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  • The Netherlands: FRISIA-Offshore and Offshore Wind Services Announce Cooperation Agreement

    26 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    FRISIA-Offshore, located in Germany, and Offshore Wind Services BV from the Netherlands announced a cooperation agreement. The intention of FRISIA-Offshore and OWS is to invest together in new Crew Transfer Vessels through a joint venture in the coming months. This joint venture will serve as growth platform for the German and Dutch market. Workships Contractors, […]

  • Siemens Secures Order for Borkum Riffgrund 1 Offshore Wind Farm in Germany

    24 February 2011
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Energy has secured another order for an offshore wind power plant in Germany. For the customer DONG Energy the company will supply up to 89 wind turbines for the Borkum Riffgrund 1 project in the North Sea off the German coast. With a total capacity of 320 megawatts (MW) the wind power plant will […]

  • ESBJERG, WE HAVE A PROBLEM

    4 November 2016

    There may be very few similarities between the Apollo 13 moon flight and Vattenfall’s Surveillance Centre in Esbjerg, bar one: The relaying of information due to technical malfunction. Offshore WIND speaks to Jan Jørgensen on the complex and challenging job of monitoring Vattenfall’s wind turbines. Jan Jorgensen from Vattenfall is manager of Vattenfall’s Surveillance Centre where he is […]

  • 3sun Gets Two-Year Extension on Siemens’ UK Offshore Wind Sites

    14 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    3sun Group has secured a contract extension with Siemens to provide offshore wind turbine installation services in the UK until 2016. 3sun Group has been working with Siemens since 2009, on work totalling around £15 million in the UK. This two year contract extension further underpins the relationship, and involves the company providing technicians for […]

  • SUBSEA PROTECTION: Protection solutions against scouring

    30 March 2015

    In the previous article we spoke about the importance of accurate wind measurement for an optimum wind farm design. But also underwater there are elements that need to be taken into consideration when designing the foundation and cable structures for each wind turbine. Waves and currents can cause erosion of the seabed around a fixed […]

  • Danske Commodities Signs Sheringham Shoal PPA

    12 July 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Danske Commodities has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm in the UK. Danske Commodities will take over the balancing and trading of 126MW out of the project’s total 316.8MW capacity, which is equivalent to 40% of the wind farm’s production. “The Sheringham Shoal PPA is a great addition […]

  • Danske Commodities Strikes Again

    16 July 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Danish energy trading company Danske Commodities has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Dudgeon offshore wind farm in the UK. Effective 16 July, Danske Commodities will take over balancing and trading of 281MW, equivalent to 70% of the wind farm’s production. The 402MW Dudgeon is owned by Equinor (35%), Masdar (35%) and […]

  • Siemens Erects Fourth Substation in North Sea

    21 July 2014
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens has installed a fourth offshore platform in the North Sea, completing an important stage for grid connections of sea-based wind farms. This is the platform for the SylWin1 DC link, which is the most powerful of the four offshore wind power grid connections contracted to Siemens by the German-Dutch transmission grid operator TenneT between […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Signs EUR 500 Million Guarantee Facility as Orders Pour In

    27 August 2021
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa has signed a guarantee facility worth EUR 500 million with EKF and Danske Bank to back the delivery of offshore and onshore wind turbines from its order book. The guarantee facility will reinforce Siemens Gamesa’s ability to keep pace with growing future orders and allow the wind turbine supplier to provide guarantees, according […]

  • Video: It’s Time to Start Talking Spatial

    10 May 2019

      This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Vimeo. For a long time, the development of offshore wind was little contested by other sea uses in the North Sea. Whilst there were objections from fishermen due to limiting their access to sea space and tourism representatives concerned by visual impacts […]

  • Sif Group

    27 June 2013

    Dutch Sif Group bv is another manufacturer that has been producing for the offshore wind energy industry since the start. The company supplied the onshore wind energy market from the outset in the 1990’s. In April 2002 the real work in the offshore wind industry started when Sif supplied 80 monopiles and 80 transition pieces to its client […]

  • Danske Commodities Expands to US

    12 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    Danish energy trading company Danske Commodities has expanded its trading activities to the United States. Danske Commodities US LLC is based in Connecticut and is part of the company’s strategy of global expansion. Besides expanding geographically, Danske Commodities said it is dedicated to growing the size of its business activities. In February, the company became part […]

