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  • WIND SERVER Wins Offshore Renewables Award 2015

    20 February 2015
    Vessels

    DBB Jack-Up’s newbuild WIND SERVER was awarded the Offshore Renewables Award 2015 at the Annual Offshore Support Journal’s conference held on Wednesday in London. The award was given to J/U WIND SERVER as the vessel provides a new way to service and maintain offshore wind turbines and fills a gap in the market between larger, more costly […]

  • Video: Construction of DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm

    9 February 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has recently published a video showing the construction of its DanTysk offshore wind farm, situated west of the island of Sylt and directly on the German-Danish border in the North Sea. In early December last year, the wind farm supplied the German electricity network with its first wind power. The DanTysk wind farm comprises 80 wind turbines in […]

  • New Offshore Grid Bill on the Way to Dutch Parliament

    2 February 2016
    Authorities

    A new legislative proposal, appointing TenneT as the grid administrator at sea, will be submitted to Dutch Parliament this month. This new proposal is necessary, because otherwise the understandings reached in the Energy Agreement cannot be achieved by 2020, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) said. The agency further explained that first and second tender in […]

  • Photo of the Day: Atlantic Pioneer Connects to 1st BIWF Foundation

    24 May 2016
    Vessels

    The Atlantic Pioneer vessel has connected to ‪Block Island Wind Farm’s‬ foundation no. 1 to deliver workers preparing to pull in the submarine export cable that will ultimately send the power generated from all five turbines to a substation on Block Island. Atlantic Pioneer is the first offshore wind support vessel built in the United […]

  • Scotland Could Set Up Inchgreen Renewables Hub

    24 November 2015

    Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed the first £30 million of investment in a transformative £1.13 billion city and region deal. More than £14 million is earmarked for a planned expansion of the quayside and construction of a visitor facility by Inverclyde Council and terminal owners Peel Ports. As part of the city deal, […]

  • Guangdong Jingyin and Ming Yang Ink Offshore Wind Cooperation Agreement

    4 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Guangdong Jingyin Machinery Co. Ltd. and China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited have signed an agreement to cooperate on the development of offshore wind services through a joint-stock company – Zhejiang Huayun Hai Yang Engineering and Technology Services. The two companies agreed to collaborate on designing, engineering, developing and operating offshore wind farms. Back in September 2015, […]

  • Synera Receives Permit to Build 495 MW Formosa 4 Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan

    15 November 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    Formosa 4, Synera Renewable Energy’s (SRE) third offshore wind project in Taiwan, received the establishment permit from the Energy Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs, in late October. According to SRE, Formosa 4 is the first project to reach this milestone among all successful bidders in the first auction for Phase 3 Zonal Development for Offshore […]

  • Inter-Array Cabling Underway at Galloper OWF

    7 April 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    On 6 April, first inter-array cable was installed at the Galloper offshore wind farm in the UK, according to innogy UK.

  • Axys and BEST Adding Atmospheric Sensors to FLiDAR

    2 February 2017
    R&D, Technology

    Canada’s Axys Technologies has started collaborating with the Colorado-based Boulder Environmental Sciences & Technology (BEST) to design and deploy the world’s first buoy based microwave profiling radiometer on a floating platform, the FLiDAR WindSentinel.

  • Ørsted Ramps Up Construction Offshore Taiwan

    7 June 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The first batch of wind turbine foundation pin piles has been installed at the 900 MW Greater Changhua 1 & 2a wind farm offshore Taiwan, Ørsted said. In total, 333 turbine foundation pin piles will be installed at the site located in Taiwan Strait, some 35 to 50 kilometres off Changhua County. The pin-piles will […]

  • Vattenfall Gets Electricity Production Permit for Kriegers Flak OWF

    22 January 2021
    Authorities, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    On 21 January, the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) granted an electricity production permit and issued an electricity production license to Vattenfall for the Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in Denmark. The permit is valid for 25 years from the time when the first electricity is delivered from the offshore wind farm to the grid. The […]

  • BOEM Sets New Dates for Vineyard Wind DEIS Meetings

    4 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has set new dates for the public meetings regarding its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project, which had previously been postponed due to the government shutdown. The first four meetings will be held in Massachusetts, with the first scheduled to begin on […]

  • Norther Turbines Start Their Final Journey

    1 February 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord’s jack-up vessel Aeolus is at MHI Vestas Offshore Wind’s pre-assembly site in Vlissingen to load the first turbine components for the Norther wind farm and install them in the Belgian North Sea. The wind farm comprises 44 MHI Vestas V164-8.4 MW wind turbines to be installed on monopile foundations some 22 kilometres offshore Zeebrugge. The […]

