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  • DECC Appoints New Permanent Secretary

    10 May 2016
    Authorities

    Alex Chisholm has been appointed as the new Permanent Secretary for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, following the announcement that Stephen Lovegrove, who held the position, has been named Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence. The appointment has been made by the Prime Minister in agreement with the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, […]

  • PNE Acquires Three German Offshore Wind Projects from BARD

    18 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    PNE WIND AG has acquired three offshore projects in the North Sea through its subsidiaries “Atlantis” I to III from BARD Engineering GmbH. The projects have been developed so far from the previous owner, and they are currently in the planning approval process at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). PNE WIND AG intends […]

  • TotalEnergies to Bid in Another US Offshore Wind Auction This Year

    3 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    TotalEnergies, together with its Castle Wind LLC joint venture partner, Trident Winds, will participate in the US offshore wind lease sale in California in late 2022, the company said in a press release on 2 March, after taking over the stakes EnBW had in US offshore wind projects. The Castle Wind joint venture was established […]

  • Highlights of the Month: November 2015

    3 December 2015

    DONG Unveils U.S. Offshore Wind Project Details DONG Energy has released project details for its offshore wind farm proposed to be built off Massachusetts, USA. Scotland Greenlights World’s Largest Floating Wind Project The Scottish Government has granted a marine licence to Statoil for the construction of Hywind Scotland project, the world’s largest floating offshore wind […]

  • ABB Participates in AWEA Offshore Windpower Expo (USA)

    12 October 2011
    Grid Connection

    ABB, the wind industry’s leading power technology solutions provider, announced its full support for the emerging offshore wind market in North America at AWEA Offshore Windpower Expo, held this week at the Baltimore Convention Center. ABB is demonstrating several of its major technological breakthroughs at this week’s event, held October 11-13. These technologies include ABB’s […]

  • Vattenfall Signed a Contract For Vessel Pacific Orca,Being Built by Samsung Heavy Industries (South Korea)

    18 February 2011

    Vattenfall’s German offshore project DanTysk has signed a contract on a vessel for the transportation and installation of 80 wind turbines. The installation vessel, Pacific Orca, is being built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea to be delivered in 2012. Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München will build the DanTysk offshore wind farm as a joint […]

  • USA Offshore Wind Farm Projects Waiting to be Done

    7 August 2011
    Operations & Maintenance

      Cape Wind, the offshore wind farm famous for its 10-year fight against Cape Cod’s most prominent NIMBYs, will likely be the first U.S.… Herman K. Trabish (greentechmedia) [mappress] Source: greentechmedia, August 07, 2011

  • Highlights of the Month – February 2020

    2 March 2020

    We are bringing you a list of ten most-read articles on the site for the month of February. Haliade X-12 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Has Another Record-Breaking Day The HaliadeX-12 MW offshore wind turbine prototype in the Port of Rotterdam has set a new world record by being the first wind turbine ever to generate […]

  • Mainstream Renewable Power Exiting Offshore Wind

    4 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    In its annual results for 2015, Mainstream Renewable Power marked the sale of the Hornsea Project One to DONG Energy in Q1 2015 as part of its strategy to exit the offshore wind market. The company, which reported a profit after tax of € 96.0 million in 2015 (compared to a loss of € 46.6 million in […]

  • JDR to Supply Sandbank OWF Inter-Array Cables

    23 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    VBMS has awarded JDR the inter-array cable contract for the Vattenfall AB Sandbank offshore wind farm. JDR will design and manufacture 105 kilometres of inter-array cable, including a new coilable 630mm2 copper core cable and a range of cable accessories. The Sandbank offshore wind farm will be constructed 90km west of Sylt island, within the […]

  • Norway: StormGeo Assists Construction and Maintenance of Offshore Wind Farms

    29 March 2012

    Building and maintaining an offshore wind farm requires extremely accurate predictions of the weather windows available for each operation. Navigating a specially built vessel with a wind-sensitive load of turbine parts on its deck, jagging up the vessel to prepare for turbine installation, positioning and fastening turbine foundations, towers and rotors, and accessing turbines from […]

  • CPNL Proves Hang-Off Strength

    12 March 2014
    R&D, Technology

    CPNL Engineering has completed two series of tests to verify the temporary and permanent clamp tension of the hang-off. Both durability tests lead to the conclusion that the hang-off can cope with the predefined tensions of 40 kN and 150 kN for the temporary and permanent part respectively. The first durability test was conducted with […]

  • GE & Co to Develop World’s Largest 3D Printer for Offshore Wind Application

    21 September 2021
    R&D, Technology

    GE, Fraunhofer IGCV, and voxeljet AG have entered into a research partnership to develop the world’s largest 3D printer for offshore wind applications in order to streamline the production of key components of GE’s Haliade-X offshore wind turbine. The partners expect to launch the project during the third quarter of 2021 with initial printer trials […]

