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  • VIDEO: Bilfinger Demonstrates Vibration Piling Procedure

    4 December 2014

    In Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony, Germany, Bilfinger is supporting RWE and other energy providers by testing what is known as the vibration piling procedure. This enables wind park foundations to be counterbored into the seabed by loosening the sand with vibrations, which allows the pile to sink in under the pressure of its own weight. […]

  • Vroon and Rhenus Keeping German Offshore Substations Supplied

    2 September 2016
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) has started cooperating with the German-based Rhenus Offshore Logistics on the provision of offshore supply services to wind farms on the German Continental Shelf. According to the agreement, Vroon is in charge of delivering bulk, containerised and project cargo to wind farm offshore substations off Germany, the company announced via social media. The operations are performed […]

  • Germany: PNE Wind Ends 2011 with Stable Results

    4 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    The wind farm project developer, PNE WIND AG confirms its EBIT forecast and again proposes a dividend payment amounting to EUR 0.04 per share. In the previous financial year, the company recorded a positive result at corporate level (EBIT) amounting to EUR 0.1 million (prior year: EUR 9.5 million). This is reflected in the 2011 […]

  • Sea Fox Returns from Nordergründe Duty

    14 February 2017
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Enviro-Serve’s wind farm support vessel (WFSV) Sea Fox has returned to the company’s Lowestoft shore base after working for Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke (NSW) GmbH providing 24-hour support for their inter-array cable installation at the Nordergründe offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Throughout the 9-month contract the 24-metre vessel worked out of the port of […]

  • Vole au vent Heads to Borkum Riffgrund 2

    5 March 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul’s wind turbine installation vessel Vole au vent has left the port of Eemshaven loaded with the first set of monopiles and transition pieces to be installed on the 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • SMM Direct: Offshore Wind Dialogue Focuses on Overcoming Difficulties

    6 September 2012

    At the second SMM Offshore Dialogue, Andreas Wagner, Managing Director of German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation, has opened the Offshore Wind Dialogue, replacing the Chairman of the organisation Jörg Kuhbier at the event. Mr. Wagner gave an overview of the current situation and plans for offshore wind in Germany. He presented the German Offshore Wind […]

  • Germany: HOCHTIEF Expects Brighter Future After Setbacks in 2011

    4 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    HOCHTIEF went through many challenges in 2011: The Group’s strong operating business with a new record order backlog of almost EUR 49 billion was countered by severe setbacks in two projects and its Habtoor Leighton joint venture (Dubai). The Group was unable to offset them in full and incurred an overall consolidated net loss of […]

  • RWE Awards Bolt Integrity Services Contract for German Offshore Wind Farms

    5 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain

    EchoBolt has signed a contract with RWE Renewables to provide bolt integrity services for the Amrumbank West and Arkona offshore wind farms in Germany. The scope of work under the contract will include advanced ultrasonic inspection techniques to assess the integrity of critical bolted connections on the wind turbines. By enabling an informed, condition-monitoring approach, […]

  • WindEnergy Hamburg Featuring Recruiting Day

    1 September 2014
    Training & Education

    More and more wind turbines are being installed worldwide. At the same time, the industry is investing a lot of money and energy in the further development of turbines, rotors and components, to optimise production costs and electricity yield. So this dynamic industry offers a lot of interesting job and career opportunities, and is seeking experts worldwide. Altogether […]

  • German TSO Ups Offshore Wind Grid Connection Investments

    3 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    German electricity transmission system operator (TSO), 50Hertz, will increase investments in the infrastructure required for the transport of renewable energies, with one of the focus areas being grid connections for large offshore wind farms in the Baltic and the North Seas. 50Hertz said it wanted to boost the connection capacity for offshore wind farms from […]

  • Nkt Cables Gets EUR 165 Mln Order for Gemini Project

    22 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Following the financial close of the Gemini offshore wind project, nkt cables received a binding order worth approximately 165 mEUR for the delivery of more than 200 kilometers of 220 kV high voltage submarine cables and related accessories, all to be manufactured in Cologne, Germany. The cables are to be delivered ready for installation starting early 2015 […]

  • First Permanent Offshore Wind Exhibition in Germany Opened on Historic Ship

    25 April 2013

    Official opening of the Offshore Infocenter Rostock (OIR) was held as a part of the dinner reception of the “Wind & Maritim 2013” on Tuesday, 24th April, in front of 150 invited guests from politics and the industry. This is currently the first permanent exhibition in Germany about offshore wind, set up on a historic […]

  • German Firm Sets Plans for USD 4.6 Billion Offshore Wind Project in Vietnam

    23 October 2024

    Germany-based PNE AG is set to invest USD 4.6 billion to build an offshore wind farm with a capacity of up to 2 GW in Vietnam’s Binh Dinh province. On 22 October, PNE CEO Per Hornung Pedersen visited the province and engaged with local officials to explore ways to advance the project, according to an […]

  • Prysmian Scores North Sea Offshore Wind Brace

    10 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Italy-based cable manufacturer to deliver inter-array cable systems for the 400MW Merkur and the 407MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm

  • New Offshore Wind Investments Drop 60% in 2017

    6 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    Six projects worth EUR 7.5 billion reached Final Investment Decision (FID) last year – a 60% decrease from 2016 and the first decrease in investments since 2012 – according to WindEurope, which states that the transition to auctions has resulted in a lull in FIDs and that the auctions of the last two years are expected to lead to new project FIDs in 2018.

