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  • Safety Technology Joins Forces with Offtec

    24 April 2014
    Training & Education

    Safety Technology Ltd has announced this week a joint venture with German safety specialists, Offtec. Based in Enge-Sande, close to the Danish border in Germany, Offtec is home to a unique Wind Competence Centre for the onshore and offshore Wind Industry. From this location the two companies will soon be offering a wide range of […]

  • DONG Energy Danish Favorite Company in European Business Awards

    19 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    The videos of 527 European companies have been assessed in the European Business Awards, and DONG Energy was the Danish winner of the public award.  The public gave a total of 70,981 votes divided on 527 videos from 30 European countries. In Denmark, DONG Energy received the majority of the votes, so now the company […]

  • UMBO Looking for Offshore Wind Farm Monitoring Services (Germany)

    31 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Environment

    UMBO GmbH i. G. has issued an invitation for tenders regarding qualification system for the purpose of conducting environmental monitorings for offshore windfarms in Germany. Prerequisite for the awarding of contracts is pre-qualification in compliance with the qualification system (Connexio) described here. On the basis of this pre-qualification, suitable suppliers of the following services: CPV […]

  • H2 Installations Set to Outpace H1

    30 October 2013

    Reportstack has announced a new market report on European Offshore Wind Industry, 2013 – H2 Installations Set to Outpace H1. The offshore wind industry is growing rapidly in European countries, and more than 90% of global installed offshore wind capacity is located in European waters. In 2012, Europe’s offshore wind capacity amounted to almost 5 […]

  • UK: RES Wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade Category

    3 May 2013

    Renewable Energy Systems (RES), one of the world’s leading independent renewable energy project developers, is celebrating being awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category. This prestigious award is in recognition of RES’ extraordinary business success in growing revenues from international markets and is the second Queen’s Award RES has won since […]

  • UK: RWE Launches Wind Apprenticeship Programme in Wales

    7 May 2012
    Training & Education

    RWE npower renewables has launched an apprenticeship scheme, the company announced at the Renewables UK Cymru Conference in Cardiff. The First Minister of Wales welcomed the announcement that offers skilled, long-term jobs in the renewables industry for the first time in Wales.  “In March I announced the Welsh government’s commitment to work with business to […]

  • Germany: GL Releases WindFarmer 5.0

    29 June 2012
    Technology

    Taking another step in the development of its wind farm design software, GL Garrad Hassan has released version 5.0 of WindFarmer. The software aids the design and analysis of wind farm layouts, to give maximum energy yield with minimum environmental impact. The new release includes wind flow modelling technology, enabling wind farm analysts to calculate […]

  • New AMI Consulting Report Details Materials Usage in Wind Turbine Blades (UK)

    15 February 2012

    A report from industry consultants, AMI Consulting, published in January 2012, calculates that the global demand for materials in the production of wind turbine blades grew by over 20% per annum in the last five years. The market for wind turbine blades has been one of the fastest growing of any composite application with strong […]

  • WFS Technologies Partners with Omni Instruments (UK)

    23 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    WFS Technologies, the world’s leading supplier of radio and acoustic solutions for underwater communication, navigation and power transfer, announces a new industry partnership with UK supplier of instrumentation and data loggers, Omni Instruments, based in Dundee, Scotland. Omni Instruments Ltd. Established 1996, specialises in providing measurement and data acquisition systems in the UK, Europe and […]

  • E.ON Demonstrates Offshore Wind Benefits for UK

    24 October 2011

    E.ON has released new figures demonstrating the benefit offshore wind brings to the UK economy. The report based on E.ON’s Robin Rigg offshore wind farm in the Solway Firth highlights that 32% of the development, manufacture and construction for the site was carried out by UK-based business.  Dave Rogers, UK Regional Director for Renewables at […]

  • SIAG Report Negative Results for First Nine Months of 2011 (Germany)

    27 December 2011
    Business & Finance

      The SIAG Schaaf Industrie AG, a leading supplier of onshore and offshore wind energy, reported an income of EUR 114.6 million according to preliminary figures for the first nine months of 2011. The group’s profit was negative € -11.5 million. Their capital dropped from € 16.0 million to 4.4 million. EUR 9,6 million is […]

  • Germany: Van Oord Wins Contract to Install Cables for DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm

    5 July 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

      Van Oord has been awarded the contract for the infield cabling and burial of the DanTysk offshore wind farm project 70 km off Sylt, Germany. The laying work will begin in the spring of 2013 and be completed around six months later. The DanTysk wind farm is a joint venture between Vattenfall Europe Windkraft […]

  • OFGEM Appoints AMP as Preferred Bidder (UK)

    1 June 2011
    Grid Connection

      AMP Capital Investors, through its European infrastructure business, has been named by OFGEM as the preferred bidder to become the Greater Gabbard offshore transmission owner (OFTO) as part of a consortium including Equitix and Balfour Beatty. AMP Capital and its Green Energy Transmission (GET) consortium partners will own and operate the high voltage transmission […]

