375 results found for 'baltic hub'

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  • Germany: GL Garrad Hassan Commissioned for “FINO Wind” Research Project

    28 August 2013
    Environment

    DWD (German Weather Service) has commissioned GL Garrad Hassan to be responsible for an extensive sub-project within the scope of the “FINO Wind” research project. This involves taking an inventory of the metadata, utilisation and collection of LiDAR wind measurement data for the correction of mast effects, as well as the uncertainty estimation and assessment […]

  • Vattenfall Needs CTVs for Danish Offshore Wind Farms

    27 November 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Vattenfall Vindkraft A/S has issued a contract notice for the provision of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for the company’s offshore wind farms in Denmark. The tender is divided into several sub-tenders for specific offshore wind farms, and there is one lot for general ad-hoc and short and long term charters. Lot 1 covers the provision […]

  • Spain: Gamesa Presents Its Business Plan 2013-2015

    29 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Gamesa has presented its Business Plan 2013-2015, with the goal of addressing the immediate situation while laying the foundation to emerge stronger, in a position of leadership in the wind industry, through the following strategies and actions:  recovering and maintaining profitability, reducing fixed and variable costs (structure size and an industrial and procurement strategy), while […]

  • Denmark, Belgium, and Germany Step Closer to Energy Island Grid Links

    23 November 2021
    Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    The Danish Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities, Dan Jørgensen, and the Belgian Minister of Energy, Tinne van der Straeten, have signed a formal political Memorandum of Agreement to establish an offshore grid connection between Denmark and Germany including the Danish energy island in the North Sea. Andreas Feicht, Head of Secretary at the German […]

  • GERMANY UPDATE

    11 November 2016

    Since the last time we looked at the status of Germany’s offshore wind industry only two years ago in July 2014, the number of operational offshore wind turbines has jumped from just 141 capable of producing 616MW to 835 grid connected turbines capable of 3,552MW in July 2016 and another 54 installed turbines not yet […]

  • Massachusetts Allocates Funding for Offshore Wind Programs

    13 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Training & Education

    The Massachusetts Baker-Polito Administration is allocating USD 721,500 in grants to six academic institutions and labor organizations to establish workforce training and development programs to support the state’s offshore wind sector. The awards, which include USD 200,000 from Vineyard Wind’s Windward Workforce Fund, will be used to grow a workforce required to meet the needs […]

  • Iberdrola Orders East Anglia Three Transition Pieces at Windar Renovables

    18 May 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Iberdrola has signed an agreement with Windar Renovables for the construction of 95 transition pieces for the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm in UK waters. This is the largest order of this type of foundation to date for Windar Renovables and the production will be carried out mainly at the Asturian company’s facilities located […]

  • UK: Regen SW Hails Crown Estate’s Report

    11 October 2012

    A new report by the Crown Estate showing the fantastic wave and tidal energy resources around the UK and south west has been welcomed today by the south west marine energy industry. The research, carried out by The Crown Estate in association with Regen SW and devolved administrations, finds there are significant wave resources off […]

  • US Launches USD 8 Billion Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub Programme

    7 June 2022
    Authorities

    The US Department of Energy yesterday (6 June) released a Notice of Intent to fund the USD 8 billion programme to develop regional clean hydrogen hubs (H2Hubs) across the country. The multi-billion-dollar programme, announced in February as part of the investment under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will allocate the funds to four H2Hubs and already […]

  • Belgians to Start Building World’s First Artificial Energy Island Next Year (VIDEO)

    2 March 2023
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Infrastructure

    Belgian offshore construction companies Jan De Nul and DEME, through their consortium TM EDISON, have won the tender for the construction of the Princess Elisabeth Island in their home country, which will be the first artificial energy island in the world. The artificial island, which will be built some 45 kilometres off the Belgian coast […]

  • Expertise Hub VIDEO: Building on a Track Record (MHI Vestas)

    10 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    While offshore wind developers are expecting turbines of 13-15MW capacity to be rolled out over the next few years (by 2024), MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has launched its 9.5MW turbine and brought the market only 0.5MW (500kW) away from the two-figure-megawatt point.

  • Vattenfall Starts Trading UK Power Contracts on N2EX Exchange

    22 March 2011
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall Energy Trading has started trading UK power contracts on the N2EX exchange. The company commenced trading at the day-ahead auction and is extending its activities to all other exchange based products. “Vattenfall has high ambitions and several ongoing projects to grow electricity generation from wind energy in Northern Europe, and especially in the United […]

  • Wave Hubs Could Come to Cornwall (UK)

    9 November 2011

    Falmouth Harbour Commissioners (FHC) and The Crown Estate have signed a lease to create FabTest, a new wave energy ‘nursery’ test site inFalmouth Bay on the south coast of Cornwall. The site has also been issued with a marine license by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), which allows the mooring of marine energy converter devices. […]

