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  • GRS: Hamburg Becoming Hotspot for Offshore Wind Industry

    19 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    German Renewables Shipbrokers (GRS) will exhibit at WindEnergy Hamburg at booth B4.EG.118 . The GRS shipbroker team will be ready to answer all questions and discuss any topics concerning offshore tonnage and equipment at their 42 m2 exhibition booth from 23 to 26 September 2014. “WindEnergy Hamburg is a home match for us,” explains Philippe Schönefeld, […]

  • First Wave Craft Christened ‘Umoe Ventus’

    27 February 2015
    Vessels

    The first Wave Craft vessel has been christened and is now undergoing sea trials outside the yard in Mandal. Owned by Umoe Wind and built by Umoe Mandal, the vessel, Umoe Ventus, was christened by CEO Jens Ulltveit- Moe’s wife earlier this month. If everything goes as planned, the vessels will head out to Dong […]

  • Palfinger Marine Names E-Crane as Service Partner

    2 December 2014

    Palfinger Marine has signed a service contract with E-Crane, making them a licensed service partner for the maintenance of Palfinger cranes. Specifically, this is for the wind turbines of the Thornton Bank. These cranes are managed by Senvion Benelux. The Belgian service hub of the German group Senvion was looking for a local partner that […]

  • Trianel and Gesy Team Up to Sell Borkum Electricity

    12 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    German municipal utility Trianel has partnered up with compatriot Gesy Green Energy Systems to jointly market and sell the electricity produced at the 200MW Trianel Wind Farm Borkum situated in the North Sea. With the latest agreement, the combined portfolio of the two companies now stands at 3.5GW. The Trianel Wind Farm Borkum is located approximately 45 kilometers […]

  • Turbine Blade Breaks at Nordsee Ost

    26 June 2015

    Just over a month after it was inaugurated, German 295MW Nordsee Ost wind farm encountered a problem. RWE Innogy was forced to shut down the wind farm after one of Senvion 6.2M126 wind turbines suffered a blade loss last Friday. “The turbine has been shut down immediately. Nobody was injured,” said RWE Innogy in a […]

  • Seawork Participants to Learn More about BIMCO’s Windtime

    5 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Grant Hunter and Mark Meade will participate in this year’s Seawork conference on 12 June, where they will give an insight in BIMCO’s Windtime, a specialized time charter party designed for the offshore wind farm sector. Windtime was specially developed for crew transfer vessels and the like operating in the Offshore Wind Farm industry by a BIMCO […]

  • Taylor Hopkinson Associates Visits Gemini Offshore Wind Park

    16 September 2015

    Taylor Hopkinson Associates, a UK renewable energy and clean technology recruitment consultancy, recently visited the port of Eemshaven, known as the hub of offshore wind logistics, to meet with the Gemini site team. The Gemini wind farm is a consortium composed of Northland Power, Siemens Wind Power, HVC and Van Oord, it is expected to […]

  • PGE, Ørsted Gather Tier 1 Offshore Contractors for 1.5 GW Baltica 2

    31 October 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Foundations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    The PGE and Ørsted joint venture has signed an agreement with German-based Steelwind Nordenham for the supply of foundations for Baltica 2, which is the first stage of the Baltica Offshore Wind Farm in the Polish Baltic Sea. Under the contract, Steelwind Nordenham will deliver 34 monopile foundations with the production expected to start in […]

  • HeliService and Nakanihon Air Service Team Up for Japan’s Offshore Wind

    13 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    HeliService International has entered into long-term cooperation with the Japan-based Nakanihon Air Service for the Japanese offshore wind market. According to HeliService, Nakanihon deems to offer helicopter offshore services in Japan and Asia as the offshore wind market is evolving in the region. “We are very pleased to have entered this deep co-operation with HeliService. […]

  • Nordergründe Offshore Substation Leaves Bremerhaven

    20 September 2017
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    An offshore substation built for the 111MW Nordergründe offshore wind farm has been loaded onto a barge in Bremerhaven and is en route to the installation site in the German North Sea.

  • Nexus Starts Installing Borkum Riffgrund 2 Cables

    19 April 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord’s cable laying vessel Nexus has started installing cables on Ørsted’s 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Deutsche WindGuard Re-Accredited for Wind Turbine Inspection

    23 April 2015

    The German Accreditation Body (DAkkS) has renewed the accreditation of Deutsche WindGuard for inspection of wind turbines. Every five years, an accreditation must be renewed based on a fundamental re-examination by the DAkkS. “We see ourselves confirmed in our work,” said Jan Wallasch, Deutsche WindGuard. “Our reports are accepted without problems by all licensing authorities and insurers.” As part of […]

  • DONG Selects Palfinger Cranes for Borkum Riffgrund 2

    8 February 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Palfinger Marine has won a contract to supply davit cranes for DONG Energy’s 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea. Palfinger Marine will supply a total of 56 davit cranes which will be installed on the platform of each wind turbine at the site. The offshore wind […]

