2915 results found for 'Hywind Scotland'

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  • French Floating Wind Pilot Project Stands Complete

    12 October 2023
    Floating Wind, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The third and final wind turbine of the Provence Grand Large floating offshore wind project was installed 17 kilometres off the coast of Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, France. Less than a month after the first departure from the Port of Marseille Fos, the other two wind turbines were in turn towed offshore and anchored at a depth of […]

  • Catapult Releases Floating Wind Findings

    24 June 2015

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has issued interim findings from a report into a technology assessment of floating wind, reviewing in excess of 30 devices across various levels of technology readiness and providing a detailed appraisal of the three most established concepts. The interim report highlights where these devices are on the technology and […]

  • Buchan Floating Wind Project Submits Offshore Scoping Report to Scottish Marine Directorate

    2 October 2023
    Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Buchan Offshore Wind, a consortium comprising BayWa r.e., Elicio, and BW Ideol, has submitted the Offshore Scoping Report for the 1 GW Buchan floating offshore wind farm to the Scottish Government’s Marine Directorate. This represents the project’s first major step within the consenting process, the consortium says. The report contains project details and the approach […]

  • McCaffery Welcomes Plans for Jobs Boost

    30 March 2012

    ReneweableUK, the trade association representing the wind, wave and tidal energy industries, has warmly welcomed announcement by the wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa that it plans to build a huge manufacturing base in the UK, employing more than 800 people. Blades and nacelles, which include the key components to generate electricity in offshore wind turbines, will […]

  • Inch Cape Completes LiDAR Campaign

    18 June 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Inch Cape Offshore Limited (ICOL) has completed a three-year LiDAR measurement campaign for the proposed 784MW Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland.

  • Ørsted Probing Swedish Offshore Wind Sites

    3 February 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Leading offshore wind developer Ørsted plans to start a consultation process on the Skåne offshore wind project in Sweden this spring. The project is in an early development phase and the consultation is part of the permitting procedure, Ørsted said. The wind farm covers an area of around 450 square kilometres located some 22 kilometres […]

  • UK Company to Provide Refurbishment Services to Ørsted’s Wind Turbine Ops

    8 March 2023
    Operations & Maintenance

    World’s leading offshore wind developer Ørsted has signed a collaborative agreement with UK-based Renewable Parts for parts refurbishment services for its offshore wind turbine operations. Initially focused on Ørsted’s UK operations, Renewable Parts will work with Ørsted to increase the volume of parts reused within offshore operations, developing technology that could increase sustainability and reduce the […]

  • Cable Works at Moray East in Full Swing

    5 November 2020
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Inter-array cable testing and termination will start at the Moray East offshore wind farm around 11 November, with the first of the two campaigns for this work scheduled to commence then. The testing and termination works will be carried out from the wind turbines and offshore substation platforms at the project site some 22 kilometres […]

  • UK: Steel Engineering Clasps SHI’s Offshore Wind Contract

    3 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Steel fabricator Steel Engineering, headquartered in the west of Scotland, has clasped a deal from Korean group Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to produce offshore jackets and ensure steelwork for a wind turbine generator system under development at the Energy Park at Methil, Fife, the Scotsman informs. In addition, the deal purports provision of post-delivery on-site […]

  • Global Offshore to Wire Kincardine Floating Wind Farm

    9 March 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Global Offshore, part of the Global Marine Group, has secured a contract with Spain’s Grupo Cobra for cable installation and burial at the Kincardine floating wind farm offshore Scotland. Utilising specialist cable installation vessel the Normand Clipper, the latest addition to its fleet, Global Offshore will install one export and five inter-array cables at the […]

  • Seagreen Readies to Deliver First Power, Onshore Cables In Place

    17 June 2022
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The 1.1 GW Seagreen offshore wind farm has reached a significant milestone with the installation of approximately 19 kilometres of onshore cabling that will connect the GBP 3 billion project to the Scottish national grid. The onshore cable route runs between landfall at the coast of Carnoustie and the wind farm’s new substation at Tealing […]

  • SgurrEnergy Opens SgurrControlCentre in Glasgow

    30 November 2016

    Scotland’s Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy, Paul Wheelhouse, yesterday unveiled a plaque at SgurrControlCentre, SgurrEnergy’s newly upgraded control centre in Glasgow, a technical support hub from which the company will carry out asset management for renewable energy projects. The SgurrControlCentre is manned by a team of operational controllers who provide round-the-clock control, monitoring and management […]

  • RES Offshore Wins Moray Wind Farm Contract

    15 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    RES Offshore has won a contract with Moray Offshore Renewables Limited – a joint venture between EDP Renewables and Repsol Nuevas Energias UK – to provide management contractor services for the first project within the Moray Firth Round 3 zone, located off the north-east coast of Scotland. RES Offshore’s expertise will contribute to ongoing Front […]

