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  • Equinor and KOSPO Join Forces Offshore South Korea

    6 December 2023
    Business development, Research & Development

    Korea Southern Power (KOSPO) and Equinor have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore a potential collaboration on offshore wind projects near Chuja Island in South Korea. Under the agreement, KOSPO will collaborate with the Norwegian state-owned company Equinor to potentially develop large-scale offshore wind projects near Chuja Island. KOSPO expects that its collaboration […]

  • Havfram Wind Wins Another Major Turbine Installation Contract Offshore UK

    29 March 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has appointed Havfram Wind as the preferred supplier for the installation of wind turbines on Vattenfall’s Norfolk projects in the United Kingdom. The agreement covers transport and installation works over a period of three years, utilizing one of Havfram Wind`s newbuild NG20000X jack-up wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) with a 3,200-ton crane. The work […]

  • Edison Chouest Offshore Signs Empire Wind SOV Contract

    13 May 2022
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor and BP, has awarded a long-term service operations vessel (SOV) charter agreement to the US-based Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) to support the Empire Wind offshore wind farm project. The charter agreement has a fixed period of 10 years, with commencement in the mid-2020s. The plug-in hybrid SOV […]

  • PGE to Begin Baltica 1 Metocean Measurement Campaign

    26 April 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    PGE Baltica, a subsidiary of PGE Group, has revealed that it will start the metocean measurement campaign for the Baltica 1 offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea next month. As part of the measurement campaign, a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) system will be mounted on a floating buoy to collect data on […]

  • Virginia Sets 5.2GW by 2034 Offshore Wind Target

    10 March 2020
    Authorities

    The Virginia General Assembly has passed the HB 1526 Virginia Clean Economy Act which requires at least 5.2GW of offshore wind power to be developed by 2034. The bill passed the House of Delegates by a 51-45 vote, and the state Senate by a 22-17 vote. The legislation will now be sent to the desk […]

  • MHI Vestas to Test Giant Wind Turbine Nacelles at LORC

    16 September 2019
    R&D, Technology

    MHI Vestas Offshore Wind will use Lindø Offshore Renewables Center’s (LORC) new wind turbine nacelle testing facility to carry out a significant portion of their future testing and validation activities. Once operational in early 2021, the testing facility will be able to accommodate nacelles with a capacity of up to 22MW, LORC said, adding that the new facility […]

  • Havfram Shuts Down Development Unit, Shifts Focus to Offshore Wind Transport and Installation

    6 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Industry

    Norway-based Havfram has decided to wind up its business unit dedicated to the early-phase development of offshore wind farms, Kontiki Winds. Moving forward, the company said it would fully focus on the offshore wind transport and installations market. The news came a day after Havfram revealed that Kontiki Winds was ending its collaboration with RWE […]

  • Offshore Wind Industry Says Danish Open-Door Scheme Suspension ‘Absurd’ and ‘Bad News’ for European Energy Transition

    8 February 2023
    Authorities, Industry

    Updated on 8 February at 14:51 with a comment from European Energy’s CEO. On 6 February, the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) announced that it had suspended the processing of offshore wind projects under the open-door scheme, saying that this permitting scheme was potentially in breach of EU law. It did not take long for the […]

  • Fugro on Salamander Metocean Survey Duty Offshore Scotland

    17 August 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Wind Farm Update

    Salamander, a joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea 7, has selected Fugro to conduct a metocean survey for the proposed Salamander floating offshore wind project in Scotland. Scheduled to begin in September, the survey will run for approximately twelve months and gather essential meteorological, oceanographic, and environmental data, said Fugro. These insights […]

  • South Korea Launches ‘First’ Offshore Wind Installation Vessel

    14 June 2023
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Hyundai Engineering & Steel Industries has launched South Korea’s “first” offshore wind installation vessel, named the Hyundai Frontier. The 14,000-tonne vessel is 85 metres long, 41 metres wide, and 6.5 metres high. Hyundai Frontier is equipped with a dynamic position system that maintains an accurate position in the sea where the influence of current speed […]

  • BlueFloat, Renantis Award Surveys Contract for Floating Wind Sites Offshore Scotland

    6 April 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Acteon Geo-services brands, TerraSond and Benthic, have been awarded a combined geophysical and geotechnical survey by the BlueFloat Energy and Renantis partnership for its Bellrock and Broadshore offshore wind farms, located northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland. The geophysical scope will involve using the Ocean Fortune, a survey vessel designed specifically for year-round North Sea operations, which […]

  • Offshore Wind Top Earner at Van Oord in 2020

    16 March 2021
    Business & Finance

    The offshore wind brought the most revenue to Van Oord in 2020, surpassing for the first time the company’s Dredging business. Van Oord recorded EUR 632 million in revenue at its Offshore Wind business in 2020, a 10.7 per cent increase compared to EUR 571 million reported in 2019. The division’s operational results increased sharply, […]

  • Heatex to Keep GE Haliade-X Wind Turbines Cool

    3 March 2021
    Technology

    GE Renewable Energy has selected Heatex as the supplier of the generator cooling system for the Haliade-X offshore wind turbine. Heatex, a cleantech company specialized in air-to-air heat exchangers, will supply the generator cooling system consisting of heat exchangers and surrounding auxiliary components. Following a technical collaboration between GE and Heatex, focussed on optimizing the […]

  • Floating Wind JIP Picks Second Phase Study Partners

    2 March 2018
    R&D, Technology

    The Carbon Trust-led Floating Wind Joint Industry Partnership has selected partners in projects to investigate the impact of next-generation turbines and heavy lift operations on floating wind farms up to 1GW capacity.

