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  • Vattenfall Bids for Borssele III & IV

    7 October 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall, a Swedish wind energy developer which could build the cheapest nearshore project off the coast of Denmark, has disclosed that it is taking part in the Borssele III and IV tender. In an interview with Offshore WIND at WindEnergy Hamburg, the company’s Head of Business Area Wind, Gunnar Groebler, said that the ongoing and […]

  • Top News of the Week Jan 20 – Jan 26, 2014

    26 January 2014

    VIDEO: Anholt Offshore Wind Farm Construction DONG Energy has constructed the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm, which is one of the largest construction projects in Denmark. First Monopile Installed at Borkum Riffgrund 1 The first of 77 foundations has been installed at Borkum Riffgrund 1 in Germany representing 277 MW when complete. NASA’s Image of the […]

  • EWEA Offshore 2013: Focus on Political Stability and Long-Term Support

    19 November 2013

    The moment EWEA Offshore 2013 Conference and Exhibition kicked off today in Frankfurt, Germany, the event’s focus became clear: political certainty and firm post-2020 target as key factors in setting conditions for stable development of offshore wind energy. Thomas Becker, CEO of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) welcomed delegates and other attendees of the […]

  • Danish-German OW Industry Needs to Boost Cross-Border Cooperation

    17 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    The offshore wind industry in southern Denmark can benefit from the large and growing market in Germany through cross-border cooperation, Offshoreenergy.dk said. A total of 766 companies are working with offshore wind near the Danish-German border, 404 Danish and 362 German. Over 80% of them often form partnerships with other companies when working with offshore wind. […]

  • JDR Extends EnBW Baltic 2 Contract

    2 February 2015
    Grid Connection

    JDR has extended its service support operations for the EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm by Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH. Under a contract, JDR is providing pre-commissioning, test and termination services for the 80 turbine project in the Baltic Sea, off the coast of Rostock (Germany). JDR’s offshore wind test and termination team was commissioned to […]

  • Transocean and Eneti to Form Offshore Wind Foundation Installation Venture

    20 April 2023
    Industry, Infrastructure, Jobs & Recruitment, Vessels

    Eneti and the offshore drilling contractor, Transocean, have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding indicating their intention to form a joint venture company that will engage in offshore wind foundation installation activities. The move marks Transocean’s entry into the offshore wind market. Transocean has three hundred plus rig-years of experience operating a global fleet of […]

  • WindMW Refinances Meerwind

    22 December 2015
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    WindMW, the company behind the Meerwind offshore wind farm, has issued a EUR 978 million in bonds to refinance an existing bank debt for the construction of the 288MW offshore wind project. The bonds were issued on 17 December 2015 to a group of around 20 international institutional investors and benefit from investment grade ratings from the […]

  • EMO Assumes Coordination of Trianel Windpark Borkum

    17 March 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    EMS Maritime Offshore’s (EMO) VENTUSmarine control center has assumed coordination of the Trianel Windpark Borkum project in Germany. In November last year, EMO signed a five-year contract with Trianel Windpark Borkum GmbH & Co. to handle maritime, flight and emergency coordination for the project until the end of 2025. EMO currently transports personnel and freight […]

  • ProCon Joins Bladt on Kaskasi Offshore Wind Project

    18 November 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    ProCon Wind Energy has signed a contract with Bladt Industries to provide the electrical installation and outfitting of the transition pieces for the Kaskasi offshore wind project in Germany. Purchasing related to the project has already started, while the installation and outfitting are set to kick-start in January and actively be carried out starting from […]

  • Van Oord Picks WIND for Borkum Riffgrund 2 Cable Works

    5 February 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has contracted Dutch subsea cable logistics specialist WIND to support the cable transfer operations on the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind project.

  • Imenco to Keep Hornsea One Corrosion Free

    22 January 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has awarded Norway’s Imenco Corrosion Technology AS with a contract to deliver equipment for cathodic corrosion protection of the 1.2GW Hornsea Project One wind farm off the Yorkshire coast in the UK.

  • Sif Removes Vineyard Wind from 2020 Order Book

    17 December 2019
    Business & Finance

    Sif has removed the Vineyard Wind project from its 2020 order book since the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has not yet issued a permit. Sif stated that the 800MW offshore wind project is still in its order book, but no longer for 2020 as manufacturing of the 84 monopiles next year “has […]

  • SSE Urges New UK Prime Minister to Increase Offshore Wind Targets

    26 July 2019
    Authorities

    SSE has called on UK’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson to increase the offshore wind capacity targets in order to reach the 2050 net zero emissions goal. In his letter to the new Prime Minister, SSE Chief Executive Alistair Philips-Davies stated that the Government needs to raise its ambition for Contract for Difference (CfD) auctions to deliver […]

  • Shell and CoensHexicon to Build Floating Wind Farm in South Korea

    27 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    Shell and CoensHexicon Co. Ltd have signed an agreement to develop, construct and operate a floating offshore wind farm in South Korea. According to CoensHexicon, initial project development started early this year for the wind farm which will be located circa 40km off the coast of Ulsan. The parties have already formed a project company […]

