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  • Gamesa Shareholders Approve Merger with Siemens

    26 October 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Gamesa’s shareholders representing 99.75% of the company’s share capital ratified the merger with Siemens Wind Power during an Extraordinary General Meeting held in Zamudio, Spain, on 25 October. Through this transaction, Gamesa will absorb Siemens’s wind power assets in exchange for newly-issued shares in Gamesa. Siemens will own 59% of the new company, while Iberdrola will retain […]

  • Siemens Gamesa CEO: We Play to Win!

    20 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa has held its first shareholders general meeting since creation of the new company deriving from the merger between Gamesa and Siemens Wind Power which closed last April.

  • Dong’s Wind Measuring Buoy Washes Ashore

    23 October 2014

    Dong Energy’s buoy washed ashore at Biggar Bank earlier this week, attracting attention of spectators, writes North-West Evening Mail. Namely, one of Dong’s floating wind measurement buoys (FLiDARs), deployed at the north west corner of the West of Duddon Sands wind farm, got loose and ended up on Walney Island. “The coastguard and local harbour […]

  • UK: Measures Taken to Protect Teesside Wildlife

    4 May 2012
    Environment

    As work progresses on the installation of the new Teesside Offshore Windfarm, special measures are being taken to ensure the protection of marine mammals and other wildlife. The wind farm being established by EDF Energy Renewables is located 1.5km off the north east coast at South Gare, Redcar. Work has been ongoing since early February […]

  • Nass&Wind Launches Platform for Environmental Measurements

    16 January 2014

    On January 11, 2014 the Lorient-based company Nass&Wind Offshore launched a floating platform off Saint-Vaast la Hougue (Manche) to take environmental and technical measurements at sea for marine renewable energy (MRE) projects. The floating platform, which is 12 metres in diameter, 5.2 metres high and weighs some 70 tonnes, carries a suite of instruments commonly […]

  • Germany: Energy Representatives to Meet Angela Merkel

    1 May 2012
    Authorities

    Energy representatives, including RWE AG (RWE), headed by Juergen Grossmann will meet with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel on May2 in Berlin in order to discuss the development of power plant-construction, a spokeswoman from Essen, Annett Urbaczka confirmed to Bloomberg. The holding of the meeting was also confirmed by Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert at a […]

  • NASA Measures Offshore Wind Speed (USA)

    7 November 2011
    R&D

    On a bluff overlooking the Atlantic, Grady Koch spent a month watching ocean winds. He beamed a laser over the sea, day after day, measuring conditions offshore using an instrument called Doppler Aerosol Wind (DAWN) lidar, which is a type of laser. What Koch learns from the experiment will be used by scientists to advance […]

  • Eiffage Wins €1.5 Billion Contract for French Offshore Substations

    30 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain

    Eiffage, through Smulders, has been awarded a contract by the French transmission system operator (TSO) RTE to develop and build three substations for the Bretagne Sud, Narbonnaise Sud-Hérault, and Golfe de Fos French offshore wind farms. Overall, the engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning contract is worth more than EUR 1.5 billion. The contract covers […]

  • Energinet Issues Thor LiDAR Measurement Call

    25 September 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Energinet has issued a tender seeking floating LiDAR measurement services for the Thor offshore wind project in the Danish North Sea. The tender seeks a floating LiDAR to be deployed at the project site more than 20km west of the coast of Jutland to measure wind speed and direction. Additionally, a third-party technical note on the expected […]

  • New IEC Standard Includes LiDAR Measurements

    15 March 2017
    R&D, Technology

    The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has published a new standard, IEC 61400-12-1:2017, formally allowing LiDARs as a supplementary or alternative measurement technique to mast-mounted cup anemometers.

  • Germany: Merkel’s Cabinet OKs Draft Law

    29 August 2012
    Authorities

    As Reuters reports, German Chancellor Merkel’s cabinet gave a green light to a draft law aimed at spurring offshore wind development, which is the key part of the German green energy shift. The draft will now go through the parliamentary legislative process. So far the offshore wind development has been falling behind solar and onshore […]

  • Merger Between Bonheur and Ganger Rolf Approved

    16 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    Shareholders and executives at Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA approved a recently proposed merger between the two companies during Extraordinary General Meetings (EGMs) held separately today. The Chairman of the Shareholders’ Committee chaired the EGM. All items on the agenda, which was sent to Oslo Stock Exchange on 23 February 2016, were unanimously resolved […]

  • Leask Marine’s C-Fenna Completes Borssele 1&2 Works

    19 February 2018
    Environment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Leask Marine’s vessel C-Fenna has completed the recovery of ten seabed frames and buoys at Ørsted’s Borssele 1 and 2 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands on behalf of Fugro.

