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  • Denmark: Anholt Offshore Wind Farm Exports First Power

    21 September 2012
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The first CO2-free power is now being fed into the Danish power grid from Anholt offshore wind farm.  The first turbine in the farm was installed on Monday 3 September and today, just under three weeks later, the first turbine has exported power into the Danish power grid. On its completion next year, the farm, […]

  • First Japanese Offshore Wind Farm to Start Operating in January

    4 July 2012
    Wind Farm Update

    Japanese government officials have revealed that the country’s first offshore wind farm is expected to begin producing electricity in January 2013. It is being jointly developed by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and Tokyo Electric Power. Due to the Fukushima disaster last year, Japan is strongly working on generating energy from […]

  • First Cable Laid at DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm (Germany)

    18 July 2013
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The next major step has been taken at the DanTysk offshore wind farm – a first cable has been laid between foundations 39 and 40. The sea conditions were perfect for executing this operation for the first time on DanTysk. It did not go smoothly the entire time. Some wires broke and had to be […]

  • NTOU Unveils First Submerged Tidal Current Generator in Taiwan

    15 November 2011

      A local college on Monday unveiled the first submerged tidal current generator in the country, which it said marked an important step… By Huang Chiao-wen and Jamie Wang (focustaiwan) [mappress] Source: focustaiwan, November 15, 2011

  • Siemens Supplies Equipment for First Offshore Wind Park in U.S.

    21 April 2011

    The German technology group Siemens is supplying 130 wind turbines for the construction of the first offshore wind parks in the United…   (stern) [mappress] Source: stern, April 21, 2011;

  • First Parts Delivered for Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

    20 January 2011
    Wind Farm Update

    The first deliveries of wind turbines and towers have started for Vattenfall’s 150 MW Osmonde Offshore Wind Farm in the Irish Sea.   [mappress] Source: renewableenergyfocus, January 20, 2011

  • Germany: First Submarine Cable Section Laid for Baltic 2

    23 April 2013
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The work for the network connection of the second German offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, the EnBW Baltic 2, is in progress. The vessel Aura rinsed the first submarine cable section into the Baltic ground, on Saturday, 20 April 2013, for the connection of Baltic 2. A total of sixty kilometers of submarine […]

  • Korea Electric Power Corp Finishes First Meteorological Tower

    26 January 2011
    R&D

    Korea Electric Power Corp. has established the country’s first meteorological tower at sea as part of its offshore wind power generation.   (koreaherald) [mappress] Source: koreaherald, January 26, 2011

  • VIDEO: CPM Deploys First Tidal Generator in United States

    25 March 2013

    In 2012, CPM Constructors was the contractor on an innovative clean energy project in Eastport, Maine. CPM constructed and deployed the first licensed, grid connected tidal generator in the United States. This was a successful project and is sure to have a great impact on the industry as it seeks new sources for clean, reliable […]

  • Brave Tern Ready to Install First Wikinger Wind Turbines

    9 January 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Installation of first wind turbines at the Wikinger offshore wind farm is set to start as soon as weather conditions allow. First wind turbine components have been loaded onto the jack-up vessel Brave Tern at the Port of Sassnitz-Mukran, and the vessel is now waiting for a weather window to sail out to the offshore construction […]

  • UK: Gwynt y Môr OWF Exports First Electricity

    30 August 2013
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm has officially generated and exported its first electricity, on track to become the second largest operational offshore wind farm in the world. The milestone builds on other recent good news for developer RWE npower renewables (RWE), its project partners, and the wider offshore wind industry. First generation at Gwynt […]

  • Industry First: DEME Drills XL Monopile into French Seabed

    11 June 2021
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    DEME has installed the first drilled XL monopile at the Saint-Nazaire wind farm offshore France. This is the first time this technique has been used to install an XL monopile on an offshore wind farm. Although the first monopile foundations had to be conventionally driven, 73 of the wind farm’s 80 XL monopile foundations have […]

  • New York’s First Offshore Wind Farm Halfway Completed

    25 January 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The installation of wind turbines on South Fork Wind, New York’s first offshore wind farm, has reached a halfway point. According to an update on social media posted by South Fork Wind, developed by Ørsted and Eversource Energy, six of the project’s twelve turbines are now installed and supplying electricity to the Long Island grid. […]

  • Windar Renovables Upends First Vineyard Wind Transition Piece

    13 February 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Windar Renovables has announced that the first transition piece has been upended for the 800 MW Vineyard Wind I offshore wind farm in the United States. First of a total of 62 transition pieces to be manufactured by Windar Renovables has been already upended in the Port of Avilés in Spain. In 2019, Windar Renovables […]

  • Innovation Loads First Horns Rev 3 Monopiles in Esbjerg

    24 October 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    GeoSea’s installation vessel Innovation has transported the first set of monopiles for Vattenfall’s 406MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm from the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark.

