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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • Worldwide Wind Capacity Hits 392GW

    10 September 2015

    The worldwide wind capacity reached 392’927 MW by the end of June 2015, out of which 21’678 MW were added in the first six months of 2015. This increase is substantially higher than in the first half of 2014 and 2013, when 17,6 GW respectively 13,9 GW were added. All wind turbines installed worldwide by […]

  • ICOE Gathers Marine Renewables Experts

    5 November 2014

    World industry leaders and academic experts in marine renewable energy are gathered in Halifax this week thanks in part to a $150,000 investment from the Government of Canada. The International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE), which is welcoming over 600 participants from 40 countries, is focused on the industrial development of renewable marine energy. Now in its […]

  • Senvion’s 111th Offshore Wind Turbine Up at Nordsee Ost

    24 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Senvion SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group, the world’s fifth-largest manufacturer of wind turbines, today installed its 111th offshore turbine. The company reached this milestone with the nineteenth Senvion 6.2M126 of 48 planned turbines that are currently being installed at the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm. The additional 29 turbines for Nordsee […]

  • UK: Fugro Takes Part in IDCORE Summer School

    3 September 2012
    Training & Education

    Fugro experts took part alongside other industry specialists in a summer school for some of the brightest renewable energy engineers in the country. Hosted by HR Wallingford, the summer school is part of the Industrial Doctorate Centre in Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE) programme, which delivers an industry-focused course that aims to expand and sustain a […]

  • Westermost Rough Funds New Withernsea Promenade

    8 September 2015

    Westermost Rough offshore wind farm has committed £80,000 to deliver a brand new promenade feature for Withernsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Westermost Rough is teaming up with the Withernsea and South East Holderness Regeneration Partnership and Withernsea Big Local Partnership to install a pavement fountain with amphitheatre style seating on the Central Promenade. […]

  • 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 […]

  • Tocardo and SPD Agree Dealership Deal for Japan

    18 March 2012
    Technology

    TOCARDO International, the leading tidal energy supplier from the Netherlands, has made a significant step in commercialising its TOCARDO Tidal Turbine Technology by signing a dealership contract for Japan with Spectol Power Design Co., Ltd. (SPD). TOCARDO is targeting Japan as a highly promising market for tidal and river energy generation and is delighted to […]

  • UK: P&O Ferries Enters Offshore Wind Market

    9 March 2012

    P&O Ferries, the UK’s leading ferry operator, is to enter the renewable energy market by supplying one of its large freight ships to act as an accommodation vessel for technicians working at an offshore wind farm in the North Sea. The three to four month charter of the 23,000 tonne European Seaway to Centrica Renewable […]

  • Block Island Wins Major Environmental Approval

    9 May 2014
    Authorities, Environment, Wind Farm Update

    In a major advancement for the Block Island Wind Farm, Deepwater Wind has received the first major environmental permit approvals needed to begin deployment of this path-breaking project. The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) issued Deepwater Wind Water Quality Certificates, deeming the Block Island Wind Farm and Transmission System in compliance with state […]

  • 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. […]

  • 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%) […]

  • 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.

  • Maryland to Spur Early Offshore Wind Investments with USD 700,000

    21 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) is set to launch an innovative program aimed at supporting state-of-the-art and pioneering business development in the state of Maryland. The Market Entry Assistance Grant Program is the first initiative to originate from the Offshore Wind Business Development Fund, and is designed to help Maryland businesses become integral participants in […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • UK CfD Round 4 Offshore Wind Projects Power Forward

    3 August 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    All 99 contracts offered through the fourth Allocation Round (AR4) of the UK government’s Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme have now been signed and returned to Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC). A total of 93 individual projects across Britain will now proceed to work with LCCC to meet the contractual milestones specified in the CfD, […]

  • Longyuan Power Convenes 2012 Strategic Principle-focused Conference in Beijing, China

    30 January 2012

    On Jan. 12 – 13, 2012, Longyuan Power convened 2012 strategic principle-focused conference in Beijing. Xie Changjun, President of Longyuan Power, Tao Jianhua, Chairman of Jiangyin Sulong, and Huang Qun, Secretary of Party Leadership Group of Longyuan Power, were present and delivered significant speeches. Company leaders Tian Shicun, Zhang Yuan, Li Hongmei, Fei Zhi, Jia […]