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  • Tideland Lights and Fog Signals for Ormonde Wind Farm (UK)

    15 September 2011
    Technology

      Tideland Signal has supplied Burntisland Fabrications (BiFab) of Fife with the first aids to navigation to warn shipping in the vicinity of the new Ormonde windfarm currently under construction 10Km off Barrow-in-Furness in the Irish Sea. The Tideland equipment is supplied in kit form ready to install on turbines in accordance with IALA 0-139, […]

  • Ireland to Develop National Industrial Strategy for Offshore Wind

    10 May 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Business development, Industry

    Ireland’s Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Simon Coveney, has announced plans to develop a National Industrial Strategy for Offshore Wind which will set out how Ireland can maximise the economic opportunity arising from the production of offshore wind energy. Ireland’s Offshore Energy Programme includes a target to deliver 5 GW of offshore wind by […]

  • Gamesa Announces Plans to Base the Worldwide Centre of its Offshore Business in the UK, Investing up to 150 Million Euros Through 2014

    25 October 2010
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Gamesa, a world leader in wind energy technology, intends to choose the United Kingdom as the worldwide centre of its offshore wind energy business, and plans to invest up to 150 million euros there by 2014. The offshore industrial plan, which Gamesa plans to implement beginning in 2011 in the UK, calls for the creation […]

  • Canada to Get Offshore Wind Marshalling Hub

    28 March 2023
    Ports & Logistics

    Esbjerg-headquartered Blue Water Shipping has signed a concession agreement with Novaporte, a transportation, logistics, and green energy development in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Both parties aim to work together, along with equity partner Membertou First Nation, to develop a major marshalling hub in Sydney, Nova Scotia for offshore wind energy servicing the Northeast Atlantic […]

  • GWEC’s Floating Wind Report Spotlights Five Countries

    11 March 2022
    Industry

    The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has published a report, Floating Offshore wind – a Global Opportunity, that outlines how five countries could accelerate the growth of floating offshore wind. The GWEC report identifies Ireland, Italy, Morocco, the Philippines, and the US as the “chasing pack”. According to GWEC, these five countries, together with the […]

  • GMB Seeks Assurances That E.ON’s OWF Will Create Local Jobs (UK)

    2 October 2013
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    There are concerns that there will be no benefit to the south coast economy and that if there was a serious intent to develop green jobs in the UK this would be not allowed to happen, says GMB. GMB, the union for workers in the energy sector, is asking EON, the energy company seeking to […]

  • Ultimate Rough Weather WFSV (UK)

    16 January 2012

    In the offshore windfarm support scenario it is becoming increasingly clear that the seakeeping ability of the current medley of workboats is not up to the job when the going gets rough. This is exacerbated by current and future windfarms that are being positioned further out to sea in more onerous seastates. There is the […]

  • Northland Power Buys Deutsche Bucht Offshore Wind Project

    6 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Canadian energy company Northland Power has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Deutsche Bucht, a 252MW wind project in the German North Sea. The agreement was signed between Northland Power and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Highland Group Holdings. Deutsche Bucht, or DeBu, is Northland’s third offshore wind project following the 600MW Gemini wind farm in the […]

  • Centrica’s Offshore Wind Project Remains on Track to Generate First Power in 2012 (UK)

    17 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    As a result of the unusually warm weather experienced in the UK in recent months, and the corresponding impact on consumption, it is currently anticipated that Centrica’s 2011 earnings may be marginally lower than current market expectations, with the reduction in operating profits offset in part by lower interest and tax charges. Subject to weather […]

  • Dutch to Start Investigating New Sites at IJmuiden Ver

    3 November 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, through the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), has launched a tender for geophysical investigations in an extended area in the North of the IJmuiden Ver Wind Farm Zone (WFZ), where an additional 2 GW of offshore wind capacity could be accommodated on top of the 4 GW […]

  • ACCOMMODATION VESSELS: THE PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE

    5 October 2015

    The concept of using vessels as hotels, or floatels, accommodation vessels, or recently, SOVs, or whatever name you give them, has been available in the market for a while. With some of the current and more future projects being built further at sea in harsher sea states this concept is now gaining ‘ground’. Not only […]

  • Maersk Training: Job Seekers Welcome on Careers Day in Manchester

    23 October 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, Training & Education

    Maersk Training will be welcoming job seekers at the RenewableUK 2014 Annual Conference and Exhibition’s careers day in Manchester, providing advice and information to those looking to take their first steps into the rapidly growing renewables sector. Focus will be on searching for the next generation of offshore technicians and helping unemployed get into the offshore […]

  • Ørsted Homeports in Port of Taichung

    25 February 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    Ørsted has signed a wharf lease and a 20-year operations and maintenance (O&M) lease with the Port of Taichung in Taiwan. The leased wharfs will be upgraded and utilized for the construction of the Greater Changhua offshore wind farms, and the O&M site will serve as the O&M base for Ørsted‘s Changhua offshore wind farms […]

  • BiFab Taps Francis Brown For Beatrice Turbine Boat Landings

    9 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Teesside-headquartered Francis Brown Ltd has won a contract to fabricate 26 steel boat landings for the wind turbines that will be located at the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm.

