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  • Trump Continues It’s Anti-wind Attacks (UK)

    15 February 2012

      After writing a letter addressed to First Minister Alex Salmond, Donald Trump launched another attack on SNH and VisitScotland over wind farm plans in Aberdeen bay, reports BBC. In his letter, Trump stressed that they were „pathetic“ for not acting against wind turbines. Last month, Trump stopped the work on a hotel and the […]

  • Suzlon and Partners Commission Offshore Wind Met Station in Arabian Sea

    26 December 2017
    R&D, Technology

    India’s Suzlon Group and its associates have commissioned their first operational offshore met station in the Arabian Sea.

  • E.ON to Invest in Airborne Wind Tech Demo Site. Teams Up with Ampyx Power

    11 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, R&D, Technology

    E.ON has announced that it will invest in the development of a demonstration site for airborne wind technology in County Mayo in Ireland, and that it entered into a collaboration agreement with Ampyx Power as the first user of the test site.

  • Inter-Array Cable Installation Starts at Beatrice OWF

    10 November 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The first inter-array cable installation campaign at the Beatrice offshore wind farm started today, 10 November, as the cable laying vessel Siem Aimery, supported by CSV Siem Stingray, is set to install up to 24 cables in the south part of the project site.

  • Hollandse Kust West Alpha Offshore Substation Topside Ready to Set Sail

    10 August 2023
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The assembly of the substation topside for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust West Alpha offshore wind farm has been completed at Equans’ yard in Hoboken, Belgium. On 5 August, the substation topside was loaded onto the barge at the Equans BeLux – Offshore Business Unit yard in Hoboken and will soon set sail towards its final destination […]

  • Dogger Bank B Offshore Substation Topside Arrives in Norway

    23 May 2023
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The offshore substation topside built for Dogger Bank B has arrived at Aibel’s yard in Haugesund, Norway. Just a little more than a month after the departure of the Dogger Bank A substation topside, the sister platform arrived in Haugesund and was transported from Aibel’s yard in Thailand by BigLift Shipping’s heavy transportation vessel BigLift Baffin. […]

  • Vestas Books Marco Polo’s New CSOV for Asia Pacific Offshore Wind Projects

    15 December 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Marco Polo Marine’s Taiwan-based subsidiary, PKR Offshore, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Vestas Taiwan for the deployment of Marco Polo’s new commissioning service operations vessel (CSOV) on offshore wind projects in the Asia Pacific region. The new CSOV will be deployed across offshore wind farms in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, over […]

  • Palfinger Receives Crane Order for Another Japanese Offshore Wind Farm

    15 March 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Palfinger Marine has officially been commissioned to deliver 25 of its stiff boom cranes for the Kitakyusyu-Hibikinada offshore wind farm in Japan. The deliveries of the service platform cranes are scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2024. The Austrian-based company said that the design of the stiff boom cranes with an outreach of […]

  • Navantia-Windar Hits Halfway Mark on Saint-Brieuc Jacket Production

    26 April 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    The Navantia-Windar joint venture has assembled more than half of the total of 62 jacket foundations for the French Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project at Navantia’s yard in Fene, Spain. The companies have already delivered all 186 piles for the project and will deliver all the 75-metre, 1,150-tonne jackets this year. The jacket foundation production is […]

  • Colombia Opens Up for Offshore Wind, CIP Enters with 350 MW Project

    8 March 2022
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The Mayor of the Colombian city of Barranquilla, Jaime Pumarejo, is set to sign an agreement with the Danish offshore wind investor/developer Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) for a 350 MW offshore wind project. Mayor Pumarejo said: “We are going to sign a memorandum of understanding with Copenhagen Infrastructure New Market Fund I K/S, a subsidiary of […]

  • 16.6 MW Wind Turbines to Spin Offshore China

    16 February 2022
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    China’s MingYang Smart Energy plans to deploy two wind turbines with an individual capacity of 16.6 MW at the MingYang Yangjiang Qingzhou Four offshore wind farm in the South China Sea. The 505.2 MW offshore wind farm will also feature 59 8 MW wind turbines. Available data suggest that the wind farm is expected to […]

  • GWEC Expects Record Year in Offshore Wind Installations

    9 September 2021
    Business & Finance

    The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) expects 2021 to be the new record year for new offshore wind capacity installed globally. Last year, 6.1 GW of offshore wind capacity were installed globally, a slight decrease from a record 6.24 GW in 2019. With China’s offshore wind sector rushing to install 7.5 GW ahead of the […]

