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  • ProCon Working on Saint-Nazaire Transition Pieces

    12 October 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    ProCon Wind Energy has won a contract to provide the electrical outfitting of the transition pieces for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. Under the deal with Eiffage Métal, ProCon is providing the installation and commissioning of the electrical scope for the transition pieces. The company already began the work and is expected to complete […]

  • 42 Nobelwind Turbines Installed, 8 to Go

    15 March 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    42 out of 50 MHI Vestas V112-3.3MW turbines have been installed at the 165MW Nobelwind offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea, Parkwind, the developer and part owner of the wind farm, reports.

  • V164-8.0 MW Scoops Best Offshore Wind Turbine Award

    6 January 2015
    Technology

    MHI Vestas Offshore Wind’s flagship wind turbine, the V164-8.0 MW has won the gold medal for the best offshore machine in the Windpower Monthly Turbines of the year competition. Windpower Monthly technology editor Eize de Vries wrote that the V164-8.0 MW “combines a clever mix of state-of-the-art and innovative solutions in a largely evolutionary design […]

  • Fluidmecanica and Sagres S.L to Get Energy from Tidal Currents (Spain)

    16 September 2011

      Fluidmecanica I+D+i team, in cooperation with Sagres, S.L, is involved in the design and implementation, of the hydraulic drive, to get energy from tidal currents.  “The Magallanes Project started in 2007 with the challenge of developing a technology able to extract power from tidal currents and it has become, with the years, a reality […]

  • Statoil Eyes Floating Wind Opportunities off U.S. and Japan

    7 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has identified Japan the U.S. states of California and Hawaii as prime markets for the development of floating wind farms, Irene Rummelhoff, the Norwegian energy company’s head of New Energy Solutions told Reuters.

  • Block Island Wind Farm to Go Online with 4 Turbines

    6 December 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Block Island Wind Farm, America’s first offshore wind farm, has finished the testing phase and will be officially put into operation this month. However, this will be done with four out of the total five turbines running, as turbine number 2 has broken down. The turbine failure was discovered during a test run in early […]

  • Last Batch of Bladt’s Jackets on Its Way to Wikinger Site

    22 November 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    The last jacket foundations manufactured by Bladt Industries for the Wikinger offshore wind farm are now on their way to the offshore wind farm site in the German sector of the Baltic Sea, following a load-out last Thursday.  The four-legged jackets weigh approximately 650 tonnes and have a footprint of 23 x 23 metres each. They will […]

  • Danish Companies Team Up for U.S. Offshore Wind

    24 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Bladt Industries, ISC Consulting Engineers, Semco Maritime and LICengineering are joining forces with The Trade Council of Denmark’s Wind Energy Advisory to provide an integrated platform for partnerships with American companies and offshore wind developers.

  • Galloper OSS Jacket Leaves HFG Fabrication Hall

    15 February 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The jacket foundation for the Galloper offshore substation has been loaded out from Heerema Fabrication Group’s (HFG) hall in Hartlepool, according to innogy’s social media pages.

  • EWE Trading to Market Merkur’s Power

    7 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Merkur Offshore GmbH has awarded EWE Trading, part of the Oldenburg-based energy provider EWE, with a contract to market the electricity produced by the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea. The contract was signed during the WindEnergy Hamburg 2016 exhibition. Merkur Offshore GmbH reached a Final Investment Decision […]

  • UK’s Tidal Lagoons to Have Cheaper Power than Offshore Wind

    21 March 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    An economic study into the cost profile of power from tidal lagoons has found that a portfolio of three UK tidal lagoons, in operation by 2021, would deliver large-scale low carbon power at a significantly cheaper price than offshore wind. The study, conducted by energy economists at Pӧyry, a management consultancy, identifies a volume-weighted levelised […]

  • Three 21m Austal WFSVs Head to UK

    18 May 2012

    Three recently completed 21 metre Austal wind farm support vessels are heading to Europe, where they will shortly commence operations for UK operator Turbine Transfers. The Wind Express 21 catamarans will be used to transport service crews and equipment to the many offshore wind farms that are located off the coastlines of several European countries. […]

  • All-Energy 2013: Post-Show Facts and Figures (UK)

    20 June 2013

    With two Ministers both making powerful and highly significant statements, All-Energy got off to a flying start when the thirteenth in the annual series was held 22 and 23 May at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre. Rt Hon Ed Davey MP, Secretary of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was able to announce […]

