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  • Siemens Bags BorWin3 Contract from TenneT

    15 April 2014
    Grid Connection

    Siemens has received an order from TenneT for an offshore wind farm grid connection in the North Sea. In a consortium with Petrofac Siemens will supply the complete technology for efficient direct-current transmission for the BorWin3 grid connection as the consortium leader. The consortium partner Petrofac, with over 30 years of experience as a leading […]

  • FoundOcean Completes Grouting at Nordsee Ost

    3 April 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    On Friday 14th March 2014, it was confirmed that FoundOcean had completed grouting operations on the 48th turbine, of RWE Innogy’s 295 MW capacity Nordsee Ost Offshore Wind Farm. The wind farm is located 35 kilometres north-east of the island of Helgoland in the German North Sea and sits in water depths of up to […]

  • Bids Invited for Heavy-Lift Work at Borkum Riffgrund 2

    1 May 2015
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy Wind Power A/S has issued a call for tenders for heavy-lift vessel services for its Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in the German sector of the North Sea. The work will consist of two lots. Lot 1 includes the transport and installation of a jacket and piles for the wind farm’s offshore substation and […]

  • Trianel Generates Electricity at Borkum West

    3 February 2015
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Trianel has produced first power from its 200MW Borkum West offshore wind farm located in the North Sea. The first turbine was commissioned on Sunday and is now undergoing trial operation. “After the permanent power connection was successfully established by the substation DolWin Alpha in December, the first plant is now in trial operation,” said […]

  • TÜV NORD Joins Forces with OutSmart

    23 September 2013

    German TÜV NORD has taken a share in OutSmart as of September 13th. Both parties have decided to join forces to strengthen their international presence in the energy market and to offer more services in the field of wind energy. Wide expertise Both OutSmart as TÜV NORD have the ambition to be leading in the […]

  • Bilfinger’s Offshore Wind and Marine Units Up for Sale

    12 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    German engineering company, Bilfinger, is selling its offshore wind and marine units. The company made the announcement as part of its 2014 financial year report where they stated the “business no longer complies with Bilfinger’s risk profile.” Nevertheless, the company predicts these businesses to generate revenue of EUR 140 million in 2015. According to the […]

  • Global Tech I Construction Wrapped Up

    29 August 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    Construction of the North Sea wind farm Global Tech I is complete: 100 kilometres from the German coast and occupying an area half the size of Bremerhaven the offshore wind power station now stands with 80 turbines of the 5 megawatt class (AREVA Wind M5000-116) and the farm’s own transformer station. At present, only the […]

  • Pile Driving Nearing Completion at Butendiek

    17 July 2014
    Environment, Wind Farm Update

    The Bremen-situated planner and operator wpd takes positive stock for the construction of the offshore windfarm Butendiek. “We are about to complete pile driving, we are well within our time schedule and we have fallen short of the predefined sound levels”, said Achim Berge Olsen, managing director of Butendiek and wpd offshore. Of the 80 foundation […]

  • VIDEO: Seajacks’ Work on Meerwind Project

    19 May 2014

    Last month, Seajacks completed the installation work at the Meerwind project, a German offshore wind farm. Seajacks Zaratan worked alongside Seajacks Leviathan, self-propelled jack-ups, on the project, where they installed 80 wind turbines, including monopiles, transition pieces, towers and nacelles. Seajacks also managed the scour protection installation around the monopiles. The rock material, which was loaded […]

  • Trianel Installs 25 Turbines at Borkum West

    20 March 2014
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Just nine months after the start of construction, Trianel, a German utility company, has installed 25 of 40 turbines at the Borkum West offshore wind farm. In spite of the strong winds from hurricanes “Christian” and “Xavier”, considerable progress has been made on this 200MW wind farm with 75 percent of array cables also completed. […]

  • Nordsee Ost Foundation Installation Complete

    14 March 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    All foundations of the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm have been successfully installed some 35 kilometres north of the island of Heligoland. A total of 48 jacket foundations were installed for the wind turbines and one for the substation in water up to 25 metres deep. Each of the foundations for the wind turbines is […]

  • Growth Centre to Partner with Offshore Conference OBMC

    21 August 2013

    The use of wind energy has come a long way from its early pioneering years and now represents a global industry. The cradle of wind energy, Denmark and the region of Schleswig-Holstein, remains an important location for globally active wind energy companies and wishes to strengthen its international competitiveness as such. The purpose of the […]

  • Worldwide Wind Capacity Reaches 254 GW

    8 October 2012

    The worldwide wind capacity reached 254’000 MW by the end of June 2012, out of which 16’546 MW were added in the first six months of 2012. This increase represents 10 % less than in the rst half of 2011, when 18’405 MW were added. The global wind capacity grew by 7% within six months […]

