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  • Mainstream and Maple Power to Team Up Ahead of Celtic Sea Floating Wind Tender

    29 November 2022
    Contracts & Tenders

    Mainstream Renewable Power and Maple Power are jointly exploring the upcoming Celtic Sea Floating Offshore Wind Tender in the UK, which will be launched in 2023. The Crown Estate is advancing the Celtic Sea seabed leasing tender for floating wind, which is anticipated to deliver a total of 4 GW of renewable energy by 2035. […]

  • Irish-Spanish Partners Eye Floating Wind Opportunities Offshore Iberian Peninsula

    5 April 2022
    Business & Finance

    Irish floating wind developer Simply Blue Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Spanish companies Proes Consultores and FF New Energy Venture to explore the floating offshore wind opportunities in Spain and Portugal. The floating wind market in Spain got a kick start recently with the publication of the draft Marine Spatial Plan and […]

  • Highlights of the Month: November 2016

    5 December 2016

    Vattenfall Wins Kriegers Flak Tender with EUR 49.9 per MWh Bid Swedish energy company Vattenfall has won the tender to build the 600MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Danish part of the Baltic Sea with the lowest ever bid of EUR 49.9 per MWh, 58% below the original cap of EUR 120 per […]

  • Ørsted Goes Ladder-Less Offshore New York

    27 December 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Scottish engineering innovator Pict Offshore has signed a deal with Ørsted to deploy the ‘Get Up Safe’ (GUS) motion-compensated lifting system at New York’s first offshore wind farms. The deal with Pict Offshore will see the system deployed at the 132 MW South Fork Wind offshore wind farm, as well as two further projects off […]

  • France: Alstom Completes Acquisition of TGL from Rolls-Royce

    30 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Alstom has completed the acquisition of Tidal Generation Limited (TGL) from Rolls-Royce plc. In September 2012, Alstom announced that it had agreed to acquire TGL, which specialises in the design and manufacturing of tidal stream turbines, subject to the achievement of critical milestones including the successful installation of the 1 MW tidal turbine at the […]

  • The Conversation: The Public Health Benefits of Adding Offshore Wind to the Grid

    27 June 2018
    R&D

    New plans to build two commercial offshore wind farms near the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coasts have sparked a lot of discussion about the vast potential of this previously untapped source of electricity.

  • North Star Gets New Owner

    13 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Private markets firm Partners Group has agreed, on behalf of its clients, to acquire North Star, an operator of specialized vessels that offers emergency response and rescue and essential offshore wind maintenance services, from Basalt Infrastructure Partners. Headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, North Star has a fleet of 48 Emergency Response and Rescue Vessels (ERRVs) and […]

  • EnBW Exits US Offshore Wind Market, TotalEnergies Steps In

    28 February 2022
    Business & Finance

    German energy company EnBW has decided to exit the US offshore wind market and focus its future offshore wind activities on Europe. The move was prompted by ”successful auctions in the UK and the announcement of bold offshore wind build-out targets in Germany,” EnBW said. The company’s US entity, EnBW North America, and its assets […]

  • Keppel Acquires Stake in Offshore Wind Turbine Foundation Specialist (Norway)

    3 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    KV Ventus B.V., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Corporation Ltd. (Keppel) has today entered into a share purchase and subscription agreement and shareholders’ agreement to acquire a 49.9% stake in offshore wind turbine foundation designer OWEC Tower (AS) for about NOK 61 million. OWEC Tower, headquartered in Norway, is a leader in the design and […]

  • Thin Red Line Aerospace Completes First Subsea ‘Energy Bag’ (Canada)

    4 May 2011

    Canadian firm Thin Red Line Aerospace has completed the first structure specifically designed and built for undersea compressed air energy storage (CAES). The structure, also referred to as an “Energy Bag”, is to be anchored to the seabed off the coast of Scotland next month as part of a major renewable energy research project conceived […]

  • Germany: REpower start-up celebration for offshore test field alpha ventus

    26 April 2010
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Training & Education

    Hamburg-based manufacturer expects strong growth in the offshore wind energy sector, particularly in Europe. Six REpower wind turbines in test field Alpha Ventus already successfully taken into operation in mid-April. REpower tests for wind power expansion in Alpha Ventus Start-up celebration for offshore test field Alpha Ventus – REpower tests scenarios for wind power capacity […]

  • UK: MCS Takes Delivery of Three Damen FCS 2610s, Two More on the Way

    11 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Maritime Craft Services (Clyde) Ltd. took delivery of three more Twin Axe wind farm support vessels in June and two more will arrive next month. With the introduction of the five new Damen Twin Axe Fast Crew Suppliers, MCS has the largest Twin Axe fleet in the offshore wind industry. The addition of the latest […]

  • New Name Emerges in Offshore Wind Development Market

    3 March 2022
    Business & Finance

    Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) has announced plans to launch a new specialist offshore wind business named Corio Generation (Corio). The new company, to be headquartered in London and led by ex-Iberdrola offshore CEO Jonathan Cole, will operate on a standalone basis and take projects from origination, through development and construction, and into operations. Corio […]

