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  • Deutsche WindGuard Settles in China

    19 September 2018
    Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance

    Germany-based wind energy consultant Deutsche WindGuard GmbH has founded a Chinese subsidiary – Deutsche WindGuard (Beijing) Technology Ltd- to further tap into Asian wind markets.

  • Greeks Studying Floating Offshore Wind Potential

    4 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    Chalkis Shipyards and a number of Greek institutions are collaborating on a project seeking to study the potential of floating offshore wind in the Greek Seas. The WIndfloat.gr – Innovative Design of Floating Wind Plants for the Greek Seas project seeks to exploit the wind potential of the Greek Seas with the aim of boosting […]

  • Manor Initiative Begins Sea Trials

    19 December 2019
    Vessels

    Manor Renewable Energy’s (MRE) new crew transfer vessel (CTV) Manor Initiative, former MPI Cervantes, is currently undergoing sea trials at the company’s Portland facility. To remind, MRE purchased the CTVs MPI Cervantes, now Manor Initiative, and MPI Cardenio, set to be renamed to Manor Enterprise, earlier this year from Offshore Support Vessels BV with an […]

  • BorWin3 Starts Delivering

    20 August 2019
    Grid Connection

    The BorWin3 offshore wind grid connection in the German North Sea has started transmitting power. According to Petrofac, the 900MW project has begun converting three-phase electric power generated by offshore wind farms into direct current and transmitting it 160km back to shore into the German national grid. “We are delighted to have reached this key milestone with […]

  • PPAs Signed for Three Offshore Wind Projects in Taiwan

    21 February 2019
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Taipower has signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) with China Steel Corp (CSC) and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) for three offshore wind projects, the local media reported. The PPAs were signed for the 300MW Chong Neng project, developed jointly by CIP and CSC, as well as for CIP’s 552MW ChangFang and 48MW Xidao, all located offshore the Changhua County. Under […]

  • Voith Hydro Shuts Down Its Scottish Wave Business

    5 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Voith Hydro has decided to shut down its wave power business in Inverness, Scotland and to “pool the Know-How at the company’s engineering centre in Heidenheim, Germany”, the Scotsman cites company’s spokesman. Decision to close its wholly owned subsidiary Wavegen is part of a plan for reorganization, which will result in 18 local employees losing […]

  • Denmark: DHI Tests Floating Wind Turbines in Its Wave Basins

    12 November 2012
    R&D, Technology

    As a member of the HYDRALAB-IV consortium, DHI offers access to research groups to conduct experimental studies in its wave basins. One of the projects selected by HYDRALAB’s user selection panel for Transnational Access to the facilities concerns ‘Dynamic Response of Floating offshore Structures under Random Waves and Wind Action’. The project was formulated by […]

  • innogy Appoints U.S. Offshore Wind Representative

    9 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    Germany-based energy company innogy SE has appointed Chris Wissemann as the U.S. representative for offshore wind.

  • First Veja Mate Turbine Feeds Power to German Grid

    18 January 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The first Siemens 6MW wind turbine installed at the Veja Mate offshore wind farm has started feeding the German electricity grid with green, renewable energy two months ahead of schedule.

  • Top News of the Week July 7 – 13, 2014

    13 July 2014

    Siemens to Revolutionize Offshore Wind Turbine Service Siemens has announced that, as of 2015, it will revolutionize the offshore wind turbine service with its new service operation vessels (SOVs). Man Severely Injured in Accident at Butendiek Offshore Wind Farm Yesterday morning (July 7), sea rescuers from List medevaced a severely injured worker from the heavy […]

  • DONG Picks Steelwind to Build 36 Borkum Riffgrund 2 Foundations

    31 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy has awarded Germany’s Steelwind Nordenham with a contract to manufacture 36 monopiles and transition pieces for the 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm. This is not the first time Steelwind Nordenham was contracted by DONG to build foundations for an offshore wind project, but it is the first time the company will produce transition pieces […]

  • UXO Consultancy and Desktop Study Needed for Kriegers Flak Interconnector

    23 May 2016
    Grid Connection, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Denmark’s Energinet.dk and Germany’s 50Hz Transmission have issued a tender for an UXO consultancy and desktop study for the 400 MW Kriegers Flak combined grid solution (CGS). The two transmission system operators are planning a HVAC cable between offshore substations located at the two offshore wind farms, the 600MW Kriegers Flak in Danish waters,  and the 288MW […]

  • First Veja Mate Monopiles Reach Eemshaven

    14 March 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The first three super-sized monopiles built for the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm arrived at the Dutch Eemshaven seaport on 10 March, with the remaining 64 giants soon to follow, Eemshavenonline.nl reports The monopiles were constructed in Rostock, Germany, by EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH. Weighing 1,302.5 tons each, they are the world’s heaviest monopiles ever built. The […]