  • Seagreen Gets OK for Onshore Cable Route

    19 June 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The Angus Council has approved two applications relating to the underground cable route of the Seagreen offshore wind project in Scotland. The decisions, made at the council’s Development Standards Committee meeting, will allow for works to begin along the consented cable route from landfall at Carnoustie to Tealing. According to SSE, the works are expected […]

  • Governor Martin O’Malley to Boost Green Jobs With New Offshore Wind Proposal (USA)

    21 February 2011
    Authorities, Jobs & Recruitment

    Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley wasn’t tilting at windmills when he recently announced a plan to ramp up offshore wind power. By Brandi Colander (washingtonpost) [mappress] Source: washingtonpost, February 21, 2011

  • Neart na Gaoithe Export Cables Hooked Up to OSS Jackets

    15 September 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Offshore export cables for the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm have been hooked up onto the project’s two offshore substation (OSS) jacket foundations. The export cable hook up and burial campaign was completed on 2 September with the cables laid by the cable laying vessel Cable Enterprise and buried into the seabed by Normand […]

  • Briggs Marine Providing Walk-to-Work Services at Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm

    30 August 2022
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Briggs Marine has been appointed to provide walk-to-work and crew transfer vessel coordination services during the construction and commissioning of the two Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore substations. The contract for walk-to-work support comes a few months after the Fife-based company secured work on crew transfer vessel (CTV) services on the same project. Briggs Marine […]

  • Burgess Marine Hands Over 25m Vessel to Mainprize Offshore

    17 June 2015
    Vessels

    Burgess Marine has completed a £3m contract for the first of a new generation of offshore support vessels. The company has built the craft for Mainprize Offshore at its shipyard at Trafalgar Wharf in Portchester, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK. The 25-metre boat, the MO2, was delivered at the Seawork 2015 commercial marine and workboat conference […]

  • Scottish Company Completes Formosa 4 Site Characterization Survey in Taiwan

    9 July 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Scotland-headquartered Sulmara has completed a site characterization survey for the Formosa 4 offshore wind project in Taiwan, developed by Synera Renewable Energy (SRE). To overcome challenging environmental site conditions, Sulmara said it employed an industry-first, multi-platform approach running the sensors to meet the specified data coverage and data quality requirements. “When we began assessing the […]

  • Briggs Marine Lands Neart na Gaoithe CTV Contract

    20 June 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    UK-based Briggs Marine has won a contract to deliver crew transfer vessel (CTV) services to the 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) wind farm offshore Scotland. Under the contract, the company will utilise its Damen Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2610 vessel Forth Engineer to provide transfer of technicians to turbines, substations, and construction vessels as […]

  • Wescott Industrial Services Preps Beatrice OTM Steel

    13 March 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The UK-based Wescott Industrial Services has completed the preparation and coating of the steel surfaces for the Siemens Offshore Transformer Modules (OTM) to be used on the Beatrice offshore wind farm.

  • Court Rules against MT Højgaard for Robin Rigg Work

    18 April 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The High Court of London has found MT Højgaard liable for the grouted connections on E.ON’s 180MW Robin Rigg Wind Farm. The company will seek permission to appeal the ruling, but the ruling will have a negative effect on the financial result for 2014. In 2007-2008, MT Højgaard designed, manufactured and installed foundations for the Robin Rigg Wind Farm off […]

  • Fugro Gearing Up for UXO Hunt at Beatrice

    22 August 2016
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Fugro is getting ready to carry out a survey for unexploded ordnance (UXO) across the development zone of the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm located in the Outer Moray Firth off the east coast of Scotland. Fugro will deploy three survey vessels,  Fugro Helmert, Fugro Frontier, and Meridian to carry out the survey, Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL), the developer of […]

  • Update: E.ON Approved to Appeal in Robin Rigg Case

    30 November 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The UK Supreme Court has approved E.ON’s application to appeal against a ruling in favour of MT Højgaard from April 2015 regarding the Robin Rigg offshore wind farm dispute. E.ON will now bring the case to the Supreme Court, and MT Højgaard said it does not expect a final decision to be made before 2016. “As a consequence of the […]

  • Trident Energy Announces Strengthening of its Management Team (UK)

    3 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Trident Energy, the independent developer of enabling technology for the offshore renewables sector, today announced the strengthening of its management team to support the development of its innovative PowerPod system. The team will be based in the Company’s new central Glasgow office. Trident Energy has developed and patented a low cost linear generator that converts […]

  • Highland Communities Eligible for 2nd Round of Beatrice Funds

    4 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    SSE has invited local Highland communities to apply for the second round of the Beatrice partnership fund.