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  • Seaway Ventus Now Sporting Its Second Telescopic Leg Crane

    24 March 2023
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    The second telescopic leg crane has been installed onboard Seaway 7’s next-generation wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Seaway Ventus, which is under construction at China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) yard in Nantong, China. In the coming weeks, the mechanical crane assembly works and reeving will be finalised and the commissioning and load testing will start, said […]

  • Vestas Turbines Chosen for Undisclosed Large-Scale Offshore Wind Project in Northern Europe

    17 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    Vestas has signed a conditional agreement for the supply of wind turbines for a large-scale offshore wind project in Europe. The company did not disclose the name of the client or the project. In an update on 17 May, the Danish wind turbine manufacturer said that the offshore wind project was located in Northern Europe […]

  • Helicopter Services Needed for Vattenfall’s Three OWFs

    31 August 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    Vattenfall has launched a qualification period for a tender that will seek helicopter crew transfer services for the DanTysk, Sandbank, and Horns Rev 1 offshore wind farms in Germany and Denmark. The developer intends to enter into a contract with one party providing access and availability of a helicopter to allow for various operations and […]

  • BSH Preparing Another Tender for German N-9 and N-10 Offshore Wind Areas

    20 August 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) plans to open a tender for the collection and processing of hydroacoustic and seismic data for the N-9 and N-10 wind areas in the North Sea. Through the tender, expected to be launched in October, BSH will seek services related to geophysical investigation of the subsurface of the […]

  • WindEurope: Europe Needs to Double Wind Installation

    17 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    Wind energy provided 15% of the electricity in Europe in 2019, however the current rate of installation is not enough to deliver the Green Deal, according to WindEurope.

  • EnBW’s Renewables Earnings Rise in 2019

    8 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    EnBW reported an operating result of EUR 298.6 million in the Renewable Energies division in the first nine months of 2019, a 38.5% growth compared to the year before. According to EnBW, the increase is due to the overall improvement in wind conditions at offshore and onshore wind farms in Germany, as well as due […]

  • New CEO Takes Helm at Avangrid Renewables

    23 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    Avangrid Renewables has appointed Alejandro de Hoz, currently the company’s Vice President of Offshore Wind, to the role of President & CEO. He succeeds Laura Beane, who has decided to leave the company. “We have a growing renewables business with strong expertise in core areas of onshore wind and solar, and we continue to develop […]

  • ALE and Giant Taiwan Team Up on Formosa

    19 August 2019
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Heavy lift specialist ALE and Giant Taiwan have undertaken a joint venture to provide the onshore handling, transportation, and storage of wind turbine foundations for phase 2 of Taiwan’s Formosa 1 wind farm project. This phase is seeing 20 Siemens Gamesa 6MW wind turbines installed 6 kilometres off Miaoli County in the Taiwan Strait, raising […]

  • Siemens, SPR Sign Europe’s Largest Wind Turbine Contract

    27 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) has concluded a major East Anglia ONE deal with Siemens, worth up to one-third of the overall £ 2.5 billion (€ 3.2 billion) project investment. Under the agreement, Siemens will supply 102 wind turbines and service them for an initial period of five years. The turbine agreement is the largest individual contract placed as part […]

  • Offshore Wind: A Playfield with Giant Toys (Photo Gallery)

    20 April 2016
    Vessels

    The story of offshore wind farms moving farther from shore and wind turbines being installed in deeper waters does not finish with gigantic vessels and foundations, but extends to the almost entire supply chain, where equipment is also getting bigger and services are being adapted to the industry’s needs. At the beginning of this month, […]

  • Aimselect Takes Over RS Wind

    19 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    Aimselect, the UK-based recruitment, talent and search consultancy, has acquired the blue collar wind recruitment specialist company RS Wind.

  • Offshore Wind Sparks Recruitment Drive at DEME

    3 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Training & Education, Vessels

    Belgium’s DEME Group is recruiting more than 200 new employees in 2017 to meet the demand driven by the growth in offshore wind energy.

  • Research and Markets Release New OW Report

    25 November 2013

    Research and Markets added latest “World Offshore Wind Market Forecast 2012-2016” report to their offering. The 4th edition of The World Offshore Wind Market Forecast, by energy business advisors Douglas-Westwood, examines drivers, case studies, key players, major markets and growth prospects for the global offshore wind sector. The report builds upon previous editions with the addition […]

  • Top News of the Week of Jan 21– 26, 2013

    27 January 2013

    Alstom Launches Construction of Its Plants in Saint-Nazaire, France Alstom CEO, Patrick Kron, and Alstom Renewable Power President, Jérôme Pécresse, accompanied Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, in Saint-Nazaire, when he officially launched construction works of Alstom’s first two offshore wind turbine factories on Monday 21 January.   Spain: SUPRAPOWER Offshore Wind Turbine on Its Way SUPRAPOWER […]

