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  • German Energy Minister Patron of HUSUM Wind 2015

    13 January 2015
    Authorities

    Sigmar Gabriel, German Federal Minister of Economics and Energy, is to serve as patron of this year’s wind fair in North Frisia. HUSUM Wind will be taking place from 15 to 18 September 2015, and will focus on the important core market of Germany and its neighbouring countries. Peter Becker, managing director of Messe Husum […]

  • Irish Investor Buys Stake in German Offshore Wind Farm

    4 January 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Irish investment company Greencoat Renewables PLC has announced an agreement to acquire 22.5 per cent of the Butendiek offshore wind farm in Germany from Marguerite Pantheon. The 288 MW Butendiek offshore wind farm comprises 80 Siemens SWT 3.6-120 turbines located some 32 kilometres west of the island of Sylt. The wind farm has been operating at full capacity since […]

  • Germany: OMWINDENERGY 2013 – New International Meeting Place for Wind Market Services

    7 June 2013

    Under the motto “Professional Solutions for the Operation and Maintenance in the International Wind Industry”, OMWINDENERGY 2013 Germany is inviting interested parties to attend an international dialogue to be held in Berlin on October 8-9.  The market is changing: more and more companies from the wind industry recognize the strategic importance of the after-sales market. […]

  • Wiking Helikopter Nets Contract for German Duo

    9 May 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Wiking Helikopter Service has secured a contract by Siemens Gamesa for the Hohe See and Albatros offshore wind farms in Germany. The Germany-headquartered offshore flight specialist will provide helicopter crew change services to the project construction sites from its base in Emden. The 497MW Hohe See will comprise a total of 71 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines, which […]

  • Holland Shipyards Commences Conversion of Two Ships into Offshore Wind Farm Vessels

    4 March 2013

    Holland Shipyards has commenced conversion work on two ships owned by Chevalier Floatels, The Motorship informs. Chevalier Floatels assigned Holland Shipyards last year to undertake the necessary work on former passenger ferries, built in 2007, to convert them into vessels for staff accommodation and transport to offshore wind farms installations. Therefore, the company will dive […]

  • Fred. Olsen Windcarrier Finishes First Cable Job

    19 February 2020
    Grid Connection

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has completed its first-ever offshore wind cable job.

  • Ørsted Yet to Decide on Bidding for Hollandse Kust I & II. Highlights Different Conditions in Germany and the Netherlands

    22 November 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    Following the article about Ørsted’s participation in the upcoming Hollandse Kust I & II tender, Offshore WIND spoke with Jasper Vis, the company’s country manager for the Netherlands who said that the final decision on whether to bid at the tender has not yet been made.

  • Deutsche WindGuard and Petrofac Training Services Team Up

    16 May 2012
    Training & Education

    Petrofac Training Services (PTS), a division in the Petrofac Group, has established a new training partnership with Deutsche WindGuard, a leading con-sultancy company to the German wind energy industry. Combining more than 40 years offshore experience, the two companies will pool their knowledge to add value to the training provided to both current and future […]

  • Top News of the Week May 27 – June 2, 2013

    2 June 2013

    Germany: EUROS Delivers First 7MW Offshore Blade  Three months after opening the new prototype production facility in Sassnitz/Mukran on the island of Rügen, Germany, independent rotor blade designer and manufacturer EUROS delivers its first offshore blade to the customer Mitsubishi. VIDEO: Construction of Nordsee Ost Offshore Wind Farm  RWE’s Nordsee Ost wind farm will be […]

  • Germany: A2SEA to Install 97 Turbines on Gode Wind

    9 January 2014

    A2SEA has signed a contract with DONG Energy to install 97 turbines on Gode Wind 1 + 2 in the German part of the North Sea. In the first half of 2015, A2SEA will start installation of a total of 97 turbines from Siemens, each of 6MW/154m rotor, with a total capacity of 582 MW. […]

  • Germany’s ‘Traffic Light’ Coalition Raises Offshore Wind Targets, Looks Beyond 2040

    24 November 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition of political parties looking to form the country’s new government has agreed to increase offshore wind capacity targets for 2030, and introduce new targets for 2035 and 2045. As part of the recently agreed coalition agreement, the political parties SPD, BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN, and FREIE DEMOKRATEN (FDP) have increased Germany’s offshore […]

  • Lower Saxony Calls For More Offshore Wind

    18 April 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection

    Lower Saxony’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Olaf Lies, has called for an increase in Germany’s offshore wind targets following historically low bids in the first auction round in Germany.

