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  • MeyGen Tidal Array Approved by Scottish Government

    16 September 2013
    Authorities, Technology

    Development of the largest tidal array in Europe today can now progress after Scottish Ministers awarded consent to build the first tidal energy project in the Pentland Firth. MeyGen Limited, a competitor in the Scottish Government’s Saltire Prize, has been given the go ahead to install the tidal array in stages, beginning with a nine […]

  • Final Turbine Parts Arrive at Borkum Riffgrund II Site

    27 August 2018
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Bold Tern left Esbjerg on 26 August with the final four MHI Vestas 8MW turbines for Borkum Riffgrund II. According to the vessel’s AIS data, Bold Tern is now at the construction site. 

  • German Offshore Wind Farms Shine in Q1 2017

    27 April 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance

    German offshore wind farms generated 4.8 billion kWh of electricity in the first quarter of 2017, a 36.7 percent jump compared to 3.5 billion kWh of electricity generated offshore Germany in the first quarter of 2016.

  • AWEA: Offshore Wind to Boost NC Economy

    20 March 2017

    After Avangrid Renewables, which recently built North Carolina’s first onshore wind farm, won the rights to develop an offshore wind project off Kitty Hawk for more than USD 9 million, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) hailed the potential effect of the offshore wind industry on the state’s economy.

  • 100th Turbine Rises at World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    27 February 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    100 out of the 140 Siemens Gamesa 11.0-200 DD wind turbines have been installed at the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid, the world’s first subsidy-free offshore wind farm and soon to be the largest offshore wind farm in operation. ”We have finished the installation of offshore wind turbine number 100 at the Hollandse Kust Zuid […]

  • Keel Laid for Cadeler’s 20 MW Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

    6 March 2024
    Vessels

    A keel-laying ceremony has been held for Cadeler’s wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Wind Maker, at Hanwha Ocean, formerly known as Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, in South Korea. Eneti, which merged with Cadeler last year, placed an order with Hanwha Ocean for two Gusto MSC NG16000X jack-up vessels in 2021. Wind Maker, formerly known […]

  • Offshore Installation Begins at TPC Changhua Wind Farm

    9 July 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul has begun the offshore installation activities at Taiwan Power Company’s Changhua Phase 1 offshore wind project in Taiwan. The company installed the first 12 pin piles out of 44 in the first phase of the work using Heerema Marine Contractors’ vessel Aegir. Forty more pin piles will be shipped from the fabrication […]

  • HIE: MeyGen’s Progress Exiting Time for Local Economy in Caithness

    25 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    The world’s largest tidal power development, which will be installed in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth, secured a funding package of over £50m and the construction of the first phase will now begin. Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is backing the MeyGen project with a £3.3m grant.  Calum Davidson, HIE Director of Energy and Low […]

  • Nexans Kicks Off Moray West Export Cable Pull-In Work

    14 November 2023
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Nexans has started the pull-in of the first of two export cables at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm off the coast of Scotland. The offshore export cables were manufactured by Nexans at its factory in Halden under a contract signed with Ocean Winds in 2021. The Nexans Skaggerak and the Nexans Aurora […]

  • Guangdong Yudean Zhanjiang Wailuo OWF Moving Forward

    10 April 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Guangdong Yuedian Qujie Wind Power has invested CNY 3.74 billion (approx. EUR 482 million) in the construction of the first phase of China’s Guangdong Yudean Zhanjiang Wailuo offshore wind farm, according to Chinese stock exchange websites.

  • French Scientists Developing Cables for Floaters

    17 March 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    French researchers gathered around the Omdyn R&D project are working on developing dynamic umbilical cables which will find particular application in floating turbines. The project is dedicated to the development of the dynamic cables used in floating marine energy applications. The cables, which can be up to several hundred meters long, pose considerable technical challenges, notably biofouling, […]

  • Top News of the Week Jan 20 – Jan 26, 2014

    26 January 2014

    VIDEO: Anholt Offshore Wind Farm Construction DONG Energy has constructed the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm, which is one of the largest construction projects in Denmark. First Monopile Installed at Borkum Riffgrund 1 The first of 77 foundations has been installed at Borkum Riffgrund 1 in Germany representing 277 MW when complete. NASA’s Image of the […]

  • Van Oord Installs All Monopiles at RWE’s 1.4 GW Sofia Offshore Wind Project

    15 July 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    All 100 monopile foundations have been installed at RWE’s 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm site, located 195 kilometres off the northeast coast of the UK. The achievement concludes a 14-month foundation installation campaign carried out by Van Oord as part of a joint engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for both wind turbine […]

  • Sandbank Starts Making an Impact on Vattenfall’s Numbers

    28 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Vattenfall’s Wind Business Area recorded an uptick in wind generation in the first quarter of 2017 on the back of more than 500MW of added capacity, including the recently commissioned 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm.

