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  • Statoil Opens New Chapter as Sheringham Shoal Operator

    31 March 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Norwegian energy company Statoil will take over the operatorship of the 317MW Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm from compatriot Statkraft on Saturday, 1 April.

  • Statoil Hires Lloyd’s Register Energy for Hywind Project

    8 June 2015

    Statoil has awarded Lloyd’s Register Energy’s consulting business a contract to perform a risk and emergency preparedness analysis for the Hywind Scotland pilot park project. The Norwegian international energy company plans to build the first floating wind farm off the Scottish coast. The park will be located near Buchan Deep, approx. 25-30 km off the […]

  • DNV GL Takes LiDAR Verification to Asia

    22 July 2019
    Business & Finance, R&D

    DNV GL has launched its first LiDAR verification site in Asia, located in the Jella Province in South Korea. According to DNV GL, LiDAR verification campaigns for Asian stakeholders previously had to be conducted at oversea sites, while they now have the opportunity to be done locally. “Previously, customers who wished to have their LiDAR verified had […]

  • UK: Port of Ramsgate to Host PATCH ‘Blue Energy’ Workshop

    7 June 2012
    Ports & Logistics

      Port of Ramsgate will host PATCH’s (Ports Adapting To Change) ‘Blue Energy’ workshop on 22 June 2012, reports Maritime Journal. Seeports strategist Howard Holt is the organizer of the workshop which is similar to the event held in September 2010. The ‘Blue Energy’ workshop will focus on the opportunities for ports from wave and […]

  • Maryland Schedules Offshore Wind Workshops

    8 August 2017
    Authorities, Training & Education

    Maryland Energy Administration and the Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce will this month hold two workshops on the current offshore wind business and workforce development programs in the state of Maryland.

  • Locally Built CTV for Yunlin OWF Launched

    10 August 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    A Taiwan-built crew transfer vessel (CTV) which will operate at the Yunlin offshore wind farm has been completed and launched, according to Deutsche Windtechnik. The CTV, named Prosperous 1 (風盛1號), was ordered by the developer wpd and the service provider Deutsche Windtechnik from Prosperous Wind Shipping, and built by LungTeh shipyard. “The vessel is the […]

  • DOF Wins Offshore Wind Export Cable Repair Job

    22 February 2024
    Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Supply Chain

    Norway-headquartered DOF Group has been awarded a contract to repair an export cable for an offshore wind farm in the Southern North Sea. The project, awarded by an international energy operator, includes the retrieval of the damaged cable and termination, installation, trenching, and commissioning of the replacement cable. DOF’s contract scope includes project management, engineering, […]

  • Oleg Strashnov Installs Galloper Offshore Substation

    16 May 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting’s crane vessel Oleg Strashnov has installed the offshore substation on the 336MW Galloper wind farm situated in the outer Thames Estuary, some 27 kilometres off the Suffolk coast.

  • Skyborn, TotalEnergies and Partners Inaugurate Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm

    4 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Yunneng Wind Power, the joint venture that built and owns the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan, has inaugurated the 640 MW project at a ceremony held at the Santiaolun Beach & Water Park in Sihu Township. After the first turbine was connected to the Taiwanese grid in 2021, the wind farm reached its full operational […]

  • Google Buys Offshore Wind Power from Vattenfall-CIP JV

    18 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Green Hydrogen, Power-to-X

    Google has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Denmark’s Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) for 250 MW of energy capacity at the Zeevonk offshore wind project in the Netherlands. Under the agreement, Google will purchase 250 MW of wind power generated at the Zeevonk project to power its Dutch operations for 15 years. “Google partnered […]

  • Scotland Steps Up Its Zero Emissions Game

    25 May 2018
    Authorities, Environment

    Scottish government has published a draft Climate Change Bill that will immediately set a target of a 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and guide to the government’s aim of making Scotland one of the first countries to achieve a 100% reduction (net-zero) as soon as possible.

  • Ocean Winds Opens Moray West O&M Base in Scotland

    10 September 2024
    Operations & Maintenance

    Ocean Winds has opened its new operations & maintenance (O&M) base in Buckie, Scotland, that will service the Moray West offshore wind farm once it becomes fully operational in 2025. The First Minister of Scotland, John Swinney, visited the facility on 9 September to mark the opening of the Ocean Winds’ O&M base with associated […]

  • Sif and Smulders Supplying All Foundations for World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    12 November 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    A consortium between Sif and Smulders has signed a contract for the manufacture of all 87 monopiles and transition pieces for Dogger Bank C, the third and final phase of what will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm. The contract follows the same work awarded to the Sif-Smulders consortium a year ago, when the […]

  • Polenergia Drops Lithuanian Offshore Wind Project After Economic Viability Analysis

    1 August 2023
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Polenergia, the Polish utility company and renewable energy developer, has decided to stop developing an offshore wind project in Lithuania the company was preparing for the country’s next offshore wind auction, which the Lithuanian government plans to hold later this year. The company says it made the decision after analysing the economic viability of the project […]

