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  • Exclusive: Muehlhan Wind Service Enters Taiwanese Offshore Wind Market

    19 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    Muehlhan Wind Service (MWS) has entered the offshore wind market in Taiwan, the company’s Commercial Director Thomas Andersen revealed to Offshore WIND during an interview.

  • E.ON to Install 180 New Voltage-Regulated Distribution Transformers

    28 May 2014
    Grid Connection, Technology

    E.ON distribution system operators (DSOs) in Germany will put up to 180 new voltage-regulated distribution transformers (VRDTs) into service by the end of the year. About 60 of the VRDTs, which incorporate technology from Bavaria-based Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen (MR), are already operational. The nationwide rollout, which will encompass all of E.ON’s distribution systems in Germany, makes […]

  • EPA Withdraws Permit for Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Project

    17 March 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reviewing the air quality permit for the Atlantic Shores offshore wind project, following a remand from the federal Environmental Appeals Board regarding the EPA’s initial permit decision. The permit, which was granted to the developer in September 2024, was appealed to the board by Save Long Beach Island […]

  • Pacific Osprey Sports Hohe See Gear

    12 April 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore wind installation vessel Pacific Osprey is loading the first monopiles and transition pieces for the 497MW EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm at the Port of Vlissingen in the Netherlands.

  • Nexans Aurora Gets Its Cable Laying Equipment

    14 April 2021
    Vessels

    The installation of the MAATS Tech cable lay equipment package onboard cable laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Aurora has been completed. The MAATS Tech team installed and tested the package which includes the carousel, loading arms, access tower and control cabin at the Ulstein Verft shipyard. According to Nexans, the next step is the heeling test. […]

  • Global Offshore Lays Kriegers Flak Inter-Array Cables

    4 March 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Global Offshore has laid all of the inter-array cables at Vattenfall’s Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Danish Baltic Sea. Using the cable lay vessel Normand Clipper, Global Offshore has now installed all 72 inter-array cables at the 605 MW wind farm. This is an interim milestone on the project, Global Offshore said, as […]

  • Ørsted Sets Hornsea One Farm-Down Timeframe

    1 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted plans to complete a 50% farm-down of the 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm either in the second half of 2018 or in 2019.

  • New Edition of Offshore WIND Magazine Now Out

    4 June 2018

    The latest edition of the Offshore WIND magazine is now out and you can get your hands on it by subscribing to receive a printed copy and/or find it available in a digital format.

  • OSY Platform Topside Leaves Construction Site

    5 April 2019
    Grid Connection

    The topside of Elia’s Offshore SwitchYard (OSY) platform has left Heerema Fabrication Group’s construction site in Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands, and was loaded onto a barge. According to Elia, the topside left the construction site this morning, which represents the first step in the journey towards its final destination in the Belgian North Sea. The topside will […]

  • Vietnamese Offshore Wind Farm Breaks Ground

    3 May 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Vietnam’s Tra Vinh Wind Power has held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction of the 48MW Korea- Tra Vinh wind farm (Phase 1). The Korea- Tra Vinh intertidal wind farm (Phase 1) will comprise 24 2MW wind turbines installed offshore the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh. The project will reportedly feature Vestas wind turbines […]

  • Waves Group on Offshore Wind Duty in Taiwan

    24 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Waves Group is currently providing marine warranty surveyor services at the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The UK-based company is in charge of providing the marine warranty surveyor services for the installation of turbines, foundations, and infield and export cables. According to Waves Group, the contract began in October last year and will […]

  • SeaMade Enters Offshore Construction Phase

    6 September 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    DEME Group’s jack-up vessel Innovation has arrived at Sif’s Maasvlakte terminal in Rotterdam to load the first monopiles for the SeaMade offshore wind project in Belgium. DEME is in charge of installing the 58 foundations, as well as the turbines, inter-array cables, export cables and two offshore substations. Sif won a contract at the end of […]

  • SMartWind’s Project One Waiting for Approval

    7 October 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    The 3 month process for the Examining Authority to write a recommendation for SMartWind’s Project One in the Hornsea Zone concluded last month. The report from the Examining Authority sets out their conclusions on the application, including giving reasons for those conclusions. The report will make a recommendation to the Secretary of State for Energy and […]

  • Oldbaum Launches Floating LiDAR Certification Services

    10 March 2015
    Technology

    Wind energy consultancy Oldbaum Services has added floating LiDAR certification services to its portfolio. The first two certification buoys being tested by the wind energy consultancy were deployed on March 8, 2015 offshore in the UK. The certification process involves full system checks, power communications and wind data acquisition to assess suitability for remote deployment for […]

