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  • WIPO Publishes Patent of South Korean Wind Power Invention

    25 March 2013
    Technology

    The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published a patent of a pitch bearing of a wind power generator on March 21, which was designed by a Korean inventor Yong Chun Kim. Besides Mr. Kim, South Korean company Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd (DSME) is registered as an applicant of the patent. The summary […]

  • Hempel Coats WindFloat (Denmark)

    19 January 2012

    The sections of the WindFloat foundation for which Hempel is providing the test products are: the permanently immersed areas, the splash zone and the above-water line areas. In addition to supplying coating systems, Hempel is also contributing to the project with technical support and advice. The project is being carried out by the Materials and […]

  • UAE: ALE Loads-Out 12,000t Jack Up Vessel

    6 April 2012

    Global heavy lift and transport company ALE have successfully completed their heaviest land move of a vessel in Dubai, UAE. The move required the use of 418 axles of SPMT’s, weighing 12000t the vessel is the largest ALE has ever loaded-out on a single model of SPMT’s (Scheuerle). The purpose built jack up vessel named […]

  • Trump Calls On UK to ‘Get Rid’ of Offshore Wind Farms in Favour of Oil & Gas; Gets Invited to Hull

    6 January 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    Donald Trump has urged the UK government to “get rid of windmills” in the North Sea and open it up for oil & gas, which earned the US president-elect an open invitation from Humber Marine and Renewables, a UK regional industry organisation, to visit Hull and witness the effects of offshore wind on the economy […]

  • Siemens Profits Down Due to Project Delays (Germany)

    25 January 2012

    In the first quarter of its new fiscal year 2012, Siemens achieved increased revenue and laid the cornerstone for future growth, despite the difficult economic environment. Thanks to a strong order backlog, revenue for the first quarter rose two percent compared to the same period a year earlier, while new orders declined five percent year-over-year. […]

  • Italy: Prysmian Secures Dolwin3 Project Worth in Excess of EUR 350 Million

    28 February 2013
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a new major contract worth in excess of € 350 million by Alstom Grid for the connection project DolWin3 linking offshore wind farms in the North Sea to mainland Germany on behalf of the Dutch-German grid operator TenneT. The project […]

  • Bourbon Revenues up 18.8 pct in 2Q 2011 (France)

    10 August 2011

    Bourbon published second quarter 2011 results. “The steady increase in the fleet’s utilization rates, particularly in shallow water offshore, illustrates the recovery of the offshore market and our clients’ recognition of the performance of our vessels. Although significant, the improvement in daily charter rates, expected at the end of the year and in 2012, has […]

  • ScottishPower and Ørsted’s UK Offshore Wind Farm Celebrates Decade of Operation

    2 December 2024
    Fixed-Bottom

    The West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm, owned by ScottishPower and Ørsted, has passed ten years in operation since its commissioning in 2014. Built and operated as a 50/50 partnership, the 389 MW West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm was commissioned in 2014, with its 108 Siemens 3.6 MW turbines installed in the […]

  • Seacat Services Orders Next-Generation CTVs

    21 September 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Vessels

    UK-based offshore energy support vessel operator Seacat Services has ordered two next-generation multi-hull crew transfer vessels (CTVs). Seacat Services placed the order with naval architects, BAR Technologies. The vessels, Seacat Columbia and Seacat Cambria, were designed in partnership with Chartwell Marine, Seacat Services said. The first BARTech 30 CTV is expected to be completed by […]

  • Germany: Baltic Wind Farm Success Paves Way for Ecosse Subsea Systems

    25 September 2013
    Grid Connection

    Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has completed a £4.7 million boulder clearing and pre-lay trenching project which it claims has been one of the most successful ever conducted for the wind energy sector. As subcontractor to Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC), the Banchory-based subsea specialist completed 86 boulder clearing passes followed by 172 first and multi-passes over […]

  • BVG Associates: 2016 Is the Year of New Offshore Wind Markets

    6 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    There is every reason to believe that 2016 will see a series of developments for renewable energy, especially in new markets in offshore wind, according to Bruce Valpy, Director at BVG Associates. The year ahead of us will see the commissioning of the first offshore farm in the US, at Block Island, off Rhode Island State. 2016 will […]

  • RWE Reaches Two OW Milestones

    2 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The last few days have been challenging for the installation teams of RWE’s offshore wind farms. The last of the 160 wind turbines has now been installed successfully off the Welsh coast, and cabling and commissioning works continue at pace to ensure the wind farm becomes fully operational this winter. The construction of the German […]

  • Vattenfall Completes Installation of Final Turbine at Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

    1 August 2011
    Operations & Maintenance

        Vattenfall today completed the installation of the final turbine at its pioneering wind farm off the coast of north-west England. The 30th turbine at Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm was installed at 3 am with the final rotor lift from A2Sea’s vessel, the SeaJack. Installation was completed four months after the first turbine was […]

