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  • 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 […]

  • Alstom Considers Up to EUR 4 Bln for Shareholders

    14 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Alstom, who is selling power and grid business to US General Electric, might return up to EUR 4 billion to its shareholders. Earlier this year, Alstom board unanimously voted for GE’s EUR 12.35 billion bid, rejecting Siemens-Mitsubishi Heavy offer comprising EUR 8.2 billion cash and an asset swap. On 19 December 2014, the transaction with […]

  • CAPE Holland to Open Its Doors

    11 May 2015
    Technology

    CAPE Holland will open its doors to celebrate the product launch of the Vibro Lifting Tool on Friday, 22nd May and Saturday, May 23rd 2015 at their facility in Beilen, the Netherlands. Last year CAPE Holland introduced The CAPE Vibro System™ with the main component being the Register’ certified Vibro Lifting Tool (VLT). Equipped with […]

  • Germany: TenneT Needs Underwater Ordnance Disposal Services

    22 February 2013
    Grid Connection

    TenneT Offshore GmbH is seeking a contractor to provide underwater ordnance disposal services for an offshore wind farm. The work is expected to be completed by July 01, 2014. The work covers evacuation of munitions along the proposed submarine cable route to connect the Nordergründe offshore wind farm. The 28 km long route runs along […]

  • Spica Technology Secures Burbo Bank Extension Contract

    29 May 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Spica Technology is to deliver 32 remote maintenance platforms to be installed on the wind turbines of Ørsted’s Burbo Bank Extension wind farm in Liverpool Bay, UK. The 258MW wind farm comprises 32 MHI Vestas 8MW wind turbines which have been in operation since May 2017. The remote maintenance platform is an add-on data collection system […]

  • Finland: AW-Energy to Test Power Take Off Systems

    5 December 2013

    AW-Energy sets up natural size, dry land testing facilities for Power Take Off Systems used in its WaveRoller wave energy converters. A rental agreement is now signed for huge industrial premises to house these facilities in Jarvenpaa, Finland. The testing facilities are going to be unique globally and contain an electro-hydraulic system to generate “dry” […]

  • Study Shows Installation Method Strongly Influences Fatigue Damage of Foundations

    28 September 2015
    R&D

    ECN (Energy research Centre of the Netherlands) has released results of a test campaign that took place in June 2014 in the Bremerhaven where IHC IQIP, together with other industrial parties, measured the behaviour of monopile foundations under different driving methods in onshore conditions. Three piles were driven in the soil by hydraulic hammers of […]

  • SgurrEnergy to Attend WINDFORCE 2014

    5 June 2014

    SgurrEnergy will share its offshore wind expertise at the WINDFORCE 2014 exhibition and conference in Bremen, Germany. Key personnel from the company’s Hamburg office will deliver presentations to the key players and leaders of the offshore wind industry, and will be showcasing SgurrEnergy’s Galion Lidar, from stand B41 on 17-19 June 2014. Raya Peterson, principal […]

  • Maxccess Wind Turbine Access System on Display at Seawork 2011 (UK)

    10 June 2011
    Technology

    Safe, cost effective and efficient transfer between floating support vessels and offshore wind turbines is a ‘holy grail’ for the offshore wind industry. OSBIT Power (OP) has risen to the challenge, and developed the MaXccess system. MX11/01 was on display at Port of Tyne, South Shields on Thursday 9 June between 09:00 and 12:00. Overcoming […]

  • Lithuania’s Baltic Sea Offers Favorable Conditions for Development of Offshore Wind Farms

    9 October 2023
    Authorities, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    The Baltic Sea has favorable conditions for the development of offshore wind farms, according to the wind speed and other hydrometeorological parameters conducted by the Spain-based EOLOS Floating LiDAR Solutions. In July last year, two buoys with specialised equipment were deployed at two predefined locations in the Baltic Sea, as part of a contract signed […]

  • BSH Awards Geophysical Survey Contract for German Offshore Wind Zone

    22 May 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has awarded Fraunhofer IWES with a contract to carry out geophysical site investigation in the N-6 offshore wind area. The geophysical survey is set to be conducted this summer as part of the geological preliminary investigation at the N-6.6 and N-6.7 areas in the North Sea. The work includes the […]

  • 4Subsea Studying Digital Twin Cost-Reduction Potential in Offshore Wind

    1 May 2020
    R&D

    4Subsea has installed retrofit sensors on the Unitech Zefyros floating offshore wind turbine in Norway, with an aim to analyze cost reduction potential with a digital twin. The goal of the project is to prove significant cost reduction potential in offshore wind by using a digital twin of the substructure to measure actual loads and […]

  • Belgian OWFs to See Ownership Change

    10 July 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The European Commission has approved the restructuring of ownership over the Seastar and Mermaid offshore wind farms to be built in the Belgian North Sea.

