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  • EnBW Renewables Invites Companies to Participate in EnBW Baltic 2 Wind Farm (Germany)

    19 December 2011
    Wind Farm Update

    EnBW Renewables GmbH has offered a briefing to public utilities and industrial companies, to participate in its second offshore wind farm EnBW Baltic 2. 19 municipal utilities had already participated in the first offshore wind farm Baltic EnBW 1. Stefan Thiele, CEO of EnBW Renewables GmbH, said that the completed financing for EnBW’s Baltic 1 […]

  • Dong Energy to Develop Borkum Riffgrund West 1 for EUR 30 Million (Germany)

    6 November 2011

    DONG Energy has acquired the right to further develop the offshore wind project Borkum Riffgrund West 1 from Energiekontor AG for approx. EUR 30 mio. The procurement of the project is a significant step in DONG Energy’s effort to gain a stronger foothold in the growing German offshore wind sector.  “A robust pipeline of projects […]

  • E.ON, RWE and WindMW Plan Construction of Base for Maintenance of Offshore Wind Farms in Germany

    5 August 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D

      E.ON, RWE and WindMW today presented their plans for the construction of a base for the maintenance and operation of their offshore wind farms planned in the German North Sea. The plans provide for the development of the southern port of Helgoland to create a service and operating station. To this end, a total […]

  • Siemens and Lynas Establish Joint Venture for Magnet Production for Wind Turbine Generators (Germany)

    8 July 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Siemens and the Australian Lynas Corporation Limited have signed a letter of intent to establish a joint venture for the production of neodymium based rare earth magnets. Siemens requires this kind of magnets for the production of energy-efficient drive applications and wind-turbine generators. Lynas will provide raw materials to the joint venture, predominantly metals containing […]

  • Germany: Van Oord Wins Contract to Install Cables for DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm

    5 July 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

      Van Oord has been awarded the contract for the infield cabling and burial of the DanTysk offshore wind farm project 70 km off Sylt, Germany. The laying work will begin in the spring of 2013 and be completed around six months later. The DanTysk wind farm is a joint venture between Vattenfall Europe Windkraft […]

  • Voith Turbo Marine Engineering Develops Voith Offshore Shuttle for Wind Parks (Germany)

    7 June 2011
    R&D, Technology

    Voith Turbo Marine Engineering has developed the Voith Offshore Shuttle for wind parks. Its special feature: the so-called MOTS-system (Momac Offshore Transport System) is installed at the bow. The new system consists of a swivel arm robot, which allows safe transfers of people and goods from vessel to vessel or from vessel to offshore wind […]

  • PNE WIND and Vestas Team Up for North Sea Offshore Wind Projects (Germany)

    16 March 2011
    Business & Finance

    German wind farm developer, PNE WIND AG, and the wind turbine supplier Vestas have agreed to an exclusive cooperation agreement for offshore wind farms in the North Sea. Building upon the successful cooperation on the development of the Gode Wind II offshore wind farm, PNE WIND’s Gode Wind I and III projects will also be […]

  • RWE Joins Forces With Linnhoff Offshore and NSB to Build Offshore Wind Farm (Germany)

    11 January 2011

    RWE Innogy has entered a long-term partnership with Linnhoff Offshore and shipping company NSB, both based in Buxtehude near Hamburg, for… (theengineer) [mappress] Source: theengineer, January 11, 2011

  • Bremen-based BLG Cargo Logistics Handles Offshore Wind Turbine Parts (Germany)

    2 December 2010

    Bremen-based BLG Cargo Logistics – part of the BLG Logistics Group – operates Europe’s large terminal for conventional cargoes in Bremen and… (heavyliftpfi) [mappress] Source: heavyliftpfi, December 02, 2010

  • GL Garrad Hassan Offshore Experts Chosen for SMart Wind’s ‘Hornsea’ Zone (Germany)

    15 November 2010

    SMart Wind, the consortium lead by Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures, has appointed GL Garrad Hassan to act as Independent Engineer for the first two 500MW projects in the 4GW ‘Hornsea’ zone located off the coast of Yorkshire. Last month the consortium announced it has secured grid connection for the first two 500MW […]

  • PNE WIND acquires partners for “Gode Wind II” wind farm project (Germany)

    26 May 2010
    Business & Finance

    PNE WIND AG has successfully completed another step in the implementation of their offshore wind farm project “Gode Wind II”. Development… [mappress] Source: presseportal, May 26, 2010;

  • Germany: Researchers study ocean floor for best wind farm location in North sea

    5 May 2010
    R&D, Technology

    Different layers of the seabed reflect sound waves in a specific way. Researchers are harnessing the benefits of this fact to efficiently… [mappress] Source: fraunhofer, May 05, 2010;

  • Germany to Put 12 GW of Offshore Wind Out to Tender in Next Four Years

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

    On 30 January, the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) published a new Site Development Plan for offshore wind which paves the way to reaching the country’s targets of having 40 GW of offshore wind capacity in operation by 2035 and 70 GW by 2045. According to the new plan, Germany will auction off […]

  • Amprion Selects Owner’s Engineer for BorWin4 & DolWin4 Converter Platforms

    17 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Manufacturing, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain

    German transmission system operator (TSO) Amprion has selected TÜV SÜD as the Owner’s Engineer to supervise the construction of the converter platforms for the BorWin4 and the DolWin4 offshore grid connection systems. The contract covers overseeing the fabrication of the platforms’ individual components at several locations worldwide, such as supervision of the fabrication of large […]

  • Vestas Secures Conditional Turbine Order for Gigawatt-Scale Offshore Wind Project

    13 June 2024
    Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has signed a conditional agreement for the supply of turbines for an offshore wind power project in two phases in Northern Europe. The capacity of the project is above Vestas’ current disclosure threshold of 1 GW. If and when the agreement translates into firm and unconditional orders, Vestas said it […]

  • Denmark: Bladt Leading Supplier of Offshore Substructures, EWEA’s Report Says

    1 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    Bladt has been announced the leading supplier of offshore substructures in EWEA’s annual report on key offshore trend statistics for 2012 – and with good reason. In 2012, it successfully completed some of the world’s largest offshore wind foundation projects with the London Array and Anholt offshore wind farms. Offshore foundation projects In Lubmin, Germany, […]

  • MHI Vestas and Northland Make Deutsche Bucht Order Official

    21 August 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    MHI Vestas Offshore Wind received a firm and unconditional order for the Deutsche Bucht (DeBu) wind farm from Northland Power Inc. last Friday, when the Canadian company announced that the EUR 1.3 billion offshore wind project had reached financial close.

  • STX France Expands Working Space as Demand Grows

    17 March 2017

    STX France has expanded its Anemos plant in Saint-Nazaire, dedicated to marine renewable energy, to meet the needs of the international market.

  • Siemens Sticks With Acergy Viking

    13 January 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Norway’s Eidesvik Offshore has been awarded another contract with Siemens Wind Power for the service operation vessel Acergy Viking. The Acergy Viking will commence a new six-month contract plus options for Siemens Wind Power in the German offshore wind sector in June 2017. The two companies signed the first charter agreement for the Acergy Viking in […]

  • USA: NOAA Uses Wave Glider Device for Ocean Research

    22 July 2012
    Environment, R&D, Technology

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) lab in Seattle is using a robotic device, called wave glider, to find out more about what lays in ocean depths. The SmartPlanet explains characteristics of the device in its online news, saying that the glider reminds of a simple surfboard, but beyond what the eye meets lays […]

  • Mammoet Uses World’s Biggest Crawler Crane to Install Legs on Aeolus

    28 April 2014
    Technology

    Mammoet, specialized in Engineered Heavy Lifting and Transport, is currently employing its Liebherr LR13000, the biggest crawler crane in the world, to install four platform legs on Van Oord’s newest wind turbine installation vessel, the Aeolus. In 12 days the giant crane has been assembled at Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven, Germany. The first of the […]

  • DBB Jack-Up Gets Accreditation from Connexio

    19 March 2014

    On 19 March, DBB Jack-Up Services A/S received accreditation from Connexio. “By joining the Connexio supplier management communities we will be able to connect to a network of potential buyers across an entire industry sector in different regions. These supplier services are designed to support best practices and time, money and effort are saved in […]

  • Borkum Riffgrund 1 Produces First Power

    17 February 2015
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Electricity has been generated and fed into the German grid for the first time from the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 1. Trine Borum Bojsen, Managing Director of DONG Energy in Germany and responsible for Wind Power, said: “Borkum Riffgrund 1 is our first German wind farm and we’re more than happy, that we’ve started to […]

  • Rotterdam Port and Uniper Plan Green Hydrogen Project

    15 February 2021
    Business & Finance

    Uniper and the Port of Rotterdam Authority are investigating the possibilities of large-scale production of green hydrogen at the Maasvlakte area in Rotterdam. The plan is to realize a hydrogen plant on Uniper’s site by 2025 that would have a capacity of 100 MW and to expand this capacity to 500 MW. Uniper and Port […]

  • TenneT Prequalifying for Jack-Up Barge Tenders

    30 November 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    TenneT has launched a qualification process for tenders that will seek the provision of jack-up barges in Germany and the Netherlands. For each requirement of a jack-up barge, the company will issue an invitation to tender or request for quotation. The vessels will support scheduled and unscheduled maintenance campaigns at TenneT’s offshore assets in the […]

  • Euskalforging to Deliver Flanges for Hollandse Kust Zuid 1-4 Foundations

    16 November 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Euskalforging has been awarded a contract for foundation flanges for offshore wind farms at all four Hollandse Kust Zuid sites. Under the contract, euskalforging will produce and deliver a total of 140 flanges for the TP-less foundations that will support the wind turbines of the wind farms being developed by Vattenfall. The flange supplier has […]