  • Survey Activities Ramping Up on Equinor and BP’s New York Wind Site

    19 June 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Two survey activities are planned to start this month at the Empire Wind offshore wind farm site located about 20 miles south of Long Island. The first is a short-term underwater sediment survey campaign, planned to begin in late June. The sediment survey experts will sample the seabed along the proposed Empire Wind 1 and […]

  • Global Floating Wind on Path to Miss 2030 Targets, Report Says

    14 November 2022
    R&D

    A new report, published by 4C Offshore, has revealed that many countries are falling behind their 2030 floating offshore wind targets, but there could be still a chance to meet them. According to the latest 4C Offshore’s Global Floating Wind report, targets for 2030 wind production from floating, rather than fixed, wind farms are set […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Plans Producing ‘Made in USA’ Offshore Wind Turbine Nacelles in New York

    13 February 2023
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa has revealed plans to build a major manufacturing facility for offshore wind turbine nacelles at the Port of Coeymans, in New York, if wind farms comprising its turbines are selected by the state in the ongoing third offshore wind solicitation. This is the second facility the company has announced for the US, the […]

  • Stackable Floating Wind Foundation Gets ABS Nod

    30 January 2023
    R&D, Technology

    Houston-based classification society ABS has given Approval in Principal (AiP) to the Bassoe D-Floater floating wind turbine foundation, designed to handle the largest wind turbines in the world. The Bassoe D-Floater technology is capable of carrying 15 MW turbines in some of the harshest environmental conditions, ABS said. ”ABS is proud to add the Bassoe […]

  • Principle Power Wins FEED Deal for Dolphyn Floating Wind-to-Hydrogen Project

    12 October 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, R&D, Technology

    Environmental Resources Management (ERM), the developer of the Dolphyn technology, has awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract to Principle Power for a 10 MW floating wind-to-hydrogen demonstration project in Scotland. The ERM Dolphyn concept employs a modular design integrating electrolysis and a wind turbine on a moored floating semi-submersible platform which uses Principle Power’s […]

  • US Companies Partner to Explore Gulf of Mexico Offshore Wind Potential

    4 October 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Entergy Louisiana, Entergy New Orleans, and Diamond Offshore Wind have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding the evaluation and potential early development of offshore wind in the Gulf of Mexico. The MoU provides a legal framework for Entergy and Diamond Offshore Wind to work toward the potential development of offshore wind demonstration projects located […]

  • Newly Established Japanese-Korean Joint Venture Sets Sights on Offshore Wind

    10 May 2023
    Business & Finance

    Japan-based Shizen International, a Shizen Energy Group company, has entered into an agreement with South Korea’s INMARK Asset Management and DOHWA Engineering to form a joint venture that will develop energy storage, onshore renewables and offshore wind projects in South Korea.  The joint venture, which will be called Inmark Jayeon Energy, has already identified 2,000 […]

  • Skyborn Renewables Plans to Build 3.9 GW Wind Farm Offshore Sweden

    14 April 2023
    Authorities, Business development, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    Skyborn Renewables has submitted a permit application to the Swedish government to build what they say would be the country’s largest offshore wind farm, the 3.9 GW Eystrasalt project in the Bothnian Sea. The project area has been chosen, among other things, because of the good wind conditions and the favorable sea depth, but also […]

  • Offshore Drone Challenge Takes Off

    22 March 2023
    Business development, Equipment, Industry, Infrastructure, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    German energy company EnBW and its project partner, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), have published the conditions of entry and the specific flight tasks for the Offshore Drone Challenge (ODC) for the first time. As part of the Offshore Drone Challenge, drone manufacturers and service providers are invited to demonstrate their technologies for transporting maintenance […]

  • DEME Takes CAPE Holland Equipment to US for Monopile Installation Offshore Virginia

    17 April 2024
    Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Dutch company CAPE Holland has secured a contract with DEME for foundation installation equipment that will be used at the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project site in the US. Under the contract, CAPE Holland, part of Venterra Group, has provided its CAPE VLT-640 Quad spread and a separate CAPE VLT-640 unit to the Belgian […]

  • Shell Exits US Offshore Wind Project, Sells Stake to Ocean Winds

    21 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Shell New Energies, a subsidiary of Shell, has sold its 50 per cent equity share in SouthCoast Wind Energy, established in 2018 to develop wind projects off the coast of Massachusetts, to its joint venture partner Ocean Winds North America for an undisclosed sum. According to Shell, the deal with Ocean Winds was structured to […]

  • 18 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Installed at Test Site in China

    10 June 2024
    Supply Chain, Technology, Wind Turbines

    China’s Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) installed an 18 MW offshore wind turbine at a coastal test base in Shantou, Guangdong province, on 5 June. The model has a rotor diameter of 260 metres and a swept area of 53,000 square metres, and can generate 72 GWh of electricity annually, enough to power around 36,000 households, […]