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• First Subsea Nets WindFloat Atlantic Contract

  

  14 September 2018

  Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

  The UK-based First Subsea has secured a contract to provide Platform Mooring Connectors (PMCs) for the 25MW WindFloat Atlantic floating wind project in Portugal. The company will supply nine PMCs, each with a 5500kN minimum breaking load, to the project’s three MHI Vestas V164-8.4MW wind turbines to be installed 20km offshore Viana do Castelo. The PMCs will be used to connect […]

• 6.2MW SEAWIND 6

  

  1 June 2015

  Dutch offshore wind solutions provider Seawind has developed a novel 6.2MW two-bladed upwind turbine with a 126 metre rotor diameter, plus additional technology for bottom-fixed and floating installations together aimed at driving down the cost of energy decisively. Offshore WIND spoke with chief technical officer Silvestro Caruso about product design philosophy, dedicated technology features and […]

• UK: 3sun Group Takes on 20 Apprentices

  

  31 October 2012

  3sun Group, a leading provider of products and services to the energy industry in the UK and internationally, has announced that it has taken on a record 20 apprentices. It is a major achievement for the company as it continues its efforts to train the workforce of tomorrow. The company is exhibiting at stand 189 […]

• China About to Take the Lead in Wind Race With USA

  18 October 2010

  R&D

  Many developments in China can only be described in superlatives, and wind power is no exception. When I first visited Beijing to attend the ministerial Beijing Renewable Energy Conference (BIREC) in 2005, the city looked very different, and so did the wind energy industry. Back then, China only had around 1,000 MW of installed wind […]

• USA: Virginia Approves Offshore Wind Turbine Prototype

  

  28 March 2012

  Authorities

  Governor McDonnell announced that the Virginia Marine Resources Commission has voted unanimously to approve proposed construction of a 479-foot-tall, five-megawatt wind turbine generator prototype in the lower Chesapeake Bay, three miles off the Eastern Shore town of Cape Charles. The construction of the prototype turbine is scheduled to be completed in late 2013, which would […]

• SCORE Awards a Hat-Trick of Grants to East of England SMEs

  

  30 October 2014

  Business & Finance, Technology

  Grant programme, Supply Chain innovation for Offshore Renewable Energy (SCORE), has announced three new grant recipients, all whose projects illustrate the innovation and entrepreneurship thriving in the East of England’s offshore renewable energy sector. Working in collaboration with Cambridge University, Essex-based GreenSpur is developing a new cost effective generator design for the wind turbine market. […]

• Germans Appealing for 2 GW Offshore Wind Tender

  

  25 May 2020

  Business & Finance

  Germany’s WAB, Greenpeace Energy and H2BX are calling for the special 2 GW offshore wind tender to be implemented quickly and that areas be put out to tender before the end of the year. In a letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier, the parties claim that long-term framework […]

• Top News of the Week Jul 15 – 20, 2013

  

  21 July 2013

  Diver Dies at Riffgat Offshore Wind Farm (Germany) A British diver was killed while performing underwater work at the Riffgat offshore wind farm, located north of Borkum in the North Sea, between Friday 12 July and Saturday 13 July. The 26-year-old was buried in 20-meter water depth by a concrete mat, Die Welt reports. World’s […]

• Fendercare Marine to Open Offshore Wind Turbine Support Base in Great Yarmouth, UK

  

  12 July 2012

  Operations & Maintenance

  On Thursday 19 July 2012, Norfolk-based Fendercare Marine will be hosting a launch event to officially open its Great Yarmouth offshore wind turbine support base. The company’s new facility on the Old Bure Marine site in Cobholm follows on from the success of its first base in Lyness, Orkney and will provide an extensive range […]

• SAL Heavy Lift Carrying Out Wikinger OWF Pile Testing (Gallery)

  

  25 November 2014

  Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

  In October 2014 the first phase of the pile testing campaign for the Wikinger offshore wind farm project was launched, after the site’s geotechnical investigation on the Baltic Sea had been completed. German engineering and services group Bilfinger was awarded the test pile contract and chose SAL Heavy Lift as subcontractor to transport and install […]

• Siemens Gamesa’s Gearboxes for MHI Vestas-Powered Princess Amalia OWF

  

  4 April 2018

  Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

  Siemens Gamesa has won a tender for the supply of gearboxes for Eneco’s ten-year-old Princess Amalia offshore wind farm (Prinses Amaliawindpark) that features 60 V80-2.0MW wind turbines delivered by Vestas and maintained by MHI Vestas, which will continue to carry out the regular preventive maintenance for the next five years.

