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  • Avangrid Signs Second Multi-Million Community Benefit Package with Town Of Barnstable

    23 May 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Avangrid Renewables, a subsidiary of Spain’s Iberdrola, has entered into a Host Community Agreement (HCA) with the Town of Barnstable for the 804 MW Park City Wind offshore wind farm in the US. Under the agreement, Avangrid Renewables will pay the town USD 16 million (approximately EUR 15 million) as a host community fee, above […]

  • Vattenfall, TKF Form Long-Term Partnership for Offshore Wind Farm Inter-Array Cables

    6 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Collaboration, Contracts & Tenders, Outlook & Strategy, Supply Chain

    Vattenfall and TKF have signed a multi-year partnership for the supply of inter-array cables for offshore wind farms in Europe. The agreement covers the supply of 66 kV inter-array cables and will apply to all fixed-bottom European offshore wind farms developed by Vattenfall in the coming years. The framework contract, which is initially signed for […]

  • Aibel and Nexans Team Up for Floating Offshore Wind Development

    6 February 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, R&D

    Aibel and Nexans have announced that they will collaborate on the exchange of relevant information to strengthen the companies’ technical development and position in the floating offshore wind market. With the new collaboration, Aibel and Nexans aim to strengthen the development and position of deliveries to the market for floating offshore wind. The collaboration does […]

  • ABPmer Publishes Tidal Layer at Renewables Atlas (UK)

    10 October 2011

      ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) has published a further freely available tidal layer as part of its ongoing development of the Atlas of UK Marine Renewable Resources. The most recent addition illustrates tidal excursion ellipses around the UK continental shelf. Tidal ellipses are a representation of two key properties of the tide, namely […]

  • Germany: Alpha Ventus 2012 Yield Exceeds Expectations

    26 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    The annual yield of alpha ventus again exceeded expectations in 2012. During last year, Germany’s first offshore wind farm fed 267.8 gigawatt hours of power into the German power grid. At 15.3 per cent, the power yield is higher than the originally forecast value. The good yield trend also continued in the first quarter of […]

  • DONG Energy Comments Report by Danish National Audit Office

    23 January 2013
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Danish National Audit Office (Rigsrevisionen) has today published its report on DONG Energy. The report has been prepared at the request of the Danish Public Accounts Committee. In its report, Rigsrevisionen attaches importance to the fact that, since the  merger in 2006, DONG Energy has been pursuing a strategy designed to realign the company’s business […]

  • UK: Wind Towers Appoints New Managing Director

    21 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Dennis Breugelmans has been appointed Managing Director of Wind Towers (Scotland) Ltd, with effect from 1 January 2013. Wind Towers (Scotland) Ltd is a Campbeltown based wind tower turbine manufacturing and assembly plant. It is one of only two companies in the UK producing wind towers and is currently the only one capable of making […]

  • Sweden: Vattenfall Presents New Financial and Sustainability Targets

    28 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    In an extraordinary general meeting, new financial targets were established for Vattenfall. The company also presented its new sustainability targets. For example renewable energy growth rates should be higher than the market. The following new financial targets were established: Profitability target:  Return on capital employed of 9 per cent (operating profit/average capital employed). Capital structure: […]

  • Siemens Breaks Ground for Converter Test Center in Nuremberg

    11 May 2017
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Siemens has started building a EUR 35 million test center in Nuremberg for the latest generation of power converters used in high-voltage transmission projects.

  • Dock Laying Ceremony for SylWin Alpha Held at Nordic Yards (Germany)

    3 September 2012

    With the dock laying of SylWin alpha, Nordic Yards has reached another milestone in the production of the offshore converter platform. In Warnemünde, the traditional ceremony – which is known as “keel laying” in the case of ships – was held in the presence of representatives of the client Siemens Energy and the end customer, […]

  • SeaRoc to Charter MPI Adventure for NOAH Installation in Blyth, UK

    29 August 2012

    International marine engineering company SeaRoc can confirm that they will charter MPI Adventure to install Narec’s Offshore Anemometry Hub (NOAH), scheduled to take place in October 2012. SeaRoc Operations Director Toby Mead confirmed the Charter Party had been signed and commented: “MPI Adventure is a state of the art vessel coming into this project off […]

  • UK: ‘Champions for Wind’ Highlights Offshore Wind Job Opportunities

    11 July 2012
    Training & Education

    Champions for Wind is a careers education programme launched by Forewind, development partner for the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm zone, working together with the Humberside Engineering Training Association (HETA). The students have all been at secondary schools with teacher “champions” who were awarded bursaries through Champions for Wind to develop their own curriculum-based resources. […]

  • Spain: University of Barcelona Develops New Wind Monitoring System

    28 May 2012

    The Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona has developed an innovative wind prospecting system designed to being used especially in marine environments. The project is based on a hot air balloon which has a module with meteorological sensors and other positioning systems which allow knowing at all times wind strength and direction, regardless […]

