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  • DONG Energy Orders Second Floating LiDAR Device

    18 November 2013
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Following five months of successful, high availability offshore operation of their first device, DONG Energy has just placed an order for the latest version of FLiDAR’s floating lidar wind measurement equipment. In recent weeks, the first FLiDAR device has measured wind speeds of over 25 m/s (10 minute average) for sustained periods and survived max. […]

  • MMO Publishes Four Reports on Activities in and around English Seas

    1 November 2012

    A series of reports on activities in and around English seas are published today by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO). The four new commissioned publications are part of the MMO’s work to identify and fill gaps in knowledge that marine planners, regulators and users currently face. The reports make recommendations on what information is needed […]

  • UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult Confirms Residence at ITREZ

    27 June 2013

    The International Technology and Renewable Energy Zone (ITREZ) has confirmed that it’s first tenant will be the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult. The ITREZ hub aims to bring business and academia together to work collaboratively on the development of the offshore renewables sector. The first phase of the project is nearing completion and inovo, the […]

  • Bay State Wind Homeports in New London

    3 May 2019
    Ports & Logistics

    Bay State Wind, a joint venture between Ørsted and Eversource, has partnered with the Connecticut Port Authority and terminal operator Gateway to prepare State Pier in New London for the coming offshore wind projects in New England. The new partnership has committed to a public-private investment of USD 93 million to upgrade State Pier’s infrastructure and […]

  • Two Massachusetts Offshore Wind Projects Postponed by One Year

    26 October 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Avangrid Renewables, the US-based company owned by Spain’s Iberdrola, is postponing the expected start of commercial operation of the Park City Wind and Commonwealth Wind offshore wind projects in Massachusetts to 2027 and 2028, respectively. In its Q3 results, Iberdrola cites mitigating potential supply chain bottlenecks and high commodity prices as the reason behind the […]

  • USA: Coda Octopus Echoscope Assists Deep BV in Cable Laying

    30 May 2012
    Grid Connection, Technology

    Coda Octopus Group, Inc. and their agent in the Netherlands, Nautikaris BV, have recently been involved in a project for Deep BV – Hydrography and Geophysics, providing positioning and survey services for the installation of a power cable from the Thornton Bank Wind Farm off the Belgian coast. This is a significant development for the […]

  • DNV GL Launches Six Scientific Reports on Sustainability

    28 February 2014
    R&D

    DNV GL kicked off its 150th anniversary year with an event in Singapore for more than 500 customers, employees and stakeholders, together exploring insights and actions necessary to achieve its vision of ‘global impact for a safe and sustainable future’. Can the shipping industry cut fatality rates by 90 per cent? Why should business help […]

  • Plaid Cymru Vows to Deliver 100% Renewables to Wales

    14 July 2015
    Authorities

    A Plaid Cymru government will deliver 100% of Wales’ electricity from renewables, the party’s Shadow Energy Minister Llyr Gruffydd has announced. He said that the Party of Wales will publish a route map towards generating 100% of Wales’ electricity needs from renewables by 2035 within 100 days of a Plaid Cymru government. The party’s Shadow […]

  • Ørsted Devising ‘Band-Aid’ Solution for EUR 403 Million Cable Issue

    15 June 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted is developing a solution that could potentially save the company from spending as much as EUR 403 million to repair damaged inter-array cables across up to ten of its offshore wind farms. As previously reported, Ørsted discovered an issue with Cable Protection Systems (CPSs) on the Race Bank wind farm off the UK earlier […]

  • New Esvagt SOV Ready for Action

    11 January 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Esvagt’s service operation vessel (SOV) newbuilding, NHST-146, is now ready to start working for Vestas at Borssele 3 & 4 and Northwester 2 wind farms, the Danish offshore support specialist said. NHST-146, the first of the three SOV newbuildings for Vestas, is ready and accepted by the Class and by Esvagt, and has been ready […]

  • Maryland Offshore Wind Project in US Gets Construction Plan Approval

    4 December 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has approved the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for the up to 2 GW Maryland offshore wind farm. The approval represents the agency’s completion of the final permit in US Wind’s federal permitting application. “After more than four years of rigorous and robust analysis, we are thrilled […]

  • New Partnership to Extract Rare Earth Magnets from Retired Wind Turbines for Use in New Ones

    12 September 2023
    Business development, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Manufacturing, Wind Turbines

    Sustainable materials specialist, EMR, rare earth magnetic materials recycling company, HyProMag, Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, Magnomatics, and the University of Birmingham have formed a partnership which will focus on extracting the rare earth magnets from end-of-life wind turbines and enabling their use in new wind turbines, both onshore and offshore. Named Re-Rewind, the partnership, […]

  • Main Contractor Selected for Baltic Power O&M Hub

    10 February 2023
    Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Baltic Power, a joint venture between Poland’s Orlen Group and Canada’s Northland Power, has selected the Polish company ERBUD as the main contractor for the construction of an offshore wind farm operations and maintenance base in the Port of Łeba. The construction of the base is scheduled to start later this year and be completed […]

