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  • USA: Wind Power Provides New Opportunities in Michigan

    29 February 2012

    Michigan and manufacturing go together. But it’s no secret the state has been hit hard by a generally shrinking U.S.-based manufacturing segment over the last several decades. Thanks in part to wind power, that’s changing in America, and in Michigan too. The story of recent wind power supply-chain entrant Energetx Composites of Hollland, Mich., and […]

  • 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 […]

  • Study: Use of Gravity Base Structures in Deeper Waters in ‘Chicken and Egg’ Stage

    3 December 2015
    Authorities, R&D, Technology

    Additional focus and investment into fabrication infrastructure is needed to unlock potential of using gravity base structures (GBSs) as wind turbine generator foundations for deeper water sites in the offshore wind sector, according to a study released by the Carbon Trust today. GBSs have been successfully demonstrated and deployed in shallow water wind farm projects. However, as wind […]

  • Intertek to Evaluate Cape Wind’s Turbine Design (USA)

    11 October 2012
    R&D

    Intertek has signed a deal to evaluate and assess the offshore turbine design for a major European manufacturer to ensure compliance with US and Canadian electrical safety requirements. The work therefore forms a key part of the manufacture, preparation and assessment of the proposed turbines and will help to minimise any potential delays that are […]

  • All Inter-Array Cables In Place at Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm

    17 August 2022
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Louis Dreyfus TravOcean (LDTVO) has installed all 80 inter-array cables at the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire, France’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm. A consortium of LDTVO and Prysmian officially secured a contract for the supply and installation of inter-array cables at the 80-turbine Saint-Nazaire in 2018. Prysmian was responsible for cable manufacturing, while LDTVO was in […]

  • JIF Breizh Completes Formosa 2 Task

    26 August 2020
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    JIFMAR Offshore Services’ shallow draft DP1 workboat JIF Breizh has completed operations at the Formosa 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan, under a contract with Jan De Nul. The vessel, which was contracted and transported to Taiwan earlier this year, worked on export cable pull-in landfall Horizontal Direction Drilling (HDD) operations for three months. Within […]

  • Carbon Trust Invites Companies to Look Into Sliding Access

    27 September 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    The Carbon Trust, within its Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme, is looking for companies who will carry out a study of the sliding access method and determine if it can be de-risked.

  • 4 Foundations Installed, 6 to Go at Tahkoluoto Offshore Wind Farm

    30 May 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul’s heavy-lift jack up vessel Vole au vent has installed four of the ten gravity base foundations at the Tahkoluoto wind farm off Pori, Finland.

  • First Siemens Gamesa Turbine Up at Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier Offshore Wind Farm in France

    12 May 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The first of 61 Siemens Gamesa turbines has been installed at the 488 MW Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farm site in France. The first Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbine was installed by Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Vole au Vent at the site located 11.7 kilometres from the island of Yeu and […]

  • Marine Power Systems, WavEC Unveil Floating Wind Project in Portugal

    12 October 2022
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Marine Power Systems (MPS) and WavEC, one of the co-managers of the Aguçadoura test site offshore Viana do Castelo, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on deploying MPS modular floating platform technology, PelaFlex, at the Portuguese test site. The news comes shortly after MPS signed a collaboration agreement with RWE which will, inter alia, […]

  • AWS Truepower Officially Starts H2OCEAN Project (Spain)

    20 January 2012

    AWS Truepower has announced the official start of the H2OCEAN project at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB). The project, which is funded by the European Commission 7th Framework Programme, aims to develop an innovative design for an economically and environmentally sustainable multi-use open-sea platform to harvest offshore renewable power. The H2OCEAN platform will harvest wind […]

  • Squeezing More Power from the Breeze with gearless turbines

    28 April 2010
    R&D, Technology

    These days, the wind industry is all about scaling up, cutting costs, and improving reliability. One way to do that, at least according to… [mappress] Source: treehugger, April 27, 2010;

  • LS Cable & System to Acquire Largest Subsea Cable Laying Barge in Korea

    13 August 2021
    Grid Connection, Vessels

    LS Cable & System has revealed the plan to buy the largest submarine cable laying barge in Korea to increase participation in domestic and overseas offshore wind projects. The company is planning to acquire its first submarine cable laying barge and prepare for offshore wind power generation projects. With the acquisition of the 8,000-ton GL2030, LS […]

