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  • Arcadis Ost 1 O&M Base Opens

    22 June 2023
    Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    The operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the 247 MW Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm has officially been opened at the Port of Sassnitz–Mukran, Germany. Parkwind, the developer of the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm, said that the office in Mukran will serve as the base for the project and as a central […]

  • Baltimore County Offshore Wind Manufacturing Hub Gets USD 47 Million Boost

    9 November 2023
    Business & Finance

    Baltimore County Offshore Wind Manufacturing Hub will receive approximately USD 47 million from the Port Infrastructure Program of the US Department of Transportation Maritime Administration to further develop its hub at Tradepoint Atlantic. The announcement was made on 7 November by the US Congressman Kweisi Mfume, Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, […]

  • Finnish Shipbuilder Enters Offshore Wind Market with MCS CTV Order

    1 November 2023
    Vessels

    The Finnish shipbuilder, Uudenkaupungin Työvene OY (Työvene), has secured an order for three hybrid-ready SWATH crew transfer vessels (CTVs) from the Scottish company Maritime Craft Services (Clyde) Ltd (MCS). The first of Työvene’s SWATHs will be delivered to Maritime Craft Services in the spring of 2025. “The major advantage of the SWATH design and its […]

  • Kraken Robotics Bags Boulder Detection Survey Contract

    19 October 2023
    Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Research & Development, Supply Chain

    Kraken Robotics has received a USD 3 million (approximately EUR 2.8 million) contract to carry out boulder detection subsea survey services as part of an offshore wind farm project in Europe. The survey campaign will be executed in the fourth quarter of 2023 with Kraken’s Acoustic Corer technology providing accurate, high-resolution 3D imaging of 24 […]

  • Fugro’s FLiDAR Gets Highest Commercial Maturity Rating

    22 February 2022
    R&D

    Fugro’s Seawatch Wind LiDAR Buoy has achieved Stage 3 rating under the Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) Roadmap for the Commercial Acceptance of floating LiDAR technology. Stage 3 of the Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator Roadmap focuses on proving consistently high levels of availability. Data accuracy consistently met industry best-practice criteria in verification trials and, in addition, wind speed measurements […]

  • Ocean Winds Orders Moray West Monopiles from Dajin Heavy Industry

    6 June 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Ocean Winds has contracted China-based Dajin Heavy Industry for the supply of 48 XXL monopile foundations for the Moray West wind farm offshore Scotland that will comprise up to 85 wind turbines and two substations. The steel cutting for the first monopile has already started, Dajin Heavy Industry said, which signed a capacity reservation agreement […]

  • Crowdfunding Campaign Starts for French Floating Offshore Wind Project

    24 May 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Qair, TotalEnergies, and BW Ideol, the partners behind the EolMed project, have launched a new crowdfunding campaign on 12 May targeting EUR 3 million (approximately USD 3.2 million) to finance the 30 MW floating wind farm in the French Mediterranean. Supported by Enerfip, the French crowdfunding platform dedicated to renewables, the campaign is initially running […]

  • RVO to Launch Metocean Campaign Tender for Two IJmuiden Ver Offshore Wind Areas

    13 September 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has issued prior information notice about an upcoming tender for two meteorological and oceanographic (metocean) campaigns to be carried out at the IJmuiden Ver Wind Farm Zone (IJVWFZ). The tender, expected to be launched in October, will be divided into two lots, one for each of the two campaign sites […]

  • RPS Wins Contract for BP and EnBW’s UK Offshore Wind Projects

    26 May 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    BP and EnBW have selected RPS as Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and Habitat Regulations Assessment (HRA) lead for the development of the two lease areas the joint venture partners secured this February in the UK Offshore Wind Round 4. “The lease areas have a combined potential capacity of 3 GW, enough to power the equivalent […]

  • TÜV SÜD Wins Contract for Southwest Offshore Wind Project in South Korea

    5 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    TÜV SÜD has won a contract for wind condition analysis and annual energy production (AEP) assessment services for the next phase of the Southwest Offshore Wind Project in South Korea. The project, developed by the state-owned Korea Offshore Wind Power and also known as Seonam Offshore Wind Farm, is planned to have an installed capacity […]

  • Deutsche Bank Closes Hedge for Taiwanese Offshore Wind Farm

    1 April 2020
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Deutsche Bank has closed a deal contingent interest rate swap on TWD 90 billion (around EUR 2.7 billion) project finance for the development of the 589 MW Changfang and Xidao wind farm off Changhua County, Taiwan. The investment consortium, led by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) through its funds CI II and CI III, with two […]

