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  • New York Plans Offshore Wind Training Institute

    9 January 2020
    Training & Education

    New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has revealed plans for a new offshore wind training institute on Long Island. The announcement comes from Cuomo’s 32nd proposal of his 2020 State of the State which includes expanding on New York’s USD 175 million Workforce Development Initiative to meet emerging job demand. The USD 20 million offshore wind […]

  • The Most Interesting Videos of 2014

    25 December 2014

    With 2015 around the corner, we have decided to give you the overview of the most interesting video from 2014. As the North Sea is the center of offshore wind industry, it is not a surprise that most of the videos show development from this area. Alstom completes 6MW Haliade installation As the modern technological […]

  • Offshore Wind Installations Stabilise in 2014, Says EWEA

    30 January 2015

    The European offshore wind industry saw new capacity installations decline by 84 MW (5.34%) in 2014 as the sector stabilised following record figures the previous year. In 2014, 408 new offshore turbines were fully grid connected, adding 1,483 MW to the European system. The total installed capacity for Europe now stands at 8,045MW in 74 […]

  • BOEM Speaks at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

    23 October 2014
    Authorities, Environment

    William Y. Brown, Chief Environmental Officer for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) met with students, faculty and researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, San Diego State on Tuesday. Brown discussed BOEM’s offshore energy mission and the role that the Office of Environmental Programs plays in ensuring the bureau meets […]

  • Jan De Nul Installs Race Bank Export Cables

    6 September 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul Group has completed the installation and burial of the export cables for DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm in the United Kingdom.

  • Beatrice Export Cable Works Set to Begin

    11 April 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The first stage of works for the Beatrice offshore wind farm’s export cable is scheduled to start on 13 April at Portgordon, near Buckie, and will include installation of horizontal cable pipes, as well as underwater operations including diving, tunnelling and seabed preparation, according to the developer’s notice to mariners.

  • TenneT Receives Planning Approval for NordLink Interconnector

    4 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    The Office for Energy Planning Approval of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has issued a planning approval decision for the first section of NordLink interconnector, a planned submarine cable from Norway to Germany. “With this decision, the next important component of the future power system has been laid. NordLink combines our wind turbines with the […]

  • Sumitomo: Offshore Wind Investors Must Find Way to Handle Merchant Risk (Expertise Hub VIDEO)

    6 December 2017
    Business & Finance

    Zero subsidy offshore wind projects leave the actual electricity price as the only source of income and it is quite difficult for traditional investors such as banks to finance these projects, because that would mean that the banks lending the money must agree to take on the merchant risk, said Christoph Mertens, CEO Summit Renewable Power Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation.

  • New York Gets Offshore Wind Training Institute

    15 January 2021
    Authorities, Training & Education

    The State University of New York (SUNY) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) have launched the Offshore Wind Training Institute (OWTI). Through a partnership between SUNY’s Farmingdale State College and Stony Brook University, the USD 20 million investment will advance offshore wind training programs and the educational infrastructure needed to […]

  • New York College to Offer Offshore Wind Training Programs

    14 September 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Training & Education

    The State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College has received USD 230,000 from the New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s office to promote offshore energy workforce development and training programs in New York.

  • Applied Acoustics Showcases S-Boom in Vegas, USA

    7 November 2012

    The latest Applied Acoustics’ S-Boom sub-bottom profiling system is making quite an impact at the SEG show in Las Vegas. Its novel design, three boomer plates connected in series on a single catamaran, has already proved hugely successful in Northern European waters so it’s now being introduced to US companies as an ideal tool for […]

  • Mammoet Starts Patent Infringement Probe Against Huisman and BMS

    4 February 2022
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics, Technology

    Dutch heavy lifting company Mammoet said it has started investigating what the company describes as ”the possible violation of its intellectual property rights by Huisman and BMS Heavy Cranes.” The investigation concerns the recently announced series of land cranes, including a 3000-ton ring crane, by the Dutch crane specialist Huisman and Denmark’s BMS, Mammoet said. […]

  • Jan De Nul Adds DHSS to Hollandse Kust Team

    29 November 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul has awarded the ships agency contract to DHSS covering the installation of high voltage cables for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust (Noord) and (West Alpha) grid connection projects offshore the Netherlands. DHSS will assist Jan de Nul on this project from its support base in Port of IJmuiden and will be responsible for ships […]

  • RenewableUK Concerned by Energy Minister’s Comments

    1 November 2012
    Authorities

    RenewableUK is calling for urgent clarification after negative comments on wind energy were made by the Energy Minister John Hayes in some of the morning papers. The comments came the morning after Hayes addressed 400 industry delegates at the RenewableUK annual conference and gave a speech in favour of renewables. Addressing wind industry delegates for […]

