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  • Scotland’s 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm Fully Operational

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

    The 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm has become fully operational, with Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney visiting Eyemouth on 24 July to mark the launch of the country’s newest offshore wind project. Located 15.5 kilometres off the coast of Fife, NnG is co-owned by EDF power solutions UK and Ireland and […]

  • First Turbine Up at Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 2b & 4 Offshore Wind Farm

    16 April 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The first of 66 Siemens Gamesa 14 MW wind turbines that will make up the Greater Changhua 2b & 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan has been installed. The major milestone for Ørsted’s 920 MW offshore wind project also marks a milestone for Siemens Gamesa, whose SG 14-236 DD wind turbine model is installed offshore […]

  • Abu Dhabi Jack-Up Owner Wins First Offshore Wind Contract in China

    12 March 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    The UAE-based Zakher Marine International (ZMI) has secured its first contract to provide a jack-up vessel for an offshore wind project in South China. Mobilized from the shallow waters of Abu Dhabi, ZMI’s jack-up QMS Gladiator arrived at the deeper South China Sea loaded on a heavy lift on 10 March. With the USD 100 […]

  • Germany: REpower Announces Preliminary Results for First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2011/12

    27 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    According to initial calculations REpower Systems SE (WKN 617 703) generated a total performance of EUR 248.3 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2011/12 (April 1, 2011 – June 30, 2011) compared to EUR 204.0 million in the previous year’s period. Revenue increased by around 23% year-on-year from EUR 213.1 million to EUR […]

  • REpower Publishes Preliminary Results for First Half of Fiscal Year 2011/12 (Germany)

    21 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    According to initial calculations, REpower Systems SE generated revenues of EUR 626.1 million in the first half of fis-cal year 2011/12 (1 April 2011 – 30 September 2011) – compared to EUR 499.0 million in the same period of the previous year. This corresponds to an increase of more than 25 percent. Total performance rose […]

  • World-First Hybrid Daughter Craft Coming to Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm

    30 September 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Great Yarmouth-based marine and engineering specialist Alicat has won a multi-million-pound contract with North Star Renewables to build a hybrid-powered daughter craft fleet to be used on the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm. Following a competitive tender involving multiple UK shipyards, Alicat has been awarded North Star’s initial contract to bring its first two daughter […]

  • First Installation Campaign at Largest Offshore Wind Farm Under Construction Falls Short

    24 December 2021
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    34 out of the 140 monopile foundations were installed at the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm offshore the Netherlands in the first installation campaign, falling short of the target set for 2021, Vattenfall said. The first offshore construction phase at the subsidy-free wind farm started in early July. The monopile foundations without transition […]

  • Starting shot fired for work on RWE’s first own offshore installation ship (Germany)

    9 September 2010
    R&D, Technology

    After successful completion of the detailed planning, construction has begun of RWE’s first own offshore installation ship with today’s steel cutting ceremony at the Korean shipyard of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. The first steel sections of the 100 metre long and 40 metre wide ship were cut to size under the eyes […]

  • New Project Proposed in Taranto Waters, Home of Italy’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    1 August 2023
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Wind Farm Update

    The Italian authorities are currently processing a concession application for a wind energy project in the waters off Taranto, where the country’s first offshore wind farm was built. While the wind turbines now spinning near the Port of Taranto stand on fixed-bottom foundations, the new application is for a project that would be built farther […]

  • Blue Water Shipping Loads First Gwynt Y Mor Turbine on Seatruck Pace

    4 February 2013

    In January, Blue Water Shipping loaded the ro/ro vessel “Seatruck Pace” at the Port of Esbjerg with the first turbines for the Offshore Wind Farm Gwynt Y Mor in Great Britain where a total of 160 turbines are to be installed. Blue Water has been awarded the transport contract of 130 turbines from Esbjerg to […]

  • SSE First Offshore Wind Developer in Ireland to Seek Consent for Onshore Grid Infrastructure

    21 April 2021
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    SSE Renewables has announced its intention to submit a planning application for the onshore grid infrastructure for the Arklow Bank 2 offshore wind farm. This is the first time an offshore wind developer will seek consent for this kind of infrastructure in Ireland. The company said it would submit the application in the coming weeks […]

  • Sweden: Vattenfall Presents First Annual Report for Ocean Energy R&D Programme

    21 May 2012
    R&D

    Since 2006, Vattenfall AB R&D Projects has been investigating the potential for ocean energy to offer a major new renewable energy source. In 2009 Vattenfall established a formal ocean energy programme.  Now – six years later – a first annual report has been created for the Ocean Energy Development Programme (OEDP). The report describes 2011’s achievements […]

  • Australia: Carnegie Wave Energy Receives First Payment for CETO Seawater Desalination Plant

    8 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (CWE) announces that it has received $142,692 as the first payment of its $1.27m AusIndustry grant to support a CETO Seawater Desalination Demonstration Pilot Plant. The first and subsequent grant payments support the design, construction and operation of a CETO powered Desalination Plant which will desalinate seawater to […]

  • All Turbines Up at First South Korean Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Farm

