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  • 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. […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. 

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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: […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • Vattenfall, CIP Dutch Offshore Wind Farm Delayed to 2032, Project to Be Built in Two Phases

    11 August 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Green Hydrogen, Planning & Permitting, Power-to-X, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The completion date for Vattenfall and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ offshore wind farm at the IJmuiden Ver Beta site in the Netherlands has been pushed from late 2029 to 2032 due to the delayed completion of the Delta Rhine Corridor (DRC). In addition, the 2 GW offshore wind project will now be built in two phases. […]

  • France: Alstom Inaugurates Largest Offshore Wind Turbine

    20 March 2012

    On 19 March, Alstom inaugurated the largest offshore wind turbine in the world, at Carnet in the Loire-Atlantique. The ceremony was attended by Eric Besson, Minister of Industry, Energy and the Digital Economy, and Patrick Kron, Chairman and CEO of Alstom. The 6 MW Haliade 150 wind turbine has been developed in response to a […]

  • Sif Produces First Empire Wind 1 Monopile in Netherlands

    29 November 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    The first of 54 monopiles for Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm in the US has been manufactured at Sif’s Maasvlakte 2 site in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. On 28 November, the first monopile for Empire Wind was completed on the new production line of the expanded production facilities at Maasvlakte 2 Rotterdam. In February […]

  • Local Manufacturer to Deliver Biggest Jacket Foundations to Be Built in Taiwan

    30 March 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) has selected Century Iron & Steel Industrial (CIS) and Century Wind Power (CWP) as the preferred suppliers of jacket foundations, including transition pieces, for the 300 MW Hail Long 2A offshore wind farm in Taiwan. For the project, which is bound by localisation requirements, CIS and CWP will deliver 21 three-legged […]

  • Shell and RWE Pinpoint North-East of England for Gigawatt-Scale Offshore Wind-to-Hydrogen Projects

    12 November 2021
    Business & Finance, Environment, R&D, Technology

    Shell New Energies and RWE Generation will explore the possibilities of establishing integrated projects for the production of green hydrogen using offshore wind power on a gigawatt scale in the industrial regions in the north-east of England such as Teesside and/or Humberside. The plan is one of the steps set out in a recently signed […]

  • Navantia and EOLOS Bringing Unmanned Technology to Offshore Wind O&M

    29 September 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Spain’s naval services provider Navantia and EOLOS Floating Lidar Solutions SL have signed an agreement for the development and commercial exploitation of services devoted to the inspection, diagnosis, and monitoring of offshore wind farms around the world using and operating unmanned marine vehicles combined with advanced meteorological data acquisition systems. The two companies have signed […]

  • Deutsche WindGuard Backs Northland on Nordsee Two Bid

    8 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Deutsche WindGuard Offshore reported on 8 June that it had been appointed by Nordsee Two GmbH to provide comprehensive support in preparing its bid for the N-3.8 offshore wind site being auctioned in the German North Sea. For the 433 MW Nordsee Two project, the German consultancy provided an optimised turbine layout, in-depth site assessment, […]

  • Bourbon Subsea Services to Handle TetraSpar Demonstrator Floating Wind Turbine

    23 March 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics, R&D, Technology

    Bourbon Subsea Services will manage the transportation and installation of the 3.6 MW TetraSpar Demonstrator Floating Wind Turbine. This new turnkey stage, a part of Bourbon’s partnership with TetraSpar Demonstrator ApS, includes project management, engineering, installation, and offshore execution from the assembly port in Grenaa, Denmark until the hookup and the inter-array cable installation on […]

  • Scottish Floating Offshore Wind Project Completes All Offshore Survey Campaigns

    18 October 2023
    Business development, Floating Wind, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    All offshore survey campaigns have been completed across the Pentland floating offshore wind farm’s site area and cable corridor in Scotland. “This is a significant milestone for any offshore wind development, and we are pleased to have safely and successfully completed a number of survey and monitoring campaigns over the past three years that gives […]