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  • Jan De Nul Lays Keel for Mega Jack-Up

    26 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Jan De Nul has laid the keel for its jack-up vessel Voltaire at the Cosco Shipping Shipyard in Nantong, China. Jan De Nul started the construction of Voltaire in May last year with a steel cutting ceremony at the Cosco shipyard. The jack-up will be able to transport, lift and install the next-generation offshore wind […]

  • Danes Switch Nissum Bredning Demo Wind Farm On

    14 May 2018
    Authorities, Grid Connection, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Denmark’s minister of Energy, Utilities and Climate Lars Christian Lilleholt has officially inaugurated the 28MW Nissum Bredning demonstration offshore wind farm.

  • Friesland Province Makes Offshore Wind Farm Investment Official

    18 May 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The Dutch Province of Friesland and the developers of the 320MW Friesland offshore wind farm (Windpark Fryslân) project have signed a cooperation agreement which will allow the province to invest EUR 127 million in the project.

  • Haliade-X 12MW Nacelle Departs for Rotterdam

    13 August 2019
    Technology

    GE Renewable Energy has sent off the nacelle of the Haliade-X 12MW offshore wind turbine from its production site in Saint-Nazaire, France, to Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The Haliade-X 12MW components will be assembled in Rotterdam-Maasvlakte, after which the turbine will be installed onshore to facilitate access for testing during the initial period of operations. This initial phase is expected […]

  • Goldwind 6.7MW Offshore Wind Turbine Gets DNV GL Certificate

    24 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Goldwind has obtained the Type A certificate from DNV GL for its GW154/6.7MW offshore wind turbine. The certificate comes after Goldwind secured the Wind Turbine Type Approval Certificate issued by the China General Certification Center (CGC) for its new turbine. According to the Chinese company, with these two certificates in place, GW154/6.7MW became China’s first high-power offshore wind […]

  • USA: Offshore Wind ‒ One of the Coolest Technologies to Be Seen in 2014

    16 January 2014
    R&D, Technology

    What does offshore wind technology have in common with a trip to Mars? Well, along with space tourism, interplanetary exploration, physicists’ search for dark matter, Formula E and electric cars, offshore wind power will become one of the coolest technologies in 2014 in the United States, according to CNN. This year, the U.S is set […]

  • Origo Joins Hywind Team

    13 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Norwegian technology company Origo Solutions has been awarded a contract to develop a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for the Hywind Scotland Pilot Park. Statoil’s 30MW Hywind Scotland is the world’s first floating wind farm, located some 30 kilometers off the coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It will consist of five 6MW Siemens turbines, anchored in waters exceeding […]

  • Hornsea One Foundations All In Place

    26 April 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    DEME Offshore installed the final of the 174 monopile foundations on the 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm on Thursday, 25 April. The first monopile was installed at the site some 120 kilometres off the Yorkshire coast in the UK in January 2018. According to DEME, four of the company’s jack-ups has since worked at […]

  • 30 Wikinger Turbines In Place

    4 July 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    30 out of 70 Adwen 5MW wind turbines have been installed so far on Iberdrola’s 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, the Spanish energy company said.

  • Connector Stays on Hornsea Project One

    23 August 2018
    Vessels

    Norwegian shipowner Ocean Yield has entered a contract for extension of the charter for its cable lay vessel Connector, working at the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm site in the UK.

  • RVO to Open Geotechnical Soil Investigation Tender for IJmuiden Ver

    24 July 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) is preparing to issue a call for tenders for geotechnical soil investigations at the IJmuiden Ver offshore wind farm zone. The tender, expected to be open on 31 August, will be divided into two lots. The first lot will entail seabed Core Penetration Testing (CPT), while the second lot will […]

  • USA: MassCEC to Host Meeting on New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal

    1 July 2013

    The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, in partnership with the City of New Bedford, will host an informational meeting regarding the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal. The meeting will be held in New Bedford Public Library on July 2, 2013. Once constructed, the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal will be the first facility in the nation […]

  • Photos of the Day: Sea Installer Off to Race Bank

    8 May 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    A2SEA’s wind turbine installation vessel Sea Installer left the Port of Hull on Sunday, 7 May, with the first load of wind turbine components for DONG Energy’s 580MW Race Bank offshore wind farm.