  • Wikinger Obtains DNV GL Certificate

    12 June 2019

    DNV GL has awarded Iberdrola with the project certificate for its Wikinger offshore wind farm in Germany. The certification covers all stages of the design assessment and implementation phase of the inter-array cables, as well as the turbines and offshore substation, including their support structures. DNV GL stated that the process was carried out according to the […]

  • Apollo Readies for Naming Ceremony

    20 February 2019
    Vessels

    DEME Group’s multi-purpose, self-propelled jack-up vessel Apollo is getting ready for its naming ceremony, which will be held in Zeebrugge, Belgium, on 21 February. The event is called Unboxing the Apollo, while the godmother will be Olympic, European and World Champion in heptathlon Nafi Thiam, a spokesperson from DEME Group told Offshore WIND.  According to the vessel’s AIS, Apollo is […]

  • BNOW: US Offshore Wind Needs New Financing Tools Quickly

    9 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    Decisions on how US offshore wind farms will be financed are needed quickly to ensure smooth sailing for a growing number of offshore wind projects, according to a white report released by the Business Network for Offshore Wind (BNOW). “We may hit some windy financing turbulence with the loss of tax equities and safe harbor provisions […]

  • Lloyd Werft Close to Sealing Cable-Laying Vessel Order From Bremen’s Beluga Shipping (Germany)

    7 February 2011
    Business & Finance, Technology

    IHS Fairplay reports that Lloyd Werft is reportedly close to sealing an order for a cable-laying vessel from Bremen’s Beluga Shipping. The vessel, with a length of 110m and breadth of 28m, is to be delivered in mid-2012 for deployment on a North Sea offshore windfarm, the German daily newspaper NWZ reported. Beluga’s managing director […]

  • Infineon and Goldwind Sign a License Agreement on IGBT Stack Technology to Serve the Wind Power Market (Germany)

    23 November 2010
    R&D

    Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) and Xinjiang Goldwind Science and Technology Co., Ltd., the Chinese leader in R&D and manufacturing of wind power equipments, today signed a license agreement for core components needed in manufacturing of wind turbines. According to the agreement, Goldwind gains the license to produce Infineon IGBT (Insulated Gate […]

  • BBB, MECAL & EP4 Complete Technical Due Diligence of the Dan Tysk Offshore-Wind Farm (Germany)

    12 November 2010

    On behalf of Stadtwerke München (Munich city utilities; SWM), the TDD team of BBB Umweltechnik, MECAL Wind Farm Services and EP4 Offshore have accomplished the technical evaluation of the offshore wind farm „DanTysk“. DanTysk has a planned capacity of up to 288 MW and will be one of the first large scale farms to be […]

  • German Researchers Run Quick Tender to Secure Vessel Amid High Offshore Wind Demand

    29 May 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Fraunhofer IGD, the Germany-based institute for applied research in visual computing, has recently awarded a contract for works on the Nienhagen offshore research platform, part of its Digital Ocean Lab, through a tender that was organised promptly to ensure early vessel booking amid high demand for vessels in offshore wind. The institute opened the tender […]

  • More than Half of Kaskasi Foundations Now In

    28 April 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Seaway 7 has installed all of the monopile foundations within its scope of work for the Kaskasi offshore wind farm and DEME Offshore just announced that its part of the project is progressing and that 22 monopiles are now installed at the 38-turbine offshore wind farm. “Seaway Strashnov completed the monopile installation on the Kaskasi […]

  • Offshore Investors Driving Innovative Noise Reduction in Construction of German Offshore Wind Farms

    17 May 2011
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Today, eight builders and operators of German offshore wind farms have concluded a joint venture agreement under the umbrella of the German Offshore Wind Foundation. The aim is to research and develop the efficiency of various noise reduction methods in the construction of offshore wind farms. The following companies are involved in the project: # […]

  • Switzerland: Renewables to Triple Insurance Spending by 2020

    26 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    The renewable energy industry could be spending three times as much on insurance every year by 2020 to mitigate risks to projects, says a new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance sponsored by Swiss Re. The report looked at six of the world’s leading markets for solar and wind, including Australia, China, France, Germany, the […]

  • International Initiative to Strengthen Danish Offshore Wind Sector

    5 November 2012
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The EU has pledged to provide around € 1.9 million for the national innovation network Offshore Center Danmark to be used for a new 3-year project called ECOWindS. The project will gather knowledge of installation, operation and maintenance of offshore wind farms in the UK, Germany, Denmark and Norway with the aim of halving operation […]

  • German Offshore Wind Trade Mission Eyes Humber Potential

    16 September 2014

    Senior figures from the German offshore wind and renewables sector are to visit the Humber this week on a trade mission to foster closer ties between the two countries. Organised by Team Humber Marine Alliance (THMA) and supported by the region’s local authorities, the Chamber of Commerce and the Humber LEP, the three-day visit will […]