• Alstom Presents 1.4MW Tidal Turbine

  

  1 October 2014

  Technology

  Alstom has improved the design of its 1 MW tidal stream turbine and now offers the Oceade™ 18 – 1.4 MW: a turbine even more efficient, cost-effective and easy to maintain. With a rotor diameter of 18 metres, the Oceade tidal stream turbine has a nominal power of 1.4MW and three variable pitching blades. It is […]

• Basque Companies Launch Floating Offshore Wind O&M Optimisation Project

  

  6 April 2022

  Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

  15 Basque companies led by Saitec Offshore Technologies have launched the FLOAT&M project to research and develop new solutions to improve operations & maintenance (O&M) of floating offshore wind farms. The project kicked off in 2021 and was officially launched this week during the WindEurope Bilbao event. The three-year project is financed by the Basque […]

• Offshore wind in France – The state of the industry

  

  13 January 2012

  The last major economy in Europe that is not a member of the offshore wind club is due to knock on the clubhouse door this year. France will be joining the club with a huge 3GW enrolment fee. This month, to be precise, 11 January 2012, was the deadline for the tenders to be submitted […]

• Coda Octopus Introduces New 3D Sonar for ROVs and AUVs

  

  1 May 2014

  R&D, Technology

  Coda Octopus has developed a new sonar for ROV and AUV operations called Dimension. Based on Echoscope 3D imaging technology and software developed by Coda Octopus, Dimension provides real-time 3D imaging for subsea vehicle applications. Designed for deployment on a wide range of subsea vehicles, Dimension is a true real-time 3D sonar that transforms ROV […]

• OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES: 1991 – 2015

  

  5 January 2016

  Giant technology and scaling steps The world’s first close to shore offshore wind farm, Vindeby, built in Denmark in 1991, features 11 semi-standard 450kW Bonus B35/450kW turbines (now Siemens) and is still in operation today. From today’s perspective the look of these tiny three-bladed turbines in shallow water is largely similar with today’s 6 to […]

• Offshore Wind Investments to Reach USD 810 Billion by 2030 – Rystad Energy

  

  30 April 2021

  Business & Finance

  With the global installed offshore wind capacity expected to exceed 250 GW by 2030, the combined capital and operational expenditure (capex and opex) for the decade is set to reach USD 810 billion (approx. EUR 670.2 billion), signaling an increasing shift of investments from oil and gas to renewable energy technologies, according to a report […]

• Gallery: Danish Researchers Breaking Blades in the Name of Science

  

  19 January 2016

  R&D, Technology, Training & Education

  Researchers at the Technical University in Denmark (DTU) are currently involved in testing wind turbine blades at a test hall on Risø Campus to determine why a blade buckles under the constant pressure from the wind and gravity, or why it collapses under the extreme load applied by sudden and powerful gusts of wind. The researchers […]

• UK: REF Responds to DECC on Offshore Wind Farms’ Costs

  

  6 February 2013

  Authorities

  Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) has responded to the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) by writing a letter to Rt Hon Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, after the news published a few days ago, where DECC was quoted as saying that REF’s figures regarding the future subsidy income for the […]

• A Hub in the Netherlands

  

  22 June 2017

  Contracts & Tenders

  This year Offshore WIND Magazine will be looking at the offshore wind hub ports. These are ports that have either become newly established as offshore wind ports or existing ports already serving the industry that grown beyond most people’s expectations in the past seven years. These hubs can be either a single port or a group of neighbouring ports able to provide the complete base support for range of services from project pre-construction surveys to wind farm operation and maintenance.

• Utsira Nord Bidders Team Up with Westcon and Port of Karmsund

  

  22 December 2022

  Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

  Deep Wind Offshore and EDF Renewables, who announced their joint bids in the upcoming tenders in Norway back last year, have enter into agreements with Westcon Yards and the Port of Karmsund to explore cooperation opportunities in floating wind. The Deep Wind Offshore-EDF Renewables partnership is expected to bid for both areas that will be […]

• Environmental Surveys Start on Baltica 1 Offshore Wind Farm

  

  16 September 2022

  Environment, Wind Farm Update

  Poland’s PGE Baltica, a PGE Group company, has entered the stage of environmental surveys for the Baltica 1 offshore wind farm located approximately 80 kilometres from the Polish Baltic coast. The research will be carried out by a consortium of the Gdynia Maritime University and MEWO S.A., which will also prepare an environmental report and […]

• Marine Power Systems, WavEC Unveil Floating Wind Project in Portugal

  

  12 October 2022

  Technology, Wind Farm Update

  Marine Power Systems (MPS) and WavEC, one of the co-managers of the Aguçadoura test site offshore Viana do Castelo, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on deploying MPS modular floating platform technology, PelaFlex, at the Portuguese test site. The news comes shortly after MPS signed a collaboration agreement with RWE which will, inter alia, […]

• UK: 3sun Bags Three-Year Scira Contract

  

  10 December 2012

  3sun Group, a specialist provider of products and services to the energy industry, has been awarded a three year contract by wind farm operator Scira Offshore Energy. The contract is effective 1 January 2013 for operational services for Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm. 3sun Group specialises in delivering a comprehensive range of products and services […]

• Spain: Alstom to Showcase Its Solutions at Bilbao Marine Energy

  

  16 April 2013

  Alstom presents from 15-19th April at the Bilbao Marine Energy Week -the largest European conference on marine energy- its state of the art technological solutions for renewable ocean energy. This event, organized by the EVE (the Basque Energy Agency) will host a series of symposia, seminars and other activities related to marine energy, where Alstom […]

• Floating wind turbines: A promising start

  

  11 October 2012

  The bulk of the current plans for European offshore wind power are intended for construction in the relatively shallow North Sea. However, many European countries, including Portugal, do not border shallow seas. Their sea beds have steep descending slopes and much greater water depths not suited for current techniques. If a viable technique can be […]