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  • ORE Catapult and Vattenfall Extend Test Facility Agreement in Scotland

    2 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and Vattenfall have signed a three-year extension on their testing and demonstration collaboration at the 96.8 MW Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm, also known as the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in Scotland. The partnership at the 96.8MW offshore wind test and demonstration facility first began in 2019. Since then, technologies that […]

  • Ørsted Picks Smulders for Gode Wind 3 & Borkum Rifgrund 3 Secondary Steel

    17 May 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has selected Belgium-based Smulders to manufacture the secondary steel components for the TP-less foundations of the Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms in Germany. Smulders will manufacture and supply the secondary steel elements for the 23 TP-less foundations and one offshore substation for Gode Wind 3 and the 83 units […]

  • EDF and Maple Power Submit Bids to Build Floating Wind Farms Offshore France

    25 May 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    EDF Renouvelables, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French utility EDF Group, has submitted bids to build two floating offshore wind farms in the French Mediterranean Sea. The projects are named Mediterranean Grand Large and Occitanie Grand Large, EDF Renouvelables announced in a social media post. The company has submitted the bids jointly with Maple […]

  • Dogger Bank Debut for Proserv Cable Guard

    15 February 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    DEME Offshore has contracted Proserv Controls for the delivery of the monitoring system for inter-array cables for the first two phases of the Dogger Bank offshore wind project. Proserv will supply its Electro Cable Guard (ECG) cable monitoring system (CMS) for Dogger Bank A and B, integrating applicable sensor interrogator technology. The company’s Great Yarmouth […]

  • Windar Signs EUR 50 Million Sustainable Financing to Deliver Baltic Eagle Project

    17 August 2021
    Business & Finance

    Windar Renovables has signed a EUR 50 million sustainable factoring line with BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) to finance the contract the company was recently awarded for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind project. The contract financing, which will support Windar’s manufacturing and delivery of 50 transition pieces (TPs) for Iberdrola’s 476 MW project in Germany, has […]

  • EUR 2.5 Million to Put PivotBuoy Floater Development on Fast Track

    22 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Technology

    X1 Wind has won a EUR 2.5 million grant through the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme, which the company will use to speed up the detailed design and certification process of its first commercial large-scale floating wind platform. “The cash injection will be specifically used to fast-track the detailed design and certification of our […]

  • Seacat Services Takes Delivery of Next-Gen Crew Transfer Vessel

    26 August 2022
    R&D, Vessels

    Seacat Services has taken delivery of the first of two BARTech 30 crew transfer vessels (CTVs) from marine engineering consultancy BAR Technologies. The handover took place at BAR Technologies premises in Portsmouth where the vessel was officially named Seacat Columbia by Seacat Services founder Ian Baylis and BAR Technologies chair Marin Whitmarsh. With its 30m […]

  • Seaway Moxie to Support O&M Ops at Beatrice OWF

    18 January 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Seaway Moxie is set to be deployed on the Beatrice offshore wind farm at the end of January for walk-to-work operations during an operations & maintenance (O&M) campaign at the wind farm, located some 13 kilometres off the coast of Caithness in Scotland. According to the wind farm’s latest Notice to Mariners, work will commence […]

  • Seajacks Stays on Akita Noshiro Offshore Wind Farm

    11 January 2021
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seajacks Japan LLC has been awarded a contract with Kajima Corporation to transport and install the wind turbines at the Akita Port and Noshiro Port offshore wind farms in Japanese waters. Seajacks Japan, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the UK-based Seajacks International, will in total transport and install 33 MHI Vestas V117 – 4.2 MW wind […]

  • EEW Pipes for Formosa 2 Jackets

    16 June 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    EEW Group is producing the steel pipe components for the 47 jacket foundations to be installed on the Formosa 2 wind farm offshore Taiwan. The production of the steel pipes for the jackets started in January at EEW Korea, EEW KHPC, and EEW Malaysia and is expected to be completed in October 2020. With a […]

  • Second SeaMade Substation Topside Touches Down

    18 March 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The second SeaMade offshore substation topside has been installed in the Seastar concession area in the Belgian North Sea. The wind farm’s first substation was installed in the Mermaid concession area at the beginning of March. Each with a weight of 1,200 tonnes, the substations transform the wind energy that is produced to 225kV, which in […]

  • TenneT Gathers 2GW Offshore Grid Connection Team

    13 February 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Transmission systems operator TenneT has entered into an ”innovation partnership” with a number of companies to develop a 2GW offshore grid connection system. Given that such a platform does not exist, a new platform design and a high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system that allows increased power transfer is required, TenneT said. To realise […]

  • Saitec to Launch Scaled Down BlueSATH Prototype

    26 November 2019
    R&D, Technology

    Spain’s Saitec Engineering is launching its first offshore wind medium-scale prototype: BlueSATH. The project is scheduled to go online during the first quarter of 2020 in the open sea waters of Santander Spain for a 12-month period after which the prototype will be completely decommissioned. Testing will take place in real sea environment with the […]

  • Rovco Adds Another Dimension to Subsea Inspection

    10 January 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Subsea technology company Rovco has secured Innovate UK funding to develop a 3D visualisation system as part of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) demonstrator project potentially worth GBP 1 million.

