10000 results found for 'first'

10000 results found for 'first'
Order results by

A list of search results

  • Aeolus Contracts Ventower for US Offshore Wind Training Facilities

    4 April 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Training & Education

    Aeolus Energy Group (AEG) has awarded Ventower Industries with a contract for the fabrication of training towers to be installed at its two new offshore wind training facilities in Massachusetts and Maryland, US.

  • Offshore Wind Event Programme Ready for October

    28 June 2018

    Offshore WIND and its mother company Navingo BV are proud to present the programme outline for the Offshore Wind Event (previously known as Offshore WIND Conference), taking place on 22 and 23 October 2018 in Amsterdam.

  • Ideol Set to Inaugurate Fully Assembled Floatgen Turbine

    13 October 2017
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Floatgen project partners are scheduled to inaugurate the 2MW floating wind turbine today, 13 October, after it was fully assembled at the Saint Nazaire port in France.

  • Aarsleff Sends Off Nissum Bredning Transition Pieces

    6 October 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Aarsleff has completed the production and outfitting of the four transition pieces for the 28MW Nissum Bredning offshore wind farm in Denmark. The structures are now on their way to Thyborøn onboard the barge Aarsleff 132.

  • Seacat Enterprise Starts Sea Trials

    16 February 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Seacat Enterprise, a 27-metre High Speed Utility Vessel (HSUV) built for the Cowes-headquartered offshore energy support vessel operator, Seacat Services, has started sea trials on Thursdat, 16 February, according to South Boats IoW, the builder of the vessel.

  • OffshoreMW, Alpine Ocean Set to Survey Seabed off Massachusetts

    22 September 2016
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    A preliminary geophysical survey within a portion of the Massachusetts Wind Energy Area is set to begin tomorrow with Alpine Ocean deploying the R/V Shearwater at OffshoreMW’s lease area.  This is the first step of data collection and assessment that OffshoreMW and Vineyard Power will undertake within the next several years in this area. Information gathered over the next […]

  • UK Green Investment Bank Crosses GBP 10 Billion Milestone

    24 November 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) has committed GBP 2.3 billion to 58 green infrastructure projects with a total value of GBP 10.1 billion in its first three years of existence. Part of the commitments went towards financing of 757 offshore wind turbines in the UK – or 40% of all the turbines currently operating or under construction. The bank’s […]

  • ORE Catapult Sets Up Interactive Online Portal for UK’s Marine Energy Supply Chain

    23 February 2016

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has launched an interactive digital portal to support the development of the UK’s developing marine energy supply chain and facilitate better engagement between buyers and sellers. The Marine Energy Supply Chain Gateway (MESCG), supported by funding from Scottish Enterprise, RenewableUK, and the Welsh Government, draws together, for the first […]

  • EMEC Testing Leads to MeyGen Order

    6 August 2014
    R&D, Technology

    The company behind MeyGen, a major marine energy project planned for the Pentland Firth, has signed agreements for the supply of four 1.5 megawatt (MW) tidal turbines.  Atlantis Resources Limited intends to use three turbines developed by Andritz Hydro Hammerfest for the first phase of the MeyGen project. The fourth machine will be one of […]

  • UK: Developers Disappointed on Delayed Decision on EOWDC

    31 December 2012
    Authorities

    The developers of the proposed European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) have expressed their disappointment on the Scottish officials’ inability to announce the decision on the project and called on ministers to announce their decision as early as possible in 2013. The planning application for EOWDC is being considered by Marine Scotland, which was confirmed […]

  • ‘WINDEA one’ Catamaran Christened in Emden, Germany

    19 September 2013
    Operations & Maintenance

    On 18 September 2013, a new catamaran of Windea Offshore GmbH & Co. KG – a joint venture of EMS Maritime Offshore GmbH (EMO), the Bernhard Schulte Group and SSC Wind GmbH – was baptized in Emden by the name ‘WINDEA one’. After a welcome speech by Dr. Bernhard Brons (EMS’ Executive), Knut Gerdes (EMO […]

  • Grid Integration of Renewable Energy in EU

    3 October 2011

    The European Wind Energy Technology Platform (TPWind) will hold its first public event on Tuesday 4 October 2011. The conference of around 150 EU wind energy researchers, experts and other operators and stakeholders will focus on EU grids – including grid integration of renewable energy. The event is targeted towards wind energy, oil & gas […]

  • New York Reveals Offshore Wind Power Play

    3 January 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Training & Education

    New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has called for a procurement of at least 800MW of offshore wind power between two solicitations to be issued in 2018 and 2019.

  • Deepwater Wind Mulls Brooklyn Offshore Wind Hub

    10 May 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    US offshore wind developer Deepwater Wind has indicated its interest in establishing a hub on the Brooklyn waterfront to support its South Fork Wind Farm and future projects off New York, subject to necessary approvals.

