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  • Green Port Hull On Track

    29 December 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    Construction work on the Green Port Hull Alexandra Dock site is progressing well and is on schedule for an early 2017 completion, Associated British Ports (ABP) has announced. The 54-acre site, which ABP and its main contractor GRAHAM Lagan Construction Group Joint Venture (JV) are preparing for Siemens’ offshore wind turbine manufacturing facility, is being […]

  • Crowd Energy to Launch Kickstarter Campaign

    6 February 2014

    Crowd Energy, having completed construction and successful testing of its first generation prototype of the Ocean Energy Turbine, will launch a major Kickstarter campaign in March 2014 to construct a second generation turbine and move the project to (SNMREC) Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center at Florida Atlantic University for verification and open water testing. […]

  • EOWDC 2 – Trump 0

    5 June 2015
    Authorities

    Donald Trump has lost its latest legal challenge over an 11-turbine wind farm offshore Aberdeen. This was the second challenge to the approval of Vattenfall’s up to 100MW offshore wind project by Scottish ministers. Trump argued the wind turbines are ugly and would ruin the view from his Aberdeen golf resort. However, Scotland’s most senior judge, […]

  • Study on Horns Rev 1 OWF’s Effect on Fish Published

    29 May 2015
    Environment, R&D

    Scientists from the National Institute of Aquatic Resources at Technical University of Denmark have studied long-term effects of Horns Rev 1 offshore wind farm in the North Sea on fish communities.  The results were published yesterday in Inter-Research’s Marine Ecology Progress Series. The study investigated offshore wind farm’s effect on fish abundance, diversity and spatial distribution. Surveys were conducted in […]

  • Laing O’Rourke Preferred Bidder for Swansea Tidal Project

    25 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Laing O’Rourke has been named as preferred bidder for the ~£200M contract to deliver Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon’s 410 metre turbine house and sluice structure block. This element of the build will require up to 500 workers at peak construction, a substantial number of whom will be local to South Wales. Concrete, reinforcing and other materials […]

  • Waypoint North Takes Off

    11 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Waypoint North is a newly established consultancy company specializing in the offshore aviation segment within the Offshore Wind and Oil & Gas industry. “The demand for offshore aviation expertise is expected to increase as offshore wind projects are moving further offshore into harsher marine environments,” says Managing Director Johan Hansen. “We are seeing a large […]

  • UK Renewable Industry to Create 50,000 Jobs Says UK Knack Group

    11 January 2011
    Jobs & Recruitment

    Prestige executive careers consultancy UK Knack Group has announced the gathering in the Granite City of more than 30 captains of industry for a summit meeting on renewable energy. Energy Minister Alex Salmond was at pains to point out that Scotland’s offshore energy capacity could create 50,000 jobs in the next 10 years and inject […]

  • Bay State Wind Offers Environmental Grants

    11 April 2018
    Environment

    Massachusetts-based offshore wind developer Bay State Wind plans to provide more than USD 2 million in grants for research and programs to protect New England’s fisheries and whale populations.

  • FoundOcean Completes Substation Foundation Grouting for Walney 2 (UK)

    31 August 2011
    Wind Farm Update

    FoundOcean, contracted to Volker Staal en Funderingen BV (VSF), has completed the offshore grouting operations for Walney Offshore Wind Farm (OWF) Phase 2 substation installation. The substation jacket is a four-legged steel structure with one pile sleeve per leg. The jacket was secured to the seabed by injecting grout into the annuli between the pile […]

  • Application Deadline Approaches for Funding UK Offshore Wind Feasibility Studies

    17 December 2012
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D

    Innovative UK companies are invited to bid for Government funding of up to £11.2m for feasibility studies, development and demonstration projects and knowledge transfer  partnerships that stimulate innovation in the UK offshore wind and marine energy supply chains. Grant funding of £10m, from the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board and the Department of […]

  • Taiwan Pushes West Coast Wind Farms Further Offshore

    29 December 2016
    Authorities, Environment, R&D

    Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) has issued a set of regulations to minimise the impact of offshore wind projects on local fauna, according to local media. The new regulations, set out in a document titled “Offshore Wind Power Development”, stipulate that the wind farms off the west coast of Taiwan must be located at least 1,000 meters […]

  • Ørsted Picks Greater Changhua Geophysical Surveyor

    24 April 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has signed a contract with Taiwan-based EGST to conduct three geophysical surveys at the offshore site of the Greater Changhua wind project in Taiwan.

