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  • WindEurope Issues Initial Assessment of Brexit Implications

    7 July 2016

    WindEurope, formerly known as EWEA, today published an initial assessment of possible Brexit implications. The full article by WindEurope can be read below. The full impact and implications of the UK referendum, and what it means for the wind industry short and long term, are impossible to assess properly at this stage. But there are some points we […]

  • Umoe Firmus Hits the Water

    20 November 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Norwegian shipbuilder Umoe Mandal placed the new WaveCraft Surface Effect Ship Umoe Firmus into the water for the first time on 16 November 2015, keeping the vessel on schedule to arrive in the UK in mid-January 2016. Umoe Firmus is to be operated by Tidal Transit Limited, which has an initial charter contract in place, with a […]

  • BOEM Tests New York Bight Waters

    9 April 2018
    Authorities, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is publishing a call to obtain nominations from companies interested in commercial offshore wind energy leases within the proposed areas in the New York Bight, US.

  • Korean-Dutch Consortium Puts Model MSPAR Floater Foundation Through Paces

    25 May 2022
    R&D, Technology

    The MSPAR floating wind turbine foundation has passed model tests and is now ready for Approval in Principle (AIP) and a full-scale prototype, according to South Korea’s Daewoo Engineering & Construction and Netherlands-based Monobase Wind, which plan to roll out the prototype in 2023/2024. The tests were conducted on a 1/44 scale MSPAR model at the Océanide facilities in South-East […]

  • Denmark’s Largest Offshore Wind Tender Enters Final Stage

    24 June 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The Danish Energy Agency has published the final tender conditions for Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm – Thor. With the publication, all the basic elements of the tender are in place, and the bidders now have four months to prepare their final bids for the offshore wind farm. The deadline for submitting bids is 8 […]

  • USA: Mammals and Geophysical Survey in Nantucket Sound

    2 April 2013
    Environment

    On December 19, 2012, NMFS received an application from CWA for the taking of marine mammals incidental to high resolution survey activities. NMFS determined that the application was adequate and complete on December 31, 2012. CWA plans to conduct a high resolution geophysical survey in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts. The survey would occur during daylight hours […]

  • Seajacks Zaratan Construction Summary (UK)

    14 February 2011
    R&D, Technology

    In February 2010 Seajacks entered into a contract with GustoMSC to provide the Basic Design Package for two purpose built wind farm installation vessels. In June 2010 Seajacks entered into a contract with Lamprell shipyard to build these new vessels and Seajacks will take delivery of the first new-build, Seajacks Zaratan, in May 2012, and […]

  • Shimizu Corporation Targets Mega Turbines with New Jack-Up

    25 July 2019
    Vessels

    Japanese engineering firm Shimizu Corporation has revealed plans to build a wind farm installation vessel to serve the budding offshore wind market in Japan. The self-elevating platform is designed to handle wind turbines with an individual capacity of 8MW or more, and is said to be the first such vessel to be built in Japan […]

  • Uncertain Political Support for Renewables Weakens U.S., European Investment

    5 September 2012
    R&D

    Having quadrupled its solar capacity target to 50GW by 2020 and begun an accelerated domestic installations program to tackle the oversupply of solar panels, China looks set to continue its domination of the global renewable energy market, according to Ernst & Young’s latest quarterly global Renewable energy Country Attractiveness Indices report (CAI) released today.   The […]

  • Iberdrola Renewables and AREVA Join to Bid for French Offshore Wind Projects

    29 June 2011

      IBERDROLA RENOVABLES and the French company AREVA have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly bid on two zones for offshore wind power development off the French coast. Both companies have agreed to bid for two of the five areas that the French government has offered for competitive tender in a first phase in […]

  • GBP 6 Million Available for Wave and Tidal Projects Through WATERS (Scotland)

    13 February 2012
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The marine and tidal energy sector is to benefit from £6 million in funding to further develop testing of new wave and tidal prototypes in the seas around Scotland. Scottish Enterprise is launching a second round of the remaining competitive funding from the initial WATERS £13 million fund, launched in March 2010. To reduce the […]

  • AMSC Receives Volume Wind Turbine Electrical Control System Order From Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries

    4 January 2011

    American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a global power technologies company, today announced that it has received an initial order worth more than $10 million for wind turbine electrical control systems from South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd. (Doosan). The systems will be utilized in Doosan’s onshore and offshore 3 megawatt (MW) full […]

  • UK Government Backs ERM’s Floating Wind-to-Hydrogen Project

    19 May 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Technology

    Environmental Resources Management (ERM) has been awarded GBP 8.6 million (EUR 10.1 million) in funding from the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio Low Carbon Hydrogen Supply 2 fund by the UK government for the ERM Dolpyn floating wind-to-hydrogen project. The funding will be used for offshore demonstration trials to evaluate systems during 2023 which will produce […]

