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  • First Capacity Market Auction Underway

    16 December 2014
    Authorities, Grid Connection

    The first Capacity Market auction, which started at 09:00 today, is the next stage in the Government’s plan to ensure the lights stay on at the least cost – both now and in the future. The aim of the Capacity Market is to make sure that there is enough capacity available to meet peak electricity […]

  • First Beatrice OTM Heads for Installation

    6 February 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    The first Siemens Offshore Transformer Module (OTM) has left Rosyth and is on its way to the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland.

  • OEC Completes First Commercial Project

    28 April 2014
    R&D, Technology

    Orion Energy Centre (OEC) has recently completed a project for one of its first commercial customers, Resolute Marine Energy, Inc. (RME), a US-based wave technology developer with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.  OECs facilities and expertise will be used to carry out scale model wave tank testing on RMEs new ‘submerged flap wave energy converter’ – […]

  • First Turbine Stands at Deutsche Bucht

    6 June 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord, MHI Vestas, and partners have installed the first V164-8.4MW wind turbine on the 269MW Deutsche Bucht wind farm in the German North Sea. The wind turbines are being transported from the Port of Esbjerg and installed at the site some 95km northwest of the Borkum Island by Van Oord’s jack-up Aeolus. “We are very […]

  • First Monopiles In at Horns Rev 3

    20 October 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The first four out of the total of 49 monopiles have been installed at the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm site in Denmark and GeoSea’s installation vessel Innovation is now set to install the next batch.

  • Nissum Bredning Produces First Power

    19 February 2018
    Grid Connection, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The Siemens Gamesa 7MW wind turbines on the Nissum Bredning demonstration site in Denmark produced first electricity on Saturday, 17 February, Nissum Brednings Vindmøllelaug said.

  • SMST Gangway for DEME’s First SOV

    23 October 2020
    Vessels

    SMST will deliver its next-generation gangway system for Groene Wind, DEME’s first dedicated service operation vessel (SOV) for offshore wind farm maintenance. The gangway, the so-called Telescopic Access Bridge L-Series (TAB-L), is currently under construction and will be installed on the vessel at Cemre Shipyard in Turkey later this year. Groene Wind features a Small […]

  • First Beatrice OTM Jacket In Place

    5 February 2018
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting has installed the first of the two jacket foundations for the Siemens Offshore Transformer Modules on the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland.

  • CEIC Gets Its First Director

    6 January 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Dr. Sanjiv Malhotra to be the first Director of the Clean Energy Investment Center (CEIC), located within the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT). CEIC was established in 2015 as part of the Obama Administration’s Clean Energy Investment Initiative to advance private, mission-oriented investment in clean energy technologies that address […]

  • First Hohe See Foundation Up

    17 April 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Swire Blue Ocean’s wind turbine installation vessel Pacific Osprey has installed the first monopile foundation on the 497MW EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • First Eneco Luchterduinen Turbine Installed

    15 April 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm has reached another milestone in its construction phase. Following a successful installation of the first turbine tower 23 kilometers off the coast of Noordwijk and Zandvoort, Van Oord had installed the first wind turbine last week. Van Oord’s new transport and installation vessel ‘Aeolus’ is used for the construction. It […]

  • Spain’s First Floater Comes Online

    21 June 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    W2Power, Spain’s first floating offshore wind platform, has officially been commissioned at the PLOCAN test site off Gran Canaria. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Youtube. The 1:6 scale multi-turbine platform started generating first kilowatts of electricity at the end of May at the Astican Shipyard before going to PLOCAN. W2Power is […]

  • First LiDAR Deployed Off India

    2 November 2017
    R&D

    The FOWIND Consortium has commissioned India’s first offshore LiDAR off the coast of Gujarat, in the Gulf of Khambhat, to measure the offshore wind resource. This marks India’s first systematic step towards measurement campaign, according to Balram Mehta, President of the Wind & Asset Management unit at ReNew Power.

