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  • WFW Assists Strabag with Global Tech II Sale

    15 August 2016

    International law firm Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has advised Erste Nordsee-Offshore-Holding GmbH, a joint subsidiary of STRABAG SE and, indirectly, Etanax GmbH, on the legal and tax aspects of the Global Tech II sale to Vattenfall. Malte Jordan, who led WFW’s Hamburg team that advised on the project’s sale, said: “We are delighted to have advised STRABAG on another […]

  • UK Govt Makes Sure Brexit Does Not Affect Horizon 2020 Projects

    15 August 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D

    UK participants of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme can rest assured that the approved projects applied for before the UK leaves the European Union will not be affected by the so-called Brexit, as the UK Treasury will underwrite funding for those Horizon 2020 projects. British businesses and universities will have certainty over future funding and should continue […]

  • Buss Port Logistics Ships Out All Veja Mate Monopiles (Gallery)

    15 August 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Hamburg-based Buss Port Logistics has completed the near-shore logistics and storage operations related to all 67 of the world’s largest monopiles built by EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH for the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm. Buss Port Logistics loaded the 1,300-ton monopiles from the factory in Rostock onto barges with the help of Scheuerle self-propelled modular vehicles. […]

  • Photo of the Day: Svanen Docks at Harland and Wolff

    12 August 2016
    Vessels

    After installing the final wind turbine foundation at Burbo Bank Extension wind farm in Liverpool Bay, Van Oord’s heavy lift vessel Svanen has moored at Harland and Wolff’s Commissioning Quay in Belfast.   Svanen completed the foundations installation at the wind farm in July, and will now undergo repairs and outfitting at Harland and Wolff’s shipyard, ahead of its next […]

  • Van Oord Enters Home Stretch at Gemini

    11 August 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    As of yesterday, 138 wind turbines, representing over 90% of the total wind turbines, have been erected at the 600MW Gemini offshore wind farm, with 105 of the installed turbines producing power.  This was reported within Northland Power’s Q2 and H1 2016 financial results. The company owns two offshore wind farms currently under construction in the North Sea: a 60% […]

  • TWD and Barge Master Float Cost Saving Monopile Installation Tool

    10 August 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Using Motion Compensate Pile Gripper during installation of super-sized monopiles in deeper waters can lead to cost reductions of up to 40%, according to the tool’s developers – Temporary Works Design (TWD) and Barge Master. Nowadays, most monopiles are installed using purpose built jack-up vessels, however, for XL monopiles, these jack-ups have too little lifting and jacking […]

  • Detecter Becomes First Danish-Flagged CTV Certified to Carry 24 OW Technicians

    10 August 2016
    Authorities, Operations & Maintenance, Training & Education, Vessels

    Northern Offshore Services’ 27-metre crew transfer vessel (CTV) Detecter has become the first Danish-flagged vessel of its kind to be certified by the Danish Maritime Authority to carry up to 24 offshore wind technicians. The certification marks the initiation of a new practice in Denmark, which gives Danish shipping the same opportunities as its competitors from Germany, according to […]

  • EOWDC’s €40M Grant Includes €3M for Environmental Research

    10 August 2016
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    As part of a EUR 40 million grant awarded by the EU to the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), around EUR 3 million has been committed for environmental research and monitoring.  A number of organisations, including Marine Scotland Science, will have an active role in steering the allocation of that funding, through EOWDC’s Scientific Research & Monitoring Panel, to those […]

  • Amrumbank, Humber Gateway Drive E.ON’s Renewables Business

    10 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    Amrumbank West and Humber Gateway offshore wind farms left a positive mark on financial results of E.ON’s renewables business in the first half of 2016 and the company expects this trend to continue. E.ON’s renewables business saw an adjusted EBIT increase of EUR 53 million in the first six months of this year. Although the company’s unit operating in […]

  • DONG Energy Bins AMEP Offshore Wind Hub Project

    9 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    DONG Energy has decided not to invest in a GBP 450 million offshore wind hub at the Able Marine Energy Park (AMEP) in the Humber after a recent report showed that UK east coast ports have the capability to support the pipeline of offshore wind projects which will be built out in the North Sea in […]

  • Scottish Ministers, Developers Fight for Firths of Forth and Tay Offshore Wind Farms

    9 August 2016
    Authorities, Environment, Wind Farm Update

    The Scottish Ministers have lodged an appeal against the Scottish Court of Session’s decision in favour of the petition filed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to review the consent by the Scottish Ministers for four offshore wind farms in the Firths of Forth and Tay, Mainstream Renewable Power, the developer […]

  • Polenergia to Start Building 600MW Baltic Middle III in 2019

    5 August 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Polenergia plans to start constructing the 600MW Baltic Środkowy III (Baltic Middle III) offshore wind farm in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea in 2019, with the commissioning of the wind farm planned for 2021 or 2022. The Polish energy company has recently become the first operator in Poland to obtain an environmental permit for the […]

  • Bilfinger Exits Offshore Wind Foundations Business

    5 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    Germany’s VTC Group Munich has bought Bilfinger’s share in Bilfinger Mars Offshore, a Poland-based manufacturer of steel foundations for offshore wind turbines. Bilfinger Mars Offshore was formed as a joint venture between Bilfinger and the Polish Investment fund Mars. Bilfinger is selling all of its 62.5 percent share to VTC, while Mars will remain invested in the joint venture […]

