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  • French Ports to Support Offshore Wind Projects

    15 September 2011
    Ports & Logistics

      Ports of Normandy Authority (PNA), the port authority of Cherbourg and Caen-Ouistreham, has just finalised its comprehensive proposal to assist in the development of offshore wind energy in the Channel. PNA has published information concerning the capacity and characteristics of the ports it owns, with a view to supporting a European-level wind-energy sector that […]

  • US Identifies Eight Offshore Wind Areas Off Four Central Atlantic States

    17 November 2022
    Authorities

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has identified eight draft Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) offshore North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, which will now be put up for public review and comment.   The areas cover approximately 1.7 million acres and represent a subset of the 3.9 million acres of the Call Area […]

  • Federal Permits Slowing Offshore Wind Development (USA)

    2 December 2010
    Authorities

    New Jersey is leading other East Coast states with its plans for offshore wind energy, but the federal government still needs to expedite its permitting process for those projects to move forward, said members of a new national pro-wind power coalition. New Jersey’s offshore waters have enough reliable wind to power “more than every household […]

  • Riffgat OWF Wins ‘Project of the Year’ Award

    25 September 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    For the third time, the Renewable Energy Hamburg Cluster presented the German Renewables Award for innovations and pioneering achievements in wind energy. An independent jury selected four winners from 61 submissions and nominations in the categories “Product Innovation of the Year”, “Project of the Year”, “Student Thesis of the Year, Wind Energy” and “Lifetime Achievement, […]

  • alpha ventus – Germany’s First Offshore Wind Farm is Formally Commissioned

    27 April 2010
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Today, Federal Environment Minister Dr. Norbert Röttgen together with Chief Executive Officers Dr. Werner Brinker of EWE, Dr. Wulf Bernotat of E.ON and Tuomo Hatakka of Vattenfall Europe are commissioning Germany’s first offshore wind farm during a ceremony in Norddeich. Alpha ventus is the first open sea wind farm of its kind in Germany’s territorial […]

  • Deutsche Bucht Accepts Mono Bucket Challenge

    19 July 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The Deutsche Bucht Mono Bucket pilot demonstrator project has reached financial close, Northland Deutsche Bucht GmbH said.

  • World’s First Offshore Wind Fund Reaches Close

    1 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    The UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) has announced that its FCA regulated subsidiary, UK Green Investment Bank Financial Services Limited (GIBFS), has reached first close on commitments of £463m on its planned £1bn fund to invest in operating offshore wind farms in the UK. First close marks the completion of the first stage of […]

  • Korea’s Largest Offshore Wind Turbine Stands Complete

    27 January 2022
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has installed the 8 MW offshore wind turbine prototype at the Korea Wind Power Demonstration Center in Baeksu, Yeonggwang, South Jeolla Province. The commissioning of the prototype will start at the end of this month, after which international certification for the wind turbine will be obtained and final […]

  • Shell, ScottishPower Begin Next Chapter of Their 5 GW Floating Wind Story in Scotland

    13 April 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Shell and ScottishPower have signed option agreements with Crown Estate Scotland for their two floating wind farms that have a combined capacity of 5 GW. ScottishPower also has a third, bottom-fixed offshore wind project that secured seabed lease rights in the ScotWind leasing round. The floating wind farms, the 3 GW MarramWind and the 2 […]

  • GL Garrad Hassan Reviews Offshore Wind Over Last 10 Years

    23 October 2013

    GL Garrad Hassan, the world’s largest renewable energy advisory organisation and part of the recently merged DNV GL Group today published a landmark document providing exclusive insight into the last ten years of offshore wind. ‘10 Years: 10 Lessons’ is a series of ten thought-provoking essays from experts with personal experience of a decade of […]

  • UK: People to Vote for Pro-Wind Politicians, Poll Says

    2 May 2013

    New independent research published today reveals that people are less likely to vote for political parties that oppose wind farm developments. The polling, undertaken by ComRes, asked about voting intention for both tomorrow’s local elections and the next General Election in May 2015. The results show that, in a General Election, 31% of voters are […]

  • Germany Powered with almost 3GW of Offshore Wind

    20 July 2015

    In the first half of 2015, another 422 offshore wind turbines, with a combined capacity of 1,765.3 megawatts went on line. Up to 30 June 2015 a total of 668 offshore turbines with an overall capacity of 2,777.8 megawatts fed power into the German grid. With the current offshore wind energy output the system can […]

  • First power from the Walney 1 Offshore Windfarm (UK)

    14 January 2011

    The Walney 1 Offshore Wind Farm, off the shore of Cumbria, has Thursday January 13th 2011 started producing the first CO2-free electricity to the UK’s national grid. Electricity has been generated from the first of the 51 turbines that Walney 1 Offshore Wind Farm will consist of eventually. When fully operational, the Walney 1 and […]

