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  • Innovative Yoke for Safe Wind Turbine Blade Lifting

    26 June 2014
    Technology

    Most mechanical constructions that are 14 meters long, 8 meters tall and weigh 78 metric tons are not described as fast or flexible. Especially when the thing it lifts is 75 meters long and weighs 25 metric tons. Then again, the new B75 lifting yoke from the Siemens Wind Power Division is no average construction. […]

  • DNV Acquires 74.3 pct of KEMA’s Shares (Norway)

    22 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    DNV and KEMA will form a world-leading energy consulting, testing and certification company that can drive the worldwide transition towards a safe, reliable, efficient and clean energy ecosystem. DNV KEMA will consist of all 1,800 KEMA employees and 500 employees from DNV’s renewable energy and sustainability activities. The new company will be led by Thijs […]

  • Technology Strategy Board Seeks Interest in Offshore Renewable Energy Centre (UK)

    13 July 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D

      The establishment of a UK centre of excellence to support the development and commercialisation of offshore renewable energy technologies across the country drew closer as the Technology Strategy Board announced that it is seeking expressions of interest from organisations that might lead or form part of a new Offshore Renewable Energy technology and innovation […]

  • SeaEnergy and Ampelmann sign exclusivity agreement (UK)

    11 August 2010
    Business & Finance, Technology

    SeaEnergy is pleased to announce that it has signed an exclusivity agreement with Ampelmann, a high-tech offshore access solutions developer, to secure use of Ampelmann’s ship-based self stabilizing platforms. This agreement takes SeaEnergy an important step closer to the launch of a marine services business aimed at providing support services for the construction, commissioning and […]

  • UK could loose low emission race

    20 July 2010
    Business & Finance

    In the 1970s the UK invested about 0.15% of GDP each year in research and development (R&D) into providing cheaper and cleaner energy. Britain was putting more public money into nuclear power and other new sources of electricity than almost any other economy.

  • The Netherlands: DNV and KEMA Form Energy Consulting, Testing, and Certification Company

    7 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    DNV and KEMA form a world-leading energy consulting, testing, and certification company that can drive the worldwide transition towards a safe, reliable, efficient and clean energy eco-system. DNV KEMA Energy and Sustainability will consist of all 1,800 KEMA employees and 500 employees from DNV”s renewable energy and sustainability activities. The new company will be led […]

  • UK: All-Energy 2013 Month Away

    24 April 2013

    All-Energy 2013, the UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference opens in Aberdeen four weeks’ today on Wednesday 22 May. The two-day event, the largest in its 13-show history, has some 580 exhibitors filling 8,000m2 (net) at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC); over 320 speakers from home and overseas in the world-class multi-stream […]

  • World’s First Commercial Wave Power EmployesVariohm EuroSensor’s Technology (UK)

    30 January 2012

    Voith Hydro Wavegen, the Inverness based marine renewable wave power specialists recently completed installation of the world’s first commercial wave power plant. Located in Mutriku in Northern Spain the 300 kW plant is based upon Wavegen’s Nearshore Oscillating Water Column (OWC) technology which employs Novotechnik RFC4800 series ‘touchless technology’ non contacting angle sensors supplied by […]

  • Wind Energy in North Carolina (USA)

    10 June 2011

    North Carolina’s wind resource is vast; however, no large-scale wind farms have been built onshore or offshore of the Tarheel state. Nearly 4,500 megawatts (MW) of onshore wind resource exists in North Carolina, and another 297,000 MW resides offshore. A single megawatt of wind capacity can generate enough electricity for up to 300 homes. Modern […]

  • Eager.one supports the future of offshore floating installation

    18 January 2021

    Offshore heavy lifting: Why use power, if you have balance? The offshore wind industry is growing significantly and is moving towards larger wind turbine sizes and deeper water. This causes a rising demand for alternative installation methods besides the well-known and most commonly used jack-up vessels. One of the alternatives is installation by means of […]

  • Offshore Wind, Green Hydrogen ‘Nice-to-Haves’ for Oil & Gas Majors as Hydrocarbon Production Moves Towards Its Peak – Westwood

    24 November 2021
    Business & Finance, Environment

    While oil and gas majors are increasingly entering new offshore wind and green hydrogen projects, it is but a small portion of the overall pie, to quote David Linden from Westwood Global Energy Group. As a reaction to the energy transition, the oil and gas majors are diversifying and now have more of an energy […]

  • Hochtief, Ventizz Team Up for Offshore Wind Market (Germany)

    17 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    HOCHTIEF Solutions and Ventizz Capital Partners together want to acquire concessions, develop and sell farms With economic effect from February 1, 2012, HOCHTIEF Solutions and Ventizz Capital Partners have set up a joint venture for the development of offshore wind farms. The two partners each hold a 50 percent interest in the company HOCHTIEF Offshore […]

  • Six Project to Receive USD 7.5 m for Wind Turbine Drivetrain Development (USA)

    29 June 2011
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that six projects in four states – California, Colorado, Florida, and New York – have been selected to receive nearly $7.5 million over two years to advance next-generation designs for wind turbine drivetrains. Drivetrains, which include a turbine’s gearbox and generator, are at the heart of the turbine and […]