  • Deutsche Bucht Mono Bucket Installation Hits a Snag

    27 November 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    The installation of the first of two mono bucket foundations at the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm has been paused due to a technical issue and for further evaluation, according to Northland Power. Northland Power has emphasized that the pause does not impact the 31 turbines on monopile foundations since the mono bucket installations are […]

  • Northwester 2 Foundations All In Place

    18 November 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Vole au vent has completed the installation of all monopile foundations at the Northwester 2 offshore wind project, a spokesperson from Parkwind told Offshore WIND. According to Parkwind, Vole au vent completed the installation of all 23 monopiles on 13 November and is currently preparing for the installation of turbines. […]

  • Tern Duo Tag Teams Hohe See Turbines

    15 April 2019
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Blue Tern has left the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark carrying the first load of turbine components to be installed by this vessel on the EnBW Hohe See wind farm in the German North Sea. Another Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up, Bold Tern, has returned from the Hohe See to the Port of […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Orders Seasight Davit Cranes for SeaMade

    30 January 2019
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Siemens Gamesa has placed an order with Seasight Davits for 58 davit cranes for the SeaMade offshore wind farm in Belgium. The cranes will be manufactured by Seasight Davits’ parent company Hvide Sande Shipyard, Steel and Service and will have an outreach of 3.2m and a one-ton lifting capacity. According to the Danish davit crane supplier, the […]

  • Hornsea One Starts Getting CfD Payments

    21 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    The Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm has begun receiving Contract for Difference (CfD) payments. The Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) began allocating the payments for the first phase of the 1.2GW offshore wind project as it passed the required tests for its Operational Conditions Precedent (OCP). The first project phase, with a capacity of 400MW, achieved a […]

  • Gicon Launches Webiste for Its Floater

    11 March 2015
    Technology

    GICON Group has launched a stand-alone website dedicated to the GICON® SOF – Germany’s first floating offshore foundation. The website will closely follow the manufacturing and installation of the SOF prototype. Fabrication of the first full-scale model started in July 2014. The work is being performed by GICON Group company ESG Edelstahl und Umwelttechnik Stralsund […]

  • VolkerWessels Posts Solid H1 Results

    17 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    VolkerWessels reported that it achieved good results in the first half of 2015. The operational profit increased to €97 million and the company was also able to achieve a net debt reduction of €90 million. CFO Jan van Rooijen said: “All VolkerWessels sectors have shown a profit for the first six months. The underlying results […]

  • Wind Still Dominant in UK

    11 April 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Wind continued to provide the majority of power from renewable sources in the UK in the first quarter of 2016, with 46% of the electricity generated from renewables coming from the country’s wind farms, according to the data gathered by EnAppSys. The levels of generation from wind sources amounted to 8.66TWh in the quarter, an 11% […]

  • Burbo Bank Extension Topside Meets Jacket (Gallery)

    2 June 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Engie Fabricom and Iemants completed the load-out of the topside for the 258MW Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm at the ENGIE Fabricom’s Hoboken yard on 30 May. The 1180-tonne topside was placed next to the 985-tonne offshore substation jacket on the pontoon. The jacket was loaded onto the pontoon on 11 May. The topside […]

  • French Developer Inks CTV Deals for Two Offshore Wind Farms

    19 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Les Éoliennes en Mer Services, a consortium of Ocean Winds, Sumitomo Corporation, and Caisse des Dépôts, has signed contracts with TSM Windcat for the deployment of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) on two offshore wind farms. Two of TSM Windcat’s hydrogen-ready MK3.5 CTV models are going to be deployed at the Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier and Dieppe […]

  • Wood on Hywind Scotland LiDAR Duty

    2 May 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Wood has deployed the first scanning LiDAR (light detection and ranging) devices on two floating wind turbines at the Hywind Scotland Pilot Park located 25 kilometres off the coast of Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

  • Goldwind Launches 12 MW Offshore Wind Turbine, Targets Chinese Market for Now

    2 November 2021
    Technology

    Goldwind has launched a 12 MW offshore wind turbine, along with several new onshore models of as part of the company’s launch of a new generation of medium-speed permanent magnet smart wind turbines. The first units of the GWH 242-12MW offshore wind turbine series are expected to be rolled out in 2023. For now, Goldwind […]

  • Irish Investor Buys Stake in German Offshore Wind Farm

    4 January 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Irish investment company Greencoat Renewables PLC has announced an agreement to acquire 22.5 per cent of the Butendiek offshore wind farm in Germany from Marguerite Pantheon. The 288 MW Butendiek offshore wind farm comprises 80 Siemens SWT 3.6-120 turbines located some 32 kilometres west of the island of Sylt. The wind farm has been operating at full capacity since […]