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  • 4 January 2016

    Samso Turbine Breaks Off and Crashes into Sea Denmark’s Samso offshore wind farm, also known as Paludans Flak, is out of action after one of the turbines collapsed and crashed into the sea early Saturday morning, Søren Hermansen, Director of the Samso Energy Academy, confirmed to Offshore WIND. Photo of the Day: Port of Esbjerg’s […]

  • 28 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    ABB has won a significant order from the Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT to design, engineer, supply and install an Alternating Current (AC) power transmission cable system that will connect Butendiek, an offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, to the HVDC (high voltage direct current) converter platform SylWin alpha. The cable will link […]

  • 4 May 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    The first monopile foundation at Kentish Flats Extension was installed yesterday morning. GeoSea’s offshore wind installation vessel Neptune, carrying two foundations, arrived on site on Friday afternoon, while the construction kicked off later that evening. “This is a great start to the project and puts us nicely on schedule which is a good sign for […]

  • 12 December 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall Atlantis 1 and Global Tech II Offshore Wind GmbH have issued a contract notice seeking contractors to install inter-array cables for two wind farm projects offshore Germany. The two projects, Vattenfall Atlantis 1 and Global Tech II, are located in the German North Sea, in the N-7.2 and N-6.6 zones. The contract is expected […]

  • 24 January 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection

    The state government of Schleswig-Holstein has called for an additional expansion of Germany’s 2030 and 2035 offshore wind capacity targets.

  • 1 July 2014

    The offshore converter platform SylWin alpha was undocked at the Nordic Yards shipyard in Warnemünde last week. The 15,000 tonne yellow topside left the dock in the morning on the barge “Nordic Giant 101”: the platform – aligned diagonally across the dock – was built on the barge because SylWin, at 83 metres long and […]

  • 7 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    Swedish energy company Vattenfall has recorded a net profit of SEK 9.6 billion for the Fiscal Year 2017, reporting a positive full-year result for the first time in the last five years.

  • 31 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    Driven predominantly by work in the offshore wind industry, Bladt Industries wrapped up 2015 with an annual profit of DKK 63.5 million (approx. EUR 9 million), after a challenging 2014 which ended with a loss of DKK 6.7 million (approx. EUR 900,000). The company’s 2015 EBITDA was DKK 139 million (approx. EUR 18.7 million), a significant increase from DKK […]

  • 24 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Swedish offshore wind power developer and operator Vattenfall has signed a five-year cable repair framework agreement with power cable and asset management services provider CWind covering Vattenfall’s European assets.

  • 18 June 2015

    DEME and Windreich have formed a new joint venture for the development of Merkur Offshore offshore wind project, formerly known as MEG I. “Today’s announcement underlines our confidence in this project”, noted Alain Bernard, Director and Chief Executive Officer of the DEME group. “We are very pleased with the progress made to date, and look […]

  • 29 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall’s Wind Business Area saw an increase in net sales and the underlying operating profit during the first nine months of the year, mainly owing to new capacity and higher production due to stronger winds. In the last twelve months, Vattenfall commissioned two wind farms, the 29MW Slufterdam onshore wind farm in the Netherlands and 373MW out […]

  • 2 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Swedish state-owned energy company Vattenfall is about to start the construction of the 400MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm off the west coast of Denmark, which once commissioned in 2018 will be the largest offshore wind farm in Danish waters. The total investment into the project will be just over EUR 1 billion, Vattenfall said. The wind farm […]

  • 13 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    While its mother company Boskalis reported a revenue decline of 20% for 2016, VBMS achieved an 80% increase in revenue from offshore wind projects including Sandbank, Nordergründe, Rampion, Galloper, Egmond, Aberdeen, Borssele and Blyth.