  • US: RODA Condemns Vineyard Wind 1 OWF Approval

    13 May 2021
    Authorities, Environment, Wind Farm Update

    Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (RODA), a coalition of fishing industry associations and companies, has issued a press release voicing its disapproval of the US authorities’ decision to issue a Record of Decision (ROD) for the Vineyard Wind 1 project. The Record of Decision for the 800 MW offshore wind farm, issued on 11 May, granted […]

  • Cerulean Reveals 6 GW Floating Offshore Wind Bid Under INTOG Leasing Round

    19 July 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Jobs & Recruitment, Ports & Logistics, R&D, Technology

    Green energy infrastructure developer Cerulean Winds has revealed it will bid for four seabed lease sites with a combined capacity of 6 GW of floating wind to decarbonise the UK’s oil and gas sector under Crown Estate Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round. This scale will remove more emissions quickly, keep […]

  • NNMREC Expands Wave, Tidal Research Program

    11 September 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    With the support of new funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) will expand its technological research and environmental monitoring efforts, and add a new partner – the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The center was previously a partnership of Oregon State University and the University of Washington, […]

  • Securing Jack-Up Foundation

    17 November 2014
    Vessels

    Establishing a safe foundation is a vital part of jack-up operations. The jack-up vessel needs to be supported by an absolutely solid foundation during the entire jack-up operation at any given site. As the vessel is jacked up, the weight is carried by the legs and onto the seabed. The seabed must be able to […]

  • USA: Virginia Jobs and Energy Act Introduced, Hastens Offshore Wind Development

    1 May 2013
    Authorities, Jobs & Recruitment

    Representative Scott Rigell (VA-2) introduced the Virginia Jobs and Energy Act (H.R. 1782) on Friday to open the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) off the coast of Virginia for energy development. Original co-sponsors of the bill include Virginia Representatives Rob Wittman (VA-1), Robert Hurt (VA-5), and Morgan Griffith (VA-9). Governor Bob McDonnell and Virginia’s U.S. Senators, […]

  • THE WINDS OF CHANGE

    24 October 2016

    Recently, it was announced that oil and gas giant Shell would unveil their ‘New Energies’ division, initiating their first move into the renewables market. With their latest bid already on the table with Eneco and Van Oord, if successful, the oil and gas corporation is set to build its first two offshore wind farms in the […]

  • Heidmar Wins TenneT’s EUR 100 Million PSV Tender

    10 March 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Greece-headquartered tanker pool management firm, Heidmar, has signed a contract with TenneT under which Heidmar will provide a platform supply vessel (PSV) and crew for supply tours to TenneT’s offshore platforms in the German North Sea.  The contract was awarded following a tendering procedure that TenneT opened in August 2024, looking to charter a PSV with […]

  • Woman at work: building connections

    25 July 2014

    The number of women working in the offshore wind industry might not be growing in proportion to the growth of the industry itself, but there is a significant minority of women who are to be found in the engineering related jobs and actually going offshore. Offshore WIND met Annelie Doedens who is one of this […]

  • Wind Firms Cannot Afford to Ignore Increasing Cyber Security Threats – DNV

    8 December 2022
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    The following article is a guest post by Alexander Hansen Bakken, Cyber Security Consultant, DNV. DNV’s 2022 Energy Transition Outlook, an independent model of the world’s energy systems, forecasts that wind energy will grow 10-fold by 2050, boosted by cheaper turbines and improvements in operation and maintenance. This transformation is deeply dependent on energy infrastructure […]

  • US State Floats 10-Year Ban on Offshore Wind

    29 April 2021
    Authorities

    The U.S. State of Maine has introduced legislation to establish a 10-year moratorium on new offshore wind projects located in State waters. Proposed moratorium would preserve State waters for fishing and recreation and prioritize offshore wind in Federal waters farther off the Maine coast, the Governor Janet Mills Administration said. The Federal waters of the […]

  • Decision making process for wind tower manufacturers

    16 September 2019

    Taiwan is establishing itself as one of the world’s fastest-growing new offshore wind markets and the Taiwanese manufacturers have been steadily getting ready to satisfy the production needs related to the projects to come. Following this tendency, several Taiwanese companies have recently visited Faccin’s factory in Visano, Italy to test their finished 4-rolls offshore-wind specially […]

  • Installation Vessels: Reaching the Limit and Beyond

    27 March 2017

    Fourteen years ago in 2002 the Sif Group made 80 monopiles for the Horns Rev wind farm off the Danish coast near Esbjerg. These piles were four metres in diameter, the thickness of the steel was five centimetres, and they weighed between 180-230 tonnes depending on their length. In 2016, Offshore WIND was invited to visit the new Sif Group production, storage and load-out terminal built on Maasvlakte 2, the new area of reclaimed land extending the Port of Rotterdam even further out into the Southern part of the North Sea.

  • Port of Rostock: Serving the Baltic Sea

    17 August 2012
    Ports & Logistics

    The Port of Rostock is Germany’s largest and the deepest port in the Southern part of the Baltic Sea. It was near the Port of Rostock where the first German commercial offshore wind farm, EnBW Baltic 1, was erected in 2010 and it also served as one of the base ports for Kriegers Flak. Although […]