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  • Time to take note and take action: Why the ambitious offshore energy targets set for 2050 are a good thing

    30 May 2023
    Business development, Environment, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Transition

    The world’s population is expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, and with it, global energy demand is projected to rise by as much as 50%. But as society continues to grapple with the challenges of climate change, governments across the globe are looking to offshore energy to help meet these increasing energy demands while […]

  • UK: EMEC Celebrates Its 10th Birthday

    23 May 2013

    The European Marine Energy Centre – the world’s first and only test centre for wave and tidal energy devices – celebrates its tenth anniversary this month, with the pioneering Orkney based facility planning a host of events to mark its milestone year. The centre, which started off with just four wave test berths at Billia […]

  • “Offshore substations should have a standard size of 900MW”

    13 August 2012

    This is key to a responsible realisation of the Energiewende” says Lex Hartman, Director Corporate Development of TSO TenneT. “After all, the German ambition implies building one turbine every day.” The recent Atomausstieg and the subsequent Energiewende brought about a revolution in the German offshore wind sector. Over the next ten years, 13GW of offshore […]

  • Huisman and PaxOcean Firm Up Vessel Crane Order

    31 March 2020
    Vessels

    Huisman has signed a contract with PaxOcean Engineering for the delivery of a 1,600mt leg encircling crane for Penta-Ocean Construction‘s new self-elevating platform (SEP). The crane, to be built at Huisman’s wholly-owned production facility in Xiamen, China, is expected to enable the SEP for installing 12MW turbines. PaxOcean will build the SEP in Batam, Indonesia, […]

  • Energy security is undoubtedly a key issue

    14 January 2019

    Offshore Wind Magazine interviews Brent Wanner, the International Energy Agency’s lead of power generation analysis in the World Energy Outlook team, to find out more about what its global comprehensive analysis, which extends beyond the memberships, is revealing about the future development of offshore wind. Brent Wanner has been with the IEA focused on power […]

  • IN DEPTH TECHTALK: Floating wind-powered water injection

    25 November 2016

    DNV GL-led WIN WIN joint industry project (JIP) results indicate that, especially for marginal oil & gas fields supplying production to a major field, floating wind-powered water injection is technically feasible in general. This specific application is claimed to offer an excellent business case too. A major contributing factor favouring the positive overall outcomes is […]

  • US$20bn of spend is needed to build 200 new vessels

    30 March 2023
    Business development, Research & Development, Technology, Vessels

    Written by David Matthews, Head of Strategy Clarksons Renewables Clarksons sets out today’s reality if the Wind sector is to achieve its ambitious targets for tomorrow Countries around the world have set ambitious targets around Wind energy production for 2030. But with Wind booming and Oil & Gas back in a big way – does […]

  • Germany Faces High Price of Phasing out Nuclear Power

    14 November 2011
    Authorities

    On 30 May, in the aftermath of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany would close… By John C.K. (mensnewsdaily) [mappress] Source: mensnewsdaily, November 14, 2011

  • Offshore Wind Power Development Blows Across North America

    6 May 2011

    Europe’s love affair with offshore wind may at last be venturing across the Atlantic as the first approved project in the US continues apace. However, the switch to this large-scale renewable energy form – which has the potential to displace both coal and nuclear in providing the bulk of energy consumed by coastal populations – […]

  • Top Industry Players Join WFO’s Floating Wind Committee

    11 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    Several offshore wind companies and organisations have already become members of the World Forum Offshore Wind’s (WFO’s) Floating Offshore Wind Committee, launched in February 2020. The latest ones to get onboard the committee are Japan’s utility company JERA, French wind energy industry association FEE, and Norwegian company Aker Solutions. The three new members join RWE, […]

  • OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES: 1991 – 2015

    5 January 2016

    Giant technology and scaling steps The world’s first close to shore offshore wind farm, Vindeby, built in Denmark in 1991, features 11 semi-standard 450kW Bonus B35/450kW turbines (now Siemens) and is still in operation today. From today’s perspective the look of these tiny three-bladed turbines in shallow water is largely similar with today’s 6 to […]

  • Wind Blade Composites Market Grows as Offshore Wind Energy Advances (Germany)

    16 January 2012

      Many nations have set challenging targets for renewable energy production and it was in this setting that AMI held the latest global conference on Wind Turbine Blade Manufacture in December 2011 in Dusseldorf, Germany. The UK Minister for the Environment had announced potential plans for another 29,000 wind turbines mainly offshore, and Siemens Energy […]

  • Jan De Nul Installs Last Nobelwind Turbine

    3 April 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The last turbine at Belgian Nobelwind offshore wind farm was installed at 8:50am on 3 April, according to MHI Vestas Offshore Wind’s social media pages.