  • Statoil Picks Quorum Software for Dudgeon and Hywind

    4 August 2016
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Sedgefield-based energy industry software specialist Quorum Development has been appointed by Statoil to provide software to enable the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm and the 30MW Hywind Scotland Hywind Scotland Pilot Park to interface with National Grid and participate in the GB energy market. The software provided by Quorum will allow Statoil to engage with […]

  • Drones Return to Alexandra Dock (VIDEO)

    3 August 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    Associated British Ports (ABP) has shared the latest drone footage of the enabling works being carried out at Alexandra Dock in Hull as ABP prepares the site for Siemens’ offshore wind turbine manufacturing, assembly, installation and service facility. The enabling works undertaken by ABP and their contractors on the 54-acre site are worth GBP 150 million. […]

  • Jan De Nul Installs Nobelwind OHVS Transition Piece

    2 August 2016
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul has installed the transition piece which will support the Offshore High Voltage Station (OHVS) on the ‎Nobelwind‬ ‪offshore‬ ‪‎wind far‬m in the Belgian part of the North Sea. The 165 MW Nobelwind offshore wind farm is expected to be completed in the second half of 2017 and will feature 50 Vestas V112-3.3MW turbines […]

  • Ecosse Subsea Systems Doubles Wikinger Workload

    1 August 2016
    Grid Connection, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has extended a trenching scope on the 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea with the award of a seabed clearance project. The Scottish company was last year awarded a contract by main contractor Prysmian Group to carry out pre-cut seabed trenching, prior to cable laying, on Iberdrola’s 70-turbine […]

  • Clinton Marine Starts Beatrice Export Cable Routes UXO Survey

    1 August 2016
    Authorities, Environment, Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Clinton Marine Survey AB, on behalf of Nexans Norway AS, has started a survey for unexploded ordnance (UXO) along the Beatrice offshore wind farm export cable routes in the Moray Firth, Scotland, according to Brown and May Marine, the fisheries liaison for the survey. The UXO survey commenced at the end of July and will continue over a […]

  • 496MW French Offshore Wind Farm Gets New Layout

    29 July 2016
    Authorities, Environment, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    A 496MW wind farm project proposed to be built off the French Vendée islands of Yeu and Noirmoutier has exited the risk addressing and consultation phase which resulted in a new layout plan for the wind farm.  Following a series of consultations and public debates, it was decided to extend the space between the wind turbines to 1,600 […]

  • ORE Catapult Cloning Levenmouth Turbine

    29 July 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult is creating a digital ‘Clone of the Levenmouth Turbine’ (CLOWT) which will use sensor instrumentation to determine how large megawatt turbines behave and identify cost reduction opportunities through design optimisation. The GBP 450,000 project, with GBP 215,000 funding support from the Scottish Government, will enable ORE Catapult to instrument its Levenmouth offshore wind demonstration […]

  • Sif and BOW Terminal Extend Cooperation to Maasvlakte 2

    28 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    SIF Group and BOW Terminal Vlissingen have signed an agreement to renew their cooperation which will now cover Sif Group’s new terminal at Maasvlakte 2 in the Port of Rotterdam. The new agreement includes work on the coordination and implementation of both horizontal and vertical transport for all SIF Group projects at the new terminal. Back in June […]

  • NATS Wins EOWDC Radar Mitigation Services Contract

    28 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Air traffic services company NATS has signed a contract with Vattenfall to provide radar mitigation services for the 92.4MW European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) off the Aberdeenshire coast. The mitigation solution will see NATS ‘blanking’ the EOWDC development on its Perwinnes radar and the installation of a Wide Area Multilateration radar system to infill the […]

  • JDR Unveils New High-Voltage Inter-Array Cable

    28 July 2016
    Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    JDR, the UK based supplier of subsea power cables and umbilicals to the offshore energy industry, has showcased its new high-voltage inter-array cable and accessories at its latest customer technology day held at Hartlepool College of Further Education. The company says that its new 66 (72.5) kV cable technology ”will be critical to support the offshore wind […]

  • One-Offs Lower EDP Renewables’ Profit

    27 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    EDP Renewables, part of EDP, posted total revenue of EUR 889 million in the first half of 2016, a 15% increase compared to the same period a year earlier, on the back of the increase in installed capacity and a higher load factor, both offsetting a 7% drop in average selling price during the first six months. However, […]

  • ALE Loads Out First Wikinger Substation Jacket

    27 July 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Heavy transportation and lifting contractor ALE loaded-out the first of two 3,000-tonne jackets built for the Wikinger offshore substations, in Cadiz, Spain, last week. The jacket was built by Navantia shipyard in Puerto Real for Iberdrola’s 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm currently under construction in the German Baltic Sea. In December 2014, Iberdrola awarded a EUR 160 million contract to […]

  • SeaRoc Tackles Cable Failure Risks

    26 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    SeaRoc Group has upgraded its marine management and monitoring system, SeaPlanner, to help offshore wind developers and operators mitigate risks associated with subsea cable failures, recently identified as the main culprit for financial losses and project delays. Subsea cable faults contributed to 77% of the financial losses of global offshore wind projects and led to insurance […]