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  • Germany Boosts Offshore Wind Development

    24 August 2011
    R&D

    Earlier this month, Blackstone, leading investment and advisory firm, announced the financial closing for “Meerwind,” the largest German offshore wind farm to complete its full financing process. The Meerwind project was made possible by the German regulatory framework for offshore wind, which is one of the best designed and practical renewable programs in the world. […]

  • Germany Launches Offshore Wind Tender

    25 February 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has put an offshore wind area in the North Sea out to tender. The area will support the development of up to 980 MW of capacity, and the price of the electricity is capped at EUR 64 per MWh. The bidder with the lowest subsidy requirement for a wind farm […]

  • WWEA Launches 2010 Report (Germany)

    8 April 2011

    Worldwide wind capacity reaches 197 GW, slight decrease in new capacity.   (wwindea) [mappress] Source: wwindea, April 08, 2011

  • Germany: Wind Farms and Marine Traffic

    14 May 2013

    Researchers at the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences (FUAS) warn of increased risk of ship collisions. The reason for this threat is the increasing number of offshore wind farms, especially in the German Bight region. With approximately 150,000 ships that cross the area each year, this is a very busy part of the sea. The […]

  • Germany: E.ON’s 2011 Earning Down

    4 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    E.ON released financial result for 2011. “Despite a difficult business environment, we have made very good progress in implementing our strategy and reorganizing our company. We moved resolutely forward on our consolidation course; the worst adverse effects are behind us. E.ON 2.0, our efficiency-enhancement program, is making good. The earnings growth at our renewables business […]

  • EEX: German Wind Power Futures Coming in October

    1 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    The European Energy Exchange (EEX) will start trading in the new Wind Power Futures product from 4 October 2016 onwards, allowing trading participants on the EEX Derivatives Market to hedge against volume risks in the generation of wind power within the German and Austrian market area. The Wind Power Future is the second “Energiewende” product to be […]

  • RTS Wind Sets Up UK Division in Colchester

    9 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    Following earlier contracts in the UK wind sector, the Bremen-headquartered RTS Wind AG has decided to establish a British division to serve the potential in the growing UK on- and offshore sectors. With a shortfall of qualified staff throughout the industry expected in the UK, Ivo Lippe, CEO of the RTS Wind AG, wants to […]

  • Germany: KfW Might Fund Expansion of Offshore Wind Parks

    21 March 2012

    Germany’s development bank KfW and its electricity consumers may have to cover certain offshore wind park expansion costs, Reuters reports. Germany is going to install approximately 7,600 MW in offshore capacity by 2020 and 25,000 MW by 2030. However, legal liability risks create one major problem in the expansion of offshore wind parks. Grid operators, […]

  • Top News of the Week Apr 11 – 17, 2016

    17 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Picks Hughes SSE for Subsea Inspections in Denmark and Germany DONG Energy has signed a contract with the UK-based Hughes Sub Sea Engineering for the undertaking of a subsea inspection campaign at offshore wind farms located in Denmark and Germany. DanTysk Accommodation Platform Taking Shape The accommodation platform for maintenance crews that are working […]

  • Vårgrønn Takes Over Dutch Pension Fund’s Stake in 288 MW German Offshore Wind Farm

    8 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Vårgrønn, a joint venture between Plenitude and Norway’s HitecVision, has acquired 100 per cent of PGGM Infrastructure Fund’s shares in the 288 MW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm in Germany. The German energy company EnBW owns 50.1 per cent and Vårgrønn holds 27.4 per cent of the Baltic 2 offshore wind farm, with EnBW managing […]

  • 24Sea to Provide Structural Health Monitoring Systems for Arcadis Ost 1

    28 June 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Parkwind has selected 24Sea for the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of the structural health monitoring systems on the wind turbine foundations at the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in Germany. The 257 MW offshore wind farm will feature 27 TP-less monopiles, with the towers to be be connected directly to the monopiles. 24Sea […]

  • Offshore Wind to Hydrogen Project Takes Off in Germany

    3 April 2020
    R&D, Technology

    Partner companies gathered around the Westküste 100 project in Germany have submitted the full application with a detailed project description to the project management company Jülich. The Westküste 100 project aims to map and bring a regional hydrogen economy in Schleswig-Holstein to an industrial scale. The heart of the project is the research and development […]

  • Top News of the Week Aug 19 – 24, 2013

    25 August 2013

    Floating Gyro-Stabilized VAWT to Be Tested in Norway (VIDEO) A model of a floating gyro stabilized Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) for offshore and near-shore applications, which is called Gwind, will be tested in the harbor of Stavanger this autumn, according to the Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE). AREVA, Windreich Sign Cooperation Contract […]

