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  • Vestas’s 15 MW Wind Turbine Up at Danish Port of Thyborøn

    10 June 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Ports & Logistics, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    Vestas has completed the installation of its V236-15.0 MW offshore wind turbine in the Port of Thyborøn in Denmark, only three months after the port ordered the company’s flagship model. On 8 June, the wind turbine produced its first kWh of power, a crucial step in the final verification campaign, Vestas said in a social […]

  • Hitachi, Petrofac to Work on TenneT’s Dutch Offshore Converter Stations

    13 January 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Dutch-German Transmission System Operator (TSO) TenneT, Hitachi Energy, and Petrofac have entered into early works agreements in support of TenneT’s 2 GW Programme. Under the terms of the agreements, the companies will begin preparatory work and detailed engineering to ensure timely delivery of the first two Dutch converter stations for TenneT’s high voltage direct current […]

  • The Netherlands: Three Damen Twin Axe FCSs Head to Maritime Craft Services

    22 March 2013

    Three more Damen Twin Axe Fast Crew Suppliers are on their way to Maritime Craft Services (Clyde) Ltd and are expected to arrive in Europe in early May. Based in Largs, Ayrshire, MCS ordered the three Twin Axe FCS 2610, just months after taking delivery of its first two catamarans. All of the vessels are […]

  • China Introduces Offshore Wind Feed-In Tariffs

    17 June 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has been working with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) tariff department for months to determine the feed-in tariff for offshore wind, and the discussions between the two agencies are nearly finalised.  It is said that inter-tidal projects will enjoy a tariff of RMB 0.85 (USD 0.14) per kilowatt hour while the nearshore […]

  • The Netherlands: XEMC Darwind Completes Installation of XD115 5MW Wind Turbine

    1 July 2011

    This past Sunday 26th of June a major milestone was reached regarding the market introduction of XEMC Darwind’s XD115 5MW wind turbine. Installation of the prototype was completed at the test site in the Wieringermeer, Province of Noord Holland, The Netherlands. The XD115 is one of the world’s first 2nd generation Direct Drive Permanent Magnet […]

  • DexaWave Energy Malta Launches Scale Model of Wave Energy Converters Off Marsascala

    23 August 2011
    R&D, Technology

      DexaWave Energy Malta has succesfully launched a 1:10 scale model of its wave energy converters off Zonqor Point in Marsascala. This model is a scale down of the 60 metre converters that the company plans to deploy off Gozo to convert wave power into electical energy. Together with its high tech wave data collecting […]

  • Pelamis Wave Power Appoints Per Hornung Pedersen as CEO (UK)

    18 October 2011

      Pelamis Wave Power has appointed Per Hornung Pedersen as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Pedersen joins Pelamis with an immediate goal of fulfilling demand from the company’s three major customers, E.ON, Scottish Power Renewables and Vattenfall, who are actively developing commercial projects for Pelamis machines and have lodged enquiries for significant orders of wave energy […]

  • Norway Seeks Consultancy Services for Offshore Wind Auction Model

    1 June 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy is seeking consultancy assistance in designing an auction model for the first 1,500 MW of offshore wind capacity at the Sørlige Nordsjø II (Southern North Sea II) area. As previously reported, the 3 GW of fixed-bottom capacity at the Sørlige Nordsjø II zone will be auctioned off in two […]

  • The Netherlands: Falck Launches Facilities for Wind Farm Safety Training

    29 April 2013
    Training & Education

    On Friday April 26th 2013 Falck Nutec in the Netherlands officially launched state-of-the-art facilities for wind farm safety training. To celebrate adding these wind training services to our portfolio of on- & offshore and maritime safety training, alderman of Rotterdam Mrs. Jeannette Baljeu performed the official opening. “It is very important to have such advanced […]

  • DONG Energy to Test Two Siemens 6 MW Turbines in UK

    17 April 2012
    Technology

    DONG Energy has received full consent to test two next generation offshore wind turbines at their Gunfleet Sands site in South East England. It is the first time that the Siemens 6 MW turbine will be tested offshore and DONG Energy’s first demonstration project in the UK. The two Siemens 6 MW machines will be […]

  • 27 GE Haliade-X Wind Turbines Installed at Dogger Bank A

    26 July 2024
    Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    More than a quarter of wind turbines at Dogger Bank A, the first phase of the UK’s 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, have been installed. So far, 27 of the 95 GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbines that Dogger Bank A will comprise are in place, according to information in Equinor’s results for the […]

  • UK: Hogan Lovells Advises Lenders to Blue Transmission Consortium on GBP 110 Million OFTO Purchase

