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  • The Netherlands: Announcing Offshore Energy 2014

    15 September 2013

    Offshore Energy  Exhibition and Conference 2014 will be held on 28 & 29 October 2014 at the Amsterdam RAI, the Netherlands. 2014 brings the 7th edition of Offshore Energy. Offshore Energy is the fastest growing gathering of offshore industry professionals. Founded in 2008 with 70 exhibitors and 1,765 visitors, Offshore Energy has been breaking records […]

  • UK: MacArtney Inline Termination for Andritz Hydro Hammerfest

    11 September 2013

    MacArtney has announced that leading tidal power array developer and supplier, Andritz Hydro Hammerfest, has recently taken delivery of a MacArtney Medium Voltage Inline Termination.  Connecting tidal power to the grid with Andritz Hydro Hammerfest Due to the link with the lunar cycle, tidal currents can be predicted in advance and with stable energy flow […]

  • Germany: Windreich Files for Insolvency

    10 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    German wind energy developer, Windreich AG, filed for insolvency last week while the company’s CEO Willi Balz submitted his resignation yesterday. Werner Heer has assumed the role of the new CEO. With this step, Windreich tightened the course for the rehabilitation of the company. In cooperation with the previous management, Heer will focus in particular […]

  • USA: SGA Backs O’Malley’s Legislation

    1 February 2013

    The University of Maryland Student Government Association (SGA) members are giving their support for Governor O’Malley’s wind energy bill, and they hope it will make it out of the General Assembly, writes The Diamondback Online. If the bill passes, Maryland would see a 200MW wind farm off its Eastern Shore. James Jalandoni, Student Government Association […]

  • Teachers from Hull to Educate about Offshore Renewables (UK)

    14 February 2012
    Training & Education

    Ten teachers from the Hull region are going to become educators in a renewable industry education program started by Forewind. Forewind is a consortium comprising four leading international energy companies which joined forces to bid for the Dogger Bank Zone Development Agreement as part of The Crown Estate’s third license round for UK offshore wind […]

  • Crawford Gillies Re-Appointed as Chair of Scottish Enterprise

    19 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth, John Swinney, today announced the re-appointment of Crawford Gillies as Chair of Scottish Enterprise. Scottish Enterprise is the Scottish Government’s main agency for economic development in North East, Central and Lowland Scotland. The Scottish Government provides Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise with a clear […]

  • Denmark: kk-electronic Launches Multipurpose System, ‘C’ Platform

    17 April 2012
    R&D

    The global challenge in the field of energy is increasing. Prices on traditional fossil energy are increasing and governments are constantly looking for alternatives with a sustainable profile. This puts wind on the agenda as an energy source that is an operational alternative, and it demands for wind energy to become competitive compared with other […]

  • WinWinD Participates in Danish Wind Energy Event

    11 April 2012

    Espoo-based wind turbine manufacturer, WinWinD, will showcase its expertise at EWEA 2012 in Copenhagen 16 – 19 April. Siva Group and Finnish Industry Investment Ltd. are main shareholders of WinWinD which was founded in 2000 in Oulu. The company is manufacturing and supplying wind turbines with capacity of 1 and 3 MW. WinWinD will be […]

  • The Netherlands: TenneT Converter Platform Connected at Dockyard Zwijndrecht

    10 April 2012
    Grid Connection

    At Easter Sunday two separate decks of TenneT’s 80 metres high offshore converter platform were successfully mounted on each other in the yard of Heerema Factory Group in Zwijndrecht. The platform of Dolwin1 is currently being built by Heerema Factory Group, subcontractor of TenneT’s main contractor ABB. The HVDC Light converter platform will be installed […]

  • MEA, DBED Commission Three Offshore Wind Supply Chain Analyses (USA)

    1 March 2012
    Authorities

    Kinetik Partners released three offshore wind supply chain analyses commissioned by the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) and the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED) in response to questions raised during the General Assembly’s legislative summer study. These reports assessed the sufficiency, competitiveness and opportunities for development of several of Maryland sectors critical for […]

  • TenneT Suggests Programme to Facilitate German Energy Transition

    20 February 2012
    Authorities, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    In November 2011, TenneT informed the German Federal Chancellery and the German federal ministries of economic affairs and the environment that the construction of connecting cables for offshore wind farms in the German part of the North Sea is no longer possible under current conditions. The current structure is not suitable to accomplish the ambitions […]

  • Pension Denmark Reports Growth in 2011

    26 March 2012

    Pension Denmark reported another year of growth. In 2011, the Pension company achieved a return on investment of DKK 10.5 billion. Premium income rose to 10.5 billion, and the balance sheet grew by DKK 16 billion to DKK 122 billion. “We are very pleased to give members one of the industry’s highest return in 2011, […]

  • Ireland: Arklow Marine Delivers ‘Gardian 8’

