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  • Germany: Voith Provides Propulsion System for Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

    6 June 2012

    The first A2SEA wind turbine installation vessel equipped with Voith Schneider Propellers and Voith Inline Thrusters is nearing completion. Voith has now been awarded the contract to outfit another vessel with this propulsion system. The new vessel with a crane capacity of 900 tons is scheduled to enter service in mid-2014. A2SEA, based in Fredericia, […]

  • UK: Massive Wind Turbines Could ‘Confuse’ Air Traffic Radar

    3 May 2012
    R&D

    Developers of an offshore wind farm project in Moray Firth have examined the environmental impact and found that the turbines may be impossible to differentiate from aircraft on radar screens at the air traffic control centres, according to the Scotsman. The project could also affect evacuation and transfer flights to oil and gas platforms near […]

  • UK: East Anglia Offshore Wind Reveals Project Details

    28 March 2012

    East Anglia Offshore Wind has revealed more info on one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms to be constructed off Suffolk coast. Joint venture between ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) and Vattenfall Wind Power Limited plans to develop one part of the 7,200MW project. The East Anglia ONE Offshore Windfarm, located 43.4km from the coast will […]

  • GeoSea Uses New Crane System for Wind Turbine Installation

    12 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Technology, Vessels

    High Wind NV has started the commercialisation of its Boom Lock© allowing the safe installation of all wind turbine components in winds of up to 15 m/s. The first Boom Lock© was completed in January, consequently installed on GeoSea’s Neptune, and has undergone its final performance trials last weekend. During these tests in stormy conditions at the […]

  • Canadian Parliament Recognizes Wave Energy Development Efforts

    4 February 2015
    Authorities, R&D

    Canadian College of the North Atlantic’s Wave Energy Research Centre (WERC) was one of six research projects highlighted during a presentation to more than 50 federal ministers and dignitaries on Parliament Hill on Monday.  The event was the fifth in a series of successful gatherings organized by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of […]

  • EWEA Calls for Construction of 500 MW OWF in Poland

    8 December 2014
    Authorities

    Europe must tear down the barriers that are hindering the free flow of electricity and drastically increase interconnection to push Member States toward an Energy Union, according to a paper released by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA). EWEA has today published a position paper that outlines the wind industry’s vision of an Energy Union […]

  • Lloyd’s Register Releases Offshore Collision Guidance

    12 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Mitigating the risk of collision at sea requires a deep understanding of the causes. New industry guidance issued today helps to make offshore operations safer for marine and energy operators. The new Guidance Notes for Collision Analysis assist owners, operators, and designers of offshore units with identifying potential collision scenarios, assessing the relative risks and […]

  • Vattenfall Rejigs Wind Unit, Names Offshore Wind Head

    3 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    Swedish energy company Vattenfall has appointed Michael Simmelsgaard as head of the newly formed Business Unit Offshore Wind.

  • South Korea to Set Up 96.8MW Offshore Wind Farm at Saemangeum

    9 January 2017

    An offshore wind project with a total capacity of up to 96.8MW will be built at South Korea’s estuarine tidal flat Saemangeum. On 6 January, the Saemangeum Development and Investment Agency (SDIA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Saemangeum Offshore Wind Power, a special purpose company established between KEPCO KPS and Mirae Asset, as well as […]

  • RenewableUK Welcomes New Funding for Renewables

    2 October 2014
    Authorities

    RenewableUK says today’s news of additional funding for renewable energy projects will provide a welcome stimulus to wind, wave and tidal projects in the UK. The announcement by the Department of Energy and Climate Change provides an extra £300m for all low-carbon technologies to be supported under the Contracts for Difference (CfD) mechanism. This is […]

  • Triton Knoll Shows Good Socio-Economic Benefits

    24 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Environment

    1,800 jobs and up to £500,000 are just some of the benefits expected if the construction of a major offshore wind farm off the coast of Lincolnshire goes ahead. RWE Innogy UK has announced new details of the socio-economic benefits which could arise from the construction of its Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm. The project […]

  • FORCE Announces Contractors for Subsea Platform

    23 May 2014

    Simon Melrose, the platform project manager for the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE), speaking at the Nova Scotia Energy Research and Development Forum yesterday, announced construction contracts for a new underwater platform designed to measure the tide in real time via cable connection – a breakthrough for Nova Scotia’s tidal energy efforts. “To […]

  • Tideland Signal to Introduce New Innovative Aids to Navigation

    22 May 2014
    Technology

    Tideland Signal will launch a number of innovative new aids to navigation (AtoN) products, including E-Navcon, the world’s first AIS-equipped eRacon on stand A87 at the Seawork International exhibition in Southampton, UK from 10 to 12 June 2014. E-Navcon combines the benefits of a proven X-band radar beacon and a compact AIS transmitter contained within a […]

