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  • ForWind and Fraunhofer IWES Start of Research Initiative “Wind Energy 2020” (Germany)

    24 May 2011

      ForWind, the Center for Wind Energy Research of the Universities of Oldenburg, Hanover and Bremen, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) have joined forces to form the “National Wind Energy Research Association”. This was announced today by ForWind Managing Director Dr. Stephan Barth and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Reuter, […]

  • 589MW Taiwanese Offshore Wind Project Takes Off

    21 February 2020
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has reached financial close and the start of construction on the 589MW Changfang and Xidao wind project off the coast of Changhua County, Taiwan. The Changfang and Xidao wind farm will feature 62 MHI Vestas 9.5MW wind turbines scheduled to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2024. The wind farm […]

  • Port of Oostende Holds ‘Blue Energy’ Conference

    21 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    The Port of Oostende organised the BEPPo (Blue Energy Production in Ports) closing conference “Ports as hubs for marine renewable energy projects” at the Greenbridge Incubator centre. BEPPo is a transnational collaborative project between public and private organisations from Belgium, Denmark, Scotland and Norway, 50% co-funded by European Regional Development Funds (ERDF) within the Interreg […]

  • Siemens Successfully Installs HelWin1 Platform (Germany)

    26 August 2013
    Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens has installed the HelWin1 offshore platform in the North Sea, marking the successful completion of a significant stage in German grid connection projects. HelWin1 will link the two offshore wind farms Nordsee Ost and Meerwind to the mainland. Using the Siemens technology installed on the platform, the alternating current power generated by the wind […]

  • The Crown Estate Issues Invitation to Tender for Pre-Qualified Celtic Sea Floating Wind Bidders

    13 August 2024
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Grid Connection, Planning & Permitting

    The Crown Estate has invited proposals from the pre-qualified bidders in the Round 5 seabed leasing process which will award up to 4.5 GW of floating wind capacity in the Celtic Sea. On 13 August, The Crown Estate said the second phase of the leasing process got underway on 8 August, following the conclusion of […]

  • Cuxhaven Offshore Appeal Issued to German Government

    26 August 2013
    Authorities

    Offshore wind energy is an essential pillar of the Germany’s energy policy. In order to improve the framework of sustainable energy, the North German coastal states and cities have decided to issue an exhortation to the Federal Government titled “Cuxhaven Offshore Appeal”. The “Cuxhaven Offshore Appeal” formulates steps that are necessary to overcome the current […]

  • New Offshore Wind Investments Drop 60% in 2017

    6 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    Six projects worth EUR 7.5 billion reached Final Investment Decision (FID) last year – a 60% decrease from 2016 and the first decrease in investments since 2012 – according to WindEurope, which states that the transition to auctions has resulted in a lull in FIDs and that the auctions of the last two years are expected to lead to new project FIDs in 2018.

  • SSE, Equinor Agree Preliminary Dogger Bank D Seabed Lease Terms with The Crown Estate

    12 July 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    SSE and Equinor, the co-developers of the 2 GW Dogger Bank D project (DBD), and The Crown Estate have established commercial terms of a proposed variation of the existing Dogger Bank C seabed lease, within which the two partners plan to build the fourth phase of Dogger Bank Wind Farm. The fourth phase of already […]

  • Secretary Salazar Streamlines Offshore Wind Applications Along Atlantic Coast (USA)

    3 February 2012

    Echoing President Obama’s State of the Union call for an “all of the above” energy strategy, the Department of the Interior marked a major milestone for offshore wind energy along the Atlantic coast. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau announced that the department’s renewable […]

  • Vattenfall Sets Aside EUR 5.5 Billion for Wind Development

    30 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Swedish utility Vattenfall plans to invest EUR 5.5 billion in on- and offshore wind energy development by 2020, the company’s Head of Business Area Wind Gunnar Groebler was quoted by German media as saying. The amount is equal to what the state-owned power company invested in wind power development in the past ten years. Vattenfall expects this investment […]

  • AXYS Technologies to Provide WindSentinel Wind Resource Assessment Buoy to MAREC (Canada)

    25 March 2011
    Technology

    AXYS Technologies Inc. has recently won the bid to provide a WindSentinel™ wind resource assessment buoy to the Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center (MAREC) of Grand Valley State University located in Allendale Michigan and working in partnership with the University of Michigan and its Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute and the Michigan Natural Features […]

  • Burns & McDonnell Wins Mayflower Wind Onshore Link FEED Contract

    11 December 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Mayflower Wind Energy LLC has selected Burns & McDonnell to carry out Front End Engineering Design (FEED) of the onshore substation and onshore cable system for the Mayflower Wind project off Massachusetts, US. Burns & McDonnell will also provide market engagement support for the project. Mayflower Wind, a joint venture of Shell and Ocean Winds, […]

