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  • 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. […]

  • Northern HeliCopter Inks North Sea Contract

    3 April 2015

    Northern HeliCopter will provide its rescue services to several offshore wind farms in the North Sea. The contract, awarded by EWE Offshore Service & Solutions, covers Global Tech I, Trianel Windpark Borkum, Riffgat and Alpha Ventus. The company is the centre of the EWE Group’s offshore expertise. It is a services company that advises and […]

  • Two Blyth GBFs Equipped with ORE Catapult-Designed Sensors

    14 August 2017
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Two out of the five gravity-based foundations (GBFs) for the Blyth Offshore Demonstrator project have been fitted with a sensor system designed by ORE Catapult, with the first such GBF currently making its way up the River Tyne before being installed at the site.

  • Ørsted Completes Borssele 1 & 2 Investment Financing

    12 November 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has signed a EUR 175 million, 8-year loan agreement with the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) for co-financing its investment in the Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. Together with the loan agreement closed with the European Investment Bank (EIB) on 6 September, the intended long-term financing of Ørsted’s investment in […]

  • All Saint-Nazaire OWF Foundations Transported to France

    13 October 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    SAL Heavy Lift has completed the transport of wind turbine foundations for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm from the Netherlands to France. The company’s vessel MV Svenja shipped 80 monopiles and as many transition pieces from Sif’s Maasvlakte site at the Port of Rotterdam to the Port of La Rochelle, starting in February. MV Svenja […]

  • Triton Knoll Starts Giving Back

    25 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    The Triton Knoll Community Fund has awarded its first round of grants to local communities nearby the onshore infrastructure of the 860MW offshore wind project in Lincolnshire, UK. Twelve projects by communities from Hogsthorpe, Anderby and Brothertoft to Swineshead, Great Hale and Donington will share some GBP 115,000 of the windfall. The first awards are from the GBP 500,000 […]

  • Sif Completes Coating Facilities in Rotterdam

    28 August 2019
    Ports & Logistics

    Dutch offshore foundations manufacturer Sif has completed the new coating facilities at Maasvlakte 2 in the Port of Rotterdam. Sif added the two extra coating halls in response to stricter requirements for coating as the wind farms are venturing into deeper waters in an effort to lower the costs and generate more energy. The new coating facilities […]

  • Highlights of the Month: February, 2014

    3 March 2014

    Marubeni and Technip to Build Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm Mainstream Renewable Power has appointed Marubeni and Technip Offshore Wind Limited (working in consortium) as the preferred supplier of balance of plant EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation) services for the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm. First OW Jack-Up Vessel Built in Germany […]

  • UAE: Drydocks Starts Construction of DolWin Beta

    21 June 2012
    Grid Connection

    The first steel to be used in the construction of DolWin beta was cut at the yard in Dubai yesterday. “DolWin beta is our first wind platform and an important project for Aibel. A lot of people have done a tremendous job in planning and designing the platform. This reflects a good relationship between Drydocks […]

  • ScottishPower Renewables And Vattenfall Award Gardline Hydro Multi Million Pound Contract (UK)

    18 June 2010
    Business & Finance

    ScottishPower Renewables and Vattenfall, the developers of the East Anglia offshore windfarm zone, have awarded local company, Gardline Hydro from Great Yarmouth, a multi million pound contract to conduct seabed surveys on the first section of the site. Gardline Hydro will complete extensive geo-physical surveys of one section of the development site and correlate crucial […]

  • 20 MW Big Cajun Targets Slow-Moving Water and Wind to Produce Electricity

    2 March 2022
    R&D, Technology

    Canada-headquartered Waterotor International Corp., a hydrokinetic energy company, has unveiled its Megarotor system design called “The Big Cajun” at the Floating Wind Solutions 2022 convention in Houston, Texas. The 20-megawatt Big Cajun is said to be the first hybrid ocean system that simultaneously extracts energy from slow-moving water and wind. According to Wateroror, the patented […]

  • GE Haliade-X Prototype Completes Second Year in Operation

    9 November 2021
    R&D, Technology

    GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X offshore wind turbine prototype installed in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has been operating for two years, making it the first 10+ MW offshore wind turbine to achieve this milestone, the turbine maker said. The prototype was first commissioned in November 2019 at 12 MW. Since then, GE Renewable Energy has uprated the […]

