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  • MPI Acquires RWE’s Victoria Mathias WTIV

    5 January 2015
    Vessels

    MPI Offshore has acquired wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Victoria Mathias, from RWE Innogy. Built in 2011 the vessels is designed to transport, lift and install wind turbines and their foundations. Key features include a 1,000-tonne-capacity main crane, a maximum operating depth of 45 metres and the ability to jack with 4,350 tonnes of cargo […]

  • UK Labour Party Confirms Offshore Wind Commitment

    21 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    The UK’s Labour Party has reaffirmed its offshore wind commitment in its General Election manifesto, claiming it will build 7,000 new turbines in UK waters. In September, the Labour Party announced it plans to build 37 new offshore wind farms with a 51% publicly owned stake in the UK. Under the People’s Power Plan, the party […]

  • US OMSA Forms Offshore Wind Committee

    5 June 2019

    The U.S. Offshore Marine Service Association (OMSA) has formed the OMSA Wind Committee said to be dedicated to supporting the local offshore wind industry and the Jones Act. The OMSA Board of Directors unanimously adopted the resolution to create the committee and charged it with making recommendations on strategies and initiatives that increase U.S. maritime industry involvement in […]

  • Are Renewables Losing Grid Priority in Europe?

    3 November 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection

    The European Commission’s ”leaked” plan to end the “priority dispatch” for renewable energy in electricity grids is set to harm investments in European wind and solar power systems to the tune of billions of Euros, according to European industry initiative EU ProSun.  According to an article published in the Guardian newspaper on 1 November, the European […]

  • Met Office Modelling Offshore Wind Data for Crown Estate

    14 July 2015
    Authorities, R&D

    The Met Office is supplying new modelled datasets for the UK’s offshore wind resource to The Crown Estate. The Met Office said the new data is more accurate than previous modelled datasets and backed up by 30 years of historic data. It provides a higher resolution picture of the UK’s offshore wind resource that will […]

  • Damen Fits New Feet to MPI Resolution

    10 April 2014
    Technology

    Damen ARNO Dunkerque, part of the Damen Shiprepair & Conversion Group, has given a new set of ‘feet’ to the world’s first purpose-built offshore wind turbine installation and maintenance vessel, the 2003-built MPI Resolution. The yard has carried out upgrades on the feet or ‘spudcans’ of all the jack-up vessel’s six legs to give them […]

  • DHI Makes 18-Year Metocean Database for Rampion

    4 June 2015
    R&D

    With construction activities for the Rampion offshore wind farm slated to commence this month, DHI has announced that it performed an extensive Metocean assessment of the wind farm.  DHI established an 18-year database of Metocean conditions at the site, including information on wind, waves, and tides, which are necessary for determining the design of wind turbine […]

  • Stril Explorer Sets Sail to Beacon Wind OWF Site

    13 August 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    MMT’s DP2 multipurpose support vessel Stril Explorer is on its way to the Beacon Wind project site offshore Massachusetts, where MMT will carry out geophysical survey. In April, Equinor Wind US awarded MMT US with a contract for survey work at its offshore wind lease area off New England. The contract includes high resolution geophysical, benthic […]

  • Van Oord Officially Takes Over MPI Offshore

    2 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    Van Oord has completed the acquisition of the UK-based MPI Offshore from Vroon Group, as well as vessels MPI Adventure and MPI Resolution.

  • UK: HiDef Completes Testing of Its ‘Next Generation’ Surveying Technology

    28 August 2012

    HiDef has recently completed its 12 month long development and testing programme for its ‘next generation’ of imaging technologies. HiDef uses its patented technology to provide an aerial survey and mapping service to large scale infrastructure developers.  John Martin, Managing Director of HiDef, said “we couldn’t be more delighted with the development and testing phase […]

  • ABPmer Extends Its Services to Baltic

    4 May 2015

    ABPmer has extended its SEASTATES service to include the Baltic Sea. As with their SEASTATES service for other regions, the Baltic forecast combines meteorological data with high resolution wave models and is validated against local observations. In the forecast, this means that the models are continuously “trained” so improving the accuracy of the “raw” forecasts. […]

  • Japan Approves New Offshore Wind Bill

    30 November 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment

    A bill promoting the commercial use of offshore wind in Japanese waters has passed both houses of Japan’s National Diet.

  • Seaway 7 Raising Cash to Finance Newbuild Vessels

    12 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Seaway 7, part of the Subsea7 Group, plans to raise USD 650 million through the issuance of new equity and debt, primarily to finance its two newbuild vessels, Seaway Alfa Lift and Seaway Ventus. Both vessels are anticipated to be delivered during 2023 and to enter operations in the first half of 2024. In addition […]

  • Goldwind to Roll Out Its 6.7MW Offshore Wind Turbine in Early 2018

    16 November 2017
    Technology

    Goldwind will install a prototype of its GW154/6.7MW offshore wind turbine in early 2018 and plans the turbine’s commercial deployment to take place during the first quarter of 2018, after it launched the GW6S platform in October.

