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  • Windhoist Undergoes Ownership Change

    23 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    STAR Capital Partnership, a European fund manager, has acquired the UK-based wind turbine installation contractor Windhoist Holdings. STAR carried out the investment by its EUR 800 million Fund III. The parties have not disclosed the financial details for the transaction. Tim Adams has been selected as the Managing Director of the company and will be working with the […]

  • MRE Reveals East Anglia ONE Power Play

    17 May 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Manor Renewable Energy (MRE) has contracted with Siemens Gamesa to provide the full temporary power package of generators, personnel and vessels during the turbine installation phase of the East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm. The 714MW East Anglia ONE will comprise 102 Siemens SWT-7.0-154 wind turbines installed on jacket foundations at the site some 43 kilometres offshore […]

  • BAM Exits Offshore Wind Foundations Market

    23 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    Dutch construction-services business Royal BAM Group nv is exiting its activities in the offshore wind foundations market as part of an ongoing portfolio review. BAM announced the decision in its results for the first half of 2019 where the Bunnik-headquartered group also reported an impairment charge of EUR 10.3 million which represented the impairment of intellectual […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Generation Rises by 3.8% in Q3

    22 December 2016

    Combination of higher wind speeds, compared to last year, and increased onshore wind capacity led to a rise in wind energy-generated power in the UK in Q3 2016, where offshore wind generation rose from 3.4TWh in 2015 Q3 to 3.5TWh and onshore wind generated 4.6TWh in 2016 Q3, up from 3.8TWh for the same period last year. Renewable electricity […]

  • UK: Offshore Wind Attracts Investment in Cromarty Firth Port

    11 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    Cromarty Firth Port Authority is expected to announce securing approximately GBP 9 million in bank funding for its GBP 20 million project, which will turn the port into a place for handling offshore wind turbines and employ up to 400 people, the Scotsman writes. The project involves expansion on nine acres of land and building […]

  • Highlights of the Month: August 2017

    1 September 2017

    MHI Vestas Turbine Catches Fire at Østerild Test Centre An MHI Vestas V164 wind turbine has caught fire at the Østerild – National Test Centre for Large Wind Turbines in Denmark. E.ON Wins Robin Rigg Dispute Against MT Højgaard The UK Supreme Court has ruled against MT Højgaard (MTH) in the Robin Rigg offshore wind […]

  • Siem Ends Siem Offshore Contractors Sale Talks, Reveals Potential Buyer

    29 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Siem Offshore has terminated discussions regarding a potential sale of Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (SOC).

  • UK Proposes to Ease OFTO Rules on Four OWFs

    24 July 2020
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    The UK Government has proposed to exempt Beatrice, Hornsea One, Rampion, and East Anglia One offshore wind farms from the requirement to hold a licence to transmit electricity, due to COVID-19-related delays in transferring their transmission assets. The four offshore wind farms, involved in the fifth and sixth tender rounds of the Offshore Transmission Owner […]

  • Highland Council to Object to Moray West Project?

    22 November 2018
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Highland Council’s North Planning Applications Committee has recommended that the Council raises an objection to the Moray West offshore wind farm, located next to the Moray East and Beatrice offshore wind farms.

  • Granada Material Handling Nets New Galloper Contract

    29 August 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    Galloper Wind Farm Limited Ltd has awarded a contract to Granada Material Handling Ltd for service and maintenance of all 58 davit crane units installed on the 353MW project, 56 on wind turbine foundations and two on the offshore substation. 

  • Expertise Hub VIDEO: Throwing Away the Rulebook to Roll Out Novel Solutions (Siemens)

    28 July 2017
    Grid Connection, Technology

    During the development of its new Offshore Transformer Module (OTM), Siemens team “threw away the rulebook” and got the weight down, because stripping the weight means stripping the costs. It removes the need for specialised heavy-lift vessels and allows using vessels already deployed on the field to install turbine foundations. 

  • UK Attracts Majority of Offshore Wind Investments in 2016

    27 July 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    UK offshore wind projects attracted around three quarters of all investments in Europe’s offshore wind capacity in the first six months of 2016, data released by WindEurope shows. UK-based projects which reached Final Investment Decision (FID) in the first half of 2016 carry a price tag of EUR 10.37 billion (GBP 8.7 billion) and have […]

  • Moray East Offshore Wind Farm Seven Turbines Away from Full Array

    6 September 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Blue Tern has seven more Vestas 9.5 MW units to install at the 100-turbine Moray East offshore wind farm in Scotland. The first wind turbines were installed at the project site some 22 kilometres off Aberdeenshire in January by the installation vessel Bold Tern, which left the site in May […]

  • Offshore Wind Generates 9.9% of UK Energy in 2019

    27 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    Offshore wind generated 9.9% of total energy in the UK in 2019, largely due to new capacity coming online, according to the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The UK renewable electricity capacity was 47.4GW at the end of 2019, a 3GW or 6.9% increase on the year earlier. Offshore wind farms […]

  • Subsea 7 Finalizes Siem Offshore Contractors Acquisition

    11 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    Subsea 7 has completed the acquisition of Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC) and cable lay vessel Siem Aimery and support vessel Siem Moxie.

