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  • Floating LiDAR Needed for Hesselø Offshore Wind Farm Site in Denmark

    6 July 2020
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Danish transmission system operator Energinet has issued a call for tenders for LiDAR measurements at the Hesselø offshore wind project area in Kattegatt, 30 kilometres north of the coast of the island of Seeland (Zealand). The tender call states that a floating LiDAR buoy will be deployed at the project site for twelve months to […]

  • SINTEF Aims Towards Big Offshore Wind Turbines (Norway)

    25 March 2011
    Business & Finance

    What will it take to build a floating 10 MW wind-turbine? This is just one of many questions that the European Union’s HiPRWind project aims… (zimbio) [mappress] Source:zimbio , March 25, 2011

  • FLIDAR Completes its Trials in North Sea (Belgium)

    23 November 2011

    A full-size prototype of the floating LIDAR offshore resource assessment system, known as FLIDAR™, has been successfully tested 15km off the Belgian coast. It has been located next to a stationary LIDAR (WINDCUBE®v2 LIDAR from Leosphere) on a fixed communication mast for the month of October, in order to test survivability and validate the accuracy […]

  • France: IDEOL Announces USD 1.4 M Funding Round and Strengthens its Board with New Appointments

    12 July 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, Training & Education

    IDEOL announces it has closed the financing of its innovative solutions development, and strengthened its advisory board with recognized experts from the offshore industry. Offshore wind is a buoyant sector: France is about to launch a first bidding for a 3 GW round, the United-Kingdom forecasts the installation of 32 GW before 2030, Germany sets […]

  • 200-Turbine Floating Wind Plan Proposed to Offset UK Oil & Gas Footprint

    1 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    A plan to decarbonise offshore oil and gas assets in the UK through an integrated 200-turbine floating wind and green hydrogen development was revealed today (1 June). The GBP 10 billion (approx. EUR 11.62 billion) project involves installing 200 of the largest floating wind turbines at sites West of Shetland and in the Central North […]

  • OWC, Multiversum Join LiDAR Forces for Offshore Wind

    5 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    UK-based Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) and German company Multiversum have entered a partnership to provide pre-construction offshore wind measurement services as well as specific advice on fixed and floating LiDAR measurements. 

  • TechnipFMC Targets Floating Wind with Magnora Tie-Up

    18 March 2021
    Business & Finance

    TechnipFMC has entered into an agreement with Magnora ASA to jointly pursue floating offshore wind project development opportunities under the name Magnora Offshore Wind. In Januray, Magnora revealed it had entered into a partnership to establish the joint venture, but at the time did not disclose the name of the partner. Magnora Offshore Wind has […]

  • Floating Wind Energy Cost Could Fall below £85/MWh by 2020s

    10 July 2014
    R&D

    An engineering design study for the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) by The Glosten Associates, using their innovative tension leg floating platform (TLP) for Offshore Wind demonstrator has shown that UK offshore wind energy costs could fall to below £85/MWh by the mid-2020s, with further reductions possible as the technology matures. The floating platform is designed […]

  • PivotBuoy Gets Boost from European Innovation Council Accelerator

    28 December 2020
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    X1 Wind, which leads the PivotBuoy floating wind platform project in Spain, has been selected in the last round of funding in the pilot phase of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator. The company has been chosen for funding support together with 37 European start-ups and SMEs to receive between EUR 1 million and EUR […]

  • Floating Tidal Turbine Project to Get NRC-IRAP Funds

    7 October 2015
    Technology

    A collaborative effort between Instream Energy Systems Corp. of Canada and IT Power Consulting Ltd. of the UK has been approved for financial support from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) and been awarded the EUREKA label. Instream Energy Systems, a Canadian hydrokinetic technology company, will work in collaboration with […]

  • Conquest Offshore, deugro Present Floating Foundation Installation System

    12 May 2015
    Technology

    Conquest Offshore and deugro Denmark A/S, with the engineering companies Temporary Works Design (TWD) and Barge Master, have presented their newly developed installation system for monopiles, transition pieces (TPs) and pre-piling of jackets. The 136 by 36 meter Conquest MB1 barge is the perfect tool to execute this kind of work. Three monopiles and 3 to 16 transition […]

  • France Receives First Offshore Wind Power

    19 September 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Floating offshore wind turbine Floatgen, the first offshore wind turbine installed off the French coast, has started delivering electricity to the grid.