  • UAE: Dubai Municipality and Unique System FZE Sets Up Permanent Tide Station

    5 February 2013

    Unique System FZE, a Unique Maritime Group Company, which is one of the world’s leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution provider, along with The Geodesy and Hydrographic Survey Section of Dubai Municipality established a permanent tidal station at Al Mamzaar. Dubai Municipality’s Geodesy and Hydrographic Survey Section of Dubai Municipality has several components comprising […]

  • US DOE Sets Aside USD 8 Million for Turbine Drivetrain Tech

    3 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Technology

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four projects totaling up to USD 8 million to develop next-generation drivetrain technologies to facilitate the growth of tall offshore and onshore wind turbines. The projects are expected to develop more efficient, smaller, and lighter-weight generators that will lower costs and make wind power more affordable. Each of the chosen […]

  • Bernie Sanders Pushes for Renewables and Clean Energy Jobs

    8 January 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator from Vermont and one of the national presidential candidates, has introduced a bill that would permanently extend the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for advanced clean energy property and expand the 30% credit to offshore wind facilities.  The American Clean Energy Investment Act of 2015, introduced in Senate on 10 December, would also […]

  • Stemat Spirit Loading Hohe See Cables

    27 July 2018
    Grid Connection, Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Boskalis’s cable laying vessel Stemat Spirit has started loading inter-array cables for the 497MW EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm project.

  • N-Sea Wins Viking Link UXO Contract

    6 April 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    N-Sea Survey BV has won a contract to provide unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey and inspection services for the Viking Link HVDC interconnector between Denmark and the United Kingdom.

  • Jan De Nul: Vole au Vent Getting Ready for Borkum Riffgrund 2 (Expertise Hub VIDEO)

    14 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Vole au vent has been undergoing certain modifications to the layout of the deck prior to heading out to the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm, Carl Heiremans, Jan De Nul’s Senior Business Development Manager, said.

  • Arkona Stays Ahead of the Curve with All Transition Pieces In Place

    17 January 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    All 60 transition pieces (TPs) have been installed on the Arkona offshore wind farm ahead of schedule, E.ON, the owner and developer of the 385MW project in the German Baltic Sea.

  • Mainprize Offshore Picks MO5 Owner’s Representative

    1 May 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Mainprize Offshore Limited has awarded Marine MAC with an owner’s representative contract for its new crew transfer vessel (CTV) MO5.

  • Seaway Heavy Lifting In Charge of 32 Trianel Windpark Borkum II Foundations

    25 November 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has been awarded an EPCI contract for the Trianel Windpark Borkum II offshore wind farm, which includes engineering, procurement, construction and installation of wind turbine foundations, comprising of monopiles and transition pieces. Project management and engineering has already started at Seaway Heavy Lifting’s offices in Hamburg and Zoetermeer. Fabrication will take […]

  • Top News of the Week Mar 23 – 29, 2015

    29 March 2015

    Floaters ‒ Game Changers for Offshore Wind? At least nine floating projects are likely to come online by 2020, claims Douglas-Westwood. Danes Eye Floating Wind Projects Off Hawaii The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has received unsolicited lease requests for proposed floating wind projects offshore Oahu, Hawaii from Alpha Wind Energy. Boskalis: Fugro’s Activities […]

  • Amrumbank West Produces First Power

    29 April 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Amrumbank West offshore wind farm, developed by E.ON in the German North Sea has started producing power, the developer announced today. The power from the first of its 3.6 megawatt turbines flows to an offshore transformer and converter platform from which it is exported via a 85-kilometer subsea cable, which comes ashore near Büsum, about […]

  • Top News of the Week Apr 13 – 19, 2015

    19 April 2015

    Neart na Gaoithe to Use Two Newly Developed Technologies Mainstream Renewable Power said today that its 448 megawatt Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm in Scotland will use two recently launched technologies. Eneco to Pay Multi-Million Bill for Princess Amalia Wind Farm Eneco will pay tens of millions of Euros in repair costs for its […]

  • Gibdock Mobilises Seajacks Scylla

    23 February 2016
    Vessels

    Gibdock, a shiprepair and conversion yard from Gibraltar, carried out the afloat mobilisation of Seajacks Scylla, after the vessel had been discharged to Gibraltar waters from the heavy-lift transporter Osprey. The vessel was towed to Gibdock for reactivation works at the yard’s South Mole. Richard Beards, Managing Director of Gibdock, said: “Our location at the gateway to the Mediterranean and […]