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  • 2018: Adding More Space for Offshore Wind

    3 January 2019
    Authorities

    When it comes to emerging offshore wind markets, Taiwan, India and the U.S. have been in the spotlight over the last few years and especially in 2018. Nevertheless, a few new areas made the offshore wind map over the last year, beyond those already well known and ready for takeoff. Offshore wind is not only expanding as new markets emerge globally, but also as the countries with existing offshore wind farms and those under development already eye earmarking further areas where offshore wind turbines could be installed.  

  • UK: Partrac Reports Busy 2012

    7 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    In completing over 85% of all energy resources assessments for the domestic scene, Partrac have established themselves as the leading survey company able to deliver high quality data from these environments. Technical Director Kevin Black said: “We have just completed internal reviews for our 2012 Annual  Report, and last year was an exciting year for […]

  • Oleg Strashnov to Install Arkona OSS in April

    27 March 2018
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    At the beginning of April, Seaway Heavy Lifting’s vessel Oleg Strashnov will install the 4,000-tonne Arkona topside onto its jacket foundation.

  • UK: Subsea Turbines Could Cause Trouble for Deep-Diving Seabirds

    8 June 2012
    Environment

      Scientists worry about the impact of the subsea turbines on deep-diving seabirds along the Scottish coastline, reported scotsman.com. Developers of the wave projects are now facing the problems that have been an issue for onshore wind farm developers for some time. Scientists in the Pentland Firth have been studying the behavior of black guillemots […]

  • Atlantis Appoints New CFO as It Moves to Scotland

    15 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Atlantis has appointed Simon Counsell as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The company has accepted the resignation of Duncan Black as CFO, who will step down on 18 September 2015, due to the intended relocation of the corporate headquarters, including the finance and administration function, to Scotland from Singapore. Black will remain on the Board as a Non-executive […]

  • STX France Moves Arkona Offshore Substation to Dry Dock

    12 July 2017
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    STX France AS has completed the steel works on the offshore distribution station for the 385MW Arkona wind farm in the Baltic Sea.

  • MacArtney Winches Hornsea Project One Contract

    19 May 2017
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    MacArtney has won a contract to deliver electrical cable winches which will pull array cables and export cables from the seabed onto the substation decks of DONG Energy’s 1.2GW Hornsea Project One wind farm off the Yorkshire coast.

  • Germany: Rescue Helicopters for DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm

    20 December 2012

    DanTysk Offshore Wind GmbH has agreed upon an integral part of their offshore rescue concept contract. The two joint venture partners, Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München, have commissioned DRF Air Rescue for emergency medical care and rescue of injured personnel from the DanTysk construction site. Medically and technically specially equipped helicopter type BK 117 with wind […]

  • RWE Inaugurates Nordsee Ost, Gwynt y Môr Next

    11 May 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    The Nordsee Ost wind farm was officially inaugurated on the occasion of the meeting of the G7 Energy Ministers in Hamburg, on May 8. The inauguration was attended by the German Minister of Economics, Sigmar Gabriel, and his fellow ministers from the G7 states, as well as Peter Terium, CEO of RWE AG, Hans Bünting, CEO of […]

  • Romanian Oil & Gas Company Plans to Build 3 GW of Offshore Wind in Black Sea

    8 May 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Romania’s independent energy company Black Sea Oil & Gas (BSOG) has completed an offshore wind feasibility study of potential areas in the Romanian sector of the Black Sea. Last year, BSOG and its Midia Gas Development (MGD) partners revealed plans to use their existing MGD infrastructure to connect up to 3 GW of offshore wind […]

  • BOEM Moves Forward with New York Offshore Wind Plans

    27 May 2014
    Authorities

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced it is moving forward with wind energy planning efforts on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore New York. The bureau is publishing a Call for Information and Nominations (Call) to obtain nominations from companies interested in commercial wind energy leases within a proposed area offshore New […]

  • Scotland’s Profits from Wave and Tidal Energy Over £217M

    25 September 2014
    R&D

    Scotland’s flourishing wave and tidal energy sector has invested more than £217m in the country to date, with £31.8m spent in the last 12 months alone, a new Scottish Renewables report shows. Crucially, the study revealed almost two-thirds (62%) of the growing industry’s supply chain is Scottish. Marine energy – in which Scotland is recognised […]

  • Floating Island Project Kicks Off Under Horizon 2020 Umbrella

    3 November 2017
    R&D, Technology

    The floating island concept, revealed earlier this year, will now be further studied and developed through a Horizon 2020-funded project Space@Sea that started on 1 November and will run for three years.

