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  • Finnish Company Taps Into Offshore Wind with New German Subsidiary

    11 July 2022
    Business & Finance

    Finland-based Elomatic Oy has established a design and consulting subsidiary in Wismar, Germany, called Elomatic Maritime Technologies, that will focus on ship design and offshore wind structures. According to the parent company, Elomatic Maritime Technologies will draw on the city of Wismar’s renowned shipbuilding competence and pioneering work in the offshore wind power segment. The […]

  • Nexans Wins BorWin6 Cabling Work

    6 July 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Nexans has won the contract for cabling work on the BorWin6 offshore grid connection in Germany, which TenneT awarded following a tendering process. Under the contract with TenneT, awarded through a tendering process, Nexans is responsible for the production and laying of cables, including the sea, tidal flat, and land cables.  The cable laying work […]

  • TenneT Starts Activities Under EUR 30 Billion Offshore Wind Tender

    1 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Industry, Technology

    Dutch-German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has launched a qualification system for the delivery of 2 GW High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore platforms and HVDC converter systems. The scope of this qualifications system covers the Category Converter, and/or the Category Platform, TenneT said. The Category Converter covers HVDC converter systems for offshore and onshore […]

  • Navantia-Windar Hits Halfway Mark on Saint-Brieuc Jacket Production

    26 April 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    The Navantia-Windar joint venture has assembled more than half of the total of 62 jacket foundations for the French Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project at Navantia’s yard in Fene, Spain. The companies have already delivered all 186 piles for the project and will deliver all the 75-metre, 1,150-tonne jackets this year. The jacket foundation production is […]

  • Foundation Installation to Begin at 342 MW German Offshore Wind Farm

    4 March 2022
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DEME is currently mobilising its jack-up vessel Neptune as well as the Blue Tern jack-up, chartered from Fred. Olsen Windcarrier, for monopile installation that is set commence at the Kaskasi offshore wind farm site in Germany. The vessels will also be joined by Sea Challenger which will install the project’s transition pieces, according to a […]

  • Nexans, TenneT Get Things Rolling on BalWin3 and LanWin4 Offshore Grid Connections

    19 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection

    TenneT and Nexans, which signed framework agreements for three offshore grid connections last year, have now signed a call-off contract for the BalWin3 and LanWin3 projects, each of which will have a capacity of 2 GW and will link offshore wind farms to the German grid. In May 2023, TenneT awarded NKT, Nexans, and a […]

  • Acta Marine Set to Commence Maintenance Work at Vattenfall’s German Offshore Wind Farms

    28 February 2024
    Operations & Maintenance

    Acta Marine’s service operation vessel (SOV) Acta Centaurus will soon commence maintenance work at Vattenfall’s DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. The entire service campaign is expected to last until October 2024. The vessel is currently making a stop in the Port of Hamburg before starting work for Vattenfall’s offshore […]

  • Postgraduate student from AIBS does research with London Array (UK)

    28 May 2010
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Training & Education

    Postgraduate student Nathalie Kolasa who is currently studying for an MSc in Management at the Ashcroft International Business School (AIBS) at Anglia Ruskin University has secured a research project with a difference – she is set to work with the London Array offshore wind farm project. Nathalie approached the London Array project and has successfully […]

  • Seaway Heavy Lifting Wins Third Major Contract for Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

    11 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has won a new contract with Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Limited to begin the second half of foundation installation off the North Wales coast. SHL’s crane vessel ‘Stanislav Yudin’ will go to Liverpool Bay in May this year to install the last 80 of the 160 monopile foundations and […]

  • GL Renewables Certification Opens Office in Glasgow, UK

    29 October 2012

    GL Renewables Certification (GL RC), a standard setting certification body for renewables, has opened its fifth international office in Glasgow. The office and staff members will deal with Type and Component Certification for clients in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In addition to onshore wind, GL RC Glasgow will concentrate on offshore Project Certification and […]

  • CfD Results Cast Light Upon Much Needed Post-2020 Clarity

    12 September 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    WindEurope has called on the UK and other European governments to provide more clarity to the offshore wind industry after 2020 by committing to ambitious offshore wind deployment targets. The association’s call came yesterday, 11 September, following the results of the UK Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction.

