10000 results found for 'first'

10000 results found for 'first'
Order results by

A list of search results

  • Triton Knoll Construction Team Settles Offshore

    9 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    Innogy has chartered the service operations vessel (SOV) Esvagt Froude to provide offshore accommodation to the construction management team working on the Triton Knoll wind farm located off the Lincolnshire coast, UK. This is the first time for innogy to established its team offshore rather than at an onshore location. Esvagt Froude has already made […]

  • Ampelmann’s Gangway for Chinese SOV Serving Guangdong Yangjiang OWF

    15 September 2021
    Vessels

    Ampelmann has signed its first contract for a motion-compensated gangway in China, where Guangdong Safety New Energy is set to fit the gangway onto its new Service Operations Vessel (SOV) which will be deployed on the Guangdong Yangjiang offshore wind farm, located some 74 kilometres off the coast of Guangdong province. The company, which will […]

  • Chinese Offshore Wind Stagnates

    1 June 2012
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Delays in the first offshore concession projectsin China are most likely to cause postponing of the second bidding round, which was supposed to begin in the first half of this year. The China Daily news portal writes that the second group of concession projects involves building of up to 2 GW of offshore wind energy […]

  • Patent Application for Tidal Energy System Submitted to Indian Government

    19 February 2013
    Technology

    The Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks of Indian Government has recently published, in The Patent Office Journal (page 469), that a patent application has been filed for an invention in tidal power generation. Lee Han Seok and Moon Je Kyung, South Korean inventors, filed the application in January 2012 […]

  • 40 Foundations In at Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm

    19 November 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Half of the total of 80 wind turbine foundations are now in place at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France.  The 80 foundations are being installed by DEME Offshore’s jack-up vessel Innovation, which put the first monopile in place in early May and had more than a quarter of the project’s foundations installed by the end of August. […]

  • Top News of the Week, 10-16 April 2017

    16 April 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Germany Accepts First Subsidy-Free Offshore Wind Auction Bid Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur has selected three offshore wind projects by DONG Energy and one project by EnBW in the first auction for grid connections and funding for existing offshore wind farm projects, with at least one of the developers offering the lowest price bid of 0.00 Euro cents […]

  • MHI Vestas Goes Back to Black

    4 November 2020
    Business & Finance

    Offshore wind turbine manufacturer MHI Vestas recorded EUR 30 million net profit in the third quarter of 2020. The company’s revenue stood at EUR 508 million for the period, an increase of EUR 109 million compared to the same quarter last year. The revenue in the third quarter was driven by the delivery of 42 […]

  • VIDEO: SEA CHALLENGER Loading for Westermost Rough OWF

    5 September 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    SEA CHALLENGER‘s first job – installation of 35 Siemens 6MW turbines at Westermost Rough offshore wind farm, has begun. The first 3 turbines have been installed.  Delivered in March 2014, the new vessel has been optimised to operate at depths of up to 60 metres depending on tide and penetration, making it well suited to […]

  • China: Ming Yang Announces Q1 Preliminary Unaudited Financial Results

    28 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited (“Ming Yang” or the “Company”), a leading wind turbine manufacturer in China, announced its preliminary unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012. The Company’s financial statements for the first quarter of 2012 have not been finalized and are subject to completion of its normal […]

  • All Foundations Installed at Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm

    31 May 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    DEME Offshore, using its installation vessel Innovation has now installed all 80 foundations at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France, the industry’s first project to employ drilling to install XL monopiles. Eolien Maritime France (EMF), the consortium that owns the wind farm, awarded an EPCI contract for the 80 foundations to DEME Offshore and Eiffage […]

  • Global Maritime Finishes MWS for Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 1 and 2a in Taiwan

    10 April 2024
    Operations & Maintenance

    In February 2024, Global Maritime completed its task of providing marine warranty services (MWS) for the installation of 111 wind turbines on Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 1 and 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan. Ørsted awarded the MWS contract to Global Maritime Singapore in March 2021. The Greater Changhua 1 and 2a offshore wind project is […]

  • All Saint-Brieuc Wind Turbines Stand Complete

    18 December 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    All 62 wind turbines have been installed at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France, developed by Ailes Marines, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Iberdrola. The first wind turbine was installed in May on position number SB44, located in the northern part of the offshore construction site while the last SG 8.0-167 DD unit […]

  • Denmark: Vestas EBIT Up 8.6 Pct

    8 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    Vestas maintains its full-year guidance and the focus on cost reductions, low investments and increased capacity utilisation continues. In the first quarter of 2013, Vestas generated revenue of EUR 1,096m – a decrease of 1 per cent to the year-earlier period. EBIT before special items increased by EUR 96m to EUR (108)m. The EBIT margin […]