  • SMC Adds Marine Mammal Observers to Its Services

    29 September 2015
    R&D

    Specialist Marine Consultants Ltd (SMC) have added environmental consultancy to their range of services by providing Marine Mammal Observers (MMOs). On two occasions, MMOs were supplied during geophysical surveys in the North Sea to minimise the potential negative impacts on marine wildlife. MMOs are responsible for implementing mitigation measures for the protection of marine wildlife […]

  • US DoE Orders Two WindSentinel Floating LiDAR Systems

    11 June 2014
    Authorities

    After a formal RFP process attracting responses from industry leaders, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DoE’s) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has awarded AXYS the contract to supply two WindSentinel floating LiDAR systems. The systems will be managed by PNNL to support research and development to help advance the U.S. offshore wind industry. “This award […]

  • Nordsee One Turbines Taking Shape (Gallery)

    8 March 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    innogy SE has shared several photos showing the installation of the first and the second Senvion 6.2M126 turbine at the 332ME Nordsee One offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Alstom 6 MW Haliade Gets Final Certification

    26 January 2015
    Technology

    The Alstom’s Haliade 150-6MW offshore wind turbine installed on the Carnet site in France has secured its final certification from the certification body DNV-GL. “This is a prerequisite for commercial operation,” Alstom said in a press release. The Haliade will be produced in the Saint-Nazaire plant inaugurated on 2 December 2014, with secured orders for […]

  • HORIZONS – The Application of Blockchain in the Energy Sector

    5 February 2019

    The potential for the use of blockchain within the energy sector is in focus of the third video in the Horizons series, co-produced by DOB-Academy and Offshore WIND with an aim to cover offshore wind topics in an easily digestible way. Blockchain remains a hard to understand concept. Some say it will change the way […]

  • ESVAGT Gets New Owners

    8 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    3i Infrastructure and AMP Capital have entered into an agreement to jointly acquire 100% of Danish company ESVAGT from Maersk Group. 3i Infrastructure will be investing approximately £109 million to acquire a 50% interest in ESVAGT and will have an equal shareholding with AMP Capital. Headquartered in Esbjerg, Denmark, ESVAGT provides emergency rescue and response […]

  • Germany: Regions’ Renewable Energy Competition Could Cause Overcapacity

    7 June 2012
    Authorities

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold a meeting with state premiers next week to discuss regional competition in producing electricity from renewable sources that could cause overcapacity in the future. The point of the meeting is to achieve better collaboration in coordinating the transition process  from nuclear and coal power to renewable energy, says the Bloomberg. Namely, […]

  • Osiris Projects Gets ISO14001 Accreditation (UK)

    4 December 2013

    Osiris Projects, company specialized in hydrographic and geophysical survey, has announced that it got ISO14001 accreditation certified through NQA for its environmental management system. ISO14001:2004 is a global specification designed to measure and limit environmental impact through significantly reducing energy and raw materials consumption, while lowering production of waste. As part of these improvements, the […]

  • Two Bombs Found at Rampion Site

    24 March 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    During the unexploded ordnance (UXO) surveys at the Rampion offshore wind site, two unexploded items have been found. The bombs, possibly from the Second World War 2 or even earlier, were located within close vicinity of each other within the offshore site. Nevertheless, the offshore construction is not affected by the UXO discovery. E.ON has issued a notice to […]

  • DONG Rebrands Following Oil and Gas Exit

    2 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    Danish energy company DONG Energy (Dansk Olie og Naturgas / Danish Oil and Natural Gas) is changing its name following the sale of its upstream oil and gas business to INEOS on 29 September.

  • 13 Companies Join Forces for Up to 20 MW Wind Turbines

    25 March 2014

    13 of the world’s leading companies in aerodynamics have now teamed up in the AVATAR project. They are developing the most advanced aerodynamic models for the next generation of large wind turbines, up to 20MW. These models are essential ingredients for integral design codes for large scale wind turbines and will be thoroughly validated. Ambitions […]

  • SRM Projects to Explore Discovery Passage Tidal Potential

    31 March 2014
    Environment

    SRM Projects, a Nanaimo based energy engineering firm, has recently been awarded investigative licenses for south Discovery Passage and Seymour Narrows to explore the potential for tidal power development in the region. “We have been working with SRM for the past couple years, and the award of investigative licenses is a natural next step in the progression of […]

  • Top Polish Oil and Gas Player Issues Offshore Wind Tender

    22 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, R&D

    Poland’s biggest oil and gas company, PKN ORLEN (Polski Koncern Noftowy), has announced a tender for the development of a preliminary technical concept to determine the options for preparing and implementing a project involving the construction of offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea.