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  • Fugro to Start Geotechnical Surveys on Neart na Gaoithe

    18 November 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Nearshore geotechnical surveys along the Neart na Gaoithe export cable corridor route are due to start off the Fife coast in Scotland later this month. The survey work is being carried out by Fugro using a ‘walking’ jack-up barge, Wavewalker 1. The survey is planned to start no earlier than 25 November and last approximately […]

  • Waypoint North Rebrands to Reflect Focus on Offshore Wind

    6 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Waypoint North has changed its company name to SeaState Aviation to reflect its focus on the offshore wind market. Managing Director Johan Hansen said the new name is a better representation of the company’s core services, which is providing independent offshore aviation consulting and safety assurance services to the offshore wind industry. SeaState Aviation highlighted that, since […]

  • German Renewables Shipbrokers to Work with BIMCO WINDTIME

    13 August 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    German Renewables Shipbrokers (GRS) is one of the first brokers to specialize in the use of BIMCO’s WINDTIME. GRS is set to further increase its use of the specialised time charter party called WINDTIME, designed and tailor-made for the offshore wind industry. WINDTIME mainly addresses the requirements of the small high-speed vessels or crew transfer […]

  • GES Group to Present Its Recent Projects in Hamburg

    23 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Visitors at WindEnergy Hamburg will get an opportunity to learn about GES Group’s recent wind projects in Central and Northern Europe, as well as Central and South America. Special focus will be given to service, in particular Blade Inspection & Repair. The GES stand will feature a WKA Blade Service Corner showcasing how wind farm […]

  • Seagreen Tees Off Onshore Cable Route Development

    27 May 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    SSE Renewables has reached a voluntary land agreement for the development of the underground cable route for the Seagreen offshore wind project in Scotland. The deal was reached with Angus Council, Carnoustie Golf Links Management Committee (CGLMC), and other key landowners to allow the development of the underground cable route to the Tealing substation. “We’re […]

  • UK: CT Offshore Halfway Done at West of Duddon Sands OWF

    3 September 2013
    Grid Connection

    CT Offshore is currently working on the West of Duddon Sands Offshore Wind Farm in the Irish Sea. A total of 108 cables are to be laid, and by 25 August CT Offshore was halfway through the project with laying and installation of 54 cables. “It is a very important project to us and I’m […]

  • RWE Renewables Plans 2GW-3GW Annual Capacity Boost

    14 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    German energy company RWE plans to add between 2GW and 3GW of capacity annually to its renewable energy portfolio in three core markets: Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific. The portfolio will be managed by RWE Renewables and the technologies in focus will be onshore and offshore wind, as well as photovoltaics and storage. The capacity […]

  • Riffgat Project Wakes German-Dutch Disagreement

    10 July 2012
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The construction of the Riffgat offshore wind farm has started in the North Sea and so did the disagreement between Germany and the Netherlands. Namely, the two countries cannot agree on which side of the border the offshore wind farm is, which puts the energy firm EWE in a difficult position. Riffgat offshore wind farm […]

  • CWind Taiwan Gets BareFLEET for Its CTVs

    4 November 2019
    Vessels

    CWind Taiwan has equipped its crew transfer vessels (CTVs) with a remote monitoring system called BareFLEET that will, according to CWind, significantly reduce maintenance costs. Tom Manning, Deputy General Manager, CWind Taiwan, said: “Following the highly successful rollout of BareFLEET across our European fleet, we’re delighted to extend the use of the system to our […]

  • Atlas Kicks Off Asia Pacific Offshore Wind Recruitment

    11 March 2019
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Atlas Professionals has extended permanent recruitment and executive search services for the offshore wind industry to the Asia Pacific region. According to Atlas, the decision came as a response to the demand of professionals for permanent roles, which is growing due to the development of offshore wind at a remarkable rate. The initiative, which began in March, […]

  • Scotland Turns to Sea in Their Pursuit of Renewable Targets

    29 July 2011

    From his office in a converted Victorian schoolhouse, Neil Kermode can see little more than centuries-old stone buildings and narrow streets better suited to horse carts than Land Rovers. Yet Kermode, head of the European Marine Energy Centre in Scotland’s Orkney Islands, will tell you he can also see the future. Orkney, a collection of […]

  • Galloper Leads Innogy Renewables Earnings

    9 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    Innogy has reported a 29% increase in adjusted EBITDA, to EUR 415 million, in its Renewables division in the first half of 2019, partly due to the Galloper offshore wind farm. According to innogy, the positive contribution to earnings was in part due to a bonus for timely, on-budget completion of the Galloper offshore wind farm. […]

  • Damen to Deliver Two Vessels to SeaZip

    2 February 2015
    Vessels

    At the end of March, Harlingen-based SeaZip Offshore Service BV will bring two new service vessels into service for the support of wind farms at sea. The vessels,of Damen FCS 2610 type, called SeaZip 3 and SeaZip 4, are going to sail under the Dutch flag and were built by Damen Shipyards in Singapore. Both […]

