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  • REpower Systems AG Announces 2010/11 Half-year Figures (April 1, 2010 – September 30, 2010)

    12 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    EBIT rises despite decline in revenue Net result climbs 24.6% to EUR 21.8 million In the period from April 1 to September 30, 2010, REpower Systems AG (WKN 617703) generated a total performance of EUR 515.2 million (previous year: EUR 617 million) and group revenue of EUR 499 million (previous year: EUR 609.7 million). The […]

  • Siemens Leaves Heavy Lifting to ALE

    3 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Siemens has awarded a four-year crane framework agreement to UK heavy-lift specialist ALE for the supply and deployment of cranes, specialised transport equipment and personnel. The contract is for the period 2016-19, and has a value in excess of GBP 43 million (EUR 55m). It covers Siemens’ harbour-based offshore wind sites in the UK and Germany, […]

  • DONG Energy Leading European Offshore Wind Market, Targets 6.5 GW by 2020

    12 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    The European Wind Energy Association, EWEA, has just published its half-yearly offshore statistics, showing a total of 277 offshore turbines installed in the first six months of this year, compared to the 132 turbines installed in the first six months of 2012. A total of 1,045 MW has been installed offshore. “The offshore wind market […]

  • Dogger Bank Wind Farm to Feature Unmanned HVDC Offshore Substations

    4 May 2021
    Grid Connection, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the world’s largest offshore wind project, will use what the developers say is ”a revolutionary platform design, unveiling the world’s first unmanned High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore substation.” When complete in 2026, the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank wind farm will become the biggest in the world, able to produce enough […]

  • All Turbines Up at Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 1 & 2a Offshore Wind Farms

    29 February 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    All 111 Siemens Gamesa SG 8.0-167 DD wind turbines have been installed at the Greater Changhua 1 and 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan, according to an update shared on social media by Per Mejnert Kristensen, President of Ørsted Asia Pacific. Offshore construction on the Greater Changhua 1 and 2a wind farms started in the summer of […]

  • UK: SeaRoc Appointed Principal Contractor on Teesside Offshore Wind Farm

    17 January 2013

    International marine engineering company SeaRoc has been appointed Principal Contractor to oversee the completion of the offshore wind farm construction at Teesside Offshore Wind Farm on behalf of EDF Energy Renewables. The project has now also reached an important milestone with the installation of the project’s first turbine. On 1st January 2013, SeaRoc was appointed by […]

  • Arkona’s Corrosion Protection Gets Innovation of the Year Accolade

    1 December 2017
    Environment, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    A corrosion protection process developed by E.ON and Ramboll and used for the first time on the Arkona offshore wind farm has won the German Renewables Award in the Innovation of the Year category. E.ON and Statoil’s joint project got the Innovation of the Year award from the Clusteragentur Erneuerbare Energien based in Hamburg. “The procedure developed […]

  • UK Govt Clearing Path for April CfD Allocation Round

    14 March 2017
    Authorities

    The UK Government is set to open the second Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round on 3 April, when it will make a total of GBP 290 million available for renewable energy projects, including offshore wind.

  • Wind Turbine Installation Campaign Commences at Vineyard Wind 1

    13 September 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The wind turbine installation campaign for the 806 MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project has begun some 15 miles (approximately 24 kilometres) off the coast of Massachusetts, the US. The installation campaign follows the successful transportation earlier this week of the first GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbine from the New Bedford Marine Commerce […]

  • H1 2017: Flurry of Offshore Wind Activity, But New Asset Financing Plummeted

    28 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    In the first half of the year, EUR 2.9 billion of new asset financing was made in offshore wind, down from a record high of EUR 14 billion in the same period in 2016, according to WindEurope. 

  • AIS Group and Arcon Developing Maryland Offshore Wind Training Center

    24 December 2019
    Training & Education

    AIS Training and Arcon have signed an agreement to develop an offshore wind training center in Maryland, the U.S. The new center will be purpose-built at Arcon’s existing welding training school site in Salisbury to train offshore wind workers in essential skills such as working at height, manual handling, fire awareness, first fid and sea […]

  • USA: Mercom Announces Report on Funding and M&A Activity for Wind Energy Sector

    18 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global clean energy communications and consulting firm, today released its report on funding and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for the wind energy sector for the first quarter of 2012. Venture capital (VC) funding in the first quarter came in strong with $240 million going into a record number of […]

  • Subsea7’s Backlog Remains ‘Robust’ with High Tendering in Subsea and Offshore Wind

    25 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Cables, Grid Connection, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Subsea7 has reported a “robust” backlog of USD 10.4 billion in its financial results for the first quarter of 2024, with tendering activity high in both the subsea and offshore wind sectors. To remind, in the financial results for the full year of 2023, Subsea7 reported it had secured USD 7.4 billion of contract awards […]

