2945 results found for 'Hywind Scotland'

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  • Esvagt Alba SOV Arrives in Scotland, Getting Ready for Moray East OWF

    1 July 2021
    Vessels

    The service operations vessel (SOV) Esvagt Alba, which Havyard delivered to Esvagt a week ago, arrived in Fraserburgh, Scotland, on 1 July for final marine surveys before commencing work at the Moray East offshore wind farm, which will feature 100 Vestas turbines. Esvagt Alba is the second of three purpose-built SOVs that Esvagt has built […]

  • Statoil Cancels Wind Project Offshore Maine, USA

    16 October 2013
    Business & Finance

     The Norwegian energy company, Statoil, has decided to drop the offshore wind project off Maine’s coast, writes Press Herald. Statoil was planning to deploy four floating wind turbines offshore Boothbay Harbour. The main reason for Statoil to cancel this USD 120 million project was political uncertainty. Ola Morten Aanestad said for Press Herald that the […]

  • Onshore Consent Application Submitted for 100 MW Salamander Floating Wind Farm

    2 October 2024
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure, Planning & Permitting

    Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea7, through their joint venture partnership in Scotland, have submitted their consent applications for the onshore aspects of the proposed Salamander floating offshore wind farm. The first submission has been made to Aberdeenshire Council for the onshore substation and associated infrastructure and has been accepted, according to the joint venture. […]

  • Final WindFloat Atlantic Turbine Ready to Go Home

    19 May 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The last of the three floating wind turbines for the WindFloat Atlantic project will soon set sail from Spain to its designated location off Portugal. Tractebel Engie reported on 17 May that it fully assembled the third WindFloat Atlantic platform in the port of Ferrol.  The turbine should start its journey to the site off […]

  • Ocergy Foundation Technology Picked for Salamander Pre-FEED Design

    28 October 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    A joint venture between Simply Blue Group, Subsea 7, and Ørsted has awarded Ocergy with a pre-FEED foundation design contract for its 100 MW Salamander floating offshore wind project in Scotland. Last year, Salamander signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ocergy to evaluate its foundation design for the development in northeast Scotland. The project […]

  • New Floating Wind Partnership Enters Auction Offshore Norway

    3 February 2022
    Contracts & Tenders

    Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) and Agder Energi, a Norwegian power utility, have formed a partnership to bid for a floating offshore wind project at Utsira Nord, in the Norwegian North Sea. The 1.5 GW Utsira Nord is one of two areas the Norwegian Government opened to licensing applications for offshore wind development. With deep […]

  • Second Moray West Substation Platform Touches Down

    13 February 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The second offshore substation platform (OSP) has been installed at the Moray West offshore wind farm site in Scotland. The first OSP was installed in December 2023 by Boskalis’ DP installation vessel Bokalift 1 which also mounted the second OSP on its foundations on 10 January, according to a notice of operations from the project. […]

  • SSE Awards Inspection Framework Agreement for Beatrice and Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farms

    23 February 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    SSE has awarded UK-based Stowen a framework agreement to provide inspection services to the Beatrice and Greater Gabbard offshore wind farms in the UK. Following a successful tender process, Stowen was awarded the frameworks requiring inspection services to cover offshore foundations for the 588 MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in Scotland alongside Greater Gabbard onshore […]

  • Offshore Construction Starting Soon at Moray West Site

    27 September 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The installation of monopile foundations at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland is expected to start on 1 October. The work will be carried out by the vessel Bokalift 2, under a contract Boskalis signed with the developer Ocean Winds at the beginning of this year. Monopile installation is part of […]

  • Google Buys Scottish Offshore Wind Power

    24 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    ENGIE and Google have entered into a 12-year, 100 MW corporate power purchase agreement (CPPA) supporting the Moray West offshore wind development in Scotland. ENGIE will provide Google with more than 5 TWh of green power from the Moray West project, a nearly 900 MW offshore wind farm set to begin generating power from 2025. […]

  • VIDEO: Alstom Presents Tidal Stream Power

    17 April 2013
    Technology

    Following its recent acquisition of Tidal Generation Limited from Rolls-Royce, Alstom’s 1MW tidal turbine generated power for the first time at the European Marine Energy Centre’s (EMEC) tidal test site in Orkney, Scotland, in March. It is the second Alstom tidal turbine generating power to the grid. This milestone positions Alstom at the forefront of […]

  • Natural Power’s Decade of Construction Experience Called Upon for Good Practice Wind Farm Guide (UK)

    21 December 2010

    Steve Pears, Director of Construction at renewable energy consultancy Natural Power, has been called upon for the ‘Good Practice During Windfarm Construction’ as part of a working group comprising representatives from SNH, SEPA, Scottish Renewables, FCS, and several member companies with extensive windfarm construction experience. Natural Power has fed a decade of construction experience into […]

  • Geotechnical Survey on Neart na Gaoithe to Start

    10 December 2013
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Mainstream Renewable Power is undertaking planned survey work on the Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm site from Thursday December 12th 2013 (earliest) for approximately 26 days. The work relates to the site of the proposed 450MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm which is located in the outer Forth Estuary approximately 15 km to […]

  • Roxtec Safeguards Beatrice Cables

    24 April 2018

    Roxtec has delivered a package of cable sealing solutions for the Beatrice offshore wind farm off Scotland, including fireproof and watertight seals to secure high voltage cables on the two transformer modules.

