10000 results found for 'first'

10000 results found for 'first'
Order results by

A list of search results

  • GL certifies software for RomaxWIND (UK)

    14 October 2010
    Technology

    Romax Technology Limited’s world leading virtual development platform, RomaxWIND, has been officially certified by GL Renewables Certification (GL) as a recognised method of calculating gear loads. Forming part of their certification offerings, RomaxWIND software can help to shorten the time taken to gain “A” Design Assessment approval by outputting gear load calculation reports that are […]

  • UK: Part of GBP 20 Million Fund for Sea Generation Wales

    27 February 2013
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Sea Generation Wales Ltd has been awarded a share of £20 million funding under the government’s Marine Energy Array Demonstrator scheme (MEAD), launched in April last year, to support the development and testing of pre-commercial marine devices in array formations out at sea. Besides Sea Generation Wales Ltd, MeyGen Ltd also received share of this […]

  • WavEC Shares Survey Findings for Portuguese Floating Wind Demo Site

    21 February 2025
    Business development, Floating Wind, Innovation, Research & Development

    WavEC Offshore Renewables has published findings following the first offshore surveys at the Technological Free Zone offshore of Viana do Castelo, Portugal, a site that will host floating offshore wind demonstration projects. The study was supported by oceanographic surveys carried out in March and October of 2023, collecting acoustic data and physical samples of the […]

  • Germany: SAL Puts “Svenja”, the World’s Largest Heavy Lift Vessel, into Service

    10 December 2010
    Technology

    With a lifting capacity of a total of 2,000 tonnes and speed of 20 knots, it’s the world’s largest heavy lift vessel to date: SAL Schiffahrtskontor Altes Land puts the first of two new buildings of Type 183 into service. The company, which ranks among the leading international heavy lift shipping companies and is based […]

  • New Batch of Monopile TPs for Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project En Route to US

    23 January 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The heavy load carrier Sun Rise is on its way to the US from the Port of Aalborg, Denmark, with 18 transition pieces (TPs) for the wind turbine foundations at the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. According to a social media post by CS Wind Offshore, which is delivering 176 TPs for the 2.6 […]

  • Statoil Files Zero-Subsidy Bid for Hollandse Kust Zuid I & II

    21 December 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Statoil, the company behind the world’s first operational floating wind farm, has submitted a zero-subsidy bid at the Dutch offshore wind tender for Hollandse Kust Zuid I & II project in the North Sea.

  • Next Geosolutions Secures Survey Work on World’s Longest Subsea Interconnector

    22 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Vessels

    Geoscience and engineering service provider Next Geosolutions has been awarded two survey contracts for the 1.4GW North Sea Link (NSL) project, the world’s longest subsea interconnector and the first electricity link between UK and Norway.

  • Havfram Wind Orders Second Hybrid Mega Jack-Up

    18 April 2023
    Vessels

    Norwegian offshore wind services company Havfram Wind has ordered a second wind turbine installation vessel from CIMC-Raffles in China. The order represents the first optional vessel in the existing shipbuilding contract with CIMC-Raffles, and the vessel design will be similar to the first GustoMSC NG-20000X jack-up vessel currently under construction. The latest battery hybrid drive […]

  • Shimizu Corporation Takes Delivery of Mega Jack-Up

    21 March 2023
    Vessels

    The Japan Marine United (JMU) shipyard delivered the GustoMSC designed and equipped offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) to Shimizu Corporation at the end of January. Shimizu unveiled plans to build a wind farm installation vessel back in 2019. The vessel, which is of GustoMSC SC-14000XL design, is 142 metres long, 50 metres, wide, and […]

  • Italian Developer Reveals Plans for 750 MW Floating Wind Farm Offshore Sicily

    18 September 2023
    Authorities, Business development, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    The Italian offshore wind developer, Regolo Rinnovabili, a subsidiary of BayWa r.e., has applied for a 30-year maritime concession to build and operate a 750 floating wind farm offshore Sicily. Regolo Rinnovabili submitted the application to the Port Authority of Mazara del Vallo to install approximately 50 wind turbines with a nominal power of 15 MW […]

  • Arcadis Ost 1 Readies for Wind Turbine Installation

    3 November 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    DEME has completed the installation of the secondary steel on all the XXL monopiles at Parkwind’s Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea, with the project now ready to enter the next stage of construction. The offshore construction specialist installed the final XXL monopile, manufactured by Steelwind, at […]

  • California Adopts 2045 Offshore Wind Target, Plans Installing 25 GW by That Time

    11 August 2022
    Authorities

    The California Energy Commission (CEC) has adopted the recently announced increased offshore wind targets for the state, which were raised after Governor Gavin Newsom called for the state’s offshore wind target for 2045 to be raised to at least 20 GW. As reported earlier this month, the CEC updated its Assembly Bill 525 report to expand […]

  • Vattenfall’s Danish Nearshore Pair Clears Legal Hurdles as UXO Survey Starts

    14 July 2021
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Denmark’s Energy Board of Appeal has completed the processing of a number of complaints filed against the Danish Energy Agency’s (DEA) authorisation of Vesterhav Syd and Vesterhav Nord nearshore wind farms. The Board confirmed the DEA’s decisions from 14 December 2020, when the authority granted Vattenfall the permission to build the two wind farms, after an assessment of […]

