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  • Waters off Cape Zoned for Wind Turbines (USA)

    29 December 2010

    Massachusetts and federal officials have designated a 3,000-square-mile swath of ocean south of Cape Cod and the Islands as available to… By Patrick Cassidy (southcoasttoday) [mappress] Source: southcoasttoday, December 29, 2010

  • Top News of the Week Jan 12 -18, 2015

    18 January 2015

    Siemens, Bernhard Schulte Sign Deal for Two New SOVs Siemens has signed a chartering agreement with ship owner Bernhard Schulte for two new service operations vessels (SOV) to be purpose-built for the long-term service and maintenance operations of the Gemini and Sandbank/Dan Tysk offshore wind power plants in the North Sea. RWE Cuts Renewables Budget […]

  • Top News of the Week May 26 – Jun 1, 2014

    2 June 2014

    GeoSea Installs All Westermost Rough Foundations GeoSea has finalized the installation of the foundations for the Westermost Rough (UK) offshore wind farm project. This DONG Energy project consists of 35 wind turbine positions 9 km from the coast near Hull in the north east of England, UK. Siemens Fine-Tuning Bid for Alstom German conglomerate Siemens […]

  • Top News of the Week of Jan 21– 26, 2013

    27 January 2013

    Alstom Launches Construction of Its Plants in Saint-Nazaire, France Alstom CEO, Patrick Kron, and Alstom Renewable Power President, Jérôme Pécresse, accompanied Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, in Saint-Nazaire, when he officially launched construction works of Alstom’s first two offshore wind turbine factories on Monday 21 January.   Spain: SUPRAPOWER Offshore Wind Turbine on Its Way SUPRAPOWER […]

  • New Report on USA Offshore Wind Energy Available

    18 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Analyzing Offshore Wind Energy in the United States – 2014” report to their offering. This research brings a complete in-depth focus on the US offshore wind energy industry in its report – Analyzing Offshore Wind Energy in the United States. The report begins with an exploration […]

  • New York’s 1st Offshore Wind Project Could Be Delayed

    11 August 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Indications that Public Service Enterprise Group Long Island (PSEG-LI) and the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) Board of Trustees could delay a much anticipated clean energy purchasing commitment is drawing criticism from groups who say the purchase is already long overdue. The LIPA Board, in coordination with PSEG-LI, was expected to make a decision on […]

  • CWind Appoints New O&M Head

    24 November 2014

    CWind appointed Lee Andrews as Global Head of Operations, Maintenance & Asset Management (O&M) Services. This new division reflects the growth in demand for CWind’s services within the O&M phase of the offshore assets’ life. And by creating an area of the business that has sole focus on O&M services CWind will be able to […]

  • OSBIT to Expand Workforce as New Orders Come In

    16 July 2014

    North East engineering firm OSBIT Power has lined up more than £10m of new projects in the last nine months – which is leading to the firm expanding its workforce. OSBIT, established four years ago and based in Riding Mill in Northumberland, has secured 23 projects ranging in value from £5,000 to £3m. They are […]

  • Statkraft Brings in New Recruits for SSOWF O&M

    16 May 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    Located off the coast of North Norfolk in the UK, the 317MW Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm (SSOWF) provides enough energy to power almost 220,000 British homes.  It is jointly owned by Norwegian companies, Statoil and Statkraft.  During Spring 2014, Statkraft, with responsibility for Operation and Maintenance of the SSOWF site, has successfully recruited eight […]

  • DeepOcean to Use New ROV for MV Deep Helder

    9 May 2014
    R&D, Technology

    DeepOcean has opted for the new concept Leopard ROV from Saab Seaeye. Rick Green, Regional Manager Netherlands at DeepOcean, said: “Environmentally we wanted an electric vehicle – yet one with work class performance. “For our application the Leopard gives us the equivalent capability of a much larger hydraulic work class vehicle – and its 11 thrusters […]

  • Tidal Lagoon Power Appoints New Construction Director

    1 July 2014

    Former CEO of Laing O’Rourke Australia, Steve Hollingshead has joined Tidal Lagoon Power as Construction Director with Electro-Mechanical and Power-Systems Engineer Peter Wright joining as Senior Electrical Engineer. With over 35 years of experience of delivering major global infrastructure projects, Steve began his career with Taylor Woodrow Construction. He joined R.O’Rourke & Son Ltd in […]

  • Denmark: New Bedford Delegation Visits Anholt OWF

    30 April 2013

    The delegation from a small port city on the East coast, New Bedford, Massachusetts, led by Mayor Jonathan Mitchell, visited the Anholt offshore wind farm on Friday. After they arrived in Grenaa, two boats took them to the wind farm site. “This is the first time we’ve all seen a wind farm in construction. We’re […]