  • Photo of the Day: Nordsee One Foundations Falling into Place

    26 January 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    RWE AG has shared a photo of the world’s biggest jack-up vessel in operation, Innovation, installing one of 54 foundations at the 332MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm in the German waters of the North Sea. The installation work is being carried out by GeoSea, part of DEME Group. The contract includes the installation of all monopile foundations and […]

  • NEDO Backs Two Wind Farm Projects off Japan

    19 January 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEDO) will subsidize portions of project costs related to the development of two offshore wind farms with a combined capacity of 270MW. The first project NEDO will back is a 170MW offshore wind farm near the Port of Noshiro, Akita Prefecture, developed by Marubeni Corporation and Obayashi Corporation. The […]

  • Boskalis Reports 6% Drop in Q3 Order Book

    13 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Royal Boskalis Westminster has reported a drop in the order book of 6.1% for the third quarter. Also, operating profit was lower than results in the first half of the year, as well as the same period last year. According to the company, the result was in line with expectations. “Market conditions remain challenging, particularly […]

  • Atlantis Finalises MCT Acquisition

    1 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Atlantis has completed the acquisition of Marine Current Turbines Limited (MCT) from Siemens AG in an all share deal, conditional upon admission of the consideration shares. Accordingly, as consideration for the acquisition, Atlantis has issued 9,911,577 new ordinary shares of no par value in the Company to Siemens AG, increasing the Company’s total number of […]

  • Windcarrier to Install Wikinger Turbines

    25 September 2015
    Vessels

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier International Ltd. has been awarded a contract with Adwen for the transport and installation of 70 units of Adwen 5 MW wind turbine generators for the Wikinger Offshore Wind Farm project located in the Baltic Sea within the German exclusive economic zone. The contract will commence during the first quarter of 2017 […]

  • East Anglia Three Moves Through the System

    25 May 2016
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    A preliminary meeting of a panel forming the Examining Authority (ExA) for East Anglia Three’s Development Consent Order (DCO) application will be held on 28 June, to discuss the examination procedure. On 29 June, an Issue Specific Hearing will be held, relating to the definition of the project and draft Development Consent Order (DCO) matters. The application was […]

  • India: MNRE to Publish Offshore Wind Draft Guidelines Within Month

    8 May 2012
    Authorities

    As ET reported, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is likely to publish draft guidelines for offshore wind energy within a month, said Gomathi Nayagam, executive director of the Centre for Wind Energy Technology and chairman of the technical committee for offshore wind. Experts are forecasting the Dhanushkodi, Tamilnadu to install the first […]

  • USACE Approves Offshore Wind Farm in Atlantic City

    20 July 2012
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore wind developer, Fishermen’s Energy, has now got all the necessary federal and state documentation to start building the first U.S. demonstration offshore wind farm. Namely, the developer has announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) gave a Clean Water Act permit for the project, the NJ.com, a New Jersey based news portal […]

  • Jan De Nul to Install Borkum Riffgrund 2 Monopiles & TPs

    13 July 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy has awarded Jan De Nul with a contract for the transport and installation of 36 monopiles and transition pieces for the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in Germany, Jan De Nul reported today. Jan De Nul will also be in charge of the supply, transport and installation of scour protection for all foundations. The works […]

  • France Reduces Nuclear Power Dependence with Offshore Wind

    16 May 2012

    France’s first offshore wind farm tender, won by EDF in partnership with Alstom and Dong, will help reduce country’s dependence on nuclear power and catch up with the three leading countries in renewable energy capacity, according to PowerEngineering. Based on EWEA’s report published in November, even with the planned offshore wind projects, France has a […]

  • France: WW2 Veterans Oppose Normandy Offshore Wind Project

    28 May 2012

    The French government plans for construction of a wind farm off the Normandy coast are being objected because of the historical significance of the area in question, writes the Toronto Sun portal. Though the government said that the turbines will hardly be visible from the beaches, the World War II veterans consider the project as […]

  • Pontis Engineering to Exhibit at China Wind Power

    20 October 2014

    Next week Pontis will exhibit at China Wind Power for the 5th time in a row. The China Wind Power exhibition is ranked among the top three global wind events in terms of scale. As its influence grows, international wind power equipment manufacturers and service providers are regarding it as their first choice for business […]