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  • IBERDROLA Chairman Receives Commander of the Order of the British Empire Award

    21 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    IBERDROLA chairman, Ignacio Galán, has been invested by the British Ambassador in Spain, Simon Manley, as Commander of the Order of the British Empire. This honorary award, bestowed by HM Queen Elizabeth II on recommendation of the British Government, recognises the important role played by Galán in the development of the UK’s energy industry and strengthening […]

  • UK: Scarborough Enters into Offshore Wind Industry

    13 September 2013

    The first offshore wind support vessel ever to be based in Scarborough harbour took up its berth at the weekend. The vessel’s arrival marks the start of what Yorkshire’s business community predict will be a brand new industry for the coastal area, which in the longer term is set to bring a wealth of benefits […]

  • USA: Cape Wind Signs $15 Million Contract with Lawrence-Lynch Corp

    1 July 2013
    Grid Connection

    Cape Wind has signed a $15 Million contract with Falmouth-based Lawrence-Lynch Corp. to provide the upland construction work required to bury Cape Wind’s electric cables. Lawrence-Lynch Corp. will also be responsible for providing a conduit for connecting the buried electric cables on land to the submerged ocean submarine cables by using a ‘directional drill’ from […]

  • Germany: Sietas Undocks Jack-Up Vessel for Offshore Wind Farms

    2 April 2013

    The hull is complete, the steelwork concluded, the building of the deckhouse has begun – in the dock of Sietas shipyard the first jack-up vessel for offshore wind farms developed and constructed in Germany is currently taking shape. Construction started in April 2012; the handover of the ship to the client, the renowned Dutch marine […]

  • UPDATED: Ørsted Investigating Cable Routes, Landfall Sites for Skipjack Export Line

    24 February 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    [This article was first published at 16:26 on 22 February and was updated on 14:26 on 24 February.] Ørsted will start surveying potential landfall locations in Delaware for the Skipjack Wind 1 export cable this month, when work will begin on studying the seafloor and coastal terrain at three locations near Bethany Beach. The commencement […]

  • PowerX Raises EUR 31 Million to Develop Power Base

    23 May 2022
    Business & Finance, R&D, Vessels

    Tokyo-based PowerX, Inc. has raised approximately JPY 4.15 billion (around EUR 31 million) in the first half of Series A funding to finance the establishment of the battery assembly facility “Power Base” and energy storage solutions (ESS) R&D efforts. The financing round was co-led by Spiral Capital and Nippon Gas and joined by investors including […]

  • Vestas Making Room for Serial Production of 15 MW Wind Turbines

    31 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics, R&D, Technology

    Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas will begin serial production of V236-15.0 MW nacelles from 2024 at its offshore nacelle factory at Lindø Port of Odense in Denmark. Before V236-15.0 MW serial production starts, Vestas will modify and expand the Lindø facility to accommodate the larger components. The Lindø factory currently produces nacelles for V164-10 MW […]

  • Breaking: Polish Parliament Passes Offshore Wind Act

    13 January 2021
    Authorities

    Poland’s Senate has unanimously passed the Offshore Act regulating the development of offshore wind farms in the Polish Baltic Sea. The bill has now cleared both chambers of the Polish Parliament, the Sejm and the Senate, marking the end of the legislative process in this institution. The bill is expected to be signed into law […]

  • BOW Terminal to Serve as Transit Yard for Noirmoutier Transition Pieces

    7 May 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Ports & Logistics, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Smulders has partnered with the Netherlands’ BOW Terminal to serve as the temporary storage yard for the 61 transition pieces (TPs) for the Iles D’Yeu et Noirmoutier offshore wind farm in France. The first TPs have already been unloaded at the terminal in Vlissingen on 19 February. Smulders manufactures the units in Hoboken, Belgium, under […]

  • Ørsted Selects Rovco for O&M Work on US Offshore Wind Farms

    23 April 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain

    Rovco has signed a framework agreement with Ørsted to provide Operations and Maintenance (O&M) work on two of the developer’s US sites, Block Island Wind Farm and South Fork Wind Farm. Block Island Wind Farm, Rhode Island, was the first offshore wind farm in the United States and generates 30 MW of renewable energy. The […]

  • DEME Offshore Bags Hollandse Kust Zuid Rock Installation Contract

    21 September 2023
    Cables, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain

    Vattenfall has contracted DEME Offshore to carry out rock berm installation works at Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm site in the Netherlands. According to Vattenfall, rock installation works will take place between the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2025. “Based on lessons learned in the offshore wind industry, Vattenfall are […]

  • Vestas Pens Conditional Agreement for 1.2 GW Polish Offshore Wind Project

    11 August 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Denmark-headquartered Vestas has signed a conditional agreement with PKN Orlen and Northland Power to deliver wind turbines for the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland. If and when the agreement translates into a firm and unconditional order, Vestas will disclose this in a company announcement in accordance with the company’s disclosure policy, […]

