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  • Seajacks Scylla Mobilising for Hollandse Kust Noord, Kraken Changing Out of Oil & Gas Attire Ahead of Offshore Wind Work

    13 March 2023
    Vessels

    Jack-up vessels Seajacks Scylla and Seajacks Kraken are currently moored in two Dutch ports, where they are being mobilised for offshore wind projects. Seajacks Scylla arrived in the Port of Amsterdam on 1 March, according to the vessel’s AIS data available online, while Seajacks Kraken arrived in the Port of Den Helder on 11 March. […]

  • SeAH Wind, Smulders Investment in UK to Create 1,000 Jobs

    7 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    New investments to be made by offshore wind foundation manufacturers SeAH Wind and Smulders, backed by the UK government, in their production facilities in the UK are set to create and safeguard more than 1,000 jobs across the North-East of England and the Humber. The companies’ facilities on the Humber and at Wallsend in Newcastle-upon-Tyne […]

  • Masdar Secures Financing for Baltic Eagle Offshore Wind Farm Stake

    18 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Fixed-Bottom

    Abu Dhabi-based Masdar has achieved close on the financing of its 49 per cent shareholding in the 476 MW Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. According to Masdar, the total lending package amounted to EUR 488 million, with participation from ABN AMRO, Credit Agricole CIB, ING, Santander, and Siemens Bank. The Baltic Eagle offshore wind […]

  • RWE Opens ‘Grimsby Hub’ for Offshore Wind Operations and Maintenance

    11 July 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    RWE officially opened its ‘Grimsby Hub’ offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M) facility in the UK on 9 July. From the new O&M base, located at Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Grimsby, RWE’s teams will maintain and operate the Triton Knoll and Sofia offshore wind farms. The Grimsby Hub also houses RWE’s new UK […]

  • All-in-One Ornithology Survey Aircraft to Debut at Sofia OWF

    2 September 2021
    R&D

    An aircraft integrating light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and traditional digital aerial photography for ornithology surveys will be used for the first time at RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK. APEM and NIRAS, contracted by RWE to develop the project’s Ornithology Monitoring Plan and carry out the work, will use two aircraft provided […]

  • Hitachi Energy and Equinor Form Energy Transition Pact

    8 November 2022
    Environment, Grid Connection, Industry

    Hitachi Energy and Equinor have signed a strategic agreement to collaborate within electrification, renewable power generation, and low-carbon initiatives worldwide. Initial areas of focus for the collaboration include developing standardized base designs to be applied for high-voltage direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC) transmission systems to connect offshore wind farms and Equinor production facilities […]

  • Wind Industry’s Drone Demand Brings Growth to Cyberhawk

    2 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    Cyberhawk Innovations, an aerial inspection and survey company using drones for wind turbine inspection, has reported a strong growth of its wind division in 2016, due to increased demand from domestic and international markets.

  • SSE Renewables Lays Out Plans to Bolster Ties with Fishing Industry

    25 January 2023
    Environment, Industry

    SSE Renewables has published a report that sets out the company’s vision to better co-exist with fisheries when building and developing offshore wind energy. The report, launched at Scottish Renewables’ Offshore Wind Conference in Glasgow, outlines the steps taken by the SSE Renewables to build upon the existing relationship within the fishing industry and how […]

  • Heerema Installs Sofia Offshore Substation

    29 August 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The high-voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore converter platform (OCP) has been installed at the Sofia offshore wind farm site in the UK. The installation was carried out by Heerema Marine Contractors, using its Sleipnir heavy-lift vessel as a subcontractor to the GE Vernova/Seatrium consortium responsible for the OCP. The platform, equivalent in height to an […]

  • Canada-Made GE Vernova Blades to Be Removed from Vineyard Wind 1 Site

    21 January 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) have completed the review and approved the revised Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm. Last week, the federal government lifted the suspension on Vineyard Wind’s installation of the remaining GE Vernova […]

  • UK: ‘Champions for Wind’ Highlights Offshore Wind Job Opportunities

    11 July 2012
    Training & Education

    Champions for Wind is a careers education programme launched by Forewind, development partner for the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm zone, working together with the Humberside Engineering Training Association (HETA). The students have all been at secondary schools with teacher “champions” who were awarded bursaries through Champions for Wind to develop their own curriculum-based resources. […]

  • Next generation wind turbine on trial (Norway)

    9 September 2010
    R&D, Technology

    In the world’s northernmost wind farm at Havøygavlen, Statoil is to test next generation turbine technology. The innovation is a gearless turbine that promises to achieve significant reductions in operation and maintenance costs for offshore wind power. One of the biggest challenges with developing offshore wind power is the major cost involved in repairs and […]

  • Houlder Lays Out Offshore Support Base Vessel Concept

    2 June 2016
    R&D, Technology, Vessels

    Houlder’s Marine Design Consultancy has launched a wind farm support base concept design for an Offshore Support Base (OSB) vessel that recreates the convenience of port facilities – but offshore.  Houlder said that it has been able to turn to a proven design from its Oil & Gas heritage to deliver a highly stable platform […]

  • TSOs Sign North Sea Wind Power Hub Deal

    23 March 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    Representatives of Dutch, Danish and German transmission system operators will sign an agreement to develop the North Sea Wind Power Hub during the first meeting of the North Seas Energy Forum held in Brussels today.