  • Ireland: IT Power, Fraunhofer Iwes Announce New Partnership

    15 October 2012
    R&D

    IT Power and the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology IWES announce their new partnership to provide the marine energy sector with a comprehensive end-to-end technical design, consulting and R&D service offering. As the marine energy sector continues to evolve from early stage concepts towards project arrays, IT Power and Fraunhofer IWES […]

  • UK: AJ Woods Engineering Secures GBP 2.28 Million for New Jobs

    11 December 2012
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    An engineering firm has secured £2.28million to deliver new jobs for Harwich and respond to significant opportunities in the offshore wind sector. AJ Woods Engineering, which is based in the town, is to receive the money from the ‘Growing Places Fund’ following a successful bid to the South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP). The loan […]

  • 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: […]

  • The Netherlands: Ballast Nedam Names New Management Team

    2 October 2012

    As of 1 October 2012 the new management team of Ballast Nedam Offshore and Ballast Nedam Equipment Services will consist of S. (Sander) Dekker (33) en J. (Jurjan) Blokland (38) (chairman). Both men have worked at Ballast Nedam Offshore for quite some time and both were involved in the construction of the first offshore wind […]

  • UK: New VMMS Shows Great Results in First Tests

    18 September 2012

       Vessel Motion Monitoring System™ (VMMS™) developed to provide accurate motion monitoring, improves safety during vessel transfer operations.  Offers real time impact load measurement combined with additional data logging capability to support health and safety analysis and investigations.  Successful testing has been carried out by Submarine Technology Ltd (STL).  Development that further underscores the commitment […]

  • USA: New Offshore Wind Works Website Launched

    2 August 2012

    Offshore Wind Works has a new website offering news, facts, photos, videos, polls, and studies pertaining to offshore wind. Offshore Wind Works is an effort of the Clean Energy states Alliance’s Offshore Wind Accelerator Project (OWAP) to ensure availability of timely, fact-based information about the emerging U.S. offshore wind industry. OWAP is funded by several […]

  • The Netherlands: DNV to Open New Strategic Research Unit

    17 January 2013

    DNV will open a new Strategic Research Unit at DNV KEMA’s global headquarters in Arnhem, the Netherlands, which will focus exclusively on the further development of smart grids and super grids. Smart grids and super grids are key elements and a prerequisite to integrate large-scale renewable energy in the future energy system. The opening of […]

  • 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 […]

  • USA: Navigant Research Releases New BTM Wind Report

    26 March 2013
    R&D

    Navigant Research announced today that it has released the annual BTM wind report International Wind Energy Development: World Market Update 2012. The 180+ page BTM wind report, World Market Update 2012, published by Navigant Research, is the eighteenth edition of this annual wind energy market report. The report includes more than 80 tables, charts and […]

  • UK: Coastline Surveys Launches New Offshore Division

    12 March 2013

    As part of their continued growth, Coastline Surveys Ltd announces the launch of Coastline Offshore Ltd, a new division of the company specifically developed to meet the growing demands for specialist offshore geotechnical and geophysical services beyond their established coastal markets. The new division will enable the company to employ their considerable expertise in emerging […]

  • USA: Morrissey to Head New Bedford Wind Energy Center

    2 October 2013

    Mayor Jon Mitchell announced that he has asked long-time Economic Development Council Executive Director Matt Morrissey to lead the City’s effort over the coming year to develop the offshore wind energy industry and launch the New Bedford Wind Energy Center, a new public-private partnership established earlier this year within the New Bedford Economic Development Council […]

  • Wave Hub Appoints New Commercial Director (UK)

    1 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Wave Hub, the offshore renewable energy test facility in Cornwall, has recruited one of the industry’s leading commercial managers to help spearhead its future growth. Stuart Herbert has been appointed as Wave Hub’s commercial director to lead negotiations with companies planning to use the test site and identify new business opportunities. Stuart is joining Wave […]

  • TÜV SÜD PMSS Names New Chairman and Divisional Director

    9 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    Alan Chivers, founder and CEO of renewable energy consulting firm PMSS has been appointed as Chairman of the company, and will, over the coming month’s handover certain day-to-day responsibilities for the TÜV SÜD renewable energy division to Scott Craig, in the role of Divisional Director. In his new position as Chairman, Mr Chivers will shift […]

  • DONG Energy Comments UK’s New Strike Prices for Renewables

    4 December 2013
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    DONG Energy has commented the announcement from the UK Government about new strike prices. Brent Cheshire, DONG Energy UK Chairman said: “We welcome the announcements from the Government on the FID-Enabling process and the strikes prices today. This is a concrete step in the right direction from the Government towards fulfilling the next phase of […]