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  • Statoil Picks MacGregor Mooring Systems for Hywind

    27 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Cargotec’s MacGregor has won an order for substructure connection mooring systems for Statoil’s Hywind pilot park in Scotland, the world’s first floating offshore wind farm. MacGregor will be responsible for the delivery of the Pusnes substructure mooring connection system for the project’s five floating wind turbines. “This contract represents a step change for MacGregor in […]

  • A look back at the development of OWC

    17 October 2016

    As we are gearing up for the Offshore WIND Conference (OWC) we want to take you back a couple of months to how we developed the program together with our OWC advisor and partner Chris Westra. Looking back we asked Westra to reminisce on the initial idea of the program. “Our starting point was to […]

  • DolWin6 Contracts Land on Siemens, Dragados Offshore, Nexans Desks

    17 July 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Siemens has received an order from TenneT to supply the entire technology for efficient direct-current transmission for DolWin6, a grid connection for offshore wind farms in the German waters of the North Sea. The order is valued at high three-digit millions euros range.

  • Crown Estate Accelerates Celtic Sea Floating Offshore Wind Surveys

    20 December 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, R&D

    The Crown Estate has announced the awarding of the first contracts for its first major investment in surveys to help with the construction of floating offshore wind farms in the Celtic Sea. The awarding of the first contracts marks an important step in what is anticipated to be a multi-million pound series of technical and […]

  • “Spin, Baby, Spin” (USA)

    24 December 2010

    With Rhode Island Sound now looming as the next frontier for wind development near the Vineyard, the Ocean State’s Gov. Donald Carcieri summed up his state’s energy policy this month with a single phrase: “Spin, baby, spin!” The governor spoke at Roger Williams University on Dec. 10 at a meeting of the Rhode Island/Massachusetts joint […]

  • Surveys Completed for Celtic Sea Floating Offshore Wind Projects

    1 March 2023
    R&D, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    N-Sea Group has finished a series of benthic and geophysical surveys for Llŷr 1 and Llŷr 2 floating offshore wind projects in the Celtic Sea. N-Sea conducted the offshore surveys using its N-Sea Spirit vessel, establishing a baseline ground model which will be developed as the project matures, Floventis Energy said, the developer of the […]

  • FoundOcean Breaks Company Record with 44 Personal Mobilised (UK)

    12 December 2011

    FoundOcean hit a milestone in its 45 year history in November, with a record number of personnel mobilised on offshore projects. “This is a very exciting and busy time for FoundOcean. The success of the company relies on the dedication and skill of our offshore personnel who provide our clients with the high quality, safe […]

  • Webinar: Going Dutch? Offshore Wind Opportunities in the Netherlands

    1 September 2016

    What are the latest offshore wind developments in the Netherlands, the country originally known for its strong heritage in traditional windmills? Find out in a webinar which will be organized by the Department for International Trade (DIT) Netherlands. During this webinar, you will get an overview of the current offshore wind situation, on the multiple […]

  • Dutch Explore Chinese Offshore Wind Potential

    26 May 2017

    This week, a Dutch offshore wind mission visited the Chinese provinces Guangdong and Fujian, as offshore wind in China is becoming more and more economically attractive.

  • Westermost Rough Reaches Full Power Output

    26 May 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Full power output has been achieved at the Westermost Rough offshore wind, located off the UK’s east coast. Westermost Rough is capable of generating up to 210 megawatts (MW) of electricity – enough to meet the annual electricity demands of well over 150,000 UK homes. It is the first offshore wind farm to make commercial […]

  • Norfolk Vanguard Offshore Construction to Start in Early 2020s

    30 March 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall will submit a planning application for its 1.8GW Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind farm to the UK Planning Inspectorate in 2018, with hope it will obtain an irrevocable consent in early 2020.  If all processes run as smoothly as expected and a final investment decision is taken, offshore construction can start in the early 2020s, according to Ruari Lean, […]

  • Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia Leader in Offshore Wind Energy, Says WAB

    19 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    North Rhine-Westphalia is leading the way in Germany when it comes to sales and employment in offshore wind energy. Offshore industry network WAB pointed this out at the “5th Wind Energy NRW Industry Day”. With a share of around 23% of sales in German sales, North Rhine-Westphalia is in front of other German states. “The […]

  • Vestas to Launch Act on Facts Campaign in UK and Ireland

    5 November 2013

    At tomorrow’s RenewableUK annual conference in Birmingham, Vestas will bring its innovative global campaign to the UK and Ireland, with an aim to separate rhetoric from reality and to channel public support towards actions that help wind energy. “The public debate about wind energy and green levies in the UK is too often being distorted […]