  • Statoil Hires Lloyd’s Register Energy for Hywind Project

    8 June 2015

    Statoil has awarded Lloyd’s Register Energy’s consulting business a contract to perform a risk and emergency preparedness analysis for the Hywind Scotland pilot park project. The Norwegian international energy company plans to build the first floating wind farm off the Scottish coast. The park will be located near Buchan Deep, approx. 25-30 km off the […]

  • Two Offshore Wind Projects Take a Piece of France’s EMR ITE 2015 Grant

    25 December 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    Two offshore wind-related research projects will receive a portion of a EUR 10 million grant through the Investment for the Future program (EMR ITE 2015) launched jointly by France’s Institute for Energy Transition and National Research Agency (ANR). The first offshore wind-related project that will receive part of the funds is research into modeling the role of […]

  • Hexicon Cashes in EUR 1.23 Mln

    21 July 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Hexicon Ltd has successfully completed a rights issue of 11.4 MSEK (EUR 1.23 million) to secure the development of Hexicon’s innovation for offshore wind at deep waters. The rights issue allows a faster and more robust implementation of the new strategy to develop floating platforms for offshore wind energy, and demonstrate its innovation by building […]

  • ODE Secures New Offshore Wind Contract in South Korea

    15 July 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Green Investment Group (GIG) has selected Offshore Design Engineering (ODE) as an Owner’s Engineer and Package Manager for its offshore wind farms in South Korea. For GIG, ODE will manage a range of packages including foundations, cables, electrical interface, and onshore engineering, and will support GIG through the concept, FEED and detailed design engineering phases […]

  • SeaTwirl Granted Patent in Japan

    12 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Technology

    SeaTwirl has been granted a patent for its divisible offshore wind turbine by the Japanese Patent Office. “Japan has great water depths and large cities along the coasts, which is an interesting market for our floating wind turbine, especially when Japan has set a goal of becoming CO2 neutral by 2050. To protect our ideas […]

  • Evopod Survives 6-Month Trials

    12 March 2015
    Technology

    Since the 7th of August 2014 E35 has successfully completed six months of continuous deployment in Sanda Sound. The trials have demonstrated Evopod’s low motions and survivability characteristics in the moderately fast flowing (4 to 5 knots) tidal site, which in the winter months is also exposed to a harsh wave environment from the Atlantic […]

  • BOEM to Gauge Interest in Californian Offshore Wind Projects

    22 March 2016
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will soon issue a Federal Register Notice to determine if there is competitive interest in developing offshore wind projects off Morro Bay, California. BOEM announced this yesterday, after wrapping up an initial review of an unsolicited lease request from Trident Winds, LLC for a floating wind energy project in the […]

  • Top News of the Week, August 26 – September 1, 2013

    1 September 2013

    VIDEO: DolWin Alpha Installation  The DolWin alpha converter platform has been installed in the North Sea. Siemens Successfully Installs HelWin1 Platform (Germany)   Siemens has installed the HelWin1 offshore platform in the North Sea, marking the successful completion of a significant stage in German grid connection projects. UK: Samsung’s 7MW Offshore Wind Turbine Reaches NAREC’s […]

  • Top News of the Week Aug 19 – 24, 2013

    25 August 2013

    Floating Gyro-Stabilized VAWT to Be Tested in Norway (VIDEO) A model of a floating gyro stabilized Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) for offshore and near-shore applications, which is called Gwind, will be tested in the harbor of Stavanger this autumn, according to the Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE). AREVA, Windreich Sign Cooperation Contract […]

  • New Wave Energy Device to Showcase at ‘Our Ocean Challenge’

    28 May 2015
    R&D, Technology

    The OCEAN WAVE POWER STATION (OWPS) will be presented at “Our Ocean Challenge” demo day in Dordrecht, the Netherlands today. OWPS consists of two large vessels that support a framework with floating standard 45 foot container-sized pontoons. Continuous long ocean waves (so-called swell) move the pontoons that activate huge wing pumps. The pumps circulate a […]

  • SeaTwirl Cleared to Install S2x Prototype Offshore Norway After Appeal Is Rejected

    26 January 2023
    Authorities, R&D, Technology

    The Norwegian authority, Norges Vassdrags- og Energidirektorat (NVE), has rejected an appeal to overturn SeaTwirl’s S2x concession in Norway. The decision can therefore no longer be appealed and SeaTwirl can now progress with the planning and installation of the S2x prototype. SeaTwirl was first awarded the concession together with Marin Energi Testsenter in late March […]

  • Hexicon Raises EUR 2.7M to Boost Floating Platform Development

    7 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Hexicon AB have secured new funds for the development of their floating offshore wind platform by receiving SEK 25 million (approx. € 2.7 million) through an oversubscribed issue of new shares. The share issue amounted to SEK 20 million (approx. € 2.2 million), and the company’s Board has decided to execute an over-subscription option that amounted to […]

  • GICON Presents Floating Offshore Foundation to German Environment Minister

    11 November 2012
    Authorities, Technology

    On 6 November 2012, Prof. Grossmann had the opportunity to present GICON innovations in the renewable energy sector to the German Federal Environment Minister Peter Altmaier and to Andres Lämmel, member of German parliament representing Dresden. Prof. Grossmann was thus also able to report that a biogas plant designed by GICON utilizing the GICON Biogas […]

  • Arcadis Ost 1 Readies for Wind Turbine Installation

    3 November 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    DEME has completed the installation of the secondary steel on all the XXL monopiles at Parkwind’s Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea, with the project now ready to enter the next stage of construction. The offshore construction specialist installed the final XXL monopile, manufactured by Steelwind, at […]