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  • Welsh Renewables Science Park Gets GBP 10 Mln from EU

    22 October 2015
    R&D

    A £10m EU boost for the development of the new Menai Science Park has been announced by Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones. The project, led by Bangor University, has already been awarded £10m from the Welsh Government. The EU funding provides the remainder of the investment needed for the first phase to get underway, constructing […]

  • €17.5Bn Invested in EU Offshore Wind in H1 2016, €5.2Bn More Expected by Mid-2017

    19 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    WindEurope expects EUR 5.2 billion and 1.4GW in Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) by June 2017, compared with EUR 10 billion and 2.2GW that were achieved for the same period last year. Transactions that are now approaching financial close are Rentel (300MW), Norther (370MW), Deutsche Bucht (252MW), and EnBW Hohe See (492MW). The sector generated a total […]

  • UK: SMart Wind Inks Two Agreements with The Crown Estate

    25 August 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      SMart Wind, the joint venture between Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures, today announced the signing of Agreements for Lease (AFLs) with The Crown Estate for the first two offshore wind projects in the Hornsea zone. The agreements, which secure options for the rights to use, as well as set out the commercial […]

  • Top News of 2017 – Editors’ Picks

    2 January 2018

    The Offshore WIND editorial team brings you a list of what, in our opinion, were the most significant developments in the offshore wind industry in 2017. 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 […]

  • Day 1 of California Floating Wind Lease Sale Ends with USD 402 Million in Bids

    7 December 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has closed the first day of bidding for offshore wind lease areas in California with USD 402.1 million in bids after 20 rounds. Today, 7 December, the race to build the first floating wind farms off the US Pacific coast will continue. The US is auctioning off […]

  • The Crown Estate Okays Hywind Scotland Seabed Lease

    16 May 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The Crown Estate has granted a lease to Statoil that will enable the start of construction of the 30MW Hywind Scotland floating wind farm located at Buchan Deep, some 25 kilometres from Peterhead. The project – set to be the world’s largest floating wind farm – consists of five 6MW turbines which will be deployed in deeper water […]

  • Senvion Reaps Offshore Gains

    11 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    German wind turbine maker Senvion recorded EUR 184 million in offshore wind-related revenues in the first half of 2017, a 145% increase compared to the first half of 2016.

  • Financial Close on World’s Largest Offshore Wind Project Within Days

    18 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Financial close on the first two phases of the world’s largest offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank is expected in the coming days, SSE said. SSE Renewables and Equinor are jointly developing the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank offshore wind project through a 50:50 joint venture company – Dogger Bank Wind Farm. The project is divided […]

  • Formosa 1 Begins Commercial Operation

    7 January 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The Formosa 1 offshore wind project in Taiwan started commercial operation on 27 December, according to JERA. The 128MW wind farm consists of the 8MW Formosa 1 Phase 1, inaugurated in May 2017, and the 120MW Formosa 1 Phase 2 which was officially commissioned in November. Formosa 1 comprises two Siemens Gamesa 4MW turbines from the first phase […]

  • Haliade X- 12MW Prototype Stands Complete

    17 October 2019
    Technology

    The third and final 107m blade has been installed on the prototype GE Haliade-X 12MW offshore wind turbine in Maasvlakte, the Port of Rotterdam. The first blade was installed on the Haliade-X 12MW turbine located at Sif’s Maasvlakte 2 terminal on 14 October, with the second piece following the day later. LM Wind Power manufactured the 107m blades, the world’s largest, at its […]

  • EMO Becomes Windea La Cour Agent

    29 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    EMS Maritime Offshore (EMO) has taken over agency services for the service operations vessel (SOV) Windea La Cour in the port of Eemshaven, the Netherlands.

