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  • Fraunhofer IWES and imare to Showcase Jointly in Frankfurt, Germany

    8 November 2013
    Technology

    Fraunhofer IWES and Institute for Marine Resources (imare) will jointly showcase the Lidar measuring buoy at their stand at EWEA Offshore event in Frankfurt, Germany. The IWES will provide information on all aspects of the buoy, its measuring services and the latest scientific knowledge concerning the development of offshore wind energy. For the first time […]

  • Top News of the Week Feb 29 – Mar 6, 2016

    6 March 2016

    EEW SPC Rolls Out World’s Heaviest Monopile The heaviest monopile ever produced for an offshore wind project left the production site of EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH in Rostock on 2 March, and will be ready to be installed at the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm within the next few months. Fred. Olsen Windcarrier […]

  • Top News of the Week, 22 – 29 January 2017

    29 January 2017

    MHI Vestas Turbine Brings Offshore Wind into 9MW Realm MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has unveiled its uprated 8MW wind turbine which enables the platform to reach 9MW at specific site conditions. Carbon Trust: Floating Wind Is UK’s Golden Ticket A new report published by the Carbon Trust has highlighted the key areas for policy makers […]

  • Top News of the Week, 04 – 10 September 2017

    10 September 2017

    Ireland Reveals Big Offshore Wind Plans Ireland’s state owned electricity company Electricity Supply Board (ESB) is seeking expressions of interest for the provision of renewable energy marine services related to offshore wind farms. World’s First Offshore Wind Farm Disappears from Horizon (Video) DONG Energy has completed the decommissioning of the world’s first offshore wind farm, the […]

  • Top News of the Week Aug 25 – 31, 2014

    31 August 2014

    Suction Bucket Jacket Foundation Installed at Borkum Riffgrund 1 (Gallery) DONG Energy has installed a suction bucket jacket foundation at its German offshore wind farm, Borkum Riffgrund 1. First Wind Turbine Up at EnBW Baltic 2 In the development of its second offshore wind farm, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW) has reached a milestone with the […]

  • Dong to Build German Borkum Riffgrund 1 Offshore Wind Farm

    7 March 2011

    Denmark-based energy group Dong Energy is to build the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 1 in the German part of the North Sea. The construction will represent a total investment of approximately €1.25 billion. Construction work is expected to start in 2013 with first power production in 2014. The wind farm will be situated in […]

  • Mak Industrial Water to Manufacture and Construct Carnegie’s Wave Powered Desalination Plant

    5 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (CWE) today announced the award of the manufacturing and construction contract for its wave powered Desalination Pilot Plant to Perth-based MAK Industrial Water Solutions. MAK Industrial Water Solutions is an experienced provider of reverse osmosis desalination solutions throughout Western Australia and nationally. It has a particular focus on containerised sea water […]

  • More Turbine Components for Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier Project Arriving at French Port

    20 January 2025
    Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    The first turbine nacelles and masts for the 488 MW Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farm have arrived at the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port in France. This follows the arrival of the first blades, manufactured in Le Havre by Siemens Gamesa and delivered at the end of last year. The Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind […]

  • Beatrice Rocks On

    27 December 2017
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The rock emplacement campaign for the installation of the first of two export cables in the Beatrice offshore wind farm export corridors and construction site started on 25 December, Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL) said in a construction update report.

  • Wärtsilä Methanol Engines Ready to Power Van Oord’s Next-Gen Jack-Up

    21 April 2023
    Vessels

    The Wärtsilä 32 Methanol engines, which will power Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel Boreas, have passed the Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) and are on their way to the Yantai CIMC Raffles Shipyard (YCRO) in China where the mega jack-up is currently being built. Finnish technology group Wärtsilä received its first order for five methanol-fuelled engines […]

  • Van Oord Cracks US Market with Offshore Wind Contract

    28 March 2022
    Contracts & Tenders

    Van Oord has won a contract to transport and install wind turbines at an undisclosed wind farm offshore the East Coast of the USA. The company will deploy the offshore installation vessel Aeolus on the project. The turbine installation work is scheduled to start in 2023. Van Oord said that this is the first contract […]

  • GE Orders Saint-Nazaire CTVs

    16 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    GE Renewable Energy has placed an order with the joint venture of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs and Tidal Transit for two crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. The joint venture LD Tide selected naval architects MAURIC to design the CTVs and French shipyard OCEA to construct them. Construction will start […]

  • Siemens Gamesa to Service Senvion Turbines at Trianel Windpark Borkum II

    16 July 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    Siemens Gamesa will service the offshore wind turbines at the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWB II) in Germany, which comprises 32 Senvion 6.33-MW turbines. The contract, signed in late June, is effective as of 1 August and covers full scope maintenance for five years, including extension options. The operational base for the service campaigns will […]

  • Nissum Bredning to Start Running in January

    3 January 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Power generation at the four-turbine Nissum Bredning offshore wind farm in Denmark is expected to start at the end of January 2018. The project, which has one last turbine to install, received an electricity production licence and grant from the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) on 20 December 2017.

