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  • Germany: Mobil Industrial Lubricants Becomes HUSUM WindEnergy’s Diamond Sponsor

    1 August 2012

    Mobil Industrial Lubricants, ExxonMobil’s leading international brand of lubricants for the wind energy sector has been announced as HUSUM WindEnergy 2012 trade fair’s Diamond sponsor. This is the second time that the industrial lubricant supplier has taken the lead sponsorship of the event, signifying its commitment to helping to facilitate best practice in the industry. […]

  • PNE WIND AG Announces Changes in Its Board of Directors (Germany)

    17 March 2011
    Business & Finance

    The wind farm developer, PNE WIND AG, announces changes in its Board of Directors. Concluding a successful business phase Bernd Paulsen… [mappress] Source: pne, March 17, 2011

  • GMSH Invites Tenders for Multi-purpose Pier Brunsbüttel Operators (Germany)

    10 February 2012
    Contracts & Tenders

     GMSH has invited tenders for multi-purpose pier Brunsbüttel operators. The offshore wind energy market will play the central role in German energy policy changes. Although other states already have a big lead in the development and production capacities, a certified report of Schleswig-Holstein provides good opportunities for the establishment of production facilities. In particular, Brunsbüttel […]

  • Offshore Wind Energy: “Safety at Sea Has the Highest Priority” (Germany)

    22 August 2012

    The use of real offshore technology is indispensable for sound training of personnel for deployment in offshore wind farms, and for their safety on site. “Preparedness for emergencies, concepts for the saving and recovery of employees in emergency situations, and the maintenance of industrial health and safety standards are prerequisite for the safe erection and […]

  • Germany: RWE to Deploy TRIAXYS Buoy at Nordsee Ost Wind Farm

    23 March 2012

    Knowing the environmental conditions around a wind farm is crucial to a wind farm operator. Making wrong decisions from inaccurate or incomplete data can be costly in terms of time, money or worse accidents. In an effort to ensure they receive accurate and consistent wave and ocean current data, RWE Innogy GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) has […]

  • Germany: GL Garrad Hassan Commissioned for “FINO Wind” Research Project

    28 August 2013
    Environment

    DWD (German Weather Service) has commissioned GL Garrad Hassan to be responsible for an extensive sub-project within the scope of the “FINO Wind” research project. This involves taking an inventory of the metadata, utilisation and collection of LiDAR wind measurement data for the correction of mast effects, as well as the uncertainty estimation and assessment […]

  • Germany: MMT Completes Geophysical Cable Route Survey for Amrumbank OWF

    14 September 2012
    Grid Connection

    MMT (Sweden) has recently completed a geophysical cable route survey for the Amrumbank West offshore wind farm (OWF) project for Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH. The geophysical survey was performed by MMT for the entire inner array grid cable route. The geophysical survey included bathymetric and side-scan sonar survey as well as sub-bottom profiling. At first […]

  • AREVA Tests 5MW Turbines in New Test Bench in Bremerhaven (Germany)

    22 November 2011

    All AREVA M5000 5 Megawatt offshore wind turbines are tested from now on in the new full load test bench in Bremerhaven (Germany) to deliver a 100% quality product to the next offshore sites. The test bench offers the possibility to check the functionality under nominal load conditions and is a tool for the qualification […]

  • Germany: StrathControl to Release Paper on Low Level Jet Wind Effects

    11 November 2013

    Control engineers from StrathControl will present a technical paper at the EWEA Offshore 2013 Conference Poster Sessions on Wednesday. This paper describes the work carried out by StrathControl, SgurrEnergy and the University of Strathclyde using LiDAR data to characterise offshore Low Level Jet (LLJ) wind effects observed on a wind farm in the North Sea […]

  • Germany: Inter Array Cable Installation Starts at Nordsee Ost OWF

    6 August 2013
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    At the beginning of the week, RWE Innogy has started laying the first inter array cable in the construction area of the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm. By mid-2014, 64 kilometers of cable will have connected the 48 wind turbines with the offshore transformer substation. The Dutch company Visser & Smit Marine Contracting (VSCM) is […]

  • Germany: Lloyd Werft Sees Offshore Wind Market as New Mainstay

    21 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    A busy winter with plenty of passenger ships was followed by a spring in which special ships dominated the scene: the half-year report of Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven mirrors the current climate in German shipbuilding. “It’s a changeable market,” says Rüdiger Pallentin in a comment which also describes prospects for the coming months. And yet the […]

  • Germany to Invest EUR 200 Billion in Offshore Wind Farms Projects

    19 March 2012
    Business & Finance, Environment, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Chancellor Angela Merkel has revealed her plan to construct offshore wind farms that will stretch over an area six times the size of New York City, reports Bloomberg. The plan expected to cost 200 billion euros ($268 billion), according to the DIW economic institute in Berlin, will also include installation of power lines that could […]

  • Germany: Allseas Special Vessel Lifts Offshore Platforms in One Piece

    6 March 2012

    As the major engineering partner to the Allseas Group, Bosch Rexroth has developed and engineered the drive and control system solution for the world’s largest mobile lifting mechanism for offshore installations. The special vessel equipped with this topside lifting system (TLS), “Pieter Schelte”, can lift and transport topsides of offshore platforms with a weight of […]