  • Danske Commodities Books Hywind Scotland Power

    19 June 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Danish energy trading company Danske Commodities has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the world’s first floating wind farm, Hywind Scotland. As the sole offtaker, Danske Commodities will take over balancing and trading of Hywind Scotland’s total volume of 30MW. Hywind Scotland is owned by Equinor (75%) and Masdar (25%). The wind farm, […]

  • 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 […]

  • Danske Commodities Signs PPA for World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    17 August 2020
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Danske Commodities has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for the Dogger Bank offshore wind project in the UK. Under the agreement, Danske Commodities will be responsible for the trading and balancing of 480 MW of the project’s 3.6 GW capacity. “The Dogger Bank PPA is a great addition to our long-term portfolio and […]

  • Danske Commodities and Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited Ink 15-Year PPA

    12 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Danish independent energy service company Danske Commodities has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL). Under the agreement, Danske Commodities will handle all forecasting and trading for 294 MW, equivalent to 50% of the farm’s production. The PPA is Danske Commodities’ first long-term balancing contract in the UK market, where it […]

  • VBMS Picks Niels Winther Shipping for Horns Rev 3

    13 December 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    VBMS has contracted Niels Winther Shipping as the preferred supplier of agency services for the 406MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm located in the Danish North Sea.

  • ACCOMMODATION VESSELS: THE PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE

    5 October 2015

    The concept of using vessels as hotels, or floatels, accommodation vessels, or recently, SOVs, or whatever name you give them, has been available in the market for a while. With some of the current and more future projects being built further at sea in harsher sea states this concept is now gaining ‘ground’. Not only […]

  • Danske Commodities Takes On UK Renewables Market Experts

    21 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    Volker Beckers and Anne Broeng have joined the Board of Directors of the Aarhus-based Danske Commodities to provide additional insight into UK market and add risk management competences, one week after the company entered the UK renewables market. The independent energy service company last week signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Beatrice Offshore Wind farm Limited (BOWL). […]

  • WTIVS: Foundation installations – the future challenge?

    12 November 2014

    The main interview in this edition covers Van Oord Offshore who has recently taken delivery of their new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Aeolus. We now look at what three other companies operating these types of vessels are thinking about now and for in the future. Depending on your definition of a WTIV there are […]

  • WTIVS

    2 October 2012

    In the past 12 months we have seen orders for new Wind Turbine Installation Vessels placed, new builds started and others completed and delivered. These vessels have got bigger and stronger’wlth larger cranes, and higher jacking possibilities. The specifications of almost every dimension have increased. Offshore WIND has spoken to some of the new owners […]

  • Seacat Services on Sheringham Shoal O&M Mission

    8 October 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    Seacat Services has secured a contract with Equinor to provide offshore energy support vessels (OESVs) for the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm in the UK. Under the long-term contract, Seacat Services is providing three OESVs to support the ongoing O&M work at the 316.8MW offshore wind farm some 17km off the coast of North Norfolk. The 21m long […]

  • Entire Output of World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Sold Out

    24 November 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    15-year offtake Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) have been signed for the third phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, SSE Renewables and Equinor said. Dogger Bank Wind Farm will be constructed over 130 kilometres out to sea off the north-east coast of England and is expected to be fully […]

  • Danish Wind Turbines Smash Annual Production Record

    8 January 2018

    Wind farms across Denmark, both on land and those in Danish waters, broke record in 2017 by producing electricity equivalent to 43.6% of the country’s total consumption. Until the end of 2017, the record year was 2015, when wind power delivered an equivalent of 42% of Danish electricity consumption, according to Dansk Energi. 

  • Highlights of the Month – August 2020

    1 September 2020

    We bring you the ten most-read articles on OffshoreWIND.biz for the month of August 2020. Ørsted Recruiting 23 Offshore Wind Turbine Technicians Ørsted has launched a recruitment campaign for 23 wind turbine technicians, who will work out of the East Coast Hub in Grimsby on the company’s offshore wind farms, including Hornsea Project Two. Largest […]

  • Sandbank Feeds First Power into German Grid

    7 September 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    The Sandbank offshore wind farm, located in the North Sea, 90km west of German island of Sylt, has fed the first power to the German grid. The 72 wind turbines will be put into operation successively, with the entire wind farm expected to be on the network in the spring of 2017. The first wind turbine was installed at the […]