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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Pioneer Buys Two Subsea Services Providers

    17 June 2022
    Business & Finance

    UK offshore wind pioneer Venterra Group is acquiring two compatriot companies as part of its goal to build a service offering across the wind farm lifecycle, including engineer, build and support services. Venterra revealed it is buying Balltec, a provider of high-integrity connectors for subsea and marine engineering in the renewable energy sector, and Partrac, a provider […]

  • 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.

  • LiDAR to Replace Arklow Bank Met Mast

    24 September 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Fugro is set to replace the meteorological mast at the Arklow Bank offshore wind project in Ireland with a LiDAR as part of maintenance work. Fugro will use the jack-up barge Aran 250 to conduct the work on the northern end of the project between 23 and 30 September, subject to weather conditions. Offshore works include removing the 30m […]

  • Granada Material Handling to Supply Beatrice Davit Cranes

    13 September 2016

    Bladt Industries A/S has awarded a contract to Manchester-based company Granada Material Handling for the design, manufacturing, delivery and commission of 30 davit crane units for the Beatrice offshore wind farm. Each of the Granada ‘Python’ crane units has been specifically designed for Beatrice and the marine environment in which it will operate. One ‘Python’ crane […]

  • USA: DOE Releases Small Business Innovation Research Funding Opportunity Announcements

    27 November 2012
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D

    The Department of Energy announced a series of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA).  In the area of Wind Power development, the Department seeks to award funding for the development of a met-ocean package for offshore wind. Awarded under Topic 10a, this funding opportunity seeks proposals that can cost-effectively develop a met-ocean […]

  • Oil & Gas Company to House Offshore Wind LiDAR on Its New Zealand Gas Platform

    24 August 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Australian oil and gas company Beach Energy will install a Doppler Light Detection and Ranging system (LiDAR) on its Kupe platform in the gas field located offshore South Taranaki, New Zealand, and will share the obtained data with multiple offshore wind developers. On 23 August, the consortium between BlueFloat Energy, Energy Estate and Elemental Group […]

  • Fraunhofer IWES Secures Funds for Offshore Wind Turbine Test Field

    21 December 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) has awarded Fraunhofer IWES with an EUR 18.5 million grant for the development of an offshore wind turbine test field in Bremerhaven. The test field is set to start operating in early 2017, the German research institute said, with construction works already underway. The site will be used to […]

  • Energy Transition Becoming Visible in Netherlands

    9 October 2014

    The Dutch National Energy Report reveals that the objectives for renewable energy and energy savings have not yet been achieved, but the climate objective has, and employment in the energy sector is shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy and savings.  Thanks to energy savings and the increasing production of renewable energy, greenhouse gas emissions […]

  • Driven by data. A vessel monitoring system on the FCS 2710

    20 September 2019

    When it was first introduced to the maritime market, Damen’s Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2710 – the successor to the FCS 2610 – hit the headlines for many reasons. Stepless and safe crew transfers, increased passenger capacity and an optimised hull are all pieces of the puzzle that illustrate the evolving design. All in all, […]

  • 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 […]

  • PKN Orlen Kicks Off Geological Surveys Offshore Poland

    29 October 2019
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    PKN Orlen has commenced geological surveys at its offshore wind farm license area in the Polish Baltic Sea. The vessel sailed from the port of Gdansk to carry out the surveys at the circa 131km2 area located some 23km from the coast which will accommodate up to 1.2GW of offshore wind. The collected soil samples will be […]

  • DOE Deploys AXYS WindSentinel Buoy off Atlantic City

    10 December 2015
    Authorities, R&D

    The U.S. Energy Department (DOE) recently deployed the AXYS WindSentinel buoy off the coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey, to gather necessary data needed to plan future offshore wind deployments. The buoy is one of the two the Energy Department owns. In December 2014, researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory deployed the other buoy near Virginia […]

  • 3i, AMP Complete ESVAGT Acquisition

    21 September 2015
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    3i Infrastructure plc and AMP Capital have completed the joint acquisition of 100% of Danish company ESVAGT A/S from Maersk Group, following clearance from the European Commission under the EU Merger Regulation. The transaction was announced in July this year, where by 3i Infrastructure invested £111m to acquire its 50% interest. “The sale to 3i Infrastructure […]

  • Gulf of Thailand Could Host 7GW of Offshore Wind Power

    13 April 2015
    R&D

    Researchers from Thailand and Canada have published a paper on offshore wind potential in Thailand.  The paper presents offshore wind resource maps of the Gulf of Thailand. The offshore wind resource maps are validated using measured wind speeds obtained from 28 meteorological towers installed along the coast of the Gulf of Thailand. The study shows that the Bay of […]

  • Pulse Completes Monitoring Project for Dong

    1 May 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    Pulse Structural Monitoring (Pulse) has completed a subsea integrity monitoring project for a Dong Energy offshore wind farm. Pulse supplied a system to measure the motion of a number of unsupported sections of subsea cable at the Gunfleet Sands wind farm in the UK sector of the Southern North Sea. The investigation was to determine the impact […]

  • Alstom to Exhibit at WindEnergy Hamburg

    29 July 2014

    From September 23-26, 2014, Hamburg will become the gateway to the world of wind energy. WindEnergy Hamburg unites major global onshore and offshore players under one roof. It brings together a high-calibre, professional audience and more than 1,000 exhibitors demonstrating their innovations and solutions from across the entire value chain of the industry. This new […]

  • HelWin Beta Topside Ready to Go

    9 June 2014
    Grid Connection, Technology

    Heerema has successfully loaded the HVDC topside of Siemens’ HelWin beta platform onto a seagoing barge. On Saturday, the HelWin beta topside was loaded onto the H-542 barge, operated by Heerema Marine Contractors, a sister division of Heerema Fabrication Group, which built the platform. In October 2012, Heerema started the construction of the 10,200-ton HVDC […]

  • Avangrid Shareholders Approve Iberdrola’s Takeover

    27 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Industry, Outlook & Strategy

    Avangrid’s shareholders have approved Iberdrola’s acquisition of the remaining 18.4 per cent of Avangrid’s capital, through a merger operation. The acquisition was supported by approximately 99 per cent of the votes cast, compared to just 1 per cent of votes cast against. The percentage of support amongst the voting shareholders, if the votes of Iberdrola […]

  • Shell and Eneco Win Second Hollandse Kust West Site, 756 MW Offshore Wind Farm to Include Several Nature Protection and Enhancement Measures

    15 December 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Wind Farm Update

    Ecowende, a joint venture of Shell and Eneco, is the winner of the permit for the second Hollandse Kust West (HKW) site, HKW Site VI, where the joint venture will build a 756 MW offshore wind farm with a special focus on nature. The project, expected to be commissioned in 2026, will be built in […]

  • NIRAS Keeps an Eye on Kriegers Flak Seals and Birds

    12 October 2015
    Environment, R&D

    Birds and seals have got GPS transmitters on them, and the birds are monitored with radar in preparation for the establishment of Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm. It is a requirement for large construction projects such as ports, bridges and wind farms, that they must not affect the nature significantly. This requirement is particularly important […]