2774 results found for 'hywind tampen'

2774 results found for 'hywind tampen'
Order results by

A list of search results

  • Offshore Wind Vessel Developed with BEC Funding

    1 August 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D

    An innovative new vessel designed to cope with the most challenging conditions for crews servicing off-shore windfarms has been developed in West Cumbria with the support of an “Investing in Business” grant from Britain’s Energy Coast (BEC). The £90,000 grant has been awarded to Workington-based companies Coastal Charters – a small maritime business servicing the commercial sector – […]

  • 7.6 GW Offshore Wind Plan Gets State Regulator Approval in California

    27 August 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has finalised its plan to facilitate the state’s procurement of more than 10 GW of large-scale renewable energy and storage, including 7.6 GW of (floating) offshore wind. CPUC has voted to adopt a proposed decision from July, directing the Department of Water Resources (DWR) to procure electrical resources with […]

  • UK: Seacat Services Deepens European Offshore Wind Deployment

    5 August 2013

    Seacat Services, the class leading offshore wind transfer vessel operator, has successfully completed workboat charters and crew transfer contracts while operating in three European flag states. The milestone marks the first time that a UK charter firm that solely operates DNV-class certified vessels, has under taken work in three different European nations. A feat that […]

  • UK Bankrolls Self-Installing Floating Offshore Wind Project

    25 January 2022
    R&D, Technology

    The UK’s Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has granted GBP 10 million to technology partners – SENSEWind, Glosten, and Subsea Micropiles, and six delivery partners to design and construct a SENSE PelaStar floating wind turbine demonstrator off the coast of Scotland. The SENSE concept (stands for Self-Erecting Nacelle and Service) looks to […]

  • Wind Farms Prove Themselves in Practice

    2 September 2015

    A recent news item on the Dutch BNR Nieuwsradio covering the results of German-American research by the Max-Planck Institute on the efficiency of wind generation published in the scientific publication PNAS has caused surprise and concern among the Dutch wind energy industry. With a new political debate on wind energy in the Netherlands planned for […]

  • UK: Offshore Turbine Services Picks CTruk Boats’ Vessels

    29 March 2012

     Offshore Turbine Services Ltd is a new entrant into the rapidly expanding offshore wind turbine support market and having carried out a great deal of research, identified the CTruk Boats’ vessel as a very viable solution to all its needs so have two under construction and they are due to be in service shortly. OTS […]

  • Rhenus Midgard in Nordenham: Strong Partner for Energy Industry (Germany)

    11 September 2013

    Rhenus operates the largest publically accessible private port in Germany at Nordenham: the Rhenus Midgard terminal has developed into an important partner for power generation companies and their suppliers as a result of its transhipment and warehousing facilities. This applies to both conventional and renewable energy sources. Another company, TenneT, will start using the facilities […]

  • Seacat Ranger Heads to Westermost Rough after Naming Ceremony

    10 June 2014

    Following completion of inaugural sea trials in May, Seacat Ranger will embark on a string of European offshore wind farm charter contracts that will keep her under continuous, active charter until May 2015. Seacat Ranger is the latest 24-metre catamaran to join Seacat Services, a class leading offshore energy support vessel operator that now operates […]

  • OWA Releases Export Cable Design Recommendations to Prevent Failure

    11 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, R&D

    The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has published new recommendations for fibre optic cable design to mitigate the risk of export cable failure in offshore wind. The five key recommendations are: The optical fibres should be encompassed by a stainless steel tube and stainless-steel wire armour, with a combined resistance of no less than […]

  • BOEM Takes Big Step Towards Offshore Wind Power Development (USA)

    8 February 2012

    Echoing President Obama’s State of the Union call for additional clean energy development, the US DOI and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has taken a major step towards commercial-scale offshore wind energy leasing by streamlining the development of offshore wind power in the Mid-Atlantic and announcing a finding that issuing wind energy leases in […]

  • Replacement of M5000 nacelles at alpha ventus completed (Germany)

    12 October 2010
    Operations & Maintenance

    The replacement of the six AREVA wind nacelles has been completed at Germany’s first offshore windfarm, alpha ventus. All twelve wind power turbines can be put back into full operation. Work on the nacelle exchange began in September and was completed successfully today. An increase in the temperature of the sliding bearings of the AREVA […]

  • Offshore Wind in Asia: Following in Europe’s Footsteps?

    23 March 2021
    Business & Finance

    The following article is a guest post by Peter Thompson, East Asia Energy Leader at Arup, a global engineering and consultancy company. The article discusses the growing offshore wind sector in Asia, applying and refining lessons learned from Europe, as well as the region’s potential in floating wind. Asia’s offshore wind market is expected to […]

  • Ørsted, Eversource Greenlight 924 MW Sunrise Wind After Securing US Approval

    27 March 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The 924 MW Sunrise Wind offshore wind farm has received its Record of Decision (ROD) from the US Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). In addition, the project’s developers, Ørsted and Eversource, have taken a final investment decision (FID) on Sunrise Wind and will now advance with onshore construction activities. Located approximately […]

