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  • Ignitis Submits Bid to Build Second Wind Farm Offshore Lithuania

    15 April 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Industry, Planning & Permitting

    Ignitis Renewables, part of Ignitis Group, has submitted a bid for the rights to develop around 700 MW of offshore wind capacity in the Baltic Sea as part of the second offshore wind tender in Lithuania. Under the tender regulations, the potential developer can submit either the development fee or request support in the form […]

  • RWE Orders 15 MW Nordseecluster Offshore Wind Turbines at Vestas

    14 June 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Vestas has now revealed the name of the project and the client for a conditional contract the company signed in May as an unconditional order came in from RWE for the first phase of its 1.6 GW Nordseecluster offshore wind development in Germany. The Denmark-based wind turbine OEM has received a firm order for 44 […]

  • Cemre Shipyard Launches Third MHI Vestas SOV

    13 November 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Cemre Shipyard has launched the third of the three service operation vessels (SOVs) ordered by Esvagt and under long-term charters with MHI Vestas Offshore Wind. The Turkish shipbuilder launched the hull of the first SOV in April and the second one in September. The 70-5 metre SOVs were ordered at Norway’s Havyard Group. The fitting […]

  • Vattenfall Begins Hollandse Kust Zuid 1&2 Prep Work

    13 March 2019
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has commenced the initial physical preparatory works for the Hollandse Kust Zuid 1 & 2 offshore wind project in the Netherlands. The Swedish company has started setting up a project team and has performed the first studies necessary to properly estimate the activities involved in building the project. The actual offshore works and various […]

  • Equinor Talks Norwegian Floating Offshore Wind

    2 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    Equinor has met with the supplier industry in Norway to discuss cost-effective solutions for floating offshore wind farms on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Equinor got together with Global Center of Expertise (GCE) NODE companies in Agder to talk about finding cost-optimal solutions related to designing floating foundations for turbines in the 10-15MW range. Additionally, the meetings were […]

  • Dominion Energy Proposes to Build Largest US Offshore Wind Farm

    19 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Dominion Energy is proposing to develop a 2.6GW wind farm off the coast of Virginia by 2026, which represents the largest offshore wind development in the U.S. The news comes as Virginia’s Governor Ralph Northam signed an executive order which sets the goal of having up to 2.5GW of offshore wind developed in the state by 2026. […]

  • A2SEA Orders Made-in-UK Sea Fastenings

    9 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Denmark’s A2SEA has contracted two UK shipyards to fabricate and install sea fastenings on two of the company’s turbine installation vessels which are set to start working offshore UK.  A&P Tyne will fabricate and install the sea fastening on Sea Challenger, which was contracted to work on the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm, with Cammel […]

  • Scottish £12M Fund to Help O&G Workers Find Other Jobs

    2 February 2016
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced a £12 million fund to help people who face losing their jobs in the oil and gas sector to transition into other energy industry and manufacturing employment. The Scottish Government’s Transition Training Fund will help maintain the highly skilled energy workforce in the North Sea region by offering grants to individuals […]

  • Deepwater Wind Calls It a Day at Block Island OWF, Construction Starts Again Next Year

    8 December 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    With all five steel jacket foundations fully installed at the Block Island Wind Farm (BIWF) site, Deepwater Wind officially completed the first offshore construction season for America’s first offshore wind farm. The last deck platform was placed on top of a foundation on 21 November and all of the construction and crew vessels associated with the operation […]

  • Wind and Rain Push SSE’s Results

    11 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    A windy and rainy summer in Scotland and Ireland helped the Perth-based energy company SSE plc improve its total operating profit and profit before tax for the six months to September 30 2015, with over one third of the company’s energy output coming from renewables. SSE reported GBP 701.9 million total operating profit and GBP 548.8m profit before tax for […]

  • Prysmian, Nexans, ABB Become NSN Link Dream Team

    14 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Contracts totalling €1.5billion have been awarded to build the NSN link – the first electricity link between UK and Norway. NSN Link has contracted two cable suppliers, Prysmian and Nexans, to deliver the cable needed for the 740 kilometre route length. The converter stations in both UK and Norway will be delivered by ABB. The […]

  • Siemens Officially Names Both Esvagt SOVs (10 Photos)

    25 June 2015
    Vessels

    Siemens celebrated the official christenings of the first purpose-built Service Operation Vessels (SOV) this week. The christening events took place in cooperation with Esvagt A/S, owner of the two vessels, in Rostock, Germany, and Hamburg, Germany. The Esvagt Froude was the first to be formally christened on June 23 in Rostock and is supporting service […]

  • Offshore Wind ‘Win-Win-Win’ for the U.S., Senator Carper Says

    29 September 2015
    Authorities

    U.S. Senator for Delaware Tom Carper addressed participants in the Environmental and Energy Study Institute’s (EESI) briefing on the status of offshore wind energy projects in the United States in comparison to Europe, which has deployed more than 50 offshore wind projects since 1991. Industry has shown tremendous interest in developing offshore wind in the […]