  • ‘Sea Installer’ Calls into Port of Esbjerg, Denmark

    4 December 2012
    Ports & Logistics

    A2SEA’s newly build Sea Installer calls into the Port of Esbjerg around the 6 December. Around New Year the ship will be sailing with two 6MW Siemens test mills to be installed at Gunfleet Sands. Hereafter the Sea Installer will work at the Anholt project where A2SEA then will have four vessels working with installation. […]

  • Seaway Strashnov Locked and Loaded at Triton Knoll

    9 January 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Seaway 7’s installation vessel Seaway Strashnov has arrived at the Triton Knoll offshore wind project site with the first turbine foundations. According to innogy, the vessel will begin installing the foundations as soon as weather conditions are favorable. Triton Knoll will comprise 90 MHI Vestas 9.5MW turbines mounted on monopile foundations some 32km off the Lincolnshire […]

  • Photo of the Day: Pacific Orca Gearing Up for Rampion at Teesport

    15 June 2016
    Vessels

    Pacific Orca has arrived at PD Ports’ newly redeveloped £35 million quay at Teesport, where it will be berthed at Number One Quay for several weeks while being fitted with a pile gripper that has been constructed on site. The vessel, owned by Swire Blue Ocean, will then sail away to the Rampion offshore wind farm site to work […]

  • RenewableUK Comments on Celtic Array Withdrawal

    31 July 2014

    Commenting on the announcement by Centrica and DONG Energy that they have jointly decided to cease developing wind farms in the Irish Sea Zone via their joint venture, Celtic Array Ltd, RenewableUK’s Director of Offshore Renewables, Nick Medic, said: “Although it’s disappointing that this particular project isn’t going ahead, the reasons are understandable – conditions […]

  • RWE Launches Call for Innovations in Offshore Wind

    15 March 2023
    Industry, Innovation, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    RWE has launched its second annual Innovation Competition, looking for solutions in the domains of ecology, system integration, and circularity in offshore wind. The energy company and one of the leading offshore wind developers has invited start-ups, scale-ups, research institutes, as well as other individuals and organisations to propose an innovative solution in one of […]

  • FoundOcean Secures Monopile Grouting Contract for Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm

    14 June 2012

    Scottish-based FoundOcean Ltd announced it has been awarded the contract for the foundation grouting for Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Limited, UK. Gwynt y Môr is being built with an installed capacity of 576 megawatts in Liverpool Bay, around 13 kilometres off the North Wales coast; it is one of Europe’s largest offshore wind […]

  • Smulders Puts Together First Beatrice Jacket

    24 May 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Smulders has put the first upper jacket for the Beatrice offshore wind farm’s foundation on top of the first lower jacket, thus completing the first foundation for the 588MW project.

  • DNV GL Awards Young Wind Energy Professionals

    12 March 2014
    Technology

    DNV GL today announced the winner of its 3rd Annual Wind Energy Award at the EWEA 2014 in Barcelona. The prize is designed to promote young industry talent and help close skill gap in wind energy industry. The winning diploma thesis by Christian Hermann outlines a practice-oriented solution into transportation systems for offshore wind parks […]

  • Denmark: Vestas Disposes of Machining and Casting Units to VTC Partners

    9 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    As part of Vestas’ turnaround plan announced in January 2012 and as also restated in the interim financial report for the second quarter of 2013, Vestas has been negotiating with potential buyers of Vestas’ machining and casting units. These negotiations have now been finalised with the signing of a binding sales and supply agreement after […]

  • Andrew Tyler Resigns as CEO of Marine Current Turbines (UK)

    18 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Dr Andrew Tyler FREng CBE has resigned as Chief Executive Officer of Siemens’ Marine Current Turbines (MCT) and will be leaving the company at the end of the year. Andrew was appointed as MCT’s CEO in June 2011 after five years as Chief Operating Officer for the UK Ministry of Defence. Andrew was recruited to […]

  • Ultimate Rough Weather WFSV (UK)

    16 January 2012

    In the offshore windfarm support scenario it is becoming increasingly clear that the seakeeping ability of the current medley of workboats is not up to the job when the going gets rough. This is exacerbated by current and future windfarms that are being positioned further out to sea in more onerous seastates. There is the […]

  • Monopile Installation on Dogger Bank B Delayed by Six Months

    18 January 2024
    Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    NOTE: The article was amended on 23 January to include the parts of Dogger Bank Wind Farm’s Supporting Statement filed to the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) that concern the reasons for the delay of the monopile installation on Dogger Bank B. The installation of foundations on two UK offshore wind projects, the 1.4 GW Sofia […]

  • Moray East Onshore Works Restart After Coronavirus Pause

    14 May 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Work has commenced on the onshore sites of the Moray East offshore wind project in Scotland after a break due to the coronavirus crisis. At the end of March, Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Ltd announced the demobilization of work at the project’s onshore sites, including the new underground cable and substation in Aberdeenshire. Following the […]