  • Photo of the Day: Installation of Nordsee Ost’s First Wind Turbine

    2 July 2014
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: The installation of the first wind turbine at RWE’s Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm.   The rotor blades for the Senvion 6MW wind turbine were not preassembled into a rotor spider, but were fitted to the hub at the Nordsee Ost construction site at sea.  The Nordsee Ost offshore wind […]

  • DEME Lays Keel for First Offshore Wind Maintenance SOV

    16 December 2019
    Vessels

    DEME Group has held a keel-laying ceremony for its first dedicated service operation vessel (SOV) for offshore wind farm maintenance. The keel-laying ceremony took place on 13 December at the CEMRE shipyard in Yalova, Turkey, for what is said to be the world’s first DP2 twin-hulled SOV. Due to be delivered in 2021, the SOV […]

  • Vestas Commissions Its First-Ever Intertidal Wind Turbine

    4 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Vestas has commissioned its first-ever intertidal wind turbine at Bac Phuong JSC’s wind farm in Vietnam. Last year, Vestas won a contract to supply 13 V150-4.2 MW turbines for the second phase of Bac Phuong JSC’s Dong Hai 1 intertidal wind project. The order follows the company’s first contract with the project developer from 2019, […]

  • Germany’s First Offshore Wind Farm Celebrates 10th Birthday

    27 April 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Alpha Ventus, the first German offshore wind farm, is marking 10 years of operations. Commissioned on 27 April 2010, Alpha Ventus is Germany’s first and oldest operating offshore wind farm.  The project comprises six Adwen M5000 turbines and six Senvion 5M turbines located 45km north of the island of Borkum in the North Sea. The […]

  • Scotland Set to Open World’s First Floating Wind Farm

    18 October 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will inaugurate the world’s first floating wind farm, Statoil’s Hywind Scotland Pilot Project, today (18 October).

  • North Star Launches World-First Hybrid Daughter Craft

    24 August 2022
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    North Star has launched the first of four hybrid-powered daughter crafts that will be used on the Dogger Bank wind farm offshore the UK from next year. The vessel was launched at a naming ceremony held at the RoyalNorfolk and Suffolk Yacht club in Lowestoft, England, adjacent to the firm’s regional operations hub. It was […]

  • First Monopile Stands at Largest US Offshore Wind Farm

    23 May 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    DEME Group’s heavy lift vessel, Orion, has installed the first monopile foundation for the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, the largest offshore wind farm under construction in the US. The first six monopiles were loaded onto DEME Group’s Orion this month, and the vessel headed to the offshore construction site approximately 43 […]

  • First Hywind Floating Wind Turbine on Its Way to Scotland

    19 July 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The first of five wind turbines for the world’s first floating offshore wind farm – Hywind Scotland – has left the project’s assembly base in Stord, Norway, and is now on its way to the site off the coast of Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

  • Mott MacDonald Backs Japan’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    13 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    Mott MacDonald is acting as the lender’s technical advisor on the Akita project, Japan’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm.

  • Cadeler’s First M-Class Mega Jack-Up Launched

    5 June 2024
    Vessels

    The first of Cadeler’s M-class wind turbine installation vessels, Wind Maker, has been launched at Hanwha Ocean’s shipyard in South Korea. Eneti, which merged with Cadeler last year, placed an order with Hanwha Ocean, formerly known as Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, for two Gusto MSC NG16000X jack-up vessels in 2021. The vessel, designed by GustoMSC, features […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Picks Contractor for First SOV Newbuild in Asia

    14 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Siemens Gamesa has awarded a 15-year charter contract to Cyan Renewables for its first service operation vessel (SOV) in Asia. The contract will begin in 2026 and the SOV will be used to service 73 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD wind turbines at the Hai Long offshore wind farms, located about 50 kilometres off the […]