  • AXYS Pre-Commissions WindSentinel for U.S. Navy Project

    29 May 2014
    Authorities, R&D, Technology

    AXYS Technologies Inc has completed pre-commissioning of a WindSentinel platform for the United States Navy project to validate an offshore floating LiDAR wind resource assessment system. AXYS teamed up with Sound & Sea Technology (SST) as well as DNV GL to secure the US Navy contract and supply the system. The LiDAR underwent an initial […]

  • Global Tech I Officially Turned On

    2 September 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Germany’s 400MW Global Tech I offshore wind farm has been inaugurated. The ceremony was attended by Olaf Scholz, First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Dr. Carsten Sieling, Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Bremen, and Olaf Lies, Minister for Economic Affairs of the State of Lower Saxony, together with shareholders and management […]

  • Correll to Back ZTT on German Offshore Wind Farms

    1 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    China’s Zhongtian Technology Submarine Cable (ZTT) has awarded Correll Services with contracts related to subsea cables at the Kaskasi II and Gode Wind 3 offshore wind projects in Germany. Correll Services will provide platform cable routing, termination and testing of 155kV subsea cables for the AC grid connection systems on the two wind farms. To […]

  • Scottish Drone Port to Service Offshore Wind

    7 October 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, R&D, Technology

    The UK government has agreed to invest in the development of a Drone Port at Montrose in Scotland. The government has set aside GBP 5.6 million out of the GBP 26.5 million Angus Fund to promote North Angus and Montrose as a clean growth zone where new technologies can be used to improve energy efficiency. […]

  • Langlee Wave Power Announces Establishment of Spanish Subsidiary

    4 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Langlee Wave Power announces the establishment of its Spanish subsidiary Langlee Wave Power S.L.U. It was established as a ZEC company in Las Palmas in 2012, with the purpose to move all the R&D activities of the Norwegian company to the island. Currently, it is employing one Canarian engineer and there is a plan to increase […]

  • TenneT Gets On Board NordLink Project

    16 December 2014
    Grid Connection

    TenneT has given the green light to its participation in the construction of the NordLink cable from Germany to Norway. The power cable, which largely runs across the seabed, has a capacity of 1,400 MW, the equivalent of 466 wind turbines of 3 MW, 580,000 solar panels or a very large conventional power plant. Mel […]

  • DNV GL Certifies BASF’s Offshore Grout MasterFlow 9500

    18 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    BASF A/S, the Danish legal entity of BASF’s Construction Chemicals Division, is the first company to obtain the Type Approval Certificate (TAC) from certifying body DNV GL for the company’s offshore grout MasterFlow 9500 used in the grouted connections of offshore wind turbine foundations. MasterFlow 9500 is an ultra-high strength, fatigue resistant grout which is specially […]

  • RTE Wins Work on Danish Bornholm Energy Island

    5 January 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    RTE international (RTEi) has been entrusted with the modelling and simulation requirements and the specifications to de-risk the multi-vendor multi-terminal high voltage direct current (HVDC) functionalities for the Bornholm Energy Island (BEI) project in Denmark. Planned by the Danish and the German TSOs, Energinet and 50Hertz, BEI will be set up in the Baltic Sea by […]

  • Ireland Unveils Renewables Auction Scheme

    2 December 2019
    Authorities

    Ireland has revealed details of the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) auction which has received government approval as the country looks to move to 70% renewable electricity by 2030. RESS is an auction-based scheme which invites renewable electricity projects, including offshore wind, to bid for capacity and receive a guaranteed price for the electricity they […]

  • Challenge Capital asks support for offshore wind industry (UK)

    1 October 2010
    Business & Finance

    Following the green light for the UK’s first major offshore wind manufacturing facility on Teesside last week, Challenge Capital, who led the deal, is calling for developers to back the UK offshore wind supply chain. Says Sean McLaughlin a partner at Challenge Capital LLP who led the transaction “TAG and their new funders have put […]

  • Putian Pinghai Bay Phase II: Tenders Invited for 20 Wind Turbines

    5 December 2016
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Fujian Zhongmin Offshore Wind Power Co. has invited tenders for the delivery of 20 wind turbines for the second phase of the Putian Pinghai Bay (Fujian Putian City Flat Bay) offshore wind project. The turbines should have an individual capacity of at least 5MW. The offshore wind turbines are required to meet IEC I standard or GL I […]

  • Irish Shipping and Ports Facilities to Play Significant Role in Development of Marine Renewable Energy

    8 September 2011
    R&D

      Development of Shipping and Ports Facilities will play significant role in supporting growth of ocean energy industry The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) in conjunction with the Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO) have published the first report on the future shipping and ports requirements for the Irish marine renewable energy industry. The study […]