  • Germany: Cuxport Loads Final Tower Section for Thornton Bank II and III Offshore Windfarms

    27 June 2012

    Cuxport GmbH completed another major order for the plant construction manufacturer REpower Systems SE on 20 June 2012 with the tenth loading operation involving tower segments for offshore wind turbines. The components, which were produced by AMBAU GmbH and transhipped at Cuxport, are destined for the Thornton Bank II & III offshore wind park in […]

  • Highlights of the Month: January 2017

    1 February 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Ex-Statkraft Engineer Develops New Foundation Installation Solution Arild Bolsø, an engineer who worked for Statkraft in Norway and Forewind in the UK, has developed a new technical concept for offshore wind foundation installation. According to Bolsø, the concept would reduce installation time by 30-50%, compared to current methods. Public Consultation for Borssele V Tender Opens […]

  • Poland, Lithuania & Estonia: Potentials of offshore wind energy in the Baltic Sea

    20 February 2013

    Poland The first efforts aiming at the development of the offshore wind farms in Poland took place in the last decade but were unsuccessful due to controversial location (within Natura2000), unfavourable legislation and the lack of relevant knowledge of public administration. Development of the technology and successful implementation of investment projects in other EU countries […]

  • UK Sets GBP 205 Million CfD Round 5 Budget, Offshore Wind Projects to Compete for Support from Established Technologies’ Pot

    16 March 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The UK government has confirmed the budget of GBP 205 million (around EUR 233 million) for this year’s Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme. Most of this budget in CfD Round 5, set to open for applications on 30 March, will be available for established technologies which, for the first time, include offshore wind. In the CfD […]

  • Ørsted and NABTU Sign ‘Historic’ Project Labor Agreement for US Offshore Wind

    6 May 2022
    Business & Finance, Industry, Jobs & Recruitment

    North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) and the offshore wind developer Ørsted have announced a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) to construct the company’s US offshore wind farms with an American union workforce. “A first-of-its-kind in the United States, the National Offshore Wind Agreement (NOWA) sets the bar for working conditions and equity, injects hundreds of […]

  • Denmark: Offshore Wind International B2B Event Attracts Large Players

    16 October 2012

    Players from Denmark and abroad are now signing up for the international B2B event for the offshore wind sector, OWIB 2012, on November 14-15 in Esbjerg. Over the course of a few years, Offshore Wind International Business2Business has grown into one of the leading events in the global offshore wind sector. Among the businesses who […]

  • Ocean Winds, Navantia Seanergies Sign Floating Offshore Wind Agreement

    30 March 2023
    Contracts & Tenders

    Madrid-based Ocean Winds has signed a reserved capacity agreement with Navantia Seanergies for the manufacture of elements for future offshore wind farms internationally, including floating structures for future wind farms in Spain, Portugal, and other European countries. The contract will enable the companies to construct a large number of components for the offshore wind market […]

  • Danotek Presents 7MW PM Generator (USA)

    28 September 2011
    Technology

    Danotek, a leader in the development and manufacture of highly efficient and reliable permanent magnet (PM) generators and power converter systems for the global wind energy market, today announced they will be expanding their portfolio with the addition of large PM generators for low- to medium-speed applications primarily intended to meet the growing market for […]

  • K2 Management Adds to Dogger Bank To-Do List

    24 January 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Renewable energy engineering and project management consultancy, K2 Management, has completed its pre-financial close due diligence work as lender’s technical advisor (LTA) for the third phase of the Dogger Bank Wind Farm – and been appointed to a four-year construction monitoring role. The appointments to LTA and construction monitoring roles marked a hattrick of Dogger […]

  • Ørsted Unveils Plans for Large Offshore Wind-to-Hydrogen Project

    31 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has unveiled plans for the development of one of the world’s largest renewable hydrogen plants, powered by offshore wind, which would be linked to industrial demand in the Netherlands and Belgium. The project, named SeaH2Land and planned to be built by 2030, would comprise a renewable hydrogen production facility of 1 GW connected directly […]

  • IHS Releases Report on Wind Converters

    26 September 2013
    R&D, Technology

    The global market for utility-scale onshore wind converters continues to be led by doubly fed (DFIG) converters, according to a new report entitled “The World Market for Wind Converters – 2013” from IHS Inc., a leading global source of critical insight and information. DFIG converters are forecast to outpace full-conversion products by a compound annual […]

  • Falck: Training = Awareness = Minimising risks

    13 August 2013

    When working offshore there should be one golden rule: Safety first! All kinds of legislation and regulations have been set up to ensure that both the health and safety of the employees are respected, in facet of their work, and rest time, offshore. However these rules can vary by country and also by the different […]