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  • UK: Osiris Projects Receives Health & Safety Certificate

    2 January 2013

    Osiris Projects announced that their health & safety management system has successfully achieved OHSAS 18001:2007 certification, accredited by NQA. OHSAS 18001:2007 is the internationally recognised standard providing a cohesive framework for the monitoring, management and continuous improvement of occupational health and safety. This follows an excellent year for the company in terms of health and […]

  • Construction Work Kicks Off at Teesside Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

    6 February 2012

    Construction work has commenced on installation of 27 turbines at EDF Energy Renewables’ Teesside offshore wind farm, a Round 1 project. Located 1.5 km off the coast at Redcar, initial work involves installing large diameter steel tubes into the seabed as foundations for the transition pieces. The first turbines are likely to be fitted in […]

  • Technology Turning Any Port into Floating Offshore Wind Hub Attracts New Investor

    31 May 2023
    Business development, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics, Technology

    US-based supply chain solutions company serving the offshore wind sector, Crowley, has made an investment in Tugdock, developers of the world’s first road-transportable floating dry dock known as the Tugdock Submersible Platform (TSP). Crowley and Tugdock will explore the potential use of the platforms in locations such as the US West Coast, where depth and […]

  • Denmark’s Iconic Offshore Wind Farm to Get a New Lease on Life

    23 December 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Denmark’s HOFOR is starting a restoration and recycling project at the Middelgrunden wind farm offshore Copenhagen with the aim of extending the project’s service life by up to several decades. The wind farm’s 20 wind turbines form a gentle arch which has been ”shielding” Denmark’s capital and its harbour since 2001. HOFOR owns ten of […]

  • USA: LEEDCo Takes Critical Management Step in Offshore Wind Project

    29 January 2013

    The Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) has taken a critical step in its efforts to build the nation’s first freshwater offshore wind project. The public-private, non-profit organization has hired Dave Karpinski as vice president of operations, LEEDCo and its partner NorTech have announced. LEEDCo won a $4 million grant from the Department of Energy […]

  • USA: OPT Releases Financial Results

    16 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (“OPT” or “the Company”) announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 second quarter and the six months ended October 31, 2012. Highlights OPT reported an operating loss of $9.2 million for the six months ended October 31, 2012, relatively unchanged from the comparable period in fiscal 2012. The Company announced the […]

  • Belgium: 3E, OWA Launch New FLiDAR Company

    7 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Technology

    With support from Flemish Government, a newly launched joint venture, FLiDAR nv, starts product trials in North Sea with aim to deliver tools to drastically reduce costs of offshore wind developments. 3E and OWA (DEME Group) have announced the official launch of FLiDAR N.V. Based in Oostende, FLiDAR is a joint venture established between 3E […]

  • ACCIONA Triples Net Profit Reported in Same Period Last Year (Spain)

    11 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    ACCIONA obtained a net profit of 314 million euros in 9M 2011, tripling the 101 million euros reported in the same period of 2010. Group EBITDA amounted to 934 million euros, a 14.8% increase vs. 9M 2010 and revenues grew 5% to 4,796 million euros. EBITDA growth was mainly due to the positive performance of […]

  • Forewind Narrows Down Location for Dogger Bank Project One Cable Connection (UK)

    10 June 2011

    The development of Forewind’s first offshore wind farm, known as Dogger Bank Project One, takes another step forward today with the announcement that the cable connecting the proposed wind farm to the national grid at Creyke Beck, in East Riding of Yorkshire, will come to shore between Fraisthorpe and Ulrome on the Holderness coast. Forewind, […]

  • UAE: Lamprell Reports H1 Net Loss of USD 47.1 Million

    28 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Lamprell, a leading provider of specialist engineering services to the international oil & gas and renewable industry based in the UAE, announces its Interim Results for the six month period to 30 June 2012. H1 2012 financial results: Revenue: US$ 528.1 million (H1 2011: US$ 383.6 million). Operating loss: US$ 33.8 million (H1 2011: US$ […]

  • Two Polish Offshore Wind Projects Secure Environmental Nod

    28 January 2020
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Poland’s PGE Group has received environmental permits for the construction of the Baltica 2 and Baltica 3 offshore wind farms in the Polish Baltic Sea. The Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection issued a decision on environmental conditions for the two projects on 24 January, which now allows PGE Group to start working on the technical […]

  • MPI Adventure Transports Last Rampion Turbine Components

    19 September 2017
    Vessels

    MPI Offshore’s wind turbine installation vessel MPI Adventure has left the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark, with a final set of turbine components to be installed on the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm.

  • J.A. Rederiet Upgrades Vessels for Offshore Wind Ops

    27 June 2017
    Vessels

    Danish shipowner J.A. Rederiet has upgraded its multipurpose support vessels Susanne A and Mira A to meet the requirements of offshore DP2 and DP1, respectively, so they can carry out operations in the offshore wind industry.

