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  • Germany: REpower to Streamline Organization and Cut up to 750 Jobs

    26 April 2013
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    REpower Systems SE, a leading manufacturer of onshore and offshore wind turbines and part of the Suzlon Group, announced today that it was streamlining the organization to be a leaner, more efficient and competitive company. Andreas Nauen, CEO – REpower Systems SE, said: “The plans I am announcing will allow REpower to better meet today’s […]

  • Germany: Two Studies Commissioned to Boost Offshore Wind Development

    21 March 2013
    Environment

    Together with associations and companies in the offshore wind industry, including RWE Innogy, the OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY Foundation has commissioned two studies in an effort to create a strong basis for the current discussion and a meaningful adjustment of the renewable energy act. Both studies will be closely coordinated. The results are to be presented […]

  • Initiative ‘Renewable Energy Revolution Now!’ Starts in Berlin, Germany

    19 March 2013

    German Renewable Energy Association and its member associations yesterday launched a series of posters across Berlin displaying the slogan “No Hidden Costs: Renewable Energy” within their joint initiative “Renewable Energy Revolution Now!”. The first motives on the posters present the “true” and unembellished cost drivers of Germany’s energy supply: fossil and nuclear energy sources, stressing […]

  • Radiolaria Serves as Example for Offshore Wind Foundation Structures (Germany)

    12 March 2013
    Environment, R&D

    In a research project called “Intelligent Foundation Structure for Offshore Wind Turbines”, Professor Christine Döbert from the Technical University of Mittelhessen wants to develop cost effective and environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional techniques of building offshore wind foundations. Cooperation partner in this project is the Bremer Maritime Offshore Group. Coastal wind turbines, which are installed […]

  • Germany: Fred. Olsen Windcarrier to Install 80 Turbines at Butendiek

    28 February 2013

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier AS, which is indirectly owned on a 50/50 basis by Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA, has been awarded a contract by the German company SIEMENS AG for installation work of 80 turbines at the “Butendiek” offshore wind power plant off Germany’s North Sea coast. The contract commences in September 2014 and […]

  • Germany: NWA Successfully Completes Insurance Programs for Butendiek OWF

    25 February 2013
    Business & Finance

      Nordwest Assekuranzmakler Gmbh & Co. KG (NWA) has developed insurance programs for the Butendiek offshore wind project. An important component for the financing of the project was laid. Butendiek offshore wind project is located in the North Sea about 32 kilometers west of Sylt. The plan is to install 80 wind turbines with a […]

  • Germany: Installation of Topside for Riffgat Offshore Wind Farm Completed

    18 February 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    The offshore installation of the topside for Riffgat wind farm has been completed on Saturday, February 16th 2013. The topside, delivered on turnkey basis by Strukton Hollandia JointVenture, left the fabrication yard in Krimpen aan de IJssel one week ago. The topside has been lifted on board the SHL heavy lift vessel “Oleg Strashnov” early […]

  • Germany: Bremen’s Fishing Port Requires Engineering Design Services

    8 February 2013

    Fishing port of the state of Bremen, represented by the Ministry of Economics, Labour and Ports, these represented by the bremenports GmbH & Co. KG, requires contractors who will undertake quay engineering design services. The client intends to build a port for handling components for offshore wind turbines in the area of the arc in […]

  • Germany: WAB Publishes European Offshore Baltic Sea Map

    25 January 2013

     The Wind Energy Agency WAB released yesterday a map of the offshore wind projects in the Baltic Sea during the Windforce Baltic Sea conference. The map shows the planned offshore projects and provides detailed information on size, water depth, distance from the coast, the owner and developer of offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea. […]

  • Germany: Ulstein Bags Baltic 2 Wind Farm Contract

    8 January 2013

    ArGe Baltic 2 foundations, a Joint Venture between Hochtief and GeoSea, has awarded Ulstein Idea Equipment Solutions BV a contract for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) of a complete pile upend as well as lifting tool for the Baltic 2 wind farm installation project. By using basic laws of mechanical equilibrium, Ulstein Idea […]

  • Germany: KIT Researchers Develop Cooling System for Novel Generator

    6 January 2013
    R&D, Technology

    An efficient, robust, and compact wind power plant with a 10 MW superconducting generator is being developed by partners from industry and science within the recently established EU project SUPRAPOWER. Superconduction enables considerable savings of energy and raw materials. Within SUPRAPOWER, researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology’s (KIT) Institute for Technical Physics (ITEP) develop a […]

  • Germany: Messe Husum & Congress Appoints New Sales Manager

    10 December 2012

    Lars Kessler is the new man in charge of sales at Messe Husum & Congress. As senior sales manager his primary focus will be on the leading international wind industry trade fair, HUSUM Wind. With this newly created position the HUSUM organising company is enlarging a strategically important area of business, and will be concentrating […]

  • Germany: EnBW Revenues Up by 4.4 Pct to 14.4 Billion

    9 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    In the first nine months of the current fiscal year 2012, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG increased its revenue by 4.4% to € 14.4 billion. A sharp fall in revenue in the electricity generation and trading segment (down 26.7%) was offset by equally sharp revenue growth in the electricity grid and sales segment (up 15.8%), gas […]

