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  • Scottish First Minister Talks about Energy Future

    18 September 2012
    Authorities

    The First Minister has told 200 energy CEOs that Scotland will continue to be a major centre for global investment – and that independence will help growth. Speaking at the FT Global Energy Leaders summit in London, Alex Salmond cited recent inward investments in oil and gas and renewables, and pledged to continue to work […]

  • Ørsted Marks First Floating Offshore Wind Win

    18 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Crown Estate Scotland (CES) has selected the Ørsted, Falck Renewables, and BlueFloat Energy consortium to enter into an Option Agreement for a new floating offshore wind site off the north-east coast of Scotland. The award for this floating wind site of up to 1 GW in scale has been made through CES’s ScotWind offshore wind […]

  • First Jacket Foundation Installed at East Anglia One

    12 June 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has installed the first jacket foundation at the East Anglia One offshore wind farm located in the UK North Sea.

  • First Moray West XXL Monopiles Arrive in Scotland

    11 July 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Last month, the first shipment of XXL monopiles, manufactured by the Dajin Penglai facility, for the Moray West offshore wind farm arrived in Invergordon, Scotland. In June 2022, Dajin Heavy Industry was contracted by the wind farm’s developer, Ocean Winds, to supply 48 XXL monopiles for the project. The monopiles weigh about 2,000 tonnes and […]

  • Costa Rica Making First Offshore Wind Moves

    1 September 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Jobs & Recruitment

    The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), the Vice-ministry of Energy and Environmental Quality (MINAE) of Ministry of Environment, and Energy and Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) have kicked-off a joint initiative to build knowledge about the local benefits of offshore wind and explore pathways for its future development and growth in Costa Rica. The closed-door […]

  • Fugro, TGS to Carry Out Detailed Surveys for Norway’s First Commercial Offshore Wind Farm

    9 July 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Fugro and TGS have been awarded contracts for detailed site investigations at the Sørlige Nordsjø II (Southern North Sea II) site, where Norway’s first commercial offshore wind farm will be built by a consortium consisting of Parkwind and Ingka Investments. Fugro, which already performed surveys at the Sørlige Nordsjø II offshore wind site for the […]

  • Norway: Bonheur Announces Results for First Three Months

    10 May 2012

    As a consequence of Bonheur ASA holding more than 50% of the shares of Ganger Rolf ASA, Ganger Rolf ASA is fully consolidated for accounting purposes as a subsidiary of Bonheur ASA. As Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA have a joint ownership of their major investments, the ownership structure entails full consolidation for accounting […]

  • Walney Extension Fund Gives Out First Grants

    3 November 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Thirteen local organisations in Lancashire and Cumbria coastal communities have been awarded grants totalling GBP 250,000 through DONG Energy’s new Walney Extension Community Benefit Fund. Each year, approximately GBP 600,000 will be made available for community projects for the expected 25-year lifetime of the Walney Extension offshore wind farm off the Walney Island coast in Cumbria. GBP […]

  • Concession Sought for Italy’s First Floating Wind Farm

    3 July 2020
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Italian wind developer 7 Seas Med S.r.l. has requested a 30-year maritime state concession to develop a 250 MW floating offshore wind farm in the Sicilian Channel. According to the application filed with Italy’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport – Trapani Port Authority, 7 Seas Med S.r.l. plans to install 25 wind turbines with an […]

  • Spain Gets Its First Offshore Wind Turbine

    21 June 2018
    R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The 5MW Elisa self-installing telescopic offshore wind turbine, developed under the EU-funded Elican project, arrived at its designated location at the Plocan site off Gran Canaria today, 21 June. 

  • First Flight Wind Lists Offshore Wind Courses

    20 November 2014
    Training & Education

    Belfast Metropolitan College and B9 Energy have collaborated to deliver the City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Wind Turbine Operation and Maintenance.  In addition, First Flight Wind has published a list of courses leading to careers in offshore wind on its website. It is not an exhaustive list, but gives a sense of the […]

  • First Turbine Installed at TPC Changhua Phase 1

    16 September 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Taillevent has installed the first turbine at Taiwan Power Company’s Changhua Phase 1 offshore wind project. The 109.2 MW project will feature a total of 21 Hitachi 5.2 MW turbines with a downwind rotor mounted on jacket foundations. According to Jan De Nul, with the first turbine installed, the project […]

