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  • Floating LiDAR Deployed at 1 GW Scottish Project Site

    6 December 2022
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Partrac has deployed a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) system at the site of the Buchan floating wind project offshore Scotland. The floating LiDAR device was deployed as part of the campaign to measure wind, metocean, and environmental conditions of the project in the North Sea, around 75 kilometres off the Aberdeenshire coast. This followed […]

  • AXYS Partners with IN VIVO for French Market

    1 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    AXYS Technologies Inc. (AXYS) announced that they will be partnering with IN VIVO for WindSentinel™ sales and support in France. “We are pleased to work with IN VIVO because of their extensive experience in the field of environmental monitoring combined with their background in marine engineering and their capacity for vessel support,” says Graham Howe, […]

  • Discussion on Offshore Wind Rescue Chain to Be Organized (Germany)

    18 April 2013
    Training & Education

    All participants of the“Rettungskette Offshore Wind” research project, which entails emergency rescue actions for offshore wind, led by Prof. Christian Jurgens and coordinated by Dr. Nils Weinrich, can look back on an eventful and exciting first year of the project. To discuss the findings of this project, a symposium will be held on 26 and […]

  • Belgians Start Growing Mussels on Offshore Wind Farms

    2 June 2017
    Authorities, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    A Belgian consortium of research institutions and companies has started a project to investigate if mussels could be grown on offshore wind farms.

  • South Boats Launches South Cat 22m ‘Iceni Venture’

    23 January 2015
    Vessels

    South Boats IOW, UK’s manufacturer of wind farm service vessels (WFSV), has launched its first of class South Cat 22m named ‘Iceni Venture’ for Iceni Marine Services Ltd. The all new South Cat 22m has benefited from the extensive testing programme carried out to understand the benefits and limitations to various hull forms and how […]

  • Marine Designs Installs Pontoon for Ørsted in Barrow

    20 March 2018
    Vessels

    Marine Designs has installed a new pontoon in Barrow, which will serve for the berthing of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) working on Ørsted’s offshore wind farms.

  • Keel Laid for Van Oord’s Next-Gen Jack-Up Vessel Boreas

    28 December 2022
    Vessels

    Van Oord’s next-generation jack-up vessel Boreas had its keel laying ceremony at the Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore (YCRO) yard in China on Tuesday, 27 December. The 175-metre vessel will be the first to feature Wärtsilä’s dedicated fuel supply system for methanol, MethanolPac. The jack-up will be purpose-built for the transport and installation of foundations and […]

  • E.ON Unveils Rampion Offshore Wind Farm Plans (UK)

    7 February 2012

    Energy company E.ON is presenting its plans for a 700MW offshore wind farm in Albourne. The Rampion offshore wind farm will be located 13-23km off the Sussex coast upon being installed in water depths of 19 to 50 meters, covering area of 167 square kilometers. Construction and operation of this wind farm is 100% owned […]

  • City of Corner Brook Welcomes Offshore Wind Announcement (Canada)

    23 September 2013
    Authorities

    The City of Corner Brook is encouraged by the announcement that Beothuk Energy is working toward establishing a manufacturing facility in Corner Brook for offshore wind farm gravity based structures. “This announcement, with the promise of as many as 600 to 1000 jobs, is excellent news for Corner Brook and the entire west coast,” said […]

  • KIC Nominates Innovators for EIT Awards

    15 April 2015

    KIC InnoEnergy, the European company for innovation, education and business creation in sustainable energy, has nominated five innovators for the 2015 European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Awards. The winners will be announced at INNOVEIT 2015 in Budapest, Hungary on 6th May. “Our goal is to support innovation in Europe’s sustainable energy sector, and […]

  • iSURVEY Appoints Skillful Business Development Manager

    27 January 2015
    Business & Finance, R&D

    iSURVEY, a provider of survey and positioning services to the global oil and gas, offshore renewables and telecommunications markets, has appointed Iain Milroy as business development manager at the company’s Aberdeenshire office.  As part of this newly created role, Iain will focus on the development of the business in the UK as well as North […]

  • Rhenus Logistics Makes More Room for Seaway Heavy Lifting at Rotterdam Maasvlakte

    7 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Rhenus Logistics has officially opened its new quay and has added a new harbour mobile crane at the Deep Sea Terminal on the Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam.