  • RWE Highlights Floating Wind as It Files ScotWind Bid(s)

    19 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    RWE has announced its participation in the ScotWind seabed leasing round in Scotland. While the company did not specify the technology it plans to use, it did highlight its involvement in new floating wind projects worldwide in relation to the new projects to be built off the Scottish coasts. “As part of its natural evolution, […]

  • IKEA Ventures Into Offshore Wind

    14 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    Ingka Group, the largest IKEA franchisee with 367 IKEA stores in 30 markets, has acquired a 25% stake in the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Ingka Group is part of a consortium which recently bought an 80% stake in Veja Mate Offshore Project GmbH, the owner and operator of the wind […]

  • China: Zhanjiang to Take Advantage of Marine Resources

    13 March 2012

    Pursuing efforts to boost its oceanic economy, Zhanjiang is planning to take advantage of marine resources in the years to come, reports China Daily. This potential the sea has to offer is also recognized in terms of offshore wind power. For the purpose of utilizing the oceanic wind power, a plan has been introduced for […]

  • EFFECTS ON MARINE LIFE: Marine life has no borders

    20 April 2015

    Since research into the impact of offshore wind farms on the marine life started more than 15 years ago at Denmark’s Horns Rev 1, there have been several multi-year research and monitoring programmes in Denmark, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. A large part of it funded by the wind farm developers themselves, and governments also […]

  • PGE, Ørsted Gather Tier 1 Offshore Contractors for 1.5 GW Baltica 2

    31 October 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Foundations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    The PGE and Ørsted joint venture has signed an agreement with German-based Steelwind Nordenham for the supply of foundations for Baltica 2, which is the first stage of the Baltica Offshore Wind Farm in the Polish Baltic Sea. Under the contract, Steelwind Nordenham will deliver 34 monopile foundations with the production expected to start in […]

  • Offshore Wind Training Facility Opens in Massachusetts

    28 October 2019
    Training & Education

    The Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MMA) has launched the nation’s first offshore wind training facility. The facility includes a crew transfer training vessel (CTV), which supports safety training for workers moving from relatively small CTVs to the fixed support structures of offshore wind turbines. Initially, MMA will focus on Basic Safety Training for the industry with a […]

  • Finland Sets Stage for Offshore Wind Auction in 2023/24

    9 December 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The Finnish government’s Committee on Economic Policy has approved a proposal for an auction model to be applied to the leasing of public water areas controlled by Metsähallitus for the development of offshore wind farms. The first auction is expected to take place in 2023–2024 and will cover three to four areas suitable for offshore […]

  • 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 […]

  • Alstom Hiring at Saint-Nazaire Facility

    22 September 2015
    Training & Education

    Alstom continues spurring the job market in the Pays de la Loire Region, especially in the Saint Nazaire area. The Group is currently hiring people in the area, mostly operators, to work in the offshore wind turbine plant which was inaugurated in December 2014. Launched in the summer, the campaign will stretch until December 2015. […]

  • Philippines Has 31 GW of Proposed Offshore Wind Projects; President Greenlights OW, Green Hydrogen Plan

    11 November 2022
    Authorities

    The Philippines’ President, Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., has given the country’s Department of Energy (DOE) the green light to move forward with its plan to explore and develop the offshore wind potential as a source of clean and sustainable energy, and electricity for green hydrogen production. The Department of Energy reported to the President that […]

  • 25MW Nautilus Pilot Project Gets Red Light from New Jersey BPU

    19 December 2018
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has unanimously voted to reject the proposal to install the 25MW Nautilus offshore wind demonstration project off the coast of Atlantic City.

  • Modus Checks Gwynt y Môr Inter-Array Cable Routes

    2 June 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    Modus Seabed Intervention has completed a high speed bathymetric and depth of burial survey of the inter-array cable routes at the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm. The 160-turbine offshore wind farm, operated by innogy, comprises 161 inter-array cables totaling some 147 kilometres in length. To carry out the depth of burial survey at the wind […]

  • German Company to Build XXL Monopile Factory in Denmark

    27 November 2023
    Manufacturing, Ports & Logistics, Supply Chain

    German-based Baltic Structures Company (BSC) has revealed that it will build an XXL monopile production factory in Esbjerg, Denmark. BSC will build “Europe’s biggest” foundation fabrication site in the Esbjerg Port where it will be able to offer various foundations structures with a more than 100,000-square-metre production area under the roof and an output of […]

  • Lithuania Opens with 700 MW Offshore Wind Pitch

    14 May 2020
    Authorities

    Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy has submitted a draft Government Resolution to stakeholders for coordination on locations in the Baltic Sea suitable for offshore wind farms. Proposals were also submitted regarding the capacities of the wind farms which could potentially meet a quarter of Lithuania’s electricity demand. The draft Government Resolution proposes the construction of a […]