  • TetraSpar Floating Wind Platform Installed Offshore Norway

    30 July 2021
    R&D, Technology

    The TetraSpar Demonstrator floating wind turbine has been installed at the METCentre test site off the island of Karmøy near Stavanger, Norway. The platform, including Stiesdal-developed spar foundation and a 3.6 MW Siemens Gamesa direct-drive wind turbine, has been assembled at the Port of Grenaa in Denmark, from where it was towed 360 nautical miles […]

  • Siemens Bags BorWin3 Contract from TenneT

    15 April 2014
    Grid Connection

    Siemens has received an order from TenneT for an offshore wind farm grid connection in the North Sea. In a consortium with Petrofac Siemens will supply the complete technology for efficient direct-current transmission for the BorWin3 grid connection as the consortium leader. The consortium partner Petrofac, with over 30 years of experience as a leading […]

  • All Nexans Aurora Grand Blocks In Place

    28 April 2020
    Vessels

    All the grand blocks for Nexans’ cable laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Aurora have been assembled at the CRIST hull yard in Poland. According to Nexans, work tasks such as some steelwork, outfitting and paintwork now need to be carried out before the hull can be towed to Ulstein Verft in Norway for finalizing. Nexans Aurora is […]

  • UK: Vestas Gets Green Light for Kent Wind Turbine Plant

    25 May 2012
    Authorities

    Vestas, Danish wind energy giant, has been given a green light for their wind turbine plant in Kent, according to BBC. The application for over 70 hectares of land at Sheerness Dock has been approved by Swale Borough Council on Thursday and now needs government approval. Vestas claims that the new plant which will produce […]

  • Farmer Fights Offshore Wind Project to Keep His Land

    28 November 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Stephen Kirkwood, an East Yorkshire wheat producer, has filed a complaint against Able Marine Energy Park (AMEP) to the European Commission. The development of AMEP, which will be built to accommodate the deployment of large components for offshore wind farms in the North Sea and beyond, requires a site that will compensate for the loss of estuary land. For this purpose, 100ha […]

  • Case study: Safeguard from electrical shocks and turbine activation during maintenance

    3 May 2021

    Securing the flow of green energy by safely servicing and maintaining fast growing numbers of wind turbines on land and at sea, is no small challenge. Part of that challenge is to optimally protect against electrical shocks and to make turbine activation impossible while maintenance is still ongoing. The company needed a practical and reliable […]

  • BOEM Issues EA for Offshore Wind Development off Georgia

    2 April 2014
    Authorities, Environment, R&D

    As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop clean energy sources and cut carbon pollution, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) yesterday announced the publication of its environmental assessment (EA) of an application for a wind energy resource assessment lease offshore Tybee Island, Georgia. Southern Company would like to […]

  • New Bird Monitoring Innovation Challenge Takes Off

    25 May 2017
    R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Ltd has partnered with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult to launch an innovation challenge to help wind farm developers better monitor and understand the behaviour of important species.

  • Germany and Estonia to Build Baltic WindConnector

    10 May 2023
    Grid Connection, Infrastructure

    German transmission system operator (TSO), 50Hertz, and Estonia’s TSO, Elering, have signed a Letter of Intent to jointly develop a hybrid submarine cable project called Baltic WindConnector in the Baltic Sea between Estonia and Germany. The Baltic WindConnector will be around 750 kilometres long and will land on the coast of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In addition […]

  • USA: BOEM Identifies Sites for Wind Farms Offshore Massachusetts

    31 May 2012
    Authorities

    As part of Secretary of the Interior’s Smart from the Start Atlantic Offshore Wind Initiative, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced that it is moving forward with the next step to consider commercial wind energy development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore Massachusetts. Together with the commonwealth of Massachusetts, BOEM has completed […]

  • U.S. Coast to Host Russian Wave Generators

    29 May 2013

    Company OceanRusEnergy recently returned from the International Exhibition in Shanghai, where she was offered a sign dealer agreements for the supply of wave generators on the island of Crete, in Turkey, China and Mexico. According to Alexey Eliseev, chief designer of the company, pervouraltsy became the first in Russia who since the Soviet Union has […]

  • 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.

  • Norway’s METCentre to Test Four New Offshore Wind Turbines

    21 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, R&D, Technology

    The Marine Energy Test Center (METCentre) has been licensed to test four new offshore wind turbines on the Norwegian west coast. According to METCentre, agreements have already been signed with companies for the expanded test capacity and the offshore wind turbines are expected to be installed by 2026. “The expansion of the METCentre is very […]