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  • Germany: Voith Gets First VLJ Order

    28 February 2012

    Voith has received the first Voith Linear Jet order with Turbine Transfers UK for a 19 meter BMT Nigel Gee designed Wind Support Vessel. The Voith Linear Jet will provide for this application a substantial higher bollard pull without a requirement for increased installed power. This higher bollard pull will allow Turbine Transfers the safe […]

  • Njord Offshore Gets Strategic’s ‘Triple First’

    30 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Strategic Marine has delivered StratCat, a multi-purpose service vessel to Njord Offshore, a European wind farm service sector operator. The StratCat, capable of transporting up to 24 crew, is first in its class in three particulars. “We are very pleased to have a supplied a ‘triple first’ to our client,” explains Reece Newbold, Group Business Development Manager […]

  • First Subsea to Shield Formosa 2 Cables

    17 August 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    First Subsea has secured a contract by Jan De Nul to provide the cable protection system for the export and inter-array cables at the Formosa 2 offshore wind project in Taiwan. The order represents First Subsea’s second cable protection system award in Taiwan and follows last year’s cooperation with Jan De Nul at the Formosa 1 […]

  • First Veja Mate Monopiles Reach Eemshaven

    14 March 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The first three super-sized monopiles built for the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm arrived at the Dutch Eemshaven seaport on 10 March, with the remaining 64 giants soon to follow, Eemshavenonline.nl reports The monopiles were constructed in Rostock, Germany, by EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH. Weighing 1,302.5 tons each, they are the world’s heaviest monopiles ever built. The […]

  • First Flight Wind Delays Geophysical Survey

    11 April 2014
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    First Flight Wind Ltd has announced that a geophysical survey off the south east coast of County Down, which was due to start later this month, is being delayed to later in 2014 or early 2015. “In the areas we were intending to survey we had agreed disturbance payments with fishermen for them to remove […]

  • Allianz Makes First Offshore Wind Investment

    6 December 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Allianz Capital Partners, on behalf of Allianz Insurance Companies, has signed an agreement to purchase a 25.2 per cent stake in the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm offshore the Netherlands from the chemicals producer BASF. This is the first offshore wind and first equity renewables investment of Allianz in the Netherlands, the global […]

  • The Netherlands: Veka Launches First Multipurpose Catamaran

    28 November 2012

    Last week the first ‘Animal’ Multipurpose Catamaran was launched, the first ship in a series of high speed crafts. With this highly innovative support vessel for the offshore industry, VEKA Group has developed a very powerful workboat, specialized in transporting technical personnel and working material to and from wind farms. Every ship of this new […]

  • First Blade Installed on Haliade-X 12MW

    14 October 2019
    Technology

    The first blade has been installed on the prototype GE Haliade-X 12MW offshore wind turbine in Maasvlakte, according to the live webcam feed at the Port of Rotterdam. LM Wind Power is producing the 107m blades, the world’s largest, at its plant in Cherbourgh, France. The first piece was rolled out in June. To remind, GE Renewable Energy announced in March last year that […]

  • Bernhard Schulte Names First Siemens SOV

    1 July 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Bernhard Schulte Offshore has held a naming ceremony for the first wind farm service vessel built by Ulstein Verft and chartered out to Siemens in Hamburg. The vessel’s godmother Sophie Schulte named the vessel WINDEA LA COUR, a tribute to Poul la Cour, Danish meteorologist and wind turbine innovator. Starting from summer the vessel will work at the 600MW […]

  • SCORE Programme to Announce First Grant Awards

    7 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    OrbisEnergy will soon announce the first awardees of the GBP 6 million SCORE fund, launched by OrbisEnergy in July, dedicated to companies developing innovations for offshore renewables. Johnathan Reynolds, of Nautilus Associates, said: “We have had far more early applications in this programme than the previous one. The first grant panels have met and we are about to […]

  • Smulders Puts Together First Beatrice Jacket

    24 May 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Smulders has put the first upper jacket for the Beatrice offshore wind farm’s foundation on top of the first lower jacket, thus completing the first foundation for the 588MW project.

  • Borkum Riffgrund 1 Produces First Power

    17 February 2015
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Electricity has been generated and fed into the German grid for the first time from the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 1. Trine Borum Bojsen, Managing Director of DONG Energy in Germany and responsible for Wind Power, said: “Borkum Riffgrund 1 is our first German wind farm and we’re more than happy, that we’ve started to […]

  • First Hornsea One Transition Piece Stands

    2 March 2018
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Installer has installed the first of the 174 transition pieces on Ørsted’s 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm.

