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  • UK: Two Met Masts Completed at East Anglia Offshore Wind Zone

    22 August 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    Contractors working for Vattenfall and ScottishPower Renewables have completed the installation of two of the UK’s most advanced weather monitoring stations for the 7200MW East Anglia Offshore Wind Zone off the Norfolk and Suffolk coast. The contracts for the £17 million weather monitoring project were overseen by Aberdeen based Wood Group, with Steel Engineering of […]

  • India: SEFORGE to Supply Machined Flanges for Wind Towers

    6 March 2012

    SEFORGE Limited, a Suzlon Group subsidiary, announced a key purchase agreement with a leading wind turbine manufacturer for the supply of machined tower flanges, used for wind towers, over a period of three years. The Rs. 367 crore (US$ 75 mn) contract covers supply of flanges for wind turbine towers for projects in India and […]

  • Inch Cape Picks Montrose Port for O&M Base

    7 February 2022
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Inch Cape Offshore Limited, a joint venture between the Edinburgh-based Red Rock Power Limited and Ireland’s energy company Electricity Supply Board (ESB), has selected Montrose Port as the future operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm. Should the Inch Cape project be awarded a Contract for Difference (CfD) this summer, […]

  • UK: Bechtel, Subsea 7 Team Up for Offshore Wind and Transmission Projects

    8 October 2012

    Bechtel and Subsea 7 announced today that they will work together to develop offshore wind and associated transmission projects in Europe, including the UK and Germany. The non-exclusive joint approach provides customers with Bechtel’s unmatched experience designing and building some of the world’s most complex projects and Subsea 7’s global expertise in seabed-to-surface engineering and […]

  • Maersk Makes Grand Entrance Into Offshore Wind Installation Market

    29 March 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The recently announced wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) for which Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine won a shipbuilding contract is now confirmed to have been ordered by Maersk, whose subsidiary Maersk Supply Service has just revealed that it signed a firm contract with a joint venture between Equinor and BP for the installation of the Empire 1 […]

  • BOEM Puts Avangrid’s Kitty Hawk Lease Into Effect

    16 October 2017
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) signed Avangrid’s offshore wind lease for the 122,405-acre Kitty Hawk site off North Carolina on 10 October. The lease will go into effect on 1 November 2017.

  • Danes Brainstorming on Environmental Assessments for New Offshore Wind Farms

    6 March 2023
    Authorities, Environment

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has opened a public consultation period to gather ideas for the environmental assessments of the plans for the country’s new offshore wind farms in the North and Baltic Seas. DEA is working on planning for the areas that were last year identified as suitable for the establishment of offshore wind […]

  • Ørsted and PetroVietnam Form Offshore Wind Partnership

    8 August 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Industry

    Ørsted and PetroVietnam Technical Services Corporation Mechanical & Construction (PTSC M&C) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to launch collaboration on offshore wind projects in Vietnam and globally. This collaboration aims to deliver offshore substations for Ørsted and T&T’s proposed multi-gigawatt pipeline of offshore wind projects in Vietnam, supporting national net-zero targets. In addition […]

  • South Korean Offshore Wind Turbine Gets Type Certificate

    9 July 2019
    Technology

    South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (DHIC) has received a type certificate for its 5.56MW offshore wind turbine from the international certification agency UL DEWI-OCC. A type certificate is issued after a comprehensive evaluation of the system’s design, performance test of both the parts and the finished product, and evaluation of the related manufacturing […]

  • Intervale Sells Proserv to Riverstone

    24 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    Intervale Capital  has signed a definitive agreement to sell Proserv Group Inc. to Riverstone Holdings LLC (“Riverstone”), an energy and power-focused private equity firm with over $27 billion of committed capital. As part of the transaction, Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund V, L.P., in partnership with Proserv management, will acquire 100% of the shares […]

  • ABS Officially Opens KETC in South Korea

    30 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Leading classification society ABS officially inaugurated the ABS Korea Energy Technology Center (KETC) in Busan, South Korea, on 19 October 2012. ABS President and CEO Christopher J. Wiernicki joined senior representatives of the Korean shipping and shipbuilding sectors and academia to celebrate the official opening of the ABS KETC, ABS’ first global energy center. Researchers […]

  • WPD Joins Australis Energy on Three Wind Projects Offshore Australia

    1 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    WPD offshore Australia Holding GmbH (wpd), part of wpd group, and Australis Energy Ltd have entered into a 50:50 joint venture for three offshore wind energy projects off the coast of Australia. The development of the three projects, located in the coastal waters of the states of Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia, with a […]

  • OPT Welcomes Report on Future of Marine Renewables in UK

    21 February 2012

    Ocean Power Technologies Ltd (“OPT”), a leading wave energy technology company, announces its support for the key conclusions of the UK’s Energy and Climate Change Select Committee report on the future of marine renewables in the UK. The Report’s key recommendations include: A formal cost of energy target of 14p/kWh by 2020 is adopted to […]