  • Philippines to Streamline Offshore Wind and Floating Solar Guidelines

    3 August 2023
    Business & Finance, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has started working with the country’s Department of Energy (DOE) on updating the offshore wind and floating solar guidelines so they would become components of next year’s National Expenditure Program (NEP). According to the environment secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga, DENR is working “very closely” with the DOE […]

  • Cyan, CMHI Sign Wind Turbine Installation Vessel Deal

    31 July 2023
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Cyan Renewables, a Singapore-headquartered offshore wind vessel owner established last year by investment management company Seraya Partners, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China Merchant Heavy Industry (CMHI) with the goal of manufacturing a wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV). Cyan Renewables said that this brings them a step closer to their ambition of […]

  • Goldwind’s New Offshore Wind Turbine Smashes Rotor Diameter Record

    18 October 2022
    Technology

    Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Goldwind and China Three Gorges (CTG) Corporation held a ceremony in the Fujian offshore wind industrial park on 13 October as Goldwind rolled out the nacelle for its first 13.6 MW turbine that will have a rotor diameter of 252 metres.  While Vestas’s and Siemens Gamesa’s currently largest offshore wind turbines […]

  • Vestas and N-O-S to Test Methanol-Powered CTV Offshore Germany

    21 December 2022
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Vessels

    Vestas has signed a five-year charter with Northern Offshore Services (N-O-S) to explore how the world’s first methanol-powered crew transfer vessel (CTV) can help reduce carbon emissions from its offshore service operations. The CTV, provided and developed by N-O-S, will be powered by a dual-fuel solution, capable of being powered by methanol, but also able […]

  • Worley Joins 1.5 GW Wind Project Offshore Australia

    26 July 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Flotation Energy has awarded Worley with a framework agreement to provide pre-feasibility study services for the 1.5 GW Seadragon wind project off the coast of Gippsland, Australia. The project sets out to be one of Australia’s first offshore wind sites. It will produce enough clean energy to power some one million homes and businesses across […]

  • Mingyang Starts Trading on London Stock Exchange

    14 July 2022
    Business & Finance

    At 8:00 GMT on 13 July, Mingyang Smart Energy started trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The company was admitted to trading on the Shanghai segment of the LSE through an offering of the Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs), with the proceeds from the offering to be used to expand Mingyang’s overseas business and to […]

  • Offshore Wind Sparks Life into Former German Naval Harbour

    6 September 2018
    Business & Finance

    Borkum Hafen Immobilien GmbH, a member of the wpd Group, is developing a novel residential concept on the island of Borkum in Germany designed to meet the needs of service workers of offshore wind farms.

  • NIRAS Makes Taiwan Stay Permanent

    1 May 2017
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Denmark-headquartered consultancy Niras has opened a permanent office in Taiwan in an effort to facilitate access to this country’s developing offshore wind market.

  • South Boats CTVs to Be Built in Maryland

    6 June 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Rhode Island-based Blount Boats, Inc. has signed a sub-license agreement with Marine Applied Physics Corp. (MAPC) of Baltimore, Maryland, for the building of South Boats crew transfer vessel designs.

  • New England Offshore Wind Receives Mass Support

    31 October 2017
    R&D

    Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) have conducted a study showing that the large majority of the participants support offshore wind off the New England coast.

  • Triton Knoll Opts For MHI Vestas 9.5MW Offshore Wind Turbines

    18 September 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Triton Knoll has selected MHI Vestas Offshore Wind as its preferred turbine supplier and its plans to use 90 of its 9.5 MW turbines to generate power on the 860MW wind farm off Lincolnshire, England.

  • VIDEO: Investment and Future Prognosis (Expertise Hub)

    22 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    It has been projected that global offshore wind expenditure will reach GBP 210 billion (approx. EUR 247 billion) by 2025. Investments in the offshore wind sector depend on the certainty within the market, and this is subject to favourable governmental policies and the industry’s ability to cut down the costs, which create a solid ground […]

  • DNV GL Okays DanTysk Offshore Accommodation Platform

    8 November 2016
    Authorities, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    DNV GL has awarded Vattenfall with a final statement of compliance for its DanTysk offshore accommodation platform recently installed in the North Sea. This is the first offshore platform in the North Sea to host up to 50 operation and maintenance staff members working at the 288MW DanTysk offshore wind farm. As the offshore wind […]

  • Kite Power Systems Lands in Glasgow, Starts Recruitment Drive

    20 February 2017
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Kite Power Systems (KPS) has opened its head office in Glasgow, Scotland, and is on the lookout for additional workforce, mainly engineers.