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  • Pelamis Features Live Farr Point Wave Measurements

    3 July 2014

    Live wave measurements captured off the north coast of Scotland are now accessible to public via the Pelamis Wave Power website. Pelamis Wave Power manages the development of commercial scale wave power projects around Scotland, in parallel with other Pelamis wave farms being developed directly by customers and joint venture partners. These projects will demonstrate […]

  • Offshore Wind Better Choice for UK than Hinkley Point C?

    17 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    Following UK Government’s decision to re-examine EDF’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power project, offshore wind has emerged as a potentially better solution for the country than nuclear power.  Namely, after the board of EDF approved Hinkley Point C, which would be built together with China General Nuclear (CGN), and was ready to enter into an agreement with […]

  • German Offshore Wind Production Reaches New Peak in 2020

    20 January 2021
    Grid Connection

    In 2020, Germany’s total offshore wind generation was 26.89 terawatt hours (TWh), of which wind farms in the North Sea generated 22.76 TWh and those in the German sector of the Baltic Sea produced 4.13 TWh of electricity. A year earlier, wind farms operating offshore Germany generated 24.16 TWh, with 20.25 TWh coming from the […]

  • South Korea Launches ‘First’ Offshore Wind Installation Vessel

    14 June 2023
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Hyundai Engineering & Steel Industries has launched South Korea’s “first” offshore wind installation vessel, named the Hyundai Frontier. The 14,000-tonne vessel is 85 metres long, 41 metres wide, and 6.5 metres high. Hyundai Frontier is equipped with a dynamic position system that maintains an accurate position in the sea where the influence of current speed […]

  • Borssele III & IV Moving to Construction Phase

    29 June 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The Blauwwind consortium has achieved financial close on the Borssele III & IV offshore wind farms in the Netherlands, moving the project to the construction phase, with the main offshore works due to start in the fourth quarter of 2019. 

  • USA: Kitty Hawk Lease Sale Set for March. Shell, Statoil In the Game

    18 January 2017
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold a commercial wind lease sale for the 122,405-acre area offshore Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on 16 March 2017, and has identified nine companies as eligible to participate in the auction.

  • First Borssele III & IV Inter-Array Cable In Place

    14 January 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has installed the first inter-array cable on the 731.5MW Borssele III & IV offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The cable, provided by Prysmian Group, was installed by the cable-laying vessel Nexus. Located 22 kilometres off the coast of the Province of Zeeland, Borssele III & IV will feature 77 MHI […]

  • ST3 Offshore Issues New Call for Buyers with 20 Per Cent Lower Selling Price

    13 May 2021
    Business & Finance

    Polish manufacturer of offshore wind foundations, ST3 Offshore, has issued a third tender looking for buyers for the company, now reducing the price by further 10 per cent. In the current tender, the starting price has been reduced to PLN 187,744,000 (around EUR 41.3 million) net. “This is 20% less than the actual value of […]

  • Sweden Launches Major Offshore Wind Push, Targets 120 TWh Annually

    15 February 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Jobs & Recruitment

    The Swedish government has launched a search for new sea areas suitable for the development of offshore wind farms to support the country’s newly established plan of generating up to 120 terawatt-hours of electricity annually from this renewable source. The government has now decided on Sweden’s first marine plans and has given the task of […]

  • Germany: Alpha Ventus Publishes Annual Review

    6 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    The alpha ventus consortium DOTI, formed by the companies of EWE, E.ON and Vattenfall, can look back with satisfaction on a successful 2011: the twelve wind power turbines of Germany’s first offshore wind farm have fed over 267 gigawatt hours of electricity into the German power grid over the entire year. This puts the amount […]

  • BLIX Backs Northland Power in Taiwan Offshore Wind Auction

    26 June 2018

    The Netherlands-based BLIX Consultancy BV has revealed its role in the Taiwan offshore wind tender after Northland Power was announced as one of the winners.

  • Deutsche Bucht Accepts Mono Bucket Challenge

    19 July 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The Deutsche Bucht Mono Bucket pilot demonstrator project has reached financial close, Northland Deutsche Bucht GmbH said.

  • Shell Takes Majority Stake in Irish Floating Wind Project

    27 January 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Dutch oil and gas major Shell has agreed to take a majority stake in a 1 GW floating wind project offshore Ireland. Shell New Energies, the renewable energy trading, generation, and supply arm of Shell, has signed an agreement with Simply Blue Energy to acquire 51 per cent in Simply Blue Energy’s Kinsale venture. Kinsale […]

  • SeaRoc to Supply Two Meteorological Towers for Dogger Bank (UK)

    24 October 2011
    Technology

    SeaRoc, part of the Natural Power group, has been selected to project manage the supply, installation and commissioning of two lattice meteorological towers in accordance with a specification provided by Forewind – the consortium responsible for developing UK Round 3 offshore wind farm site Dogger Bank. The announcement is part of a wider offering by […]

  • Iberdrola Ups Investments as Profit Dips in Q1 2017

    1 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    Iberdrola posted net profit of EUR 827.6 million in the first quarter of 2017, 4.7% down on the same period last year.

