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  • Catch the Wind Announces Sales of WindSentinel™ Buoy (Canada)

    1 April 2011
    Business & Finance

    Catch the Wind Ltd. announced today that its exclusive licensing partner, AXYS Technologies, has sold a WindSentinel™ buoy, a custom marine floating platform bundled with a Vindicator® Laser Wind Sensor (LWS) unit, to each of the Fishermen’s Energy LLC and the Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center (MAREC) of Grand Valley University. The sales mark […]

  • Vestas to Supply 15 MW Turbines for 504 MW Floating Wind Project Offshore South Korea

    10 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    Vestas has been confirmed as the preferred wind turbine supplier for BadaEnergy’s Ulsan Gray Whale 3 floating offshore wind farm in South Korea. The announcement was made in March this year, but at that time, the company left the project and its client unnamed. As per the agreement, Vestas will provide 33 units of the […]

  • Offshore Renewables Could Bring GBP 6.7 Bln to UK Economy

    13 March 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D

    The UK economy could gain £6.7bn per year and 150,000 jobs by 2020 from the development of offshore renewable energy resources, according to a report published today by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult. The report, using extensive supply chain data from BVG Associates and analysis from the Fraser of Allander Institute, considers the likely […]

  • Offshore Energy Awards 2018 Winners Revealed

    22 October 2018

    The 400+ attendees were very curious to find out who the winners of the Offshore Energy Awards were last night. The black-tie dinner gala, hosted by Viktoria Koblenko, served a culinary dinner and offered sultry musical interludes by Jennifer Ewbank. The evening was officially opened by executive Vice President Shell, Bart van de Leemput, and Managing Director of Navingo, Coert van Zijll Langhout.

  • Learning from each other: The UK and Germany need to work together

    10 August 2012

    As the UK prepares for the future development of the Round Three leases for larger wind farms in deeper waters, the techniques and experience that have been perfected will now need to be adapted to cope with the harsher conditions of working further offshore. The German renewables market has vast experience of this type of working […]

  • DONG Energy Sells Half of Its London Array Shares

    31 January 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy has today signed an agreement to sell half of its 50 per cent share in the 630 MW offshore wind farm London Array 1 to La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (La Caisse), for a total sum of GBP 644 million (approx. DKK 5,800 million). With this partnership divestment DONG Energy […]

  • AWEA: American Offshore Wind Power Is Ramping Up

    1 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    The momentum building for the development of offshore wind power in the U.S. was on full display over the last two days during the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) Offshore WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. AWEA Offshore WINDPOWER keynote speakers Abigail Ross Hopper, Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy […]

  • Germany: Onshore and Offshore Wind Results Presented at DEWEK 2012

    1 November 2012

    The latest results of research and development concerning offshore wind energy, but also topics related to the onshore use of wind energy, will be presented on 7/8 November at the 11th German Wind Energy Conference (DEWEK 2012) in Bremen. The conference is accompanied by an exhibition and also features a technical excursion on the day […]

  • USA: Agreement Reached to Protect Right Whales, Expedite Clean Energy in Mid-Atlantic

    12 December 2012
    Environment

    In a first of its kind collaboration, a coalition of leading environmental organizations and offshore wind developers has agreed to a series of voluntary measures that will protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, while helping to expedite responsible offshore wind development, in the Mid-Atlantic. Building upon proposed federally mandated protections, the Conservation Law Foundation […]

  • US Offshore Wind Project Pipeline Nears 53 GW

    26 September 2023
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Industry, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting

    The US has almost 53 GW of offshore wind projects in operation, development and planning stages. This could power more than 18 million US households if all the projects currently in development and planning are built. The US offshore wind pipeline reached 52,687 MW at the end of May 2023, with two offshore wind farms […]

  • Shell and Ocean Winds Joint Venture Seeks to Terminate and Rebid US Offshore Wind Contracts

    6 June 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Industry, Wind Farm Update

    SouthCoast Wind, the developer of an offshore wind lease area off the coast of Massachusetts, has started discussions with this US state’s representatives and utilities to terminate its existing Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) citing ”material and unforeseen supply chain and financing cost increases affecting the whole offshore wind industry.” The SouthCoast Wind, a 2.4 GW […]

  • Ørsted Marks First Floating Offshore Wind Win

    18 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Crown Estate Scotland (CES) has selected the Ørsted, Falck Renewables, and BlueFloat Energy consortium to enter into an Option Agreement for a new floating offshore wind site off the north-east coast of Scotland. The award for this floating wind site of up to 1 GW in scale has been made through CES’s ScotWind offshore wind […]

  • Cuomo’s Energy Goals Reiterated at BOEM’s NY Meetings

    23 June 2016

    Community leaders, elected officials and dozens of local residents attended two public hearings this week in Long Island where they reinforced the critical need for New York to invest in large-scale offshore wind to meet Governor Cuomo’s clean energy goals. Notably, the Governor has committed to sourcing 50 percent of the state’s electricity from renewables […]

