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  • Ten-Point Plan Agreed for 3 Scottish Islands

    18 August 2014
    Authorities

    A framework between the UK Government and the 3 Scottish islands councils – the first agreement of its kind in the country – was launched on Friday by Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael. The Our islands framework, established in response to the Our Islands, Our Future joint campaign, will embed an islands voice at the heart of […]

  • SgurrEnergy Talks Offshore Renewables with Vince Cable

    13 March 2014
    Authorities

    SgurrEnergy met with Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable MP, secretary of state for business, innovation and skills, today to discuss the company’s role of innovation in the offshore renewable energy industry. The meeting is part of Dr Cable’s visit to Glasgow to open the UK Government funded Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, established to drive technology […]

  • eVision’s HSE Software Implemented on ‘Thialf’

    20 October 2014
    Technology, Vessels

    eVision Industry Software  has taken the next step in its partnership with Heerema. Today, Permit Vision goes live on the Thialf, the largest crane vessel in the world. Permit Vision allows Thialf management direct insight in and control of frontline operational risk, which is absolutely crucial to such a large installation. The implementation of Permit Vision on […]

  • Taiwan Bureau of Energy Awards TGC with Offshore Wind Grant Scheme

    28 January 2013
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Taiwan Generations Corporation (TGC) has been awarded as the first-place winner of the Offshore Wind Grant Scheme (the Grant Scheme) by the Bureau of Energy in Taiwan. The Grant Scheme will provide the financial support to the winners in order to realize a demonstration project composed of a 2-turbine pilot project and a 100MW-200MW offshore […]

  • Germans Issue Geophysical Survey Call

    3 October 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie) has issued a tender for a geophysical site investigation in the N-6 offshore wind area in the German North Sea. The geophysical survey will be carried out in spring / summer 2020 as part of the geological pre-exploration for the N-6.6 and N-6.7 offshore […]

  • Hull Event Presents Benefits of Green Energy (UK)

    22 February 2012

    GREEN energy is set to change the landscape of Hull forever. With Green Port Hull and its creation of jobs, the city is standing at the forefront of the green revolution. An event has been held in Hull to help people understand what green energy means to them and how they can make changes in […]

  • Denmark: Chair of Session Discuss About EWEA 2012

    26 March 2012

    In just under one month, Copenhagen will be home to Europe’s biggest wind energy conference and exhibition – EWEA 2012. The EWEA blog caught up with Emmanuelle Raoult, Chair of a session which delves into Europe’s progress on meeting the 20% renewable energy by 2020 target, to find out the current state of play…  What […]

  • TGS Secures Offshore Wind Site Characterisation Contract in UK Waters

    29 January 2025
    Business development, Collaboration, Equipment, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology, Vessels

    Norway-based energy data and intelligence company, TGS, has secured a contract for offshore wind site characterisation on the UK continental shelf for a repeat client.  According to TGS, the project is set to last around 60 days and will begin in the first quarter of 2025. The Ramform Vanguard will be deployed for the survey, […]

  • Hollandse Kust Noord to Add Floating Solar Panels in 2025

    3 August 2020
    R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    A floating solar demonstration project to be installed within the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm site will be constructed in 2025, according to TNO, the Dutch organization for applied scientific research. TNO will work on research and demonstration of offshore solar energy in the new offshore wind farm together with CrossWind, a Shell-Eneco consortium […]

  • Subsea Investigations Kick Off at Australia’s First Offshore Wind Project

    6 March 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Underwater investigations have kicked off on Star of the South, Australia’s first offshore wind project. Over two weeks, a crew will complete 24-hour seabed investigations including mapping the seafloor, measuring water depths and identifying buried infrastructure such as cables or shipwrecks. The work is being carried out from Lakes Entrance using the local vessel the […]

  • SMC Wins Formosa 2 Contract

    5 March 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    Specialist Marine Consultants (SMC) has secured a contract to provide marine coordination services for the Formosa 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. As for the Formosa 1 Phase 2 project, SMC will work with SeaPlanner and local communications company Mercury Data Systems to deliver a comprehensive marine coordination solution. This will comprise the design, communications […]

  • RWE Looking for Innovators to Boost UK’s Offshore Wind Supply Chain

    20 October 2022
    Contribution, R&D, Technology

    RWE has revealed that is seeking to attract UK companies to respond to three priority challenges within the offshore wind industry via Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Launch Academy, which is now open to new applications. Autonomous solutions and the best way to integrate them into wind farm site investigations, construction, and operations and maintenance […]

  • Shell’s South Korean Floating Wind Project Cleared for 1.3 GW Capacity

    8 March 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Shell and CoensHexicon have secured further two Electricity Business Licenses (EBLs) from South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy for their floating wind project off the coast of Ulsan. The joint venture obtained the first EBL for the MunmuBaram project in November 2021, when 420 MW of its capacity was approved, marking the first […]

