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  • Vattenfall, CIP to Integrate Large-Scale Floating Solar, Green Hydrogen Systems with New 2 GW Dutch Offshore Wind Farm

    12 June 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Green Hydrogen, Power-to-X, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The joint venture between Vattenfall and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), which has been awarded the 2 GW IJmuiden Ver Beta offshore wind area in the Netherlands, will also build a floating solar farm within the offshore project site and install a large-scale electrolyser in the Port of Rotterdam to use the electricity generated at IJmuiden […]

  • Wind of Change: Youth Survey Thumbs up for Renewables (UK)

    3 December 2010

    Research published today shows huge support for renewable energy among young people with 94 per cent of those questioned saying that offshore wind was the ‘fairest’ energy technology, 81 per cent saying onshore wind, and 94 per cent supporting solar energy. This is compared to 2.2 per cent for coal energy. These figures are part […]

  • BREAKING: Norway Opens First Offshore Wind Tenders for Applications

    29 March 2023
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Oil and Energy Minister Terje Aasland have officially opened the application window for Norway’s first offshore wind auction. The combined capacity offered in the first auction round is 3 GW split equally across two areas on the Norwegian continental shelf: Southern North Sea II (Sørlige Nordsjø II) and […]

  • UK: Humber’s Renewables Businesses ‘Must Invest in Skills’ to Compete Against Overseas Rivals

    18 April 2012

    BUSINESSES across the Humber are being warned they face losing out to international competition in the renewables industry by not investing in the right skills. Professor David Grant, director of the Logistics Institute at Hull University Business School, said not as many companies “as we would hope” are ready to make the most of the […]

  • Ørsted and CIP Partner on 5.2 GW of Offshore Wind in Denmark, Plan Power-to-X Production

    25 October 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) are entering into a 50/50 partnership to develop four large-scale offshore wind projects under the ‘open door’ scheme in Denmark. The projects are planned to include Power-to-X capabilities and to be built before or in parallel with the projects selected through the government tenders. The partners plan to develop […]

  • CONNECTING OFFSHORE WIND FARMS: TSO TenneT uses German experience for Dutch offshore challenge

    12 January 2015

    In the Netherlands, the government aspires to build new offshore wind farms with a combined output of 3,450MW by 2023. The Minister of Economic Affairs recently decided that Transmission System Operator (TSO) TenneT will have the responsibility of building the offshore grid to accommodate these wind farms. Offshore WIND asked Mel Kroon, the CEO of […]

  • Vattenfall Pushes Ahead with Danish Offshore Wind Projects as New Environmental Assessment Starts

    1 March 2022
    Authorities, Environment, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has initiated a new environmental assessment of the onshore infrastructure of Vattenfall’s Vesterhav Nord and Syd offshore wind farms after the existing permits were rejected by the Environment and Food Appeals Board last year. This is the first step on the road to a new environmental permit, which is expected […]

  • Wind farm support vessels: The lifeblood of a wind farm

    15 April 2014

    There are some blunt facts about wind farm support vessels and some of them do not make pleasant reading. In the past four years there have been many wind farm support vessels built, some for existing companies and some for new companies. At the time they were ordered the prospects looked good with the UK […]

  • ABL Lands Work on 600 MW French Offshore Wind Farm

    17 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Supply Chain

    Energy and marine consultancy ABL has been awarded a contract to provide marine warranty survey (MWS) services to Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) for the installation of the grid infrastructure at France’s Dunkirk offshore wind farm. ABL’s operation in France has been contracted to support the French transmission system operator RTE with the delivery of […]

  • With 15+ MW Wind Turbines on Horizon, Installation Fleet Lags Behind – Report

    5 May 2021
    R&D, Technology, Vessels

    Rapid advances in offshore wind turbine technology are currently outpacing the infrastructure capacity needed to install them, a new report from the Clean Energy Technology service at IHS Markit warns. Offshore wind annual gross capacity additions are expected to grow sixfold by 2030 due to dramatic cost reductions, advances in technology, favorable policies and ever-increasing […]

  • New Method for Developing Recyclable Bio-Derivable Wind Turbine Blades Unveiled

    23 August 2024
    Business development, Industry, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have found a practical path for manufacturing bio-derivable wind turbine blades that can be recycled and reused, potentially ending the practice of landfilling old blades. The paper “Manufacture and testing of biomass-derivable thermosets for wind blade recycling” involved work from investigators at five […]

  • Trident Successfully Tests Real-Time Control of Linear Generator

    7 January 2014

    Trident Energy, the independent developer of generator solutions for the offshore renewable energy industry, has announced the successful demonstration of real-time control of low cost linear generator technology for wave energy – a global first. Major barriers to the success and commercial viability of wave energy are the difficulties in adapting to changing wave conditions, […]

  • UK: Mainstream Renewable Power Announces ‘Capturing the Value of Offshore Wind’ Report

    18 October 2012

    Mainstream Renewable Power, the global renewable energy company, today announces the publication of a report by energy expert Dr Mark Cooper, which seeks to apply modern investment portfolio theory to energy policy. It does so with the aim of helping policymakers attain an important, urgent policy objective: managing the decarbonisation of the electricity sector, while […]

