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  • Vietnam’s Tan Thuan Offshore Wind Farm Enters Operation

    2 November 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The 75 MW Tan Thuan nearshore wind farm in Vietnam’s Ca Mau province started operation on 30 October, after commissioning and other work intensified in the months prior to that to bring the project to commercial operation before 1 November and secure preferential Feed-In Tariff (FIT) rates. After numerous difficulties and challenges the project faced […]

  • Tekmar Enters Asian Offshore Wind Market through Formosa 1

    9 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    UK-based Tekmar Energy has supplied its TEKLINK Cable Protection System (CPS) to protect the underwater power cables as they enter the wind turbine foundations on the Formosa 1 Phase 1 project, the first offshore wind farm in Taiwan.

  • Green Giraffe and Cathay United Join Taiwanese Offshore Wind Project

    2 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Green Giraffe has been mandated as lead international financial advisor alongside Taiwan’s Cathay United Bank for the Hai Long 2 &3 offshore wind projects in Taiwan.

  • Ørsted Adds to Offshore Wind Tally in Taiwan

    22 June 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has secured further 920MW capacity for its wind sites offshore Changhua County and now has a 1,820MW offshore wind pipeline in the region.

  • OffshoreWIND.biz – Connected to the Industry Since 2010

    28 June 2018

    Global business means global coverage 24/7 and, over the last eight years, OffshoreWIND.biz has been working on positioning itself as the number one information source for everyone active in or connected to the offshore wind industry.

  • Offshore WIND Vessel Directory 2016 Looking For a ‘Cover Girl’

    15 April 2016
    Vessels

    The offshore wind industry will have a new reference directory at Seawork International in June: the Offshore WIND Vessel Directory 2016. This third edition of the directory offers an updated overview of available vessels in the market, including a new category: the Multicat work boats. For this third edition of the vessel directory we are […]

  • Vestas’ Offshore Wind Turbine Wins Bronze Award (Malaysia)

    5 October 2011

    This year, Vestas latest offshore product offering – the V164-7.0 MW turbine was awarded by independent judges as the “Most Innovative Power Technology of the Year” in the 2011 Asian Power Awards held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 28 September 2011. Last year the V112-3.0 MW won the Gold Award in the same category. Dubbed […]

  • Aibel and Hitachi Energy to Deliver Hornsea 3 Converter Platforms

    14 July 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has awarded the Norwegian offshore service company Aibel, in partnership with Hitachi Energy, with an EPCI contract for two platforms for the Hornsea 3 project in the UK sector of the North Sea. Under the contract, Aibel will be responsible for engineering, procurement, construction, and installation in the delivery of two HVDC converter platforms. […]

  • Dogger Bank Vessel Fleet Starts Taking Shape

    11 November 2021
    Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    North Star Renewables, VARD, and Alicat have held steel cutting ceremonies to mark the start of construction of three service operation vessels (SOVs) and the associated daughter craft bound for the Dogger Bank Wind Farm offshore the UK. The hybrid-powered vessel fleet is specifically designed to support the UK’s growing offshore wind market and will […]

  • First GE Haliade Offshore Wind Turbine Stands in China

    23 January 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    The first out of three GE HaliadeTM 150-6MW offshore wind turbines has been installed in the Fujian Xinghua Gulf demo project, GE Renewable Energy reports.

  • Sembcorp Marine Starts Building Sofia Offshore Converter Platform

    24 September 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Sembcorp Marine and RWE have marked the start of the fabrication of the offshore converter platform for the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm with an official steel-cutting ceremony at Sembcorp Marine’s yard in Batam, Indonesia. “The offshore converter station sitting at the heart of the wind farm will be one of the most powerful […]

  • MAKE: Winds of Change in Turbine Industry Blow Offshore

    23 December 2015
    R&D, Technology

    The wind energy market continues to mature, with dramatic technology shifts remaining focused on offshore turbines, market analyst MAKE says in its latest research note. The note, titled ”Global Wind Turbine Trends 2015,” says that despite long product cycles, offshore wind defines the innovation horizon, as the most radical technological approaches continue to be applied to this segment. […]

  • Top News of the Week, 22 – 28 August 2016

    28 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    GE Tabling Bid for Adwen This Week? General Electric (GE) plans to submit a bid to buy the offshore wind turbine maker Adwen, a 50 -50 joint venture between Gamesa and Areva, this week, according to the French magazine La Lettre de l’Expansion. HeavyLift@Sea Unveils Upgraded Wind Farm SOV Design German designer of offshore and […]

  • James Fisher Subsea Excavation Enters Chinese Venture

    17 January 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, R&D

    James Fisher Subsea Excavation (JFSE) has established James Fisher Ocean Team Ltd, a China-based joint venture with Ocean Team Asia Pacific (OTAP).

