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  • Siemens Picks Houlder to Design Sea Fastenings for Galloper Turbines

    20 May 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Wind Power has awarded UK-based marine engineers, Houlder Ltd, the contract for the design of sea fastenings for the 336MW Galloper wind farm project. The Galloper wind farm construction consists of 56 Siemens 6MW SWT-6.0-154 turbines. Critical to the successful construction of the offshore turbines is the design of sea fastenings work, and for […]

  • CTruk to Showcase Two Vessels at Seawork

    4 March 2014

    CTruk will have two vessels on the Seawork pontoons this year. CWind Endurance, a 20m Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) OWSV for Dungeness-based Technical Marine Support and CWind, is due for delivery in March 2014 and it is planned that she will grace the pontoon at Seawork later in the year. CTruk has utilised […]

  • Taiwan’s NCKU Launches Floating LiDAR to Assess Offshore Wind

    28 May 2013
    R&D, Technology

    National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, launched its floating LiDAR, an offshore wind resource assessment buoy, May 24, at Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory. “It is the Asia No. 1 and World No.4 of Floating LiDAR applications in wind profiler measurement at sea,” said NCKU President Hwung-Hweng Hwung at the launching ceremony. He added, “This will […]

  • REpower Erects Its 5,000th Wind Turbine (Germany)

    9 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Suzlon Group-subsidiary REpower Systems SE announced the completion of installation of its 5,000th turbine, located in Baden-Württemberg’s biggest public wind farm, “Großer Wald”, near Buchen in the Neckar-Odenwald district. Five REpower 3.2M114 turbines that comprise the wind farm will produce around 28 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually – enough for around 7,500 homes. Yesterday, […]

  • Game Not Over for Seawind

    22 January 2018
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Following reports in Norwegian media about wind energy technology developer Seawind filing for bankruptcy, Offshore WIND spoke with the company’s director for the Netherlands, Kees van de Kerk, who pointed out that only the company in Norway is affected by this and that Seawind is now working on resolving the situation to enable moving forward with the demonstration project. 

  • GIG Launches 1.4GW Offshore Wind Project in South Korea

    10 June 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) has completed the installation of South Korea’s first floating LiDAR, marking the launch of the 1.4GW Ulsan offshore wind project. Located about 60 kilometers east of Seosang-myon, Ulju-gun, Ulsan City, the Ulsan project is being progressed in three separate phases. Development of the first 400MW phase is targeted for completion […]

  • North Star Takes Delivery of Second SOV for Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm

    6 July 2023
    Vessels

    Vard has delivered the Grampian Derwent service operation vessel (SOV) to North Star, the second of four SOVs designed and being built by Vard that have been chartered to support operations and maintenance (O&M) work at the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank offshore wind farm in the UK. The delivery of Grampian Derwent comes shortly after […]

  • Sweden: Vattenfall’s Q1 Profit Up 92 pct

    3 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall announced the results for the first quarter 2012. ”During the quarter we successfully concluded our divestment programme of our noncore assets. In January we received a combined total of SEK 21 billion for the sale of operations in Belgium, Finland and Poland. We have thereby been able to reduce the Group’s net debt by […]

  • Germany: Schleswig-Holstein Strengthens Partnership with South Korea

    2 October 2012

    Schleswig-Holstein’s economics (trade and industry) minister Reinhard Meyer sees good opportunities for cooperation with South Korean enterprises in the wind sector, and wishes to promote business exchange with the country. During his visit to the HUSUM WindEnergy trade fair he issued an invitation to South Korean exhibitors. “As far as off-shore wind power is concerned, […]

  • US Wind Starts Export Cable Route Survey off Maryland

    29 August 2016
    Grid Connection, R&D, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    US Wind, Inc., has announced the start of an export cable route survey to prepare the final layout design for an 80,000 acre wind power project off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland. US Wind contracted with Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc. and their vessel R/V Shearwater to conduct data collection along the 35-mile cable […]

  • Seaway7 Completes EPCI Cables Scope on Scotland’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    11 July 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Seaway7 has completed the full engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) cables scope on the Seagreen wind farm offshore Scotland, a joint venture project between SSE Renewables and TotalEnergies. The inter-array cable team completed the termination and testing last weekend and the trenching was completed yesterday, said Seaway7. This follows less than six weeks after […]

  • Bladt Industries Begins Expansion Work of Danish Manufacturing Facility

    18 September 2023
    Ports & Logistics

    Bladt Industries has started work on its new manufacturing facility in Denmark to cater offshore wind substation projects in the pipeline. The Danish company said that major excavation work is underway at its site in Aalborg, Denmark. Together with the Port of Aalborg, Bladt Industries is piloting the foundations that will eventually lay the foundation […]

  • SgurrEnergy Bags Construction Monitoring Contract for Borkum West II Offshore Wind Farm (Germany)

