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  • RWE Innogy Installs Wind Measurement Station Offshore Heligoland (Germany)

    2 November 2011

    RWE Innogy successfully completed the installation of a measuring tower in the German North Sea. The measuring system has been installed in the construction area of the Nordsee Ost offshore windfarm 30 km north of Heligoland. RWE Innogy will start the construction of the windfarm at the beginning of next year. The measuring tower with […]

  • Nass & Wind Launches M3EA Measurement Platform off Dunkirk

    31 May 2016
    R&D, Technology

    Nass & Wind Smart Services has recently installed a M3EA floating measurement platform to measure wind conditions off the coast of Dunkirk and offer the data collected to wind developers interested in participating in France’s third call for offshore wind tenders scheduled to start this summer. The data collected by the M3EA, equipped with a LiDAR Leosphere […]

  • SgurrEnergy Launches Online Data Portal for Wind Measurement Campaigns

    11 September 2014
    R&D, Technology

    A comprehensive online data management portal for wind measurement campaigns has been launched by SgurrEnergy this month to allow developers to interactively manage large scale or global wind measurement campaigns. Built and operated by SgurrEnergy’s in-house analysts, SgurrDataPortal was designed and developed using over 10 years of data recovery and analysis experience, with further input […]

  • EnBW Implements Measures for Further Investments in New Energy Concept

    26 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    “The past fiscal year was not an easy year for the energy industry and therefore also not for EnBW. It is all the more pleasing that we were able to create the main conditions for further forward-looking investments, despite the difficult general environment. The measures we have taken to safeguard EnBW’s financial stability and its […]

  • Dong Energy Deploys 2nd FLiDAR Wind Measurement Buoy

    2 May 2014
    R&D, Technology

    Less than six months after Dong Energy ordered a second FLiDAR wind measuring device, the buoy has been installed on site and is fully operational. Dong Energy also signed a long term operation and maintenance agreement. The deployment, which involved specialized FLiDAR personnel took just 1 day to complete, and thanks to detailed onshore commissioning […]

  • EDF Contracts FLiDAR for 5-Year Offshore Wind Measurements

    27 November 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    EDF has signed a 5-year framework agreement with FLiDAR for offshore wind resource measurements. FLiDAR will deploy several of its buoys on EDF offshore wind farms over the coming years. The FLiDAR units have recently been validated by DNV GL as reaching Stage 2 on the Carbon Trust Roadmap, which greatly reduces the uncertainty of the […]

  • NASA Uses Laser to Measure Offshore Wind Speed (USA)

    18 October 2011
    R&D

    Grady Koch is not a weatherman but he knows which way the wind blows.   By Cory Nealon (dailypress) [mappress] Source: dailypress, October 18, 2011

  • PGE Measures Good Winds at Baltica 2 and 3

    12 February 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The Floating LiDAR campaign resulted in ”high quality data confirming the appropriate wind conditions for the investment,” PGE Baltica, part of PGE Group, said.

  • EC Puts GE-Alstom Merger under Lens

    25 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    The European Commission (EC) will undertake an in-depth investigation to assess whether GE-Alstom merger is in line with the EU regulations. Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, said: “We are concerned that the proposed acquisition might not only lead to higher prices but also result in less choice for customers and less innovation […]

  • Norway: DNV GL Merger Gets Thumbs Up

    11 September 2013

    DNV GL will be the world’s largest ship and offshore classification society to the maritime industry, a leading provider of technical assurance and risk management services to the oil & gas industry and a leading expert in wind and power transmission and distribution. DNV GL also takes the position as one of the top three […]

  • Fraunhofer IWES and imare to Showcase Jointly in Frankfurt, Germany

    8 November 2013
    Technology

    Fraunhofer IWES and Institute for Marine Resources (imare) will jointly showcase the Lidar measuring buoy at their stand at EWEA Offshore event in Frankfurt, Germany. The IWES will provide information on all aspects of the buoy, its measuring services and the latest scientific knowledge concerning the development of offshore wind energy. For the first time […]

  • ZephIR Measures Inch Cape Winds from Bell Rock Lighthouse

    30 September 2014
    Technology

    Inch Cape Offshore Limited has successfully deployed a ZephIR 300 lidar on the historic Bell Rock lighthouse, 17km off the Angus coast. ZephIR 300 has been mounted on a platform on the north east of the lighthouse using a specially designed support frame measuring wind direction and wind velocity and will augment wind measurements from […]

  • DONG Pushing On with Oil & Gas Unit Sale, in Merger Talks with Maersk

    29 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    Following the appointment of J.P. Morgan to asses the market conditions for a potential sale of its oil and gas business, DONG Energy is now reportedly in negotiation with Maersk over a merger of their fossil fuel units, as DONG is focusing fully on offshore wind and Maersk on transport and logistics.  The merger would result in a […]

