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  • Mauritius Looking For Seasoned Offshore Wind Consultants

    9 March 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, R&D, Technology

    The Mauritius Research Council (MRC) has invited expressions of interest for the development of offshore wind farms for the Republic of Mauritius.

  • Seasoned Offshore Wind Player Joins ORE Catapult

    22 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult has appointed Thomas Arensbach, former Head of Offshore Projects UK at Siemens, as Senior Business Development Manager. Arensbach has previously worked at Gamesa, A2Sea, Statkraft UK, UPC Energy Management and Vestas Offshore Wind. Commenting on the new appointment, Andrew Jamieson, ORE Catapult Chief Executive, said: “Thomas’ extensive, international experience of developing offshore […]

  • State Officials Welcome Deepwater Milestone

    28 July 2015

    U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper joined Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo, the state’s congressional delegation and representatives of Deepwater Wind – the project developers – in celebrating an historic “steel in the water” milestone for America’s first commercial scale offshore wind […]

  • NC Could be First to Bring Offshore Wind Power to US

    7 October 2011

      Advocates of off-shore wind say North Carolina’s steady off shore winds are an ideal transformative source of energy. The green topic gathered a standing crowd during the Cape Fear Sierra Club and Oceana’s community forum on Wednesday night at UNCW. Panelists included representatives from Apex Wind Energy and the North Carolina Off-Shore Coalition. All […]

  • USA: University of Delaware Conducts Offshore Energy Surveys

    9 October 2012

    The University of Delaware’s Kent Messer leads a research team that is conducting two studies at the Delaware coast to determine how people would react to offshore energy production and how that could impact the state’s economy. The first study was conducted at Cape Henlopen and Rehoboth Beach and involved students surveying beachgoers to see […]

  • Poland’s Offshore Wind Act Becomes Law

    22 January 2021
    Authorities

    Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has signed the Offshore Act into law. The Offshore Act regulates the development of offshore wind farms in the Polish Baltic Sea. The legislation allows for 10.9 GW of offshore wind capacity to be either operational or under development by 2027. 5.9 GW of capacity will be offered via Contracts for […]

  • Dogger Bank Team Confirms Able Seaton Port for Wind Turbine Installation

    22 September 2020
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Dogger Bank Wind Farm has confirmed Able Seaton Port in Hartlepool, UK, as the marshalling base for the wind turbine installation activities for the Dogger Bank A & B offshore wind project. As part of the agreements for the supply and service of 190 of GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbines, the wind […]

  • DEME Starts Installing First CVOW Export Cable

    12 September 2024
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    DEME Group has laid the first export cable for Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, while also reaching a milestone by installing the 70th monopile foundation at the site off Virginia Beach in the US. As previously reported, Dominion Energy selected the consortium of DEME Group and Prysmian as the Balance of Plant […]

  • Denmark Becomes Base for Global Wind Organisation

    3 December 2013
    R&D

    Global Wind Organisation (GWO) has chosen Denmark and the Danish Wind Industry Association as home for their new coming global secretariat. From Denmark the organisation will work for better, safer and more homogenised training standards in the global wind industry. Safety is the number one priority for the companies in the global wind industry and […]

  • Hamburg to Become Siemens’ Wind HQ (Germany)

    26 September 2011

      The new Siemens Wind Power Division headquartered in Hamburg will start operations on October 1. “Hamburg is a highly attractive location and at the same time one of the world’s most important wind power centers. For that reason we will in the future be running our fast-growing wind power business from this city,” said […]

  • Legislators explain reason for oposing the offshore wind project (USA)

    2 August 2010

    Several members of the Oswego County Legislature’s Economic Development and Planning Committee addressed the reasons they objected to the… by Carol Thompson (valleynewsonline) [mappress] Source: valleynewsonline, August 02, 2010;

  • Dong Utilises Radars to Lower Energy Costs

    19 February 2015
    R&D, Technology

    ​Dong Energy has chosen SmartWind Technologies for the supply of a dual-Doppler radar system for offshore wind measurement. The two radars are to be installed in 2016 on the coast near the Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm. They will produce high-resolution dynamic maps of the wind flow through and around the wind farm. The measurement […]

  • Denmark: Wind Becomes Mainstream Technology Choice

    9 October 2013

    With 270GW of wind installations worldwide, wind has clearly entered the mainstream. Over 70% of top owners view wind as a key part of a diversified generation portfolio strategy, while 85% of these owners seek to add value throughout the development value chain all the way to O&M; demonstrating that wind is now seen as […]