  • Dominion in Top 10 U.S. Utilities for Economic Development

    16 September 2015
    Business & Finance

     Site Selection magazine has named Dominion as one of the U.S. top 10 utilities for economic development. The publication cites that Dominion’s economic development team helped bring more than $2.7 billion in corporate facility investments supporting 3,615 new jobs in its footprint last year. The growing list of data center sites, renewable energy initiatives such as […]

  • Deutsche Offshore Consult Stays at Bard Offshore 1

    19 September 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Deutsche Offshore Consult (DOC) has won a follow-up contract to manage vessels used by the German wind farm operator Ocean Breeze Energy (OBE) on the 400MW Bard Offshore 1 wind farm from 2016 until 2017. Following a selection process for the operation & maintenance campaigns in 2016/2017, OBE and DOC chose the vessels of Siem Offshore Contractors […]

  • JDR Wins WindFloat Atlantic Cable Order

    6 June 2017
    Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Hartlepool-based subsea cable supplier JDR has been selected by WindPlus as the preferred cable supplier for the 25MW Windfloat Atlantic floating wind farm

  • Mojo Teams Up with James Fisher for MeyGen

    16 October 2014

    Mojo Maritime signed a contract with James Fisher Marine Services Ltd (JFMS) which will see them provide significant marine operational and engineering expertise to the construction phase of the MeyGen Inner Sound tidal project. Over the next two years, Mojo will work closely with JFMS carrying out the detailed design, planning and execution of the […]

  • Ocean Energy Europe: Next Generation Technologies Crucial for Energy Union

    25 February 2015
    Technology

    The EU must continue to support and develop renewable energy technologies of strategic importance such as ocean energy if it is serious about creating a long-lasting industrial base for the Energy Union, according to Ocean Energy Europe CEO, Rémi Gruet. The Energy Union Package clearly identifies the crucial role of next generation renewable technologies, such […]

  • Ballast Nedam Installs Its 500th Foundation

    13 June 2014

    In just over 2 months Ballast Nedam Offshore has installed 47 out of 80 monopiles on the Butendiek Offshore Wind Farm. The installation works started at the 1st of April and on the 10th of June monopile no. 47 was installed. This demonstrates reliable approach based on one of the proven installation concepts in combination with one of […]

  • Asian Hercules III Puts EOWDC on Bucket List

    14 December 2017
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Floating crane Asian Hercules III has arrived to Peterhead Port to transfer and install suction bucket foundations on Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC).

  • Vattenfall: Let There Be (Less) Light

    21 June 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    While Vattenfall’s Danish nearshore wind farms – Vesterhav Syd and Nord – will power numerous light bulbs, the developer has requested permission from the authorities to reduce the night-time light markings on the wind turbines themselves.

  • CPNL Provides Cable Protection for German Offshore Wind Farm

    14 November 2012
    Grid Connection

    CPNL Engineering GmbH, provides and engineers cable protection equipment, announced that the firm will supply a complete cable protection system, which will be used for the NSO offshore wind project of RWE, a leading utilities company in Germany. RWE is the first company to adopt the cable protection system in a complete offshore wind farm, […]

  • UK: TAG Joins Norstec’s Partnership

    26 April 2012

    TAG Energy Solutions has become one of the first UK companies to join a new renewables sector initiative launched by the Prime Minister, David Cameron. Unveiled at the Clean Energy Ministerial Conference, ‘Norstec’ is a new industry partnership, which brings together key players with an interest in making the most of the North Sea’s renewable […]

  • DNV GL Signs 500th Commercial License of ‘Bladed’

    26 November 2013

    The recently merged DNV GL has signed a contract to supply the 500th commercial license of its Bladed wind turbine design software. Bladed is trusted by manufacturers and certification agencies around the world for the calculation of turbine design loads and performance. It has contributed to the successful development and operation of thousands of turbines. […]

  • Natural Power to Share Its Offshore Wind Expertise in Aberdeen

    22 January 2014
    R&D

    Natural Power’s Senior Marine Ecologist, Jane Lancaster and Senior Ornithologist, Ross McGregor have been selected to present at Scottish Renewables Offshore Wind & Supply Chain conference in Aberdeen on 29th January. Natural Power’s extensive offshore experience will be presented at Marine Scotland’s side event, scheduled to take place from 12:15pm on 29th January during the […]

  • UK: BMT Nigel Gee Designs New WSV for Turbine Transfers

    27 February 2012
    R&D, Technology

    BMT Nigel Gee Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, has announced further collaboration with Turbine Transfers, one of the leading providers of Windfarm Support Vessels (WSVs), on its latest unique development – the design of a 19m WSV utilising the Voith Linear Jet. The Voith Linear Jet (VLJ) is an innovative propulsor unit developed […]