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  • BOEM, PNNL Collecting Wind and Metocean Data Offshore Hawaii

    16 February 2023
    Authorities, Research & Development

    The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have deployed a floating buoy offshore Hawaii to collect offshore wind resource and meteorological and oceanographic (metocean) data. Jump to: The floating research buoy, owned by the Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO), was installed in December 2022 […]

  • Lead-free Cables: The future for offshore wind farms

    6 September 2021

    Wind power continues to emerge as one of Germany’s key energy sources. Offshore turbines are being engineered for ever greater capacities, which presents new challenges for energy transmission in the turbines themselves and in the offshore wind farms. As well as the technical challenges, health and safety considerations are another important factor. Operators of offshore […]

  • New US Offshore Wind Guidance Document Approved, Said to Speed Up Development

    14 October 2022
    Industry

    The US offshore wind sector has gotten its new official guidance that can be used in the regulatory approval process. The document contains best practices and is said to help accelerate development of the offshore wind industry, shorten regulatory timelines, and increase worker safety. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Board of Standards Review approved […]

  • ODS-Petrodata Forecasts Global Offshore Wind to Power 60 Major Cities by 2020 (UK)

    15 October 2010
    R&D

    ODS-Petrodata today announces the release of the International Offshore Wind Market Report: 2010-2020. This report presents key demand and supply information and draws conclusions about how this market will evolve over the next decade, including the forecast that global offshore wind market capacity could reach 59.8 GW – enough to power 60 cities the size […]

  • Research and Markets Publishes Strategic Analysis of Global Market for Materials in Wind Turbine Blades (Ireland)

    30 March 2011

    Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan’s new report “Strategic Analysis of the Global Market for Materials in Wind Turbine Blades” to their offering. This research service presents a strategic analysis of the global market for materials in wind turbine blades. It provides definitions of the constituent market segments as well […]

  • Low Emission CTV Starts Servicing Equinor’s UK Offshore Wind Farms

    21 October 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Norway-headquartered Equinor has chartered Seacat Columbia, a new BARTech 30 crew transfer vessel (CTV), from Seacat Services, for operations at its Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon wind farms offshore Norfolk, England. The charter will cover service at the 317 MW Sheringham Shoal and the 402 MW Dudgeon offshore wind farms, both operated by Equinor from its […]

  • New Scour Protection Project Potential Price-Cutter

    31 January 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    A new UK consortium is developing a self-installing scour protection system said to be able to save an average offshore wind farm approximately GBP 8.6 million over its lifetime. The Self-Installing Scour Protection for Offshore Wind Farms (SISProtect) project is being led by Seabed Scour Control Systems (SSCS), who will carry out the design of the prototype Frond […]

  • Denmark: Offshore Wind Farms and Fish Live in Harmony

    11 April 2012
    Environment

    The first Danish study into how one of the worlds largest wind farms affects marine life is now completed. It shows that the wind turbines and the fish live quite happily together. Indeed some species of fish have actually increased in number. As work is just beginning on Denmark’s newest and so far largest offshore […]

  • World’s First Floating Wind Farm Outdelivers

    15 February 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The 30MW Hywind Scotland, the world’s first commercial-scale floating wind farm, performed better than expected in its first three full months in production, Statoil, the operator of the wind farm said.

  • Canada: FORCE, Nortek Scientific to Develop Technology for Tidal Measurement

    21 November 2013
    R&D, Technology

    The Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE), in partnership with Nortek Scientific, has announced the construction of the world’s first instrument to provide high-resolution, real time measurements of turbulent water flow at turbine hub height – called the Vectron. A leap forward in site characterization technology, the Vectron is able to capture highly accurate […]

  • Damen Delivers Twin Axe Fast Crew Supplier to Sure Wind

    20 January 2014

    The first of two Damen Twin Axe Fast Crew Suppliers has officially been handed over to British company Sure Wind. A specialist in the German offshore wind market, Sure Wind already has work for the two newbuild FCS 2610 vessels. The first vessel Sure Star will head straight to Esbjerg and will then be deployed […]

  • Forewind’s ‘Champions for Wind’ Ends

    2 October 2015
    Training & Education

    Forewind’s flagship schools education programme Champions for Wind has now drawn to a close with more than 3000 students and 41 teachers having taken part over the past four years. Launched in 2011 with the Humberside Engineering Training Association (HETA), the programme aimed to raise awareness amongst primary and secondary pupils of the potential career […]

  • Fugro Showcases Its InclinoCam at EWEA Offshore 2013

    19 November 2013
    Technology

    Fugro has announced that its newly launched InclinoCam® is featured on Fugro’s stand (30A100) at EWEA Offshore 2013. “The need to measure verticality of wind turbines starts with the foundation,” explains Dieuwertje Smallenburg, Positioning & Remote Services Manager at Fugro Survey BV. “Most offshore wind turbines are founded on monopiles that typically measure 70 metres […]

  • Damen Unveils New Offshore Vessel Charging Concept

    13 June 2024
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Damen Shipyards Group has developed a new concept for offshore charging said to offer a way to dramatically reduce emissions during the operational phase of an offshore wind farm. The system envisages a fully electric crew transfer vessel (CTV) which can charge at either a turbine or one of Damen’s commissioning service operations vessels (CSOVs) […]

  • NREL to Study Feasibility of Gulf of Mexico Offshore Wind

    18 July 2017
    R&D

    The U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will carry out a new survey to examine the feasibility of various potential offshore renewable energy resources in the Gulf of Mexico, primarily offshore wind.