  • UK: Centrica Releases Interim Management Statement

    11 May 2012

    Centrica has published an interim management statement. “Overall, Centrica is trading in line with expectations, with the benefit of higher wholesale gas and power prices upstream broadly offsetting the impact of mild weather in the first quarter on the downstream business. We are beginning to see a contribution from our recent acquisitions, in both UK […]

  • Siemens Gamesa to Use Salzgitter Steel for Thor Wind Turbine Towers

    17 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Industry, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    Ilsenburger Grobblech (ILG), a subsidiary of Germany’s Salzgitter, and Siemens Gamesa have signed a contract for the delivery of heavy plates for the construction of wind towers that will be installed at the RWE’s Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark. Under the contract, the company will deliver around 25,000 tonnes of heavy plates for the […]

  • DHI Wins Work on Dutch Offshore Wind Farm Zones

    10 January 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, R&D

    The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has awarded DHI a metocean assessment contract for Dutch offshore wind farm zones. DHI will be responsible for a detailed metocean assessment at two Dutch wind farm zones, with the first being IJmuiden Ver and the second wind farm zone which is yet to be determined. The assessment includes the […]

  • France’s EUR 2.08 Billion Aid for Floating Offshore Wind Project Gets EU Nod

    14 February 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Business development, Research & Development

    The European Commission (EC) has approved, under EU State aid rules, a EUR 2.08 billion measure to support the construction and operation of a floating offshore wind farm in France. The floating offshore wind project will be located off the coast of South Brittany and is expected to have a capacity of 230 MW to […]

  • Nexans Wraps Up Moray West Export Cable Pull-In Work Offshore Scotland

    11 March 2024
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    France-headquartered Nexans has completed the offshore export cable pull-ins for both offshore substation platforms at the 882 MW Moray West wind farm, located in the Moray Firth in the northeast of Scotland. The cable-laying vessel Nexans Aurora took advantage of a recent period of favorable weather to carry out the task, according to Ocean Winds’ […]

  • Utsira Nord Floating LiDAR Campaign to Start Soon

    23 May 2023
    Business development, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    The global provider of energy data and intelligence TGS has announced the start of a wind, metocean, and environmental measurement campaign at the Utsira Nord offshore wind farm zone in Norway. The campaign’s first floating LiDAR buoy will be deployed in early June in the Utsira Nord zone to conduct wind, metocean, and environmental measurements […]

  • Bladt Expanding Its Facilities to Accommodate Production of Giant OWF Foundations

    25 February 2021
    Business & Finance

    Bladt Industries is investing in an expansion of its production facilities at Lindø port of Odense in Denmark to enable the production of XXL monopiles for future offshore wind turbines. The planning for new facilities has already begun and the company has already signed the first agreements with machine suppliers, with plans to start the […]

  • Borssele 3 and 4 Fully Up and Running

    18 February 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The 731.5 MW Borssele 3 and 4 offshore wind farm is now fully operational, Blauwwind, the consortium behind the project in the Dutch North Sea, announced during an online Handover to Operations ceremony. The construction of the wind farm, comprising a total of 77 Vestas V164-9.5 MW turbines, was completed on-time, with official commissioning on […]

  • BlueTEC Prepares to Install Second Tidal Turbine

    13 October 2015
    Technology

    The BlueTEC Texel Tidal partnership is now planning the installation of a second, larger turbine following the successful first months of operating the BlueTEC tidal energy platform.  “Getting the platform from the drawing board to a grid-connected operating reality in just 6 months is amazing,” says Allard van Hoeken, Head of New Energy at Bluewater Energy […]

  • Cape Sharp Tidal Project Brings NS Firms Multi-Million Contracts

    16 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    A third Nova Scotian company has secured a multi-million dollar contract with the Cape Sharp Tidal project, which has potential to be the first grid-connected tidal array in the world. Hawboldt Industries of Chester, Nova Scotia, has been awarded a $4.7-million contract for the design and manufacturing of three heavy lift winches to be used […]

  • BNEF: Biggest RE Asset Finance Made in European Offshore Wind

    15 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    Asset finance of renewable energy projects in the first half of 2016 was at USD 92 billion worldwide, down 19% on H1 2015, with the biggest asset finance deals of the second quarter made in offshore wind in Europe, according to the latest data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). This was led by the […]

  • Kishorn Port Revamping Its Dry Dock

    9 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Kishorn Port Ltd, a joint venture that is seeking to resurrect the redundant oil fabrication yard at Kishorn on the west coast of Scotland, has commenced the first phase of re-instating the dry dock on the site, in which it will invest GBP 500,000. Engineering company Harris Pye began working on refurbishing the dock gates […]

  • Sure Wind Receives Second Damen Twin Axe FCS (UK)

    27 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    British company Sure Wind Marine Ltd. has taken delivery of its second Damen Twin Axe Fast Crew Supplier – the Sure Swift – in a little over a month after the first joined the company’s fleet. Established in 2009, Sure Wind is a specialist in the German offshore wind market and now has 10 dedicated […]