  • Mitsui Enters Taiwanese Offshore Wind Market

    5 June 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Japan’s Mitsui & Co has acquired a 50% stake in Yushan Energy Company Ltd which owns a 40% interest in the Hai Long offshore wind development in the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and mainland China.

  • Centrica Presents Results for Period Ended 30 June 2011 (UK)

    28 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    Operating and financial overview: *On track to deliver full year earnings growth in 2011, despite commodity price volatility, challenging economic environment and higher UK upstream gas and oil tax rates *shift in profits from the downstream to the upstream *UK residential energy operating profit* halved from the exceptional levels recorded in 2010 *progress in challenging […]

  • Global Wind Power Potential (Switzerland)

    24 June 2011
    R&D

    A growing number of global wind resource assessments have demonstrated that the world’s technical potential for wind power exceeds current global electricity production. The theoretical potential for wind, as estimated by the global annual flux, has been estimated at 6,000 EJ/yr (Rogner et al., 2000). The global technical potential for wind energy, meanwhile, is not […]

  • Hai Long Awards Jacket Foundation Contract

    13 October 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Hai Long Offshore Wind Project has signed the jacket foundations fabrication contract with Samkang M&T after naming the company as the preferred supplier in January this year. Samkang M&T will provide jacket foundations for the Hai Long 2b and 3 offshore wind projects in Taiwan, for an installed capacity of 744 MW to support the […]

  • Triton Knoll Fund All Set Up

    22 August 2018
    Business & Finance

    Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm Ltd. has launched its GBP 1.5 million community fund with an initial GBP 500,000 to support local projects and priorities in Lincolnshire, UK, over the two years of onshore construction of the 860MW wind farm.

  • Vard to Build Taiwan’s First SOV

    17 April 2020
    Vessels

    Vard has signed a contract with Ta San Shang Marine for the design and construction of the first Service Operation Vessel (SOV) in Taiwan.

  • MAATS Tech Introduces Novel Cable Lay Solution for Deepwater Works

    26 April 2018
    Technology, Vessels

    UK marine engineering company MAATS Tech has announced that it received a patent for its latest product, the Vessel Enabler, a modular chute that enables high-tension horizontal cable lay in deep waters and thus eliminates the need for a vertical lay tower or vertical lay system.

  • Japanese Consortium to Carry Out Akita OWF Feasibility Study

    27 July 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    A Japanese consortium led by Marubeni Corporation has entered into an agreement to carry out a feasibility study for the 145MW Akita offshore wind farm project off Akita Prefecture. The public offering of the project at Akita Port and Noshiro Port was made by Akita Prefecture for the purpose of expanding the installation of renewable energy and industrial […]

  • EEW Korea Cuts First Steel for Hai Long Pin Piles

    20 February 2023
    Equipment, Infrastructure, Wind Farm Update

    Hai Long Offshore Wind Project and EEW Korea Heavy Pipe Construction (EEW KHPC) have held a ceremonial first cut of steel for pin piles fabrication for the offshore wind farms in Taiwan. Hai Long and EEW KHPC signed a contract for pin piles fabrication in October 2022. Under the contract, EEW KHPC will provide a […]

  • First Minister Launches Scottish Energy Laboratory

    9 February 2011
    Authorities

    A new Scottish Energy Laboratory (SEL) was launched by the First Minister today to strengthen collaboration across 50 energy research, test and demonstration facilities and underpin Scotland’s leading position in low carbon energy development. The SEL will be a hub for national and international companies to identify and access the most appropriate of Scotland’s test […]

  • Two Dutch Companies to Buy Electricity from Hollandse Kust West VI Offshore Wind Farm

    17 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Two Dutch companies operating in the food and agro industries, Plukon and De Heus, have decided to buy electricity from Ecowende, a joint venture of Shell, Eneco, and Chubu, that owns the offshore wind farm which will be built at Hollandse Kust West (HKW) Site VI in the Netherlands. Rabobank’s new guarantee product, PPAssurance, made […]

  • Northland Power to Sell Stake in Taiwanese Offshore Wind Project

    15 December 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Canada-based Northland Power has signed an agreement to sell 49 per cent of its interest in the Hai Long offshore wind project in Taiwan to Gentari. When the deal is completed, expected to occur after the project reaches financial close, Gentari will have a 29.4 per cent indirect equity holding in the Taiwanese offshore wind […]

  • Prysmian Announces Results for First Half of 2011 (Italy)

    29 August 2011

    The Board of Directors of Prysmian S.p.A. has approved the consolidated results for the first half of 2011. “The first half of 2011 has confirmed the signs of recovery in demand seen from the second half of last year, resulting in a volume increase for the majority of businesses”, states CEO Valerio Battista. “The half-year […]