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  • Global Wind Service Marks Ten Years in Business

    5 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    On 4 January, Global Wind Service (GWS) celebrated ten years since it was founded. The company, now employing 600 people, worked on over 300 projects in 35 countries and has local business units in ten countries.

  • Veja Mate Pushes SMC to New Heights

    1 August 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The provision of technicians by Specialist Marine Consultants (SMC) to the 402MW Veja Mate project saw SMC reach a significant milestone – the company now contracts over 100 people.

  • Top News of the Week, 16 – 23 July 2017

    23 July 2017

    Offshore WIND’s most read news from 16 to 23 July 2017.

  • Muehlhan Wind Service Opens UK Office

    1 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    Muehlhan Wind Service has launched an office in the UK by taking a floor in Myton Law’s offices in Hull.

  • Wpd to Hook 1GW of Offshore Wind to Taiwanese Grid

    30 April 2018
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The Taiwanese Ministry of Economic Affairs has awarded German-based wpd with 1GW of grid connection capacity for two of the developer’s offshore wind projects in Taiwan: a 708MW wind farm off Yunlin and a 350MW project off Taoyuan.

  • DeBu SOV to Feature SMST Access & Cargo Tower

    10 November 2017
    Technology, Vessels

    SMST will deliver its Access & Cargo Tower to Spanish shipyard Astilleros Zamakona Bilbao, who will install it on Esvagt’s new Service Operation Vessel (SOV) that was chartered by MHI Vestas for the Deutsche Bucht (DeBu) offshore wind farm.

  • Northern HeliCopter Lands Wikinger Contract

    5 October 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    Iberdrola has awarded Emden-based Northern HeliCopter GmbH (NHC) with a six-year contract for transport flights to the Wikinger offshore wind farm.

  • 8.2 Consulting and Aarufield Form Renewables Consultancy in UK

    21 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    German renewables specialists 8.2 Consulting AG has joined forces with the offshore wind advisory, Aarufield, to announce an integrated UK-based consultancy offering technical, commercial and financial advice to wind, solar and biomass industry players – 8.2 Aarufield. Both 8.2 Aarufield partners bring teams with turbine, supply chain and original equipment manufacturer experience. Chairman Julian Brown, who is also […]

  • JDR Nabs Beatrice Inter-Array Cables Contract

    29 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (SOC) has chosen the UK-based JDR Cable Systems Ltd.  to design, manufacture and supply inter-array grid cables for the 588MW Beatrice wind farm offshore Scotland. Beatrice comprises 84  Siemens 7MW wind turbines, which will be inter-connected by 91 x 33 kV medium voltage alternating current submarine composite cables. JDR will manufacture around 163km of […]

  • DBR Delivers Power Pack for Amrumbank West

    8 April 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    DBR Generatorsets has successfully completed commissioning and start-up of its custom-built auxiliary power package for E.ON’s Amrumbank West wind farm substation. DBR delivered and installed two 1,250kVA diesel generator sets and one 250kVA set. Cofely Fabricom is assembling the topsides at its Hoboken, Belgium yard before installation in the German Bight. “This was a challenging […]

  • Maritime Research Institute Netherlands Tests GICON SOF

    26 June 2013
    Training & Education

    The GICON® SOF floating offshore foundation is an exceptional innovation and provides new opportunities for offshore wind park development. Final wind and wave tank tests were conducted at the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) from June 17th to June 24th, 2013, to confirm the final design prior to construction of a full-scale prototype which is […]

  • South Korea: UL Selected as Sole Foreign Testing Center for Large Scale WTG Systems

    20 August 2013
    R&D

    UL (Underwriters Laboratories), a global safety science leader, was recently selected as the only foreign testing center for wind turbine generation (WTG) systems over 750kW by the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS), a division within the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MTIE). This designation by the Korean MTIE will allow global […]

  • Estonia to Relaunch 1.2 GW Offshore Wind Tender in January 2025

    5 December 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Estonia’s Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (CPTRA) will launch again a tender for the development of an offshore wind farm in the Saare 1 area, nearly a year after the initial auction ended without any bids. The auction will take place between 21 January and 23 January 2025. The starting price for the Saare […]