  • RenewableUK Welcomes New Leasing Agreements for Tidal Power

    15 November 2012

    RenewableUK, the wind and marine energy association, welcomes the news that three new leasing agreements have been signed for tidal power across the UK. The three projects are spread across the UK with Minesto’s trial device at Stangford Lough in Northern Ireland, Scotrenewables Tidal Power array at Lashy Sound in the Orkney Islands joining the […]

  • Deutsche Bucht Inter-Array Cables Done

    24 July 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    The installation and the testing of the inter-array cables at the Deutsche Bucht wind farm in the German North Sea has been completed according to Northland Power, the owner and developer of the project. Van Oord, the Balance of Plant contractor (BoP) for the 269MW project, awarded Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke (NSW) with a contract to design, produce and deliver 45 kilometres […]

  • Danske Commodities Signs Sheringham Shoal PPA

    12 July 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Danske Commodities has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm in the UK. Danske Commodities will take over the balancing and trading of 126MW out of the project’s total 316.8MW capacity, which is equivalent to 40% of the wind farm’s production. “The Sheringham Shoal PPA is a great addition […]

  • US Gives Green Light to Eleventh Offshore Wind Project

    23 December 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has approved the SouthCoast Wind Project, which could generate up to 2.4 GW of offshore wind energy for Massachusetts and Rhode Island. With the approval, the Department of Interior (DOI) and BOEM have approved over 19 GW of clean energy from offshore wind projects, enough to power […]

  • Swedish Developer Unveils Multi-Gigawatt Wind Farm Projects Offshore Finland

    23 September 2022
    Environment, Wind Farm Update

    Swedish developer Eolus Vind is investigating the prerequisites for constructing two offshore wind farms in the Bothnian Sea offshore Finland. Eolus has applied for permission to the Finnish government to investigate the conditions for establishing offshore wind power projects located in Finland’s exclusive economic zone. Permission for the investigation is expected within the coming year. […]

  • ABB Wins $180 Million Order for Norway-Denmark Power Transmission Link

    10 February 2011
    Grid Connection

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth about $180 million from utilities Statnett of Norway and Energinet.dk of Denmark to supply an HVDC Light® (high-voltage direct current) converter solution to support the interconnection of the Norwegian and Danish power grids.The 500 kV (kilovolt) link is a new record in […]

  • Alstom Dives in French Offshore Wind Opportunities

    9 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Alstom has announced the signature of an exclusive partnership agreement with STX France, during a meeting of the Region Pays de la Loire strategic committee on marine energies that was held in Nantes on December 6. This agreement covers the supply of transition parts used to affix an offshore wind turbine to its monopile foundations. […]

  • EDF Renewables, DP Energy Pinpoint Celtic Sea Site for 1 GW Floating Wind Project

    12 April 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    EDF Renewables UK and DP Energy have revealed more details about the location of their Gwynt Glas floating offshore wind project in the Celtic Sea, which could have up to 1 GW of installed capacity. The Gwynt Glas wider search area is 70 kilometres off the coast of Pembrokeshire and 45 kilometres from the north […]

  • Anglesey Councillor Disappointed About Axed Wind Farm

    31 July 2014
    Authorities

    Councillor Ieuan Williams has expressed disappointment that plans to develop a large scale wind farm – off the Anglesey coast – will no longer go ahead. The proposed 2.2GW Rhiannon Wind Farm, developed by Celtic Array Ltd. (a joint venture ownership of DONG Energy and Centrica), would have been located some 12 miles off the […]

  • Equinor CEO: Last Few Months a Game-Changer for Our Offshore Wind Business

    24 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    The last few months have been a game-changer for Equinor’s offshore wind business, the Norwegian energy company’s President and CEO Eldar Sætre said while commenting on the company’s results for the third quarter of 2019. ”Together with SSE, we were the winning bidder with three projects at Dogger Bank in the UK, making it the largest […]

  • Germans Call For 2GW Offshore Wind Tender by Year-End

    17 July 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    German offshore wind industry associations have called on the government to launch a special tender before the end of the year and offer up to 2GW in capacity to be developed. The industry representatives from BWE, BWO, Stiftung OFFSHORE-WINDENERGIE, VDMA Power Systems, and WAB said that ”the industry now needs reliable, long-term framework conditions. This involves […]