397 results found for 'London Array offshore wind farm'

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  • London Array Awards Three-year Bursary (UK)

    16 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    The London Array University Bursary for the academic year 2011/2012 has been awarded to Thomas Gray from Rodmarsham. Thomas attended Borden Grammar School in Sittingbourne and has taken up a place at Surrey University to study Electronic Engineering. Richard Rigg, London Array’s Project Director, said, “As part of the selection process Thomas presented a school […]

  • UK: ITW Densit Completes Grouting of World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    16 November 2012

    On the 19th of October 2012 ITW Densit finalized its part in the famous London Array project. For almost two years, ITW Densit has been working on both offshore and onshore grouting within the London Array project. This included offshore and onshore grouting of 175 wind turbines and the two offshore substation foundations. The onshore […]

  • MPI Adventure Arrives to Harwich International Port (UK)

    26 July 2011

    Harwich International Port welcomed the MPI Adventure on its maiden operational call to the port. In conjunction with the jack-up vessel Seaworker, which has been working at the port since March of this year, the MPI Adventure will begin installing monopile foundations and transition pieces for Phase 1 of the London Array Offshore Windfarm.  David […]

  • Aqualis and A2SEA Team Up on Race Bank Installation Project

    30 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore marine and engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has been contracted by A2SEA to perform engineering consultancy services for its installation work at the 580MW Race Bank wind farm offshore the UK. Aqualis Offshore’s London office will provide engineering services including geotechnical and structural site assessments where A2SEA’s jack-up vessel, Sea Installer, will install the 91 […]

  • London Array’s High Voltage Team Moves into New Office

    18 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    DONG Energy and National Grid have both joined the growing tenant community at Discovery Park in Kent, Europe’s largest science and technology park. The site had just five tenants when it was taken over by Discovery Park Ltd, a private consortium, two years ago. Since then, it has attracted a host of companies locally, nationally […]

  • HBC Wraps Up Ørsted Subsea Inspection Campaign

    10 August 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    HBC Group has completed the Ørsted Subsea Inspection Campaign on four offshore wind farms in the UK and the German North Sea.

  • VBMS Installs Its 1000th Inter-Array Cable at Sandbank

    29 April 2016
    Grid Connection

    VBMS has reached a major milestone by installing its 1,000th inter-array cable during its works for Vattenfall’s Sandbank offshore wind farm this week. In 2008, when the company was founded, VBMS installed its first inter array cables in Belgian waters for Thornton Bank Phase I. Through the years, VBMS has been contracted for a number […]

  • The Crown Estate Celebrates Inauguration of Two OWFs (UK)

    5 July 2013
    Authorities

    The Crown Estate has welcomed the inauguration this week of two further UK offshore wind farms with a combined capacity of 900 MW. On Wednesday 3 July the final phase of construction of the 270 MW Lincs offshore wind farm was formally recognised by joint owners Centrica Renewable Energy, Dong Energy and Siemens. The following […]

  • Siemens Hires Dalby for London Array

    24 November 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    The Dalby Swale has been contracted by Siemens to work on the London Array Wind Farm. The Swale was chosen for her versatility in carrying cargo and passenger comfort. The vessel is 23m long with a residual mounted wheelhouse and saloon, and a sprint speed of 30knts and cruises at 24knts. The Dalby Swale is the […]

  • CWind: Successful Work on London Array (UK)

    11 January 2013

     As the largest consented offshore windfarm to date, London Array is also the largest generator management project to date, and CWind has been working closely with Siemens and EP Tools since January 2012, offering a complete generator management service – installation, commissioning, servicing, maintain/repair and refuelling for all the EP Tools supplied generators on site, […]

  • UK: SgurrEnergy Supports World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Financing

    10 October 2013

    Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, has announced financial close on its share of London Array, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, with SgurrEnergy acting as technical advisor to the banks on the transaction. The first phase of the groundbreaking project, located 20km off the coast of Essex and Kent, is jointly owned by DONG […]

  • RCG Appoints New Director

    6 May 2015

    The Renewables Consulting Group (RCG) has named Gareth Lewis as a Director and member of the global management committee, based from the company’s London headquarters. Lewis is a qualified marine biologist, underwater technologist, commercial diver and yachtmaster with 24 years’ experience of renewable energy projects, including 14 years at senior management level and 13 years in the offshore renewable […]

  • Offshore Wind Record Breaker Coming Online in Q3

    26 April 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    The 659MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm is expected to be commissioned in the third quarter of 2018, Ørsted, the developer of the wind farm off Cumbria, UK.

