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  • Rhyl Flats Community Fund There for the Taking

    21 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    RWE Innogy UK has invited local Welsh community groups to apply for grants from the Rhyl Flats Offshore Wind Farm Community Fund. The fund has been set up to support community organisations and voluntary groups based in Rhyl and the following wards in Conwy: Pensarn, Colwyn, Eirias, Gele, Glyn, Kinmel Bay, Llanddulas, Llandrillo yn Rhos, […]

  • Offshore Wind: A Playfield with Giant Toys (Photo Gallery)

    20 April 2016
    Vessels

    The story of offshore wind farms moving farther from shore and wind turbines being installed in deeper waters does not finish with gigantic vessels and foundations, but extends to the almost entire supply chain, where equipment is also getting bigger and services are being adapted to the industry’s needs. At the beginning of this month, […]

  • Four Seacat’s CTVs Hired for Race Bank Construction Ops

    20 April 2016
    Vessels

    DONG Energy and Seacat Services have signed a two-year contract for four crew transfer vessels to support construction operations at the Race Bank offshore wind farm. Ian Baylis, Managing Director of Seacat Services, said: “Our work with DONG Energy on Race Bank over the coming months will enable us to channel further investment into the local supply chain by […]

  • Atlantic Marine Clears Path for Race Bank Export Cables

    20 April 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Atlantic Marine has completed the removal of boulders from the seabed where export cables for DONG Energy’s 580MW Race Bank offshore wind farm will be laid.   The company used the ROV/boulder & UXO removal vessel Atlantic Explorer to carry out the task over a four-month period. Race Bank is located some 29 kilometres off Blakeney Point on […]

  • Galloper Developers and Sizewell B Launch Community Fund

    20 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Galloper Wind Farm Limited (GWFL), the developers of the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm, have teamed up with EDF Energy’s Sizewell B nuclear power station to launch a new community fund in Suffolk. The Leiston and Sizewell Community Fund will be distributed over a seven year period. Over GBP 85,000 will be made available for community projects in […]

  • Dudgeon Substation Jacket Built and Ready for Sail Away

    19 April 2016

    Sembmarine SLP, which has designed and built the offshore substation for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm is preparing for the sail away of its jacket to the project construction site. The 1,500-tonne jacket will be loaded onto a barge in Lowestoft tomorrow (20 April), and ready to be towed 100km up the coast to the site in early May. […]

  • Friesland OWF Put into Perspective

    19 April 2016

    The developers of the Friesland offshore wind farm have created an informative map with photo visualisations of the planned project, so local residents and other interested parties could have a panoramic image of the future wind farm in IJsselmeer. The photo visualisations can be viewed on a mobile phone by using QR codes from the map. The visualisations show the […]

  • Top News of the Week Apr 11 – 17, 2016

    17 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Picks Hughes SSE for Subsea Inspections in Denmark and Germany DONG Energy has signed a contract with the UK-based Hughes Sub Sea Engineering for the undertaking of a subsea inspection campaign at offshore wind farms located in Denmark and Germany. DanTysk Accommodation Platform Taking Shape The accommodation platform for maintenance crews that are working […]

  • Primo Marine Completes Cable Emergency Response Manual for Luchterduinen OWF

    18 April 2016
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Rotterdam-headquartered Primo Marine has finalized the Cable Emergency Response Manual for the subsea power cables of the 129MW Luchterduinen offshore wind farm. Primo Marine was commissioned to compile an operational Cable Emergency Response Manual, covering prevention, and preparedness & response in regard to cable emergencies and planned solutions. The main objective was to develop a handbook for […]

  • Siemens Sets Up Galloper Base in Great Yarmouth

    15 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens has selected Peel Ports Great Yarmouth as the assembly location and installation base for the 56 turbines to be installed at the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm. A multi-million pound co-investment in port infrastructure has been agreed to support the construction of primary infrastructure and groundworks. This includes the delivery of yard storage and […]

  • DanTysk Accommodation Platform Taking Shape

    13 April 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The accommodation platform for maintenance crews that are working on the 288MW DanTysk offshore wind farm is currently being built in Emden, Germany, according to Vattenfall, the farm’s majority owner. Starting this summer, fifty berths distributed over five and a half decks will be in place 90 kilometres off the German North Sea coast to accommodate offshore […]

  • Friesland OWF Secures EUR 7 Million Loan

    13 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Funs Skjinne Fryske Enerzjy (FSFE), a Friesland-based investor in local renewable projects, has provided a EUR 7 million loan for the development of the 320MW Friesland offshore wind farm (Windpark Fryslân). The wind farm is developed by Ventolines BV on behalf of Windpark Friesland BV. It is located in the Frisian part of the IJsselmeer lake and will […]

  • KOWL Asks For License to Build Kincardine

    12 April 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Kincardine Offshore Windfarm Limited (KOWL) has submitted an application to the Scottish government for a marine license for the proposed Kincardine floating wind farm. KOWL, a joint venture company between Atkins Limited and Pilot Offshore Renewables, applied for the license ”for the deposit of substances and objects and the construction, alteration or improvements of works within the Scottish Marine Area and […]