  • Ordtek Nets TenneT’s German Bight UXO Consultancy Deal

    14 May 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    UK-based unexploded ordnance (UXO) risk management company, Ordtek, has signed a three-year framework agreement with TenneT. The contract covers services to be delivered for the German Bight wind farm zone in the North Sea. Ordtek said it would be providing UXO consultancy services and client representation ahead of offshore power cable and platform installation operations […]

  • Wind Innovation Assumes Position at Veja Mate

    6 January 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    C-bed’s floating hotel Wind Innovation has started 2017 by heading off to the German North Sea and starting a new charter on the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm. The new project is located 95 kilometres off Borkum Island. In total, the wind farm will comprise 67 Siemens 6MW turbines. The project is expected to be concluded […]

  • Photo of the Day: Liebherr Offshore Crane CAL 45000-1200 Litronic in Action

    10 July 2014
    Technology

    Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: Liebherr Heavy Lift Offshore Crane, type CAL 45000-1200 Litronic, is installing rotor blades at the Global Tech I offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea.  Liebherr’s new heavy lift offshore crane CAL 45000-1200 Litronic® started with the installation of AREVA Wind’s rotor stars at Global […]

  • Haliade-X 12 MW Cable Link In Place

    17 July 2019
    Grid Connection, Technology

    Visser & Smit Hanab has completed the cable connection which will link the prototype Haliade-X 12 MW wind turbine at Maasvlakte 2 in the Port of Rotterdam to the Stedin high-voltage station. The 1.5-kilometre, 66kV connection was tested on 16 and 17 July, after which it was put into operation, Visser & Smit Hanab said. GE Renewable […]

  • USA: AWS Truepower Joins Forces with New York State Colleges

    29 April 2012

    AWS Truepower, LLC, an international leader in renewable energy consulting and information services announced a new partnership with New York State Colleges to form the Center for Evaluation of Clean Energy Technology (CeCeT), an organization that will benefit manufacturers of clean energy technology by providing access to testing equipment and expertise.  “Collaboration between the business […]

  • ‘Njord Odin’ Nails Sea Trials (Video)

    7 April 2015
    Vessels

    BMT Nigel Gee (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, has completed sea trials for Njord Odin, the first of a series of advanced 26m wind farm support vessels (WSV) for Njord Offshore. These are the largest BMT designed vessels built to date. Njord Odin is 26.3m in length with a beam of 9.3m with each of the […]

  • Tidal Transit’s Tia Elizabeth Goes to Gwynt y Môr OWF

    16 April 2015
    Vessels

    Tidal Transit’s personnel transfer vessel (PTV) Tia Elizabeth is following its sister vessel, Kitty Petra, to fulfill a contract at Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm off the Welsh coast. While the contract for Kitty Petra ended in September 2014, after which she moved on to the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm, the contract for Tia Elizabeth, due […]

  • SSAB, Hexicon to Optimize Steel for Offshore Wind Platforms

    12 May 2014
    R&D, Technology

    SSAB is entering into an agreement with Hexicon AB to develop far off shore platforms. The combined technology will offer advantages within the market for renewable energy. A first demonstration unit is planned for Swedish waters in 2017. Hexicon will together with SSAB optimize the steel material in the foundation of the wind platforms to […]

  • Top News of the Week Dec 2 – 8, 2013

    8 December 2013

    Storm ‘Christian’ Shakes DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm (Germany)  DanTysk offshore wind farm, situated west of the island of Sylt and directly on the German-Danish border, recently shook under the strength of storm “Christian” that swept through the North Sea. Competition in Offshore Wind Industry to Intensify  With an expected compound average growth rate of 28.3% […]

  • Seaway Heavy Lifting Installs All Beatrice Piles

    4 December 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has installed the 86th and final four-pile set at the Beatrice offshore wind farm site. SHL carried out the piling work with the heavy-lift vessel Stanislav Yudin, which will now re-mobilise for jacket foundation installation.

  • Converting Fishing Vessel into Wave Power Plant

    10 February 2015
    R&D, Technology, Vessels

    Over the last two years, Kvernevik Engineering AS has been working with Geir Arne Solheim, the founder of Havkraft AS and the man who came up with the idea to convert fishing vessel into power plant. Now, the first vessel of its kind is anchored offshore in the Stadthavet area west of Ålesund harnessing wave […]

  • nkt cables Bags EUR 95m Baltic 2 Subsea Contract (Germany)

    9 August 2011

    nkt cables has entered into a contract with 50Hertz Offshore GmbH at a value of around 750 mDKK (95 mEUR) for the offshore wind farm Baltic 2. For nkt cables, Baltic 2 will be another turnkey project which includes armoured high-voltage subsea cables, accessories and installation. The cables will be manufactured at the production facilities […]