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  • DOC-Swan Hunter Carries Out Cable Transport for German OWF

    8 May 2018
    Grid Connection

    DOC-Swan Hunter, a joint venture partnership between Dutch Offshore Contractors and Swan Hunter, has completed the transportation of inter-array cables for an offshore wind project in Germany.

  • Fassmer Steps Into Wind Service Market

    5 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    German wind turbine component manufacturer Fassmer has established a new subsidiary – Fassmer Industrial Service – covering inspections, servicing and repairs on rotor blades, covering parts as nacelles and hubs, as well as corrosion protection on steel structures. 

  • Acta Auriga Anchors in Eemshaven

    2 April 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Acta Marine’s walk-to-work (W2W) vessel Acta Auriga has arrived from Ulsteinvik, Norway, to the port of Eemshaven, the Netherlands, where it will be prepared for its first work on the BARD Offshore 1 wind farm.

  • Friede & Goldman, OIM Wind Unveil New WTIV Design for 20 MW Wind Turbines

    31 October 2023
    Vessels

    US-based Friede & Goldman and Norway’s OIM Wind have unveiled a new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), called FO-146. The vessel is based on Friede & Goldman’s WindSetter Class WTIVs and is the result of a collaboration between the two firms. The FO-146’s hull can accommodate up to five 18 MW or four 20 MW […]

  • RWE-Northland Power Joint Venture Adds Fourth Offshore Wind Project

    11 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    RWE and Northland Power, which partnered in January to jointly develop three offshore wind projects in Germany, have now also agreed to co-develop another, 225 MW offshore wind farm in the country. At the beginning of this year, the two companies entered into an agreement to establish a joint venture to develop over 1.3 GW of […]

  • HeliService Wins Offshore Transport Contract with TenneT

    5 August 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    HeliService International has won the tender TenneT organised to procure helicopter services for its offshore converter platforms, as well as the offshore substations of wind farm operators, in Germany. According to the call for tenders issued in March, the contract will be in effect from 1 January 2023 until 31 March 2025, and includes an […]

  • Rem Offshore’s PSV Hired for Wind Farm Work

    8 January 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Rem Offshore has been awarded a contract by Van Oord for its PSV Rem Trader to be deployed on an offshore wind project in France. The vessel will be working on the Saint Brieuc offshore wind farm throughout 2021 and 2022. “Rem is looking forward to place PSVs in other segments to show the diversity […]

  • Chemical Major to Run on Offshore Wind in Belgium

    15 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    International chemical company Borealis has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Eneco to source renewable electricity from the Mermaid offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea. The agreement entails the purchase and supply of over 1,000 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of wind power over the next decade, with delivery to begin in January 2021. […]

  • North Sea Wind Power Hub Gets EUR 14 Million EU Grant

    5 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    The European Commission is investing EUR 14 million in the North Sea Wind Power Hub (NSWPH) program. The financing will be used to carry out a study to support the development of the project. Consortium partners behind the NSWPH, Gasunie, TenneT Netherlands, TenneT Germany, and Energinet have joined together to develop a large-scale European energy system […]

  • Belgium Breezes Past Denmark in Offshore Wind Capacity Rankings

    30 June 2020
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance

    Belgium has surpassed Denmark in terms of the installed offshore wind capacity and is now ranked fourth in the world, Belgian Offshore Platform (BOP) said. Following the commissioning of the 219 MW Northwester 2 wind farm in May, Belgium now has 1,775 MW of installed offshore wind capacity, compared to Denmark’s 1,703 MW. The United […]

  • Vattenfall Gathers Blade Squad

    14 May 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    Vattenfall has signed a Framework Agreement with two UK and one Danish company to provide up-tower blade maintenance and repair at the company’s wind farms for a minimum period of two years. The Swedish energy company selected GEV Wind Power, James Fisher Marine Services, and Danish Blade Service to provide the blade maintenance and repair […]

  • Northwester 2 Goes Into Full Operation

    14 May 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The Northwester 2 offshore wind farm is fully operational, with all 23 MHI Vestas 9.5 MW turbines supplying power to the Belgian grid. Northwester 2 is the first to use the V164-9.5 MW turbines, the most powerful turbines to enter commercial operation to date, which now supply green energy via Elia’s Modular Offshore Grid (MOG). […]

  • CCC Urges UK Prime Minister to Keep Offshore Wind Promise

    18 December 2019
    Business & Finance

    The UK Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has urged the recently elected Prime Minister Boris Johnson to deliver on the promised 40GW of offshore wind by 2030 commitment. In their letter, CCC Chairman Lord Deben and Chair of the CCC’s Adaptation Committee Baroness Brown called on the Prime Minister to ensure that any market reforms […]

  • HST CTVs Sport BareFLEET Monitoring System

    2 December 2019
    Vessels

    High Speed Transfers (HST) is implementing BareFLEET, Reygar’s remote monitoring system, across its crew transfer vessel (CTV) fleet as it aims to expand to the U.S. and Taiwanese markets. According to Reygar, BareFLEET gives operators visibility over fleet activity, health and performance, monitoring the status of the engine, vessel motion and navigation. It automatically records […]