  • GE Haliade-X Breaks 300 MWh Daily Output Ceiling

    11 November 2020
    R&D, Technology

    The prototype GE Haliade-X offshore wind turbine has produced 312 MWh of electricity in a single 24-hour period, once again setting a new world record. This is according to John Lavelle, CEO Offshore Wind at GE Renewable Energy. The prototype turbine, installed in the Port of Rotterdam, produced its first power in November 2019 and […]

  • One Third of Greater Changhua Pin Piles Done

    13 October 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The first batch of jacket foundation pin piles has been completed for Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind project in Taiwan. The first 112 pin piles, around one third of the total needed for the 900 MW project, were made by Taiwanese suppliers Century Wind Power (CWP) and Formosa Heavy Industries (FHI), as […]

  • BREAKING: France Reveals Dunkirk Tender Winner

    14 June 2019
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    France has selected the consortium of EDF Renouvelables, innogy and Enbridge to construct and develop the Dunkirk offshore wind project. The tariff proposed by the consortium ”was significantly lower than EUR 50/MWh”, François de Rugy, said during the launch of the 480MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in Saint-Nazaire. The strike price for this tender was initially expected […]

  • Ørsted Kicks Off Hornsea One Operations

    3 June 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has officially started operations on the 1,214MW Hornsea One, the largest offshore wind farm in the world. The project’s first operational team of 32 set sail from Grimsby Royal Docks to the wind farm located 120 kilometres out to sea on 31 May. They are part of two shift-based teams that are responsible for […]

  • Vestas Nets EPC Contract for Intertidal Wind Farm in Vietnam

    23 December 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Vestas has secured an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the 50MW Tra Vinh intertidal project in Vietnam. This marks Vestas’ second intertidal contract in Vietnam within a week, followed by a deal to provide 13 V150-4.2 MW turbines for a 50MW intertidal project in the Bạc Liêu Province for the local EPC construction […]

  • Taiwan’s Offshore Wind Training Center Gets GWO Accreditation

    15 August 2019
    Training & Education

    Taiwan’s first offshore wind energy training center has secured Global Wind Organisation (GWO) accreditation to deliver Basic Safety Training (BST) and Basic Technical Training (BTT). The center is developed by Taiwan International Windpower Training Corporation (TIWTC), a joint venture of CWind Taiwan, Taiwan International Ports Corporation (TIPC), Taiwan Power Company (Taipower), China Steel Corporation (CSC), China Ship Building […]

  • Galloper Leads Innogy Renewables Earnings

    9 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    Innogy has reported a 29% increase in adjusted EBITDA, to EUR 415 million, in its Renewables division in the first half of 2019, partly due to the Galloper offshore wind farm. According to innogy, the positive contribution to earnings was in part due to a bonus for timely, on-budget completion of the Galloper offshore wind farm. […]

  • Global Marine Group Takes Delivery of New Osbit Plough

    24 June 2019
    Technology

    Osbit Limited has delivered a new multi-function pre-lay and backfill subsea plough to Global Marine Group, which will be used at the Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in Denmark. The PLP240 plough, ordered by Global Marine Group at the beginning of the year, underwent final assembly and sign-off at Osbit’s Port of Blyth facility at […]

  • Bibby HydroMap Completes Export Cable Ops at Burbo Bank Extension

    8 May 2017
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Bibby HydroMap has completed the depth of burial operations over the newly installed export cable of DONG Energy’s 258MW Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm in Liverpool Bay.

  • SSE Calculates Socio-Economic Impact of Beatrice Project

    21 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    New research into the benefits of the Beatrice offshore wind farm shows the social and economic impact the project is expected to deliver.

  • ASM to Manufacture Offshore Wind Towers and Foundations in Port of Aveiro

    27 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics

    Portuguese company ASM Industries has signed a concession agreement with the Port of Aveiro Administration (APA) and will start building a new industrial production unit dedicated to offshore wind in January 2018. 

  • Seacat Services Joins Triton Knoll Construction

    22 August 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Seacat Services has won a contract to provide two offshore energy support vessels (OESVs) for the construction phase of the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK. The two OESVs will provide crew transfer and logistical support at the 857MW project and will be operating out of the new construction and operation base in the Port […]

  • Wescott Industrial Services Preps Beatrice OTM Steel

    13 March 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The UK-based Wescott Industrial Services has completed the preparation and coating of the steel surfaces for the Siemens Offshore Transformer Modules (OTM) to be used on the Beatrice offshore wind farm.

  • Haliade-X 12 MW Prototype Coming in 2019

    5 June 2018
    R&D, Technology

    A full prototype Haliade-X 12 MW wind turbine will be installed at a yet-to-be-determined site in 2019, GE Renewable Energy said.

  • Societe Generale Gets Nod to Issue Green Bonds in Taiwan

    5 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    Societe Generale has secured approval by the Financial Supervisory Commission, Republic of China (Taiwan), to issue green bonds in Taiwan.