  • Germany: Onshore and Offshore Wind Results Presented at DEWEK 2012

    1 November 2012

    The latest results of research and development concerning offshore wind energy, but also topics related to the onshore use of wind energy, will be presented on 7/8 November at the 11th German Wind Energy Conference (DEWEK 2012) in Bremen. The conference is accompanied by an exhibition and also features a technical excursion on the day […]

  • Germany Greenlights DolWin4, Amprion’s First Offshore Grid Connection

    26 December 2023
    Authorities, Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Planning & Permitting

    The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has issued a planning approval decision for the DolWin4 offshore grid connection in Germany’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the North Sea. DolWin4, the first offshore grid connection system being implemented by German transmission system operator (TSO) Amprion Offshore, will go into operation in 2028 and connect […]

  • Seaproof Solutions Scores Export CPS Brace off Germany

    1 June 2017
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul has contracted Seaproof Solutions to supply its export cable protection systems (CPS) for the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm and Trianel Windpark Borkum II.

  • KSB: Pumps Increase Efficiency of Wind Energy Systems (Germany)

    25 September 2012

    At Husum WindEnergy 2012, the trade fair held in Husum from 18 to 22 September, German pump and valve manufacturer KSB presented its products and services for suppliers and original equipment manufacturers of wind energy systems. Etaseco canned motor pumps were one of the highlights at the fair. They are installed in the wind turbines’ […]

  • Germany: GL RC Attests CE Conformity of UPDRAFT Winch

    19 September 2012

    GL Renewables Certification (GL RC) has assessed UPDRAFT’s “UPDRAFT winch 800-20-A” according to DIN EN 14492-2:2006. Additionally, GL RC evaluated the CE marking process, the technical design and the manuals for this product according to the EC machinery directive. CE marking is an essential part of bringing products to the European market. In Europe, it […]

  • Germany: Switch and Moventas to Reveal FusionDrive® at Husum Today

    18 September 2012
    Technology

    Moventas, one of the industry’s leading wind gear manufacturers, and The Switch, a leading supplier of megawatt-class permanent magnet generator and full-power converter packages, will today reveal a showpiece of the industry’s smartest wind gear and generator combination, FusionDrive ® . The real-life size, 3 MW FusionDrive ® will be on show at the joint […]

  • Three Firms Nominated for Windalliance Technology Award in Husum, Germany

    5 September 2012
    Technology

    An independent jury has nominated HOCHTIEF Solutions, Kenersys Europe and SkyWind for the international Windalliance Technology Award. The award ceremony will take place at the leading international trade fair HUSUM WindEnergy on 19 September in Husum. In addition to the innovative character of the products and solutions submitted, the selection criteria of the four-person jury […]

  • 50Hertz Sees Offshore Wind Growth in Baltic Sea, Germany

    27 August 2012
    Grid Connection

    As the issues on grid connection of German offshore wind farms hold back the development in the North Sea, German power network operator 50Hertz expects a shift of investor interest to offshore wind in the Baltic Sea. Reuters quotes the company’s CEO as saying that the expected offshore wind power capacity in the German Baltic […]

  • Windcomm to Hold Offshore Business Meetings & Conference at Husum, Germany

    16 August 2012

    The expansion of German offshore wind energy is becoming increasingly subject to delays. One of the reasons for this is that the grid operators are unable to give a definitive date when the planned wind farms will be connected up to the grid. It is unclear who will be responsible for any damages incurred if […]

  • AREVA Holds Supplier Day for French Companies in Bremerhaven, Germany

    25 June 2012

    Following more than one hundred regional meetings and a first seminar last March, AREVA held on June 20 a second “Supplier Day” in Bremerhaven, Germany, dedicated to French companies, future partners with the offshore wind supply chain. This partnership initiative is consistent with AREVA’s strategy of leveraging local skills to build up a new national […]

  • Germany: Offshore Center Danmark Promotes at Wind & Maritim 2012

    22 June 2012

    Offshore Center Danmark Renewables exhibited at the “Wind & Maritim 2012” conference in Rostock on May 31 – June 1. Approximately 200 people visited the event, where Offshore Center Danmark promoted Danish businesses and the upcoming OWIB 2013 event. The conference was organized by Wind Energy Network e.V., Rostock and the HANSA International Maritime Journal. Offshore […]

  • Germany: Change in Solar FIT Could Threaten Offshore Wind

    15 May 2012
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The Upper House of the German Federal Parliament, the Bundesrat, voted against reform of the feed-in tariff (FIT) for solar energy, according to the North American Windpower. The opposition didn’t get enough votes to reject the law, but the number was enough to postpone its adoption. The research firm Jefferies reported that the FIT rates […]

  • Germany: BARD Charters JB 117 Jack-Up Vessel

    10 May 2012

    The BARD Group is intensifying its construction activities in the development site of BARD Offshore 1, the first commercial offshore wind farm in the North Sea located around 100 kilometres off the island coast of Borkum. From now on, the JB 117 belonging to the Dutch company Jack-Up Barge B.V. will be used for the […]