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  • Australia Putting Wind Projects Offshore Victoria on Fast Track

    21 October 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Industry, Jobs & Recruitment

    Australia’s federal government and the Victoria state government plan to fast-track Victorian Renewable Energy Zones (REZ) and offshore wind development in an effort to create new energy jobs across Victoria, unlock cleaner, cheaper and more secure energy, and put downward pressure on prices. The Commonwealth and Victoria have signed an agreement to jointly fund Victorian […]

  • Carbon Trust: Offshore Wind Among Cheapest UK Energy Sources by 2025

    24 September 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Last week at the Carbon Trust’s annual innovation lecture at the British Library global wind energy expert, Henrik Stiesdal, Chief Technical Officer at Siemens Wind Power told an audience of 200 prominent offshore wind stakeholders that offshore wind will be one of the cheapest, scalable solutions for the UK, as compared to other renewables and […]

  • Smulders Wins EOWDC Foundations Contract

    31 January 2017
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Smulders Projects has won a contract to manufacture and assemble suction bucket foundations for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC). The company will manufacture lower parts of jacket structures and carry out the final assembly of the 11 foundations at its manufacturing facility in Newcastle which Smulders acquired from fabricator, OGN Group, at the end […]

  • Nautricity Gets Approval for Mull of Kintyre Tidal Development

    23 May 2014
    Authorities

    Nautricity, the renewable energy company, has been given the go-ahead to develop one of the UK’s first ‘next generation’ tidal energy schemes in waters off the Mull of Kintyre. Marine Scotland has given consent for the deployment of the first Contra Rotating Marine Turbine (CoRMaT) device, capable of generating enough electricity to supply 400 homes, […]

  • Deepwater to Develop Floating Wind Farm

    8 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Deepwater Wind revealed plans to develop the West Coast’s first-ever offshore wind farm – a project poised to become the world’s first commercial project to use cutting-edge floating foundation technology. Deepwater Wind entered into an agreement several months ago with Principle Power to complete the development of the 30-megawatt (MW) WindFloat Pacific project, using Principle Power’s groundbreaking WindFloat […]

  • Scotland Announces Winners of Tenth Green Energy Awards

    7 December 2011

    SCOTLAND’S tenth Green Energy Awards celebrated the successes of the renewables industry on the 1 December 2011 with the largest ever ceremony. Among the winners were First Minister, Alex Salmond, for Best Politician and Richard Yemm, founder of wave power company, Pelamis, for his outstanding contribution to the industry. The Scottish Green Energy Awards, sponsored […]

  • Winflo Exhibits in Tokyo, Japan

    26 July 2013

    In the frame of the Winflo consortium, and on the occasion of the 8th “Renewable energy 2013 exhibition” from July 24 to 26 in Tokyo, DCNS and partner Nass&Wind will present their floating wind turbine project. An opportunity to revisit this ambitious technology programme. In offshore waters the winds are stronger and steadier and the […]

  • Mega Jack-Up to Officially Debut on World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    7 August 2020
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Dogger Bank Wind Farm has signed a contract with Jan De Nul Group for the transport and installation of GE Haliade-X offshore wind turbines at Dogger Bank A and Dogger Bank B. The installation of the 12 MW units at the site some 130 kilometres off the Yorkshire coast will start in 2023. Turbine transport […]

  • MCT and RWE Apply to Build 10MW Tidal Power Plant off North West Coast of Anglesey (UK)

    30 March 2011

    Marine Current Turbines Ltd (MCT), in partnership with RWE npower renewables, has today submitted a consent application to install a 10MW array of tidal stream turbines off the North West coast of Anglesey in 2015. The array, consisting of seven twin rotor turbines arranged across an area of 0.56km², will harness the power of the […]

  • Kaskasi Offshore Substation Topside Touches Down

    28 March 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The 1,400-tonne offshore substation topside has been installed on its monopile foundation at the 342 MW Kaskasi offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, RWE, the owner and developer of the project, said. The topside was installed by the heavy lift, DP 2 installation vessel Gulliver, operated by DEME’s subsidiary Scaldis Salvage & Marine […]

  • Ørsted and Danish Partner Announce Large-Scale Power-to-X Project; Offshore Wind in the Plans

    6 December 2022
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted and Danish renewable energy developer Skovgaard Energy have signed a letter of intent to jointly develop a Power-to-X facility in Denmark. The project is planned to be built in several phases, starting with electrolysis powered by onshore renewables and later tapping into offshore wind from the North Sea. The facility, which is said to […]

  • Jan De Nul Installs Cables for TenneT, Buys New Vessel

    28 November 2022
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul Group has completed the first part of the cable installation works to connect the wind farms Hollandse Kust (noord) and (west Alpha) to the Dutch mainland. The 220-kV high-voltage tests of both sea and land cables for Hollandse Kust (noord) were successfully completed as well, from the onshore substation to the substation […]

  • Novel Welding Technique to Debut at Dogger Bank

    28 May 2021
    R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The developers of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, will carry out the first large-scale pilot of a new process that is expected to reduce welding times by as much as 80 per cent. Ebflow Reduced Pressure Electron Beam (RPEB) welding is expected to be used at the 1.2 GW […]