  • Taiwan’s First Offshore Substations Stand

    9 November 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Heerema Marine Contractors’ heavy-lift vessel Aegir has installed the two substation topsides at Ørsted’s 900 MW Greater Changhua 1 and 2a wind farms offshore Taiwan. Manufactured in Singapore by Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd, the two topsides are the first-ever to be installed in Taiwan’s waters. ”Installation for our Greater Changhua 1&2a project goes on. […]

  • First Gode Wind Turbine Erected

    10 August 2015
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    On August 8, SEA CHALLENGER installed the first turbine on DONG Energy’s Gode Wind Offshore Wind Farm in the German part of the North Sea. The installation went according to plan and SEA CHALLENGER will continue to install the rest of the 97 Siemens 6MW turbines. The vessel carries 4 turbines at a time and […]

  • Deutsche Bucht Delivers First Power

    29 July 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    The first MHI Vestas 8.4MW wind turbine at the 269MW Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm has been commissioned and is delivering power to the German grid, Northland Deutsche Bucht GmbH said. “This is a great achievement for our Deutsche Bucht project,” said Jens Poulsen, Project Director of Northland Deutsche Bucht GmbH. “The rapid progress on installation and commissioning […]

  • First Esvagt SOV Goes to Work

    24 February 2015
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Esvagt’s first offshore wind Service Operation Vessel (SOV), “ESVAGT FROUDE”, went on contract on Wednesday February 18th, while her sister ship, “ESVAGT FARADAY” is contracted  to start at the beginning of April – in both cases to work for Siemens Wind Power. The German energy company has provisionally chartered “ESVAGT FROUDE” for a five year contract  to […]

  • Kriegers Flak’s First Foundation In Place

    15 May 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The first foundation at the Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm is now in place. Van Oord’s heavy lift vessel Svanen arrived at the project site off Denmark a few days ago to begin the installation work. The vessel will install a total of 72 monopile foundations, with the work expected to be completed in the […]

  • UK’s First Accredited Bird Surveys

    4 February 2013
    Environment

    The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) has awarded the UK’s first accreditation for the identification and enumeration of birds from aerial photographs to APEM Ltd. The results of the analysis provide information on bird populations, which can form an integral part of environmental monitoring or impact assessment processes such as the citing of wind farms. […]

  • First DolWin Kappa Steel Cut

    17 July 2019
    Grid Connection

    Transmission system operator TenneT has cut the first steel for the DolWin kappa offshore converter platform, the centerpiece of the 900MW DolWin6 HVDC connection. Spain’s Dragados Offshore is responsible for the design, supply, construction, transportation and installation of the DolWin kappa platform and the accompanying jacket foundation. Siemens will supply the entire technology for the […]

  • USD 360 Million Investment to Be Made for First Phase of South Korean Subsea Cable Manufacturing Plant

    18 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Cables, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    South Korean Taihan Cable & Solution is investing USD 360 million for the first phase of construction of its second submarine cable manufacturing facility, which will, once operational, deliver a production capacity nearly five times greater than the company’s first submarine cable plant. Taihan opened the first phase of its first submarine cable plant that produces inter-array […]

  • First Subsea Wins Kincardine Contract

    26 July 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    First Subsea Ltd has won a contract to provide platform mooring connectors to the Kincardine floating offshore wind farm situated off the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland. The company, part of the First Tech Group based in Aberdeen, has confirmed it’s secured the contract with Spanish developer and construction company Cobra Group to provide platform […]

  • Nordsee Ost’s First Turbine Spinning

    19 December 2014
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The first electricity from the Nordsee Ost (North Sea East) offshore wind farm off the German coast is flowing shore-ward. The first of a total of 48 wind turbines has commenced trial operation in the past few days and is already feeding its green electricity into the grid. Grid operator TenneT had connected the wind farm […]

  • First Northwester 2 Foundation In Place

    31 July 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Vole au vent has installed the first monopile foundation on the 219MW Northwester 2 offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea, Parkwind, the majority owner and the developer of the project, said. The first of the 23 foundations was installed at the site on 30 July, within one month […]

  • Hohe See Delivers First Power

    16 July 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    A wind turbine installed on the 497MW Hohe See wind farm in the German North Sea has produced the first power and delivered it to the grid, EnBW said. So far, EnBW has installed 49 of the 87 Siemens Gamesa 7MW wind turbines at Hohe See and the neighbouring 112MW Albatros wind farm. Weather permitting, two […]

  • Siemens Installs First Westermeerwind Foundation

    17 March 2015

    Siemens kicked off Westermeerwind offshore wind farm construction by installing the first monopile foundation at the Ijsselmeer last week. ‘De Schelde’ pontoon, which serves for transport and installation of monopiles, has been fitted with the 11350 Liebherr crane, owned by Van Oord/Mammoet, for the job. The 35-meter long foundation piles, weighing around 250 tons, have been transported […]