  • World’s First Floating Wind Farm Outdelivers

    15 February 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The 30MW Hywind Scotland, the world’s first commercial-scale floating wind farm, performed better than expected in its first three full months in production, Statoil, the operator of the wind farm said.

  • VBMS Pulls In First EOWDC Export Cable

    2 February 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    VBMS has pulled ashore the first export cable for Vattenfall’s 92.4MW European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) located in the Aberdeen Bay, Scotland.

  • Ulstein Welcomes First X-STERN Hull

    4 January 2016
    Vessels

    The hull of the first X-STERN® vessel arrived at Ulstein Verft on 3 January, 2016. The vessel is one of the two X-STERN® Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) currently being constructed for Bernhard Schulte Offshore in Germany. The hull has been produced at the Crist yard in Poland, and will be completed at Ulstein Verft in Norway, with […]

  • Borssele III & IV Produces First Power

    7 August 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The Borssele III & IV offshore wind farm produced first power early in the morning on 7 August, the Blauwwind consortium informs. “This marks a key milestone in the construction of the project as the first turbine is now generating power and delivering renewable electricity into the Dutch grid”, the developer said. The first of […]

  • East Anglia ONE Generates First Power

    12 September 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    The 714MW East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm, a joint venture between ScottishPower Renewables and Green Investment Group, has generated its first power offshore Suffolk, UK. The first of the 102 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines to begin generating power and delivering it to the onshore substation at Burstall, near Bramford, is known as WTG E19, […]

  • First TWBII Turbine Parts Embark on Taillevent

    24 July 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul’s offshore installation vessel Taillevent has begun loading the first turbine components for the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) offshore wind farm. The 200MW TWBII offshore wind farm will comprise 32 Senvion 6.2M152 turbines installed at the project site some 40km north of the island of Borkum in Germany. Taillevent loaded the first three towers, blades […]

  • NORCOWE Installs First Equipment at FINO 1

    25 May 2015
    R&D, Technology

    Scientists from CMR have successfully completed the first installation phase for the measurement campaign at the FINO1 research platform. The campaign is carried out by CMR and UIB in close cooperation with the other NORCOWE partners, FuE-Zentrum FH Kiel, Fraunhofer IWES, RAVE and ForWind. Two Windcube 100s scanning wind lidars from LeoSphere and a RPG HATPRO […]

  • Nexans Installs First Four NordLink Cables

    26 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Nexans has completed the installation of the first four cables of the NordLink high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea interconnector between Norway and Germany.

  • First Power Flows from Windpark Fryslân

    12 April 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The first wind turbine at Windpark Fryslân has begun producing electricity, according to a project update published on social media on 12 April. The first of the total of 89 Siemens Gamesa 4.3 MW wind turbines was installed at the project site at the end of the last month. Located in the IJsselmeer Lake in […]

  • First Hywind Scotland Foundation Taking Shape

    18 March 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    The Navantia-Windar joint venture has erected the first block for the first of five spar-type floating foundations for Statoil’s Hywind Scotland project.  The block weighs approximately 70t, and has a diameter of 14.4m. Five blocks with maximum weight of 800t will be assembled and moved onto the slipways for assembly of 90m long spar units and […]

  • Forewind Releases First Annual Review (UK)

    6 July 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

      Forewind, developer of the Dogger Bank Zone, has published its first annual review, covering the consortium’s initial 18 months of activity since being awarded the offshore wind development rights for largest of the Round 3 zones by The Crown Estate. The publication aims to summarise Forewind’s progress towards achieving its development objectives and marks […]

  • First WindFloat Atlantic Turbine Sets Sail

    21 October 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    The first WindFloat Atlantic platform with the turbine fully installed has set off from the Spanish Port of Ferrol towards its final destination 20 kilometres off the coast of Viana do Castelo in Portugal. Once at the final location, the three floating structures –stretching 30 metres in height and with a distance between each one […]

  • Portugal: ABS Certifies First WindFloat Facility

    15 August 2012

    ABS, the leading provider of classification services to the global offshore industry, has provided certification services for the design, fabrication and installation for the first WindFloat facility. The WindFloat Aguçadoura unit is a 2 MW floating wind turbine moored in slightly less than 50 m water depth 4 km offshore the northern Portuguese coast. The […]