  • French Businesses Visit UK Offshore Wind Industry

    30 October 2012

    The renewable energy sector in Britain offers many opportunities to connect French and British companies in this field. The French Chamber of Commerce in Great-Britain organised on 18 & 19 of October, a trade mission in partnership with the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Normandy, Brittany and North of France (members of the CCI […]

  • Offshore Wind Boost for Weldex (UK)

    24 December 2010
    Business & Finance

    WELDEX, the Inverness-based crane company which saw a £100 million valuation placed on it following a private equity deal this summer, has won a clutch of orders to work on offshore wind farms. The company, the largest crawler crane business in the UK, will start work in March on multi-million pound contracts for the Walney […]

  • Offshore Wind Turbines Make Sediment Plumes in North Sea

    8 November 2016
    Authorities, Environment, R&D

    Offshore wind turbines installed in the North Sea have been giving rise to sediment plumes, satellite images taken by NASA’s Operational Land Imager (OLI) show. For at least the past decade, satellites have spotted white dots cropping up in the North Sea. If viewed from Earth’s surface, you would see that these dots are actually wind […]

  • Two Dalby Offshore’s Vessels Working at Gwynt y Mor

    24 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Dalby Offshore’s wind farm support vessel ‘Dalby Esk’ has started work on RWE’s Gwynt y Mor Offshore Wind Farm, and will soon be joined by the ‘Dalby Tees’. Following a strategic move into the Renewables sector in 2010, Dalby Offshore now owns 7 wind farm support vessels, which have worked on the following wind farms Greater Gabbard UK, […]

  • Stemat Spirit Installs Third Export Cable at London Array, UK

    6 August 2012
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    At the end of July, the Stemat Spirit completed laying and burying of the third export cable at London Array and has now left the site.  This is the third of four export cables which run from the onshore substation at Cleve Hill to the two offshore substations at the wind farm site. The cables […]

  • Germany: H&Askham Wins Trianel Offshore Wind Farm Electrical Installation Work

    18 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Borkum West II, also known as Trianel Windpark Borkum, set in German waters in the North Sea is the latest project H&Askham are adding to the ever growing portfolio of works it can boast in the Offshore Wind Sector. Teams were mobilised to the project to begin HV termination and jointing works in early July, […]

  • UK: Offshore Wind Farm Workers ‘Strip Off’ in Heat Wave

    19 July 2013

    WORKERS on the world’s largest offshore wind farm, London Array, which opened earlier this month in the Outer Thames Estuary, have been taking advantage of the prolonged heat wave to strip off their drysuits. As the hot weather continues and sea temperatures rise well above the required minimum of 10 degrees Celsius, workers on many […]

  • Ørsted Contracts LOC for Greater Changhua Work

    20 May 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    LOC Group has secured a contract with Ørsted to provide marine warranty survey services (MWS) for the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan. Under the agreement, LOC will provide MWS services for the transportation and installation of the inter-array and export cables. Technical document review and operational approvals will be undertaken […]

  • RenewableUK Disappointed with Recent Offshore Wind Setbacks

    19 February 2014

    Dong Energy announced that the London Array Phase 2 is not proceeding, while Forewind stated that the capacity of Dogger Bank is being scaled back. Reacting to these announcements, RenewableUK’s Director of Offshore Renewables, Nick Medic, said: “The overall project pipeline for UK offshore wind is still healthy, although obviously it’s disappointing when projects don’t […]

  • Photo of the Day: Sunset on Gwynt y Môr

    4 December 2014
    Vessels

    Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: Sunset at Gwynt y Môr, world’s second largest offshore wind farm.  The photo was taken on November 27 from the Kinmel Bay, Turbine Transfers’ 18-metre fast catamaran for wind farm support and crew transport. The Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm recently reached a major milestone by ending its construction phase. Since […]

  • Walney 2 Connects to National Grid (UK)

    20 September 2011
    Grid Connection

      The onshore substation and the export cable are now energised and connected to the national grid. The Stanah 132kV onshore substation near Blackpool was energised on 22 August, and the export cable and the offshore transformer were energised on 29 August.  Upon completion, Walney 1 + 2 will be the world’s largest offshore wind […]

  • Scottish National Party: ‘Baffling Hypocrisy’ of Tories Regarding Wind Farms

    5 July 2013
    Authorities

    Following the official opening of London Array, the Scottish National Party (SNP) today published the following release:   The SNP has pointed out the ‘baffling hypocrisy’ of the Tories after David Cameron opened the world’s largest operational offshore wind farm, at the same time his party attacks Scotland’s renewables industry.   The Prime Minister opened […]

  • Ørsted and HBC Group Resume Subsea Inspection Cooperation

    10 May 2018
    Contracts & Tenders

    Ørsted has awarded HBC Group with another contract to conduct subsea inspection campaigns at an undisclosed number of its offshore wind farms.