  • Offshore Wind Becoming a Big-Ticket Item

    20 April 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Investors who traditionally focus solely on big-ticket mergers and acquisitions are showing interest in offshore wind projects as returns on investments in more conventional infrastructure assets are pushed lower and lower, according to Macquarie. Pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurers that invest in infrastructure have typically been attracted to assets such as regulated utilities and availability­-based Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) that […]

  • Belco Eyes Solar and Wind Power (Bermuda)

    28 January 2011

    Belco representatives said the company is looking at all forms of alternate power to help the Island’s growing energy needs.   By Owain Johnston-Barnes (royalgazette) [mappress] Source: royalgazette, January 28, 2011

  • Research on East Anglia’s Offshore Hydrogen Potential Kicks Off

    23 February 2021
    R&D

    Hydrogen East has kicked off a new research study to explore the potential for hydrogen production off the coast of East Anglia in the UK. The Bacton Energy Hub: Exploring the potential for hydrogen from the Southern North Sea will research options and scenarios to bring together the region’s offshore wind and offshore gas sectors […]

  • The Netherlands: Mercon Showcases New Product at EWEA Offshore Wind

    22 November 2011

    Mercon launches a new product during the EWEA Offshore Wind in Amsterdam on 29/30 November and 1 December, together with partner ALE. You can visit their stand and learn all about their new innovation EMI – for Eco Metmast Installation. EMI is an eco-friendly and economical way to install metmasts offshore. With the EMI method, […]

  • Offshore Wind Farm Upsets War Veterans (France)

    20 July 2011

    Even after 67 years, the memory of Normandy’s bloodied waters is still with Major Roy E. Eddy. The 87-year-old war veteran from Mississauga was just 20 on June 6, 1944, when he piloted a landing craft filled with soldiers on Juno Beach. Most of them he never saw again. Eddy — who has returned to […]

  • Block Island Mainland Link to Make Landfall Within Days

    17 June 2016
    Environment, Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The 20-mile submarine cable which will connect US mainland to Block Island and export the electricity generated by the 30MW Block Island offshore wind wind farm, is expected to make landfall at Crescent Beach, Block Island, in the next week or so, depending on the weather. The cable laying barge Big Max started laying the 34.5kV […]

  • Wind Farm Offshore Ningbo Becomes Fully Operational

    28 December 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The first phase of the Guodian Xiangshan 1 offshore wind farm project in East China’s Zhejiang Province became fully operational on 23 December. Located in the southeastern part of Hepu Town, Xiangshan County of Ningbo, the 254.2 MW first phase comprises 41 6.2 MW wind turbines connected to a 220-kilovolt offshore booster station. A five-kilometer […]

  • UK Offshore Wind on Way to Become Subsidy Free

    20 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Statkraft has welcomed the latest report by BVG Associates, which outlines how advances in technology, the supply chain and policy have combined to put the industry on track to become sustainable without financial support from consumers. BVG’s report highlights the costs of offshore wind are starting to fall sharply as a result of the introduction […]

  • PensionDanmark becoming partner in Nysted offshore wind farm

    10 September 2010
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy and PensionDanmark have signed an agreement, under which PensionDanmark will buy 30% of the Nysted offshore wind farm at a cash consideration of DKK 0.4 billion. At the same time, DONG Energy will buy E.ON’s 20% ownership interest and resell it to PensionDanmark at a price of DKK 0.3 billion. Consequently, DONG Energy […]

  • US to become a leader in production of electricity from wind

    21 July 2010
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D

    A testing field for offshore wind turbines may be in the future for Virginia. Such a demonstration center could pave the way toward making… (newsadvance) [mappress] Source: newsadvance, July 21, 2010;

  • Offshore Wind: Importance of Bird Density and Breeding Season Definitions

    24 November 2014
    Environment, R&D

    Andrew Tongue, a Senior Research Assistant with the RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, has written an MSc dissertation titled “Implications for offshore wind farm ornithological Cumulative Impact Assessment: How the manipulation of density and breeding season parameters affects the outcomes of Collision Risk Modelling”.  Mr. Tongue’s current research interests include the impacts of renewable energy developments […]

  • Virginia could become a wind energy state

    22 February 2010
    Wind Farm Update

    Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell met this week with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and six other Atlantic coastal state governors to discuss     [mappress] Source: examiner, February 20, 2010;

  • USA: Michigan Wind Energy Research Project Running Low on Funds

    1 April 2013

    The Lake Michigan Offshore Wind Assessment Project is running low on cash, reports MiBiz. The research buoy was deployed in the middle of the lake in the previous season 2011/2012 where it collected a ”truck load“ of data which is being processed. The researchers are planning to deploy the buoy 10 miles offshore in Lake […]