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  • Thailand’s Gulf Officially Takes 50 Per Cent Stake in German Offshore Wind Farm

    25 September 2020
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Thailand’s Gulf Energy Development Public Company Limited has officially taken over the 50 per cent stake in the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm from Global Infrastructure Partners. In July, Gulf acquired 50 per cent shares of Borkum Riffgrund 2 Investor Holding (BKR2) through its subsidiary Gulf International Holding (GIH) which entered into a share […]

  • Vestas Remains on Top of Turbine OEMs List

    23 February 2015

    Vestas holds the first place on FTI Intelligence’s preliminary rankings for the world’s top five wind turbine original equipment manufacturers. According to the report, the Danish company remains in the lead for the second year running with a significant margin over the competition. Authored by members of the FTI-CL Energy practice the report will be […]

  • Areva: UK Companies Should Use Current German Offshore Wind Market

    10 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    As Areva prepares for its meet-the-buyer event at OrbisEnergy on October 23, the company advises wind industry suppliers to use the German offshore wind market now, in order to get the UK’s Round 3 contracts more easily.  Head of the Areva’s UK wind sector, Julian Brown, is quoted by the EDP24 news site as saying […]

  • Germany: HOCHTIEF Conducts Rescue Exercise on Global Tech I

    15 October 2013
    Training & Education

    At the end of September HOCHTIEF Solutions conducted a first comprehensive offshore rescue exercise in a construction site in the North Sea (Global Tech I). Together with its partners, the team from the Civil Engineering Marine and Offshore branch practiced all processes related to the emergency rescue and the transportation of a severely injured offshore […]

  • Ballast Nedam Signs EUR 250m Contract for Butendiek Offshore Wind Farm (Germany)

    2 September 2011

      Ballast Nedam has signed a l contract around 250 million Euro with wpd for the engineering, supply and installation of 80 foundations at the Butendiek offshore wind farm in Germany. The Butendiek offshore wind farm is located in the German Bight, 32 kilometer west of the German island Sylt. It is expected that financial […]

  • SeaRenergy to Participate in Windforce 2014

    16 May 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    This year the team of SeaRenergy will have its own booth for the first time at the Windforce 2014, which will take place from 17 – 19 June 2014 in Bremen, Germany. The company’s specialists of the fields of offshore personnel, logistics, engineering and HSE will be located at the booth. In April, SeaRenergy positioned the BorWin […]

  • BWE Announces Wind Energy and Development Dialogue in Berlin, Germany

    19 September 2012

    ‘Financing wind power in emerging markets – Smart policies and beyond’ is the topic of the 7th Wind Energy and Development Dialogue on Wednesday 26 September 2012 in Berlin. In 2010, emerging markets overtook OECD economies in terms of financial new investments in renewables. Obstacles remain especially in terms of wind project finance. The 7th […]

  • Iberdrola Close to Selecting Main Contractors for German Offshore Wind Projects

    23 July 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Spanish energy company Iberdrola is finalizing the selection of the main contractors for the Baltic Eagle and Wikinger Süd offshore wind projects in the German Baltic Sea. The 476 MW Baltic Eagle and the 10 MW Wikinger Süd were selected in the second public tender organised by Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) in April 2018. As previously […]

  • COWI to Design Arcadis Ost 1 Foundations

    18 September 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Parkwind has awarded COWI with a contract to design the foundations for the turbines and offshore substation of the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in Germany. COWI’s Hamburg office is in charge of the geotechnical design, loads calculations, primary and secondary steel design, limit state verification, and all activities pertaining to the approval of the design. According […]

  • Steelwind Nordenham Starts Rolling Yunlin Steel

    4 September 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    German offshore foundations manufacturer Steelwind Nordenham has started manufacturing monopiles and monopile sections for the 640MW Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Steelwind rolled the first can at its facility in Nordenham on 11 July. High strength steel plate material is supplied by Steelwind’s parent company Dillinger Hütte, the company said. In total, Steelwind will manufacture […]

  • UK Wind Conditions Affect Iberdrola’s 2016 Results

    23 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    Even though Iberdrola’s overall gross operating profit (EBITDA) improved by 5.5% in 2016 compared to the year before, the company yesterday reported an 8.9% decrease in its renewables business EBITDA, driven by weaker performance in the UK due to foreign exchange and lower wind resource throughout the year.

