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  • Vattenfall Hiring for Wind Power Expansion (Germany)

    15 February 2012

    Considering the development and expansion requirements of its onshore and offshore wind farms, the energy company Vattenfall is seeking to hire around 170 engineers, lawyers, merchants and developers, by the end of this year. The positions are available in Germany (Hamburg), the UK (London) and Denmark (Esbjerg). Vattenfall is one of the largest producers of […]

  • Seaway Heavy Lifting Wins Three Dong Energy OWF Jobs

    27 January 2015
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy has awarded Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) with offshore substation transportation and installation contracts for Burbo Bank Extension, Race Bank and Walney Extension offshore wind farms. The contracts cover the transportation and installation of up to 5 platforms that will support the power transmission of the three offshore wind farms. For the execution of […]

  • Vattenfall Building Accommodation Platform (Gallery)

    4 February 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall, the Swedish energy company, has used knowledge from oil and gas industry regarding work shift schedule on its renewable energy project. Namely, the company is building world’s largest accommodation platform dedicated to an offshore wind farm. Standing on a 40-meter tall jacket foundation, the platform will be able to accommodate up to 50 people 70 […]

  • 8.2 Consulting Completes Quality Assessment for Gemini

    27 September 2016
    R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    German renewables specialists 8.2 Consulting AG was contracted to assess the performance of Siemens Wind Power during the assembly of the 150 Siemens 4MW turbines built for the 600MW Gemini offshore wind farm in the Dutch part of the North Sea. The assessment focused on timeliness for assembly of hubs, nacelles and blades in the different factories. Furthermore the […]

  • Amrumbank Met Mast Decommissioned

    22 August 2016

    Amrumbank West’s meteorological mast was removed from the site in February 2016, as reported by SGS, a Hamburg-based inspection and certification company that supervised the decommissioning at the 302MW offshore wind farm. Prior to the dismantling, the met mast had been gathering data on wind conditions at the site since April 2005, when it was installed by Hochtief and Germany-based […]

  • Update: Sandbank Offshore Wind Farm Development Phases (Germany)

    14 June 2013

    Sandbank Offshore Wind GmbH, Hamburg, intends to build an offshore wind farm in the North Sea. In the first construction phase it is planned to build 72 wind turbines with a total output of 288 MW, inter array cables and an offshore substation. The project is located in the German Bight area, around 90 kms […]

  • Vattenfall’s Wind Unit Marks a Dip in Q3 2016

    27 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Vattenfall’s Wind Business Area reported SEK 1.263 billion (EUR 130 million) in net sales in the third quarter of 2016, a 9% decrease compared to SEK 1.389 billion reported for the same period in 2015, due to ”lower prices received and less favourable wind conditions”. The Swedish energy company’s wind unit also recorded an underlying […]

  • Ulstein Launches Second Windea SOV (Video)

    18 October 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Norway’s Ulstein launched the ”Windea TBN”, a wind farm service operation vessel (SOV) built for Bernhard Schulte Offshore and chartered out to Siemens Wind Power Service, from the Ulstein Verft dock hall on 15 October. The soon-to-be-named SOV will service two of Vattenfall’s German offshore wind farms, the 288MW DanTysk and the 288MW Sandbank, starting in 2017. The […]

  • Germany: Siemens in Offshore Wind Talks

    6 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    Siemens has confirmed that they are in talks over future offshore wind contracts. During the Wind Energy event in Hamburg, Michael Hannibal, CEO Offshore at Siemens Wind Power said: “There are quite a number of projects which are under discussion in the German market for the time being. Let’s see what happens.” Siemens is currently […]

  • Profit Spikes at Vattenfall’s Wind Division

    30 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall’s Wind division posted an underlying operating profit of SEK 1.9 billion (EUR 182.5 million) in the first nine months of 2018, a 153% increase compared to SEK 752 million reported for the same period in 2017. The increase was largely attributed to additional capacity, as well as positive price and currency effects. Vattenfall’s latest capacity […]

  • VBMS Orders Tekmar CPS Units for East Anglia ONE Cables

    12 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Cable protection specialist Tekmar Energy has been awarded a contract by VBMS to supply its 7th generation of TekLink Cable Protection Systems (CPSs), bellmouths and cover disks for ScottishPower renewables’ East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm.

  • Chevalier Floatels Wraps Up Three TenneT Gigs

    11 August 2016
    Vessels

    Chevalier Floatels informed today that it had executed three logistics contracts for TenneT this summer, after being chosen by Global Renewables Shipbrokers (GRS) on behalf of the transmission system operator (TSO) to support scheduled summer campaigns in Germany. The company’s recently upgraded vessels, DP Gezina and DP Galyna, were employed to provide accommodation and transfer for TenneT’s personnel […]

  • First SOV for Siemens’ Offshore Wind Farms Delivered (Gallery)

    23 June 2016
    Vessels

    Ulstein Verft today delivered a service operation vessel (SOV) ordered by Bernhard Schulte in 2015 to operate on Siemens’ offshore wind projects. The SOV is the first of two being constructed for Bernhard Schulte Offshore and chartered out to Siemens Wind Power Service. It will be deployed at the Gemini offshore wind farm off the Netherlands, while the second […]