  • AXYS Deploys Two Dual-LiDAR Floaters at Catapult’s Met Mast

    10 March 2015
    R&D, Technology

    AXYS Technologies has deployed two dual-LiDAR WindSentinel floating LiDAR systems, utilising the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s offshore anemometry mast. This will be the world’s first deployment of a floating LiDAR system to feature two LiDARs, as each system has an additional Zephir 300, AXYS’ first deployment of this sensor. The WindSentinel systems will be deployed […]

  • All Nissum Turbines Installed, Cabling Work Nearing Completion

    8 February 2018
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The fourth and final Siemens Gamesa 7MW wind turbine was installed at the Nissum Bredning site in January, with cabling works now well underway and expected to be completed soon, according to the project’s social media page. 

  • Top Offshore Wind Videos of 2017

    1 January 2018

    As 2017 reached its end, we thought looking back at what it brought to the offshore wind industry might be a good idea. As every year, we bring you the five most popular videos of 2017: Mating of Hywind Scotland Floating Turbines Statoil has shared a great video showing the mating of one of Hywind […]

  • Western Tidal Signs Investigative Agreement with Shishalh Nation (Canada)

    4 February 2014
    Authorities, R&D

    Western Tidal Holdings Ltd., a tidal power marine energy project developer in British Columbia has announced the execution of an Investigative Use License Agreement signed with the Shishalh Nation in January. In addition to the Shishalh Nation, Western Tidal has worked with and has gained the support for investigation permits of several other First Nation […]

  • Belgium: Millions of Euros Available for Innovative Wind Energy Projects

    3 April 2013
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    A call for renewable energy project funding, which potentially totals tens of millions of Euros under NER300, was launched by the European Commission (EC) today. NER300 is the EU’s funding programme for innovative demonstration projects for renewable energy and carbon capture and storage (CCS). However while no CCS projects qualified for funding as part of […]

  • ‘Seven Borealis’ in Holland for Final Outfitting

    15 May 2012

    The ‘Seven Borealis’, Subsea 7’s flag ship, is currently in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) for final outfitting at the Huisman facilities. The vessel is the first customized version of Ulstein Sea of Solutions’ successful SOC 5000 vessel design and fully developed by the Netherlands based Ulstein design office. The vessel features an offshore mast crane which […]

  • Aquamarine, Pelamis to Share Slice of GBP 13 Million Scottish Support Programme

    16 September 2013
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Speaking on the consent given the first tidal energy project in the Pentland Firth, the Energy Minister Fergus Ewing announced that leading Scottish wave developers Aquamarine Power Limited and Pelamis Wave Power are to share a slice of a £13 million wave first array support programme – part of the Scottish Government’s Marine Renewables Commercialisation […]

  • Top News of the Week Apr 29 – May 5, 2013

    5 May 2013

    VIDEO: Monopile Load-Out The following is a video that shows a 450 monopile being loaded out from Steel Engineering Ltd in Renfrew to begin the first leg of its journey along the river Cart. Its final destination is the East Anglia Offshore wind zone. Technip Starts Work on Borkum OWF in Germany Technip Offshore Wind has […]

  • Avanti Accredited for Global Wind Industry Standard Trainings

    23 June 2014
    Training & Education

    Avanti Wind System announce that 4 of its existing trainers have now been accredited for The Global Wind Industry Standard (GWO) of Manual Handling, First Aid, Working at Heights and Fire Awareness by Lloyds. The company is now accredited to execute the following GWO best safety trainings: 4 hour Manual Handling 4 hour Fire Awareness […]

  • Last Turbine Up at Merkur

    14 September 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    The last of the 66 GE Haliade 150-6MW turbines has been installed at the Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • VIDEO: Installation of Vestas’ 8 MW Turbine

    31 January 2014
    R&D, Technology

    A few days ago, Vestas’ first V164-8.0 MW prototype wind turbine has successfully produced its first kWh of electricity, making it the world’s most powerful turbine in operation. The turbine is now operational at the Danish National Test Centre for Large Wind Turbines in Østerild, where it will be closely monitored in the coming months […]

  • Cadeler Signs US Offshore Wind Contract for Second P-Class Newbuild

    28 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Cadeler has signed a firm contract with an undisclosed client for work at an offshore wind project in the US. This will be the first time Cadeler’s second P-class newbuild vessel, Wind Pace, will be deployed following its anticipated delivery. The value of the contract to the Danish offshore wind installation company is estimated to […]

  • Lankhorst Dyneema Tethers WindFloat Atlantic

    20 November 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    The 25MW WindFloat Atlantic floating project in Portugal has used the first ever Lankhorst Dyneema DM20 mooring tethers.