KfW have put the 1,400 MW NordLink interconnector between Norway and Germany into trial operation. The 623-kilometres-long high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission link will be used for the exchange of Norwegian hydropower and German wind energy. “NordLink is a beacon project of the energy transition and an important step in the integration […]

  • With 20% Cost Overrun, Offshore Wind Performs Well in Germany

    25 May 2015

    With an average cost overrun of 20 per cent, offshore wind parks perform well in comparison to other large-infrastructure projects. The average large-infrastructure project in Germany is 73 per cent more expensive than planned. This was one of the key findings of a study by the Hertie School of Governance, under the leadership of Genia […]

  • DONG Energy Opens Borkum Riffgrund 1 and Gode Wind 1&2 O&M Base

    27 April 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy is officially opening its operation management centre at Norddeich harbour today in the presence of the Parliamentary State Secretary Enak Ferlemann (Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure), Norden’s Mayoress Barbara Schlag and invited guests from business, public administration and politics. In her welcome speech, Trine Borum Bojsen, Managing Director for Germany of […]

  • Vattenfall, Stadtwerke München Decide to Invest in Sandbank OWF

    11 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München (SWM) have reached an investment agreement in the construction of the Sandbank offshore wind farm. The investment costs for Sandbank are around 1.2 billion euros. Vattenfall holds a 51% stake in Sandbank Offshore GmbH, which has been set up to implement the project, while SWM holds 49%. Seventy-two Siemens wind power […]

  • Uniper Mulls Gigawatt-Scale Offshore Wind Connection for Green Hydrogen Project

    22 February 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment

    German energy company Uniper and compatriot steel manufacturer, Salzgitter AG, have concluded a cooperation agreement with the aim of Uniper supplying the SALCOS project in Salzgitter with green hydrogen at competitive conditions for the production of climate-compatible steel. The cooperation is focused on supplying hydrogen from Wilhelmshaven where Uniper is developing two projects in parallel […]

  • Wind Turbine Installation at DanTysk Halfway Done

    30 June 2014

    The DanTysk offshore wind farm project has reached the halfway stage: 40 out of the total of 80 wind turbines that Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München (SWM) are erecting 70 km west of the island of Sylt are now in place. Eighty Siemens wind turbines in the 3.6-megawatt (MW) class are being installed, with a maximum […]

  • Nordic Yards Fits Jack-Up Legs on DBB’s ‘Wind Server’

    20 May 2014
    Technology

    Today the fourth and last steel jack-up leg was settled into its jacking position on the wind turbine service vessel ‘WIND SERVER’, currently under construction at Nordic Yards in Wismar for Danish customer DBB Jack-Up Services. During the past eight days the four huge steel pipes, which were transported to the Wismar shipyard by sea […]

  • Vattenfall Wins Kriegers Flak Tender with EUR 49.9 per MWh Bid

    9 November 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Swedish energy company Vattenfall has won the tender to build the 600MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Danish part of the Baltic Sea with the lowest ever bid of EUR 49.9 per MWh, 58% below the original cap of EUR 120 per MWh. “The announcement is an essential milestone for our ambition to increase our production […]

  • DanTysk Starts to Power Germany

    3 December 2014
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Today, the offshore wind farm DanTysk, located 70 kilometres west of the island of Sylt, will supply the German electricity network with its first wind power from the North Sea. The 80 wind turbines are now successively in the commissioning phase for the production of electricity. DanTysk is then expected to be fully connected to the […]

  • UK: Energy Ambassador Programme Now Running in Suffolk

    28 October 2012
    Training & Education

    This ambitious pilot, jointly developed by Skills for Energy (SfE), Suffolk Education Business Partnership, (Suffolk EBP) and Suffolk County Council, provides a simple way and effective way to link industry and schools to enthuse and inform young people in Suffolk about the energy sector. So far over 25 people from local and international energy sector […]

  • Vattenfall and MHI Vestas Claim World’s First with 8.8MW EOWDC Offshore Wind Turbine

    10 April 2018
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    A hat-trick of offshore wind industry firsts has been achieved within a fortnight in North-East Scotland after the world’s most powerful single turbine was installed on Monday, 09 April, for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC).

  • SPR, Vattenfall Divide East Anglia Development

    7 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) and Vattenfall have agreed to independently take forward offshore wind farm projects within the East Anglia Zone. This follows on from industry-wide changes agreed with The Crown Estate, which will see ‘zone development agreements’ replaced with project specific agreements. ScottishPower Renewables intends to focus on developing projects in the southern area of […]

  • Denmark: Vestas Names New CFO

    27 April 2012

    Vestas Wind Systems A/S has appointed Dag Gunnar Andresen, 48, as new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the Executive Management. He is expected to take up office around 1 August this year. The new CFO not only has considerable experience within financial management. Dag Andresen also has extensive knowledge of the energy sector, […]

  • Offshore Wind Energy in Focus at German Maritime Conference

    11 April 2013

    Peter Ramsauer, German Minister of Transport says that federal German government is and remains a reliable partner in maritime alliance. “To keep Germany competitive as a maritime location, we will keep the tonnage tax in force. In doing so, we will ensure future-proof framework conditions for the maritime sector, which is a key growth engine […]

  • Sandbank Partners Streamlining Turbine Installation Process

    30 May 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München (SWM), together with project partner Siemens, have developed an optimised concept for constructing and commissioning the 72 wind turbines for the 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm which is expected to cut the time between erecting the first wind turbine and commissioning the last one to around 89 days, a 23% reduction compared […]