  • Video: Danish Role on Global Offshore Wind Scene

    24 November 2014

    LORC plays a central role in Danish wind industry supplying state-of-the-art testing of wind turbine nacelles. The non-profit and independent commercial foundation was founded in 2009 by the major players in the offshore renewables sector with an aim to improve product reliability and consequently lower the Cost of Energy extracted from green offshore sources. In 1991, […]

  • KymoGen Wave Energy Device Moving Forward

    16 March 2015
    R&D, Technology

    KymoGen is moving forward with the development of a device that will harness the energy of waves. Research and design work has been ongoing, while the first unit should be complete by July of 2015 immediately followed by in water testing. Production units are expected to be built for the public in September. Significant installations […]

  • Danish Climate Minister Visits Floating Power Plant

    5 April 2013
    Authorities, R&D, Technology

    On April 2, 2013 Climate Minister Martin Lidegaard visited Floating Power Plant at its maintenance facilities in Nakskov Harbor. Floating Power Plant A/S is a clean-tech company that develops, designs and provides a unique patented technology to harvest the limitless energy of the ocean. The company operates Poseidon 37, a hybrid renewable-energy demonstration plant. The first and biggest […]

  • Italy: 40SouthEnergy Starts R115 Wave Device Deployment Activities

    25 September 2013
    R&D, Technology

    40SouthEnergy has begun to work on the deployment of the R115 wave energy device at Punta Righini, Italy. On September 23, the company positioned two guiding buoys for the Meloria pontoon, which traveled the next day from Livorno to Punta Righini, where it was positioned. After the company carried out all the activities envisaged for […]

  • CGN Launches Construction of Two New Offshore Wind Farms

    10 January 2019

    China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGN) has announced the start of construction of two offshore wind farms off the eastern coast of the Guangdong Province that will have a total installed capacity of 900MW.  In December 2018, CGN started building a control centre for the 500MW Houhu and 400MW Huizhou offshore wind farms. The Houhu project will be built […]

  • BOW Loads Out Jacket Piles for Sylwin

    27 March 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    Bow Terminal had their first load out of  jacket piles for the project Sylwin last Monday. The 106-meter jacket piles were built at the Nordic Yards, where the top side and platform of the substation was built. Last year, Seaway Heavy Lifting won a contract to transport and install the Sylwin Alpha jacket and transmission […]

  • NGI, Plaxis Establish XG Geotools

    24 April 2014

    NGI from Norway and Plaxis from the Netherlands announced the establishment of their joint venture XG Geotools bv. XG Geotools will produce and market cloud based software tools tailored for design tasks in offshore geotechnical engineering. These tools will combine the in-depth subject knowledge and software design skills of both companies. The first tool will be launched […]

  • VIDEO: Siemens Offshore Wind Power

    5 February 2013
    Technology

    The beginning of this year has been very productive for Siemens in offshore wind sector. Today, the company launched its 4-MW offshore wind turbine in Austria and in January the first two Siemens 6 MW wind turbines were installed at Gunfleet Sands III. The company will supply 35 of its 6 MW turbines for Westermost […]

  • UK’s Nuclear, Renewables Companies Join to Support Green Power

    5 November 2012
    Authorities

    More than 1,000 nuclear and renewables companies have signed a letter addressed to David Cameron, George Osborne and Ed Davey, urging them to agree on a legally binding decarbonisation target for electricity generation, The Independent informs. Fear that the Government could support gas has led to joining of forces of the UK’s nuclear, wind and […]

  • Navantia Seanergies Delivers Substation Jacket for 496 MW French Offshore Wind Farm

    23 May 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Navantia Seanergies has delivered the substation jacket for Ocean Winds’ 496 MW Dieppe le Tréport offshore wind farm in France. The jacket departed from the south dock of the Puerto Real shipyard in Spain and is heading to its destination on France’s Atlantic Coast. The offshore wind farm site is located 15 kilometres off the […]

  • RoRo Offshore Vessel Rotra Futura Hits the Water

    26 November 2024
    Vessels

    The first of two offshore wind Roll-on/Roll-off (RoRo) vessels, the Rotra Future, designed to transport wind turbine components, has been launched at Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard in China. Concordia Damen has collaborated with Amasus, deugro Denmark, Siemens Gamesa, and DEKC Maritime in the development and construction of two RoRo vessels, namely Rotra Futura and Rotra Horizon. […]

  • OO-STAR Floating Wind Foundation Gets Nod from ABS

    25 September 2024
    Floating Wind, Foundations, R&D, Supply Chain

    The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has issued Approval in Principle (AiP) to the OO-STAR concrete semi-submersible floater from Bouygues Travaux Publics, a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction. The foundation can support wind turbines of more than 20 MW in harsh offshore environments, Bouygues Construction said. This achievement is said to be the first step in […]

  • Offshore WIND Conference: OSF Makes Case for Energy Islands

    22 October 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, R&D, Technology

    The Netherlands could have its first multifunctional energy island ready by 2025, Ernst van Zuijlen, Project Director at Offshore Service Facilities, said at the Offshore WIND Conference in Amsterdam.