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  • Japan’s ”K” Line Gathers Its Might Behind Offshore Wind Push

    30 April 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Japanese shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (”K” Line), and its domestic subsidiary Kawasaki Kinkai Kisen Kaisha have agreed to establish a joint venture company to provide services within the offshore wind industry. The new joint venture company, “K” Line Wind Service, will provide offshore support vessels and marine-related services to the industry. The establishment of […]

  • Race Bank Gets GBP 200 Million Loan

    18 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The Japan-based Nippon Life Insurance has executed a GBP 200 million syndicated loan for the Race Bank offshore wind project in the UK.

  • KR Wind Sees Great Opportunities 2011 Conventions (Denmark)

    26 October 2011

      KR Wind has recently participated at China Wind Power 2011 as well as the CanWEA convention in Vancouver. China is an important up-and-coming market. The growth in Asia is mainly driven by India and China where there has been continuing impressive growth in the wind sector, not only in terms of manufacturers and sub […]

  • Saitec Sends SATH Floating Platform to France

    25 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Spanish floating wind platform developer Saitec Offshore Technologies has been awarded three weeks at IFREMER’s wave basin facilities in France to further validate and develop its SATH technology due to funding from the European network Marinet2.

  • NORCOWE Hosts FAST Workshop

    26 September 2014

    On the 11th and 12th of September NORCOWE and NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) hosted a workshop on FAST. FAST is a wind turbine computer-aided engineering software tool developed by NREL. Through US Department of Energy support, NREL has sponsored the development, verification, and validation of various CAE tools for prediction of wind turbine performance, […]

  • ORIX Gets on Board Kashima Port Offshore Wind Project

    28 May 2015
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    ORIX has agreed to participate in the joint development and construction of Kashima Port Large-Scale Offshore Wind Farm which is to be built offshore of Kashima Port in Kamisu City, Ibaraki Prefecture. The equity investment by ORIX into the project company was also completed today. The project involves the installation of 20 wind turbines offshore […]

  • AMBAU Sends Tower for Mitsubishi’s 7MW Turbine to Scotland

    27 October 2014
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    On September 24, the largest offshore tower to date has left the AMBAU plant in Cuxhaven for Scotland. Consisting of four segments, the tower has a total height of 106 metres and a diameter of 7.33 metres at the base flange, making it the largest of its kind.   AMBAU manufactured the tower on behalf […]

  • Ground Modelling Treble for GDG

    14 April 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Dublin-based offshore engineering consultancy Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) has secured three ground modelling contracts for offshore wind projects in the Celtic Sea, Irish Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean. These projects have circa 1 GW of capacity each and are in the early development stages. GDG’s role is to interpret geophysical datasets, integrate the geotechnical […]

  • Seaway 7 Adds Correll Services to Yunlin Cables Team

    8 October 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Correll Services (CS) has won a contract to provide the termination and testing of the individual submarine composite cables at the Yunlin wind farm offshore Taiwan. CS was selected for the work by Seaway 7, the renewables business unit of Subsea 7. Seaway 7 is in charge of the supply and installation of the export […]

  • Asia to Take Europe’s Offshore Wind Top Spot in Next Ten Years

    23 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    Asia is going to surpass Europe in offshore wind capacity in the next ten years, Edgare Kerkwijk, Board member at Asia Wind Energy Association, said at the Offshore WIND Conference in Amsterdam.

  • Northland Power Buys South Korean Offshore Wind Developer

    25 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    Canadian energy company Northland Power has signed an agreement to acquire the South Korean offshore wind developer Dado Ocean Wind Farm. Dado Ocean has multiple early-stage offshore wind development sites in Chodo-ri and Sonjuk-ri of Yeosu City, 35 kilometres off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula, and together these projects will be developed over […]

  • OEG Expands APAC Fleet with New CTV Order

    4 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    OEG Renewables has inked a contract with Strategic Marine for the order of a newbuild crew transfer vessel (CTV) that will support the company’s operations in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The vessel, due to be named Wey Feng, is a BMT-designed aluminium catamaran and will be the fourth StratCat 27 ship built by Strategic […]

  • Kitakyushu City Names Developer of Hibikinada OWF

    17 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The government of Kitakyushu City, Japan, has announced that a consortium comprising Kyuden Mirai Energy, Kyuden Corporation (Kyushu Electric Power), Hokutaku Renewable Energy Service, J-Power, and SAIBUGAS has been selected to install and operate an offshore wind farm off the Port of Hibikinada.