  • Innovatum Adds Saab’s ROV to Its Fleet

    7 July 2014
    Technology

    Demand from the offshore wind industry has led Innovatum to add a second Saab Seaeye Cougar XT Compact to its ROV fleet. This comes as Innovatum’s reputation grows in the offshore wind industry for cutting the cost of inshore survey work. They have achieved this by creating the world’s smallest system of compact and rapidly […]

  • Canada, UK Team Up for Tidal Energy Research

    21 July 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D

    Nova Scotia has launched two new international research grants to further advance its position in the tidal industry. The two projects, worth $1.43 million, will help governments, industry and researchers better understand the effect tidal technology has on the marine environment, and the impact of the marine environment on that technology. This is the first announcement under […]

  • Lithuania Pours EUR 7.5 Million into Preparation for First Offshore Wind Tender

    3 December 2020
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Lithuanian government has allocated EUR 7.5 million to prepare for its first offshore wind tender and the development of the first 700 MW of offshore wind capacity in its part of the Baltic Sea. The funds will support environmental impact assessments and other studies and surveys to be carried out from 2021 until 2023 in […]

  • TÜV NORD to Certify Siemens Gamesa Titan

    29 June 2020
    R&D, Technology

    Siemens Gamesa has selected TÜV NORD to certify the world’s largest offshore wind turbine, the SG 14-222 DD. The turbine model has a capacity of up to 15 megawatts and a rotor diameter of 222 meters. The Hanover-headquartered technical services provider is responsible for the certification of the SG 14-222 DD’s prototype, scheduled for completion […]

  • Bokalift 2 Conversion Starts in Dubai

    18 May 2020
    Vessels

    Dubai-based Drydocks World has held a steel-cutting ceremony to mark the start of production on the Bokalift 2 conversion project for Boskalis B.V. Drydocks World will convert a drillship YAN into the offshore installation vessel Bokalift 2. This vessel is designed to carry out offshore operations for wind farm installations in Taiwan. The conversion scope […]

  • Hong Kong: Costs and Technical Issues Weigh Against Offshore Wind

    7 May 2020
    Authorities

    Adding offshore wind to Hong Kong’s energy mix is currently hindered by technical and financial issues, according to the latest information from official sources in Hong Kong. Namely, a representative in the Hong Kong Legislative Council, Kenneth Leung, filed a question regarding the government’s offshore wind plans on 6 May. Leung asked whether the government […]

  • New Investment in Red7Marine to Boost Its Offshore Energy Services

    16 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Red7Marine Group Limited has announced an investment in the Group by Perwyn Limited, a private equity investor. The acquisition of an interest in the Group by Perwyn is concomitant with a substantial injection of new capital to enable Red7Marine to acquire additional assets to service its clients in the offshore renewables, and oil & gas […]

  • Livestream from OEEC Community Square – Day 1

    22 October 2018

    The eleventh edition of the annual Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference (OEEC), being held in Amsterdam this week, will once again host talk-shows at Community Square at the exhibition floor of the Amsterdam RAI. OffshoreWind.biz will be live streaming these captivating discussions by the industry leaders focused on all aspects of the offshore energy world. The […]

  • EOLOS Lays Foundation in Japan

    23 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    Spain-based supplier of LiDARs to the offshore wind industry, EOLOS, is set to sign a memorandum of understanding with Japan Meteorological Corporation, thus making a significant step towards fulfilling its aim of entering the Japanese wind and ocean resource measurement market. 

  • Equinor Delays Applying for Norfolk Offshore Wind Farm Extensions DCO

    5 October 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Equinor has decided to extend the preapplication period for its Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind farm extensions, off the Norfolk coast, and now plans to apply for the Development Consent Order (DCO) for the projects by early summer 2022, instead of this year. The developer said extending the preapplication period would allow time to […]

  • Fraunhofer Unleashes New Bearing Test Bench

    8 May 2019
    R&D, Technology

    German research institute Fraunhofer IWES has presented the now fully operational rotor blade bearings test bench during the inauguration of a new test site in Hamburg. The goal of the BEAT 6.1 test bench (Bearing Endurance and Acceptance Test rig) is to lower development costs and reduce yield loss in order to make it more economical […]

  • Latvian, Estonian Cross-Border Offshore Wind Project Receives EU Funding

    13 July 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Business development, Research & Development

    The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) has approved a EUR 18.7 million co-funding for ELWIND, a 1 GW Latvia-Estonia cross-border offshore wind project. The co-funding is said to enable research to determine the environmental impact of the Latvian-Estonian ELWIND offshore wind farm sites and to plan the transmission network cross-border connections and […]

  • Buss Attends Dutch Offshore Wind Power Event

    24 November 2011

    Buss will be presenting itself and its offshore activities at the world’s largest trade fair for offshore wind power, the 2011 EWEA OFFSHORE in Amsterdam, from 29 November until 1 December. The port services provider has business locations on the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts, which are ideally suited for handling and transhipping offshore […]