1170 results found for 'Japan'

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  • Power X Forms Strategic Business Alliance with NYK Line

    2 February 2022
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Vessels

    Japanese shipping company, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line), has signed a memorandum of understanding with compatriot Power X, Inc. to set forth the terms of a strategic business alliance for the development and testing of Power X’s marine energy storage solutions (ESS), the Power ARK power transfer vessels, as well as electric vessels. The strategic […]

  • JERA Completes Acquisition of Belgium’s Leading Offshore Wind Developer

    27 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Industry

    JERA has completed the acquisition of 100 per cent of the shares of Parkwind NV from Belgium’s Virya Energy. The initial agreement between JERA Green, an affiliate of Japan’s JERA, and Virya Energy was signed in March this year. The transaction, which JERA said marks a significant milestone for the company and Parkwind and signals […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • Smulders Sends Off First Akita-Noshiro Transition Pieces

    6 November 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Smulders has shipped off the first four transition pieces built for Akita-Noshiro, Japan’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm. The transition pieces are now en route from the Smulders yard in Hoboken, Belgium to Sif Group in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Smulders is building 33 transition pieces for the 139 MW wind farm. Sif signed the final […]

  • Japanese SoftBank to Fund Ibaraki OWF

    4 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    SB Energy Corp., a subsidiary of Japanese SoftBank Corp. focused on renewable energy development, intends to invest in an offshore wind farm to be built off the Ibaraki prefecture, Japan. The wind farm is being developed by Japanese wind energy company Wind Power Energy Co., which proposes an initial 90MW offshore wind farm to be […]

  • Top News of the Week Dec 15 – 21, 2014

    21 December 2014

    Belgium to Decide on Wind Energy Storing Island in 2015 Belgium will have their say in early 2015 about a project that would see excess energy stored and used later when needed. SKWID Sinks Off Japan MODEC has confirmed that a Floating Wind & Current Hybrid Power Generation System (SKWID) constructed by MODEC sank into […]

  • Mitsubishi Heavy Industries aiming the overseas offshore wind power market (Japan)

    10 August 2010
    Business & Finance

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is intensifying its efforts to expand its offshore wind power business to overseas. MHI recently reached… (shimbun) [mappress] Source: shimbun, August 10, 2010;

  • Japanese Utility Buys Into Formosa I Offshore Wind Farm

    28 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Japanese utility JERA has entered into an agreement with Macquarie Capital and Swancor to acquire a combined 32.5% equity interest in the Formosa 1 offshore wind power project located off the north-western coast of Taiwan.

  • NORCOWE’s Event Becoming Established Arena for Offshore Wind Branch

    26 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Science Meets Industry Bergen took place on Tuesday September 9. The event was organized by NORCOWE in collatoration with Bergen Council of Commerce and industry, and took place at Hotel Grand Terminus in the centre of Bergen.  With 80 participants, this event is becoming an established arena for the offshore wind branch. People from the industry and research […]

  • SeaRoc Holds Marine Coordination Training in Taiwan

    29 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Training & Education

    SeaRoc Group has delivered the first formal marine coordination training in Taiwan to the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • JFE to Build Japan’s First Factory Solely Dedicated to Offshore Wind Foundations

    21 July 2021
    Business & Finance

    JFE Engineering Corporation has decided to invest JPY 40 billion (approx. EUR 309 million) in building a monopile foundation manufacturing facility, for which the company says will be the country’s first factory dedicated to monopile fabrication. The monopile factory will be constructed on the premises of JFE Steel West Japan Works Kasaoka City, Okayama Prefecture, […]

  • First Turbine Up at Japan’s First Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Farm

    5 July 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    The first of the total of 33 Vestas 4.2 MW wind turbines has been installed at the Akita Noshiro offshore wind farm in Japan, the country’s first commercial-size, fixed-bottom wind project. After the installation vessel Seajacks Zaratan finished placing all the 33 monopile foundations at their respective locations is September last year, the same vessel […]

  • Japan’s First Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Farm Takes Final Shape

    5 October 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    All wind turbines have been installed at the 140 MW Akita Noshiro wind farm offshore Akita Prefecture, Japan. Akita Noshiro comprises a total of 33 Vestas V117-4.2 MW wind turbines. 20 of the units were installed off Noshiro Port, and the remaining 13 offshore Akita Port. The commissioning of the installed turbines is ongoing and […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 Renewables, COENS Partner for South Korean Offshore Wind Projects

    22 January 2025
    Business & Finance

    OEG Renewables and COENS have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on offering pre-construction, construction, installation, and operations and maintenance (O&M) services to offshore wind projects in South Korea. The partnership between OEG and South Korea’s COENS combines OEG’s knowledge in delivering offshore energy solutions and COENS’ local capabilities and resources to target […]

  • 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 […]