  • Minister Fergus Ewing Launches Energy North (Scotland)

    5 June 2011
    Authorities

    New energy, enterprise and tourism minister and Inverness and Nairn MSP Fergus Ewing officially launched ENERGY NORTH, the region’s leading organisation for energy and engineering business, in Invergordon on Friday (June 3) as one of his first public events in the new Scottish Government. The event was held at the Kincraig Castle Hotel and was […]

  • Norway: ANDRITZ Increases Stake in Hammerfest Strøm

    7 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    International technology Group ANDRITZ increased its stake in Hammerfest Strøm AS from 33.3% to 55.4%. The other major shareholders are the local Norwegian utility company Hammerfest Energi and the Spanish utility company Iberdrola. The company will operate under the name of ANDRITZ HYDRO Hammerfest in the future and is a world market leader in technologies […]

  • First Neart na Gaoithe Export Cable Installed

    18 June 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The first of two export cables has been installed at the nearshore of Thorntonloch Beach as part of the construction of the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind project in Scotland. The offshore cable was transported to the nearshore area of Thorntonloch Beach by Prysmian’s 124-meter long cable laying vessel Cable Enterprise. The onshore winch […]

  • UK: Marine Renewables Play Key Role in All-Energy 2012

    14 May 2012

    All-Energy, the UK’s largest exhibition and conference dedicated to renewable energy being held in Aberdeen on Wednesday 23- Thursday 24 May, is just over a week away. Not surprisingly in a city – The Energy City – where offshore interests (oil, gas and fishing) are so important, marine renewables in the form of offshore wind, […]

  • Nautricity Gets Approval for Mull of Kintyre Tidal Development

    23 May 2014
    Authorities

    Nautricity, the renewable energy company, has been given the go-ahead to develop one of the UK’s first ‘next generation’ tidal energy schemes in waters off the Mull of Kintyre. Marine Scotland has given consent for the deployment of the first Contra Rotating Marine Turbine (CoRMaT) device, capable of generating enough electricity to supply 400 homes, […]

  • Lamprell to Close Sharjah Yard after Moray East Work Done

    14 April 2020
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    The UAE-based Lamprell plans to close its Sharjah facility after completing the portion of work on the Moray East offshore wind project currently carried out at the location. Lamprell already mothballed the Jebel Ali facility in January 2020. The Sharjah yard will close later this year. The Hamriyah yard, the company’s largest facility, will remain […]

  • UK: GBP 2.8 Bn Renewable Energy Investment During Economic Downturn

    10 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    While many companies and traditional industries have struggled, Scotland’s renewable electricity industry has delivered capital investment of some £2.8bn since the beginning of 2009, according to new figures from Scottish Renewables. The figures are part of a new series of statistics ‘Scotland’s Renewable Energy Sector in Numbers’ published online this week.  Niall Stuart, Chief Executive […]

  • BiFab Crisis Continues with No Money Left for Staff Wages

    14 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    The BiFab management informed trade unions on 13 November that there was no money to pay the wages of their staff. Problems that led BiFab to being a few steps away from going into administration have emerged from a dispute over payments with Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL), who awarded BiFab with the fabrication of 26 Beatrice jacket foundations. 

  • Swire Blue Ocean to Install Beatrice’s Turbines

    8 June 2016
    Vessels

    Swire Blue Ocean has signed a contract with Siemens to provide a wind farm installation vessel for the installation of 84 Siemens 7MW wind turbines at the Beatrice offshore wind farm. The company said the latest contract adds to the pipeline of projects that it has secured for its fleet of wind farm installation vessels, namely Pacific Osprey […]

  • First Power Flows from 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm in Scotland

    18 October 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm, located 15.5 kilometres off the coast of Fife, Scotland, has started generating power into the national grid. When complete, the offshore wind farm will consist of 54 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbines generating up to 450 MW of renewable energy, enough to power 375,000 […]

  • TP Installation Coming Up at Moray West; Apollo, Orion Join Bokalift 2 on Foundation Work

    10 January 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The installation of transition pieces (TPs) at Scotland’s Moray West offshore wind farm is expected to start on or around 23 January. The TPs will be installed by DEME’s installation vessel Apollo and the company’s vessel Orion will later also arrive at the site to undertake monopile installation. Later this month, Apollo will start placing […]

  • Dajin Heavy Industry Rolls Out First Inch Cape Monopiles

    16 June 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Manufacturing, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Dajin Heavy Industry has produced the first three monopiles for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm, the company said on 16 June, a few days after CNOOD-Wenchong Heavy Industries (CWHI) announced it had completed the first monopiles from the batch it is delivering for the 1 GW project in Scotland. Dajin cut the first steel for […]