  • Germany: NORD/LB Finances Offshore Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

    14 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank is participating in the financing of an installation vessel for offshore wind energy farms. Commissioned by the international provider of construction-related services HOCHTIEF, the “VIDAR” is a jack-up vessel being built at the Crist shipyard in Poland and scheduled to go into service from 2013 onwards. NORD/LB has co-structured the transaction within […]

  • Siemens Showcases New Gearless Direct Drive Wind Generator (Germany)

    20 September 2012
    Technology

    The Siemens Drive Technologies Division is showcasing Direct Drive Wind, its new gearless wind generator, at the Husum WindEnergy 2012 trade fair. Comprised of individual, preassembled generator segments, it is able to offer a high degree of flexibility in the implementation of a wide range of turbine solutions and system concepts. The generator, designed as […]

  • Germany Puts Three New Offshore Wind Sites Out to Tender

    26 February 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) opened tenders for three new offshore wind sites on 26 February. Two of the sites are located in the North Sea and one is situated in the German part of the Baltic Sea. The tenders are open until 1 September, with the maximum value of bids limited to 7.3 eurocents […]

  • Germany Launches Another Offshore Wind Tender, Qualitative Criteria Introduced

    27 February 2023
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Grid Connection, Industry, Infrastructure, Technology, Training & Education

    Germany’s Federal Network Agency has launched another offshore wind tender, this one for 1,800 MW of capacity to be developed across four centrally pre-examined areas in the North Sea. This is in addition to the tender for 7 GW of capacity in areas that had not been centrally pre-examined launched at the end of January. […]

  • Germany: Innogy Venture Capital and High-Tech Gründerfonds Invest in Enercast

    23 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Innogy Venture Capital and High-Tech Gründerfonds are going to invest in a first round of financing up to EUR 2.25 million in the start-up company enercast GmbH. The young technology company provides electricity generation forecasts from wind and solar which lead to significant cost savings along the energy supply chain.  “enercast addresses a fundamental problem […]

  • 3 MW FusionDrive® Revealed at Husum WindEnergy 2012 (Germany)

    4 October 2012
    Technology

    On September 18, 2012, the actual, real-life sized 3 MW FusionDrive® was unveiled in front of a large audience at the joint The Switch and Moventas stand at Husum WindEnergy 2012. Jukka-Pekka Mäkinen, President and CEO of The Switch, and Arto Lahtela, Senior Vice President, Sales of Moventas, explained why FusionDrive® is the smartest gear […]

  • PNE Wind AG released Financial And Strategic Analysis Review (Germany)

    9 September 2010
    R&D

    PNE Wind AG (PNE) is a privately held renewable energy company. It principally engages in the development, project management, realization,… (officialwire) [mappress] Source: officialwire, September 09, 2010;

  • Germany: Seafox Group Successfully Starts Operations in Offshore Wind Industry

    5 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    After months of careful planning and detailed engineering, the Seafox 5  installed the first offshore wind monopile on February 28th. These  monopiles serve as the foundations of the  DanTysk Offshore Wind Park. The main contractor for the foundations of this wind farm is Aarsleff Billfinger Berger Joint Venture (ABJV) that, with use of the Seafox […]

  • OutSmart Completes Its Offshore Operations Centre at Emden Airport, Germany

    13 June 2013
    Operations & Maintenance

    OutSmart’s Offshore Operations Centre at Emden airport is completed. From now on, OutSmart’s team will monitor wind farms in the German North Sea from this brand new building. The Operations Centre will be manned 24/7 to operate offshore wind farms in the German North Sea and coordinate all maintenance and logistic activities. Launching customer is […]

  • Nordex Group Begins Year with 22 pct Sales Growth (Germany)

    11 May 2011
    Business & Finance

      The Nordex Group has begun the year 2011 with double-digit sales growth. The increase to EUR 183.1 million (Q1/2010: EUR 150.5 million) was materially underpinned by the strong performance of Nordex USA, which was able to expand its sales substantially to EUR 28.9 million (Q1/2010: EUR 3.4 million). At EUR 144.4 million, business in […]

  • Hochtief Looks for Investment Partner to Develop Offshore Wind Farms (Germany)

    16 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Hochtief AG (HOT), Germany’s largest builder, plans to set up a joint venture with an investment partner to develop offshore wind farms.   By Stefan Nicola (bloomberg) [mappress] Source: bloomberg, November 16, 2011; Image: hochtief

  • MKG Fits New Crane on Bibby Tethra Survey Vessel (Germany)

    29 April 2011

    MKG have just fitted out a new purpose-built coastal survey catamaran with a powerful state of the art 20mt radio controlled hydraulic…   (logisticsweek) [mappress] Source: logisticsweek, April 29, 2011;

  • RWE Innogy Installs Wind Measurement Station Offshore Heligoland (Germany)

    2 November 2011

    RWE Innogy successfully completed the installation of a measuring tower in the German North Sea. The measuring system has been installed in the construction area of the Nordsee Ost offshore windfarm 30 km north of Heligoland. RWE Innogy will start the construction of the windfarm at the beginning of next year. The measuring tower with […]