  • Heerema Orders Siemens’s Chloropac System for DolWin1 North Sea Platform (Germany)

    22 July 2011
    Technology

    Heerema Fabrication in Zwijndrecht, a subsidiary of the Heerema Group, has given Siemens Water Technologies the order for the delivery of a Chloropac hypochlorite generator for seawater cooling. The order is worth over half a million Euros. The generator will be used at the North Sea platform DolWin1 and is the first Chloropac system to […]

  • USA: LEEDCo Begins Work on Icebreaker OWF

    7 May 2013

    On Saturday, May 4, 2013, The Andrie Jack-Up Barge arrived on the shores of Lake Erie, a beautiful visual on a sunny spring day. The Lake Erie Development Corporation (LEEDCo) will be using the 90-foot jack-up barge to perform soil borings and thorough geophysical analyses of the lake bed at the future sight of Icebreaker, […]

  • Koch Brothers Turn Against Offshore Wind Power (USA)

    22 July 2011

    The war over America’s coastal-energy future has officially begun, and the result could determine whether we see wind turbines or catastrophic oil spills along our coastlines in coming years. The opening salvo came in early July, when everyone’s favorite climate-hating, fossil-fuel-loving industrialist villains, the Koch brothers, released a so-called “cost-benefit analysis” of New Jersey offshore […]

  • Viking Neptun to Service Merkur During Winter

    7 September 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Eidesvik Offshore has secured a contract for its vessel Viking Neptun to support work on the Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Denmark Knights Grimsby’s Offshore Wind Industry Pioneer

    3 July 2012
    Authorities

    A pioneer in Grimsby’s offshore wind energy industry has received one of the highest honours from his home nation. Kurt Christensen has been given a first class knighthood, recognising his continued work as a consul for the Grimsby-area, and also highlighting the efforts in an industry that the Scandinavian country is at the forefront of. […]

  • Top News of the Week Aug 31-Sep 6, 2015

    6 September 2015

    Dong, ESG Complete Largest Wind Turbine Piles Testing DONG Energy and ESG have tested 28 piles on two different onshore sites in order to assist the development of new design methods for offshore wind farms. Initial results show great cost reduction potential. Wind Farms Prove Themselves in Practice A recent news item on the Dutch […]

  • Axys FLiDAR Reaches Stage 3 on Carbon Trust Roadmap

    6 June 2017
    Technology

    Canada’s Axys Technologies Inc. has met all of the Stage 3 performance criteria outlined in the Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator Roadmap for Floating LiDAR Technology (OWA Roadmap).

  • Flying Inspectors Whiz Through Burbo Bank Extension

    18 July 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted and robotics solutions provider SkySpecs have completed an automated inspection of wind turbine blades on Ørsted’s Burbo Bank Extension wind farm off the coast of Liverpool Bay, UK.

  • Aveillant Improves Its Holographic Radar

    11 August 2015
    R&D, Technology

    Aveillant held a week of demonstrations proving Holographic Radar’s capability by tracking an aircraft in true 3D and real-time. The demonstrations, held at Deenethorpe Airfield in July, were attended by more than 60 people from airports, OEMs, regulators and wind farm developers. David Crisp, CEO of Aveillant, said: “We are delighted to be able to share […]

  • Oceans of Energy to Build Offshore Solar Array at Hollandse Kust Noord Offshore Wind Park

    25 April 2023
    Business & Finance, Collaboration, Equipment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Technology, Transition

    Oceans of Energy has been awarded the contract for installing and operating offshore solar farm inside the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind park being developed by CrossWind, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco. This is set to be the first offshore solar farm in the world to be connected, installed, and operated within a […]

  • European Countries Support Ocean Energy (UK)

    25 November 2011
    Authorities

    ‘Member State position paper’ hardly trips off the tongue as a major step forward for the wave and tidal industry. But the formal announcement of an agreed position paper on ocean energy, supported by Belgium, Denmark, Norway, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the UK, shows that the potential of marine energy is fast moving […]

  • BlueFloat, Energy Estate to Increase Greater Gippsland Capacity to 2.1 GW

    8 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Spain-based BlueFloat Energy and Energy Estate have expanded the proposed capacity of the Greater Gippsland wind project offshore Australia from 1,275 MW to 2,085 MW. Initially, the two companies planned to develop a 1.3 GW bottom-fixed offshore wind project located off the coast of the Gippsland region in Victoria. The increase in the capacity of the […]