  • South Boats, Alicat Deliver Second 23m CTV to Iceni

    13 May 2015
    Vessels

    South Boats IOW Ltd., the UK’s manufacturer of Wind Farm Crew Transfer Vessels (CTV’s), has delivered the second of class South Cat 23m, ‘Iceni Vengeance’ to Iceni Marine Services Ltd. The vessel marks a milestone as it is the first South Boats IOW contract to be sub-contracted to sister company, Alicat Workboats Ltd. and built […]

  • WINDFORCE 2012 – More than 250 Exhibitors and 50 Speakers in 4 Days (Germany)

    31 May 2012

    Exhibition Hall 5 at the Bremen Fair is almost fully booked. WINDFORCE 2012, Germany’s first trade fair for the offshore wind energy industry, will present more than 250 international exhibitors, including global businesses and young start-ups representing the entire value-added chain. “To exceed the number of exhibitors we expected in our first year is of […]

  • SSE, Scottish Enterprise Announce Launch of Hunterston Offshore Wind Test Centre

    10 October 2012
    R&D

    SSE and Scottish Enterprise (SE) are to invest up to £20 million to create an offshore wind turbine test centre, capable of hosting three full scale wind turbines designed for offshore deployment. SE has committed up to £4.3 million from the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund towards the joint venture with SSE which will in turn […]

  • Gamesa to Make Decision on Multi-million Pound Factory (UK)

    22 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    BOSSES at a Spanish offshore firm are poised to make an announcement over a multi-million pound factory which could bring 1,000 jobs to Hartlepool. Madrid-based Gamesa will choose either Hartlepool or Dundee to build a UK base to construct wind turbines, and with all other contenders ruled out it is now a two-horse race between […]

  • IBERDROLA Begins Process to Install Wikinger Offshore Wind Farm in Germany

    26 August 2011
    Operations & Maintenance

      IBERDROLA has begun the process to install its first offshore wind farm in Germany, the Wikinger, which will be located off the German coast of the Baltic Sea. It will have 400 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity and wind turbines of around 5 MW. The company has begun applying for the permits from Bundesamt […]

  • ‘Largest US Subsea Cable Factory’ Breaks Ground

    29 April 2025
    Cables, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Onshore Infrastructure

    Construction work on LS Cable & System’s manufacturing facility for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cables in Virginia, the US, has started. LS Cable & System announced that its US subsidiary, LS GreenLink, had held a groundbreaking ceremony for what the company says will be the largest factory of this kind in the United States. […]

  • DEME’s Second Wind Turbine Installation Vessel Launched

    4 July 2025
    Vessels

    The second wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), built by Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore for DEME Group, has been launched. Norse Energi, like its sister vessel Norse Wind, is engineered to install turbines with rotor diameters over 300 metres and XXL monopiles up to 3,000 tonnes, even in water depths of 70 metres. The first steel […]

  • Hochtief Reports 3Q Net Profit of EUR 98.7 Million (Germany)

    16 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    HOCHTIEF’s operating business performed as planned in the third quarter of 2011: The Group is in the black, with profit before taxes of EUR 333.0 million and consolidated net profit of EUR 98.7 million. That means HOCHTIEF achieved turnaround in the operating business, although it has not yet fully made good the loss incurred in […]

  • Onshore Consent Application for 1 GW Scottish Floating Offshore Wind Farm Approved

    20 June 2025
    Authorities, Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The onshore consent application for the up to 1 GW Muir Mhòr floating offshore wind farm has been approved by the Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland. The application covers the floating wind farm’s onshore infrastructure, including underground cabling and a substation. The wind farm is the first fully floating project from the ScotWind leasing process to […]

  • Entire Output of World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Sold Out

    24 November 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    15-year offtake Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) have been signed for the third phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, SSE Renewables and Equinor said. Dogger Bank Wind Farm will be constructed over 130 kilometres out to sea off the north-east coast of England and is expected to be fully […]

  • HORIZONS – Next Generation Wind Turbines

    18 January 2018
    Technology

    Following multiple not yet realised 10MW+ concept plans, there is already much wind industry talk about the next-generation 12-15 MW turbines. The question is whether especially new concepts in the latter category will be mainly evolutionary scaling of current technology, or a radical departure to new concept solutions.

  • DeepOcean Inks Subsea Cable O&M Agreements with Vattenfall

    3 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    DeepOcean has been awarded framework agreements by Vattenfall for the provision of subsea cable operations and maintenance (O&M) services, now valid for Vattenfall’s operational European offshore wind portfolio. The framework agreements are valid for a period of four years and apply to Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms in Denmark, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden. […]

  • Alstom Grid Digital App Available for Download

    18 November 2014
    Technology

    The first Alstom Grid Digital Application is now available for download for PC on Alstom Partners and for mobile devices on iTunes and Android Marketplace. The app allows users to better visualise and understand the energy landscape, explore Alstom Grid’s complete portfolio and access additional videos and brochures. Featuring real-time 3D, this tool can be […]