  • EnBW Issues EUR 1 Billion Green Hybrid Bonds

    30 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    German utility EnBW has launched its first two green hybrid bonds on the capital markets with a total issue size of EUR 1 billion which will be used to fund offshore and onshore wind projects and photovoltaics. This makes EnBW the first German green hybrid bond issuer, the company said. Rating agencies Moody’s, Standard & […]

  • Norway: ANDRITZ Increases Stake in Hammerfest Strøm

    7 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    International technology Group ANDRITZ increased its stake in Hammerfest Strøm AS from 33.3% to 55.4%. The other major shareholders are the local Norwegian utility company Hammerfest Energi and the Spanish utility company Iberdrola. The company will operate under the name of ANDRITZ HYDRO Hammerfest in the future and is a world market leader in technologies […]

  • Vineyard Wind 1 Turbine Installation About to Start

    4 August 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    The installation of GE’s Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbines at the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project site in Massachusetts is expected to start next week, according to WCVB Channel 5 Boston and other US media who reported on updates shared by Avangrid’s project team during a boat tour of the Vineyard Wind site earlier […]

  • Atlantis Secures GBP 51 Mln for MeyGen Tidal Project

    22 August 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Atlantis Resources, owner of the world’s largest planned tidal stream energy project, MeyGen, has agreed terms with a funding syndicate for a funding package for Phase 1A of the MeyGen project.   Total project funding package, which is a combination of equity, debt and grant, will exceed £50m. Funding syndicate members comprise the UK Government through […]

  • Pelamis Wave Power Celebrating Fourteenth Anniversary and Achievements (UK)

    26 January 2012

    Today Pelamis Wave Power is celebrating fourteenth anniversary, and some fantastic achievements and world firsts during those fourteen years, including: • The world’s first export of electricity from an offshore wave energy converter to an onshore grid network • Supply and commissioning of the world’s first multiple machine wave farm • Securing the UK’s first […]

  • UK: Njord Kittiwake Completes Offshore Tests

    14 February 2013

    Njord Avocet & Njord Kittiwake arrived in Lowestoft on 4th February. Their first trip from Rotterdam to Lowestoft offered up Force 7 winds and seas of up to 3.5m – a good opening test for the new vessels and one in which they performed excellently. Njord Kittiwake was selected for the first test on Greater […]

  • China Ocean Engineering Establishes UK Presence

    6 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    China Ocean Engineering Shanghai Co (COES) has launched its first UK subsidiary with an aim to support the offshore renewables and decommissioning industries.

  • Ørsted Reveals German Offshore Wind Play

    26 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Ørsted has submitted bids in the second competitive offshore wind tender in Germany opened earlier this month, with the results expected within weeks, the company revealed in its financial report for the first quarter of 2018.

  • Finland to Lease Sea Area for Offshore Wind Extension Project

    31 January 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Finnish state-owned enterprise Metsähallitus will lease the public area off the coast of Pori Tahkoluoto to Suomen Hyötytuuli for offshore wind power production. The agreement is the first long-running access right contract for public water area designated for wind power production. The project could have a capacity of over 600 MW and is an extension […]

  • Keel Laid for Second WINDEA Jones Act Compliant CTV

    27 October 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    St. Johns Ship Building has held a keel laying ceremony for the second Incat Crowther 30 crew transfer vessel (CTV) that the company is building for WINDEA CTV in compliance with Jones Act regulations in the US. At the beginning of this year, WINDEA CTV began construction of its three 30-metre hybrid-ready CTVs for the […]

  • Living Stone Trials Cleaner Fuel Setup

    11 May 2021
    Environment, Technology, Vessels

    DEME’s dual-fuel cable laying vessel Living Stone has completed her liquefied natural gas (LNG) sea trials after being bunkered with LNG for the first time. The ship-to-ship bunkering was conducted in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, by Titan LNG’s FlexFueler, DEME said. Living Stone completed her sea trials back in 2018. The vessel’s first assignment was on […]

  • Eidesvik’s Acergy Viking Becoming Eco-Friendly

    21 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Eidesvik Offshore is set to upgrade its service operation vessel (SOV) Acergy Viking as part of the company’s ambition to reduce its fleet emissions by 50% by 2030. Acergy Viking will be updated with a battery pack and hybrid propulsion solution, which is expected to bring to a reduction of diesel consumption (MGO) by up […]