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  • Highlights of the Month – July 2020

    3 August 2020

    We bring you the ten most-read articles on OffshoreWIND.biz for the month of July 2020. Blade Crashes Into Apollo’s Gangway Offshore Belgium A blade from one of SeaMade’s wind turbines collided with the gangway on DEME Group’s jack-up Apollo at the beginning of July, after which the gangway detached from the vessel and fell into the […]

  • Ørsted Extends Its Offshore Wind Collaboration with Hitachi Energy

    7 September 2023
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Hitachi Energy and the Danish renewable energy developer, Ørsted, have extended their long-standing collaboration for offshore wind farms for three more years. Under the extended framework agreement, Hitachi Energy will continue to support Ørsted’s global offshore wind farms. At a visit to Hitachi Energy’s factory in Ludvika in Sweden, Ørsted’s country head of Sweden, Sebastian […]

  • Ørsted Completes Exec Team Overhaul

    27 February 2024
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted’s Group Executive Team will see Trond Westlie and Patrick Harnett joining on 1 April following Ørsted’s Board of Directors appointing Westlie as the next Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the Executive Board, and Harnett as the Chief Operational Officer (COO) on 27 February. The appointments follow a decision from November last […]

  • Havfram Secures Offshore Wind Turbine Transport Contract for 1.6 GW Project in Germany

    13 April 2023
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    RWE and Northland Power have selected Havfram Wind as the preferred supplier for the transport of wind turbines for their Nordseecluster development, a 1.6 GW offshore wind cluster comprising four offshore wind farm sites in the German sector of the North Sea. Starting in 2026, the Norwegian company will transport and support the installation of […]

  • Siemens to build wind turbine production plant in the UK

    29 March 2010
    Technology

    Siemens Energy is to build a new production plant for offshore wind turbines in the UK. With the new plant Siemens wants to meet the growing demand for wind turbines for British offshore projects. As world market leader in the offshore sector Siemens has already successfully implemented eleven projects with a combined capacity in excess […]

  • Octopus Energy to Pour Billions in Offshore Wind Globally by 2030

    24 July 2023
    Business & Finance

    UK green energy supplier Octopus Energy Group has announced that it will invest, through its generation arm, USD 20 billion (about GBP 15 billion) into offshore wind by 2030. The company said that this will go towards the generation of 12 GW of renewable electricity a year, enough to power 10 million homes. Octopus is targeting projects […]

  • Ørsted Devising ‘Band-Aid’ Solution for EUR 403 Million Cable Issue

    15 June 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted is developing a solution that could potentially save the company from spending as much as EUR 403 million to repair damaged inter-array cables across up to ten of its offshore wind farms. As previously reported, Ørsted discovered an issue with Cable Protection Systems (CPSs) on the Race Bank wind farm off the UK earlier […]

  • Deep Wind Welcomes New Offshore Wind Investor

    7 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Offshore wind developer, Deep Wind Offshore, has secured Octopus Energy as a new investor to accelerate international expansion and strengthen Norwegian projects, according to the company. Octopus Energy will join the ownership side of the company, Deep Wind Offshore said, together with the existing industrial owners Knutsen OAS, Haugaland Kraft, and SKL. Deep Wind Offshore […]

  • Aker Offshore Wind, Aker Horizons to Complete Merger This Month

    15 June 2022
    Business & Finance

    The merger between Aker Offshore Wind (AOW) and Aker Horizons is expected to be completed after close of trading on the Oslo Stock Exchange on 17 June, which accordingly will be the last day of trading in the AOW shares on Euronext Growth Oslo, the company said in its latest trading update. As announced on […]

  • Norway to Get Floating Wind Foundation Production and Assembly Facility

    17 August 2023
    Business & Finance, Floating Wind

    Norwegian company WindWorks Jelsa, established in 2020, and Swiss construction company Implenia have signed an investment and a shareholders’ agreement to develop a production and assembly facility for large concrete or steel structures for the floating wind industry on Norway’s west coast.  The aim for WindWorks Jelsa’s facility, planned to be built at Jelsa in […]

  • Siemens Gamesa, Ørsted Link Up with UK Universities to Boost Wind Turbine Efficiency

    23 March 2023
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, R&D, Technology

    A major collaboration between universities and energy companies has made “vital” improvements to offshore wind turbines, which could help them generate more renewable energy and reduce the UK’s reliance on fossil fuels. The GBP 7.7 million partnership between the Universities of Sheffield, Durham, Hull, and two global energy companies, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and Ørsted, […]

  • Offshore Wind Demonstrates Unprecedented Cost Cuts

    11 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    After the UK government awarded three offshore wind projects with Contracts for Difference (CfDs), RenewableUK and Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult commented on the news, highlighting the major decline in the cost of offshore wind.