  • Another Longyuan Zhenhua Vessel Order Lands on ZPMC’s Desk

    23 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Jiangsu Longyuan Zhenhua Marine Engineering has ordered an offshore wind installation platform with a lifting capacity of 2,500 tonnes from ZPMC. 

  • NOS Reveals New Hybrid CTV Class

    6 June 2019
    Vessels

    Northern Offshore Services (NOS) is launching the E-class crew transfer vessel (CTV) series featuring hybrid technology. The E-class is a green power concept which has batteries installed that can be recharged from shore and from wind farms, thus using renewable energy directly from production to consumer, NOS said. The first vessel from the E-series will […]

  • Danish Pair Opens Grimsby Offshore Wind Supply Base

    20 May 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    The Danish Comtec Int and HeliPPE have opened a supply base in Grimsby, the UK, for personal protective equipment (PPE) and related services for the offshore wind industry. Located at Grimsby’s new GRO Centre, the Offshore Wind Supply Base will service rental PPE equipment on site, as well as carry out legally required inspections. According to the companies, […]

  • Windpark Fryslân Cables Start Falling Into Place

    19 August 2019
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Dutch contractor Visser & Smit Hanab has started installing the high-voltage cables that will connect the Windpark Fryslân offshore wind farm in the IJsselmeer to the Dutch grid. Visser & Smit Hanab will install two 25-kilometre cable sections in total to establish a connection to the high-voltage grid operated by TenneT TSO. The cables will follow […]

  • WindFloat Atlantic Gets Unspent NER300 Funds

    2 August 2019
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The European Commission has reinvested a portion of unspent funds from the NER300 programme to support the 25MW WindFloat Atlantic floating wind project offshore Portugal. WindFloat will be the first offshore windfarm employing a floating semi-submersible platform to reach the pre-commercial stage following successful prototype testing, the Commission said. The first MHI Vestas 8.4MW wind turbine […]

  • PUMA Pounces on Rotterdam Offshore Center

    11 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    The Port of Rotterdam Authority and PUMA, a joint venture between Royal Boskalis Westminster NV and Van Oord NV, signed a contract for the construction of the the Rotterdam Offshore Center Maasvlakte 2.

  • Rhode Island’s Governor Named Vice Chair of Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition

    6 January 2016
    Authorities

    The Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition has appointed Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as the new chairman and Gina Raimondo, Governor of the first U.S. state developing an offshore wind farm, as vice chair for the 2016 term. “As the governor of the first state in the nation to develop offshore wind resources, I look forward to working […]

  • Sabik to Mark Nordergründe OWF

    17 July 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Carmanah Technologies Corporation’s (Carmanah) subsidiary Sabik GmbH (Sabik Offshore), which was acquired on July 2, 2015, has been awarded a contract to provide a marking system for the Nordergründe offshore wind project. The company will provide marine lights, monitoring and control for all 18 turbines. Sabik Offshore will start working immediately and plans to complete 50% this year […]

  • Brave Tern Crosses the Atlantic

    1 August 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up installation vessel Brave Tern reached Newport, Rhode Island, on 31 July. The vessel, loaded with five Haliade nacelles for the 30MW Block Island wind farm, being developed by Deepwater Wind and soon to be the first offshore wind farm in US waters, has also made contact with its US colleagues onboard Rhode Island […]

  • Lower Output in UK Hurts Iberdrola

    25 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    Spanish energy company Iberdrola marked a 3 percent dip in gross operating profit (EBIDTA) at its renewable energy division in the first six months of 2016, with lower production in the United Kingdom being identified as the main culprit behind the slide. The company recorded EUR 836.5 million EBIDTA coming from renewables in the first half of 2016. In the […]

  • MHI Vestas Marks V164 Turbine Milestone

    28 May 2018
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Jack-up vessel Bold Tern installed the eleventh MHI Vestas 8MW wind turbine on Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 2 wind farm in the German North Sea on 26 May, which was the 100th MHI Vestas V164 turbine model to be installed worldwide. 

  • Copenhagen Energy, PGEC Seal Wind Measurement Strategy for Floating Wind Farm Offshore Philippines

    17 May 2024
    Business development, Floating Wind, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    Copenhagen Energy has finalized the wind measurement strategy for its Northern Luzon, an offshore wind project that the company is developing together with PetroGreen Energy Corporation (PGEC) in the Philippines. The outcome of the wind measurement strategy, which was developed in close collaboration with DNV, involves two key results: firstly, validating the initial estimates for […]