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  • Japan: Experimental Offshore Floating Wind Farm Project

    11 October 2013

    A consortium made up of Marubeni (project integrator), the University of Tokyo (technical advisor), Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan Marine United, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Hitachi, Furukawa Electric, Shimizu, and Mizuho Information & Research have been participating in an experimental offshore floating wind farm project sponsored by the Ministry […]

  • Automated Ships Transporting Offshore Wind Electricity Attract Major Shipbuilder

    8 December 2021
    R&D, Technology, Vessels

    Major Japanese shipbuilding, marine engineering, and service company, Imabari Shipbuilding, has entered into a capital and business alliance with the compatriot startup, PowerX, to jointly develop a prototype automated Power Transfer Vessel. The Power Transfer Vessel, Power ARK 100, is a 100 TEU trimaran specifically designed for transferring renewable energy in Japan’s coastal waters. Imabari […]

  • Japan to Get New Offshore Wind Training Centre in Akita

    13 October 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Contribution

    Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), together with Nippon Marine Enterprises, has announced that it will establish a training centre for offshore wind power generation in Akita Prefecture, Japan. The consortium was selected in a public offering for subsidized projects in the 2022 Subsidy for Offshore Wind Power Human Resource Development project administered by the Agency for […]

  • Japan: Experimental Offshore Floating Wind Farm Project

    28 June 2013

    A consortium made up of Marubeni (project integrator), the University of Tokyo (technical advisor), Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan Marine United, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal, Hitachi, Furukawa Electric, Shimizu and Mizuho Information & Research have been participating in an experimental offshore floating wind farm project sponsored by the Ministry of […]

  • Top News of the Week Jul 22– 27, 2013

    28 July 2013

    Germany: Seajacks Installs First Turbines at Meerwind Wind Farm Seajacks installation vessels Leviathan and Zaratan departed from the port of Esbjerg during the 16th and 17th July 2013, to begin installing the first batch of 80 Siemens 3.6MW offshore turbines at Meerwind Offshore Wind Park. Sweden: Vattenfall Splits into Two Units Vattenfall splits up its […]

  • Japan’s MOL Sets Up Offshore Wind Division

    1 February 2021
    Business & Finance

    Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has announced that it will restructure the organisation as of 1 April and that it will establish a business division dedicated solely to offshore wind. As part of its restructuring and setting up several new business units and divisions, MOL is establishing the Wind Power Energy Business Division to expand […]

  • MOL, Toyo Construction Form Japanese Offshore Wind Joint Venture

    9 June 2023
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Japanese-based Mitsui O.S.K Lines (MOL) and its compatriot Toyo Construction have established a joint venture focusing on offshore wind power generation. Through the joint venture, the companies said that they will create stronger synergies in a wide range of areas related to offshore wind, including survey planning, procurement of work vessels, and offshore construction. “By […]

  • MHI Vestas Appoints Asia Pacific Regional Manager

    8 April 2020
    Business & Finance

    Offshore wind turbine manufacturer MHI Vestas has appointed Masato Yamada as the Regional Manager Asia Pacific, to oversee the company’s growth across the Asia Pacific region. Yamada was formerly the company’s Chief Strategy Officer based in Aarhus, Denmark, and will now be based in MHI Vestas’ Tokyo office. He initiated Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ pre-joint venture […]

  • TEPCO Joins Japanese Floating Wind Research Project

    7 September 2020
    R&D, Technology

    Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has selected Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO) to join a floating wind technology project. As part of the project titled Research and Development on Technologies to Lower the Cost of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, TEPCO will examine the basic design and construction methods for […]

  • Jacket Piles In at Ishikari Offshore Wind Farm

    8 December 2022
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    CAPE Holland has announced that 56 jacket foundation pin piles were installed at the Ishikari offshore wind farm in Japan. From May to August 2022, the CAPE VLT-320 was used for the installation of 56 pin piles with lengths of 60 metres and a diameter of 2.5 metres for the Japanese offshore wind project. The […]

  • ClassNK Looking Into Marine Power Usage

    23 December 2015
    Authorities, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    Tokyo-based classification society ClassNK has released a summary of the latest industry developments in its annual Technical Bulletin, with one of the topics covering marine energy usage. The opening paper of the Bulletin explores the possibilities and challenges of tidal power, offshore wind power, and wave power, and outlines tidal power generation systems around the world. A […]

  • Germany: AMBAU to Construct Largest Offshore Wind Tower

    10 July 2013

    July will see construction begin at the AMBAU site in Cuxhaven, Germany of the largest offshore tower ever built for a wind turbine, measuring 7.33 metres at the base flange. Consisting of four segments, the tower will have a total height of 106 metres; the largest segment can only be manufactured at Cuxhaven due to […]

  • BW Ideol Starts Trading on Euronext Growth Oslo

    18 March 2021
    Business & Finance

    As announced recently, BW Ideol started trading on Euronext Growth Oslo today (18 March). Upon admission to trading on the stock market, BW Ideol has several shareholders, with BW Offshore controlling about 50 per cent of the shares and thus maintaining a significant influence over matters requiring the approval of the board of directors or […]

