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  • BSH Preparing Another Tender for German N-9 and N-10 Offshore Wind Areas

    20 August 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) plans to open a tender for the collection and processing of hydroacoustic and seismic data for the N-9 and N-10 wind areas in the North Sea. Through the tender, expected to be launched in October, BSH will seek services related to geophysical investigation of the subsurface of the […]

  • Supergen ORE Hub Launches Second Offshore Renewables Funding Call

    16 March 2020
    Business & Finance, R&D

    The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub has launched the second round of Flexible Funding to advance research into the opportunities and challenges of offshore wind, wave and tidal energy. This second round will award up to GBP 1.2 million to researchers at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), Research Council Institutes and Centres, and Independent Research Organisations […]

  • Innogy Sets Out Kaskasi Timeline

    27 April 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur has awarded innogy SE with the rights to build and operate the 325MW Kaskasi offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • EU Council Backs 27% by 2030 Target

    19 December 2017
    Authorities, Environment

    On 18 December, the European Council adopted its position on a directive of reaching at least 27% of renewable energy share in the European Union’s energy consumption by 2030.

  • Siemens, SPR Sign Europe’s Largest Wind Turbine Contract

    27 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) has concluded a major East Anglia ONE deal with Siemens, worth up to one-third of the overall £ 2.5 billion (€ 3.2 billion) project investment. Under the agreement, Siemens will supply 102 wind turbines and service them for an initial period of five years. The turbine agreement is the largest individual contract placed as part […]

  • Offshore Wind: A Playfield with Giant Toys (Photo Gallery)

    20 April 2016
    Vessels

    The story of offshore wind farms moving farther from shore and wind turbines being installed in deeper waters does not finish with gigantic vessels and foundations, but extends to the almost entire supply chain, where equipment is also getting bigger and services are being adapted to the industry’s needs. At the beginning of this month, […]

  • DanTysk Accommodation Platform Taking Shape

    13 April 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The accommodation platform for maintenance crews that are working on the 288MW DanTysk offshore wind farm is currently being built in Emden, Germany, according to Vattenfall, the farm’s majority owner. Starting this summer, fifty berths distributed over five and a half decks will be in place 90 kilometres off the German North Sea coast to accommodate offshore […]

  • Deutsche Windtechnik Ramps Up International Ops

    16 November 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    Deutsche Windtechnik AG is stepping up its foreign operations, especially in Spain, Poland and the United Kingdom. By the end of 2015 the company will have 122 employees outside Germany, 43 more than at the start of the year. Deutsche Windtechnik aims to increase the proportion of foreign revenue from currently 12 per cent to […]

  • Deutsche Windtechnik Serves Dutch & Danish Offshore Wind

    15 October 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Deutsche Windtechnik AG has set up two new companies in other European countries: Deutsche Windtechnik BV in the Netherlands and Deutsche Windtechnik ApS in Denmark. Both companies shall initially handle orders in the offshore sector; in the medium term, however, they also plan to take on projects on land. Geert Timmers, Country Manager for the […]

  • EWEA Teams Up With WindEnergy Hamburg for 2016

    8 October 2015

    The European Wind Energy Association is teaming up with Hamburg Messe to host its annual conference alongside WindEnergy Hamburg in 2016. The event will take place on 27-30 September 2016 in a major hub for the international wind energy sector. The conference and exhibition will showcase the very best of the industry, highlighting the successes […]

  • EEW SPC Rolls Out Its Heaviest Monopile for Baltic Eagle

    12 August 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    EEW Special Pipe Constructions (SPC) has manufactured its heaviest monopile to date for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany, owned by the Spanish energy company Iberdrola. The company broke its record for the heaviest monopile made set size years ago when EEW SPC manufactured the 1,302-tonne monopile for the Veja Mate offshore wind project. […]

  • Hollandse Kust Zuid 3&4 UXO-Free

    25 August 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    UXOcontrol has completed the unexploded ordnance (UXO) identification and disposal campaign at the Hollandse Kust Zuid 3 and 4 offshore wind project in the Netherlands. The campaign, which ran from early February till July, saw a total of 1,350 targets investigated, with 19 being highlighted as UXOs for neutralisation. Work began with Noordhoek Pathfinder as […]

  • WindEurope: Europe Needs to Double Wind Installation

    17 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    Wind energy provided 15% of the electricity in Europe in 2019, however the current rate of installation is not enough to deliver the Green Deal, according to WindEurope.