  • All Turbines Installed at Gode Wind

    19 May 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    A2SEA’s Sea Challenger has completed the installation of 97 Siemens 6MW turbines at DONG Energy’s Gode Wind 1 and 2 offshore wind project.  Trine Borum Bojsen, CEO of DONG Energy in Germany, said: “Gode Wind 1 and Gode Wind 2 are our second and third projects in Germany. We inaugurated Borkum Riffgrund 1, our first […]

  • Chevalier Floatels Upgrades Its Walk2Work Duo (VIDEO)

    31 March 2016
    Vessels

    An upgrade of DP Gezina and DP Galyna, Chevalier Floatels’ walk2work offshore support accommodation vessels, is soon to be completed and the vessels will be ready to support the offshore wind and oil and gas industries. Marcel Roelofs, CEO of the Dutch developer and operator of offshore and nearshore walk2work accommodation vessels and barges, said: “We […]

  • Ørsted and ALL NRG Extend Cooperation

    3 May 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    ALL NRG has extended the existing service framework agreements with Ørsted for offshore wind farms in Denmark and Germany. The Danish company has now signed agreements for 2019 and 2020 concerning snagging and painting, high voltage equipment and turbine service. “It is a great privilege for ALL NRG to expand the agreement as trustworthy solution partner for […]

  • TenneT Eyes UXOs on BorWin3 Cable Route

    29 August 2014
    Environment, Grid Connection

    Grid operator in Germany, TenneT, is seeking contractor to conduct an unexploded explosive ordnance (UXO) survey, identification and removal on the cable route BorWin3 in the German sector of the North Sea. The planned BorWin3 submarine cable connection is a DC power transmission link with a length of 130 km. Landfall is at Hamswehrum in […]

  • Germany’s first offshore wind park experiencing turbine failure

    23 June 2010
    Operations & Maintenance

    Germany’s first offshore wind park was dealt a blow with the failure of two turbines due to inferior materials.   [mappress] Source: spiegel, June 23, 2010;

  • December Winds Bring Down Power Prices Across Europe

    19 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance

    Continental European power prices tumbled again in December as exceptional wind power output combined with mild temperatures and falling demand, according to data released by Platts. European power prices, according to the Platts Continental Power Index (CONTI), fell 13.29% to EUR 33.08 per megawatt hour (MWh) in December compared to November, itself down 9.4% on […]

  • German Wind Produces 32.5 TWh in First 5 Months

    10 June 2015

    Germany’s wind power output in January-May rose 34% year on year and the country is on track for a third successive record year for new turbine installations, with the first wave of offshore wind farms finally coming online, a Platts analysis of the latest available data show. Wind turbines in Germany generated 32.5 TWh of […]

  • Germany Readies New Offshore Wind Call

    3 October 2018
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Germany’s ruling coalition has agreed to issue a special call to tender for additional renewable energy capacity, including offshore wind, by the end of October.

  • EnBW Discontinues He Dreiht Monopile Installation Tender

    31 July 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    EnBW HeDreiht GmbH has discontinued the tendering procedure for a vessel and equipment sought for the installation and subsequent dismantling of up to two monopiles at the He Dreiht offshore wind farm zone in Germany. Offshore WIND has contacted EnBW for more information and comments on the matter but has not yet received a reply. […]

  • Senvion Delivers Final TWBII Turbine

    13 November 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Senvion has delivered the last turbine for the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) offshore wind project in Germany. According to Senvion, all components for the 200MW wind farm have been finished and shipped to Eemshaven. Trianel Windpark Borkum II comprises 32 Senvion 6.2M152 turbines installed on monopile foundations at the site some 40km north of the […]

  • First Monopile In at Trianel Windpark Borkum II

    29 June 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Stanislav Yudin has installed the first monopile at the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWB II) in Germany. 

  • German Offshore Wind Farms Up Production in 2018

    3 January 2019
    Grid Connection

    German offshore wind farms generated over 18.8 Terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in 2018, an over 8% increase compared to 17.4TWh generated in the German North Sea and the Baltic Sea in 2017, according to the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. 

  • C-bed and MHI Vestas Kick Off Turbine Upgrade Campaign

    1 April 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    C-bed and MHI Vestas have commenced a multiple offshore wind farm upgrade campaign at four European projects. The project includes the upgrading of turbines at the Burbo Bank Extension and Walney Extension projects in the UK, Borkum Riffgrund 2 in Germany and Norther in Belgium. C-bed’s DP2 walk-to-work vessel Wind Innovation has been deployed at […]