  • Reach to Remove Nine Piles at Wikinger

    27 July 2015

    Reach Subsea has signed a contract with Iberdrola Renovables Offshore Deutschland GmbH in Germany for the removal of nine piles at the Wikinger Wind Farm. Reach will execute the contract using Ocean Installer’s Normand Mermaid. Total contract duration is approximately two weeks. Sales and Marketing Manager Bård Thuen Høgheim says: “We are pleased to see that […]

  • Drydocks World Chairman, German Economics and Technology Minister Discuss Offshore Wind

    5 September 2012
    Authorities

    Mr. Khamis Juma Buamim, Chairman of Drydocks World and Maritime World, met Dr. Philip Roessler, Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, in Hamburg on the sidelines of SMM. The meeting was attended by Mr. Olaf Scholz, Mayor and President of the Senate of the City of Hamburg, Mr. Bernd Aovdrhid, President and CEO of Hamburg […]

  • UK: Njord Offshore Confirms Option for Two Crew Transfer Vessels

    1 August 2013

    Strategic Marine, a leading specialist shipbuilder in Asia, announced that Njord Offshore, UK fleet operator of Crew Transfer Vessels for the growing European offshore windfarm sector, has officially confirmed the option for two more high performance crew transfer and service vessels, taking the total order to eight vessels. Tom Mehew of Njord Offshore said: “The […]

  • Siemens Bags Six Offshore Wind Contracts for 1.4GW in 2011 (Germany)

    16 December 2011

    This calendar year, Siemens won six contracts for offshore wind farms with a total capacity of about 1.4 gigawatts (GW) – enough to supply clean electricity to more than 1.4 million homes. The latest success was the award of the Amrumbank West project in the North Sea, for Amrumbank West GmbH, a subsidiary of E.ON […]

  • TenneT Starts Laying NordLink Subsea Cables

    3 September 2018
    Grid Connection

    Transmission system operator TenneT has begun laying its NordLink subsea cable section in the German North Sea.

  • First Turbine Stands at Deutsche Bucht

    6 June 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord, MHI Vestas, and partners have installed the first V164-8.4MW wind turbine on the 269MW Deutsche Bucht wind farm in the German North Sea. The wind turbines are being transported from the Port of Esbjerg and installed at the site some 95km northwest of the Borkum Island by Van Oord’s jack-up Aeolus. “We are very […]

  • GICON Launches Digital Aerial Imagery System for OWFs

    12 March 2014
    R&D, Technology

    For the first time in Germany, GICON Group’s Institute of Applied Ecology (IfAÖ) is offering a digital airborne surveillance system to operators of offshore wind farms. The IfAÖ presented its Digital Aerial Imagery System by IfAÖ (DAISI) to interested customers on 6th March at Rostock-Laage Airport. With the help of a high-resolution dual camera installed […]

  • Amazon and Ørsted Sign Largest Offshore Wind Corporate Power Purchase Agreement in Europe

    10 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Amazon has signed a ten-year corporate power purchase agreement with Ørsted to offtake the output of 250 MW from Ørsted’s planned 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany. This CPPA will contribute to Amazon’s target of being 100 per cent renewable by 2030 as part of the company’s goal to reach net-zero […]

  • RWE Gathers EUR 2.6 Billion via innogy IPO

    21 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    German energy company RWE AG has earned a total of EUR 2.6 billion through the recently launched initial public offering (IPO) of its renewable energy spin-off innogy SE. At the beginning of October, RWE had placed 70,707,000 innogy shares on the market from its holdings for approximately EUR 2.5 billion as part of the innogy IPO. […]

  • IWES and Frazer-Nash Partner Up for Offshore Wind

    16 December 2019
    Business & Finance

    UK consultancy Frazer-Nash and the German Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate in the offshore wind energy market. The two parties signed the deal in Bremerhaven, Germany, under which they will work together on asset management and the research underpinning asset management good practice. According […]

  • Moog Opens New Center for Maintenance and Engineering Training (Germany)

    23 September 2011
    Training & Education

    Moog, a motion control solution provider and leading developer of pitch systems for wind turbines, today officially inaugurated its new Wind Training Center at an Opening Ceremony involving customers and partners in Unna, Germany. The 1,300 m² (14,000 ft²) facility is designed to provide technical training programs to Moog’s global wind energy customer base. A […]