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  • Photo of the Day: Smulders Lines Up Scottish Projects’ Jackets in Newcastle

    13 November 2017

    Smulders has published a photo of its Newscastle site at night, housing jacket foundations for the Beatrice and Aberdeen Bay offshore wind farms that find their mirror in the Tyne river.

  • Stowen Returns to Sheringham Shoal

    17 September 2019
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Great Yarmouth-based Stowen has won a contract to deliver a complete cathodic protection system to Equinor’s two Sheringham Shoal offshore subtations. The work will take place in the fourth quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020. The installation of the system will ensure the life expectancy of the assets whilst providing a way […]

  • Fugro Starts French Offshore Wind Survey Campaign

    11 May 2018
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Fugro has started a geotechnical survey campaign on the 480MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France.

  • SeaZip Fix Departs for Horns Rev 1

    17 May 2018
    Vessels

    DP1 Ice Class Survey and ROV vessel SeaZip Fix is currently on its way to the Horns Rev 1 offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea.

  • Fugro Wins Another Hollandse Kust Zuid Job

    15 June 2016
    R&D

    The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, has awarded Fugro with a contract for geotechnical site investigation at the Hollandse Kust Zuid (South) Wind Farm Zone. This follows previous contracts awarded earlier this year for geophysical survey and metocean monitoring at the same site. The work will take place over a period […]

  • Ideol Secures EUR 3 Million to Advance Its Floating Foundation

    31 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    Ideol has raised more than EUR 3 million in the latest fundraising round, including capital from Tertium investment fund. The newly secured finances will be used to speed up the development of Ideol’s floating wind foundation. Ideol’s floating foundation can be constructed in concrete or steel. It is designed to be compatible with existing commercial offshore wind turbines without […]

  • Tocardo Installs Three Turbines in Afsluitdijk

    20 February 2015
    Technology

    Tocardo Tidal Turbines has installed three of its T1 tidal turbines in the Dutch ‘Afsluitdijk’, a 32 km long primary sea defence. Managed by Dutch Tidal Testing Centre, the three turbines are the first to be installed closely together in an array. “The turbines will give us vital data and experience in turbine arrays. We […]

  • Peter Brett Associates Appoints OW Expert as Director of Energy

    4 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    Gavin Clark has joined Peter Brett Associates LLP, a development and infrastructure consultancy, as its new Director of Energy. Based in Reading, Clark will join the company’s teams working on major infrastructure projects. Clark is an experienced project manager and project developer with many years of experience in the renewable energy sector, particularly in offshore and onshore wind. He […]

  • Blue Water Discusses Port Readiness for Marine Energy in France

    13 October 2015

    Blue Water France was invited to participate in a panel discussion at MRE (Marine Renewable Energy) conference in Le Havre. The topic of discussion was: Are the port and logistics operators ready? Blue Water gave input on the challenges ahead and complimented the ports for the investments already made. It is the first time that […]

  • VOS Sugar Sweetens Vroon’s Wind Farm Support Fleet

    8 February 2016
    Vessels

    Vroon has taken delivery of a DP2, SPS-coded, 68-metre subsea-support vessel (SSV) VOS Sugar, expected to provide advanced, efficient and versatile options in offshore sub-segments such as wind farm support, walk-to-work and IRM operations. The vessel was handed over to the company in a short ceremony held on Tuesday, 2 February 2016, at Fujian Southeast Shipbuilding in China. VOS […]

  • AXYS to Exhibit at AWEA WINDPOWER in Chicago, USA

    24 April 2013

    The AXYS Team announced that they will be exhibiting at AWEA WINDPOWER 2013 in Chicago May 5-8 at Booth 4049. This annual AWEA event provides an exciting opportunity for the AXYS team to demonstrate the WindSentinel, the world’s first commercially deployed floating LiDAR wind resource assessment system. The Michigan Alternative & Renewable Energy Center (MAREC) […]

  • UK: Teesside Wind Farm Foundation Installation Halfway Done

    20 April 2012

    According to the Gazette Live, foundation installation work at Teesside wind farm, located 1.5 km off the Redcar coast, is over halfway done. EDF Energy Renewables has installed 16 of the 27 monopile foundations at the site. Construction works at the wind farm commenced in February. The first turbines are likely to be fitted in […]

  • DONG Selects Palfinger Cranes for Borkum Riffgrund 2

    8 February 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Palfinger Marine has won a contract to supply davit cranes for DONG Energy’s 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea. Palfinger Marine will supply a total of 56 davit cranes which will be installed on the platform of each wind turbine at the site. The offshore wind […]