  • 15 January 2013
    Operations & Maintenance

    Offshore wind farm support vessel CWind Alliance delivered an impressive 363 days of operation on the London Array during 2012.  This impeccable service record, coupled with the composite workboat’s innate fuel efficiency and multi-tasking ability, is pushing Essex-based builder CTruk to the forefront of vessel design in the sector. Fuel consumption on the 18.5m WFSV […]

  • 19 June 2015

    Belgian wind farm developer Nobelwind has awarded Bladt Industries and Semco Maritime a new EPCI contract for the manufacturing of the Offshore Substation (OSS) for the upcoming Belwind 2 Offshore Wind Farm. The substation is to be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2016 – only 16 months after the signing of the contract. Bladt […]

  • 15 May 2014
    Authorities, Environment

    Scotland’s struggling seabird populations are in need of urgent action to halt significant, long-term declines, according to a new report by RSPB Scotland. The wildlife conservation charity is calling on the Scottish Government to urgently address the fundamental lack of protection for seabirds at sea. The report proposes an initial 7 key sites to be […]

  • 31 December 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The Offshore WIND staff thought that the New Year’s Day would be the perfect time to let you – our readers – be editors and compile a list of news you found the most interesting and worth a read in 2015. DONG Energy Seeks Technical and Consultancy Staff for Danish Projects DONG Energy has invited tenders for temporary […]

  • 2 November 2022
    Ports & Logistics

    Vattenfall has opened its new international central warehouse at Port of Esbjerg in Denmark which will serve not only Danish but also Dutch and British offshore wind farms. Vattenfall’s new international central warehouse facilities cover a 2,220 square metre indoor warehouse and an outdoor storage facility of approximately 10,000 square metres. Vattenfall’s warehouse at Esbjerg […]

  • 14 July 2014
    Grid Connection

    Under the direction of Seaway Heavy Lifting, one of the world’s largest converter platforms has been installed off Sylt, an East Frisian Island. SylWin alpha platform, built by Siemens, is so large and heavy that the ingenious “float-over method” has been used to lift it from a pontoon onto the already installed jacket base. This approach has been used successfully in […]

  • 8 November 2016
    Authorities, Environment, R&D

    Offshore wind turbines installed in the North Sea have been giving rise to sediment plumes, satellite images taken by NASA’s Operational Land Imager (OLI) show. For at least the past decade, satellites have spotted white dots cropping up in the North Sea. If viewed from Earth’s surface, you would see that these dots are actually wind […]

  • 24 August 2016
    Grid Connection, Technology

    SeaTerra GmbH has completed investigation of 278 objects and removal of eight unexploded ordnance (UXO) targets from the DolWin3 cable route in the German part of the North Sea. Commissioned by the transmission system operator TenneT, SeaTerra GmbH recently examined and cleared numerous metal objects from the future DolWin3 cable route between Emden and the […]

  • 1 January 2015

    Under-manning and fatigue threaten WFSV safety As offshore wind farm developments move further out to sea and demands on the vessels and crews that service them increase, a rising number of wind farm crew transfer vessel incidents has become a growing cause of concern. Marubeni and Technip to build Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm […]

  • 10 February 2022
    R&D, Technology

    The international provider of testing, inspection, and certification services, TÜV SÜD, has joined the AquaVentus consortium as a member, supporting this lighthouse project of German offshore hydrogen production. The European Union and Germany have set the target of becoming climate neutral by 2050. As a storage medium for energy from renewable sources, hydrogen will play […]

  • 5 November 2013
    Environment, R&D

    A group of scientists from the United Kingdom and the United States have developed a method to assess the potential impacts of offshore wind farm construction on marine mammal populations, particularly the noise made while driving piles into the seabed to install wind turbine foundations.  “Pile-driving during the construction of offshore wind farms produces an […]

  • 7 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    According to Bladt Industries’ 2016 annual results, the company saw a very favourable year with offshore wind projects as the main driver. Bladt reported a revenue increase from DKK 3 billion (approx. EUR 403 million) in 2015 to DKK 3.5 billion (approx. EUR 470 million) last year.

  • 24 January 2023
    Grid Connection

    Transmission system operators (TSOs) GASCADE and Fluxys have submitted an application with the European Commission for the AquaDuctus project, a North Sea offshore pipeline for green hydrogen produced using electricity from offshore wind farms, to be declared Project of Common Interest (PCI). AquaDuctus is part of the AquaVentus initiative in Germany which plans to install […]