  • Good Vibrations: RWE and Co to Test Quiet Pile Driving Approach

    6 May 2021
    R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    RWE Renewables, itap, BioConsult SH, the University of Stuttgart, and Technische Universität Berlin are to research an innovative vibratory pile driving technique at RWE’s Kaskasi offshore wind farm. The new method for installing foundations is said to have the potential to significantly reduce underwater noise emissions and installation times. The research project is funded by […]

  • UK: London Array Fully Powered and Producing Green Electricity

    8 April 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    Full capacity has now been reached at the 630MW first phase of the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the London Array. The commissioning of the 175th and final turbine happened at 16.09 on Saturday, 6 April. With all turbines now exporting power to the national grid, London Array is expected to produce enough green electricity […]

  • Top companies in the line up for Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing conference (Germany)

    4 August 2010

    As wind farms spring up inland and offshore and turbines get larger, so demands are increasing on windmill blade manufacturers. This will be discussed at the new AMI global conference on Wind Turbine Blade Manufacture, which takes place 7-9 December 2010 in Düsseldorf. The event starts with a review by LM Wind Power of blade […]

  • UK: Lerwick Harbour Lays Out Plans for Future

    21 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    Building on high levels of activity and recent investment, Lerwick Harbour is positioned for another busy year and continuing development of infrastructure to meet users’ future requirements. In his foreword to Lerwick Port Authority’s newly-published Strategy and Business Plan 2013, Chairman Harry Jamieson, notes that the harbour “is set up well for the future following […]

  • North America to Celebrate Global Wind Day

    1 June 2012

    With just over two weeks to go until Global Wind Day (GWD), interest in celebrating the power of wind on or about 15 June is growing in the three nations of North America. In Boston, the 381-year-old capital of Massachusetts, free scheduled GWD events in the city include educational sessions, movie screenings and political actions […]

  • Pharos Offshore Group Develops ROV for Offshore Wind Farm Cable Market (UK)

    16 September 2011
    Technology

      Pharos Offshore Group has started construction of a newly designed remotely operated vehicle (ROV) specifically for the offshore wind farm cable market. The new Inter Turbine Array Trencher, the ITAT 800™, is an 800 HP (600 kW) self-propelled trenching ROV that can be more easily manoeuvred by the operators onboard its support ship than […]

  • OFFSHORE TURBINE TECHNICIANS: The challenge in moving onshore experience offshore

    14 September 2015

    With a reserved maximum of €18bn for offshore wind development the Dutch Government’s ‘Energie Akkoord’ outlines the instructions and deadlines for the future of this industry in the Netherlands. In the same agreement it states that a cost reduction of 40% should be achieved. Included in this is Operation & Maintenance (O&M) which takes up […]

  • German Offshore Wind Grinds to a Standstill in 2021

    16 July 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment, Ports & Logistics

    Germany will not install a single offshore wind turbine in 2021, marking no expansion in offshore wind capacity in a calendar year for the first time in more than ten years, the country’s wind organisations said. This expansion gap is not the expression of a lack of interest on the part of investors or a […]

  • Haizea, GEG to Start Building UK’s Largest Offshore Wind Tower Factory Next Month

    3 December 2021
    Business & Finance

    Global Energy Group (GEG) and Haizea Wind Group have signed an agreement to build an offshore wind tubular rolling facility at the Scottish Port of Nigg, called Nigg Offshore Wind (NOW) and worth more than GBP 110 million (approximately EUR 130 million). Construction works on the new facility, which will be 450 metres long and […]

  • Mainstream Raises EUR 60 Mln in New Corporate Debt Facility

    22 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Mainstream Renewable Power has successfully closed a new €60 million corporate debt facility. The four year facility was arranged through BlueBay Ireland Corporate Credit, a vehicle established by one of Europe’s leading asset managers BlueBay Asset Management, with substantial investment from the National Pensions Reserve Fund of Ireland, and through Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland from Irish […]

  • Critical Group and Floating Power Plant Working on Poseidon (Denmark)

    16 November 2011

    Critical Software Technologies (UK), Critical Software (PT) and Critical Materials (PT) are working with Floating Power Plant to help the company adopt a proactive approach to monitoring the condition and structural health of its Poseidon off-shore plant. Critical’s work on the Poseidon prototype, situated off the coast of Lolland in Denmark, will open up an […]

  • All Three ScotWind Clearing Applicants Ink Seabed Lease Agreements

    2 November 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Crown Estate has confirmed that all three ScotWind Clearing applicants have signed seabed option agreements making their projects ready to move into the development stage. The three projects that made it into the development stage are the 500 MW floating wind farm proposed by Ocean Winds, the 1,800 MW floating wind farm proposed by Mainstream […]

  • Scottish Businesses Gather Behind Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Project

    16 August 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Wind Farm Update

    A coalition of organisations that are supportive of the GBP 2 billion Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm project has joined forces to appeal to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Scotland to abandon further court action aimed at delaying the project.