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  • SGS Wind Energy Technology Center Conducts Full-scale Wind Turbine Blade Testing (China)

    10 August 2011
    Technology

    On June 30, 2011, the SGS Wind Energy Technology Center (WETC) in Tianjin, China was awarded a contract to conduct full-scale Wind Turbine Blade Testing for one of the world’s leading component suppliers in the wind turbine industry. Throughout the entire contract, scheduled to run for approximately 8 months, SGS will perform frequency, static and […]

  • TU Hamburg to Minimize Offshore Wind Risk (Germany)

    21 December 2011

    The number of offshore wind farms is constantly rising. TU Hamburg focuses in its research on the safety of employees upon offshore wind turbine installation. The goal of this research is to identify safety critical situations and to propose the measures to minimize the risk. Professor Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud said that they will provide a solid […]

  • RTE France Requires Contractor for Offshore Wind Farm Impact Assessments

    20 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    RTE France (Réseau de transport d’électricité) is seeking contractors to provide offshore wind farm impact assessments and related documents for the electrical connection of offshore wind farms. The work relates to part-marine and part-terrestrial connections, bibliographic and measurement studies undertaken for campaigns at sea and ashore and landfill alluvial mapping. Within this contract, RTE also […]

  • UK Offers World-Class R&D Resources for Offshore Renewables

    11 April 2014
    R&D

    The news of the newly-merged National Centre for Renewable Energy and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult gives the UK the chance to develop R&D for offshore renewables at a greater pace, utilising fully the indigenous world-class expertise that the country has, BVG Associates says. Bruce Valpy, director of BVG Associates, commented: “We are delighted to […]

  • GDG Smartens Up Monopiles

    4 April 2016
    R&D

    Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) reported it has been able to offer up to 25% savings to developers and contractors by reducing the size of offshore foundations. GDG has been developing in-house optimization procedures for monopile engineering for four years and, in recent projects, it reached significant savings on the steel weights, which translates to a […]

  • Ecofys Assesses Borssele Offshore Wind Farm Zone

    28 August 2015

    Ecofys has assessed the offshore wind climate for the Borssele offshore wind farm zone in the Dutch North Sea. Combining offshore wind measurements with mesoscale model data, Ecofys found all of the analysed trends reasonable for an offshore site and consistent across modelled heights from 10 to 150 m. The calculated mean wind speed at […]

  • Orion En Route to Europe

    15 October 2019
    Vessels

    DEME Group’s DP3 offshore installation vessel Orion is on the way to Europe for the final construction phase before heading to its first offshore wind project. According to DEME, Orion will arrive in Rostock, Germany, in a few weeks, where it will be equipped with a Liebherr crane that has a lifting capacity of 5,000t. The […]

  • Second Offshore Wind Innovation Challenge Kicks Off

    14 May 2019
    Technology

    Offshore Wind Innovators, a community for companies active in the Dutch offshore wind industry, has opened the new edition of Offshore Wind Innovation Challenge for applications. In the first challenge of the competition, Deutsche Windtechnik is seeking a device or method to measure the present stress within the elongated bolt, without knowing the initial length of […]

  • Cosco Delivers WTIV MPI Discovery (UK)

    1 November 2011

    The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited (the “Company”) announces that COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard Co., Ltd (“COSCO Nantong”), a subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd, has delivered another windmill turbine installation vessel (WTIV) “MPI DISCOVERY” to its European buyer. The “MPI DISCOVERY” is designed to transport, lift and […]

  • USA: Providence Hosts Annual Marine Renewable Energy Technical Conference

    14 January 2013

    The 4th Annual Marine Renewable Energy Technical Conference was held at the Crowne Plaza in Providence, RI last week. Many scientists involved in the field of wave, tidal and offshore wind energy attended this conference, writes EcoRi. The focus was put on methods for measuring the great energy potential of the oceans. Even though energy harnessed […]

  • India: MNRE to Publish Offshore Wind Draft Guidelines Within Month

    8 May 2012
    Authorities

    As ET reported, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is likely to publish draft guidelines for offshore wind energy within a month, said Gomathi Nayagam, executive director of the Centre for Wind Energy Technology and chairman of the technical committee for offshore wind. Experts are forecasting the Dhanushkodi, Tamilnadu to install the first […]

  • Reportlinker Announces Global Alternative Energy Industry

    9 March 2012
    Business & Finance

      Reportlinker announced a new market research report “Global Alternative Energy Industry”. The global outlook series on Alternative Energy provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings. The report offers an aerial view of the global Alternative Energy industry, identifies major short to medium term market challenges, and growth […]

  • Dutch Issue Offshore Wind Assessment Call

    14 June 2018
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) has released a call for an independent assessment of the wind resources at the Hollandse Kust (noord) wind farm zone.