  • MPI CELEBRATES THE KEEL LAYING OF MPI DISCOVERY (UK)

    7 July 2010
    Technology

    On 15 May 2010 MPI Offshore Limited proudly participated in the keel-laying ceremony for “MPI Discovery”, the second of two state-of-the-art wind turbine installation vessels, currently under construction at the Cosco Nantong Shipyard in China. A tradition built up over centuries, the keel laying marks the ceremonial beginning of the ship’s construction. The keel laying […]

  • P&O Maritime Services UK Acquires a 50% Shareholding in the Prince Madog Research Vessel With Bangor University

    18 January 2011

    P&O Maritime Services has acquired a 50% shareholding in a United Kingdom (UK) incorporated joint venture with the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University. Through this venture, known as P&O Maritime Ocean Sciences (POMOS), P&O Maritime Services has joint ownership of the Research Vessel Prince Madog and will charter the vessel to the University, […]

  • Construction of Inch Cape O&M Base Kicks Off

    11 September 2025
    Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance

    Construction of an operations and maintenance (O&M) base to serve the 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm is underway at Montrose Port in Angus, Scotland. Montrose-based main contractor Pert Bruce Construction is building the O&M base office, a 600-square-metre warehouse, and quayside facilities, as well as the communications systems for the Scottish offshore wind […]

  • Rovco Wins Survey Work on Green Volt Floating Wind Farm Offshore Scotland

    25 July 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Supply Chain

    Rovco has been selected to conduct site characterization operations on the Green Volt floating offshore wind farm project in Scotland. UK-based company will focus on geophysical surveys in the offshore wind farm array area, offshore and nearshore export cable corridors, shallow Piezocone Penetration Test (PCPT), and vibrocoring. Rovco’s DP2 survey vessel Glomar Supporter will begin […]

  • DNV Kicks Off JIP to Address Earthquake Challenges for Wind Farms

    28 April 2023
    Business development, Industry, Research & Development

    DNV has started a joint industry project (JIP) to increase certainty in the design process for offshore wind farms challenged by earthquakes. The so-called ACE2 JIP is a follow-up project of “Alleviating Cyclone and Earthquake Challenges” (ACE) project and will deeply investigate issues related to earthquakes that were not conducted in the first project. Special […]

  • Skyborn Wins Rights to Develop 2 GW Wind Farm Offshore Finland

    3 July 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Skyborn Renewables and state-owned enterprise Metsähallitus have entered into a reservation agreement, granting five years of exclusive rights to develop the 2 GW Pooki wind farm offshore Finland. Development works are scheduled to commence as early as August 2023. The reservation agreement gives Skyborn Renewables the exclusive right to continue surveys in the area, where the […]

  • CBED and Wind Innovation Stay Offshore Germany

    14 September 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore wind service provider CBED has secured a new contract with the owner of the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in the German North Sea which will see the company’s walk-to-work (W2W) service operation vessel (SOV), Wind Innovation, deployed at the two wind farms throughout 2023. Wind Innovation is already working on the two […]

  • Lithuania to Start Consultations with Offshore Wind Developers

    22 March 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy will start consultations with potential developers of the country’s first offshore wind farm in March. Consultations will take place in preparation for the auction for the development of the 700 MW offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, with meetings with potential investors scheduled for 18 April, the Ministry said. The […]

  • NIRAS, Egis Team Up for French Offshore Wind Development

    1 April 2024
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    NIRAS and Egis have signed a partnership agreement to work jointly on offshore wind developments in the French market. The two companies signed the agreement on 20 March during the Congress Wind Europe in Bilbao, Spain. According to NIRAS, the partnership is a stepping stone for the company to further expand its business in France […]

  • French Consortium Completes Offshore Substation Trifecta

    9 January 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The consortium has also cut the first steel for the electrical substation for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm at Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire.

  • SeaRoc Unveils New Addition to SeaPlanner

    30 July 2018
    Technology

    SeaRoc Group has expanded its SeaPlanner marine monitoring and management solution with the launch of a Permit to Work solution for offshore wind farms.

  • Covestro, Tekmar to Jointly Protect Chinese OWF Cables

    28 June 2016

    Covestro and Tekmar Energy have signed a cooperation agreement on subsea cable protection for Chinese offshore wind market, set to grow towards 10GW of capacity within the next three to five years. Both companies will collaborate on the development of Cable Protection Systems for subsea energy cables at vulnerable locations from the wave and tidal […]

  • Tidal Project Gets EUR 5.1 Million from EU

    4 December 2015
    R&D, Technology

    Minesto, together with eight partners, has received EUR 5.1 million to develop the Deep Green technology within a project named PowerKite, financed through EU Horizon 2020. The aim is to develop the next generation of the Deep Green power plant; to give it a better performance, a longer life expectancy and improved reliability, all in order […]