  • Typhoon Offshore Opens London Office (UK)

    30 November 2011

    Typhoon Offshore, the independent energy innovator, has opened an office in London to enhance its presence in one of the world’s largest, and fastest growing, markets for offshore wind power generation. This announcement follows Typhoon Offshore’s earlier announcement that it opened an office in Seoul, South Korea. The UK office, located in the City, will […]

  • Last Construction Vessel Leaves Site, New Phase Begins for Sheringham Shoal (UK)

    18 December 2012
    Wind Farm Update

    The departure of the floating hotel Regina Baltica, which was the final construction vessel on the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm, marks the end of an intense period of activity and the start a new operational phase, which has been in the planning for the past five years. Now the only vessels to be seen […]

  • Vestas 15 MW Prototype Now at Full Throttle

    3 April 2023
    Business development, Technology

    Last week, three months after it was installed at the National Test Center for large wind turbines in Østerild, Denmark, Vestas’s V236-15.0 MW prototype wind turbine reached its nominal power rating of 15 MW. The company’s new flagship wind turbine produced its first electricity shortly after being installed in December 2022 and has started operating at […]

  • Lima Talks Set World on Track to New Universal Climate Agreement

    15 December 2014
    Authorities, Environment

    A new 2015 agreement on climate change, that will harness action by all nations, took a further important step forward in Lima following two weeks of negotiations by over 190 countries. Nations concluded by elaborating the elements of the new agreement, scheduled to be agreed in Paris in late 2015, while also agreeing the ground […]

  • Export Cable Installation Starts at Hollandse Kust (zuid)

    23 September 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has started installing the export cables which will connect the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust (zuid) offshore wind farm to the Dutch grid, TenneT said. For the first ten kilometres of the cable route at sea, the four export cables will have to be buried more than 5,5 metres into the seabed in order […]

  • Frost & Sullivan: OWFs Growth Will Help Compensate Falling Demand for Marine Gensets

    3 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    With most of Europe’s shipbuilding activity migrating to the Asian countries of South Korea, China and Japan, the traditional demand for marine generator sets has dipped. This shift, coupled with the Euro zone recession and financing difficulties, has further deepened the slump in demand for new vessels and thus, marine genset suppliers have been forced […]

  • Japanese Company Buys Shares in Two Belgian Offshore Wind Projects

    1 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Sumitomo Corporation have completed the purchase of shares in two offshore wind farm projects (Belwind and Northwind) off the coast of Belgium from Parkwind NV (Parkwind). Parkwind is jointly controlled by its shareholders Colruyt Group, Korys, the investment holding of the Colruyt family, and the Flemish investment fund PMV. The Belwind project is located on the […]

  • Vineyard Wind to Seek Superseding Order from MassDEP

    15 July 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    US offshore wind developer Vineyard Wind will request a superseding order from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) to overturn denial of the project’s application before the Edgartown Conservation Commission. As reported earlier, the Edgartown Conservation Commission denied the permit for cables that would connect the first large-scale US offshore wind farm to the grid in […]

  • Isle of Wight Council Submits GBP 1.2m Bid for Tidal Energy Centre (UK)

    22 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    A TIDAL energy centre off the Island’s coastline could go ahead after all, if a new bid for government funding proves successful. Following the rejection of an earlier bid for £20million in regional growth funding, to create a tidal-powered Solent Ocean Energy Centre (SOEC) off the south coast of the Island, a reduced bid for […]

  • Scotland to Fund Offshore Wind Cost-Cutting Project with GBP 2.2 Mln

    14 July 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D

    A project to cut the cost of offshore wind by at least 10% is being awarded £2.2 million by the Scottish Government, First Minister Alex Salmond has announced. The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme, a joint industry and government scheme, brings together nine offshore wind developers with over 72% (31GW) of the UK’s […]

  • Haizea to Deliver XXL Monopiles for Hornsea Three

    28 September 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted and Haizea Bilbao have signed a contract for the supply of XXL monopiles for the Hornsea Three offshore wind farm in the UK, which represents the largest single contract ever secured by Haizea Wind Group. Under the contract, which is subject to Ørsted taking a final investment decision, Haizea Wind Group will manufacture the […]

  • RenewableUK Expands to Tidal Lagoon Energy

    2 May 2014

    The trade association representing the wind and marine energy industries, RenewableUK, is expanding its membership to include companies involved in tidal lagoon energy. The organisation has covered wave and tidal stream energy since 2004 and will now take on an additional form of tidal power. Tidal lagoon technology traps water at high tide in vast […]

  • UK: Forewind Updates Community on Dogger Bank Teesside

    4 November 2012

    More than 20 community representatives from Redcar and Cleveland were updated on the progress of the Dogger Bank Teesside offshore wind development by wind farm consortium, Forewind last week in Eston, Middlesbrough. Dogger Bank Teesside will comprise up to four wind farms, each with a maximum installed capacity of 1.2GW. They are expected to connect […]