  • Irish TSO Awards EUR 300 Million Multi-Party Survey Contract for Phase Two Offshore Wind Farms

    15 July 2024
    Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain

    Irish transmission system operator (TSO) EirGrid has awarded a multi-party framework agreement for surveys that the TSO will perform at the offshore wind area(s) the Irish government will put up for tender next. The companies that secured long-term contracts, valued at EUR 300 million in total, are Fugro, RINA Consulting, UTEC (an Acteon company), and […]

  • Scottish Demo to Test Floating Wind Innovations with Government Funding

    25 January 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    The Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Demonstrator has been awarded GBP 9.6 million of UK government funding to develop and demonstrate a suite of UK-manufactured innovative floating wind technologies for the first time. The Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) Demonstrator Programme funding provided through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio will help accelerate technologies to support the roll-out […]

  • Pioneering Spirit Installs HKZ Alpha Topside – Gallery

    28 December 2021
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The topside of the Hollandse Kust (zuid) Alpha (HKZ Alpha) offshore substation has been installed on its jacket foundation in the Dutch North Sea, some 20 kilometres off the coast of The Hague. HKZ Alpha is one of the two 700 MW offshore substations that TenneT ordered at Petrofac and that will connect the 1.5 […]

  • Korea Floating Wind Partners with East-West Power

    2 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Korea Floating Wind (KF Wind) has signed a Joint Development Agreement Term Sheet with Korea East-West Power, a state-owned generation company in Korea, for a collaboration on the development of floating offshore wind sites off the coast of Ulsan. As reported, KF Wind, a joint venture between OW Ocean Winds and Aker Offshore Wind, is […]

  • Polish Developer to Hold Supply Chain Meeting for 1.2 GW Offshore Wind Project

    18 November 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Baltic Power, the vehicle responsible for the construction of PKN ORLEN and Northland Power’s first offshore wind farm in Poland, is arranging another meeting for potential contractors interested in joining the supply chain for the project. PKN ORLEN and Northland Power are jointly developing the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm in the Polish […]

  • Vestas 15 MW Prototype Offshore Wind Turbine to Spin in Denmark

    15 October 2021
    R&D, Technology

    Vestas has decided to install the V236-15 MW prototype offshore wind turbine at the Østerild National test centre for large wind turbines in Western Jutland, Denmark. The installation of the prototype turbine will take place in the second half of 2022 and its first kWh is planned for the fourth quarter of that year. Stretching […]

  • Swire Pacific’s Platform Supply Vessel Supporting Construction of Taiwanese Offshore Wind Farm

    17 August 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Swire Pacific Offshore’s platform supply vessel (PSV) Pacific Hornbill has been deployed on the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind project in Taiwan to support the ongoing construction activities. The vessel, which departed from the Port of Taichung to the project site on 16 August (according to the available AIS data), has been hired for […]

  • Vineyard Wind 1 One Step Away from Entering Construction

    9 March 2021
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) has released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Vineyard Wind 1 project in Massachusetts and has thus put the offshore wind farm one step away from completing the federal permitting process. The only thing now left before construction on the project could begin is a […]

  • Highlights of the Month – November 2020

    1 December 2020

    We bring you the ten most-read articles on the OffshoreWIND.biz site for the month of November 2020. Two-Turbine Floater Prototype Breezes Through Tests in Baltic Sea The scaled-down version of the Nezzy² floating wind turbine, a two-turbine floating wind platform, completed its two-month tests in the Bay of Greifswald in the Baltic Sea and has […]

  • Bibby Orders WaveMaster SOV for EnBW and Siemens Gamesa

    2 May 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Bibby Marine Services has signed long-term charter agreements with EnBW and Siemens Gamesa for the use of a new Service Operation Vessel (SOV) to be deployed at EnBW’s offshore wind farms Hohe See and Albatros in the German North Sea.

  • Offshore Wind Foundations Specialist Plants US Roots

    3 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics, Technology

    Bay State Wind, the US-based 50-50 partnership between Ørsted and Eversource developing an offshore wind project in Massachusetts, has entered into an agreement with the steel pipe manufacturing specialist EEW to open and staff a Massachusetts facility to manufacture offshore wind turbine foundations.

  • New Energy Bill Backs Offshore Wind in Massachusetts

    25 May 2016
    Authorities

    A new bill that would provide a better environment for the offshore wind industry was submitted to the Massachusetts House of Representatives on Monday.  The bill requires utility companies in Massachusetts to solicit joint proposals and enter into long-term contracts with offshore wind companies up to 1,200 megawatts of power by 2027. Additionally, electric utilities will be required […]

  • GMS Comments on Current Offshore Wind Events

    25 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    The welcome news that Siemens plans a £160 million expansion to manufacture turbines in East Yorkshire, plus the UK Green Investment Bank’s (GIB) investment in the Westermost Rough project off the Yorkshire coast, must be balanced against high costs and risks but low confidence levels that could still affect future UK offshore wind developments, Green […]