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  • Ørsted Picks Sennen’s Software for New York’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    10 July 2023
    Business development, Technology

    Bristol-based Sennen is working with Ørsted to pilot an innovative digital system at the developer’s South Fork, New York’s first offshore wind farm under construction. Based on Sennen’s technology, the new system is said to help Ørsted plan and deliver the construction of the 132 MW South Fork offshore wind farm. According to Sennen, this […]

  • EWEA Announces Offshore Wind Energy Statistics for First Half of 2011 (Belgium)

    27 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) today published offshore wind energy statistics for the first half year of 2011, showing a comfortable 4.5% increase in installations of offshore capacity compared to the first half of 2010. 101 new offshore wind turbines, with a total capacity of 348 Megawatt (MW), were connected to the power grids […]

  • First TP-Less Monopiles In Place at Ørsted’s German Offshore Wind Projects

    7 August 2023
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul Group’s newest crane vessel, Les Alizés, has kicked off its maiden assignment by installing the first of 107 monopile foundations at Ørsted’s Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms in Germany. Delivered in early 2023, Les Alizés arrived in the Dutch Eemshaven at the end of June, where the […]

  • Lithuania Pours EUR 7.5 Million into Preparation for First Offshore Wind Tender

    3 December 2020
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Lithuanian government has allocated EUR 7.5 million to prepare for its first offshore wind tender and the development of the first 700 MW of offshore wind capacity in its part of the Baltic Sea. The funds will support environmental impact assessments and other studies and surveys to be carried out from 2021 until 2023 in […]

  • Feasibility Study for Bangladesh’s First Offshore Wind Project Receives Green Light

    7 November 2023
    Authorities, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    Denmark’s green investment proposal valued at USD 1.3 billion for developing Bangladesh’s first 500 MW offshore wind farm has received government approval to carry out a detailed feasibility study and implement the first phase of development with site exclusivity in the next three years. Denmark’s Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP), in […]

  • Boskalis Installs First Monopile at Moray West Wind Farm Offshore Scotland

    5 October 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Boskalis’ heavy lift crane vessel, Bokalift 2, has installed the first monopile at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland. The Scottish offshore wind farm will feature 60 Siemens Gamesa 14.7 MW wind turbines and two offshore substations, all installed on monopile foundations. Dajin Heavy Industry will supply 48 monopiles while Navantia Seanergies and […]

  • O&M Organisation Now Manages First Anholt Wind Turbines (Denmark)

    15 January 2013
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Since spring 2012, DONG Energy has systematically established the operations organisation which will take over  operation and maintenance of Anholt Offshore Wind Farm, and the first nine wind turbines are now managed by the operation and maintenance organisation. The first wind turbine technicians started in March 2012, and in May and August additional wind turbine […]

  • Scarborough Harbour Hosts First Offshore Wind Farm Related Vessel (UK)

    7 October 2011

    SCARBOROUGH Harbour is hosting the town’s first visiting vessel working on a scheme for the world’s largest offshore wind farm, in what… (yorkshirepost) [mappress] Source: yorkshirepost, October 07, 2011

  • First Provence Grand Large Floating Wind Turbine Stands Offshore France

    19 September 2023
    Floating Wind, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The first Siemens Gamesa 8 MW floating wind turbine has been installed at the Provence Grand Large offshore wind farm site off the coast of Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône in France. After assembling the turbine and its float, the first Provence Grand Large wind turbine left Quai Graveleau in Fos-sur-Mer to be towed 17 km from the coast […]

  • First Minister Unveils GBP 35 Million Fund for Scottish Offshore Wind

    27 September 2011
    Authorities

    FIRST Minister Alex Salmond today unveiled a new £35 million fund to attract offshore wind turbine manufacturers to Scotland… (scotsman) [mappress] Source: scotsman, September 27, 2011

  • Offshore Wind Experts Attend First Deepwater Offshore Wind Conference (USA)

    22 October 2010
    Training & Education

    Habib Dagher, director of AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, said Tuesday that the first ocean-based… By Christine Parrish (freepressonline) [mappress] Source: freepressonline, October 22, 2010;

  • Voith Wins Award for World’s First Commercial Wave Power Plant (UK)

    22 December 2011

    Inverness, Scotland: Voith Hydro Wavegen, the Scottish Voith subsidiary for wave energy, has won an award for Outstanding International Achievement in Green Energy. With the award the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) recognized the delivery of the world’s first full life commercial wave power plant in Mutriku in Northern Spain. Mutriku’s breakwater now […]

  • India Takes Large Step Towards Its First Offshore Wind Project

    1 October 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for setting up a Joint Venture Company ( JVC) towards undertaking the First Demonstration Offshore Wind Power Project in India along the Gujarat coast has been signed in the presence of Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (I/C), Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy. The MoU was signed by […]