    18 December 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The final wind turbine has been installed at the Jeonnam 1 offshore wind farm in South Korea, the project’s wind turbine supplier Siemens Gamesa said via social media on 18 December. Jeonnam 1, which has a nominal installed capacity of 96 MW, features Siemens Gamesa SG 10.0-193 DD wind turbines and is expected to provide enough […]

  • Cadeler’s New Offshore Wind Installation Vessel Arrives in Rotterdam Ahead of First Deployment

    15 November 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Vessels

    Cadeler’s new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Wind Peak has arrived in Rotterdam and, according to its owner, is ready to commence the first mobilisation for a client. “It’s been 73 days since our newbuild Cadeler wind installation vessel left the shipyard in Qidong and crossed the ocean for the very first time. Since then, […]

  • DONG’s Massachusetts OW Project First in U.S. to Receive Site Assessment Plan Approval

    19 July 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has issued its first approval of an offshore wind Site Assessment Plan (SAP) to Bay State Wind, a utility-scale offshore wind project in Massachusetts located 15 nautical miles south of Martha’s Vineyard in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • RWE Building ‘World’s First’ Amphibious Vessel for Shallow Water Offshore Wind Farms

    3 March 2022
    Vessels

    German renewable energy company RWE has joined forces with Commercial Rib Charters (CRC) to build an amphibious crew transfer vessel (CTV) for reaching offshore wind farms in shallow waters, for which RWE said was a world-first. The vessel, currently being built by Diverse Marine and set to be operated by CRC for RWE under a […]

  • Centrica’s Offshore Wind Project Remains on Track to Generate First Power in 2012 (UK)

    17 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    As a result of the unusually warm weather experienced in the UK in recent months, and the corresponding impact on consumption, it is currently anticipated that Centrica’s 2011 earnings may be marginally lower than current market expectations, with the reduction in operating profits offset in part by lower interest and tax charges. Subject to weather […]

  • First Floating OSS Expected by 2030, But There Are Still Some Challenges, Semco Maritime Says

    10 July 2023
    Business development, Environment, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, R&D, Technology

    Semco Maritime is expecting the first floating offshore substation to happen by 2030, however, there are still some challenges to overcome before this becomes a reality, according to Jacob Øbo Sørensen, Senior Vice President for Renewables at the Danish company. Semco Maritime, together with ISC Consulting Engineers, Aalborg University, Energy Cluster Denmark, and Inocean, secured […]

  • UK Helps Develop India’s Offshore Wind, First Tendering Process Expected in 2018

    28 January 2016
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, R&D

    UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office is funding a project under which a consortium of three British consultancies will support the Government of India in setting up its offshore wind industry. IT Power Consulting, CmY Consultants and SeaChange Offshore will deliver a 10-month long project that is focusing on the delivery of a concession competition process for new offshore wind […]

  • First Transition Pieces for 2.6 GW CVOW Project Unloaded at US Port Site

    7 June 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The first transition pieces (TPs) destined for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project have been loaded in at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the US. In April, MV Sun Rise departed from the quayside of CS Wind Offshore in Aalborg, Denmark, loaded with six TPs for the 2.6 GW CVOW […]

  • ‘Victoria Mathias’ Installs First Foundations at Nordsee Ost Offshore Wind Farm (Germany)

    19 December 2012
    Wind Farm Update

    The first foundations at the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm have been installed. The main crane of the Victoria Mathias lifts the 550-tonne steel foundations into the water. Whith roughly 40- to 50-metre-long steel piles the foundations are fixed into the seafloor. Then a hydraulic hammer knocks them 40 metres into the earth. After that […]

  • Western Australia’s First Full-Scale Tidal Energy Project Receives Green Light

    22 July 2013
    Authorities

    Environment Minister Albert Jacob has given the green light to a proposal for Western Australia’s first full-scale tidal energy power station. The Tidal Energy Australia (TEA) proposal to build a station at Doctor’s Creek, near Derby, is designed to generate 40 megawatts of electricity – enough to power 10,000-15,000 homes. The proposal also includes the […]

  • Siemens LIDT Hands Over First China-Made Offshore Wind Turbine Transformer

    8 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Siemens’ Liquid-Immersed Distribution Transformers (LIDT) division has started the production of offshore wind turbine transformers in Jinan, China.

  • ScottishPower Renewables First to Achieve 1 GW Capacity From Wind Power in UK

    13 June 2011

      ScottishPower Renewables (SPR), part of the world’s largest wind power company Iberdrola*, has become the first developer in the UK to achieve one gigawatt (GW) of electricity production capacity from wind power. The milestone was achieved after the company officially opened Arecleoch (120MW) and Mark Hill (56MW) windfarms in South Ayrshire. SPR now has […]

  • Bowtech Supplies Vision System to Assist Installation of Scotland’s First Tidal Energy Project

    23 May 2012

    Bowtech Products Ltd. (‘Bowtech’), a market leading manufacturer and supplier of cameras, LED lighting, connectors, fiber optic multiplexers and slip rings for use in underwater or hazardous area applications, to any ocean depth, has announced that they have supplied a vision system, to assist the installation of Scotland’s first tidal energy project. The 1MW HS1000 […]