  • Seajacks Goes Global with Siemens Gamesa Contract in Taiwan

    2 May 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seajacks has won a contract from Siemens Gamesa to install 20 6MW turbines at the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan.

  • Navigant: China Is the Only Booming Wind Capacity Market

    25 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Environment

    China is the only country identified as a booming market for wind capacity growth, with the United States, India and Germany carrying the label of outperformers in a report published by Navigant Research. The report, ‘Global Wind Energy Policy Update,’ examines the strengths and weaknesses of the wind policy regimes across 42 countries based on an […]

  • Top Interviews of the Year

    25 December 2015
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    As the year draws to a close, Offshore WIND staff bring a reminder of interviews which caught our readers’ attention the most in 2015! GE Has the World’s 2nd Largest Order Backlog Offshore WIND has spoken to Anders Søe-Jensen, CEO of GE’s offshore wind unit, at the EWEA 2015 event in Paris, where the company introduced […]

  • Van Oord Becomes Global Offshore Wind Player with Yunlin Contract

    30 May 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    German offshore wind developer wpd has selected Van Oord as preferred contractor for the 640MW Yunlin offshore wind project in Taiwan.

  • Report: Innovations Can Shave 33 Percent Off LCOE by 2030

    29 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    A report by KIC InnoEnergy and BVG Associates has identified fifty offshore wind innovations which have the potential to make a substantial reduction in the levelised cost of energy (LCOE) through changes to design, hardware, software or process. The report, ‘Future renewable energy costs: offshore wind’, found that the technologies could reduce the LCOE by a […]

  • Top News of the Week, 14 – 20 November 2016

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

    Iemants and Jan De Nul Win Kriegers Flak OSS Foundations Work Energinet.dk and 50Hertz Transmission GmbH have awarded Iemants and Jan De Nul Group with a contract to construct, install, ballast and protect gravity based foundations (GBFs) for two offshore substations. ABB Unveils Lightweight, AC Platform-Free HVDC Solution ABB has presented a new, compact, high-voltage […]

  • All Foundations Installed at Vietnam’s Hiep Thanh and Tra Vinh V1-2 Nearshore Wind Farms

    27 August 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Chinese Guangzhou Salvage Bureau has installed all monopile foundations at the nearshore sites of the Hiep Thanh and Tra Vinh V1-2 wind farms in Vietnam. The construction specialist started installing the foundations in March and completed the work at the beginning of this month, putting 30 monopiles in place at the two wind farm sites in […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Group on Asia Tour

    23 March 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Training & Education

    The UK Department for International Trade (DIT) has organised a mission to China and Taiwan to promote British expertise in the offshore wind industry and assist in the development of the sector in these two countries.

  • 20 Countries Pledge to Double Clean Energy R&D Investment

    30 November 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    20 countries have launched Mission Innovation in Paris today, committing to double their governmental and/or state-directed clean energy research and development investment over five years and make clean energy widely affordable. The countries participating in the new initiative include: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Republic of Korea, […]

  • Enterprize Energy, Tractebel to Build Offshore Wind-Hydrogen-Ammonia Platform Prototype

    24 November 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Technology

    Enterprize Energy and Tractebel Overdick have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on delivering Enterprize Energy’s Energy Plus concept, which encompasses offshore wind, hydrogen and ammonia production technologies in a single platform. The cooperation will see the companies building the prototype of the Energy Plus platform, which is based on a system that connects and […]

  • Mech-Tool Engineering Wins Hollandse Kust Zuid Alpha Work

    24 December 2019

    DryDocks World has awarded Mech-Tool Engineering (MTE) with a contract to deliver fire and blast solutions to the Hollandse Kust Zuid Alpha project. MTE will design, engineer, fabricate, and supply its A0 fire-rated and Non-Rated (NR) external and internal profiled wall panels for the offshore platform. MTE has recently started the fabrication of the walls […]

  • DNV GL and Cosco Team Up to Install BorWin Gamma

    18 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology

    DNV GL has been awarded a contract by Cosco Shipping Company Limited of China for the installation engineering services for the BorWin gamma high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter platform. The Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT is developing the offshore AC/DC converter platform BorWin gamma as part of the grid connection project BorWin3. A consortium […]