  • World’s First Offshore Hydrogen Storage Concept Unveiled

    17 December 2021
    Environment, R&D, Technology

    Tractebel and partner companies have developed what they describe as the world’s first offshore infrastructure and processing facilities concept for the storage of hydrogen in offshore caverns. The design study, unveiled by Tractebel Overdick GmbH, is said to outline an innovative solution for large-scale hydrogen storage on the high seas: a scalable offshore platform for […]

  • BlueFloat Consortium Unveils Plans for Another Offshore Wind Project in New Zealand

    11 November 2022
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    A joint venture (JV) between BlueFloat Energy, Energy Estate, and Elemental Group have announced its plans to develop up to 1.4 GW Waikato offshore wind project in South Auckland and West Waikato, Aotearoa, New Zealand. The project is intended to be developed in phases to generate a capacity of up to 1.4 GW of power […]

  • RWE Investigating Floating Offshore Wind – Green Hydrogen Combo

    17 December 2021
    Environment, R&D, Technology

    RWE has signed a contract with professional services firm Jacobs to investigate the production and supply of green hydrogen at the Pembroke Power Station site in Wales, the UK. The study will take four months, completing in March 2022, and include investigations into the feasibility of initially installing a 100 MW electrolyser to produce green […]

  • EWEA: Is German Offshore Wind Under Threat?

    12 April 2013

    European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) spoke to Andreas Wagner, CEO of the Offshore Wind Foundation (Stiftung Offshore-Windenergie) and part of the team negotiating with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, trying to find out what is the future of German offshore wind power, as the country is said to be facing support cuts, besides the already known […]

  • Financing wind farms: How the largest project finance in offshore wind was established

    23 July 2014

    On May 14, 2014 the Dutch Gemini project reached financial close. After days and nights of intensive talks, serious negotiations and meticulously reviewing all contracts, all parties reached an agreement. All the ends were tied together, and everyone looked with satisfaction into a large room that was literally stuffed with contracts. Agreements, which made it […]

  • First Turbine Stands at Hollandse Kust Noord Offshore Wind Farm

    17 April 2023
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The first of 69 wind turbines has been installed at the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project in the Dutch North Sea. The offshore wind farm, located some 18.5 kilometres off the coast of Egmond aan Zee in the Netherlands, is developed by CrossWind, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco. The wind […]

  • WAB: Germany Should Up Offshore Wind, Green Hydrogen Targets

    6 March 2020
    Authorities

    The German federal government should take a firm decision to ramp up “green” hydrogen and to accelerate the expansion of wind energy and other renewables, according to the wind energy agency WAB e. V. Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics relies on hydrogen from fossil fuels without good cause and on a large scale of hydrogen […]

  • Our Top 7 Offshore Wind Premium Articles in 2022

    3 January 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Updated on 1 February 2023: Our seven most read articles on Offshore Energy Premium were unlocked until 31 January. However, you can still read these and other Premium content by signing up for a yearly or monthly subscription on Offshore Energy. Or, if you are not already a subscriber, start with a free two-week trial. […]

  • German Wind Energy Market Records Stable Growth in 2012

    1 February 2013

    The German wind energy market recorded further stable growth in 2012. According to current data collected by Deutsche WindGuard on behalf of the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) and VDMA Power Systems (VDMA PS), 2012 saw the installation of 1,008 new wind turbines (2011: 895) with a total capacity of 2,439 megawatts (2011: 2,008). Connection […]

  • Highlights of the Month: August 2017

    1 September 2017

    MHI Vestas Turbine Catches Fire at Østerild Test Centre An MHI Vestas V164 wind turbine has caught fire at the Østerild – National Test Centre for Large Wind Turbines in Denmark. E.ON Wins Robin Rigg Dispute Against MT Højgaard The UK Supreme Court has ruled against MT Højgaard (MTH) in the Robin Rigg offshore wind […]

  • RWE Signs Thor Concession Agreement with Danish State

    26 January 2022

    After winning the tender for the construction and operation of the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm last month, RWE has now signed a concession agreement with the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) and the Danish Government. The concession grants RWE the right to build and operate the offshore wind farm for 30 years, during which […]

  • Green Alliance Makes Suggestions for 2020s

    13 November 2014
    Authorities, Environment

    Matthew Spencer of Green Alliance, a charity and independent think tank focused on ambitious leadership for the environment, in a recently published report stressed the importance of policy decisions made and their effect on offshore wind industry through the 2020s. The UK is likely to need a minimum of 25GW of offshore wind to decarbonise its power […]

  • Germany: RWE Receives Permit for Innogy Nordsee 1 Offshore Wind Farm

    4 April 2012

    RWE Innogy today received the permit for the construction of the Innogy Nordsee 1 offshore wind farm. The construction field of the wind power plant is located some 40 kilometres north of the island of Juist and covers approx. 34 square kilometres. Together with the wind farms Innogy Nordsee 2 and Innogy Nordsee 3, some […]