  • Spain: IREC’s NEPTUNE Project to Measure Wind in Offshore Wind Farms

    11 April 2013
    Technology

    NEPTUNE’s application will reduce the cost of wind measurement and mitigate uncertainty about electricity production for offshore wind farms. The Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) has led the Neptune project, in which two products have been developed to enable wind measurement at sea, in order to reduce the cost of offshore wind energy. Within […]

  • Spain: Neptune Project Tests Its Wind Measurement Buoy at Sea

    30 May 2013
    R&D, Technology

    The innovation project Neptune, supported by KIC InnoEnergy Iberia, launched for the first time its buoy into the sea for testing on last Wednesday, May 22nd, at the “Pont del Petroli” in Badalona, Spain. The main objective was to compare a fixed buoy´s wind measurement data -located at a nearby pier- with the sea located […]

  • NStar and Northeast Utilities Merger Could Affect Cape Wind (USA)

    26 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    The nation’s first offshore wind farm enjoys high-profile federal and state backing, but it hasn’t been able to win over one… (Associated Press) [mappress] Source: Associated Press, September 26, 2011

  • Metocean Data Gathering Needed for Hollandse Kust (Zuid) WFZ

    5 February 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D

    Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland or RVO.nl) has invited tenders for the collection of meteorological and oceanographic data obtained through real time field measurements at the Wind Farm Zone Hollandse Kust (Zuid). The objective of this tender is to conclude an agreement with 1 or 2 suppliers to provide the metocean data by means of 2 […]

  • Denmark: OWI-Lab Wins Award for Best Scientific Poster at EWEA 2012

    24 April 2012

    Last week OWI-Lab and research partner VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) have been awarded by EWEA for having the best scientific poster in Denmark during its annual four day conference. The poster handles about the first offshore tests and measurements performed by OWI-Lab at Belwind (the 2nd offshore wind farm in Belgium – 55 km out […]

  • TotalEnergies Kicks Off Offshore Lidar Project in UK and Japan

    20 December 2024
    Business development, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    TotalEnergies has commissioned Fraunhofer IWES and Oldbaum to perform lidar-based measurement campaigns in the UK and Japan. With dual-Doppler scanning lidar technology, two measuring devices are operated synchronously at different onshore locations where they are aligned in such a way that the laser beams cross at a point up to ten kilometres off the coast, […]

  • DNV GL Seeks Partners for LIDAR JIP

    29 July 2019
    R&D, Technology

    DNV GL has invited wind energy stakeholders to join a new Joint Industry Project (JIP) to explore the potential of using light detection and ranging (LIDAR) to measure wind speed turbulence intensity (TI) for various applications in the wind industry. LIDAR is becoming the preferred technology for wind resource measurements, and various methods for deriving […]

  • Major Finnish Offshore Wind Project Moves Ahead

    22 November 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Finnish state-owned enterprise Metsähallitus is launching wind measurements for the proposed Korsnäs offshore wind farm. The wind measurements will be carried out in Maalahti and are part of the plans to build the offshore wind farm with a capacity of between 1.3 GW and 2 GW 15 kilometres off the west coast in Korsnäs. The […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Doubles Offshore Order Intake in 2019

    4 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa has doubled the order intake in the offshore segment in 2019 compared to 2018, partly due to the company’s strongest ever results reported in the last quarter of the calendar year. The world-leading wind turbine manufacturer saw the order intake in the offshore segment double to 3,343MW, of which 1,279MW was signed in […]

  • Wirescan Tests TenneT’s Offshore Export Cables

    5 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    During the two first weeks of September, Wirescan had been performing LIRA measurements on three different export cables in the German North Sea.  The assignments were both baseline measurements (fingerprint) and second measurement for condition monitoring. The tests were performed from both the onshore and offshore substation of three different wind farms. The LIRA system can be used […]

  • Ørsted Taps Pulse Structural Monitoring for Work Offshore Germany

    23 September 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted Wind Power A/S has awarded Pulse Structural Monitoring Ltd. with a contract to provide structural measurement campaigns for Gode Wind 03 and Borkum Riffgrund 03 offshore wind farms. Pulse will be in charge of the load, corrosion, and inclination measurement campaigns for Borkum Riffgrund 03 wind farm and Gode Wind 03 wind farm foundations […]

  • Germany: Freudenberg Develops Special Sealing System to Reduce Underwater Noise

    19 August 2013
    Environment, R&D, Technology

    Freudenberg Sealing Technologies Merkel (Freudenberg) had a goal: less noise pollution for harbor porpoises affected in the installation of offshore wind turbine systems. Through the development of a special sealing system, Freudenberg was able to reduce the underwater noise generated during foundation work for offshore facilities by 10 decibels. When doing foundation work for offshore […]

  • Belgium: DONG Selects FLiDAR for Accurate Offshore Wind Measurements

    29 January 2013

    Following months of analysis DONG Energy has selected FLiDAR to implement the latest generation of wind resource measurement technology. The partnership initially involves a one year measurement campaign in the Irish Sea. Benj Sykes, UK Country Manager for DONG Energy’s Wind business said; “FLIDAR represents a step forward in how we are developing offshore wind […]