  • EU Offshore Wind Energy Sector Posts Solid 2012

    27 January 2013

    Europe installed and grid connected 293 offshore wind turbines in 2012 – more than one per working day. This brings the total to 1,662 turbines, in 55 offshore wind farms in ten European countries. The 293 turbines installed in 2012 represent 1,165 Megawatts (MW), an increase of 33% compared to 2011 installations of 874 MW. […]

  • Qatar: Campaign for 100 Pct Renewable Energy to Be Launched

    5 December 2012

    The International Renewable Energy Alliance held a side event yesterday during the COP18 in Doha “Towards 100 % renewable energy: Case studies and examples from regions and municipalities”. The aim of the side event was to demonstrate that all over the world, effective climate change mitigation is happening on the ground, by communities, regions and […]

  • Lloyds Register Certifies Mainstream Renewable Power (UK)

    28 November 2011

    Mainstream Renewable Power today announced that its Offshore Business has been independently certified by Lloyds Register for Quality Assurance (LRQA) for its integrated management system for Safety, Health, Environment and Quality. The certification verifies that Mainstream’s management system meets internationally recognised Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Standards ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. The […]

  • Norwegian Offshore Vessel Owner Orders Another CSOV at Vard

    23 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Norway’s Vard has signed a contract with its compatriot Rem Offshore to design and construct another commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV). The VARD 4 19 design CSOV, developed by Vard Design in Ålesund, will be the third vessel Vard delivers to Rem Offshore. The first two, REM Power and REM Wind, were delivered in 2023 […]

  • GIP Rebrands WPD Offshore, Changes Its Name to Skyborn Renewables

    19 September 2022
    Business & Finance

    Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has launched Skyborn Renewables, previously known as wpd offshore, after completing the acquisition of the 100 per cent share in the company. The transaction was completed on 15 September, Skyborn said. In May, GIP signed a definitive agreement with wpd AG to acquire 100 per cent of the business. “GIP identified […]

  • Three Consultancies to Help Set Up Norway’s Upcoming Offshore Wind Auction

    2 September 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has awarded Vista Analyse, Guidehouse, and Procurex the contract for the provision of consultancy services for the offshore wind tender the Norwegian Government will soon open for the Southern North Sea II (Sørlige Nordsjø II) area. The contract, concluded on 24 August, follows the tender that the Ministry opened […]

  • Ørsted Charters Normand Jarstein for Hornsea Two

    3 November 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Solstad Offshore has been awarded a contract by Ørsted to deploy its offshore support vessel (OSV) Normand Jarstein on the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm in the UK. The contract has been signed for a period of four months, starting in the third quarter of 2021, when the vessel will support operations at the 1.4 […]

  • Update: EOWDC Transformer Nearing Its Destination

    3 January 2018
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The transformer for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Center (EOWDC), which recently commenced its final part of the journey to the Blackdog substation site in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, is expected to arrive in Blackdog tonight (3 January) and will be transported to the site via Hareburn Terrace, according to the latest update from the developer.

  • RWE’s New Company Valued at EUR 20 Billion

    23 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    RWE AG will put 55.6 million innogy SE shares with a price range from EUR 32 to EUR 36 per share to the market through the initial public offering (IPO) of its newly set up renewables business, thus valuing innogy SE to up to EUR 20 billion.  Back in late 2015, RWE said that, in connection with a […]

  • Next Geosolutions, RMS Surveying West of Adlergrund OWF Cluster Cable Routes

    20 September 2016
    Grid Connection, R&D

    Next Geosolutions and RMS Submarine are some two months away from wrapping up a 17-month project involving marine surveys for cable route design and engineering of multiple 220kV HVAC grid connections for Arkona and Wikinger offshore wind farms in the western Baltic Sea. Next Geosolutions has been hired by Prysmian, which was awarded a contract to deliver and install the power […]

  • Moventas Completes Corporate Restructuring Programme

    15 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    Moventas has cleared the corporate restructuring programme it entered in 2011. The Santasalo Moventas Group has simultaneously been divided in two, where Moventas and the industrial gear manufacturer Santasalo will both be better equipped to focus on their industry-specific businesses. Moventas Gears Oy, owned by the industrial group Clyde Blowers, has completed the corporate restructuring […]

  • Sif and DEME Make Room for Borssele 1&2 in Rotterdam Port

    27 August 2019
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Sif Holding has entered into an agreement with DEME Offshore to use Maasvlakte 2 in the Netherlands for marshaling services for the Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind project. The deal comes as Sif agreed with the Port of Rotterdam on the lease of an additional 20ha of industrial land, adjacent to the company’s existing operations at […]