  • LM Wind Power to Develop Innovative Turbine Blade

    19 March 2014
    R&D, Technology

    LM Wind Power has announced the launch of an innovative research project to develop wind turbine blades with flexible tip lengths. The company is leading a consortium that will develop a cost effective, flexible blade length concept with the potential to reduce cost of energy by 8-10%. This project addresses the untapped potential of optimizing […]

  • Incat Crowther Offshore Wind Farm Work Boat Available in USA

    9 June 2011

    Incat Crowther licensee Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation, has announced the availability of a new work boat for developers and service providers of offshore wind farms in the United States. Incat Crowther’s first Catamaran Wind Farm Service Vessel, built by Lyme Boats in Exeter, England, is now in service in the North Sea for P&O Maritime […]

  • Cape Wind Publishes Responds to RFK Jr. (USA)

    19 July 2011

    Over the past eight years Robert F Kennedy, Jr. has been attacking the Cape Wind project, while also calling for the greater use of wind and solar power as alternatives to coal. In so doing, Mr. Kennedy has been derided by those across the political spectrum who say his misleading objections mask an entitled and […]

  • Taiwan Gets Complete Offshore Wind Development Guidelines

    7 February 2017
    Authorities, R&D

    ITPEnergised (ITPE), Ramboll and BMT Asia Pacific (BMT) have delivered their third and final set of best practice guidelines for development of offshore wind farms in Taiwan and presented them to the local industry.

  • All-Energy 2014 Opens Tomorrow

    20 May 2014

    All-Energy 2014, the UK’s largest renewables exhibition and conference, opens tomorrow (Wednesday 21 May) at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre with a plenary session featuring both the Secretary of State for Scotland, Rt Hon Alistair Carmichael MP, and Fergus Ewing MSP, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism with other speakers including Rob Cormie, Group Operations […]

  • OWIM 2013 Main Focus: Bringing Offshore Wind Costs Down

    25 October 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The main focus of the OWIM Conference this year was cost reduction in offshore wind installation and maintenance, which would eventually lead toward cheaper electricity generated from offshore wind resources. Two sessions were held under the title Bringing Down LCOE (Levelised Cost of Energy), discussing lessons learned in foundation, turbine and cable installation, as well […]

  • DAVI iRoll eXtreme Control System : Setting new standards in off-shore foundations manufacturing

    6 October 2021

    By Dario Mulazzani, DAVI Product & Market Specialist Wind Energy & Heavy-Duty Division Located in such a dynamic and extremely powerful element as the sea, foundations represent one of the main elements of any off-shore wind farm which typically accounts for over one-fourth of the total equipment cost. Foundations must support the wind turbines by […]

  • RWE Signs Lease Agreements for Dogger Bank South Offshore Wind Farms

    19 January 2023
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    RWE has signed Agreements for Lease with the UK’s The Crown Estate to develop the two offshore wind farm sites known collectively as Dogger Bank South (DBS). DBS East and DBS West are located over 100 kilometres offshore in the shallow area of the North Sea known as Dogger Bank. Each project could have an […]

  • Germany: Prince Joachim of Denmark and Minister Altmaier to Visit HUSUM WindEnergy

    10 September 2012

    This year HUSUM WindEnergy is expecting high-ranking visitors: Germany’s environment minister Peter Altmaier and H.R.H. Prince Joachim of Denmark will be visiting the world’s biggest wind trade fair. His Royal Highness Prince Joachim’s attendance on 19 September 2012 emphasises Husum’s long association with neighbouring Denmark, which from the very first has been a partner of […]

  • OWEP Goes Online (Norway)

    18 December 2011

    This month Norwegian wave energy developer, Intentium AS launches open wave energy project – owep. This is meant to be a hub where developers, decision makers, suppliers and students, can publish their own project or request for involvement. This will typically be a project for a complete ocean energy system, a sub-system, a scientific theory […]

  • Chartwell Marine and Zelim Develop Unmanned Rescue Vessel

    24 September 2021
    R&D, Vessels

    Scottish start-up Zelim, developing a lifesaving system for offshore energy, has partnered with naval architect Chartwell Marine to deliver a remotely operated unmanned rescue vessel.  As the offshore energy sites present a challenging environment for personnel and vessel crews, with a huge risk of man overboard (MOB) incidents and traditional approaches to search and recovery […]