  • UK’s First Offshore Hydrogen Production Trials Kick Off in South Wales

    3 July 2024
    Business development, Floating Wind, Green Hydrogen, Power-to-X, Research & Development

    After six years of development, sustainability consultancy ERM has launched offshore trials to test its Dolphyn Hydrogen process which combines electrolysis, desalination, and hydrogen production on a floating wind platform, marking the first time hydrogen has been produced from seawater in a marine environment in the UK. The trials conducted in Pembroke Port, South Wales, […]

  • TotalEnergies and Shell Join First Hydrogen Area at Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference

    28 October 2022
    Industry

    The following is a press release from Navingo BV, the owner of offshoreWIND.biz and organiser of the annual Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2022, coming up on 29 and 30 November in Amsterdam, will feature a Hydrogen Area for the first time, with TotalEnergies, Strohm, Green […]

  • High Tien Offshore to Build Taiwan’s First Large Cable Laying Vessel

    13 September 2021
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    High Tien Offshore Engineering (High Tien Offshore) – a company led by a former CSBC president and chairman of CSBC’s joint venture with DEME – is set to invest in a large cable laying vessel (CLV) which will serve the offshore wind market in Taiwan. “Following the investment by CDWE in a large floating crane […]

  • RWE Granted Building Permits for Its First Offshore Wind Project in Poland

    4 December 2024
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms

    The Voivode of West Pomerania has issued two construction permits to RWE for its 350 MW F.E.W. Baltic II offshore wind farm in Poland. The permits cover the construction of offshore wind turbines along with inter-array and telecommunications cables and an offshore substation for the F.E.W Baltic II offshore wind farm. “We have obtained the […]

  • First Hydrogen-Powered CTV for German Offshore Wind Market Sets Sail

    9 January 2024
    Vessels

    FRS Windcat Offshore Logistics (FWOL) has deployed the first hydrogen-powered dual-fuel crew transfer vessel (CTV) in Germany for the German transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz. The Hydrocat 55 is a CTV equipped with the dual-fuel hydrogen technology of CMB.TECH, one of FWOL’s shareholders. Delivered in 2023, the vessel is built the same way as the […]

  • Siemens Gamesa to Build First US Offshore Wind Turbine Blade Facility

    26 October 2021
    Business & Finance

    Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has announced an agreement for Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy to establish what will be the first offshore wind turbine blade facility in the United States. According to Siemens Gamesa, this is also the first commitment by a global offshore wind turbine manufacturer in a US-based supply chain. The USD 200 million […]

  • First AREVA Wind Turbines on Their Way to Global Tech I Site (Germany)

    4 September 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    The jack-up platform Thor, owned by HOCHTIEF Solutions, is heading to the Global Tech I construction area, carrying three wind turbine towers and gondolas. The vessel will reach the North Sea wind farm in about one day and then start the installation. The towers come in three sections and are transported in an upright position. […]

  • Deepwater Wind Submits Plans for Nation’s First Offshore Wind Farm (USA)

    10 October 2011

      Deepwater Wind this week officially submitted its plan to develop a utility-scale offshore wind farm off the coasts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, in response to the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE)’s Call for Information and Nominations for offshore wind energy projects in the federal […]

  • Van Oord Installs First Monopile at RWE’s Sofia Offshore Wind Farm

    21 May 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel, Aeolus, has installed the first of 100 monopile foundations at the 1.4 GW Sofia project in the UK, RWE’s largest offshore wind farm to date. The Sofia offshore wind farm is located on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, 195 kilometres from the North East coast of the UK. […]

  • New Manor Wind Farm Service Vessel About to Begin First Job

    17 September 2020
    Vessels

    Manor Renewable Energy’s (MRE) new wind farm service vessel (WFSV) Manor Endurance has set sail for its first charter in the UK. Manor Endurance is about to begin working on an undisclosed offshore wind project off the UK East Coast. The naming ceremony and christening for the WFSV were held at the end of August […]

  • Complete Site Safety Introduces Advanced First Aid Course for Offshore Workers

    20 January 2016
    Training & Education

    Complete Site Safety, a Liverpool-based Health and Safety training company, has launched a new, advanced first aid course designed for offshore workers. The Clinical Observation & Medical Assessment, or COMA course, is designed for those industries which do not have immediate access to emergency aid in the event of an accident. The course is aimed at […]

  • World’s First Floating Offshore Wind Farm Celebrates Five Years of Operation

    29 December 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Hywind Scotland, the first floating offshore wind farm in the world, has passed five years in operation since its commissioning in 2017. According to Equinor, Hywind Scotland is the world’s best-performing offshore wind farm, achieving a capacity factor of 54 per cent over its five years of operations. “Importantly, Hywind Scotland has run to high […]

  • Fugro Goes Full Circle on First UK Offshore Wind Farm (Video)

    31 March 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Fugro has shared a video showing the decommissioning of the Blyth project, the first offshore wind farm built in UK waters. The Blyth offshore wind farm consisted of two 2MW turbines commissioned in December 2000, which were at that time the most powerful units. Back then, Fugro supported E.ON with the site investigation and the […]