  • LORC Opens New Offshore Wind Test Facilities

    8 December 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Denmark-based Lindø Offshore Renewables Center (LORC) has inaugurated its new test facilities Lindø HALT Test Facility and Lindø Component and Structure Testing (LCST).

  • TenneT Probes Market for Offshore Cable Systems

    24 June 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Transmission system operator TenneT has issued a periodic indicative notice to carry out the market investigation on the planned procurement of cable systems to connect wind farms in Cluster 3 in the German North Sea to the DolWin kappa offshore platform. TenneT Offshore GmbH has invited all potential and interested market participants to express their […]

  • Vineyard Wind Goes Big Offshore New York

    15 February 2019
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Vineyard Wind has officially submitted a bid in New York State’s first offshore wind solicitation for the Liberty Wind project which includes the option of up to 1.2GW of capacity to be developed. The Liberty Wind proposal includes project size options of 400MW, 800MW and 1,200MW which would be produced by turbines located 85 miles away from […]

  • Davi announces its Wind Energy Seminar 2024 in Cesena, Italy

    11 September 2024
    Industry, Innovation

    Cesena, Italy – September 2024 – Davi, a global leader in rolling solutions for the wind energy sector, is excited to announce its upcoming Wind Energy Seminar 2024. Scheduled for September 23rd, this event will take place at the Davi Auditorium in Cesena, Italy, showcasing innovative solutions for towers, foundations, and floating structures within the […]

  • BSH Taps ABL for German Offshore Wind Site Assessment

    16 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Research & Development

    Energy and marine consultancy ABL has been selected by Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) to conduct a navigational risk assessment of offshore wind farm sites in the N-10 identified area of interest in the German North Sea. ABL’s scope of work is to provide a comprehensive navigational risk assessment, including recommendations for risk […]

  • US to Soon Decide on Whether to Give Go-Ahead to Empire Wind 1 & 2 Offshore Wind Farms

    11 September 2023
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed the environmental review of the Empire Wind 1 & 2 offshore wind farms, proposed to be built offshore New York by a joint venture of BP and Equinor, and plans to issue a Record of Decision (ROD) on whether to approve the project this autumn. […]

  • Brunvoll Racks Up Propulsion and Manoeuvring System Orders

    17 August 2023
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Norway-headquartered Brunvoll has received orders for the delivery of propulsion and manoeuvring packages for Purus Wind’s new Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs) and for ESVAGT and Hav Design’s Service Operations Vessel (SOV), respectively. Purus Wind and VARD selected the Norwegian company as the supplier of CSOV propulsion and manoeuvring packages. The delivery is for two […]

  • Enefit Green Buys 1 GW Gulf of Riga Offshore Wind Project

    30 March 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Enefit Green and Eesti Energia have entered into a purchase and sale agreement for a 1 GW offshore wind farm project in the Estonian part of the Gulf of Riga. The agreement will see Enefit Green acquiring 100 per cent of Liivi Offshore OÜ, the developer of the project, from Eesti Energia for nearly EUR […]

  • Edda Wind Orders Two More CSOVs, Prepares for IPO

    15 March 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Edda Wind has ordered two more Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOV) and will start preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) on Euronext Growth Oslo. The two CSOVs will join Edda Wind’s fleet in 2023 and 2024 from Astilleros Gondan shipyard in Spain, where two CSOVs are currently being built, after Østensjø Rederi signed a letter […]

  • GE Haliade – X Prototype Gets a Power Boost

    22 October 2020
    R&D, Technology

    GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X prototype, the world’s most powerful wind turbine operating to date, has been optimized and is now operating at a 13 MW power output. During the following months, the prototype operating in the Port of Rotterdam will undergo a series of tests to perform different types of measurements and obtain its type […]

  • UK Charts Decade-Long Offshore Wind Path

    23 July 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    The UK government has committed to opening the Contracts for Difference auctions for offshore wind every two years from 2019 throughout the 2020s.

  • Rotra Mare Brings First Rentel Turbine Parts to Ostend

    14 February 2018
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Today, 14 February, Siemens’s Rotra Mare roll on/roll off (Ro-Ro) vessel brought the first Siemens Gamesa 7MW wind turbine components for the Rentel offshore wind farm to the REBO site in Ostend. Two blade sets and six top towers have been shipped from Esbjerg.