  • Dutch Pension Fund Takes Stake in German OWF

    18 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Dutch pension fund manager PGGM is taking part in the new German offshore wind farm Baltic 2. PGGM will invest in the project alongside Macquarie Capital, who agreed to acquire a 49.89 percent stake in the project earlier this year.   This investment is in line with the ambition of PGGM’s clients to use pension money […]

  • Norstec Academy Students Dive Deep into Offshore Wind Industry

    14 July 2014
    Training & Education

    Wind Energy, Northern Germany, and Universität Oldenburg’s Post Graduate Programme Renewable Energy (PPRE) have been on a journey together for the past 30 years. Passionate students are encouraged to realize every opportunity they have to push forward for a sustainable future. Paul Lawson from the USA, a second semester masters student specializing in Wind Energy, […]

  • Further Delay of Liability Law Jeopardizes German Jobs, Says WAB

    22 August 2012
    Authorities, Jobs & Recruitment

    The offshore industry network WAB urges Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner to abandon the resistance to the law on the liability regime for offshore wind farms. The further delay of the law jeopardizes investment and jobs in Germany, said the industry association WAB in Bremerhaven. A study of the MCA along with the consulting firm […]

  • Attollo Offshore Begins Borkum Riffgrund 2 Duty

    9 August 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Attollo Offshore has mobilized the jack-up accommodation vessel Atlantic Amsterdam for Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Top News of the Week, 28 Nov – 04 Dec 2016

    4 December 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Germany Confirms Offshore Grid Development Plan by 2025 German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has confirmed a plan for the offshore grid development by 2025 (Offshore-Netzentwicklungsplan 2025), which regulates the connections of wind farms in the North and Baltic Seas to the German transmission network. Portugal Okays 25MW WindFloat Atlantic The Council of Ministers in Portugal […]

  • Rotork Valve Actuation Supports Borwin Alpha Platform (Germany)

    26 January 2012

    The Borwin Alpha platform is the first offshore installation designed to convert AC power into high voltage direct current (HVDC) for onward transmission. Built and designed by the Heerema Fabrication Group on behalf of ABB, the facility can transfer a power of 400MW at a bipolar voltage of 150kV. The converted current is carried by […]

  • Germany: Nordic Yards Recognized as One of Most Innovative Companies

    7 July 2013
    Technology

    On 5th July, Nordic Yards has been awarded one of Germany’s most innovative companies. At a ceremony for the Top 100 companies at the Axel Springer Passage centre in Berlin, journalist and TV host Ranga Yogeshwar presented Nordic Yards’ managing director Vitaly Yusufov with the Top 100 prize for innovation. Nordic Yards is one of […]

  • Offshore Wind Noise Reduction Test for Marine Mammals off Travemünde (Germany)

    8 August 2011
    Environment

    Eight builders and operators of German offshore wind farms will test various noise reduction methods for the construction of offshore wind farms as from 13 August of this year. This series of tests will be conducted on the so-called “Brodtener Pfahl” near Brodten off Travemünde. Every 2 days a tug boat with work pontoon and […]

  • MAKE: 144GW of Wind Power to Be Commissioned in Europe by 2024

    9 October 2015

    Following a 7.7% market growth in 2014 compared to 2013, the European market is expected to expand by another 8.7% in 2015 in a policy-induced rush to build, which will lead to record numbers. MAKE expects more than 144GW of wind power capacity to be commissioned in Europe from 2015 to 2024. Northern Europe will […]

  • Vattenfall Exercises Step-In Right for Offshore Wind Site Germany Provisionally Awarded to RWE

    14 September 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates

    Vattenfall today (14 September) informed the German Federal Network Agency (BSH) that it is invoking its right of entry for the N-6.6 offshore wind site that BSH provisionally awarded to RWE last month. Vattenfall, which holds a step-in right for the site following changes to the German offshore wind tendering process, had until today to notify […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Rolls Out First 11 MW Wind Turbine Nacelle

    14 January 2022
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The first serially-manufactured SG 11.0-200 DD nacelle left the Siemens Gamesa factory hall in Cuxhaven on Friday, 14 January. The factory has been converted and upgraded for the new product generation over several months since the summer. Now serial production has started and the first turbine has been assembled. ”Rolling out the first serially-manufactured SG […]

  • Navantia Wins EUR 160 Mln Wikinger OWF Contract

    19 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    IBERDROLA and Navantia have entered into an agreement valued at €160 million, under the terms of which the shipbuilding firm will be completing work for the Wikinger offshore wind farm in Germany at its facilities in Puerto Real (Cádiz) and Fene (A Coruña). The contract is one of the largest awarded to date by IBERDROLA […]

  • Mainstream Welcomes Signing of Ireland-UK Intergovernmental Energy Export MoU

    24 January 2013
    Authorities, Grid Connection

    Mainstream Renewable Power, the global wind and solar company set up by Eddie O’Connor, which is behind the 5,000MW Energy Bridge export plan, has welcomed today’s Memorandum of Understanding between the British and Irish governments to export Irish wind power to the UK. Commenting on the signing, Mainstream’s Chief Executive Eddie O’Connor said: “Today is […]

  • Boskalis to Wire Ørsted’s German Offshore Wind Farms

    10 November 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has awarded Boskalis with the inter-array cable installation contract for the Borkum Riffgrund 3 and Gode Wind 3 offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. The contract includes the transport, installation, and burial of a combined total of 106 inter-array cables, the Netherlands-based company said. Prysmian will supply more than 150 kilometres of […]

  • Kriegers Flak OWF Generating Electricity for Danish Households

    29 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, where half of the turbines have been installed so far, is already generating electricity for Danish households and has contributed to Vattenfall’s Q1 2021 results. The developer reported a decrease in electricity generation in the first quarter of the year as a result of lower […]