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  • RWE Completes Nordsee Ost Operations Base

    6 June 2014

    RWE Innogy has completed its service and operations station on Helgoland. A two-storey building with warehouse, offices and workshops has been built in around a year on a site of around 3,000 square metres in size at the island’s southern harbour. The offshore wind farm Nordsee Ost will be operated and maintained from here for […]

  • Nine Companies Compete for EEEGR Energy Innovation Award

    5 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Nine finalists will line up to compete for the East of England’s top awards for new ideas in the energy industry. Companies from across all aspects of the energy world are challenging for the 2014 Energy Innovation Awards to be staged by EEEGR, the East of England Energy Group, at Norwich City Football Club’s Top […]

  • Red7Marine Carrying Out Repair and Maintenance Work at London Array

    29 May 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Remedial construction works at the London Array Offshore Wind Farm have been launched and will be performed until August 2014. The work is being done at a number of turbines locations. Red7Marine Offshore Ltd is undertaking diving and construction work within the London Array site. Operations will be conducted from the vessel Red7 Reel, a […]

  • ECN Approves Mitsubishi Electric’s Compact Wind Lidar

    28 May 2014
    R&D, Technology

    The Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) has conducted tests to validate and subsequently approve Mitsubishi Electric’s compact wind lidar as complying with European wind measurement standards. The lidar (portmanteau of “light” and “radar”) is a remote sensing apparatus that projects a laser beam and then evaluates the reflected light to measure wind speed. […]

  • Osiris Creates Construction Timeline of ‘Bibby Athena’ Offshore Survey Vessel

    23 May 2014
    R&D, Technology

    Osiris Projects, part of Bibby Marine Survey Services, have issued an updated timeline with the latest time lapse footage of the ‘Bibby Athena’ build so far. Since the original video was made available the build has progressed substantially. Fabrication of the hull is now complete and the updated timeline footage is now live on Osiris Projects’ website. […]

  • German Minister of Economics and Energy to Open WindEnergy Hamburg

    23 May 2014
    Authorities

    The wind industry worldwide will be watching very closely what happens in Hamburg in almost exactly four months’ time – WindEnergy Hamburg has its premiere at the Hamburg Fair site from 23 to 26 September.  “Sigmar Gabriel, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, will open WindEnergy Hamburg. That underscores the importance of this leading industry fair […]

  • SgurrEnergy Assesses Power Performance from Offshore Wind Turbine’s TP

    20 May 2014
    R&D, Technology

    A pioneering offshore wind measurement campaign by SgurrEnergy, part of Wood Group, has completed the first ever power performance assessment (PPA) using a scanning lidar deployed on the transition piece (TP) of an AREVA M5000 offshore wind turbine. This success has huge implications for the offshore wind industry as this study shows that PPAs can successfully […]

  • 11 Irish Companies Establish Wave Energy Developers Association

    24 April 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    The inaugural meeting of the Irish Wave Energy Developers Association (IWEDA) took place on 18 April,2014 at NUI Maynooth. The organisation is made up of 11 Irish companies who are all developing different Ocean Energy Technologies. The association’s aims are: To promote the establishment a viable Ocean Energy Industry in Ireland. To secure government and […]

  • The Crown Estate Hails Support for Five OW Projects

    24 April 2014
    Authorities

    The Crown Estate has welcomed the contracts announcement by the UK Government for eight renewable electricity projects, including five for offshore wind farms. The contracts represents a total of 4.5 GW potential capacity – enough clean electricity to power over three million homes – with more than 3.1 GW of that from offshore wind. The […]

  • BizMDOSW to Host Maryland Offshore Wind Industry Meeting

    21 April 2014

    As part of the 11th Annual Baltimore Green Week, the Business Network for Maryland Offshore Wind (BizMDOSW) will be holding a conference about the offshore wind industry in Maryland. This event, which will update the public and private sector about the latest developments, will be held at the Perdue Hall at Salisbury University on April […]

  • RUK Announces Programme for Global Offshore Wind 2014

    17 April 2014

    Renewable UK has announced the programme for the 13th Annual Global Offshore Wind 2014, which will take place over two days, 11th – 12th June, in Glasgow. This time with a truly global focus, this event is designed to showcase the UK ofvfshore expertise. It offers a forum for over 3500 delegates and 250 international exhibitors from the emerging […]

  • EWEA to Host Debate on EU Subsidies to Power Sector

    16 April 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D

    In the context of the European Commission’s upcoming study, due in June 2014, EWEA is hosting a public debate on subsidies to the power sector with speakers from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the European Commission and the fossil fuel sector. The debate will be held on April 29 in EWEA’s office […]

  • MMO Releases OW Post-Consent Monitoring Report

    15 April 2014
    Environment, R&D

    The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has issued a review of environmental data associated with post-consent monitoring of licence conditions of offshore wind farms. Fugro EMU has been contracted to undertake a review of post-consent monitoring data and reports collected from the UK offshore wind farm developments to investigate the evidence associated with environmental impacts and […]

