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  • 2.6 GW US Offshore Wind Project Homeports in Virginia

    25 August 2021
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The Port of Virginia has reached an agreement to lease a portion of the Portsmouth Marine Terminal to Dominion Energy for the development of the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. Under the agreement, Dominion Energy will use 72 acres of the deep-water, multi-use marine cargo Portsmouth Marine Terminal as a staging and […]

  • Star of the South Shortlists Five Ports that Could Support Australia’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    18 August 2023
    Ports & Logistics

    Star of the South, Australia’s most advanced offshore wind project, has identified five ports that have the potential and/or capabilities to support the proposed offshore wind farm. For two of the ports, Star of the South has confirmed that they will play important roles in the offshore wind farm’s construction and operation. The developer says […]

  • Polish Energy Companies to Jointly Build Offshore Wind Farms

    19 November 2021
    Business & Finance

    PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna has signed conditional agreements with Tauron Polska Energia and Enea for the sale of shares in four project companies whose task will be to obtain location permits for the construction of offshore farms in the Polish Exclusive Economic Zone in the Baltic Sea. ”Offshore wind will drive Poland’s zero-carbon energy industry. […]

  • Tony Trapp’s Company Takes on Turbine Access Chalange (UK)

    29 October 2010
    R&D, Technology

    Visitors to RenewableUK 2010 will hear at first hand from OSBIT Power Ltd (OP), about plans for a turbine access system that can operate in safety in higher sea states than any system currently available. OP is the newly established renewable energy engineering design, manufacture and supply company in the North East of England, (Stand […]

  • France Receives First Offshore Wind Power

    19 September 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Floating offshore wind turbine Floatgen, the first offshore wind turbine installed off the French coast, has started delivering electricity to the grid.

  • French Floating Wind Project Lags Behind

    6 February 2014
    R&D, Technology

    After being announced as imminent on several occasions in 2013, the construction of the floating wind turbine prototype Winflo has still not commenced. For this reason, DCNS and Nass & Wind have decided to reconsider the project. Initially, the developers were planning to deploy a small-scale demonstrator with a 1MW turbine, while the final device […]

  • Three Installation Vessels in Operation at Anholt Offshore Wind Farm (Denmark)

    6 February 2013

    At the beginning of January 2013, the installation vessel Sea Jack arrived at Grenaa Harbour, and a total of three installation vessels are now in operation to exploit the few and often short-term installation windows which the season allows.  At the end of February, A2SEA’s new custom-designed installation vessel, Sea Installer, will arrive to replace […]

  • SSE Pacifico Emerges in Japan

    1 November 2021
    Business & Finance

    SSE Renewables has closed the agreement to form a new joint ownership company, SSE Pacifico, which will pursue the development of offshore wind projects in Japan. The deal includes the acquisition by SSE Renewables of an 80 per cent interest in an offshore wind development platform from Pacifico Energy. The total consideration at closing is […]

  • DTU and Vattenfall Engage in Shadow Effect Mission

    22 February 2018
    R&D

    DTU Wind Energy and Vattenfall are working together to investigate how offshore wind farms should be positioned so they do not “steal” the wind from each other.

  • RenewableUK Shortlists CWind

    13 June 2012

    CWind has become the 100th company to sign the RenewableUK Wind Energy Charter and has just had one of its technicians who is currently working on Avenger, CWind’s amphibious rescue vessel, shortlisted for the RenewableUK Energy Awards Trainee of the Year. CWind delivers both charter service workboats and highly skilled personnel to the offshore wind industry. Based […]

  • Framo Pumps for Scotland’s Largest Offshore Wind Project

    2 March 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Framo, part of Alfa Laval, has received an order from Saipem to supply its marine pumping systems for the Seagreen offshore wind project in Scotland. Framo’s pumping systems will be used for the suction bucket foundations, to secure and anchor the wind turbine platforms to the seabed. “This second order for our Framo pumping systems […]

  • Yaskawa Electric Corporation Acquires The Switch

    3 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    Yaskawa Electric Corporation has reached an agreement to enter into a contract with the owner of The Switch Engineering Oy, a Finnish Supplier of Components for Wind Turbines, to acquire all shares of The Switch, except The Switch’s own shares. Yaskawa and The Switch have developed a strong synergetic relationship after signing a collaboration agreement […]

  • Action Heating Up Offshore Virginia

    20 May 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Subsea 7 has completed a cable pull-in at Camp Pendelton in Virginia, US, for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. The 12 MW CVOW demonstration project is being jointly developed by Dominion Energy and Ørsted. Subsea 7 won the contract for the supply and installation of inter-array cables at the wind farm in 2018 through Seaway […]

  • Turbine Components for Virginia Demo Project Reach North America

    28 April 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Wind turbine components and foundations for the 12 MW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) demonstration project have arrived in the Port of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. Last week, the Bigroll Beaufort cargo vessel picked up the monopile foundations in Rostock, Germany, and the wind turbine components in Esbjerg, Denmark. The 12 MW pilot project will […]

