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  • Geotechnical Surveys Underway at Bałtyk II and III

    31 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Fugro Netherlands Marine B.V. is carrying out a geotechnical campaign at the Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III offshore wind projects in Poland.

  • Trianel Borkum Issues Subsea Maintenance Call

    25 December 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum has opened a tender seeking CPS retrofit and bolt exchange services for the Trianel Windpark Borkum offshore wind project. The awarded company will be in charge of subsea works on CPS retrofits and subsea bolt exchanges at diffusor plates, i.e. steel plate under the central column of the tripod foundation. The scope […]

  • Borssele Beta Jacket Assembly Underway

    21 January 2019
    Grid Connection

    HSM Offshore has commenced the assembly of the jacket foundation for the Borssele Beta offshore transformer station at its yard in Schiedam, the Netherlands. The Dutch company secured a contract by TenneT TSO for the construction of the Borssele Beta platform in September 2017, after it had cut the first steel for the Borssele Alpha transformer station. HSM […]

  • Ingeteam Marks 20 Years in Wind Industry

    10 December 2015

    Ingeteam’s wind business unit today celebrates its 20th anniversary. The company manufactured its first power converter named INGECON ® WIND in 1995. Ingeteam said that, since then, it has commissioned more than 20,000 wind power converters, accounting for 30GW of installed wind power capacity worldwide and a 7.4% market share. During the first semester of 2015, […]

  • TenneT: Dutch Unique Approach Leads to Offshore Wind Cost Reduction

    6 July 2016

    TenneT has congratulated DONG Energy for winning the tender to build the wind farms off the coast of Borssele and pointed out that a “globally unique” tendering process approach in the Netherlands leads to drastic reductions in the cost of offshore wind. TenneT’s CEO Mel Kroon said: “The result of the first tender Borssele is very positive to […]

  • Gemini’s 150 Join Forces

    14 December 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Last week, all 150 wind turbines at the Gemini offshore wind farm produced power simultaneously. “Testing and final works will be continued, to ensure the wind park is completed on time in Q1/2 2017,” the project team said on their media pages. Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel Aeolus installed the last of the 150 4MW Siemens […]

  • South Boats Launches South Cat 22m ‘Iceni Venture’

    23 January 2015
    Vessels

    South Boats IOW, UK’s manufacturer of wind farm service vessels (WFSV), has launched its first of class South Cat 22m named ‘Iceni Venture’ for Iceni Marine Services Ltd. The all new South Cat 22m has benefited from the extensive testing programme carried out to understand the benefits and limitations to various hull forms and how […]

  • Ørsted and Eversource Pick Nexans Cables for US Offshore Wind Farms

    3 December 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Cable manufacturer Nexans, Eversource, and Ørsted have signed a framework agreement for North American offshore wind development. Under the agreement, Nexans secured an opportunity to provide up to 1,000 kilometres of export cables for several of Ørsted’s in the United States. The first delivery is expected by 2022 and the agreement extends until 2027. “Our […]

  • Beatrice Nears Double-Digit Turbine Milestone

    16 August 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Nine Siemens Gamesa 7MW wind turbines have so far been installed on the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland, Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL) said.

  • Discussion on Offshore Wind Rescue Chain to Be Organized (Germany)

    18 April 2013
    Training & Education

    All participants of the“Rettungskette Offshore Wind” research project, which entails emergency rescue actions for offshore wind, led by Prof. Christian Jurgens and coordinated by Dr. Nils Weinrich, can look back on an eventful and exciting first year of the project. To discuss the findings of this project, a symposium will be held on 26 and […]

  • TenneT Updates Switchgear Tender

    14 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Technology

    TenneT TSO has issued an amended call for tender for switchgears that will allow safe transfer of electricity from five offshore platforms to the company’s high voltage grid in the Netherlands. In the period between 2017 and 2023, TenneT expects to build the five offshore platforms for the connection of offshore wind farms to the Dutch grid. […]

  • Top News of the Week Jan 4 – 10, 2016

    10 January 2016

    Hornsea One Onshore Construction to Kick Off Onshore works for the Hornsea Project One wind farm are scheduled to start this month with the construction of an onshore substation at North Killingholme, North Lincolnshire. E.ON Splits Its Business Operations As announced earlier, E.ON separated its operations from Uniper’s effective 1 January, 2016. Ulstein Welcomes First […]