  • International Initiative to Strengthen Danish Offshore Wind Sector

    5 November 2012
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The EU has pledged to provide around € 1.9 million for the national innovation network Offshore Center Danmark to be used for a new 3-year project called ECOWindS. The project will gather knowledge of installation, operation and maintenance of offshore wind farms in the UK, Germany, Denmark and Norway with the aim of halving operation […]

  • Hamburg Messe und Congress Regrets Failure of Talks with Husumer Wirtschaftsgesellschaft (Germany)

    19 September 2012

    Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH (HMC) regrets the failure of the talks with Husumer Wirtschaftsgesellschaft mbH (HWG) which sought to achieve agreement on procedure for organisation of a wind energy fair. “Right up to the last minute we had been hoping for an agreement,” said Bernd Aufderheide, President and CEO of Hamburg Messe und Congress […]

  • Offshore Wind to Meet Space, Defence and Oil & Gas at OrbisEnergy

    15 November 2016
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels

    Sharing technologies and solutions between the growing offshore wind industry and the space, defence and oil & gas sectors will be the theme of an event at OrbisEnergy, Lowestoft. Lessons learned in the more mature industries to help the developing offshore wind business across the UK will be aired by experts at the event which will […]

  • Vattenfall: Dolphins Unfazed by Offshore Wind Construction Work

    16 May 2023

    Concerns have been raised that the installation of the monopiles of the Vesterhav North wind farm offshore Denmark could cause a small pod of dolphins to leave the area. The dolphins have, however, neither left the area nor have they changed their behaviour, Vattenfall, the owner and developer of the wind farm, said. In 2020, […]

  • First Seacat Services Apprentices Successfully Graduate

    23 September 2015
    Training & Education, Vessels

    The first group of young seafarers has graduated from Seacat Services’ Maritime Apprenticeship programme. The successful graduates have taken the first step towards long-term careers in the offshore energy sector and will now discuss future career opportunities with Seacat Services. The year-long apprenticeship programme, which was introduced last year and is set to continue with a fresh […]

  • UK: Moog to Supply Narec with Wind Turbine Test System

    24 May 2012
    Technology

    Moog Industrial Group announced that the company has been awarded a contract to supply a test system to Narec (National Renewable Energy Centre) to evaluate and test wind turbine blades at their new 100 m (328 ft) blade testing facility in Blyth, Northumberland, UK. Opening this summer, the independent facility will be utilized by manufacturers […]

  • BOEM Opens Door for Wave Energy Testing Offshore Oregon

    20 June 2014
    Authorities

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has taken an important step toward issuing a research lease for a facility to test utility-scale wave energy devices in federal waters off Oregon. The non-competitive lease would be for the offshore area where the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center at Oregon State University (Center) would site […]

  • Ørsted Takes EUR 4 Billion Impairment Hit

    1 November 2023
    Business & Finance

    Due to adverse impacts relating to supply chain delays, increased interest rates, and the lack of an Offshore Wind Renewable Energy Credit (OREC) on Sunrise Wind, Ørsted has recognised impairment losses of DKK 28.4 billion (about EUR 3.8 billion) in the first nine months of 2023. The majority of impairment losses, DKK 19.9 billion, relate […]

  • A Wind Farm in Deep Water off the U.S. Coast

    22 December 2010
    Business & Finance

    Deepwater Wind, a company based in Providence, Rhode Island, has drawn up plans for what could be the largest wind farm in U.S. waters, the company announced last week. The proposed farm would generate a huge 1,000 megawatts of power and would be located 18 to 27 miles off the coast of Rhode Island and […]

  • The Switch 5 MW Drive Train Operating in Chinese Offshore Wind Project

    4 March 2013

    The Switch, a Finland-based supplier of permanent magnet generator (PMG) and full-power converter (FPC) packages, announced today that its first 5 MW high-speed drive trains installed in the field in China for CSIC (Chongqing) Haizhuang Windpower Equipment Co., Ltd (HZ Windpower), a Chinese wind power equipment manufacturer, are now successfully operating. The turbines operate continuously […]

  • G20: IRENA Lists Cues for Action to Boost Energy Transition with Offshore Renewables

    30 July 2021
    Authorities, Industry

    Boosting offshore renewables will accelerate the energy transition and allow G20 countries to build a resilient and sustainable energy system, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has found. The report has also outlined specific courses of action to make this happen. The report titled Offshore Renewables: An Action Agenda for Deployment […]

  • ETI Project Shows Vertical Axis Offshore Wind Turbines Could Provide Alternative to Conventional Horizontal Designs (UK)

    28 February 2011
    R&D

    Vertical axis wind turbines could provide a credible alternative to traditional horizontal offshore turbines in some circumstances, according to a project commissioned by the Energy Technologies Institute. The £2.8m Nova project, a UK-based consortia of Wind Power Limited, OTM Consulting, Cranfield University, , the University of Strathclyde, Sheffield University, James Ingram & Associates, CEFAS and […]

  • Research and Markets Offers Another Offshore Wind Report

    18 September 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Research and Markets has added the “Analyzing the Potential of Offshore Wind Energy – 2014” report to their offering. This research brings a complete in-depth focus on the global offshore wind energy industry in its report – Analyzing the Potential of Offshore Wind Energy. The report begins with an exploration of the importance of wind […]