  • Ofgem Shortlists Four Bidders for GBP 2 Billion Offshore Wind Transmission Assets

    28 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Ofgem has shortlisted four potential bidders for its next Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO) bidding round for three offshore transmission links worth an estimated GBP 2 billion (about EUR 2.3 billion). In the “most valuable” OFTO tender round ever run by Ofgem, a new bidder has joined three others in a competition to own and operate […]

  • Europe Entering Record-Breaking Offshore Wind Streak

    21 April 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    New offshore wind capacity additions in Europe are poised to hit a record high of 4.2 GW this year, topping 4 GW for the first time and more than doubling additions seen in 2021, Rystad Energy research shows. The continent’s capacity additions in 2022 will top the previous annual record of 3.8 GW set in […]

  • UK: RES Offshore Signs O&M Contract for Met Masts in Dogger Bank Round 3 Zone

    8 August 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    RES Offshore has recently signed an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) services contract with Forewind for two met masts in the Dogger Bank Round 3 zone.  These met masts are the furthest offshore of any in the UK and RES will be delivering scheduled and unscheduled maintenance for the structures and instrumentation systems including all work […]

  • Developers Unveil Plans for Wind Farm off East Yorkshire Coast (UK)

    11 November 2011

    PLANS for a huge wind farm to be built off the East Yorkshire coast have been unveiled to the public reports the Grimsby Telegraph. With the firm behind the scheme promising hundreds of jobs to people in North East Lincolnshire if the scheme goes ahead. Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures are leading the […]

  • Octopus Energy Buys Stake in 660 MW Wind Farm Offshore UK

    27 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Octopus Energy’s generation arm has taken a 12.5 per cent stake in the 660 MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm located in England. Octopus Energy bought the stake in Walney Extension from AIP Management, the investment manager for Danish pension fund PKA and PFA. The wind farm features 87 wind turbines, each taller than the […]

  • Edinburgh Airport Partners with Ørsted to Use Hydrogen Produced from Offshore Wind

    22 October 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Edinburgh Airport has teamed up with the world’s largest offshore wind developer Ørsted to reach net-zero by 2040 by using green technologies, including new hydrogen-fuels produced at scale from offshore wind farms, to eliminate carbon emissions from the airport and the aircraft that operate from it. Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 21 October, […]

  • Sif Pairs Skybox Foundation with Get Up Safe System

    6 April 2022
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Dutch offshore foundations manufacturer Sif has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Pict Offshore to integrate the Get Up Safe (GUS) system, as standard, into its Skybox TP-less monopile foundation. The GUS system is a heave compensated personnel lifting solution that is said to transform the way in which maintenance technicians access offshore wind […]

  • CIP Joins NorSea, Parkwind Floating Offshore Wind Alliance, Targets Utsira Nord Bid

    2 February 2023
    Contracts & Tenders

    Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have announced that they will join NorSea and Parkwind in a partnership dedicated to developing floating offshore wind projects in Norway. In doing so, the companies will further strengthen their consortium initially targeting the 1.5 GW Utsira Nord tender. The partners said that the group aims to participate when Norway realises […]

  • Highlights of the Month – January 2020

    3 February 2020

    The Offshore WIND team brings you the ten most-read news on the site in the first month of 2020.

  • World’s First Offshore Wind Farm Disappears from Horizon (Video)

    6 September 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy has completed the decommissioning of the world’s first offshore wind farm, the 4.95MW Vindeby built in the Danish Baltic Sea near the island of Lolland in 1991.

  • UK Missing out on Investment in Manufacturing, Specialist Says

    12 August 2015

    The UK is missing out on vital investment in manufacturing to support offshore wind to Germany and other countries because of the current lack of clarity in the government’s future strategy for offshore wind, an industry champion claims. Germany and other countries are being allowed to surge ahead threatening the UK’s position as world leader […]

  • Ørsted and POSCO Form Offshore Wind and Hydrogen Pact in Korea

    27 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted and POSCO Group, one of the largest conglomerates in Korea, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen collaboration on offshore wind and renewable hydrogen in Korea. POSCO and its affiliates will apply the group’s joint capabilities to support the development of Ørsted’s 1.6 GW offshore wind projects off the coast of Incheon […]

  • ITPEnergised Merges with Xero Energy

    4 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    UK-based consultancy companies ITPEnergised and Xero Energy informed on 31 May that they had merged to provide environmental, grid, electrical and engineering services to the energy, transport, property and construction sectors in the UK and overseas.

  • Parsons Brinckerhoff Targets Humber Offshore Wind Through THMA (UK)

    18 October 2011

    One of the world’s leading engineering consultancies and energy specialists is targeting the Humber region because of its increasing importance as a renewable energy hub. Parsons Brinckerhoff, part of the Balfour Beatty group, has joined Team Humber Marine Alliance (THMA) as its latest member ahead of a concerted move by the industry to develop new […]