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  • VIDEO: CWhisper SWATH in Action

    24 May 2013
    Operations & Maintenance

    Recently, CWind has placed an order for a second CWhisper SWATH, an innovative 19.5m composite workboat designed and built by CTruk. The design objectives of CWhisper were to dramatically improve the comfort of technicians transiting out to offshore wind farms.  Motions are approximately a quarter of those of conventional catamarans, significantly increasing the current wave […]

  • Irish Marine Institute Calls for Marine Equipment Supply Bids

    30 September 2013
    Authorities, Technology

    The Marine Institute, an Irish semi-state body, has announced four separate tenders for the supply of different pieces of marine equipment for an energy project. The Institute requires the supply of: 1. a signal acquisition system for the Galway Bay Acoustic Array; 2. sensor equipment for the Galway Bay Acoustic Array; 3. a support platform […]

  • Whale Detection Tech Debuts on Block Island Wind Farm

    23 April 2019
    Technology

    The University of Rhode Island (URI) has developed and deployed an acoustic device to detect whales near the Block Island offshore wind farm. MARIMBA (Marine Mammal Monitoring at Block Island Using Acoustics) was developed by six ocean engineering students who deployed it in close vicinity of the 30MW offshore wind project. “What we were trying to […]

  • DNV GL Validates Accurasea Floating LiDAR

    30 October 2019
    R&D, Technology

    DNV GL has completed an independent validation assessment of the Accurasea floating LiDAR offshore wind measurement device requested by EOLFI. The Accurasea floating LiDAR has now formally reached the pre-commercial maturity stage (Stage 2) on the Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator Roadmap for the Commercial Acceptance of Floating LiDAR Technology . This new system can […]

  • PGE to Deploy EOLOS Floating LiDAR at Baltica 1 Site

    25 January 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    EOLOS Floating Lidar Solutions has won a tender held by PGE Baltica for its Baltica 1 project in Poland, an 896 MW offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea that obtained grid connection terms in 2020. The Spain-based floating LiDAR provider has signed a two-year turn-key contract with the Polish offshore wind developer for a […]

  • UK: GL Garrad Hassan to Provide Celtic Array Met Mast

    22 November 2012

    Centrica has awarded a contract to GL Garrad Hassan, the renewable energy consulting business of the GL Group, for the design, supply, installation and operation of an offshore meteorological mast system for their Celtic Array project in the Irish Sea. Located 15km north of Anglesey, the system includes a meteorological mast, power supply system, navigational […]

  • The Netherlands: BMO Offshore Sells First Vessel Black Box

    24 September 2012
    Technology

    BMO announces the first sale of the Vessel Black Box to Frisia Offshore, Germany. The Vessel Black Box is a flexible, integrated vessel movement monitoring system. Innovative sensor solutions from the aerospace industry are used, with superior performance and much lower cost than conventional sensors used in the offshore industry. A complete system will be […]

  • German-Norwegian Energy Partnership to Be Expanded

    21 February 2013
    Authorities

    Norway’s role as one of Germany’s most important energy suppliers is to be further reinforced, as advocated by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel during a state visit to Oslo on Wednesday.  “It is my firm conviction that Norway will also play a role in future as an important pillar of the German gas supply, and we […]

  • Financial Drop Leads Senvion to Transformation Scheme

    25 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    Senvion has started to implement a transformation program to eliminate operational inefficiencies which led to a loss of revenue and profit in the 2018 financial year. Senvion stated that the immediate measure is focusing on disciplined execution throughout the installation chain with a target to recover lost revenues and profits in the new financial year. This comes […]

  • Deutsche Bucht Monopile Foundations All In

    8 January 2019
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Northland Deutsche Bucht GmbH has completed the installation of all 31 monopile foundations on the 269MW Deutsche Bucht wind farm in the German North Sea. The milestone concludes the first phase of construction within the planned timeframe, the developer said. “Installation work on the construction site, which is more than 100 kilometers off the coast, […]

  • Perpetuwave Power Wins UK Grant

    4 June 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Wave energy developer Perpetuwave Power PTY LTD announced its recently established subsidiary Perpetuwave Power UK Ltd has been awarded a grant of approximately $110,000 from the European Regional Development Fund Convergence Programme. The grant supports development of Perpetuwave Power’s world-leading ‘Wave Harvester’ technology. The “Wave Harvester” technology converts up to 40% of the oceans contained […]

  • NOAA to Survey U.S. Coastal Waters

    29 April 2014
    Authorities, R&D

    The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) ships, small boats, and hydrographic services contractors have their sailing orders to survey more than 2,000 square nautical miles in U.S. coastal waters this year, collecting data that will strengthen the foundation of the nation’s environmental intelligence. Most of the vessels are sailing to their initial project […]

  • Germany: RWE’s EBITDA Reaches EUR 5 Bln

    14 August 2012

    RWE improved its earnings performance in the first half of 2012 compared to the same period in the previous year. While revenue remained almost constant at 27.1 billion Euro, the operating result increased by 9 percent to 3.6 billion Euro and EBITDA also rose by 9 percent to 5 billion Euro. However, the first half […]