  • Fukushima’s 7MW Floating Turbine almost There

    22 June 2015
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Assembly works of the 7MW oil pressure drive-type wind turbine on the three-column semi-sub floater at Onahama port has been completed and delivery of the floater to testing area is going to start shortly as part of the second phase of the Fukushima Experimental Offshore Floating Wind Farm Project. Installation of chains, anchors and undersea cables […]

  • EU Nods to JERA Joining Formosa I Offshore Wind Project

    4 February 2019
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of joint control over Formosa I offshore wind project in Taiwan by Macquarie, Ørsted, Swancor, and Japan’s utility JERA. Formosa 1 is currently a joint venture between Ørsted (35% ownership), Taiwanese developer Swancor Renewable (15%), and Macquarie Capital (50%). As reported, JERA agreed […]

  • SeaTwirl Partners with Local Firm to Bring Vertical-Axis Floating Wind Turbine to Japan

    29 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    Sweden-based SeaTwirl has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sumitomo Corporation Power & Mobility (SCPM) to promote its vertical-axis offshore floating wind turbine in the Japanese market. Under the MoU, SCPM will be responsible for identifying, marketing, negotiating, and contracting potential clients. The Swedish company will be in charge of promoting and offering the […]

  • UK: EMEC to Start Consultations on Expansion of Its Pioneering Facilities

    21 March 2012

    THE European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is to begin consultations on the expansion of its pioneering facilities in response to rapidly growing demand for its full-scale test sites. The move comes as one of Europe’s largest electricity producers, Vattenfall, is confirmed as the latest utility to secure a test berth at the world-leading wave energy […]

  • EMEC to Support Development of Wave, Tidal Test Site in Singapore

    7 November 2013
    Business & Finance, R&D

    The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) will support the development of a marine energy test site in Singapore. The EMEC, based in Orkney, Scotland and the Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N), Singapore, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on November 1. Under the agreement, the parties will collaborate on further development of the […]

  • 7 MW Fukushima Turbine Preparing for Installation

    22 July 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Fukushima Offshore Wind Consortium plans to tow the 7 MW wind turbine from Onahama Port to its offshore site on July 31-August 1 and moor it in the following 20 days.  Then, from August 20 to September 30, the developer plans to carry out the laying and burying of riser cable at the Fukushima Experimental Offshore […]

  • BLIX Pursues APAC Offshore Wind with Taiwan Office

    13 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    The Netherlands-based BLIX Consultancy has opened a branch office in Taipei, Taiwan, to support the offshore wind business in the Asia Pacific region. The new office, opened on 11 March, will be the base for Maarten Timmerman, who is one of the founders of BLIX Consultancy in the Netherlands and the newly appointed Director BLIX […]

  • TÜV Rheinland to Attend EWEA 2014

    17 February 2014

    TÜV Rheinland will be presenting its range of services related to wind energy at the 2014 EWEA trade fair in Barcelona from 10-13 March, 2014. The company will combine its extensive range of services for the energy sector under the E3 campaign umbrella – “Energy Expertise Everywhere”. New additions to TÜV Rheinland´s portfolio include services […]

  • Fukushima Floating Wind Farm Uses First Subsea’s Cable Connectors

    14 November 2013
    Grid Connection, Technology

    Cable connectors for the Fukushima floating wind farm project, offshore Japan, are supplied by First Subsea to connect 66kV and 22kV cables to a 2MW wind turbine and floating substation. The facility’s floating 66kV power substation is the first of its kind for the offshore wind energy industry. Three First Subsea cable connectors have been […]

  • DONG Establishing Foothold in Asia-Pacific, First Stop Taiwan

    28 April 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D

    DONG Energy is setting up an office in Taiwan to explore offshore wind opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region. The company is turning its attention to Asia-Pacific as the area has large potential for the development of offshore wind, Martin Neubert, the Chief Strategy Officer at DONG Energy Wind Power, told Offshore WIND. “Taiwan has an ambitious renewable strategy and […]

  • Vestas Readying to Deliver Turbines for Akita Noshiro Offshore Wind Farm

    25 October 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Vestas is preparing to deliver the wind turbines for Japan’s Akita Noshiro offshore wind project in December, according to the latest update from the company, which has now manufactured all the blades, nacelles and most of the tower sections. Under an order received in the first half of 2020, Vestas will supply 33 of its […]

  • Hyundai Heavy to Complete 5.5 MW Offshore Wind Turbine by End of the Year (Japan)

    18 April 2011
    Technology

    Hyundai Heavy Industries announced on April 14 that it will complete the development of a 5.5MW offshore wind turbine by the end of the year…   By You Sun-il (etnews) [mappress] Source: etnews, April 18, 2011;

  • Fukushima Hamakaze En Route to Site

    4 July 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    [Updated article] The 5MW wind turbine mounted on a floating platform, dubbed Fukushima Hamakaze, was installed at the site off Fukushima Prefecture on 20 July. The turbine left Sumoto port on Awaji Island on 2 July, according to a marine notice issued by the Fukushima Forward consortium. It arrived in the testing area on 10 July and was then […]