  • Boskalis, VolkerWessels to Handle Wikinger’s Foundations

    19 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) and Volker Stevin International (VolkerWessels) have been awarded a contract by Iberdrola Renewables Offshore Deutschland GmbH for the transport and installation of seventy wind turbine foundations and six offshore substation piles for the Wikinger Offshore Wind Farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea. The contract carries a value of approximately EUR 75 […]

  • Vattenfall Looking For DanTysk and Sandbank SOV

    23 December 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Vattenfall has issued a call for competition seeking a service operation vessel (SOV) for the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in Germany. The selected party will provide an SOV to allow accommodation and transfer of technicians via suitable gangway solutions to turbines for scheduled maintenance during the spring and summer campaign of 2021. The […]

  • RWE Picks NHC Northern Helicopter for Another Offshore Wind Farm

    18 November 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    NHC Northern Helicopter has secured a contract with RWE for offshore air rescue services at the Amrumbank West offshore wind farm in Germany. The two-year contract includes the provision of emergency medical care with a rescue helicopter and the offshore emergency control center. With this new contract, RWE bundles offshore air rescue for both of […]

  • NKT’s Cable Ops Powered by Renewables

    23 June 2020
    Business & Finance, Environment

    NKT’s cable manufacturing factories are now running on electricity from renewable energy sources, the company informed, adding that its CO2-emissions from energy consumption are now 66 per cent lower than last year. The 66 per cent reduction in CO2-emissions from energy consumption came through using green electricity in the factories, as well as for the […]

  • Oceanteam Acquires KCI Design Engineers

    21 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    Oceanteam has acquired remaining 30% shares of KCI design engineers, thus becoming a sole shareholder. KCI is a multi-discipline engineering company, employing over 150 engineers and has offices in Schiedam, The Netherlands and Hamburg, Germany. Through this strategic purchase, Oceanteam can speed up the already initiated investment program and support the company with its growth […]

  • Diamond Consortium Takes Over Burbo Bank Extension Transmission Assets

    26 April 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance

    Diamond Transmission Partners BBE Limited (DTPBBE) has signed the acquisition of transmission assets connected to the Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm located in the Bay of Liverpool in the UK.

  • EMO’s Merkur Service Base Right on Time

    11 January 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, R&D

    EMS Maritime Offshore (EMO) has celebrated the topping-out ceremony of its second building for the Merkur offshore wind farm service base in Eemshaven, the Netherlands, and expects to have it fully built on time with no delays despite winter weather.

  • Wpd Receives Initial Approval for Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan

    15 December 2017

    Wpd’s offshore wind farm proposed to be built off the coast of Taiwan’s Yunlin county received an initial approval from Taiwanese Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) in November, according to Taipei Times.

  • TenneT Seeks Partners to Develop 2GW Offshore Link

    16 October 2019
    Grid Connection, Technology

    Dutch-German offshore grid operator TenneT TSO has issued a tender for two high voltage direct current (HVDC) systems, offshore, and onshore converters for the 4GW Ijmuiden Ver offshore wind zone. TenneT will develop two 2GW offshore HVDC grid connections for integrating IJmuiden Ver wind farms into the Dutch power grid. As 2GW offshore HVDC systems […]

  • McDermott and GEIRI/C-EPRI to Build Converter Platforms for BorWin6 Offshore Grid

    15 February 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    A consortium comprising McDermott and Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute and C-EPRI Electric Power Engineering (GEIRI / C-EPRI) has been awarded a contract for offshore and onshore converter stations for the German BorWin6 offshore grid connection which will be delivered by TenneT to link 980 MW of offshore wind capacity to the German grid. “With […]

  • 3sun Gets Two-Year Extension on Siemens’ UK Offshore Wind Sites

    14 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    3sun Group has secured a contract extension with Siemens to provide offshore wind turbine installation services in the UK until 2016. 3sun Group has been working with Siemens since 2009, on work totalling around £15 million in the UK. This two year contract extension further underpins the relationship, and involves the company providing technicians for […]

  • Two European Banks Join Cape Wind and BTMU

    26 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Marking another major Cape Wind financing milestone, Cape Wind and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (BTMU) today added Natixis and Rabobank to serve as the project’s Lead Arrangers, to work with BTMU to structure and arrange the syndication of the senior debt financing to additional lenders. The Lead Arrangers are expected themselves to make […]

  • TÜV SÜD Certifies REpower’s 6.2M152 Offshore Wind Turbine

    17 January 2014
    Technology

    International provider of testing and certification services TÜV SÜD has been commissioned by REpower Systems SE, Hamburg, to carry out type certification of its new offshore turbine REpower 6.2M152. For wind turbine type certification, TÜV SÜD’s experts examine and assess the overall design and all key components of the wind turbine. TÜV SÜD’s certification of […]