  • Flagship Siemens Gamesa Offshore Wind Turbine Sparks to Life

    23 March 2023
    Business development, Innovation, Research & Development, Technology

    The SG 14-236 DD prototype, Siemens Gamesa’s largest ever wind turbine, has produced its first power and delivered it to the grid. With 115-metre-long blades and a rotor diameter of 236 metres, the turbine’s capacity of up to 15 MW with Power Boost allows it to produce 30 per cent more energy than its predecessor, […]

  • WindFloat Atlantic Fully Up and Running

    27 July 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The 25 MW WindFloat Atlantic floating offshore wind farm is now fully operational and supplying electricity to Portugal’s electrical grid. The WindFloat Atlantic project features three MHI Vestas 8.4 MW turbines mounted on Principle Power’s semi-submersible floating foundations. Following the connection of the last of the three wind turbines to the 20-kilometre export cable connecting […]

  • HST Euan Feels the Water

    8 November 2019
    Vessels

    Damen Shipyards has floated out HST Euan, High Speed Transfers’ (HST) fourth FCS 2710 class fast crew supply vessel. To remind, HST placed the order with Damen for the fourth Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2710 this June. Shortly after, the company revealed it had signed a contract with MHI Vestas to provide HST Euan and HST Harri […]

  • 13 Deutsche Bucht Foundations In Place

    7 November 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    The 269MW Deutsche Bucht offshore wind project in the German North Sea is progressing on time and on budget, with 13 out of 33 foundations installed to date, Mike Crawley, President and CEO of Northland Power, said.

  • Profit Spikes at Vattenfall’s Wind Division

    30 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall’s Wind division posted an underlying operating profit of SEK 1.9 billion (EUR 182.5 million) in the first nine months of 2018, a 153% increase compared to SEK 752 million reported for the same period in 2017. The increase was largely attributed to additional capacity, as well as positive price and currency effects. Vattenfall’s latest capacity […]

  • EDS HV Studies Kincardine Grid Connection

    9 October 2019
    Grid Connection, R&D

    EDS HV Group has carried out studies on the grid connection system for the Kincardine floating offshore wind farm in Scotland. Under a contract with Cobra Group, the UK-based company was in charge of power system research which included load flow, short circuit, fault ride through, reactive compensation and operation/contingency studies. “Floating wind is becoming an increasing part of […]

  • Vattenfall on the Lookout for Boulder Clearance Crew

    18 September 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has invited companies to pre-qualify for boulder clearance work on the 605MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Danish Baltic Sea. The clearance of boulders would be carried out on the seabed at 72 wind turbine locations. The clearance is to be carried out with a vessel with a grab, and possibly by […]

  • PSA Marine Takes Stake in Njord Offshore

    12 September 2017
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    PSA Marine has acquired shareholding in Njord Offshore, which has been managing the crew transfer vessels of PSA Marine’s subsidiary Ventus Marine Limited since 2015.

  • ELA Invests in Production of 20 New Offshore Containers

    19 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    ELA Container Offshore GmbH has announced the production of 20 new Offshore Living Quarters and Multipurpose Rooms as of beginning of February. The company says that it wants to be able to always react to customers’ needs at short notice. Thereby, within just one year, the Offshore-Rental-Fleet increases to 370 units, 320 of which are […]

  • LaNaval Lays Keel for Living Stone

    5 January 2016
    Vessels

    Spain’s LaNaval Shipyard has laid the keel for an offshore multipurpose vessel ordered by the Dutch company Tideway, a subsidiary of DEME Group. The new vessel, named Living Stone, will be equipped with a fall-pipe and rock installation system, as well as cable/umbilical loading & installation facilities, including subsea construction capabilities. It will have dual fuel engines with a […]

  • Turbine Blade Breaks at Nordsee Ost

    26 June 2015

    Just over a month after it was inaugurated, German 295MW Nordsee Ost wind farm encountered a problem. RWE Innogy was forced to shut down the wind farm after one of Senvion 6.2M126 wind turbines suffered a blade loss last Friday. “The turbine has been shut down immediately. Nobody was injured,” said RWE Innogy in a […]

  • Massachusetts Delegation to Tour Denmark

    7 September 2015
    Authorities

    State Rep. Patricia Haddad is hoping to bring offshore wind industry to Massachusetts. Namely, after accepting an invitation from the Danish Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate, Haddad embarked on a four-day trip to Denmark with a group of legislators and industry leaders, writes Wicked Local Somerset. “I am hoping to help create that new […]

  • Brave Tern Arrives at Wikinger OWF Site

    18 January 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Fred .Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Brave Tern has arrived at the Wikinger construction site after sailing out last night, a spokesman from Iberdrola told Offshore WIND.