  • Metocean Survey Starts Offshore Ireland

    29 July 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Metocean devices will be deployed in the Irish Sea in late July or early August to collect data on waves and currents at the site of the proposed Arklow Bank offshore wind project. Four separate devices will be deployed off the East Coast of County Wicklow, Ireland, using either the AMS Retriever or Husky, a […]

  • First Foundation Up at Borssele 1&2

    13 January 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    DEME Group has installed the first foundations at Ørsted’s Borssele 1&2 offshore wind project in the Netherlands. DEME’s jack-up vessel Innovation loaded the first set of monopiles at Sif’s facility on Maasvlakte 2 earlier this month and transported them to the wind farm. “The first monopile installed was also the heaviest and tallest on the wind farm, […]

  • SeaPlanner Joins Yunlin Construction Phase

    29 October 2019
    Technology

    SeaPlanner, SeaRoc Group’s marine management system, has been selected to support the construction of the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan. SeaRoc said that the agreement is part of its strategic partnership with Mercuries Data System (MDS), which is contracted to deliver communications and marine coordination software and hardware for the 640MW project. SeaPlanner will be used […]

  • RWE Lines Up EUR 5 Billion for Renewables Switch

    15 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    German energy company RWE has secured a EUR 5 billion credit agreement in preparation for the integration of the renewables activities of E.ON and innogy. The line of credit, provided by 27 international banks, was significantly oversubscribed, RWE said. Under the agreement reached in March 2018, E.ON is to take over RWE’s 76.79% stake in innogy, whereas RWE is […]

  • Hollandse Kust Noord WRA All Done

    13 May 2019
    R&D

    A consortium of Oldbaum Services, Pondera Consult, Whiffle and Deltares has completed the wind resource assessment (WRA) for the Hollandse Kust (Noord) wind farm zone. The assessment included determining the wind climate for the area and verifying it by using data from met masts and floating buoys with measuring instruments on them. The data was then combined with […]

  • Australia: Tidal Energy Project Announcement to Boost Wave Energy Development

    30 July 2013

    The Albany Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Russ Clark has welcomed recent announcement about the Western Australia’s first full-scale tidal energy project, writes ABC News. Last week the Environment Minister, Albert Jacob, gave the green light to the Tidal Energy Australia’s (TEA) proposal to build a station at Doctor’s Creek, near Derby, with a capacity […]

  • ERDC’s Field Research Facility Deploys Largest Wave Energy Converter in U.S.

    28 February 2013
    R&D, Technology

    The Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Field Research Facility (FRF) in Duck, N.C., recently hosted Resolute Marine Energy for a full-scale test and evaluation of their surge wave energy converter (WEC). Resolute Marine Energy is a Boston, Mass.-based company developing technologies that produce clean energy from ocean waves. The WEC is designed to generate electricity by […]

  • Boskalis Reduces Its Stake in Fugro, Now Holds Less than 25%

    6 December 2016
    Business & Finance

    Royal Boskalis Westminster informed yesterday that it had reduced its holding in Fugro to 24.9%. In its 2015 annual report, Boskalis stated that it held 28.6% of Fugro’s shares per 31 December 2015. In March 2015, Boskalis acquired 25.14% Fugro’s shares, which triggered a legal dispute between the companies after Boskalis wanted to have a […]

  • Meteorology for Wind Energy Launched at EWEA 2015

    19 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Dr Lars Landberg, a meteorologist at DNV GL, has launched a book titled ”Meteorology for Wind Energy: An Introduction” at this year’s European Wind Energy conference in Paris, aimed at helping non-meteorologists understand the critical concepts that underpin wind energy technology and project success. The fundamentals of meteorology dictate the success or failure of wind projects, says […]

  • Dong Completes Foundation Installation at Gode Wind 1, 2

    16 September 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    At the two offshore wind farms Gode Wind 1 and 2, the last of 97 foundations has been installed. Dong Energy achieved this milestone ahead of schedule due to smooth foundation installation. Altogether, the installation of the 97 monopiles and transition pieces took five months. Trine Borum Bojsen, Managing Director of DONG Energy in Germany […]

  • Narec Welcomes Siemens’ Facility Plans

    26 March 2014

    Recently, Siemens announced plans for new offshore production facilities in Great Britain worth more than EUR190 million.  Andrew Mill, Chief Executive, Narec commented “The offshore wind industry has enjoyed a record breaking year in terms of new deployment and installed capacity. This latest announcement that Siemens is to invest £160m in wind turbine production and installation facilities […]

  • Global Wind Summit 2018 Opens

    25 September 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Global Wind Summit 2018 has officially started in Hamburg, Germany.

  • Germany’s BSH Opens Tender for Offshore Wind Geophysical Investigations

    25 March 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has issued a tender for geophysical site investigation in the N-6 offshore wind area in the North Sea. The geophysical survey is set to be carried out this summer as part of the geological preliminary investigation at the N-6.6 and N-6.7 areas. The work includes the measurement of approximately 1,100km using […]

  • GE: Technology Innovation Is Key to Meeting Stringent Environmental Targets

    9 December 2015
    Technology

    Paul Floren, Global Communication Leader at GE Power Conversion, said that technology innovation plays a key role in reaching global climate change targets, which are being discussed at the ongoing COP21 summit in Paris. Read the full article: With the United Nations COP21 meeting in full swing, all eyes are on global climate change targets […]