  • New Initiative by Sirris Builds Strategic Bridge Between Research and Business (Belgium)

    27 January 2012

    On 24th January, Sirris launched its fourth Application Lab, the Offshore Wind Infrastructure Application Lab (OWI-Lab), in the Port of Antwerp in the presence of more than 100 wind industry representatives. This lab will make state of the art measuring and test equipment available to businesses and start innovation projects in cooperation with these companies […]

  • USA: Denmark Shares Offshore Wind Knowledge with Maryland

    15 October 2013

      Denmark makes its expert knowledge available to the State of Maryland which plans to build an offshore wind farm off the US East Coast. Expanding deployment of renewables contributes to achieving the goals in President Obama’s Climate Plan. United States is the world’s second largest emitter of greenhouse gases. But President Obama wants with […]

  • Crown Estate: Scottish Govt’s Consents Another Milestone in Landmark Year for UK’s OW Industry

    10 October 2014
    Authorities

    The Crown Estate has welcomed the announcement today from Scottish Government that four offshore wind projects have been awarded planning consent, totalling a potential 2.284 GW capacity, enough to power around 1.4 million homes. Ronnie Quinn, Lead for Energy and Infrastructure in Scotland for The Crown Estate said: “Today’s consent announcements from Scottish Government are […]

  • UK Investors Buy Stake in World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    3 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Octopus Energy Generation, through a joint venture with GLIL Infrastructure, has agreed to acquire a 12.5 per cent stake in the 1.2 GW Hornsea One offshore wind farm from Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) for a total cash consideration of GBP 400 million (approximately EUR 480 million). Octopus Energy Generation’s fund management team made a GBP […]

  • Study: Offshore Wind Could Power 75% of UK Homes by 2030

    6 June 2017
    Business & Finance, R&D

    The UK has the most economically attractive offshore wind resources in Europe which could be expanded to almost five times its current level by 2030, a new study shows.

  • World’s Longest Interconnector Takes Off

    27 March 2015
    Grid Connection

    National Grid and Statnett, the Norwegian Transmission System Operator, yesterday signed the ownership agreement which signals the start of the construction phase for the 730 kilometre interconnector between UK and Norway. The NSN Link would be the first electricity interconnector between the two countries and has a planned capacity of 1400 MW – enough to […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Farm Offers a Glimpse into Pre-History

    15 November 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Archaeologists working for Vattenfall, the Swedish energy group developing Norfolk’s largest offshore wind farms, have recovered evidence in the North Sea which is hoped will tell a more detailed story of ‘Doggerland’, the submerged landscape which was flooded more than 8,000 years ago.

  • CCAN Comments Maryland’s Offshore Wind Announcement

    20 December 2013
    Environment

    Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) has commented the announcement on Maryland Wind Energy Area lease: On December 17th, 2013, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced that “Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau today joined Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley to announce the proposed notice […]

  • Deputy Prime Minister Outlines Plans for Green Investment Bank (UK)

    1 June 2011
    Business & Finance

    The Government has outlined its plans for a green investment bank which will start lending money to areas like offshore wind in 2012. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the institution would be the world’s first public bank dedicated to the green economy. The announcement at Climate Change Capital in London comes after reports in […]

  • SMC Bags Client Representative Contract for East Anglia One

    15 May 2018
    Contracts & Tenders

    ScottishPower Renewables has awarded Specialist Marine Consultants (SMC) with a client representative contract for the East Anglia One offshore wind farm in the UK.

  • UK: Gwynt y Môr Signs Contract for Major Components Installation

    3 April 2012

    GWYNT Y MÔR Offshore Wind Farm Limited has secured a major contract to begin the next stage of offshore construction off the North Wales coast. In a £multi-million deal with Seaway Heavy Lifting Limited of Cyprus, the heavy lift vessel, ‘Stanislav Yudin’ will operate in Liverpool Bay between April and December, 2012, to install major […]

  • UK: Wind Farm Announcement Boosts Shetland Wave Project

    6 April 2012

    The project partners behind Shetland’s first wave power scheme said that the Scottish Government decision to approve a major wind farm on the island gives the proposal a significant boost. The 10 megawatt (MW) Aegir Wave Power scheme, backed by European energy company Vattenfall and Edinburgh based technology developer Pelamis Wave Power (PWP), could only […]

  • Susie S & Freddie S Wrap Up Siemens Gigs

    8 December 2016
    Vessels

    Windwave Workboats’ wind farm support vessel Susie S is now tied up next to its sister vessel Freddie S in Grimsby for the winter, after completing work on a Siemens retrofit project on the Westermost Rough wind farm. A couple of months earlier, Freddie S returned from a job at the London Array offshore wind farm. […]