    9 June 2011
    Business & Finance

    SgurrEnergy announces the enhancement of the company’s strong working relationships with KfW IPEX-Bank, UniCredit Bank and other leading European project and export finance banks, by winning a new construction monitoring contract for Germany’s first project financed offshore wind farm, Borkum West II Offshore Wind Farm, a development by Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum GmbH. This latest appointment […]

  • Ming Yang’s Signed Orderbook Hits 3.3GW

    21 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited (Ming Yang), a leading wind turbine manufacturer in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014. “We have signed new orders of 671.5MW during the quarter, and our signed orderbook continues to grow strongly and has now reached a historic high […]

  • Dudgeon Nets GBP 1.3 Billion Project Financing

    13 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The developers of the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm have arranged a GBP 1.3 billion long-term financing for the project with a consortium of international banks and financial institutions on May 12, having reached financial close in six months. The limited recourse financing will fund the capital requirements of the wind farm, currently under construction 32 […]

  • EIB Grants EUR 1.2 Billion Loan to RWE for 1 GW Danish Offshore Wind Farm

    25 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) has committed to providing a EUR 1.2 billion loan to support RWE’s development of the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark. According to EIB, the loan will help finance monopile foundations, turbines, inter-array cabling, an offshore converter station, export cables, a section of onshore cables, and an onshore […]

  • Vattenfall Shines More Light on Hollandse Kust Zuid 1 & 2 Win

    3 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The industry has been waiting for Vattenfall to give out more information on its Hollandse Kust Zuid 1 & 2 zero-subsidy bid after the company won the Dutch tender in March, especially since Ørsted – world’s leading offshore wind developer and one of the first to have unsubsidised projects in the pipeline – decided to pass on bidding to build the offshore wind farm. 

  • SCALDIS SMC: Lifting at a higher level

    27 October 2015

    Based in Antwerp, Scaldis Salvage & Marine Contractors has just celebrated its 20th anniversary as an offshore marine contractor, specialising in transportation and installation works, civil constructions and salvage jobs. Since entering the offshore renewable market in 2007, there has been no looking back for Scaldis. The company has played a role in nearly all […]

  • BREAKING: Norway to Open New Offshore Wind Lease Areas

    8 June 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Norway will open up new areas for the development of offshore wind projects, the country’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tina Bru said. The move is a response to the demands from the local industry which last year recorded an NOK 11 billion (around EUR 1.1 billion) international turnover in goods and services related to […]

  • RWE Recruits New Applicants for Its Wales Wind Farm Apprenticeship Scheme

    2 July 2013
    Training & Education

    RWE npower renewables (RWE NRL) is expanding its highly popular Wales wind farm apprenticeship programme with a second round of recruitment for new candidates. The Apprentice Scheme, first launched by RWE NRL in partnership with Grwp Llandrillo Menai, is the first of its kind in Wales and was fully supported at the official opening in […]

  • Turbine Installation Progressing at Sandbank

    18 August 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    The 10th turbine has been installed at Vattenfall’s Sandbank offshore wind farm, the company informed via its social media pages.  The first of 72 Siemens 4MW wind turbines at the 288MW offshore wind farm was installed at the end of July. The erection of the towers on the foundations and the installation of the nacelles and rotor blades […]

  • German Renewables Shipbrokers Goes Global

    3 June 2015

    Four years after founding GRS German Renewables Shipbrokers, the German specialist shipbroker is giving itself a new name. “Adopting a global mind-set to the way we operate is what our business does each day. So it was logical that we wanted the company’s name to reflect this aspect”, explains Philippe Schönefeld, GRS managing partner. “From […]

  • Hornsea One CTV Gets Her Name

    20 February 2019
    Vessels

    Danish company MH-O&C has held a naming ceremony for the crew transfer vessel (CTV) MHO Gurli. The 39m long Fast Supply Cat vessel was ordered by Ørsted for the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the UK and is expected to enter service shortly. MHO Gurli has a 10.3m beam, a max draft of […]

  • Alewijnse Signs Long-Term Agreement with Van Oord

    9 September 2015
    Vessels

    Alewijnse Marine Systems and international dredging and marine contractor Van Oord have signed a long-term service level agreement covering the Van Oord cable-laying vessels Nexus and HAM601. The contract was started on 1 September 2015 and will run for three years. The partnership involves the management of the onboard electrical systems, whereby Alewijnse Marine Rotterdam […]

  • Blue Water Discusses Logistics at AWEA Event

    27 October 2015

    Blue Water has recently participated in a panel discussion at a pre-event to the AWEA conference and exhibition (American Wind Energy Association) and also participated at AWEA. The company was invited due to its experience in offshore wind, especially in Europe. “This was a good chance for us to talk to other players within the industry and discuss optimization […]

  • SRC to Exhibit at RenewableUK Health and Safety Conference

    23 January 2013

    Steel River Consultants (SRC) has taken exhibition space at the RenewableUK Health and Safety Conference 2013. This is the first time that SRC has exhibited at the conference and the team is looking forward to showcasing their HAZID/HAZOP software and fire risk assessment capabilities. Steel River offers a fresh approach to a wide range of […]