  • BP, EnBW to Deploy Floating LiDARs at 3 GW Offshore Wind Project Sites

    29 October 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    BP and EnBW, who won lease rights for two offshore wind sites in the UK Round 4 leasing at the beginning of this year, have deployed two metocean buoys and will soon deploy two floating LiDARs as part of a metocean and wind measurement campaign at the two sites. The metocean buoys will stay at their […]

  • India Set to Install First Offshore Wind LiDAR off Gujarat

    18 January 2017
    R&D

    India’s offshore wind development will kick off in Gujarat, as the first LiDAR that will monitor wind conditions at sea is expected to be installed by the end of this month off the coast of the country’s westernmost state.

  • ABB 66 kV WindSTAR Transformers Make Debut on UK Demo Farms

    23 June 2017
    Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    ABB has delivered five new WindSTAR transformers to MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, to be deployed at the world’s first 66 kV offshore wind farm in the UK – the Blyth Offshore Demonstrator.

  • Equinor Deploys Floating LiDAR Offshore New York

    8 February 2019
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Equinor Wind US has deployed a Floating LiDAR at its offshore wind lease site in the New York Bight. The Floating LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) device will measure wind speed, wind direction, wave conditions and several other marine characteristics that help inform decisions in regard to the resource potential and eventual development of the […]

  • Europe Sees 1.9GW Offshore Wind Boost

    25 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    Europe added 1.9GW of new offshore wind capacity in the first half of 2019, up from the 1.1GW installed in the same period last year, according to WindEurope. Countries that contributed to the new installations are the UK with 931MW, including Ørsted’s Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm, Denmark with 374MW, Belgium with 370MW and Germany […]

  • Environmental Impact Survey Wraps Up at French Pilot Floater

    17 September 2019
    R&D

    An environmental impact survey has been carried out at the Groix & Belle‐Île pilot floating offshore wind project in France as part of the APPEAL collaborative R&D project. The work, which comes after scientific surveys carried out in April and August last year and this May, took place from 29 August to 8 September at the project site in the South […]

  • UK Helps Develop India’s Offshore Wind, First Tendering Process Expected in 2018

    28 January 2016
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, R&D

    UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office is funding a project under which a consortium of three British consultancies will support the Government of India in setting up its offshore wind industry. IT Power Consulting, CmY Consultants and SeaChange Offshore will deliver a 10-month long project that is focusing on the delivery of a concession competition process for new offshore wind […]

  • A&P Falmouth Shortlisted for Green Energy Award

    13 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Earlier this year A&P Falmouth completed its second major renewables project, Seatricity’s next generation Oceanus II, which is the first device to be deployed at Cornwall’s offshore renewable energy test facility WaveHub. A&P has been part of the development team from concept design to final build. The design being critical to how the drawings depict […]

  • Germany: ZF to Participate in HUSUM WindEnergy 2012

    21 June 2012

    ZF Wind Power, ZF Services, and ZF Test Systems will take part in HUSUM WindEnergy 2012, the leading wind energy trade fair, at the Nordsee Congress Center in Husum from the 18 to 22 September, in Hall 4, at stand 4C04 and 4D05.  ZF Wind Power, the new business unit of the ZF Friedrichshafen AG, […]

  • MHI Vestas Boosting Production at Lindoe Nacelle Factory, Seeks New Employees

    27 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    MHI Vestas will increase annual production at its nacelle factory in Lindoe, Denmark, to keep pace with offshore wind turbine demand, and is kicking off a recruitment process for 50 new employees. 

  • Siemens Celebrates Topping Out in Cuxhaven, Hull Factory to Start Operation Next Week

    23 November 2016

    Siemens held the topping out ceremony for its new wind turbine manufacturing facility in Cuxhaven, Germany, today.  The structural steel uprights now stand for the production building in Cuxhaven, which will offer 56,000 square meters of floor space. A two-story building enclosing some 3,800 square meters of floor space is being erected next to the production building […]

  • Siemens: Order Placed for 67 Dudgeon Offshore Wind Turbines

    21 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Energy has received an order from the Norwegian energy utilities Statoil and Statkraft for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm in the UK. Siemens will manufacture, deliver, install and commission 67 Siemens direct-drive wind turbines rated at 6 megawatts (MW) each and equipped with a 154-meter rotor. Installation will start in early 2017. The combined […]

  • UK Presents 2014 Energy Statistics

    31 July 2014

    The Department of Energy and Climate Change today releases 4 key publications: the Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics 2014, UK Energy in Brief, Energy Flow Chart, and Energy Consumption in the United Kingdom (web only) providing detailed analysis of production, transformation and consumption of energy in 2013. Key points Primary energy production fell by 6.3 per cent, […]