  • China: COSCO Delivers Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

    12 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited announces that COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd, has delivered one windmill turbine installation vessel (WTIV) “SEA INSTALLER” to its European buyer. The delivery documents were signed by and between COSCO Nantong and the buyer […]

  • TGS Completes Soil Survey for Doordewind Offshore Wind Zone

    23 October 2024
    Business development, R&D, Research & Development

    TGS has carried out a three-dimensional Ultra High-Resolution Seismic (3D UHRS) soil survey in the Doordewind Wind Farm Zone in the Netherlands. Commissioned by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), the 3D UHRS soil survey was conducted in the North Sea for the first time from mid-June to the end of August 2024. According to RVO, […]

  • Ørsted’s Projects On Track as Planned

    25 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted’s construction projects are all progressing according to plans, the offshore wind developer reported on 25 March, referring to the current situation with the world fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Royal HaskoningDHV Team Studies OW Financing Side

    6 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Energy Finance team (Leon Pulles, Johan Schoone) of Royal HaskoningDHV has executed research to reduce one of the offshore wind cost sources – the financing costs. The financing costs are defined as those costs arising from attracting debt and/or equity in order to finance the wind farm. The largest part of these costs arise […]

  • Nstar to Buy 27.5 pct Electricity from Cape Wind (USA)

    16 February 2012

    Gov. Deval Patrick announced yesterday that Nstar will buy 27.5% of electricity from the offshore wind project Cape Wind. If this offshore wind farm does not start spinning by 2016, Nstar will not have to buy electricity from Cape Wind, but it will need to find equal amount of clean energy from some other sources. […]

  • Germany: RWE to Deploy TRIAXYS Buoy at Nordsee Ost Wind Farm

    23 March 2012

    Knowing the environmental conditions around a wind farm is crucial to a wind farm operator. Making wrong decisions from inaccurate or incomplete data can be costly in terms of time, money or worse accidents. In an effort to ensure they receive accurate and consistent wave and ocean current data, RWE Innogy GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) has […]

  • Hydrosphere Provides O&M Services to FLiDAR

    30 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Hydrosphere is working with FLiDAR NV offering operations and maintenance services for the FLiDAR wind measurement buoys that are deployed within UK waters.  FLiDAR NV has developed the world’s most accurate buoy integrated Lidar for wind resource assessments. The state-of-the-art LEOSPHERE WINDCUBE®v2 LiDAR equipment has been installed on a custom-made data buoy platform designed by […]

  • Lloyd’s Register to Keep an Ear to the Ground at Horns Rev 3

    11 January 2016
    Environment, Grid Connection, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Danish transmission system operator Energinet.dk will be working with Lloyd’s Register (LR) on measuring underwater sound propagation for the Horns Rev 3 wind farm substation development. Energinet.dk will take on installation of the substation for guiding the electricity into the onshore grid. The substation, scheduled for installation later in 2016, is to be positioned on a […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Mothballs Offshore Nacelle Plant in Denmark

    27 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa is planning to pause the manufacturing of offshore nacelles at its plant in Brande, Denmark, citing delays in offshore wind projects as the reason. This, combined with the discontinuation of the production of the onshore Direct Drive (DD) technology in Brande and onshore blade production in Aalborg, could potentially lead to the lay off of up […]

  • Report: O&M Market to Grow as Wind Energy Becomes Cheaper

    11 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    The global wind Operations and Maintenance (O&M) is estimated to increase from USD 10 billion in 2015 to USD 17 billion by 2020, at a compound annual growth rate of 11.2%, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData. The company’s latest viewpoint states that technological developments have paved the way for more effective and reliable equipment and […]

  • Ministers Invited to Climate Dialogue

    18 May 2015
    Authorities

    German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius have invited around 35 ministers from all regions of the world to participate in the sixth Petersberg Climate Dialogue from 17 to 19 May 2015. With the Dialogue, Germany and France want to pave the way for a successful outcome at the United Nations […]

  • Forewind Deploys Wind Resource Assessment Lidar ZephIR 300 at Dogger Bank Wind Farm (UK)

    18 July 2011
    Technology

    Leading wind resource assessment lidar ZephIR 300, a Natural Power product, has been deployed offshore by Forewind to provide wind measurement data for the Dogger Bank wind farm. The system has been installed successfully on RWE Dea UK’s gas platform 125km from shore and will provide wind speeds at heights from just 10m to 200m […]

  • Aegir Deploys Wave Monitoring Buoy off St Ninian’s Isle (UK)

    30 June 2011

      Aegir Wave Power has commenced vital wave resource monitoring for its wave energy project off south west Shetland. The deployment of a wave rider buoy was completed with the support of the Scalloway-based NAFC Marine Centre. The Marine Centre has signed a support agreement with Aegir to assist in project development activities, which includes […]