    16 March 2012

    After the Arklow Marine successfully launched and tested its first 20 m Wind Farm Service Vessel Gardian 8, the vessel departed Arklow last Monday arriving at Ramsgate on Tuesday afternoon. Gardian 8 will be operated by its new owners Dalby Offshore Renewables. To meet current enquiries from the offshore industry Arklow has recently designed a new […]

  • Germany: EnBW Raises EUR 250 Million

    15 March 2012

    EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, Karlsruhe, successfully increased the hybrid bond issued in October 2011, which had an initial volume of € 750 million, by a further € 250 million. The bond met great investor interest and was oversubscribed several times. The terms of the increase correspond to those of the bond issued in October and […]

  • UK: Bond Air Services Cleared to Fly

    9 May 2012

    Bond Air Services, the UK’s largest independent emergency and mission critical helicopter operator providing air ambulance helicopter services, police and marine support to offshore wind farms and lighthouses, will resume flight operations of the EC 135 fleet at 07:00 on 9th May. Bond Air Services took the decision to suspend all flight operations for the […]

  • Wave Energy Coming to Ireland

    7 May 2012

    The fact that Ireland is one of the countries that has the best waves is not a secret, but how to make use of those waves in terms of making energy? TheJournal.ie reports that this has been a crucial question for many years now and Ireland has invested a vast amount of money and time […]

  • UK: Navalu to Exhibit at Seawork

    4 May 2012

    The company will be exhibiting at Seawork at stand B-201 on May 22 – May 24. French Builder NAVALU, located on the French Atlantic Coast, in the Vendée region have just taken the first delivery of the aluminium for the structure for the NxS 24 our WFSV. The performance numbers for the vessel are better […]

  • Cape Wind Unlikely to Start with Production by Mid-2015 (USA)

    16 January 2012

    New England’s power grid manager said that the Cape Wind offshore wind project is unlikely to start producing electricity by mid-2015, even though Cape Wind officials think otherwise, reports The Associated Press. Proposed in 2001, Cape Wind is still seeking buyers for the unsold half of its power. For the sold part of projects power, […]

  • MPI Adventure Arrives to Harwich International Port (UK)

    26 July 2011

    Harwich International Port welcomed the MPI Adventure on its maiden operational call to the port. In conjunction with the jack-up vessel Seaworker, which has been working at the port since March of this year, the MPI Adventure will begin installing monopile foundations and transition pieces for Phase 1 of the London Array Offshore Windfarm.  David […]

  • CSR Develops 3MW Wind Turbine (China)

    18 July 2011

      Recently, a 3MW high-adaptability wind generator was developed in CSR Zhuzhou Electric Co., Ltd. According to the source, this is the country’s most powerful of its kind in commercial operation and volume production. Due to small size, light weight and mature technology, double-feed wind generator is a mainstream product in the domestic wind power […]

  • Freshwater Wind 2011 Summit (USA)

    29 June 2011

    Infocast returns this year with its 2nd Annual Edition of the Freshwater Wind 2011 Summit at the Doubletree Hotel – Dearborn in Detroit MI, July 18-20, 2011 and the timing couldn’t be better! Spurred by LEEDCo’s enormous 30-MW Ohio 2012 wind project with expectations of 1000-MW of capacity in Lake Erie by 2020, potentially producing […]

  • Aluminium BoatBuilding Delivers ‘Viking’ to Excel Marine Services (UK)

    14 June 2011

    Aluminium BoatBuilding Co Ltd has recently delivered “Viking” to Excel Marine Services Ltd in Whitstable, this 18.25m aluminium catamaran is the 16th “Catfish” catamaran whose design was specifically developed for UK and surrounding waters. The vessel is the 8th “Catfish Crewcat” supplied into the growing offshore windfarm industry. This is Excel Marine’s fith catamaran in […]

  • Taiwan Launches 2,700-Ton Ocean Research Vessel

    13 June 2011
    R&D, Technology

    Taiwan launched a 2,700-ton ocean research vessel in the southern port city of Kaohsiung June 13, opening a new chapter in the nation’s … By Kwangyin Liu (taiwantoday) [mappress] Source: taiwantoday, June 13, 2011;

  • David Shepherd Joins Able UK

    10 June 2011

     The former head of international development at Yorkshire Forward has taken on a development role with Able UK – the business behind the … (insidermedia) [mappress] Source: insidermedia, June 10, 2011;

  • Cable Laying for Walney 2 (UK)

    19 May 2011
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

      At Cleveleys near Blackpool, the Stemat Spirit cable barge arrived just off shore in the afternoon of Saturday 7 May. It beached in the early hours of Sunday 8 May in the morning, waiting for very low tide. At about 9 a.m., the process of pulling the cable from the spool on board the […]

  • Ministers Push to Develop Ocean Recources (Belgium)

    25 November 2011
    Authorities

    Ministers of the governments of Ireland, the UK, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey today called on the European Union to give its full backing to the development of the massive ocean energy resources that exist in these regions. The governments gave their support to a Member State Position Paper […]