  • Siemens’ New 6MW Wind Turbines Enter German Offshore Market

    21 November 2013
    Technology

    Siemens will supply 97 wind turbines, each with a rating of six megawatts (MW) and a rotor diameter of 154 meters, to the Danish energy provider DONG Energy. This will mark the first time that Siemens will be supplying its new six-megawatt wind turbines for offshore in Germany. The Gode Wind 1 (252 MW) and […]

  • HBC Wraps Up Ørsted Subsea Inspection Campaign

    10 August 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    HBC Group has completed the Ørsted Subsea Inspection Campaign on four offshore wind farms in the UK and the German North Sea.

  • SMC to Carry Out Foundation Inspection at Ørsted’s German, UK OWFs

    24 June 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    Specialist Marine Consultants (SMC) has been awarded two contracts by Ørsted for above-water structural inspection of the wind turbine foundations at the developer’s offshore wind farms in Germany and the UK. Ørsted has four operational offshore wind farms in Germany and eleven in the UK. SMC has not disclosed which, if not all, projects will […]

  • German Offshore Wind Grinds to a Standstill in 2021

    16 July 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment, Ports & Logistics

    Germany will not install a single offshore wind turbine in 2021, marking no expansion in offshore wind capacity in a calendar year for the first time in more than ten years, the country’s wind organisations said. This expansion gap is not the expression of a lack of interest on the part of investors or a […]

  • Scotland Increases Offshore Wind Collaboration with Germany

    27 June 2012
    Authorities, R&D

    Scotland and Germany should work together to achieve their renewable energy targets, Energy Minister Fergus Ewing will tell a conference today. Mr Ewing will give the keynote address at the Windforce 2012 offshore wind conference in Bremen, Germany, and will tell the audience of the opportunities that come from working together. At the conference, Mr […]

  • German Offshore Wind Energy in 2013 Shows Significant Growth

    21 January 2014
    R&D

    Deutsche WindGuard, German company specializing in wind energy project development and consulting, analyzed the status of the offshore wind energy development for the year 2013 in Germany, on behalf of VDMA Power Systems and the German Wind Energy Association (BWE). According to Deutsche WindGuard, 48 offshore wind turbines with a capacity of 240 MW were […]

  • NeuConnect Interconnector Project Gathers Momentum

    6 May 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    The NeuConnect consortium has contracted Primo Marine to assist with the offshore permit application for the 1.4 GW NeuConnect interconnector between Germany and the United Kingdom. The contract’s scope covers work like assistance to the marine permit application, route engineering, burial assessment, seabed mobility studies, and management & maintenance of the georeferenced route database. Primo […]

  • Veja Mate Gets SGS Blessing

    18 December 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    SGS Germany has awarded the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm with the project certificate, marking the wind farm’s final milestone.

  • Germany: Offshore Wind Industry Positively Affects Bremerhaven Employment Rate

    2 May 2012

    “I was born and studied in Bremerhaven, but when I left in 1996, there were no career opportunities there”, says Ronny Meyer. BY the mid-1990s, the shipping and fishing industries that had traditionally dominated north-west Germany, where Bremerhaven is situated were dying, and there was felt to be no future. “The unemployment rate was very […]

  • Germany: Strong Demand for PNE WIND’s Projects Continues

    26 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    The demand for wind farm projects developed onshore and offshore by PNE WIND AG continues to be strong. This has been confirmed in many discussions held with energy suppliers, insurance companies and also financial investors during the specialist trade fair, Husum Windenergy 2012. “We are well positioned to take advantage of this demand because PNE […]

  • Germany to Auction Off 1,880 MW of Offshore Wind Capacity in 2022/23

    28 January 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has approved the suitability of the N-3.5, N-3.6, and N-7.2 areas in the German exclusive economic zone of the North Sea for the development of offshore wind farms. The three areas have a combined capacity of 1,880 MW. The area N-7.2, located 85 kilometres northwest of the East […]

  • Borkum Riffgrund 2 Nears Finish Line

    1 November 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted is expecting a faster ramp-up of generation from the 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm due to good progress on offshore construction which will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2018.

  • Chevalier Floatels’ Walk-to-Work Duo Undergoing Maintenance

    9 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Chevalier Floatels’ walk-to-work vessels DP Gezina and DP Galyna are undergoing scheduled maintenance in the Netherlands after completing summer campaign works. This summer, DP Galyna supported a maintenance program servicing two offshore wind farms for a turbine manufacturer. DP Gezina provided accommodation and walk-to-work services for commissioning of the two converter stations at the Beatrice […]

  • Avanti Showcases Its Products in Husum, Germany

    25 September 2012

    Avanti Wind Systems was present at the Husum WindEnergy 2012 Exhibition in Northern Germany. With around 36.000 visitors and 1.170 registered exhibitors, this event became one of the world’s most important meeting places for the Wind Industry. Visitors and exhibitors came from 90 countries. The company’s staff from Germany and Denmark showed Avanti products such […]