  • 13 Trianel Windpark Borkum II Turbines Stand

    14 November 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    13 of the 32 Senvion 6.2M152 wind turbines have been installed on the 200MW Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, Trianel GmbH said. Eleven out of the thirteen turbines installed have been commissioned, according to Trianel. The wind turbines are being loaded by Jan De Nul’s jack-up Taillevent at Buss […]

  • Chinese Firm Puts Two Wind Farm Service Vessels Into Operation

    4 October 2019
    Vessels

    The Chinese Dalian Shizhe New Energy Technology has put two wind farm service vessels (WFSVs) into operation. According to Dalian Shizhe, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ionix Technology, the two WFSVs were officially launched in early September. The China-based company revealed that it plans to launch an additional vessel before the end of the year. “Located in Dalian, a coastal city […]

  • IRENA: Offshore Wind Power Costs on Downward Path

    29 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    The average cost of electricity produced by offshore wind could decrease by 15%, to USD 0.108/kWh, by 2022, or 4% per year, according to a new report by International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). The Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2018 report states that offshore wind projects in 2022 would mainly span the range USD 0.06 to USD 0.14/kWh, […]

  • California Assemblyman Calls For More Offshore Wind

    27 February 2019
    Authorities

    California Assembly Member Jordan Cunningham has called on the U.S. Interior Department’s Acting Secretary David Bernhardt to lease parts of the state’s coastline for offshore wind development. In his letter, Cunningham explained that due to the expected closing of San Luis Obispo County’s largest private employer, the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, in 2025, around 1,500 […]

  • Ørsted Timetables Ocean Wind Geo Surveys

    23 January 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Fugro will commence geophysical surveys at the Ocean Wind project offshore New Jersey this month, according to the project’s Notice to Mariners. Fugro’s 170-foot research vessel R/V Enterprise will carry out the investigations off the Atlantic and Cape May counties within the Northern section of the Ocean Wind lease area. The estimated duration of the works […]

  • PcP. Shields Deutsche Bucht OSS

    9 January 2019
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance

    The Denmark-headquartered PcP. has provided louvre gratings for the offshore substation of the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm in Germany. According to PcP., the seawater resistant gratings will provide protection and ventilation for vulnerable transformer chambers of the substation. The protection was necessary due to extreme conditions, such as high winds and often heavy rains, the […]

  • Arcadis Ost 1 Produces First Power

    17 January 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Parkwind’s first offshore wind farm outside Belgium, the 247 MW Arcadis Ost 1 in Germany, has started producing first electricity and feeding it into the grid after the first set of wind turbines were powered up. The installation of wind turbines started in November 2022, when the crane vessel Thialf installed the first of the […]

  • Developers Want to Speed Up NordLink Approval

    24 January 2014
    Grid Connection, Technology

    German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein and DC Nordseekabel GmbH & Co. KG (NOKA), represented by the grid operator Tennet, want to speed up the planning approval for the proposed subsea cable NordLink from Norway to Schleswig-Holstein. To achieve this, they signed an implementation agreement with a binding timetable on January 23. As a result, the […]

  • PNE WIND Sees Further Prospects for German Offshore Wind Expansion

    6 December 2013

    The wind farm project developer, PNE WIND AG, sees further prospects for an expansion of offshore wind energy on Germany’s coastline. In PNE WINDs opinion, the prolongation of the acceleration model for electricity generated by offshore wind farms as agreed in the coalition agreement concluded by the possible new governing coalition signals a will to […]

  • Top News of the Week Oct 21 – 27, 2013

    27 October 2013

    UK: World’s Largest Wind Turbine Construction Complete  The world’s largest and most powerful offshore wind turbine is now standing at Energy Park Fife. GL Garrad Hassan Reviews Offshore Wind Over Last 10 Years  GL Garrad Hassan, the world’s largest renewable energy advisory organisation and part of the recently merged DNV GL Group today published a […]

  • Emden Offshore Days: Planning Certainty Key Topic

    6 September 2013
    Authorities

    The topic of planning certainty has taken a central role at the 3rd Emden Offshore Days. While attending an evening reception at the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday (4th September) within Offshore Days, the president of the Industry and Commerce Department for East Frisia and Papenburg (IHK), Dipl. Engineer Wilhelm Alfred Brüning, stressed that “a […]

  • Baltic Workboats Builds OWF Service Catamaran for German Owner

    26 June 2013

    The Christening ceremony of Wind Force II, a wind farm catamaran built by Baltic Workboats, occurred end of May 2013 in Norddeich, the homeport of FRISIA Offshore (FO) vessels in Northern-Germany. Wind Force II is a sistership of FO-s Wind Force I and also the fifth vessel within the FO fleet. Although, Baltic Workboats has […]