  • Half of Boskalis Q1 Offshore Energy Orders Came from Wind Sector

    14 May 2021
    Business & Finance

    Boskalis has reported a 10 per cent increase in the order book of its Offshore Energy division in the first quarter of the year (compared to the end of 2020), with around 50 per cent of new orders coming from the offshore wind sector. The first quarter at the company’s Offshore Energy division proceeded in […]

  • UK Monopile Factory Changes Location, New Address at Teesworks

    14 February 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics

    SeAH Wind Ltd will build a GBP 200-300 million UK XXL monopile manufacturing facility at Teesworks and not at Able UK’s Able Marine Energy Park (AMEP) on the South Bank of the Humber as initially planned. SeAH Wind Ltd, a subsidiary of South Korea’s pipe manufacturer SeAH Steel Holdings, has not specified the reason for […]

  • Nine New Offshore Wind Applications Filed in Denmark, Several Projects Top 1 GW

    5 July 2022
    Authorities

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has sent nine new offshore wind applications received through its open door scheme for regulatory consultation. From 4 April to 30 June 2022, the Danish Energy Agency received 43 applications, of which 16 have been rejected due to overlap with state land reservations, as reported last month. Of the remaining […]

  • Top News of 2016 – Editors’ Picks

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

    The editorial team at Offshore WIND have compiled a list of what we thought were the most important developments within the offshore wind industry in 2016. Vattenfall Wins Kriegers Flak Tender with EUR 49.9 per MWh Bid Swedish energy company Vattenfall has won the tender to build the 600MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Danish part […]

  • Export Cable Installation to Start at Third Dogger Bank Wind Farm Phase

    26 March 2024
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The installation of export cables at Dogger Bank C, the third phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK, is scheduled to start in early April. The work will be performed in three campaigns to install three sections of export cable, with the first campaign starting on or around 9 April […]

  • All Monopiles Installed at Gode Wind 3 Wind Farm Offshore Germany

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

    All monopiles have been installed at Ørsted’s Gode Wind 3 offshore wind farm in Germany. Furthermore, 10 out of 12 Siemens Gamesa 11 MW wind turbines have been installed at Ørsted and Eversource’s South Fork Wind Farm offshore New York. Ørsted has unveiled that all monopiles have been installed at the 253 MW Gode Wind […]

  • China: Shanghai Donghai to Invest USD 300 Million in Offshore Wind Farm Expansion

    30 May 2012
    Wind Farm Update

      Shanghai Donghai Wind Power Co., developer of China’s first large-scale offshore wind farm in the city, will invest USD 300 million in development of a 100MW offshore wind farm next year. As Bloomberg writes, the project represents the second phase of the East China Sea Bridge wind farm and will use turbines from Shanghai Electric Group […]

  • Ørsted Sets October Date for Borssele 1 and 2 Launch

    28 July 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted plans to officially commission the 752 MW Borssele 1 and 2 wind farm in the Dutch North Sea on 5 October, barring any negative effects from the COVID-19 pandemic. The wind farm comprises 94 Siemens Gamesa’s wind turbines, over two-thirds of which have now been installed at the site located 22 kilometres off the […]

  • Blue Tern En Route to Trianel Windpark Borkum II

    4 March 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Blue Tern is on its way to the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) offshore wind farm loaded with the first batch of turbine components. Blue Tern was contracted to finish installing the remaining 11 Senvion turbines on the project offshore Germany, replacing Jan De Nul’s Taillevent which is reportedly on its way to start a […]

  • Arkona Turbine Team Enters Fourth Quarter

    1 October 2018
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    45 out of 60 Siemens Gamesa 6MW wind turbines have been installed on the 385MW Arkona offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea, a spokesperson for E.ON told Offshore WIND.

  • 8 Turbines Left to Go at Deutsche Bucht

    9 August 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    25 out of 33 MHI Vestas 8.4MW turbines have been installed at the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm in Germany, according to Northland Power. The company emphasized that the construction of the project is progressing according to schedule and is on budget. Deutsche Bucht produced first power to the German grid at the end of July, when the […]