  • Company Submits Lease Request for Offshore Wind Areas Off Texas

    26 July 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Hecate Energy Gulf Wind has submitted a request to acquire commercial wind energy lease(s) in the federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, off southeast Texas. As this is an unsolicited lease request, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has now issued a Request for Competitive Interest (RFCI). BOEM held the first offshore […]

  • Offshore Wind Costs in 2050 Could Be Lower than Previously Expected

    19 April 2021

    Wind energy costs, including both offshore and onshore wind, could decline 37–49 per cent by 2050, resulting in costs 50 per cent lower than predicted in an analysis in 2015, according to a new study funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and published in Nature Energy. In the same study performed in 2015, experts […]

  • Trillium Power vs. Ontario Government Court Story Continues

    23 October 2017

    The Government of Ontario has notified Trillium Power that it will seek a motion to dismiss the company’s litigation efforts on “misfeasance in public office” and “spoliation” on 24 October. This marks another sequel in the legal action story between Trillium Power and the Ontario Government, based on the cancellation of the company’s offshore wind project in 2011.

  • DONG Building Burbo Bank O&M Base in Merseyside

    20 June 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy will build a new operations and maintenance (O&M) facility in Kings Wharf, Seacombe, Merseyside, to serve the existing 90MW Burbo Bank offshore wind farm and the new 258MW Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm, currently under construction. The facility will consist of a new office and warehouse building on a disused site. The whole […]

  • Inverness Hosts Scotland’s Largest Marine Energy Conference

    17 September 2013

    Scotland, and in particular the Highlands and Islands, is continuing to lead the world in the development of marine energy devices – according to the Chief Executive of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). Alex Paterson opened the annual Scottish Renewables Marine Energy Conference at Eden Court, Inverness yesterday (16 September). Up to 300 delegates and […]

  • Scotland: Energy Minister Welcomes Audit Scotland Findings

    12 September 2013
    Authorities

    Commenting on today’s Audit Scotland report Fergus Ewing said:  “Today, I welcome the findings of this report which shows that strong and strategic leadership from this government within the renewable sector is key to the successes to date.  “No government since devolution has embarked on such an ambitious programme of investment to transform our renewable […]

  • GMS Comments on Current Offshore Wind Events

    25 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    The welcome news that Siemens plans a £160 million expansion to manufacture turbines in East Yorkshire, plus the UK Green Investment Bank’s (GIB) investment in the Westermost Rough project off the Yorkshire coast, must be balanced against high costs and risks but low confidence levels that could still affect future UK offshore wind developments, Green […]

  • Fécamp OWF to Feature Seatower’s Gravity Foundation

    8 May 2014

    The developers of the Fécamp offshore wind farm have chosen to demonstrate and install Seatower’s patented Cranefree Gravity® foundation design. The Fécamp project, being jointly developed by EDF Energies Nouvelles, DONG Energy and wpd offshore, is located 13km off the coast of Normandy. The Fécamp demonstrator project is the final step in Seatower’s objective to […]

  • Ministers Appoint Chair of HIE (UK)

    22 February 2012
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Professor Lorne Crerar has been appointed by Ministers as Chair of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). Lorne is a founding partner and Chairman of Scottish commercial law firm Harper Macleod LLP, which has offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness and has held the part-time Chair of Banking Law at Glasgow University since 1997. Lorne was […]

  • Three Steps to Unlocking the Potential of High-Power Wind Turbines

    7 December 2022
    Industry, Technology

    This is a guest article by Daniel Gerber, Senior Vice President, Global Product Group Manager Wind, System Drives, ABB. The critical role of wind in the world’s future energy needs is clear: the Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition states that 1,400 gigawatt (GW) of offshore wind power will sustain one tenth of global electricity demand by […]

  • Stevens Institute of Technology to Optimize Offshore Wind Energy (USA)

    7 October 2011

      Offshore wind energy promises stronger breezes, cheaper real estate, and proximity to population centers. But difficulties in studying wind speeds over the open ocean leave energy producers unable to fully capitalize on the power of offshore wind. To address this problem, the Department of Energy funded a research collaboration, led by Dr. Thomas Herrington […]

  • RenewableUK: DECC’s Statistics Prove the Case for Wind Power

    26 June 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    RenewableUK says new statistics published today by the Department of Energy and Climate Change prove the case for wind power. The figures show that 19.4% of all the UK’s electricity mix in the first quarter of this year was generated from renewable energy sources, compared to 12.4% for the same period in the previous year. […]

  • Vestas to Produce Nacelles for their 7MW Wind Turbine at Lindø, Denmark

    24 November 2011

    Vestas has announced that the nacelles for prototype and pre-series versions of their new dedicated offshore turbine, the V164-7.0 MW, will be assembled at Lindø, Denmark. For these purposes, Vestas has signed a fixed period business lease agreement with Lindø Industrial Park. The agreement, which takes effect on 1 January 2012, covers the lease of […]