  • Simply Blue, Irving Oil to Jointly Explore Opportunities for Renewable Energy Hub in Ireland

    23 September 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Contribution, Environment

    Simply Blue Group and Irving Oil have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore opportunities related to the development of an integrated renewable energy hub at the Irving Oil Whitegate Refinery in Ireland. The Whitegate Refinery is the country’s only refinery and a critical part of the country’s energy infrastructure, Simply Blue said. Under […]

  • Fugro Wins More Work on Danish North Sea Energy Island

    8 November 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Fugro has won two geotechnical site investigation contracts with Energinet for Denmark’s proposed Energy Island project in the North Sea. The company will perform the preliminary geotechnical site investigation for the Energy Island and the adjacent offshore wind farm zone to obtain geo-data, which will be used to prepare an integrated geological and geotechnical soil […]

  • Iberdrola’s Offshore Wind Farms Produce 1.1 TWh in Q1 2020

    30 April 2020
    Business & Finance

    The offshore wind farms developed and owned by Spain-based Iberdrola have produced 1,119 gigawatt-hours (GWh) during the first quarter of 2020. Iberdrola’s total installed offshore wind capacity stood at 1,174 MW on 31 March. In the United Kingdom, the company’s offshore wind farms generated 680 GWh, up 203.4% compared to the same period last year, […]

  • Tata Steel and RWE Forge Floating Offshore Wind Alliance

    29 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Industry, Technology

    RWE and Tata Steel, the largest steelmaker in the UK, have committed to working together to support the delivery of floating wind structures in the Celtic Sea from Tata Steel’s South Wales facilities. The two companies will work together to identify the steel components that could be supplied from Tata Steel in floating wind technologies […]

  • Highlights of the Month: September 2016

    3 October 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Areva Sells Its Stake in Adwen to Gamesa for EUR 60 Million Areva has decided to sell its 50% stake in the offshore wind turbine manufacturer Adwen for EUR 60 million to Gamesa, with which Areva had a 50-50 ownership in the joint venture and which is now in a merger process with Siemens. Borssele […]

  • ORE Catapult: Celtic Sea Floating Wind Could Bring 3,200 Jobs by 2030

    5 February 2020
    R&D

    The floating offshore wind industry in the Celtic Sea could support 3,200 jobs in South West England and Wales by 2030, according to a report by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult.

  • TenneT Unveils Electricity Grid Plans for 2045

    13 April 2023
    Grid Connection

    The transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has unveiled a new approach for the electricity grid for 2045 which is designed to cope with the challenges of the energy transition. With Target Grid, TenneT is proposing a network of direct current (DC) superhighways and energy hubs, the DC grid (electricity superhighways), and an improved existing alternating […]

  • Matthias Laatsch to Lead DNV’s Wind Energy Operations in Hamburg (Germany)

    19 October 2011

      DNV’s growing team in Hamburg comprises dedicated wind energy experts who are able to draw on DNV’s 25 years of experience in serving the global wind energy industry. They will work closely with DNV’s wind team based in Copenhagen, Denmark and London, UK, and will also be firmly supported by DNV’s marine survey team, […]

  • Denmark: Vestas’ V164 Platform Increases Capacity to 8 MW

    3 October 2012
    Training & Education

    The V164 platform was from the very beginning developed with a possible potential of increasing the turbine size. The progress in the technology development has now shown that an 8 MW version will offer lower cost of energy and at the same time keep the reliability and structural integrity of the turbine unchanged. The balance […]

  • RES Continues O&M for ORE Catapult’s Blyth Met Mast

    1 November 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    RES has signed an operations and maintenance (O&M) contract for Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult’s offshore met mast situated approximately three nautical miles off Blyth.

  • UK: FoundOcean Awarded Narec’s NOAH Met Mast Contract by SeaRoc

    1 November 2012

    SeaRoc has awarded FoundOcean the grouting contract for Narec’s Offshore Anemometry Hub (NOAH), which is located three nautical miles off the coast of Blyth. The installation will be equipped with a variety of monitoring sensors to collect the necessary environmental data to inform the development, construction and operation of the proposed Blyth Offshore Wind Demonstration […]

  • Works Start on Rhode Island’s Offshore Wind Terminal

    13 September 2022
    Ports & Logistics

    Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee and East Providence Mayor Bob DaSilva broke ground on the first phase of the South Quay Marine Terminal project on 12 September, kicking off construction works on what will become a staging area for offshore wind projects in the US Northeast. The construction of the terminal is supported by USD […]

  • Van Oord Wins Balance of Plant Contract for Teesside Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

    30 August 2011
    Operations & Maintenance

      EDF Energy Renewables awarded the Balance of Plant contract for the Teesside offshore wind farm to Van Oord. The execution offshore for the Van Oord activities will start mid January 2012 and are scheduled for completion in November 2012. The wind farm is located at its closest point 1.5 km off the shore of […]