  • Fugro’s Floating LiDAR Gets ECN’s Blessing

    12 January 2016
    R&D, Technology

    ECN has confirmed that the Fugro Oceanor Seawatch floating LiDAR is in the pre-commercial stage according to the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) roadmap for the commercial acceptance of floating LiDAR technology. In collaboration with RWE, Eneco and Fugro Oceanor, ECN has performed a Fugro Oceanor Seawatch floating LiDAR validation trial near the offshore meteorological mast IJmuiden, […]

  • Bibby HydroMap Names Rob Spillard as Technical Director

    12 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    Seabed survey company Bibby HydroMap has appointed Rob Spillard to its executive board as Technical Director. The newly created role has followed a restructuring of the senior management team, which included the appointment of Mick Slater to Operations Director earlier this year. Bibby HydroMap Managing Director Andrew McLeay said: “We are very pleased to have Rob join us […]

  • RenewableUK Names New Chief Executive

    11 January 2016
    Authorities

    RenewableUK has selected Hugh McNeal as the trade association’s next Chief Executive, the post which he will take up in April 2016. McNeal is currently Director of Change at the Department of Energy and Climate Change. His other roles have included Chief Executive of the Office for Renewable Energy Deployment at DECC, and Deputy Director of Low Carbon Business […]

  • ETA Sets Up New Connector Division

    7 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Technology

    UK-based subsea cable specialist ETA has announced the formation of a new division to focus on the provision of marine cable connectors, terminations and accessories. The new division will continue to provide bespoke designs and at the same time develop ETA’s production lines for larger scale projects. It will also market related products such as power […]

  • 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 […]

  • Aegon, LBPAM Invest EUR 70 Million in Meerwind OWF

    5 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    Aegon Asset Management (AAM) and its French joint venture partner La Banque Postale Asset Management (LBPAM) have invested EUR 70 million in the 288MW Meerwind offshore wind farm. Aegon Asset Management has invested EUR 45 million in the wind farm, with LBPAM providing the remaining EUR 25 million. AAM, which recently signed the Paris Pledge for Action, […]

  • Hornsea One Onshore Construction to Kick Off

    5 January 2016
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Onshore works for the Hornsea Project One wind farm are scheduled to start this month with the construction of an onshore substation at North Killingholme, North Lincolnshire.   This will be followed by burying an onshore cable underground and works around the landfall site where the onshore cable meets the offshore cable. The cable route on land will run approximately […]

  • HiDef to Survey Morecambe Bay for National Grid

    5 January 2016
    Grid Connection, R&D

    HiDef Aerial Surveying Limited (HiDef) will carry out aerial surveys for one of National Grid’s latest projects.  National Grid will provide a connection to the electricity transmission network for the proposed new 3.4GW nuclear power station, Moorside, in West Cumbria and export energy produced by a number of offshore wind farms in the Irish Sea. Following an […]

  • Natural Power: UK Wind Capacity In Double-Digit Growth Mode Until 2020

    31 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    The combined installed capacity for onshore and offshore wind in the UK will demonstrate a +11% compound annual growth rate every year until 2020, according to Natural Power, a renewable energy consultancy and products provider. That is 24 gigawatts, or almost 66 million megawatt-hours of electricity generated, equivalent to powering 16 million homes. Natural Power made the prediction to […]

  • Two Offshore Wind Projects Take a Piece of France’s EMR ITE 2015 Grant

    25 December 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    Two offshore wind-related research projects will receive a portion of a EUR 10 million grant through the Investment for the Future program (EMR ITE 2015) launched jointly by France’s Institute for Energy Transition and National Research Agency (ANR). The first offshore wind-related project that will receive part of the funds is research into modeling the role of […]

  • Umoe Ventus Sinks After Catching Fire off Langeland

    24 December 2015
    Authorities, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    The Wave Craft Surface Effect Ship Umoe Ventus sank yesterday after catching fire off Langeland, while en route to Bagenkop, according to local media and the police. Thick smoke and fire forced the four crew members aboard Umoe Ventus at the time of the accident to deploy a life raft. All four persons were later on picked […]

  • Study: Canary Islands Can Save a Bundle by Going All-In on Renewables

    23 December 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, R&D

    The Canary Islands could meet their entire electricity requirements from renewable energy sources by 2050 at under half the price needed to finance the existing oil dependent system, according to a study produced and published by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on behalf of Greenpeace. Spain’s archipelago currently meets almost all […]

  • DCN Rids Gode Wind 1 & 2 of Grouting Hoses

    22 December 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Dutch subsea services provider DCN International Diving and Marine Contractors has completed the removal of all grouting hoses at the Gode Wind 1 & 2 offshore wind farms located in the German sector of the North Sea. DCN visited a total of 97 locations to remove the 5,5 grouting hoses, which were cut and removed with in house […]