  • GWEC’s Statistics Show Growth of Asia’s Wind Capacity

    1 March 2012

    Annual statistics recently released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) once again show the massive growth in cumulative wind power capacity in Asia, to 82,398 MW last year from 61,106 MW at the end of 2010. When matched with Asia’s continuing population increases, the GWEC statistics seem to indicate that the region as a […]

  • OW Drives Clean Energy Investments in UK

    3 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Clean energy investment in the United Kingdom grew by 13 percent to $12.4 billion, in 2013, according to research released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The U.K. wind sector, which increased by nearly 50 percent to $5.9 billion on the strength of offshore projects and expanded activity in public market financing, drove the increase. […]

  • Japan: Kajima, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Planning 500MW Offshore Wind Farm

    16 November 2012
    R&D

    Kajima Corp. and the engineering unit of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. are planning to construct 500MW of offshore wind power in the next five years, the companies announced yesterday. This follows the statement that these two companies have combined their expertise in a study, aiming to provide the total solution services for designing […]

  • Japanese Companies Join Hands for Floating Axis Offshore Wind Demonstration Project

    30 May 2023
    Business development, R&D, Research & Development, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    J-POWER, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), Chubu Electric Power, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (“K” Line), and Albatross Technology (Albatross) have entered into a joint research agreement for a next-generation floating axis wind demonstration project offshore Japan. With limited shallow sea areas in Japan, there is a growing interest in floating offshore wind power because it […]

  • PaxOcean to Build Japanese Wind Farm Installation Vessel

    3 March 2020
    Vessels

    Singapore-headquartered PaxOcean Group has signed a contract to build a self-elevating platform (SEP) for Japan’s Penta-Ocean Construction. Scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2022, the SEP is of a GustoMSC design, equipped with four tubular legs and four azimuth thrusters. The vessel will be fitted with a Huisman 1,600-tonne leg encircling crane, a […]

  • Japanese SoftBank Confirms Building of 100MW Ibaraki Offshore Wind Farm

    1 July 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    SB Energy Corp., a subsidiary of the Japanese SoftBank Corp., today confirmed that it will construct an offshore wind farm in Japan. The plan is to install 20 wind turbines with a 5MW capacity off Kamisu in Ibaraki prefecture. The wind farm is being developed by the Japanese wind energy company Wind Power Energy Co., […]

  • Ta San Shang Marine Orders CSOV at Damen

    21 November 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain, Vessels

    The Netherlands-based Damen Shipyards has signed a contract with Ta San Shang Marine (TSSM), a joint venture between Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Taiwan’s Ta Tong Marine, for the delivery of a Damen Construction Service Operation Vessel (CSOV) 9020. This will be TSSM’s second SOV in their fleet. The first, the TSS Pioneer, was […]

  • Bad Weather Hampers Japan’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    2 December 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    A spell of bad weather could postpone the commissioning of Japan’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm – the 140 MW Akita Noshiro. All 33 Vestas V117-4.2 MW wind turbines, 20 at the Noshiro Port offshore wind farm and 13 at the Akita Port offshore wind farm, were installed before the end of September this year. […]

  • Saab Seaeye Falcon Helps Japan Harness Offshore Wind

    22 August 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    It is at the southernmost tip of Japan that the Ministry of the Environment is trialling a turbine to determine the viability of floating wind turbines, in a bid to help replace the 30% of energy lost since the nuclear shut-down. Sure-footed anchorage to the seabed is vital in such a vulnerable environment and a […]

  • Japan plans to build 1,000MW offshore wind power by 2020

    10 May 2010
    Authorities, R&D

    A high-powered government panel has drafted a plan that calls for the establishment by 2020 of massive offshore wind farms capable of … [mappress] Source: istockanalyst, May 08, 2010;

  • Fukushima Hamakaze Spar Tilts off Sumoto, Japan

    12 May 2016

    Fukushima Forward’s advanced spar floating foundation, the base of the Fukushima Hamakaze structure, has tilted while being towed across Osaka Bay to Sumoto on Awaji Island, with part of an upper section now submerged, according to Japanese media. The foundation has been on its way to the port of Sumoto, where Hitachi’s 5MW downwind turbine will be mounted on it, before […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Farm Attracts Japanese Power Houses

    13 August 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    German energy company Innogy has agreed to sell a 41% stake in its 860MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK to Japan’s J-Power (25%) and Kansai Electric Power (16%).

  • Japan: Naruto Strait Holds 4GW of Tidal Power

    19 May 2014
    Authorities, R&D

    The Naruto Strait, situated between Japanese islands of Shikoku and Awaji, has a tidal energy capacity that could replace four nuclear reactors. The tidal energy potential of the Naruto Strait has been discovered by the University of Tokushima, which conducted the research on behalf of the Tokushima Prefecture, the Japan Times writes. The university has […]