  • UK: Tidal Transit Secures Another Scira Contract

    5 November 2013

     Tidal Transit has won a long-term contract for its Ginny Louise, the first of a potential fleet of ten crew transfer vessels. This is a second 18-month contract awarded by Scira Offshore Energy to Tidal Transit. The Ginny Louise will be working alongside her sister vessel Tia Elizabeth servicing the operation and maintenance needs of […]

  • UK: Petrofac Appoints Director for Renewables

    6 April 2012

    Oilfield service company Petrofac passed a decision on appointing director of Offshore Projects & Operations (OPO) business by naming Jonathan Duffy to the office, reNews informs. “Jonathan joins us at an exciting time as we are working on our first offshore wind maintenance contract in Germany. We look forward to working with him to further […]

  • France: Piriou Enters Offshore Wind Market

    15 April 2013

    Thanks to experience gained in the building of 100 aluminium crew boats ranging in length from 18 to 53 metres delivered in the last 25 years to the offshore oil and gas sector, Piriou is now moving into the offshore wind farm support ship market. So as to respond rapidly to the growing needs of […]

  • Taiwan Plans to Auction Off 5 GW of Offshore Wind by 2023

    26 June 2020
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs plans to hold three offshore wind auctions for a combined capacity of 5 GW by 2023. The ministry expects to hold what would be Taiwan’s third auction round in the second quarter of 2021, offering 1 GW capacity in the process. The country’s fourth and fifth auction rounds will be […]

  • WIND Comes to Taiwan

    5 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    The Netherlands-based cable logistics company WIND has officially established a branch office in Taiwan. WIND’s cable crew mobilized all the handling equipment and is ready to start the first renewable storage project next week, the company said. “We are proud that our clients requested us to extend our services with a storage facility in Asia because […]

  • Germany: Tekmar to Exhibit at EWEA Offshore 2013

    10 May 2013

    Tekmar are exhibiting at the European Wind Energy Association bi-annual conference in Frankfurt, Germany in November 2013. The world’s largest offshore wind energy conference and exhibition presents an international platform for the offshore wind industry to showcase and demonstrate their latest products and services. Tekmar will be located on Stand 31A130 opposite EWE Offshore Service […]

  • Planning Hearings for Navitus Bay Kick Off

    14 October 2014
    Authorities

    The UK Planning Inspectorate is holding the first open floor hearing for the Navitus Bay offshore wind farm in Bournemouth. In six open floor sessions, 84 speakers will comment on the offshore wind proposal and after each session the applicant will have an opportunity to respond. Due to the high level of interest, each interested party that has […]

  • ‘Champions for Wind’ to Boost Careers in Offshore Wind Industry (UK)

    15 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Developers of the world’s largest offshore wind farm want to raise awareness of the potential career opportunities in offshore wind energy industry. ‘Champions for Wind’ is the name of careers education engagement programme. The initial phase will identify 10 secondary and special school teacher “champions” in the Yorkshire area, near Forewind’s first development, Dogger Bank […]

  • UK: David Still CBE Joins RTS International as Advisor to Board of Directors

    24 May 2012

     RTS International (RTS) announced that David Still CBE has become an advisor to the Board of Directors. David Still, CBE, has worked in the renewables industry since the early 1980’s. He has worked as a wind developer, including leading on the UK’s first offshore wind farm. He was the Chairman of the British Wind Energy […]

  • Denmark: ITW Wind Group Has Great Expectations

    24 July 2012

    The offshore wind industry could name 100 small and large firms from North Jutland which are essential to the development of the renewable energy, reports Nordjyske news portal. Among them is the ITW Wind Group, company based in Aalborg, which produces high-strength concrete, an important component in the large wind turbine foundations. European sales manager […]

  • Japan: Naruto Strait Holds 4GW of Tidal Power

    19 May 2014
    Authorities, R&D

    The Naruto Strait, situated between Japanese islands of Shikoku and Awaji, has a tidal energy capacity that could replace four nuclear reactors. The tidal energy potential of the Naruto Strait has been discovered by the University of Tokushima, which conducted the research on behalf of the Tokushima Prefecture, the Japan Times writes. The university has […]

  • Vissim to Deliver Marine Management Kit for Japanese Offshore Wind Project

    17 June 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    Vissim AS has secured a contract to provide the marine communication and management system for the Akita Noshiro offshore wind project in Japan. Vissim will deliver the licensing, radar, AIS, radio communication systems, as well as integrated marine management software. “Vissim has experience of delivering systems across the world, and we are excited to build […]

  • Baltship’s Involvement in EWEA 2011 Exhibition a True Winner (Belgium)

    28 March 2011
    Business & Finance

    With over 9,000 international visitors and over 400 exhibitors EWEA annual event 2011 was the largest wind power show ever held in Europe, which translated into many new quality contacts and projects for BaltShip A/S. As usual BaltShip joint the Danish pavilion not only to network but also to welcome former Danish Minister Eva Kjer […]