  • Dalby Expands Its Fleet with New 21m WFSV

    7 May 2014

    Dalby Offshore Services Ltd. has taken delivery of its latest offshore wind farm crew transfer vessel, ‘Dalby Wharfe’. The vessel is the first of a two boat order that includes the ‘Dalby Swale’ to be delivered to Dalby Offshore Services Ltd. at the forthcoming Seawork exhibition at Southampton on Tuesday 10th June. The Alicat Workboats built the 21m […]

  • Van Oord Offloads Blauwwind Stake

    12 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has sold and transferred its 10 per cent stake in the Blauwwind joint venture to the renewable energy asset manager Luxcara In 2016, the Blauwwind consortium was awarded the concession to design, construct, operate and maintain the Borssele III and IV offshore wind farm. The project is comprised of 77 Vestas 9.5 MW […]

  • BOEM to Gauge Interest in Revised Gulf of Mexico Offshore Wind Area

    29 October 2021
    Authorities

    The US Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will publish a Call for Information and Nominations to further assess commercial interest in wind energy leasing in the Gulf of Mexico, after publishing Request for Interest (RFI) in June. The RFI focused on the Western and Central Planning Areas of the […]

  • Vattenfall’s Danish Nearshore Pair Clears Legal Hurdles as UXO Survey Starts

    14 July 2021
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Denmark’s Energy Board of Appeal has completed the processing of a number of complaints filed against the Danish Energy Agency’s (DEA) authorisation of Vesterhav Syd and Vesterhav Nord nearshore wind farms. The Board confirmed the DEA’s decisions from 14 December 2020, when the authority granted Vattenfall the permission to build the two wind farms, after an assessment of […]

  • Ørsted Puts First Standalone Battery Storage System Into Operation

    24 December 2018
    Grid Connection

    Ørsted’s first standalone battery energy storage system, Carnegie Road, is now operational. The 20MW battery, located in Liverpool, UK consists of three battery containers, as well as the associated power conversion system, all supplied by NEC Energy Solutions. “Climate change is a real and pressing threat to our planet and, in order to minimise its […]

  • BiFab Gets a Lifeline as Canadians Take Majority Share

    17 April 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Canadian company JV Driver, through its subsidiary DF Barnes, has acquired BiFab as part of an agreement brokered by the Scottish Government to support new opportunities at BiFab’s renewables and marine fabrication and construction yards in the UK.

  • BiFab Yards Facing Closure, New Contracts Only Way Out

    13 February 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Jobs & Recruitment

    Some 260 workers at the BiFab marine engineering yards in Fife and Arnish, Scotland, will be made redundant and the yards will be completely closed by the end of June if no new contracts are secured, Unite Scotland reports. 

  • Detecter Becomes First Danish-Flagged CTV Certified to Carry 24 OW Technicians

    10 August 2016
    Authorities, Operations & Maintenance, Training & Education, Vessels

    Northern Offshore Services’ 27-metre crew transfer vessel (CTV) Detecter has become the first Danish-flagged vessel of its kind to be certified by the Danish Maritime Authority to carry up to 24 offshore wind technicians. The certification marks the initiation of a new practice in Denmark, which gives Danish shipping the same opportunities as its competitors from Germany, according to […]

  • Polenergia to Start Building 600MW Baltic Middle III in 2019

    5 August 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Polenergia plans to start constructing the 600MW Baltic Środkowy III (Baltic Middle III) offshore wind farm in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea in 2019, with the commissioning of the wind farm planned for 2021 or 2022. The Polish energy company has recently become the first operator in Poland to obtain an environmental permit for the […]

  • ScottishPower Invests in East Anglia’s Future Energy Engineers

    21 July 2016
    Training & Education

    The ScottishPower Foundation has selected four students who will receive fully funded postgraduate scholarship places at the University of East Anglia (UEA), following a rigorous interview process which also involved offshore wind farm developer ScottishPower Renewables and Professor Lawrence Coates, Head of Engineering at UEA.   With funding donated to the ScottishPower Foundation from ScottishPower Renewables, […]

  • Renowned Scientist Joins ORE Catapult Board

    18 April 2016
    R&D

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult appointed Dame Anne Glover DBE to its Board as a Non-Executive Director today. Following a three year term, Baroness Helen Liddell of Coatdyke PC has stepped down from the Board. A biologist and academic, Dame Anne Glover is Vice Principal for External Affairs and Dean for Europe at the University of Aberdeen, and […]

  • Horizon Wraps Up Seabed Testing for Horns Rev 3

    14 March 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Horizon Geosciences has recently used its 200kN Seabed CPT system to complete a geotechnical site investigation for Vattenfall’s 400MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in the Danish part of the North Sea.   Horizon’s scope of work centered around turbine locations and infield cable routes. The programme of work included downhole sampling and CPT testing, seismic CPT […]

  • Gallery: SLP Upends, Jacks Up Dudgeon Substation Platform Jacket

    14 March 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Lowestoft-based Sembmarine SLP Ltd (SLP) upended and jacked up the jacket structure for the offshore substation platform to be installed at the Dudgeon offshore wind farm at its Hamilton Road site this month. The platform comprises of a topside and jacket structure, the latter of which uses suction bucket technology, a first for a substation in UK waters, with […]