  • Brazil’s Oil & Gas Major Opens Offshore Wind Tender

    11 June 2025
    Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Research & Development, Supply Chain

    Petrobras, a Brazilian state-owned oil and gas company, has issued tenders for geophysical and geotechnical studies to explore the feasibility of an offshore wind pilot project off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The first tender covers the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of geophysical data in ultra-shallow waters near João da Barra, including electrical tomography […]

  • SPT Installs Suction Pile Jacket Offshore China

    21 August 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    SPT Offshore has installed the first suction pile jacket foundation at the 300 MW CTGNE Yangxi Shaba Phase I offshore wind farm in China. Earlier this year, Guangzhou Salvage Bureau appointed SPT Offshore to perform the suction installation services for what is the first such foundation in the South Chinese Sea. The Netherlands-based company said […]

  • Five Offshore Wind Auctions Coming Up in 2023 We Are Keeping an Eye On

    2 January 2023
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    This year is set to be one of the busiest for offshore wind developers and governments around the world as a multitude of new sites are scheduled to be awarded for offshore wind farm construction. From the much longer list of auctions coming up in 2023, each bearing national and/or global significance, offshoreWIND.biz is bringing […]

  • Saint-Nazaire Entering Home Stretch

    29 July 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    56 out of the 80 GE Haliade 150-6 MW wind turbines have been installed at the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire wind farm site offshore France with the first 25 per cent of the wind farm already commissioned by mid-July. Jane De Nul’s jack-up Vole au vent is transporting the wind turbines from the Nantes Saint-Nazaire port […]

  • UK: Ofgem Appoints TCP as Preferred Bidder for HV Link to Lincs Offshore Wind Farm

    9 May 2012
    Grid Connection

    Ofgem have appointed the preferred bidder for the first project in the second round of tenders (known as Transitional Round 2) to own and operate offshore links for the Lincs project. This is the second largest offshore transmission project to have reached this stage; the estimated value of the assets is £282 million. Transmission Capital […]

  • Siemens Wind Power Marks Triple-Digit Profit Growth

    1 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Siemens Wind Power and Renewables recorded a 119% increase in profit in the first quarter of the Fiscal Year 2017 compared to the same period a year earlier. The company’s renewable energy arm ended the first quarter of the current fiscal year with a profit of EUR 111 million, compared to EUR 51 million profit in the […]

  • Video: Rotterdam Ready for Offshore Wind with Sif Group

    3 October 2016

    Dutch manufacturer of offshore wind foundations, Sif Group, is working full steam at its new facilities in Rotterdam after assembling the first monopiles there at the end of the last month. Expecting to have more than 150 people working in Rotterdam in two years, the company is continuously looking to recruit. The first monopiles that will leave […]

  • E.ON’s Offshore Wind Division Posts Mixed Results

    9 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    E.ON’s Offshore Wind/Other division generated 2.1 billion kWh of electricity in the first half of 2017, on a par with the results reported for the first half of 2016.

  • Offshore Construction on World’s Largest Wind Farm Starts Next Spring

    29 July 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall plans to start offshore construction on the largest, and also the first subsidy-free offshore wind farm in the world, in the spring of 2021. This is when the first foundations, produced by Sif Group, will be brought from the Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam and installed at the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid […]

  • Top News of 2019 – Editors’ Picks

    1 January 2020

    With 2019 now behind us, our editorial team looks back on what shaped the offshore wind industry in the last year of the decade. Below is a subjective list highlighting some of the most impactful events in the sector: UK Offshore Wind Strike Prices Slide Down to GBP 39.65/MWh Offshore wind projects selected in the […]

  • TenneT’s Investment Numbers on the Rise in H1 2018

    25 July 2018
    Business & Finance

    TenneT invested EUR 904 million in Dutch and German high-voltage grids in the first half of 2018, which represents an increase compared to EUR 750 million in the first half of 2017, according to the company’s latest financial report.

  • Beatrice Export Cable Section Arrives in Peterhead

    30 January 2018
    Grid Connection, Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The first section of the second export cable which will connect the Beatrice offshore wind farm to the Scottish grid arrived in Peterhead on Monday, 29 January, Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL) said. 

  • Grid Expenses Hurt innogy’s Earnings

    11 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    innogy, a renewable energy, retail and grid spin-off of the German energy company RWE, issued its first independent financial report following the Initial Public Offering (IPO) in October, reporting a dip in earnings in the first nine months of 2016. The results were negatively affected by  high expenditure on grids and absence of positive one-off effects […]