  • Gamesa Profit Triples

    7 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Gamesa obtained €62 million euro in net profit in the first quarter of 2015, i.e. more than triple the €17 million reported in the same period last year. This improvement reflects sound sales activity and a continuous improvement in the company’s profitability, with an underlying EBIT margin of 8%. The launch of Adwen had a […]

  • Top News of the Week Jan 5 -11, 2015

    11 January 2015

    MPI Acquires RWE’s Victoria Mathias WTIV  MPI Offshore has acquired wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Victoria Mathias, from RWE Innogy. Suzlon in Talks over Its German Subsidiary Indian wind energy manufacturer, Suzlon, is in talks over the sale of its German subsidiary Senvion. V164-8.0 MW Scoops Best Offshore Wind Turbine Award MHI Vestas Offshore Wind’s […]

  • Densit and Vestech Sign Offshore Wind Deal in Taiwan

    16 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    The ITW brand Densit has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Taiwanese company Vestech to jointly work on the development of offshore wind in Taiwan.

  • Bladt Starts Shipping Out Hornsea Two Hardware

    14 September 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Bladt Industries has loaded out the first six out of the 135 anode cages built for the 1.4 GW Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm. The first six transition pieces will soon follow, Bladt Industries said. The Danish company is in charge of manufacturing and delivering 135 transition pieces for the project. The units are […]

  • Block Island Wind Farm Getting Taller (Gallery)

    16 November 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Deepwater Wind has been installing top decks on foundations at its Block Island offshore wind farm since the beginning of this month.  According to the company’s social media pages, the first top deck was installed on 3 November and the third of the total five foundations got its top deck a week later. The work is being carried […]

  • 40South Energy Receives Third Order for Its R115/150kW Wave Energy Converter (Italy)

    4 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Technology

    40South Energy announced on its official pages on social networks that it had received a firm order for one R115/150kW machine from a third client yesterday. The company further added: This new client is an Independent Power Producer, and wants its first machine at the Elba WEP once it is consented. This same client expressed […]

  • SEA CHALLENGER Fully Loaded, Starts Its Journey to Westermost Rough OWF

    6 August 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    On August 4, SEA CHALLENGER loaded the last components for the first batch for Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm in the UK. SEA CHALLENGER is scheduled to leave Esbjerg today (August 6) and installation is expected to start this week. “It is a new generation of components and lifting gear with the Siemens 6MW turbine […]

  • Export Cable Hooked to Daishan 4 Substation

    11 December 2019
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The 12-kilometer export cable delivered by Orient Cable has been connected to the offshore substation at the Daishan 4 offshore wind project in China. According to Orient Cable, 12km of the 220kV export cable was connected to the substation on 9 December. Furthermore, 35kV IAC will be laid in the first quarter of 2020. To […]

  • Germany to Shut Down Nuclear Plants by 2022

    1 July 2011
    Authorities

    Germany will become the first major industrial nation to completely reject nuclear power since the Fukishima disaster in Japan after voting… (globalpost) [mappress] Source: globalpost, July 01, 2011;

  • Humberside Engineering Training Association Apprentice Could Become Offshore Wind Engineer (UK)

    31 December 2010
    Training & Education

    A FIRST offshore wind apprentice has been taken on in Grimsby – in a move described as “a huge boost” to two Grimsby Telegraph campaigns.   (thisisgrimsby) [mappress] Source: thisisgrimsby, December 31, 2010

  • Lake Erie wind farm to use GE next generation wind turbines (USA)

    16 July 2010
    Business & Finance, Technology

    The Lake Erie project, the first freshwater offshore wind farm in the U.S., will use GE’s next-generation wind turbine, the largest in its…   [mappress] Source: ecofriendnews, July 16, 2010;

  • New more reliable wind turbine technology revealed (UK)

    3 June 2010
    R&D

    Just recently some brand new, more reliable wind turbine technology was unveiled. This wind turbine, which is still in the first stage of… [mappress] Source: electric, June 03, 2010;

  • Regulations for Wolfe Island wind farm are on the way

    15 April 2010
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Kingston was approved for Ontario’s first offshore wind power project last week, yet no regulations exist governing where turbines can be…   [mappress] Source: thewhig, April 14, 2010;

  • Greece objects to the construction of offshore wind farm on Lake Ontario (USA)

    22 July 2010
    Authorities, Environment

    The Greece Town Board has become the first elected body in Monroe County to voice an opinion on offshore wind turbines.That opinion was a… (rocnow) [mappress] Source: rocnow, July 22, 2010;