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  • VIDEO: Creating Symbiosis Between Offshore Wind and Marine Life

    5 February 2016
    Authorities, Environment, R&D, Technology

    What does ocean biology have to do with offshore wind energy? Quite a lot, according to this video by US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which explains how scientists carefully study underwater areas to map out the best locations for potential future wind energy projects. The outer continental shelf of North Carolina supports some of the […]

  • HiDef Involved in Floating Offshore Wind Project off Scotland

    18 January 2016
    R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    HiDef Aerial Surveying has been delivering extreme high resolution video marine mammal and bird surveys to Hexicon AB since January 2015, in support of Hexicon’s application for consent for the Dounreay Tri Demonstrator project. Hexicon is a Swedish company with a background within shipbuilding and technology development, which is applying for consent to build and […]

  • Bureau Veritas Addresses Risks in China’s Offshore Wind Industry

    8 January 2016

    Risk control is a major task for offshore wind power development in China due to great difficulties and risks, as well as the uniqueness of domestic offshore projects, Bureau Veritas said after its seminar on offshore wind power in October in Beijing. According to Shi Pengfei, an industry expert who attended Bureau Veritas’ seminar, the approval process of […]

  • BVG Associates: 2016 Is the Year of New Offshore Wind Markets

    6 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    There is every reason to believe that 2016 will see a series of developments for renewable energy, especially in new markets in offshore wind, according to Bruce Valpy, Director at BVG Associates. The year ahead of us will see the commissioning of the first offshore farm in the US, at Block Island, off Rhode Island State. 2016 will […]

  • Offshore Wind Could Boost Indo-Norwegian Business Ties

    4 January 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    Offshore wind energy could be an area of great interest for further Indo-Norwegian partnerships in business and research, as Norwegian companies can contribute to India’s offshore wind sector with their expertise and technological know-how necessary to create cost-effective projects, according to the Norwegian Embassy in India. Recognized globally as a cost-effective and proven renewable energy technology, […]

  • Vattenfall Sets Aside EUR 5.5 Billion for Wind Development

    30 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Swedish utility Vattenfall plans to invest EUR 5.5 billion in on- and offshore wind energy development by 2020, the company’s Head of Business Area Wind Gunnar Groebler was quoted by German media as saying. The amount is equal to what the state-owned power company invested in wind power development in the past ten years. Vattenfall expects this investment […]

  • Report on Global Wind Turbine Industry to 2020 Out Now

    9 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Research and Markets has added the “Global Wind Turbine Industry – Statistics, Small Wind Turbine Market Analysis, Value Chain Analysis & Forecast 2001-2020” report to their offering. Divided into six sections, the report provides an in-depth analysis of the global wind turbine market. The global wind energy industry is analyzed through a market profile and statistics, wind […]

  • Vattenfall Starts First Ever Offshore Wind Farm Dismantling

    4 December 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Sweden’s Vattenfall has started dismantling the 10MW Yttre Stengrund offshore wind farm after thirteen years of operating in the waters of Kalmar Sound, the company confirmed to Offshore WIND. Yttre Stengrund consisted of five 2MW NEG Micon turbines. Only 50 of such turbines were ever made. The last turbine at Yttre Stengrund stopped turning on 2 November. The four other wind […]

  • Amber Rudd: “We Will Not Support Offshore Wind at Any Cost”

    18 November 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, R&D, Technology

    The UK Government will secure funding for three offshore wind auctions by 2020 under the condition that the industry further cuts down the costs. This was announced by the UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd, who revealed a new direction for UK energy policy today, setting out her policy priorities and the strategy for putting them into action. Some 10GW […]

  • OWI-Lab Tests ZF Wind Power’s 80t Gearboxes

    1 October 2015
    R&D, Technology

    Wind power is the energy of the future, but wind turbines must be reliable even under extreme weather conditions. To that end, Sirris’s OWI-Lab tested ZF Wind Power’s 80-ton gearboxes in its large climatic test chamber based in the port of Antwerp. OWI Lab – Belgian’s RD&I center for wind power – is a spearhead […]

  • TKI Wind Compares OW Subsidy Schemes and Tax Regimes

    21 September 2015

    The TKI Wind op Zee has released a report which identifies the differences in subsidy schemes and tax regimes for offshore wind in France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands. The design of the subsidy and tax schemes determines the attractiveness for investors as it can change the risk profile and, therefore the cost […]

  • Dong Completes Foundation Installation at Gode Wind 1, 2

    16 September 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    At the two offshore wind farms Gode Wind 1 and 2, the last of 97 foundations has been installed. Dong Energy achieved this milestone ahead of schedule due to smooth foundation installation. Altogether, the installation of the 97 monopiles and transition pieces took five months. Trine Borum Bojsen, Managing Director of DONG Energy in Germany […]

  • Basque Country Funding Floating, Offshore Wind Tech-Testing

    12 August 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    The Basque Energy Agency (Ente Vasco de la Energía; EVE) will financially support demonstration and validation of emerging marine energy technologies with EUR 2.5 million. Specifically, subsidies will be made available for pilot projects demonstrating and validating full scale, or almost full scale, prototypes of wave energy converters, floating wind platforms, and offshore wind turbines. Funding also covers prototypes of […]