  • Dogger Bank Vessel Fleet Starts Taking Shape

    11 November 2021
    Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    North Star Renewables, VARD, and Alicat have held steel cutting ceremonies to mark the start of construction of three service operation vessels (SOVs) and the associated daughter craft bound for the Dogger Bank Wind Farm offshore the UK. The hybrid-powered vessel fleet is specifically designed to support the UK’s growing offshore wind market and will […]

  • Two Thirds of Kaskasi Offshore Wind Turbines Feeding Electricity into German Grid

    10 November 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Two thirds of the Siemens Gamesa wind turbines at the Kaskasi offshore wind farm are now feeding electricity into the German grid, with the installation of the remaining turbines underway. RWE plans to have all 38 units installed and ready for operation before the end of the year. Offshore construction at the project site, located […]

  • DEME Awards Dogger Bank A Cable Termination & Testing Contract

    2 June 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Correll Group, Cable Installation & Power Services Division has been contracted by DEME Offshore to complete the inter-array cable termination & testing on wind turbines and the offshore substation platform on the first phase of the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm in the UK. The 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm is being built in […]

  • Rampion Shakes Off Bad Weather

    25 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Environment, Wind Farm Update

    The Rampion offshore wind farm project remains on schedule with the installation of the first turbine foundation due to start this week, despite adverse weather conditions disrupting enabling works to prepare the seabed, according to E.ON. The 400MW project, being built by E.ON, the UK Green Investment Bank and Canadian energy company Enbridge, 13km off the Sussex […]

  • Carnegie Demonstrates CETO Units Swap

    8 September 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Carnegie Wave Energy has demonstrated the ability to swap CETO units during plant operation by retrieving the second CETO 5 unit and deploying CETO unit #1 in its place last week. The retrieval of the second CETO 5 unit was informed by lessons learnt during the retrieval of the first CETO 5 unit earlier this year. As with […]

  • Lamprell Plans Facility Upgrade to Meet Offshore Wind Surge

    19 September 2019
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    Lamprell is set to make incremental investments in equipment and operational set-up at its Hamriyah facility in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) due to a growing number of planned offshore wind projects. According to Lamprell, the decision comes as a number of significant offshore wind projects are expected to be sanctioned over the coming 5-10 years. […]

  • Ventyr Taps Norconsult for Sørlige Nordsjø II Onshore Grid Design

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

    Ventyr Energy (Ventyr Energi), a consortium consisting of Parkwind and Ingka Investments, has selected Norconsult to carry out the design and planning of the onshore grid infrastructure for the Sørlige Nordsjø II (Southern North Sea II) offshore wind farm in Norway. Just over a year after Ventyr secured the rights to develop Norway’s first large-scale […]

  • Eneco Luchterduinen Powers Dutch Railway

    26 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Dutch railway company NS has received the first power from the new wind farm in the Dutch North Sea, Eneco Luchterduinen. With the last of a total of 43 turbines installed this month, almost the entire park has been feeding electricity to the grid. As of 2018, NS will get 100 GWh of electricity from Luchterduinen, which is approximately 20% of […]

  • CGN’s Rudong OWF Soon to Go Online

    9 September 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    China General Nuclear Power Group’s (CGN) 152MW Rudong offshore wind farm demonstration project will soon be fully operational, China Daily reports. The first of 38 Siemens 4MW wind turbines at the Rudong offshore wind farm, located around 25 kilometers offshore Shayang Yangkou Port, was installed in September 2015. In January, the offshore wind farm started producing power after the […]

  • Sea Challenger Preparing for Westermost Rough

    19 May 2014

    On Saturday, 17 May 2014, A2SEA’s new purpose built installation vessel Sea Challenger arrived in the Port of Esbjerg. The vessel will now mobilise for its first project, DONG Energy’s Westermost Rough in the UK. Sea Challenger is a sister vessel to Sea Installer, which entered into A2SEA’s fleet in December 2012 and went directly […]

  • DECC Releases CfD Budget Draft

    24 July 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    UK Department of Energy and Climate Change has released a draft version of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) budget notice that the Secretary of State will give to the EMR Delivery Body, National Grid, ahead of the first allocation round in October 2014. The department divided the first allocation round in two pots. The first […]

  • Estonia Eyes Baltic Sea’s Offshore Wind Possibilities

    1 November 2013
    R&D

    Offshore wind plans for Estonia were discussed at the country’s first offshore wind conference held on the 29th and 30th of October, 2013 in Hiiumaa. Wind energy producers are looking at offshore wind possibilities in the Baltic Sea off Hiiumaa and Pärnumaa, according to Estonian Public Broadcasting news site. Environmental and other studies are not […]

  • NHV Helicopters Begin Borssele 1&2 Duty

    1 May 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    NHV Group has started carrying out its helicopter services for the Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. The flights depart from NHV’s recently installed base in Arnemuiden, Midden-Zeeland, to the project site located 23km from Westkapelle. The company stated it had taken delivery of a new H145 aircraft for the Midden-Zeeland […]