  • ORE Catapult Appoints Two Members to Senior Management Team (UK)

    26 September 2013

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, the Glasgow-based UK innovation centre established by the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board to accelerate the growth and commercialisation of offshore wind, wave and tidal technologies, today (DATE) announced the appointment of two new members to its senior management team. Chief Executive Andrew Jamieson described the appointments of Chris […]

  • Siemens Energy and Iemants to Build Moray West Offshore Substations

    2 December 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Moray West has selected the Siemens Energy/Iemants consortium for the supply of the project’s two offshore substation platforms using Siemens Energy’s Offshore Transformer Module (OTM®) technology. The contract is subject to the award of a Contract for Difference in 2022 and financial close for the 860 MW Moray West wind farm in the Outer Moray […]

  • Swedish Old-Timer Gains Momentum

    5 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The Danish Momentum Gruppen has, in partnership with DEIF Wind Power Technology, repowered and recommissioned the five-turbine Bockstigen offshore wind farm in Sweden.

  • NKT Secures Cable Agreement for Major Wind Farms Offshore Sweden

    30 May 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    OX2 and Ingka Investments have entered into a conditional agreement with NKT for the delivery and installation of export power cables for two wind farm projects offshore Sweden. Under the agreement, NKT’s facility in Karlskrona, Sweden, will deliver the cables for the recently awarded Galene project. The agreement also covers the Triton offshore wind farm. […]

  • DP Energy Acquires SSE’s Tidal Energy Project

    3 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Cork based DP Energy is set to become Europe’s largest independent developer of tidal stream projects following SSE Renewables’ transfer of an Agreement for Lease (AfL) with The Crown Estate. The transfer will see DP Energy take on the development of the Westray South project in Orkney, Scotland, with the potential to install up to […]

  • UK: Newly-Qualified Engineers Drawn to Growing Renewables Sector

    25 May 2012

    Green energy is arguably one of the fastest growing sectors on the planet, with a recent report (Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2011 – Bloomberg New Energy Finance) stating that in excess of £4trillion ($7trillion) of new capital is to be invested in the renewable energy market between 2011 and 2030. The extent of […]

  • UK: New Report Backs Tidal Energy Potential

    20 January 2014

    New research from a global group of scientists and engineers, including from the University of Southampton, has been published in a special issue journal of the Royal Society. The work is in support of tidal power, which has the potential to provide more than 20 per cent of the UK’s electricity demand. In order to […]

  • Uncrewed Tandem Deploys Offshore Scotland

    3 June 2021
    R&D, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Two uncrewed vessels remotely controlled from shore have travelled up to 40 kilometres offshore into the North Sea to undertake survey work for Berwick Bank and Marr Bank Offshore Wind Developments, owned by SSE Renewables. The XO-450 Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs), owned and operated by XOCEAN, performed multiple nearshore and offshore cable route surveys in […]

  • New East Quay Opened at Port of Nigg

    4 July 2022
    Ports & Logistics

    The Port of Nigg in Scotland, owned and operated by Global Energy Group (GEG), has unveiled its new East Quay, which increases the port facility’s deep water quayside to over 1,200 metres. The new quay will enable the port to service multiple large-scale energy sector projects simultaneously and ensure the port facility has the required infrastructure […]

  • IBERDROLA RENOVABLES 1st half Ebitda rose 21% to €706.7 million (Spain)

    21 July 2010
    R&D

    IBERDROLA RENOVABLES, global wind energy leader(1)(1) See explanation , recorded gross operating income of €706.7 million in the first half of 2010, a rise of 21.5% over the same period last year. This increase was driven by the Company’s geographical diversification which enabled it to offset uneven performance across its markets, as well as by […]

  • ScottishPower Appoints Keith Anderson as Chief Corporate Officer

    20 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    ScottishPower today announces the appointment of Keith Anderson as Chief Corporate Officer. The appointment follows an extensive internal and external recruitment process which fully considered a number of strong candidates. Keith takes on this role which is based in Glasgow, whilst retaining his position as CEO of ScottishPower Renewables. He will drive and champion Iberdrola […]

  • IKEA Owner Cleared to Buy Stake in 9 GW Offshore Wind Portfolio

    9 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Sweden-headquartered OX2 has secured regulatory clearance to sell a 49 per cent stake in an up to 9 GW portfolio of offshore wind projects to the investment arm of Ingka Group, the largest retailer in the IKEA franchisee system. The deal is expected to be completed within two weeks. Under the agreement revealed in August […]

  • UK: Colpitts Formes Renewable Energy Travel Support Team

    16 May 2012

    Colpitts World Travel announces its newly formed Renewable Energy travel support team, operating from their UK and European Headquarters in Edinburgh.   The team is able to draw on over 30 years of experience from the Oil and Gas division in Aberdeen, utilising a number of transferable skills as well as offering concessionary airfares that many sectors […]