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  • Vole au Vent Back in Halifax for Siemens Gamesa Kit

    5 June 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The Siemens Gamesa turbine components destined for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) demonstration project are being loaded onto Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Vole au vent in the Port of Halifax, Canada. The vessel first departed from Canada to the project site offshore Virginia on 20 May, carrying the monopiles and transition pieces. After installing both foundations, Vole […]

  • Dominion Energy Files COP for 2.6 GW Virginia Offshore Wind Project

    21 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Dominion Energy has submitted a Construction and Operations Plan (COP) to the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. The COP includes information about the construction, operations and conceptual decommissioning plans for the wind farm to be installed within a 112,800ha area located 27 miles […]

  • He Dreiht Turbine Foundation Designer Wanted

    8 April 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    EnBW He Dreiht GmbH has issued a tender seeking the detailed design of the substructures and foundations of wind turbines for the 900 MW EnBW He Dreiht offshore wind project in the German North Sea. The contract scope covers the structural design of jacket and monopile foundations, electrical and mechanical design, and corrosion protection design. […]

  • 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.

  • Sarens Steps Into Taiwanese Offshore Wind Market

    7 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Belgium-based Sarens Group has established a venture in Taiwan to take part in the local offshore wind market.

  • 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 […]

  • TIPC Unites with Japanese for Offshore Wind Safety

    2 April 2019
    Business & Finance, Training & Education

    Taiwan International Ports Corp (TIPC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Japanese Nissui Marine Kogyo (NMK) to cooperate on offshore wind safety training. Under the deal, the two parties said they will work together to cultivate international talent for the sector by mutual exchanges, as well as focus on improving the global competitiveness of […]

  • AQUIND Issues EUR 1.3 Billion Interconnector Tender

    12 June 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    AQUIND Ltd has issued a EUR 1.3 billion tender for the 2GW AQUIND HVDC power transmission link that will connect the UK and France. The tender is divided into three lots, with the first including the design, engineering, manufacture, installation, commissioning and O&M of two converter stations to be located in Hampshire, UK, and Normandy, France. […]

  • 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 […]

  • Dudgeon Substation Jacket On The Move (VIDEO)

    21 April 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Statoil has shared a timelapse of the 1,500-tonne jacket for the Dudgeon substation being loaded onto a barge in Lowestoft yesterday. The jacket, built by Sembmarine SLP, will be towed around 100 kilometres to the offshore construction site located some 32 kilometres off the coast of North Norfolk, where nine of sixty-seven turbine foundations have already been installed. […]

  • 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 […]

  • ‘Acta Orion’ Soon to Be Christened

    5 October 2015
    Vessels

    The name giving ceremony of the offshore support vessel Acta Orion will take place on October 22th, when Mrs Didi te Gussinklo Ohmann will name the vessel. The vessel is named after one of the most recognizable constellations in the night sky. Govert Jan van Oord suggested Acta Orion’s name, as Orion is the adjacent constellation […]

  • 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.

  • ACM Certifies TenneT as Operator of Dutch Offshore Grid

    15 July 2016
    Authorities, Grid Connection

    The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has certified TenneT as the offshore grid operator.  The supervisory body said it has issued the certification in a short time, so that the Minister of Economic Affairs can now designate TenneT as the official operator of the offshore grid and the company can start construction of the network which […]

  • Workshop on Design Tools for Offshore Wind Farms to Be Held in Amsterdam

    15 July 2014
    R&D

    ClusterDesign and DTOC project partners will organize a workshop where the design tools for future offshore wind farms will be revealed. The workshop will take place on Wednesday 24 September 2014 in Amsterdam. The project partners have been working together to make designs more efficient and less damage-prone and will present their latest results. The workshop […]

  • 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 […]

  • Vattenfall Building Accommodation Platform (Gallery)

    4 February 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall, the Swedish energy company, has used knowledge from oil and gas industry regarding work shift schedule on its renewable energy project. Namely, the company is building world’s largest accommodation platform dedicated to an offshore wind farm. Standing on a 40-meter tall jacket foundation, the platform will be able to accommodate up to 50 people 70 […]

  • DONG Inaugurates Gode Wind 1 and 2 Offshore Wind Farms

    26 June 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy officially inaugurated the Gode Wind 1 and 2 offshore wind farms in the premises of the Royal Danish Embassy in Berlin on Monday, 26 June.

  • 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 […]

  • More European Developers Interested in Taiwan’s Offshore Wind

    22 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    Germany-based offshore wind developer innogy and a major oil and gas company from the Netherlands have emerged as the latest companies from Europe that are interested in entering Taiwanese offshore wind market, according to Taiwan’s Storm Magazine, which left the Dutch oil and gas company unnamed. 

  • 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.

  • Ecofys Investigating Benefits of Dynamic Wind Farm Management

    11 June 2014

    Future higher penetration levels of wind energy will call for dynamic power management of offshore wind farms. This will enable operators to optimise the wind farm power output based on market signals. Within the FLOW project “Dynamic Power Management”, Ecofys is subcontracted by TenneT and Eneco to investigate future market interaction for high penetration levels […]

  • EEW, Bladt to Supply Foundations for Cape Wind

    5 February 2014

    Two European wind turbine foundation specialists have signed a supply deal with Cape Wind Associates for the first offshore wind farm in the United States, Cape Wind OWF. German company EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH will supply monopiles, while the Danish company Bladt Industries A/S will deliver transition pieces for the future  468MW offshore wind […]