  • DeepOcean to Install Offshore Wind Cables off Belgian Coast

    17 July 2015
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DeepOcean 1 UK Ltd., a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV (DeepOcean), has been awarded the inter array cable installation contract for the Bligh Bank Phase II Offshore Wind Farm offshore Belgium. Nobelwind NV is developing the Bligh Bank Phase II Offshore Wind Farm with fifty 3.3MW wind turbines offshore Belgium, with an estimated installed […]

  • Met Office Modelling Offshore Wind Data for Crown Estate

    14 July 2015
    Authorities, R&D

    The Met Office is supplying new modelled datasets for the UK’s offshore wind resource to The Crown Estate. The Met Office said the new data is more accurate than previous modelled datasets and backed up by 30 years of historic data. It provides a higher resolution picture of the UK’s offshore wind resource that will […]

  • ABB Wins French Multi-Million Offshore Wind Job

    8 July 2015
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    ABB has won a contract worth around $25 million from the electrical transmission system operator RTE France to supply transformer products and services for grid connections for ongoing French offshore wind power projects. ABB will supply nine 400-megavolt ampere (MVA) booster transformers to help regulate the voltage of power transmitted from four large-scale offshore wind projects […]

  • Offshore Wind Makes Sif Group Expand to Rotterdam (VIDEO)

    30 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Roermond-based Sif Group has decided to expand its production capacity with more than EUR 60 million to be invested in the headquarters in Roermond and in Rotterdam at Maasvlakte 2.  In Rotterdam, an assembly hall and a coating hall will be built at Maasvlakte 2. In addition, a storage and logistical hub covering approximately 40 hectares […]

  • JECS Offshore Shows What It’s Got at Gode Wind

    25 June 2015

    Some of the access equipment set up at the Gode Wind 1 and 2 offshore wind farms has recently deemed not fit for purpose by the Health & Safety team at DONG Energy, after which the developer contacted JECS Offshore with a request for scaffolding materials and two teams of scaffolders to work in shifts so that they […]

  • VIDEO: Foundation Construction for the First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm

    19 June 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Deepwater Wind, the developer of the first offshore wind farm in the United States, has published another video of the progress that has been made to install the first wind turbines at the Block Island wind farm site.  The video shows work on the steel foundations that will be installed at the site. Steel jacket structures for […]

  • Photo Gallery: Umoe Mandal’s New Offshore Wind Vessel

    18 June 2015
    Vessels

    Yesterday, the Carbon Trust hosted the first UK demonstration of the Wave Craft vessel Umoe Ventus at Seawork International 2015 in Southampton. The new vessel, developed by Umoe Mandal with support from the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), is a surface effect ship (SES), using an air cushion to lift 80 percent of the vessel and ensuring that only a small part […]

  • Offshore Wind Installation Could Harm Seals, Study Says

    20 May 2015
    Environment

    Noise from pile driving during offshore wind turbine construction could be damaging the hearing of harbour seals around the UK, according to ecologists who attached GPS data loggers to 24 harbor seals while offshore wind turbines were being installed in 2012. Data on the seals’ locations and their diving behaviour was combined with information from […]

  • EU Scientists Develop Floating Airship to Generate Wind Energy

    20 April 2015
    R&D, Technology

    EU-funded researchers have developed a prototype wind energy system that works at much higher altitudes, where winds are stronger and more constant, dramatically increasing electricity production. A commercialised product is in the pipeline. Most wind energy comes from turbines 150 metres above ground level. Winds at this altitude are however weak and intermittent, with most […]

  • USA: MAKE Predicts Wind Energy Uncertainty after 2016

    13 April 2015

    MAKE expects more than 55GW of wind power capacity to be commissioned in North America from 2015 to 2024. Policy-driven growth in the near term will subside and LCOE and economic drivers will become increasingly important. In the US, the expired federal PTC underpins 13.4GW of growth in 2015 and 2016, preceding policy uncertainty and […]

  • MVDC Could Reduce Offshore Wind Costs, Study Says

    13 April 2015
    Business & Finance, R&D

    At this year’s EWEA Offshore 2015 in Copenhagen, Gordon McFadzean represented TNEI where he was selected as a poster award winner in the “Grids” topic. His poster tackled Medium Voltage Direct Current technology for offshore wind farms. TNEI Services has been commissioned by Scottish Enterprise, which is working in partnership with SP Energy Networks (SPEN), […]

  • GWEC: Installed Offshore Wind Reaches 8,759 MW in 2014

    2 April 2015
    R&D

    The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) launched its flagship publication the Global Wind Report: Annual Market update yesterday in Istanbul. The report details wind power’s remarkable growth in 2014, as well as updating GWEC’s rolling 5 year market projections, which show continued growth for the rest of the decade. Led by China and Brazil in the first […]

  • GEV Wind Power to Showcase Its Developments at EWEA’s Event

    26 February 2015

    GEV Wind Power will be exhibiting its advancements in turbine blade maintenance at EWEA Offshore in Copenhagen on 10-12th March 2015. GEV’s Habitat represents a milestone in the maintenance of remote wind turbines, enabling engineers to complete essential works in a weather-protected environment. Whilst the simultaneous launch of a camera-based blade inspection service and GEV’s […]