  • HiDef to Conduct Digital Video Aerial Surveys Offshore Northern Ireland

    26 December 2012

    HiDef announced it has been selected to conduct Digital Video Aerial surveys for First Flight Wind for its proposed offshore wind farm in waters off the Co. Down coast, Northern Ireland. It is envisioned that the project will have a capacity of 600 Megawatts (MW). A wind farm of this size could generate up to […]

  • Floatgen Proves Its Mettle

    4 July 2019

    Floatgen, the first offshore wind turbine installed offshore France, produced a total of 2.2GWh during the first half of 2019, thus exceeding expectations, according to Ideol. Based on the first operational results, Ideol reported that the 2MW Floatgen met and exceeded all expectations and faced wave heights of up to 6.2m at the Sem-Rev test site. According to the […]

  • Top News of the Week May 30 – Jun 5, 2016

    5 June 2016

    Timelapse: Dudgeon Foundation Eased Into Place Statoil has shared a timelapse video of one of 67 foundations for the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm being installed in the UK part of the North Sea. Sandbank Partners Streamlining Turbine Installation Process Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München (SWM), together with project partner Siemens, have developed an optimised concept […]

  • Six Beatrice Foundations Down, Eighty to Go

    25 August 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Heavy lift vessel Oleg Strashnov has installed the first six of 86 jacket foundations on the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland, Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL), the owner and developer of the wind farm, said.

  • Turbine Installation Starts at Rentel Offshore Wind Farm

    7 May 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    A2Sea’s jack-up installation vessel Sea Installer left the Port of Ostend, Belgium, on 5 May with the first 7MW Siemens Gamesa wind turbines destined for installation at the 309MW Rentel offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea.

  • 16 Turbines Standing at SeaMade

    7 August 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Sixteen out of 58 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW turbines have been installed at the SeaMade offshore wind project in Belgium. According to Otary CEO Mathias Verkest, the 9th turbine load-out is currently being prepared at the Port of Oostende. DEME’s Apollo installed the first turbine at the project site located some 50km off the coast in […]

  • Australia: Oceanlinx Celebrates Launch of ‘greenWAVE’

    4 November 2013
    Technology

    On Friday 25 October, the Oceanlinx team celebrated with their valued guests the launch of the world’s first wave energy converter unit – ‘greenWAVE’. Celebrations were held in Adelaide, South Australia, with guests able to walk around and inside the ‘greenWAVE’ to get a first hand look at this industry leading technology. The event saw […]

  • Ghana Trials Wave Energy Generators Next Month

    10 February 2015
    Technology

    Ghanaian company developing wave energy project at the Ada Estuary will put to the test first six generators next month. “We do not use oil or gas. We only use the waves from the sea and once the initial capital is set in place, the installation proceeds,” said Anothy Opoku, Chief Executive Officer of TC […]

  • Korea: Hyosung Produces 5.9MW Wind Power Generator

    17 October 2013

    Hyosung has produced the first 5.9MW permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) which is a core part of large wind turbines. This is the first generator of this capacity produced in Korea as part of the government’s plan for the development of offshore wind power generation systems. Hyosung has noted that their generator is more efficient […]

  • Hywind Tampen Control Room Officially Opened in Bergen

    18 November 2022
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The onshore control room for the world’s largest floating wind farm, and the first to power oil & gas platforms, has been officially opened in Bergen, Norway. This is the first offshore wind control room in Norway, according to Ole Arild Larsen, Manager Operations Hywind Tampen at Equinor. The 94.6 MW Hywind Tampen, which produced first […]

  • Saipem Installs Saint-Brieuc OSS, Delivers Formosa 2 Jacket Foundations

    8 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Saipem has reported that the company reached two important milestones in offshore wind this month following the installation of the offshore substation at the Saint-Brieuc wind farm site in France and the delivery of the final of its batch of jacket foundations for the Formosa 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The transport and installation […]

  • Seajacks Goes Global with Siemens Gamesa Contract in Taiwan

    2 May 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seajacks has won a contract from Siemens Gamesa to install 20 6MW turbines at the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan.

  • DONG Energy Opens Boston Office

    28 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    World’s leading offshore wind developer DONG Energy has officially opened its U.S. headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • Iberdrola’s Renewables EBITDA Boosted by West of Duddon Sands OWF

    23 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Iberdrola has published its interim results for the half year to the end of June, which show that group’s EBITDA rose by 5.7% % and its renewables business EBITDA was boosted by increased capacity from West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm. “In the first half of 2015 Iberdrola invested more than £2 million each and every day to keep […]

  • Windfarm Update: Block Island, Eneco Luchterduinen, Gemini, Westermeerwind

    28 October 2015

    Block Island Offshore construction work at the first US offshore wind farm began on 26 July, when the first foundation was installed at the site 4.8 km off the Block Island coast. By mid-September, Deepwater Wind, the company behind the project, had four out of five steel jacket foundations in water. Vessels in charge of […]