  • Japanese Utility Takes Part of Formosa 2

    3 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    The European Commission has approved the acquisition of joint control by JERA, Macquarie and Swancor over the Formosa 2 offshore wind project in Taiwan. The 376MW Formosa 2 offshore wind project is currently owned by Macquarie and Swancor. The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would raise no competition concerns as Formosa 2 has no activity within the European Economic […]

  • Ailes Marines Deploys Second LiDAR in Bay of Saint-Brieuc

    5 January 2017

    Ailes Marines, a joint venture between Iberdrola, RES and Caisse des Dépôts, is currently deploying an EOLOS FL200 floating LiDAR that will measure wind conditions in the south part of the site of its future offshore wind farm in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc.  In December, AXYS Technologies’ WindSentinel floating LiDAR was deployed as part of the project. The two floating LiDARs […]

  • Photo of the Day: Siemens’ Offshore Wind Infographic

    23 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: Siemens’ presentation on how offshore wind measures up. In March, Siemens announced that it will invest £160 million (EUR190m) in wind turbine production and installation facilities in Yorkshire. The revised plan will be spread across two sites comprising the previously announced Green Port Hull project construction, assembly and service […]

  • European Commission Okays Belgian Green Certificate Scheme

    16 February 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment

    The European Commission has approved certificates scheme for renewable electricity implemented in Flanders, Belgium, saying that the scheme is in line with EU State aid rules.

  • Ecofys: EU-Wide Renewable Energy Target Necessary Part of 2030 Portfolio

    18 April 2013

    In 2020, some leading EU energy and climate policies will expire. At present, the EU and its Member States are discussing the design of a post-2020 policy portfolio. In a discussion paper commissioned by the European Copper Institute, Ecofys shows that an EU-wide renewable energy target is a necessary part of a 2030 portfolio. The […]

  • Avanti Wind Systems Participates in Hannover Industrial Fair 2013, Germany

    12 April 2013

    Hannover Industrial Fair 2013 had around 180,000 visitors from more than 90 countries all over the world. It is the leading trade fair for Wind generation Technology, Components and Service. Avanti Wind Systems was one of the exhibitors, and in five days General Manager for Central Europe, Markus Oehler, and Service Manager Jens Stange had […]

  • GeoSea Finalises Borkum Riffgrund 1 Foundation Installation

    29 July 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    GeoSea has just finalized the installation of 77 foundations on the DONG Energy Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm. The installation works, including transport from the fabrication yard to the marshalling harbor, have proceeded in record times and finished ahead of schedule. The 77 units consisted of monopiles, weighing between 495 tonnes and 684 tonnes and measuring a diameter […]

  • Shanghai Electric Installs China’s First 8MW Wind Turbine

    15 January 2020
    Technology

    Shanghai Electric has installed the first 8MW wind turbine at its Shantou Intelligent Manufacturing Base in Guangdong Province, said to be the largest unit ever installed in China. Shanghai Electric holds a license to manufacture, sell, and install Siemens Gamesa’s 8MW Direct Drive turbines in China. The installed turbine has a rotor with a 167-meter […]

  • Saint-Brieuc OSS Equipped with Miros Wave & Current Sensor

    15 June 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Equans has picked Miros’ dry-mounted Wavex virtual sensor to collect operation-critical wave and current data on the offshore substation for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm, located around 16 kilometres off the coast of Brittany, France. Wavex is designed for highly accurate wave and current measurements that can calculate and display directional wave and surface current […]

  • Norway: ‘Ringing’ Phenomenon Caused by Waves Can Break Wind Turbines

    28 February 2013
    R&D

    Professor John Grue, one of the world’s leading experts on wave research from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oslo, discovered a wave phenomenon called ringing in 1989. It occurs when waves hit marine installations, causing a special type of vibration. According to Professor Grue, ringing can break wind turbines and it may […]

  • Vattenfall Strives for More Accurate Weather Forecast

    6 October 2014

    The weather is becoming increasingly important to many of Vattenfall’s operations. Managing the weather is of course impossible, but an R&D programme will aid the company to manage the impact of weather conditions. In 2011, a programme was initiated with the purpose of developing the capability to run in-house forecasts of weather and wind power […]

  • Geophysical Surveys Wrapping Up Offshore North Carolina

    27 February 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Geophysical surveys at the Kitty Hawk offshore wind project off North Carolina are being completed along with the associated cable-laying, Iberdrola said. According to Iberdrola’s 2019 financial results, the project is continuing apace and high-definition digital bird surveys have been carried out over the last 12 months. The company’s subsidiary Avangrid Renewables submitted an application to the U.S. Bureau […]

  • SPT Offshore to Deliver 2 Met Masts in China

    13 February 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    The two met masts, designed by KCI the engineers B.V., are intended to measure the meteorological and oceanographic data required for the future offshore wind farm developments.