  • Spain: G11X Chief Engineer Named Wind Innovator 2012

    17 May 2012
    Technology

    Fermin Catalán, Chief Engineer for the Gamesa’s new G11X offshore turbine, a 5-MW platform, has been named the wind innovator 2012, Windpower Engineering news portal reports.  “My first experience with renewable energy came from my brothers who built a parabolic solar collector for fun,” says Mr Catalán. Mr Catalan explained that he spent most of […]

  • Spectrum Offshore Lands Hornsea Project One Contract

    12 April 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has awarded Spectrum Offshore with a contract for the offshore construction support survey on the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm located some 120km off the Yorkshire coast, UK. According to Spectrum Offshore, the works are being carried out onboard the crew transfer vessel Rix Leopard. The company said it has mobilized its in-house, custom […]

  • UK: South Tyneside at Centre of Green Energy Revolution

    1 May 2012

    Installation of the 20,000MW of offshore wind turbines in the UK as a part of the announced green energy revolution sweeping its way through the country will push its way ahead through the South Tyneside as well, the core of the North East’s incipient low-carbon economy, nebusiness informed. “South Tyneside is a perfect fit for […]

  • TenneT Opts For LIOS Export Cable Monitoring Kit

    22 August 2016
    Grid Connection, Technology

    Germany-based Transmission System Operator (TSO) TenneT has awarded LIOS Technology with a contract for the supply of a Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) unit for an export cable of an offshore wind farm in the North Sea. The LIOS EN.SURE DTS will allow a real time fibre optic temperature monitoring of a 50km 155kV export cable, […]

  • New Irish Company Establishing Offshore Wind Base

    28 September 2020
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    Green Rebel Marine has acquired Crosshaven Boatyard in County Cork, which will be used to service planned offshore wind projects in Ireland. The nine-acre site, which will continue its normal operations as a boatyard, will serve as a base for the new operation to survey, equip and service a network of planned wind farms. Green […]

  • BSH Awards Geophysical Survey Contract for German Offshore Wind Zone

    22 May 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has awarded Fraunhofer IWES with a contract to carry out geophysical site investigation in the N-6 offshore wind area. The geophysical survey is set to be conducted this summer as part of the geological preliminary investigation at the N-6.6 and N-6.7 areas in the North Sea. The work includes the […]

  • Scottish FM Opens Renewable Energy Skills Training Academy

    24 August 2012
    Authorities, Training & Education

    A cutting-edge skills academy for Scotland’s renewable energy sector has been officially opened by First Minister Alex Salmond yesterday during a visit to Steel Engineering as part of a programme of events to mark the Scottish Cabinet visit to Renfrew. Sixty modern apprentices will be trained during the first year of the Renewable Energy Skills […]

  • Lithuania’s Energy Ministry Seeks Temporary Suspension of Offshore Wind Tender for Review

    22 January 2025
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    The Lithuanian Ministry of Energy has proposed temporarily suspending the ongoing offshore wind tender in the Baltic Sea to review its terms and conditions, aiming to minimise the impact on electricity prices for consumers once the tender is completed. A draft government resolution has been prepared and submitted for institutional coordination, with a request for […]

  • Twenty Turbines Installed at Beatrice

    25 September 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Swire Blue Ocean’s Pacific Orca has installed 20 out of 84 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines at the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland.

  • Meteorology for Wind Energy Launched at EWEA 2015

    19 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Dr Lars Landberg, a meteorologist at DNV GL, has launched a book titled ”Meteorology for Wind Energy: An Introduction” at this year’s European Wind Energy conference in Paris, aimed at helping non-meteorologists understand the critical concepts that underpin wind energy technology and project success. The fundamentals of meteorology dictate the success or failure of wind projects, says […]

  • County Road Permit Impedes Progress on Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Approved in US

    19 July 2023
    Authorities, Business development, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has filed a complaint against Cape May County with the Superior Court of New Jersey as the developer has not yet received a permit required for investigation works at a section of a county road. The company says this is creating “a cascading and adverse effect” on the recently approved 1.1 GW Ocean Wind […]

  • Geophysical Survey Underway at Irish Offshore Wind Project

    21 November 2022
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    A geophysical survey has commenced at the Oriel Wind Park project off County Louth in the Irish Sea. The ultra-high-resolution geophysical survey started in November and is expected to be completed by mid-December, subject to weather and operational constraints. The goal of the survey, which will be carried out by the shallow draft vessel Fastnet […]