    28 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Hogan Lovells advised the bank lenders to the Blue Transmission consortium of Macquarie Capital Group Limited and Barclays Integrated Infrastructure Fund on the consortium’s successful bid to acquire and operate the transmission link to the Walney 2 offshore wind farm for £110 million. The lending group comprised Lloyds Banking Group, SMBC, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, […]

  • Windnova Software Debuts at Gemini OWF

    25 June 2015
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The Gemini offshore wind farm has agreed a contract to become the first commercial users of Windnova, a new project management software, designed specifically for the offshore wind sector. The web-based software, developed by Windnova S.L, monitors and controls activities associated with the development and operation of offshore wind farms. The development team at Windnova claims […]

  • Estonian Shipyard to Build Damen CTVs

    12 June 2023
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Baltic Workboats (BWB) and Damen Shipyards have signed a partnership agreement for a programme of building Damen’s popular crew transfer vessel (CTV), the Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2710, at BWB’s facility on Saaremaa Island in Estonia. The FCS 2710 is a versatile vessel and those built by BWB will undertake a range of duties in […]

  • Offshore WIND in 2018 – Beyond News

    1 January 2019

    Wind turbines, zero-subsidy projects and emerging markets remained to be the industry’s hottest topics in 2018. And while these were also the most covered matters on Offshore WIND, we also pressed the ‘Learn More’ button under topics that might deserve to be more widely discussed – and we hope to do so more in 2019 and the years to come.

  • Work Begin on Expansion of Belgium’s Thornton Bank Offshore Wind Farm

    22 April 2011
    Wind Farm Update

    Installation of the first foundation structures marks the start of works to extend the Thornton Bank wind farm, located off the Belgian coast. In recent weeks, the underwater area has been prepared. Now works are starting to drive the first steel piles into the sea bed. Each pile is about 40 metres long, and four […]

  • Mainstream Renewable Power Sponsors Irish Quest for Arctic Passage

    3 May 2013
    Environment

    Global wind and solar company, Mainstream Renewable Power today announced its sponsorship of a rowing expedition attempting a world first through the infamous Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic this summer. Three experienced Irish adventurers and one Canadian are attempting to become the first ever people to cross the 3,000 km passage by human power […]

  • AEWC/DeepCwind Launch Offshore Wind Conference for State of Maine (USA)

    1 December 2010

    The University of Maine’s (UMaine) AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center and the DeepCwind Consortium hosted the first annual Maine… (compositesworld) [mappress] Source: compositesworld, December 01, 2010

  • Thanet Offshore Wind Farm starts generating electricity (UK)

    18 May 2010
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    ELECTRICITY has been generated by the Thanet Offshore Wind Farm for the first time.Vattenfall, the company behind the project, powered up…   [mappress] Source: thisiskent, May 18, 2010;

  • German Government Urged to Increase Offshore Power Expansion

    17 November 2010

    The operators of Germany’s first offshore wind farm on Tuesday urged the German government to increase incentives to expand the generation…   (upi) [mappress] Source: upi, November 17, 2010;

  • The European Investment Bank Provides EUR 80 million for Offshore Wind Farm (Germany)

    9 March 2011

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing a EUR 80 million loan to finance the construction and operation of Germany’s first … (iewy) [mappress]   Source: iewy , March 09, 2011;  

  • Wales to Get Offshore Wind Turbines (UK)

    12 January 2011

    The first in a series of events to help Welsh businesses make the most of growing opportunities in the renewable energy supply chain is to… (newswales) [mappress] Source: newswales, January 12, 2011

  • Carnegie Wave Energy Starts Harnessing Wave Power (Australia)

    21 April 2011

    Large-scale wave energy has come a step closer to becoming a commercial reality after a WA company launched a world-first flotation buoy…   By Michael Hopkin [mappress] Source: West Australian, April 21, 2011

  • OSBIT Power Takes on Turbine Access Challenge (UK)

    4 November 2010
    R&D, Technology

    Visitors to RenewableUK 2010 will hear at first hand from OSBIT Power Ltd (OP), about plans for a turbine access system that can operate in… [mappress] Source: oilpubs, November 04, 2010;

  • Block Island Wind Farm Cable to Make Landfall in Narragansett Pier (USA)

    9 December 2011
    Grid Connection

    The company developing the Block Island Wind Farm is Planning a 15-mile underground transmission line that would provide the first… By Iain Wilson (scindependent) [mappress] Source: scindependent, December 09, 2011;

  • Tegopi invests €3m into Turkish wind tower factory

    25 October 2010
    Business & Finance

    Portugal’s largest wind tower manufacturer Tegopi has invested €3 million in a new production unit in Turkey, the company’s first outside of…   (windpowermonthly) [mappress] Source: windpowermonthly, October 25, 2010;