  • Ørsted’s Changhua 1 & 2a OWFs to Be 5G-Ready

    26 November 2020
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Ericsson and Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) will build a 5G-ready network for Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan. The private network will enable Ørsted’s engineers to communicate through high-quality connectivity and to have optimised workplace communications for daily operations, according to the two telecommunication companies. “The Greater Changhua 1 & 2a […]

  • Fécamp Construction and Maintenance Base Starts Taking Shape

    19 November 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Construction has started on the operations and maintenance base for the Fécamp offshore wind farm in France, EDF Renouvelables said. Located in Fécamp in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region, the facility will first serve as the construction base for the 500 MW project, with the offshore construction work scheduled to start in 2022. […]

  • Vineyard Wind Seeks Whale Protection Tech

    22 May 2019
    Environment

    Vineyard Wind is seeking proposals for Passive Acoustic Monitoring Systems (PAMS) to help safeguard endangered North Atlantic right whales alongside transit routes of its 800MW offshore wind project in Massachusetts, U.S. In the call, Vineyard Wind is looking for technology companies or academic institutions to provide and operationalize the PAMS to detect the presence of right […]

  • Ørsted Submits Ocean Wind Bid in New Jersey

    31 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Ørsted has submitted a bid to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) for the construction of its Ocean Wind offshore wind project in response to the state’s request for proposals.

  • DNV GL Ventures Into Vietnam for Nearshore Wind Farm Feasibility Study

    16 June 2016
    Grid Connection, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    DNV GL Americas has entered into a contract with Phu Cuong Group (PCG) to deliver a feasibility study for a USD 435 million, 170MW Phu Cuong 1 nearshore wind farm project, the first in PCG’s planned series of similar projects along Vietnam’s southern coastline in Soc Trang province. PCG, a private firm majoring in real estate development […]

  • MeyGen Tidal Project: Construction Starts on Onshore Infrastructure

    21 January 2015
    Technology

    Contractors will begin the construction of a 340-meter access road at the MeyGen tidal stream project today, majority owner of the project, Atlantis Resources, announced.  The announcement marks the start of all onshore construction at the site, a preparatory stage which will pave the way for the 398 megawatt (MW) tidal array to be built […]

  • Damen Launches Second DOC 8500

    24 July 2015
    Vessels

    Thursday 23 July saw senior representatives of Maersk Supply Service, DeepOcean UK and the Damen Shipyards Group gather at Damen Shipyards Galati, Romania to witness the launching of subsea support vessel Maersk Connector. The vessel is owned and operated by Maersk Supply Service and is built to contract for a seven year charter agreement with […]

  • Foundation Monitoring System Brings Zensor EU’s Rising Blue Star of the Year

    14 September 2016

    Zensor, a Belgium-based provider of monitoring packages for offshore wind support structures, won the Rising Blue Star of the Year award at the first edition of the Blue Economy Business Awards. The ceremony was held as part of the first Blue Economy Business & Science Forum at the International Maritime Museum of Hamburg. Zensor provides condition monitoring systems for the foundation […]

  • Gallery: SLP Upends, Jacks Up Dudgeon Substation Platform Jacket

    14 March 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Lowestoft-based Sembmarine SLP Ltd (SLP) upended and jacked up the jacket structure for the offshore substation platform to be installed at the Dudgeon offshore wind farm at its Hamilton Road site this month. The platform comprises of a topside and jacket structure, the latter of which uses suction bucket technology, a first for a substation in UK waters, with […]

  • Dalby Expands Its Fleet with New 21m WFSV

    7 May 2014

    Dalby Offshore Services Ltd. has taken delivery of its latest offshore wind farm crew transfer vessel, ‘Dalby Wharfe’. The vessel is the first of a two boat order that includes the ‘Dalby Swale’ to be delivered to Dalby Offshore Services Ltd. at the forthcoming Seawork exhibition at Southampton on Tuesday 10th June. The Alicat Workboats built the 21m […]

  • Bladt Inks Another Major Sandbank OWF Contract

    22 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Bladt Industries will manufacture an offshore substation (OSS) for the Sandbank offshore wind farm in close cooperation with their long term partners on the fabrication of substations – Semco Maritime and ISC. Bladt Industries has signed an EPCI contract for the fabrication of the OSS for the upcoming Sandbank Offshore Wind Farm. The contract is signed with the […]

  • ABP Contracts IMES for Humber Ports Work

    30 May 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    Associated British Ports (ABP) has signed a contract with IMES International to ensure the operational integrity of crane and bulk handling rigging equipment across its four ports in Humber, which will directly service UK’s Round 3 offshore wind farms, including the Dogger Bank, Hornsea and East Anglia projects.

  • Mainstream CEO Congratulates Siemens

    26 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Dr. Eddie O’Connor, CEO Mainstream Renewable Power, has welcomed the announcement of Siemens’ investment of £160m with its port partner Associated British Ports (ABP) in a manufacturing facility at Hull on the Humber in the UK. ABP are investing £150m. Commenting on the announcement Dr O’Connor said: “This investment is to be welcomed for several […]