  • Prysmian Inks Wikinger Cabling Deal

    12 February 2015
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Italian cable company, Prysmian Group, has been awarded a EUR 60 million contract by Iberdrola for the Wikinger offshore wind farm. Under the contract, Prysmian is responsible for the design, manufacture, installation, burial, termination and testing of total 81 km of 33 kV submarine cables connecting 70 turbines at wind farm located within the West […]

  • Nordsee Ost Wind Turbines Installed

    29 December 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    The last of the in total 48 wind turbines was successfully installed over Christmas around 30 kilometers to the north of the island of Heligoland. “We worked on the completion of the 48 wind turbines with two installation vessels at the same time and, besides the conventional rotor star installation, the rotor blades of the […]

  • Frisia-Offshore Wins Riffgat Crew Transfer Contract

    12 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The Frisia-Offshore GmbH & Co. KG has won a crew transfer contract for German offshore wind farm, Borkum . The agreement was concluded to last until spring 2017 with options for two years of extension. The vessel „Wind Force II“, which is used in the project, was delivered last year as a new building to […]

  • Dong Buys Borkum Riffgrund West 2

    9 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Dong Energy has acquired a 100% ownership interest in the German offshore wind development project Borkum Riffgrund West 2 from Energiekontor AG. The project is located adjacent to Dong Energy’s Borkum Riffgrund West 1 development project . The two projects have a total combined capacity of up to 550 MW. Borkum Riffgrund West 2 has […]

  • Senvion Installs 6.2MW Wind Turbine

    5 December 2014
    Technology

    Senvion SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group, has erected the prototype of its new 6.2M152. Located onshore near Langen-Neuenwalde, the wind turbine, owned by EWE Erneuerbare Energien subsidiary EWE AG, is scheduled to be fully commissioned by the end of the year. With the rotor star 152 meters in diameter, energy yield will be […]

  • Vattenfall Seeking Supervisor for Sandbank Substation Work

    30 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall is inviting tenders for work on the Sandbank offshore wind farm substation construction. The contractor will be in charge of supervising the steelwork fabrication and corrosion protection of an offshore wind farm substation. The 288MW project is located in the German Bight area, around 90 kilometers west of the Island of Sylt. The wind […]

  • OPUS MARINE to Measure Vessel Motion

    24 July 2014

    German operator of crew transfer vessels, OPUS MARINE GmbH, has decided to invest into innovation and report impact forces applied to boat landings in offshore wind farms. Also body forces which the service technicians have to experience during the transit will be reported. For this purpose OPUS MARINE has signed an agreement with MIR Maritime […]

  • Dr. Marc Seidel Releases Paper on OW Substructures

    28 April 2014
    R&D

    Monopiles and jackets will likely dominate the market during the next decade, said Marc Seidel, Leading Expert on Offshore Engineering at Senvion SE, in his new paper called “Substructures for offshore wind turbines – Current trends and developments.” Mr. Seidel gave his view on the development of substructures in the paper based on his experience […]

  • Bachmann Presents Its Expertiese at Hannover Trade Fair

    26 March 2014

    From 7th to 11th April 2014, the world’s most important technology event is to take place at the Hannover Trade Fair where Bachmann Monitoring GmbH is presenting its differentiated Condition Monitoring product range. With the world’s first certification of a PLC-integrated CM system thus far, it has been possible for the first time to provide […]

  • OMM in Baltic Sea Boulder Dash

    24 January 2018
    Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has cleared 5,000+ boulders from a 30km area in the German Baltic Sea, creating the pathway for an export cable to connect an offshore wind farm to the shore landing site.

  • VIDEO: Bauer’s Monopile Foundation for Tidal Turbine

    17 April 2013
    Technology

    BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH was presented with the Bauma Innovation Prize in the Construction Process category on Sunday. The company received the prize for its for Tidal Turbine Monopile Foundation. Check out the following video presentation of the turbine monopile foundation:  [mappress] Offshore WIND Staff, April 17, 2013

  • EnBW Seeking Foundation Design for Hohe See

    4 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    An electric utilities company EnBW is inviting offers for a job on its EnBW Hohe See wind farm located in the German part of the North Sea. EnBW is looking for a company to design and deliver 80 wind turbine foundations which would feature wind turbines between 3.6 MW and 6 MW. The proposed wind […]

  • Siemens Installs Third HVDC Platform

    11 July 2014
    Grid Connection

    Siemens has completed installation of the offshore platform for the direct-current connection HelWin2. Working under contract from the German-Dutch grid operator TenneT, Siemens has thus achieved a decisive milestone of the German grid connection projects. “We have now installed three high-tech platforms for TenneT in the North Sea. The HelWin2 project is now in the […]