  • Windfarm Update: Race Bank, Rampion, Walney Extension, EnBW Baltic 2, Gode Wind 1 & 2, Sandbank

    13 November 2015

    Race Bank In July, A2SEA won a contract to provide the SEA CHALLENGER offshore installation vessel for the installation of wind turbines at DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm from early 2017. Also, MMT has been contracted to carry out unexploded ordnance (UXO) inspections and removal MMT along the export cable routes and within […]

  • DOC to Manage Subsea Cable Installation for Vattenfall

    14 September 2017

    Vattenfall has awarded Deutsche Offshore Consult GmbH (DOC) with a four-year framework agreement for the installation management of subsea power cables for offshore wind farm projects in Germany, UK, the Netherlands and Denmark. 

  • Offshore Wind Keeps MCC Busy

    26 March 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    M.C. Construction (Cleveland) Limited (MCC) has won a contract to fabricate and mobilize approximately 250 tons of steelwork that will be used during an offshore wind turbine blade upgrade campaign.

  • Ulstein Tries Out Second Siemens SOV at Sea

    1 December 2016
    Vessels

    Ulstein’s yard number 310, the second wind farm service operation vessel (SOV) built for Bernhard Schulte (BS) Offshore and chartered out to Siemens Wind Power Service, is currently undegoing sea trials. “The first reports state that the progress is good and testing so far has been successful,” Ulstein said via social media. The SOV, currently going as […]

  • Siemens SOV Fleet Growing

    21 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Over the summer, several hands contributed to put Siemens’ service operation vessels (SOVs) into shape. The first SOV hull has been built at the Cemre shipyard in Turkey. It arrived at the Havyard shipyard in Norway in August – its final building site. Soon, the first SOV will be ready for docking out and first sea trials. […]

  • Siemens Sticks With Acergy Viking

    13 January 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Norway’s Eidesvik Offshore has been awarded another contract with Siemens Wind Power for the service operation vessel Acergy Viking. The Acergy Viking will commence a new six-month contract plus options for Siemens Wind Power in the German offshore wind sector in June 2017. The two companies signed the first charter agreement for the Acergy Viking in […]

  • Bladt, EEW SPC to Build Veja Mate Foundations

    2 July 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    A joint venture between Volker Stevin International and Boskalis, which was recently contracted for the design, procurement, fabrication, supply, transportation, installation and testing of 67 foundations for the Veja Mate offshore wind farm, has chosen Bladt Industries and EEW Special Pipe Constructions (SPC) for the supply of monopiles and transition pieces. EEW SPC will fabricate the 67 monopiles at their facilities […]

  • Stadtwerke München Bullish on Offshore Wind

    26 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    German utility Stadtwerke München (SWM) plans further investments in the expanding offshore wind sector to substitute its loss-making gas and power plants, Reuters reports.  SWM has already invested around EUR 3 billion in renewables and the company intends to add further investments to the tally, preferably through offshore wind-related joint ventures, the company’s CEO Florian Bieberbach said […]

  • Vattenfall’s New German Offshore Wind Farm No Longer Just a Number

    14 February 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has named its new offshore wind project in Germany Nordlicht I (Northern Light I). The project has been referred to as N-7.2 so far, after the government’s identifier of the development area. The developer secured the area by exercising its step-in-rights for the N-7.2 zone in the German North Sea after RWE won the […]

  • Uptime International Wins Offshore Wind Contract

    8 April 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Uptime International has entered into contract with Ulstein Verft AS for delivery of two active motion compensated gangways. The walk to work systems will be mounted during first half of 2016 on two new built wind turbine service operation vessels (SOV) ordered by Bernhard Schulte and their affiliate Windea Offshore. This is the first dedicated […]

  • Wind Brings In 130 New Jobs at Vattenfall

    6 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    In total, 130 jobs are to be filled within the next twelve months in Vattenfall’s Business Area Wind, as the company is investing EUR 5 billion in the expansion of wind and other renewable energy production. Offshore wind projects like Sandbank wind farm in Germany, Aberdeen wind farm in the UK or Horns Rev 3 in Denmark, […]

  • Top News of the Week Jun 27 – Jul 3, 2016

    3 July 2016

    Vattenfall’s Offshore Hotel Finds Its Sea Legs (VIDEO) Vattenfall has shared a video of its offshore wind farm accommodation platform, the future home for the service teams working at the 288MW DanTysk and the 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm, being installed some 90 kilometres off the German North Sea coast. Siemens Freezing New UK Investments […]

  • Top News of the Week Dec 7 –13, 2015

    13 December 2015

    DONG Energy Seeks Technical and Consultancy Staff for Danish Projects DONG Energy has invited tenders for temporary technical and consultancy staff working at the company’s Danish locations. Photo of the Day: Port of Esbjerg’s December Look Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: Sea Challenger loading Gode Wind turbine components at the Port of Esbjerg, while […]