  • High Speed Transfers Takes Delivery of HST Euan

    27 January 2020
    Vessels

    High Speed Transfers (HST) has taken delivery of HST Euan, its fourth FCS 2710 class fast crew supply vessel, from Damen Shipyards. HST Euan was loaded onto a heavy-lift vessel at Damen Shipyards Antalya in Turkey in mid-January bound for Rotterdam, the Netherlands. To remind, Damen floated out the vessel at the beginning of November 2019 and a […]

  • EnBW’s Renewables Earnings Rise in 2019

    8 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    EnBW reported an operating result of EUR 298.6 million in the Renewable Energies division in the first nine months of 2019, a 38.5% growth compared to the year before. According to EnBW, the increase is due to the overall improvement in wind conditions at offshore and onshore wind farms in Germany, as well as due […]

  • New CEO Takes Helm at Avangrid Renewables

    23 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    Avangrid Renewables has appointed Alejandro de Hoz, currently the company’s Vice President of Offshore Wind, to the role of President & CEO. He succeeds Laura Beane, who has decided to leave the company. “We have a growing renewables business with strong expertise in core areas of onshore wind and solar, and we continue to develop […]

  • ALE and Giant Taiwan Team Up on Formosa

    19 August 2019
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Heavy lift specialist ALE and Giant Taiwan have undertaken a joint venture to provide the onshore handling, transportation, and storage of wind turbine foundations for phase 2 of Taiwan’s Formosa 1 wind farm project. This phase is seeing 20 Siemens Gamesa 6MW wind turbines installed 6 kilometres off Miaoli County in the Taiwan Strait, raising […]

  • Ørsted Signs Offshore Wind MoU with New Jersey Uni

    1 April 2019
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rowan University in New Jersey for research on offshore wind. Under the agreement, Ørsted will support innovative offshore wind engineering clinics for Rowan University students and collaborate with them on research opportunities. Rowan University said that the MoU was signed on 27 March at its annual Faculty Research Day, which […]

  • QED Naval Preparing Subhub for Testing Phase

    9 July 2015
    R&D, Technology

    Fabrication has been completed on the operational model of the Subhub at Pentland Precision Engineering, allowing QED Naval to begin the pre-testing setup of the device. The Subhub is a foundation structure for wave and tidal turbines, which commissions, tests, transports, installs, and secures a mini array of wave and tidal turbines to the seabed. […]

  • Willi Balz Acquires Austerngrund Wind Farm in North Sea Through his Company Windreich AG (Germany)

    12 July 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

      Willi Balz has acquired a further 400-megawatt wind farm in the German North Sea in the shape of the “Austerngrund“ project, through his company Windreich AG. The project has progressed well down the approval process. Windreich AG has thus further strengthened its market leadership in offshore wind power. “Particularly thanks to its “unobstructable” location […]

  • Germany: AMBAU Secures Order from Windreich AG to Manufacture 80 Tripods for MEG Offshore 1 Project

    7 July 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

      The AMBAU GmbH success story continues. Windreich AG has placed an order with the company for the manufacture of 80 tripods for the MEG Offshore 1 project. This is the largest complete order for offshore foundation structures to be received by AMBAU. Following the order for 80 sets of monopiles and transition pieces for […]

  • Reinforcement of BARD Holding GmbH’s Management Board Bernd Ranneberg and Dieter Sichau new Managing Directors (Germany)

    27 January 2011
    Training & Education

    The shareholder meeting of the BARD-Group, headquartered in Emden, has appointed Bernd Ranneberg and Dieter Sichau to the BARD Holding GmbH management board. They thereby reinforce Arwit Gunt, who was appointed as managing director beginning of October 2010. Bernd Ranneberg (49) as CFO will be primarily responsible for Financing, Accounting and Controlling as well as […]

  • Taming the Baltic Sea for the Viking (Gallery)

    18 November 2016

    Bladt is set to send off the last of 41 jacket foundations manufactured for the 350MW Wikinger offshore wind project, after the company loaded it on a barge yesterday. Spanish Navantia is in charge of the remaining 29 jackets for the 70-turbine wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea.  The first jacket […]

  • Bilfinger Lowering Curtains on Marine Noise Pollution

    3 October 2014
    Environment

    As governmental bodies are trying to protect the marine life, companies are facing more regulations and restrictions on the offshore installations. During the foundation installation, hydraulic impact hammers create a lot of noise harmful to marine mammals as well as to other sea life. Hamburg-based engineering and services company, Bilfinger Marine & Offshore Systems, developed […]

  • RWE & Northland Power Opt for Vestas 15 MW Turbines for 1.6 GW Offshore Wind Development in Germany

    28 February 2023
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    RWE and Northland Power have selected Vestas as the preferred supplier and the company’s 15 MW turbine model as the technology of choice for their Nordseecluster offshore wind projects in Germany. Nordseecluster is planned to have a total capacity of up to 1.6 GW across four offshore wind farm sites. Under the preferred supplier agreement, […]

  • Bureau Veritas Wins Major Contract from RWE Innogy GmbH for North Sea Wind Farm (Germany)

    29 April 2011

      The Bureau Veritas Industry Services GmbH is awarded by RWE Innogy GmbH with the contract to supervise production and quality assurance in the production of 48 wind turbines for the offshore wind farm. The contract is worth over 2 million €. The order covers the continuous monitoring of the production of all 48 future […]