  • Upfront Investments in O&M Reduce Lost Power Production

    14 April 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    DBB Jack-up, an operations and maintenance service provider to offshore wind farm owners and turbine manufacturers, today released a new report on operations and maintenance in the offshore wind industry. The report based on exclusive research by MAKE Consulting reveals that the time lost in power production in the event of a major component replacement […]

  • Five Big OW Companies Test Vibratory Driving of Monopiles

    7 April 2014
    R&D, Technology

    RWE Innogy, DONG Energy, EnBW, E.ON and Vattenfall are running a one year onshore demonstration project near Cuxhaven on the German North Sea coast to validate the vibratory driving of wind turbine monopile foundations, in comparison and as evolution to current impact driving of these piles. The potential benefit is faster and more environmentally benign […]

  • OPT Plans to Raise Funds for Future Operations

    4 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) intends to offer shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering which will be subject to market and other conditions. Roth Capital Partners is acting as the sole manager for the offering. OPT will use raised funds for capital expenditures, and general business purposes, including additional development, testing and […]

  • Kyushu University, ClassNK Form Department of Ocean Energy Resources

    3 April 2014
    Authorities

    Kyushu University (President Setsuo Arikawa) has announced that it has established a new Department of Ocean Energy Resources with support from leading classification society ClassNK (Chairman and President: Noboru Ueda). This new department will join the Graduate Faculty of Engineering at Kyushu University and will be supported by ClassNK for two years from 1 April […]

  • Slaughter and May Advises DONG Energy on Westermost Rough Case

    1 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Slaughter and May advised DONG Energy on its proposed disposal of a 50% interest in the 210MW Westermost Rough offshore wind farm to a joint venture established between Marubeni Corporation and UK Green Investment Bank plc.  The law firm also advised the energy company on the terms of certain related financing, construction management, operations and […]

  • Navitus Bay Signs MoU with Three Local Ports

    1 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Navitus Bay Development Ltd (NBDL) yesterday officially entered into ‘memoranda of understanding’ (MOU) with three local ports – Poole, Yarmouth and Portland. These formal agreements commit the developer to undertaking studies with the ports that will explore how their facilities could be best used in both the construction and operation & maintenance (O&M) phases of […]

  • BRTP to Demonstrate Its Tidal Energy Technology in Bay of Fundy

    31 March 2014
    R&D, Technology

    Black Rock Tidal Power (BRTP) has been awarded one of only two demonstration berths by the Nova Scotia Government. The Honourable Andrew Younger, Minister of Energy announecd this at the Nova Scotia Comunity College in Dartmouth on Friday. The company will showcase its innovative technology at the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE), Canada’s leading […]

  • Smulders Projects to Build Dudgeon OWF Transition Pieces

    5 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    On July 3, Smulders Projects was awarded the contract for the supply of 67 Transition Pieces for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm.  The Dudgeon Offshore Windfarm will be constructed on the coast of Norfolk, South East England. The wind farm comprises 67 monopile foundations on which 6 MW turbines will be placed. This large capacity […]

  • TÜV SÜD PMSS to Advise on Offshore Wind Cable Spacing

    31 July 2014
    Grid Connection

    PMSS America, Inc., the US division of global renewable energy consulting firm TÜV SÜD PMSS, supported by submarine cable specialists Red Penguin Associates Ltd. of the U.K., has been selected to provide strategic guidance to the US Department of the Interior and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) on cable spacing for U.S. offshore wind projects. […]

  • Siemens to Supply 48 Turbines for Dutch Wind Farm

    28 July 2014

    Siemens Energy has received an order for the Netherlands’ largest near shore wind farm. Designed to generate 144 megawatts (MW) of wind power, the Westermeerwind project with 48 direct drive wind turbines is also the first wind power plant Siemens Wind Power’s Offshore unit will erect for handover to the customer on a turnkey basis. […]

  • WSP to Design Substations for 3 Dong’s Wind Farms

    28 July 2014
    Grid Connection

    WSP has been awarded three contracts to provide civil design support to DONG Energy on the Walney Extension, Burbo Bank Extension and Race Bank Wind Farm projects. The contracts are for the provision of engineering services for all aspects of the civil design of the new onshore substations for the three projects. WSP has been […]

  • Gamesa Doubles Net Profit to EUR 42 Mln

    25 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    Gamesa ended the first half of 2014 with €42 million in net profit, almost twice the 1H13 figure (€22 million). This increase strengthens the growing trend in profitability, with an EBIT margin of 7.7% at constant exchange rates, and in revenues, which increased by 21% at constant exchange rates. The €71 million reduction in debt […]

  • Elia Gets Green Light for Belgian Offshore Grid

    23 July 2014
    Grid Connection

     The grid operator Elia was granted a permit for the construction and operation of a high voltage offshore grid in the North Sea called “Belgian Offshore Grid” (BOG). This week Ministers approved the project that would feature two substations, with one installed on an artificial island or platform west of the Lodewijkbank, 34 km off […]