  • LiDARs Saving Millions on Costs, Experts Say

    18 July 2017
    R&D, Technology

    Wind measurement experts, gathered at a seminar hosted by Leosphere in June, claimed LiDAR is becoming the clear choice for bankable offshore wind measurements, saving millions on costs.

  • Seven UK’s OW Projects Get Draft Investment Contracts

    30 December 2013
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    At the beginning of this month, the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) published a list of 16 renewable energy projects which achieved the Phase 2 minimum threshold evaluation criteria. All applicants that met the Phase 2 evaluation criteria were sent draft investment contracts on 19 December 2013 and were invited to submit […]

  • Wick Harbour’s Offshore Wind Development Enters Planning Stage (UK)

    19 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    After receiving a GBP 450,000 boost to dive in offshore wind industry, Wick Harbour Authority is currently planning to install heavy lifting equipment and to dredge the channel to the harbour’s commercial quay. This development will enable the port to become an offshore wind construction base for two large projects proposed for the Moray Firth […]

  • UK: Partrac Continues to Support Offshore Wind Sector

    17 May 2012
    Ports & Logistics

      Partrac continues to support the offshore wind sector through the delivery of oceanographic, environmental, geophysical and hydrographic coastal surveys. Some of Partrac’s greatest offshore wind survey achievements have been in long term metocean monitoring projects. The company has undertaken long term measurement campaigns at the Beatrice and MORL wind farm sites in the Moray […]

  • Benthic Survey Wraps Up for Scottish Floating Wind Farm

    3 July 2025
    Business development, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    Specialist contractors have completed a benthic survey along a 420-kilometre stretch of seabed for the proposed Ossian floating offshore wind farm in Scotland. The month-long benthic campaign gathered information at 122 different sites along the route that will be used to export renewable energy from the Ossian floating offshore wind farm off the east coast […]

  • Blue Offshore Undergoes Ownership Change

    19 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    MeeMaken BV has acquired a majority stake in the Blue Offshore Group, a provider of solutions for subsea cable installation. The remainder minority part of the company’s shares will remain in the possession of Blue Offshore’s management. “So far, we have been able to develop Blue Offshore into what it has become today: a solid organization […]

  • Highlights of the Month – January 2018

    1 February 2018

    Taiwan to Sign 5.5GW of Contracts with Offshore Wind Developers by July Nine developers looking to build offshore wind farms in Taiwan have qualified for offshore environmental permits. These developers, offering 10.5GW of offshore wind capacity in total, will now compete for 5.5GW of offshore wind contracts, 3.5GW to be selected for the feed-in-tariff (FIT) […]

  • SSE, Marubeni, CIP Team Up for ScotWind Leasing

    13 November 2020
    Business & Finance

    Scottish offshore wind seabed leasing process has brought together Scotland-headquartered SSE Renewables, Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corporation, and Danish fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). According to the latest press release from SSE Renewables, the developer has teamed up with Marubeni and CIP to work on joint bids for the ScotWind seabed leasing, managed by […]

  • Highlights of the Month: December 2017

    3 January 2018
    Contracts & Tenders

    Vattenfall Gives Reasons for Choosing Siemens Gamesa 8MW Turbine Vattenfall has chosen the new 8MW Siemens Gamesa wind turbine for its Danish offshore wind farms because it “was simply the cheapest choice in the market measured by cost per generated megawatt-hour electricity,” Michael Simmelsgaard, Head of Offshore Wind and Country Manager for Vattenfall in Denmark, said. Spain: […]

  • Offshore Wind Lifts Subsea 7

    27 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Subsea 7 reported revenue of USD 897 million for the first quarter of 2017, a 20% jump compared to the same period a year earlier mainly due to a good performance of the company’s newly formed Renewables and Heavy Lifting division.

  • Atkins Accepts SNC-Lavalin’s Takeover Offer

    21 April 2017
    Business & Finance, R&D

    UK-based design, engineering and project management consultancy WS Atkins and Canada’s SNC-Lavalin Group have reached agreement on the terms and conditions of a recommended all cash acquisition of the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Atkins by SNC-Lavalin (GB) Holdings Limited.