  • A2SEA Erects First Borkum Riffgrund 1 Turbine

    27 October 2014
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    On 25 October 2014, A2SEA’s vessel SEA INSTALLER installed the first of 78 wind turbines at DONG Energy’s first German offshore wind farm, Borkum Riffgrund 1. Everything went according to plan. ”Installation of the first turbine went according to plan. Together with the project teams from Siemens Wind Power and DONG Energy, and the experienced crew […]

  • RenewableUK to Organize First Wave & Tidal Business Forum

    19 September 2013

    The Wave & Tidal Business Forum will be part of the Wave & Tidal Day running on Day 2 of the RenewableUK 2013, Wednesday 6 November. Attending the Wave & Tidal Day provides an opportunity to do business with major players featured in the Wave & Tidal Pavilion and attend a full day of conference […]

  • First Northern China Offshore Wind Turbine Spinning

    31 January 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) has put into operation the first 6.45MW turbine of the Dalian Zhuanghe offshore wind project. The 6.45MW unit is the country’s first low-temperature turbine and its launch marks the first commercial operation of an offshore wind project in northern China, CCCC said. The 300MW project is located in the Zhuanghe waters offshore Dalian in the […]

  • Oleg Strashnov Installs First Beatrice Jacket Foundation

    14 August 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting’s vessel Oleg Strashnow has installed the first of 86 jacket foundations on the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland.

  • First Subsea CPSs for Kincardine Floating Wind Farm

    23 October 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    First Subsea has secured a second contract with Spain’s Cobra Group to provide Cable Protection Systems (CPSs) for the 50MW Kincardine floating wind farm offshore Scotland. First Subsea provided CPSs for the first Kincardine floating wind turbine which was installed 15 kilometres off the coast, south of Aberdeen, last year. The company will now provide a […]

  • First Foundation In at Saint-Brieuc Offshore Wind Farm

    4 July 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    The first wind turbine foundation at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm has been installed, the developer Ailes Marines informed today, 4 July. Using Subsea 7’s Seven Borealis vessel, Van Oord installed the first jacket foundation, located in the northern part of the project site and has already started installing the second one in the same […]

  • First Wind Turbine Up at EnBW Baltic 2

    27 August 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    In the development of its second offshore wind farm, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW) has reached a milestone with the installation of the first wind turbine at its EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm. In Sassnitz harbor, the installation vessel Vidar had taken on board components for a total of six wind turbines. Yesterday afternoon, the […]

  • First Hornsea One OSS Topside Reaches Aalborg

    9 March 2017
    Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The first of three substation topsides being built for DONG Energy’s 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm has arrived at Bladt Industries’ site in Aalborg, Denmark.

  • Greece Passes Its First Offshore Wind Bill

    1 August 2022
    Authorities

    On 28 July, the Greek Parliament passed a bill comprising regulations on the permitting of offshore wind projects and their development and operation, marking the country’s first legislative move on offshore wind energy. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our sister site Offshore Energy. You can read the original article by […]

  • Lithuania’s First Offshore Wind Farm Moves Forward

    29 February 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Ignitis Renewables, an international green energy company, has prepared an environmental impact assessment (EIA) programme for the first offshore wind farm in Lithuania. The EIA itself will be prepared on the basis of this programme, said the company. “When we develop renewable energy projects, the environment is inevitably affected, but to achieve a balance between […]

  • First Horns Rev 3 Turbines Head Home

    18 July 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Brave Tern has left the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark loaded with the first four wind turbines to be installed on Vattenfall’s Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea.

  • Update: First Turbine Tower Up at Eneco Luchterduinen

    7 April 2015
    Wind Farm Update

      Van Oord installed the first 60m turbine tower at the Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm yesterday.  The first 8 wind turbines were loaded onto the Aeolus during the weekend and now the work is in full swing. Van Oord will install 43 Vestas wind turbines. Eneco Luchterduinen is scheduled to be operational and generate green electricity for nearly 150,000 households […]

  • First Wind Turbine Foundation In at Saint-Nazaire OWF

    10 May 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The first monopile foundation has been installed at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France, which is also the first installed turbine foundation for a commercial offshore wind farm in French waters. DEME is using its installation vessel Innovation to install 80 wind turbine foundations at the project site located between 12 and 20 kilometres […]

  • First Turbine in at Denmark’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    27 January 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The first turbine at the Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm is in place and will deliver the first fossil-free electricity to the Danish grid shortly, Vattenfall said. Once completed, the 605 MW Kriegers Flak will comprise 72 8 MW Siemens Gamesa turbines and be the largest offshore wind farm in Denmark. The turbines come with […]