  • Windward Offshore Takes Delivery of Its First Commissioning Service Operation Vessel

    1 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Vard has delivered the first commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) to Windward Offshore, Windward Athens, which marks the German company’s entry into the offshore wind operations & maintenance (O&M) market. Windward Offshore has three more CSOVs under construction at Vard. Built by Vard in Norway and delivered on schedule at Vard Brattvaag, the vessel is […]

  • Dutch Gov’t Bringing Subsidy Scheme Back to Offshore Wind, But Only Temporarily – Reports

    16 September 2025
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Planning & Permitting

    The Dutch government will announce the return of subsidies for offshore wind this afternoon (16 September), during Budget Day, national media reports. According to news from the Netherlands, the government will earmark around EUR 1 billion to support offshore wind next year. The revived subsidy scheme – which was not employed over the past few […]

  • SGS Appoints New Global Business Development Manager, Renewable Energies (Switzerland)

    8 August 2011

      On August 1, 2011, SGS announced Christoph Thiel as the new Global Business Development Manager, Renewable Energies. Christoph will focus on global sales and business development activities at SGS Renewable Energy Services. Drawing on his first-rate experience and know-how in the renewable energy sector, Christoph Thiel will support local affiliates in developing their home […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Integrates Adwen in Its Offshore Business

    27 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa has agreed to integrate Adwen within the group’s broader offshore operations, which will allow it to better serve its customers and maximise business opportunities, Siemens Gamesa informed in its Q3 report, released on 26 July.

  • Californian Port Secures USD 20 Million in State Funds for Floating Wind Terminal Development

    9 October 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Ports & Logistics

    The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded USD 20 million (approximately EUR 17 million) to the Port of Long Beach to fund the ongoing development of Pier Wind, a proposed USD 4.7 billion (approx. EUR 4 billion) terminal that would serve the floating wind industry. CEC has awarded the grant through the Offshore Wind Energy […]

  • FINO 1 Measurement Equipment Upgraded

    16 November 2015
    R&D, Technology

    In order to improve quality and capabilities of the reference met mast measurements at FINO1, DEWI has recently upgraded the acquisition modules and data logging system on the research platform, NORCOWE reported. The new measurement system, among other things, enables higher frequency data sampling (typically 1Hz), as compared to the previous limitation of 10 min […]

  • Bonheur and Ganger Set Merger Date

    29 April 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Vessels

    Norway’s Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA will complete their merger on 6 May, with Bonheur ASA as the surviving entity, the companies said in a stock filing. The last day the two companies will trade separately on the Oslo Stock Exchange will be 4 May, according to the statement. The merger will be carried out assuming no objections […]

  • ESB Seeks Wind and Metocean Measurement Teams

    13 January 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has issued a contract notice for a qualification system for offshore wind resource and metocean measurement campaigns on sites off the coast of Ireland and the UK. The wind measurement and metocean data will be utilized to enable offshore structures to be designed against both extreme and fatigue loading conditions […]

  • Scotload Presents New Load Measurement Technology

    12 November 2013

    Scotload launched a new product for safe lifting, intelligent load cell that stores data for real-time and retrospective analysis, SmartLoad™. The new SmartLoad™ data logging feature provides asset owners with protection against product misuse and overload events by providing a true and correct log of all operations carried out. SmartLoad™ has a variety of features […]

  • LiDAR Measurement Campaign Gives Results (Norway)

    14 January 2014
    R&D, Technology

    In March 2013, Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE) inaugurated a measurement campaign at Sola airport outside of Stavanger, Norway. The equipment installed consisted of one scanning and one static wind LiDAR system. In addition a second static wind LiDAR was installed some 3 km further away, side by side with an automatic radiosonde […]

  • Bonheur and Ganger Rolf Float Merger Plans

    8 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    The boards of directors of Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA have resolved to propose a merger of the two companies, with Bonheur being the surviving entity and maintaining its listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The corporate structure of Bonheur and Ganger Rolf has historically taken the form of a cross ownership between the two companies, […]

  • Wind Measurement Campaign Starts Offshore Vietnam

    27 September 2022
    R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Mainstream Renewable Power and its partner AIT Corporation have installed a Light Detection and Ranging system (LiDAR) unit at the 500 MW Ben Tre offshore wind farm in Vietnam. The LiDAR was placed on a fixed platform and deployed in Vietnam’s East Sea, 40 kilometres from the coast of Ben Tre Province at water depths of […]

  • TIME Initiative to Measure Turbulence Off Pentland Firth

    8 September 2014
    R&D

    The most extensive science and engineering research project to take place in Caithness for many years is occurring this month (September, 2014) from a base at Gills Harbour, on the shores of the ‘s Inner Sound. Expensive high-tech equipment, under the TIME initiative, has been laid on the Sound’s seabed from the 25-metre-long ‘multi-cat’ vessel […]