  • Tern Sisters Lift Fred. Olsen’s Offshore Wind Unit

    28 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Fred. Olsen Ocean’s offshore wind segment reported NOK 428 million operating revenue in the third quarter of 2016, compared with NOK 254 million in the same period in 2015, mainly due to higher utilisation and rates from the jack-up installation vessels Brave Tern and Bold Tern. The segment includes Fred. Olsen Windcarrier AS and Universal Foundation […]

  • Bird Density at BARD Offshore 1 Site Mapped

    20 November 2014
    Environment

    Maps showing the density of bird populations in and around a major wind farm in the German North Sea have been released following aerial surveys by APEM. The maps illustrate the number of guillemots and razor-bills recorded during flights in February and March 2014 over an area of about 2,500km2 in the region of the BARD […]

  • East Anglia ONE’s Price of £119/MWh Confirmed

    27 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC), a UK government-owned company created to deliver key elements of the Electricity Market Reform Programme, confirmed that Contract for Difference (CfD) milestones for East Anglia ONE have been fulfilled. With the CfD milestones achieved and confirmed by the Low Carbon Contracts Company, the project will be delivered at a price of £119/MWh, a […]

  • ZF Buys Wind Turbine Gearbox Arm of Bosch Rexroth

    2 December 2015
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    German driveline and chassis technology developer ZF Friedrichshafen AG is venturing further into wind energy industry after receiving final clearance from antitrust authorities to acquire industrial gears and wind turbine gearbox segment from Bosch Rexroth. ZF officially took over the segment from Bosch Rexroth on December 1. The two companies have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. “We are extending our […]

  • NorSea Focuses on Offshore Wind

    2 October 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Through its wholly owned Danish subsidiary Danbor, NorSea Group has acquired the Danish wind power company Øer.  NorSea Group said that, with its owners (Wilh. Wilhemsen, Eidesvik and Møkster), it has extensive expertise, infrastructure and equipment that it wants to utilise for the wind power market, especially offshore wind. “Our goal is to be a partner that […]

  • EEW Scores Walney Extension Deal

    14 September 2015

    DONG Energy has named Germany’s EEW SPC (EEW) as the main supplier of foundations for its 660 megawatt (MW) Walney Extension offshore wind farm off the Cumbrian coast. The contract covers the supply of 87 foundations for which the monopile structures will be manufactured by EEW in Rostock. The associated transition pieces will be produced under […]

  • European TSOs Form Eurobar to Standardise Offshore Grids

    15 April 2021
    Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    Seven European transmission system operators have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the launch of Eurobar, an initiative for interconnecting offshore wind platforms across Europe. The Eurobar partners include Germany’s 50Hertz Transmission GmbH and Amprion, Sweden’s Affärsverket svenska kraftnät, Spain’s RED ELÉCTRICA DE ESPAÑA, France’s Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE), Norway’s Statnett SF, and Italy’s […]

  • Ramboll to Map Out Bornholm Energy Island Export Cable Routes

    13 April 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, R&D

    Danish transmission system operator Energinet has hired Ramboll to map and recommend possible submerged cable routes and landing locations for the export of power from the future energy island in the Baltic Sea to Denmark and an adjacent country. Denmark has recently approved the construction of two energy islands, in the Baltic and North Seas […]

  • Wiking Helikopter Inks Two Contracts for German North Sea Projects

    13 November 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    In the last two weeks, Wiking Helikopter Service has signed a multi-year contract with TenneT and a contract extension with Deutsche Windtechnik, both of which will see the company providing offshore helicopter services for projects in the German part of the North Sea. With the transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT, Wiking said it was awarded […]

  • EnBW Baltic 2 Service Team Homeports in Klintholm

    22 April 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    The 288 MW EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea will be serviced from the Danish port of Klintholm on the island of Møn from August 2020, EnBW said. Until now, the company’s service team of up to 25 has travelled from Rostock to a hotel vessel close to the wind […]

  • Offshore Wind Stars in New South Korea-Denmark Bilateral Agreement

    1 November 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Denmark and South Korea have entered into a renewable energy cooperation agreement that particularly focuses on offshore wind.

  • CPPIB Takes a Piece of Hohe See and Albatros Offshore Wind Farms

    9 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has signed agreements with compatriot Enbridge Inc. to acquire 49% of Enbridge’s interests in two German offshore wind projects – Hohe See and Albatros.

  • US Wind to Install Maryland Offshore Met Mast in August

    24 April 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    A meteorological tower for US Wind’s 268MW offshore wind farm in Maryland is scheduled to be installed at the offshore project site in August 2018. The met mast will be delivered by Gulf Island Fabrication, which signed a contract with US Wind in March.

  • Ørsted to Power Northumbrian Water

    6 April 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Environment

    Ørsted has signed a contract with Northumbrian Water under which the UK water company will power all of its 1,858 sites using renewable energy for the next four years.

  • Blue Tern Swoops On German Offshore Wind Farm

    25 February 2020
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Blue Tern has been contracted to finish installing the remaining eleven Senvion 6.2M152 turbines on the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWB II) in the German North Sea. Blue Tern will replace Jan De Nul’s Taillevent on TWB II as this jack-up is reportedly on its way to start a project […]