  • Sembcorp Marine Starts Building Sofia Offshore Converter Platform

    24 September 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Sembcorp Marine and RWE have marked the start of the fabrication of the offshore converter platform for the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm with an official steel-cutting ceremony at Sembcorp Marine’s yard in Batam, Indonesia. “The offshore converter station sitting at the heart of the wind farm will be one of the most powerful […]

  • RWE and Partners Secure 684 MW Japanese Offshore Wind Site

    13 December 2023
    Authorities, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    RWE Offshore Wind Japan Murakami-Tainai K.K. has been selected in a consortium together with Mitsui & Co., Ltd (Mitsui) and Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. (Osaka Gas) to deliver a 684 MW commercial-scale offshore wind project in Japan. The Japanese Government has appointed the consortium to develop, construct, and operate a fixed-bottom offshore wind farm off […]

  • Danish Hydrogen Island Could Be First of Its Kind – Video

    26 May 2022
    Technology

    Danish engineering and consultancy company that recently decided not to take on any new oil and gas projects, COWI, is a partner on Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ (CIP) Hydrogen Island project, announced earlier this month. Together with Danish architectural firm Arkitema, COWI will assist CIP in making this novel concept come to life, the company said. […]

  • Highlights of the Month – January 2020

    3 February 2020

    The Offshore WIND team brings you the ten most-read news on the site in the first month of 2020.

  • Stockton North MP Highlights Offshore Wind Opportunities for Local Companies

    20 October 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Alex Cunningham, British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Stockton North, is keen to highlight funding opportunities worth hundreds of thousands of pounds that are available to help more local companies to benefit from involvement in the offshore wind energy sector. Firms across the Tees Valley, including TAG Energy in Stockton and JDR Cables in Hartlepool, […]

  • RWE Innogy Names Offshore Installation Vessel ‘Friedrich Ernestine’ (Germany)

    16 September 2011

      Under the name of “Friedrich Ernestine”, the ship will construct the offshore wind farm Gwynt y Môr (576 MW) off the Welsh coast. The installation vessel, which is the first of its type in the world, is able to transport up to four large-scale offshore wind turbines at the same time, and subsequently install […]

  • NKT Commissions Moray East Grid Connection

    11 November 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    NKT has commissioned the power cable project comprising three 220 kV HVAC power cable systems for the Moray East offshore wind farm. Located 22 kilometres off the north-east coast of Scotland, the 950 MW wind farm will be capable of meeting the average electricity needs of 40 per cent of Scottish households, NKT said. Commissioning […]

  • Rem Offshore Orders 2+2 CSOVs at Vard

    6 August 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Rem Offshore and Vard have signed contracts for the design and construction of two Construction Service Operations Vessels (CSOVs), with an option for two additional vessels. The vessels are tailor-made for worldwide services and maintenance operations at offshore wind farms and based on the Vard 4 19 design, Fincantieri, the parent company of Vard, said. […]

  • Offshore Wind Top Earner at Van Oord in 2020

    16 March 2021
    Business & Finance

    The offshore wind brought the most revenue to Van Oord in 2020, surpassing for the first time the company’s Dredging business. Van Oord recorded EUR 632 million in revenue at its Offshore Wind business in 2020, a 10.7 per cent increase compared to EUR 571 million reported in 2019. The division’s operational results increased sharply, […]

  • Masdar, Bapco Energies Eye 2 GW of Wind Projects Offshore Bahrain

    3 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    UAE-based Masdar has signed an agreement with Bahrain’s Bapco Energies to explore the development and investment in wind projects in Bahrain with a potential of 2 GW capacity. Marking a strategic entry into the Bahrain market for the UAE’s clean energy company, the agreement for near-shore and offshore wind farms is Masdar’s first in the […]

  • Plans Submitted for Huge Blade Manufacturing Plant in UK

    31 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment, Ports & Logistics

    Plans have been submitted for GE Renewable Energy’s factory to manufacture blades for offshore wind turbines in Teesside, Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said. Mayor Houchen has also revealed the first images of what the facility will look like once construction is complete. The new manufacturing plant will be set up and operated by GE-owned […]

  • Universal Foundation Completes Trial Installation Campaign

    3 November 2014
    R&D, Technology

    The next generation offshore wind foundation from Universal Foundation – a Fred. Olsen related company – has recently completed a trial installation campaign across three major offshore wind sites in the UK North Sea, as part of the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme. The project was managed by Statoil and delivered by Universal […]