  • Northwester 2 Substation Takes Off

    26 August 2019
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The offshore substation built for the Northwester 2 offshore wind farm has left Bladt Industries’ facility in Aalborg, Denmark, and is on its way towards the project site in Belgium. Bladt designed, built and assembled the substation with its partners Semco Maritime and ISC under a contract won in May last year. The 235t transformer was installed on […]

  • Wind and Renewables Bring Siemens EUR 72 Million Quarterly Profit

    12 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Berlin-headquartered conglomerate Siemens AG saw its bottom line for the fourth quarter of 2015 boosted by EUR 72 million net profit recorded in the company’s wind power and renewables arm. Siemens added EUR 2.716 billion of new orders through the wind power and renewables department in the quarter ended September 30, a 50% increase compared to EUR 1.81 […]

  • Global Wind Farm O&M Industry Report Released

    15 December 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    A report on the global wind farm operations and maintenance market, with a special focus on China, has been released. Reportbuyer has informed it added the “Global and China Wind Farm O&M Industry Report, 2015-2018” by ResearchInChina to its offering. In 2014, the global wind farm O&M market size hit USD 9.25 billion, representing a […]

  • VIDEO: Boom Lock Fights Off High Winds

    4 February 2016
    Technology

    High Wind tested the Boom Lock system on a 6MW Senvion wind turbine blade, helping the blade be completely still in wind conditions of 15m/s average wind speed and gusts up to 20m/s. The test also proved the benefit of the intelligent guidance system on heavy loads like nacelles and towers, High Wind said. The Boom Lock is […]

  • DEME’s Living Stone Catches Fire in Santurtzi

    16 February 2018
    Vessels

    DEME Group’s advanced cable lay vessel Living Stone caught fire while under construction in a shipyard in Santurtzi, Spain.

  • Sea Fox Returns from Nordergründe Duty

    14 February 2017
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Enviro-Serve’s wind farm support vessel (WFSV) Sea Fox has returned to the company’s Lowestoft shore base after working for Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke (NSW) GmbH providing 24-hour support for their inter-array cable installation at the Nordergründe offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Throughout the 9-month contract the 24-metre vessel worked out of the port of […]

  • Mech-Tool Engineering Delivers for Dudgeon

    25 May 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Mech-Tool Engineering, a Teesside based product manufacturer and supplier of fire, blast and radiant heat protection systems has delivered a contract for Statoil’s GBP 1.5 billion Dudgeon offshore wind farm project.

  • Vattenfall Selects Cefas for Norfolk Vanguard Metocean Measurement Campaign

    4 September 2017
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Swedish energy company Vattenfall has contracted Lowestoft-based Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cesta) to measure offshore weather and sea conditions for its 1.8GW Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind project.

  • PGCIL to Connect Offshore Wind Turbines to Grid

    6 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    An Indian state-owned electric utilities company, Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL), announced plans to install a system which would connect offshore wind turbines to the grid, according to DNA India news site. “Integration of electricity generated from renewable energy resources with the grid is our focus area. As part of this initiative, we […]

  • iSURVEY Appoints Skillful Business Development Manager

    27 January 2015
    Business & Finance, R&D

    iSURVEY, a provider of survey and positioning services to the global oil and gas, offshore renewables and telecommunications markets, has appointed Iain Milroy as business development manager at the company’s Aberdeenshire office.  As part of this newly created role, Iain will focus on the development of the business in the UK as well as North […]

  • Gallery: Rope Rescue Exercise at Lincs OWF

    5 November 2014
    Training & Education

    On Monday, November 3, a rope access exercise was carried out at the Lincs offshore wind farm, situated 8km off the coast of Lincolnshire, near Skegness. One of our readers provided Offshore WIND with photos from the exercise, which was done from the blades of the LS19 turbine down to the deck of the Cymyran Bay vessel. Construction […]

  • Worker Suffers Medical Condition at Ormonde OWF Site

    9 July 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    A man was transferred to the Royal Preston Hospital from the Ormonde offshore wind farm site last night, after he suffered a medical condition. Following media reports that he was hospitalized due to a head injury, Offshore WIND contacted GeoSea, a subsidiary of DEME, as the man is a worker on the company’s jack-up vessel […]

  • Work on Western HVDC Link Delayed

    13 May 2014
    Grid Connection, Technology

    The subsea cable installation of the Western HVDC Link, which will bring renewable energy from Scotland to homes and businesses in England and Wales, has been postponed. This work was due to start in early May 2014. Whilst electrical power is often expected to flow from north to south, the Western Link will be bidirectional […]