  • UK: HIE Commissions Atmos Consulting for Offshore Wind Test Sites Study

    20 July 2012
    R&D

    Atmos Consulting has been commissioned by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) to undertake a feasibility study of eight potential onshore test sites for offshore wind technology.  The study will involve a critical review of the sites, concentrating on those with real development potential, plus detailed consultation with offshore developers and offshore equipment manufacturers to review their […]

  • First Gemini Foundations Grouted with MasterFlow 9800

    10 August 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Only four months after introduction of the new bulk supplied offshore grout MasterFlow 9800 from BASF, the material is being used during the installation of the offshore foundations at the 600 MW Gemini Offshore Windpark. The specialized grouting equipment of FoundOcean and BASF’s MasterFlow 9800 was mobilized at the harbor of Eemshaven. After installation of the […]

  • Ideol Strengthens Northern Europe, Japanese Business Team

    8 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    The French floating foundation company Ideol has appointed two new professionals to boost its business in Northern Europe and Japan.  Ole Stobbe has been appointed Business Development Manager for Northern Europe and Mutsumi Yamada is Ideol’s Country Manager for Japan. Stobbe has a degree in mechanical engineering and an experience from working in offshore wind for 13 years in a […]

  • Allianz Phasing Out Coal, Doubling Investments in Wind Energy

    25 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Munich-based insurance provider Allianz will stop financing coal-based business models and turn its focus to wind energy, the company’s chief investment officer Andreas Gruber said in an interview given to German TV station ZDF. Allianz will no longer invest in companies that derive more than 30 percent of revenue from coal mining or generate over 30 percent of their energy […]

  • Siem Offshore to Install Nordsee One Inter-Array Cables by End of August

    8 August 2016
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Siem Offshore’s recent additions to the fleet, the installation support vessel Siem Moxie and the cable lay vessel Siem Aimery, are expected to install all of the 59 inter-array grid cables for the 332MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm by the end of August. Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (SOC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Siem Offshore, […]

  • Merkur Turbines Halfway There (VIDEO)

    11 June 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Turbine installation team working on the Merkur offshore wind farm has reached a halfway point on this 396MW project in the German North Sea.

  • UK: RSS Marine Carries Out Environmental Monitoring on Humber Gateway OWF

    6 November 2013
    R&D

    Team Humber Marine Alliance’s (THMA) member, RSS Marine, undertook environmental monitoring work on Humber Gateway offshore wind farm. The RSS Marine team, based at Hunmanby, North Yorkshire, has managed the sampling of herring larvae as part of the site’s marine licence. Simon Prince, general manager at RSS Marine, said: “We are building on our traditional […]

  • “Wind Lift I” reached the project site of the first commercial wind farm in the German North Sea

    29 March 2010
    Wind Farm Update

    Yesterday the BARD-jack-up-barge “Wind Lift I” reached the installation site of BARD Offshore 1, the first commercial wind farm in the German North Sea. The Windlift I left the Emden harbour in the late evening of  March 27th. to set for the project site, located about 100 km northwest of the island of Borkum where […]

  • Siemens Gamesa’s French Factory Starts Producing Offshore Wind Nacelles and Blades

    30 March 2022
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa’s manufacturing facility in Le Havre, France, has started producing both the company’s offshore Direct Drive wind turbine nacelles and IntegralBlades, making it the world’s first facility to encompass the production of both under one roof, according to Siemens Gamesa. The first nacelles and blades produced at the new factory are headed for the […]

  • Finland: Switch Applies Wind Energy Technology to Shipbuilding

    30 October 2013
    Technology

    The Switch, a Finnish manufacturer of permanent magnet generators and converters, announced that it entered the marine and shipbuilding sector with the launch of its next-generation drive trains for energy efficient power generation and propulsion of merchant vessels. Combining The Switch’s permanent magnet and frequency converter technology, this opens up all-new opportunities for hybrid propulsion […]

  • Suction Bucket Triumph at Borkum Riffgrund 2

    31 July 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    GeoSea’s jack-up vessel Innovation has installed the last of the twenty suction bucket jacket foundations on Orsted’s 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Severn Provider Reaches Safe Transfer Milestone at Meerwind

    4 July 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Severn Offshore Services’ 26-metre Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV), Severn Provider, has completed 5,000 safe passenger transfers since starting her charter at the 288MW Meerwind offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea in April 2015. The Severn Provider is now in her second season of operation for the same client and since her […]

  • Van Oord Adds ALL NRG to Deutsche Bucht Team

    10 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    The Denmark-based ALL NRG has secured work with Van Oord on the 269MW Deutsche Bucht offshore wind project. ALL NRG said that its team of technicians from the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm has been called upon for Deutsche Bucht in the German North Sea. According to the company, the team will be assisting Van […]