  • CWind Wraps Up Kriegers Flak Cable Job

    6 April 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    CWind, part of the Global Marine Group, has completed its inter-array cable pull-in and termination and testing campaign at the Kriegers Flak offshore wind project in Denmark. CWind used walk-to-work vessels Island Diligence and Island Crown to conduct 72 inter-array cable pull-ins and termination and testing work in a period of just over six months. […]

  • Floating Wind Bill Introduced in Oregon

    19 March 2021
    Authorities

    A new bill outlining a plan to develop 3 GW of floating offshore wind capacity in Oregon by 2030 has been introduced in the state’s House of Representatives. If enacted, the bill would establish a task force on floating wind energy and enable planning the development of 3 GW of commercial scale floating wind projects […]

  • WFW Advises On Changfang and Xidao Project Financing

    24 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has advised on the project financing of the Changfang and Xidao offshore wind projects in Taiwan.

  • Denmark: Port of Roenne Hails Energy Island Plan

    25 May 2020
    Ports & Logistics

    Port of Roenne has welcomed Danish government’s plan to make the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea an energy island, facilitating the connection of 2 GW of offshore wind capacity. “We are pleased that Bornholm has been appointed by the Government to become an energy island, that a 2 GW offshore wind farm is […]

  • Equinor CEO: Last Few Months a Game-Changer for Our Offshore Wind Business

    24 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    The last few months have been a game-changer for Equinor’s offshore wind business, the Norwegian energy company’s President and CEO Eldar Sætre said while commenting on the company’s results for the third quarter of 2019. ”Together with SSE, we were the winning bidder with three projects at Dogger Bank in the UK, making it the largest […]

  • TFKable and VolkerInfra Land Moray East Cable Contract

    29 January 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The TFKable Group and VolkerInfra have won a contract to provide the onshore high voltage cable for the 950MW Moray East offshore wind farm in Scotland. Siemens is in charge of connecting the offshore wind farm to the Scottish grid. TFKable Group’s HV production plant in Bydgoszcz, Poland will manufacture the 220kV cable, with the production […]

  • Ørsted Inks Fisheries Deal in US

    18 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind has entered into a partnership agreement with Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (RODA) to improve communication between the commercial fishing industry and offshore wind developers. The aim of this first-of-its-kind partnership is to create an unprecedented opportunity for commercial fishermen to provide direct input to the wind energy industry on matters of significant interest […]

  • Ørsted Selects Skipjack Staging Spot

    24 July 2019
    Ports & Logistics

    Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind has signed an agreement to develop Maryland’s first offshore wind energy staging center at Tradepoint Atlantic, a 3,300-acre global logistics center in Baltimore County, Maryland. The staging center will be used during the development of the Skipjack offshore wind farm located 19.5 miles off Maryland’s coast. “Together with Tradepoint Atlantic, we are […]

  • NKT Preferred Doggerbank Creyke Beck Cable Contractor

    20 September 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    NKT has entered a Preferred Supplier Agreement (PSA) as the main contractor for delivery and installation of high-voltage DC on- and offshore export cable systems to the Doggerbank Creyke Beck A and B offshore wind farms. With a combined capacity of 2,400MW, the wind farms are being developed as a joint venture of Equinor (50%) […]

  • Ørsted Picks Greater Changhua Financing Team

    13 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted has appointed the Bank of Taiwan, Cathay United Bank and BNP Paribas as lead arrangers for financing the Greater Changhua offshore wind projects in Taiwan.

  • LM Wind Power Completes Cherbourg Plant Recruitment Spree

    26 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    LM Wind Power, a subsidiary of GE Renewable Energy, has completed the recruitment phase for its new offshore wind turbine blade manufacturing plant in Cherbourg, France.

  • MHI Vestas to Test 9.5MW Offshore Wind Turbine in US

    24 October 2017
    R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    MHI Vestas Offshore Wind and Clemson University in South Carolina announced that the world’s most powerful wind turbine, the V164-9.5MW, will have all testing and verification of the wind turbine’s gearbox and main bearings carried out at the university’s 15MW test bench.

  • US Wind to Install Maryland Offshore Met Mast in August

    24 April 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    A meteorological tower for US Wind’s 268MW offshore wind farm in Maryland is scheduled to be installed at the offshore project site in August 2018. The met mast will be delivered by Gulf Island Fabrication, which signed a contract with US Wind in March.

  • EEW Scores Walney Extension Deal

    14 September 2015

    DONG Energy has named Germany’s EEW SPC (EEW) as the main supplier of foundations for its 660 megawatt (MW) Walney Extension offshore wind farm off the Cumbrian coast. The contract covers the supply of 87 foundations for which the monopile structures will be manufactured by EEW in Rostock. The associated transition pieces will be produced under […]