  • Van Oord to Use CAPE Holland Tool to Build ‘Most Ecological Offshore Wind Farm Yet’

    11 June 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Dutch provider of foundation installation equipment, CAPE Holland, has signed a contract with its compatriot Van Oord to supply Vibro Lifting Technology (VLT) for the installation of monopiles at Hollandse Kust West Site VI, where the Ecowende consortium will build what Van Oord said was “the most ecological wind farm yet”. Under the contract, CAPE […]

  • FlexTech Invests GBP 500.000 to Expand into Offshore Wind Sector

    23 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    As part of its ongoing growth and development strategy, flexible pipe specialist FlexTech has invested £500,000 into a new manufacturing and fabrication base in Lincolnshire.  Since its inception in March 2013, the Aberdeen based company has achieved turnover of £1 million, and it is on track to reach £2.5million by the end of year two. […]

  • Energy Tide 2 Harnesses Tides for Electricity (USA)

    20 July 2011

    Clean energy entrepreneurs are exploring how to turn tidal power into zero-emissions electricity with very little environmental impact. The motion of the rise and fall of the tides carries enormous potential energy to the coasts twice a day, like clockwork. However, harnessing that power has long proved problematic. At the Bay of Fundy — near […]

  • SSE Apprentices Get Practical at Greater Gabbard

    8 December 2014
    Training & Education

    Four young apprentices have begun the practical element of their training at SSE’s Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm off the Suffolk coast. Following a highly competitive selection process which included challenging written assessments and practical aptitude tests, Kyle Pickering (21) and Matthew Grant (17), both from Lowestoft, Connor Delayney (19) from Great Yarmouth and James […]

  • HKZ Beta Topside In Place, HKZ Alpha Ready for Use

    31 March 2022
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The topside of the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Beta offshore substation has been installed on its jacket foundation in the Dutch North Sea, TenneT said. The HKZ Beta topside was loaded from the transport vessel onto Allseas’ platform installation vessel Pioneering Spirit in the Alexiahaven. The Pioneering Spirit then sailed to the installation site and, […]

  • Norwegian Firms Urged to Work with Humber’s Offshore Wind Businesses

    21 March 2012

    NORWEGIAN businesses have been encouraged to partner Humber-based companies to secure work in the UK’s offshore wind market. A leading renewable energy expert has promoted the region’s potential and highlighted the readiness of its businesses to join Scandinavian firms in forming the industry’s emerging supply chain. Speaking at a major offshore wind power conference in […]

  • Belgian Offshore Wind Farms Underperform as Lower Wind Speeds Hit

    6 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The 399 wind turbines spread over nine zones in the Belgian North Sea produced approximately 6.77 TWh of electricity in 2021, a 0.6 per cent increase compared to 6.73 TWh of electricity generated in 2020. This corresponds to the annual electricity demand of almost two million households, or eight per cent of the total electricity […]

  • Dutch EUR 4.7 Billion Recovery & Resilience Plan Gets EU Nod; Offshore Wind, Green Hydrogen in Focus

    12 September 2022
    Authorities

    The European Commission has assessed and endorsed the Netherlands’ recovery and resilience plan worth EUR 4.7 billion, a big chunk of which will go toward clean energy and decarbonisation, including projects related to offshore wind, green hydrogen, and sustainable shipping. The Dutch Government completed the national plan in March this year and submitted it to […]

  • UK: Rhyl Harbour Benefits from Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Fund

    22 July 2013
    Business & Finance

      RWE npower renewables’ has made a substantial funding award to the redevelopment of Rhyl Harbour, thanks to the Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Tourism Fund. This is the third award announced so far from the specialist £690,000 fund, which was set up through the wind farm to support initiatives aiming to boost the […]

  • REpower Systems AG Announces Results for First Nine Months of 2010/11 (April 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010) (Germany)

    4 February 2011
    Business & Finance

    • Total performance EUR 804.0 million • EBIT EUR 44.4 million • Order backlog rises to EUR 2.9 billion In the first nine months of the fiscal year 2010/11, REpower Systems AG (WKN 617 703) achieved a total performance of EUR 804.0 million, compared with a total performance of EUR 936.3 million for the same […]

  • 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project Gets Final Federal Go-Ahead to Begin Construction

    30 January 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Dominion Energy has received the last two major federal approvals needed to begin construction of its 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, located 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach in the US. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) provided its final approval of CVOW’s Construction and Operations Plan (COP), which […]

  • RWE Reaches Two OW Milestones

    2 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The last few days have been challenging for the installation teams of RWE’s offshore wind farms. The last of the 160 wind turbines has now been installed successfully off the Welsh coast, and cabling and commissioning works continue at pace to ensure the wind farm becomes fully operational this winter. The construction of the German […]

  • Last Siemens Gamesa Turbine In Place at Moray West Offshore Wind Farm

    18 November 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The 60th and final turbine has been installed at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm in the Moray Firth, located in northern Scotland. The Moray West offshore wind farm is nearing the end of the construction phase and will become fully operational during 2025, in line with the originally projected commercial operations date, […]