  • HeliService Orders Additional AW169 Helicopters for Offshore Wind Ops

    4 April 2022
    Contracts & Tenders

    German-based HeliService International GmbH has signed a contract with Leonardo S.p.A for the delivery of two additional AW169 light intermediate twin-engine helicopters to support the offshore wind farm operations in Taiwan. The contract brings the total number of AW169s ordered by HeliService to five since its first purchase back in 2015 and marks the entrance […]

  • Siemens Energy Denies Planning Siemens Gamesa Takeover

    18 May 2021
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Energy today notified Spain’s National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) that it had not planned a takeover of Siemens Gamesa, whose share trading was suspended today. The trading of shares was halted after the local newspaper Expansion reported that Siemens AG, through Siemens Energy, had hired Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank to conduct a strategic review […]

  • Norseman Wind to Apply for Building 1.4 GW Subsidy-Free OWF in Norway

    25 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Norseman Wind has announced its decision to apply for a licence to build a 1.4 GW wind farm off Norway. In a press release issued on 25 May, the company said the project would be built and operated without the need for government subsidies. Furthermore, German offshore wind developer EnBW has joined the consortium behind […]

  • Fugro Expands Executive Team

    8 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    Fugro’s Board of Management has appointed Erik-Jan Bijvank as Group Director for Europe and Africa. With this latest appointment, Fugro said it completes its new executive leadership team, which was established as of 1 May, consisting of the Board of Management, four regional Group Directors and several functional Group Directors. Bijvank, who previously worked at […]

  • Siemens Receives EnBW Hohe See Order, Teams Up with GeoSea

    17 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Wind Power will, for the first time, provide complete offshore wind power plant solutions including foundations, after EnBW placed an order for its 497MW Hohe See project, for which Siemens is partnering with GeoSea, part of the DEME Group.

  • Cammell Laird Appoints New Energy Head

    6 January 2017
    Vessels

    Birkenhead-based shipyard and engineering services company Cammell Laird is to ramp up its operations in the energy sector with the appointment of a new managing director. Jonathan Brown has joined the energy division of Cammell Laird from Rolls Royce where he led its nuclear new build and projects group. Brown has previously worked for BNFL, Serco and […]

  • Tekmar to Keep Merkur Cables Protected

    25 November 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    UK-based cable protection systems (CPS) specialist Tekmar Energy has been awarded a contract with Tideway B.V, part of DEME Group, to supply 150 of its TekLink CPS units for the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm project in the German part of the North Sea. The supply for the contract will be executed in Tekmar’s new facility in […]

  • NORCOWE Mapping Offshore Winds at FINO1

    12 July 2016
    R&D

    NORCOWE has reported that it gathered an extensive data set of both point and remote measurements of the wind field in and around the Alpha Ventus wind farm as part of the Offshore Boundary-Layer Experiment (OBLEX-F1) at the German wind energy research platform FINO1, which is running since May 2015. “To our knowledge, a measurement […]

  • Are Renewables Losing Grid Priority in Europe?

    3 November 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection

    The European Commission’s ”leaked” plan to end the “priority dispatch” for renewable energy in electricity grids is set to harm investments in European wind and solar power systems to the tune of billions of Euros, according to European industry initiative EU ProSun.  According to an article published in the Guardian newspaper on 1 November, the European […]

  • Buss Joins WINDEA Offshore

    8 December 2017

    Buss Offshore Solutions will become a new shareholder of the offshore wind service company WINDEA Offshore on 1 January 2018, after the two companies recently reached an agreement on the details of the transaction and signed the relevant contracts.

  • Hutchinson Engineering Secures Hohe See Contract

    24 November 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    Hutchinson Engineering Ltd (HEL) has secured a contract to provide anode cage assemblies for EnBW’s Hohe See offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Ecosse Subsea Officially Wraps Up Wikinger Contract

    17 November 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    This October, Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) officially completed its work at the Wikinger offshore wind farm under a contract with Prysmian, the company in charge of the supply and installation of the inter-array cables at the 350MW German wind farm.

  • EDS Lands Hohe See Cable Termination & Testing Contract

    15 January 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    High voltage engineering specialist, EDS HV Group (EDS), part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has been awarded a contract to complete cable termination and testing work at the Hohe See offshore wind farm by cable manufacturer Zhongtian Technology Submarine Cable (ZTT).