  • Belgium: Mobile Bird-Radar System Tested at OWI-Lab

    31 October 2013
    Technology

    Robin Radar Systems BV, a leading supplier of bird detection systems for bird impact prevention, ecological research and environmental impact assessments, tested a trailer based bird-radar system in OWI-Lab’s large climatic test chamber last month. More and more, bird radars are used for bird migration research and risk assessment for bird impacts as these systems […]

  • Competitive Industry

    24 February 2017

    What can be done to achieve lower costs? Which technology is required and where can companies and industries collaborate? Offshore WIND spoke to ECN’s expert in wind energy Peter Eecen on new insights that follow from ECN’s work within FLOW, the Far and Large Offshore Wind collaborative research programme.

  • Infineon and Goldwind Sign a License Agreement on IGBT Stack Technology to Serve the Wind Power Market (Germany)

    23 November 2010
    R&D

    Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) and Xinjiang Goldwind Science and Technology Co., Ltd., the Chinese leader in R&D and manufacturing of wind power equipments, today signed a license agreement for core components needed in manufacturing of wind turbines. According to the agreement, Goldwind gains the license to produce Infineon IGBT (Insulated Gate […]

  • Danish Test Centre Primed For Mega Wind Turbines

    24 May 2019
    R&D, Technology

    The expansion of Test Centre Østerild in Denmark has now reached the point when it is possible for the manufacturers to start casting the foundations on the two new test stands, according to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Last year, the Danish government decided to expand the Test Center in Østerild with an additional […]

  • Radiolaria Serves as Example for Offshore Wind Foundation Structures (Germany)

    12 March 2013
    Environment, R&D

    In a research project called “Intelligent Foundation Structure for Offshore Wind Turbines”, Professor Christine Döbert from the Technical University of Mittelhessen wants to develop cost effective and environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional techniques of building offshore wind foundations. Cooperation partner in this project is the Bremer Maritime Offshore Group. Coastal wind turbines, which are installed […]

  • Photo of the Day: Haliade Nacelles Ready for Trip to USA

    6 July 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    GE Renewable Energy has shared an image of two of the five Haliade 150 6MW nacelles ready to be loaded and start their journey across the Atlantic to the Port of Providence, Rhode Island, and become the heart of the first turbines ever to generate power offshore the USA at the 30MW Block Island wind […]

  • Norway: Oveldi Worldwide Enters Talks with TP Shipping

    22 March 2012
    Business & Finance

      The management of Oveldi Worldwide has begun talks with Norwegian ship brokers TP Shipping of Grimstad, Norway. President Thomas Parlow, 16 year president of TP Shipping and formerly of TexShip Chartering of Houston, Texas, specializes in heavy lift transports, project cargo transports and IMO cargo movements. A partnership with Oveldi Worldwide and integration with […]

  • Seatools Presents Pile Cleaning and Dredging Tool

    20 April 2016
    Technology

    A Dutch subsea engineering company, Seatools, has launched a pile cleaning and dredging tool. The Pile Dredge Tool (PDT) is capable of removing soil plugs and cleaning pre-piled jackets, such as those used in the offshore wind industry. The system can also be used for other pile excavation operations as well, such as for the preparation of […]

  • Belgium: ENTSO-E Opens Public Consultation for Network Code on HVDC Connections

    7 November 2013
    Grid Connection

    European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) has today launched a public consultation on the draft Network Code on Connection Rules on HVDC Links and DC-Connected Power Park Modules (NC HVDC). The consultation is open for 2 months from 7 November 2013 until 7 January 2014. A public stakeholder workshop on the code […]

  • NOC, Liverpool Uni Launch Institute for Sustainable Coasts and Oceans

    12 August 2015
    Environment, R&D

    The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Liverpool have entered into a new strategic partnership creating the Institute for Sustainable Coasts and Oceans (ISCO). The new Institute is a collaborative venture that brings together marine scientists, social scientists, engineers and economists to meet the challenges of a changing ocean and a changing coastal […]

  • Pfisterer Assembling Offshore Wind Team

    21 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Energy infrastructure system specialist Pfisterer is establishing a specialized offshore wind team within the PTS (Power Transmission Solutions) Cable Business Unit.

  • Denmark: Energinet.dk Calls Pre-Qualification Tenders for Horns Rev 3 Cabling Work

    2 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Energinet.dk would like to pre-qualify a number of tenderers to deliver the HV cables for the Horns Rev 3 Offshore Wind Farm. Energinet.dk intends to pre-qualify up to 5 tenders per lot: Lot no. 1: Submarine cable transportation and laying; Lot no. 2: Delivery and installation of beach cable; Lot no. 3 is optional: System […]