  • Germany: AMBAU to Construct Largest Offshore Wind Tower

    10 July 2013

    July will see construction begin at the AMBAU site in Cuxhaven, Germany of the largest offshore tower ever built for a wind turbine, measuring 7.33 metres at the base flange. Consisting of four segments, the tower will have a total height of 106 metres; the largest segment can only be manufactured at Cuxhaven due to […]

  • First Subsea Connects Fukushima Floating Wind Farm Wires

    6 January 2015
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Subsea connector specialist, First Subsea, has supplied cable connectors for the second phase of the Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Farm Demonstration, offshore Japan. Two First Subsea connectors have been used to connect 22kV cables to the facility’s floating 66kV power substation, in preparation for the arrival of a 7MW wind turbine in Phase 3, and […]

  • Fugro Wins Sheringham Shoal OWF Contract (UK)

    20 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, R&D

    Scira Offshore Energy Limited has commissioned Fugro EMU to perform hydrographic and geophysical monitoring surveys at the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm site and along the export cable and transit routes. The wind farm site, consisting of 88 offshore wind turbine generators and two offshore substations, is located approximately 20 kilometres off the UK’s Norfolk […]

  • UK: New Sector Lights Pave Way for Aberdeen Harbour’s Key Role in Offshore Wind

    6 December 2012

    A Vega VLS-46 sector light, supplied to Aberdeen Harbour by Hydrosphere, has played a major part in facilitating the successful completion of the harbour’s £5.2m dredging operation, paving the way for the harbour to play a key role in offshore wind developments. The harbour is already the centre of activity for the energy industry’s marine […]

  • Germany: Seafox Group Successfully Starts Operations in Offshore Wind Industry

    5 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    After months of careful planning and detailed engineering, the Seafox 5  installed the first offshore wind monopile on February 28th. These  monopiles serve as the foundations of the  DanTysk Offshore Wind Park. The main contractor for the foundations of this wind farm is Aarsleff Billfinger Berger Joint Venture (ABJV) that, with use of the Seafox […]

  • Cromarty Firth Port Hosts Fabrication and Assembly of New Power Device (UK)

    10 May 2011

      The Invergordon Service Base has played host to the fabrication and assembly of the next generation wave power device. The Powerbuoy ®, PB150, is the largest and most powerful designed to date by Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) and with a peak rated power output of 150KW, would produce enough energy to supply 150 homes. […]

  • UK: South Tyneside at Centre of Green Energy Revolution

    1 May 2012

    Installation of the 20,000MW of offshore wind turbines in the UK as a part of the announced green energy revolution sweeping its way through the country will push its way ahead through the South Tyneside as well, the core of the North East’s incipient low-carbon economy, nebusiness informed. “South Tyneside is a perfect fit for […]

  • UK Ranks Fifth on Potential Renewable Energy Markets List

    29 February 2012

    Projects in Scotland have helped the UK climb to fifth on a list ranking the potential renewable energy markets of 40 countries. The UK had been sixth on Ernst & Young’s quarterly Renewable energy country attractiveness indices. Announcements on what has been described as the world’s largest offshore wind farm and also marine projects helped […]

  • MTS Backs Damen During ‘Maersk Connector’ Sea Trials

    9 February 2016
    Vessels

    Following the delivery of Maersk Connector, Marine and Towage Services Group Ltd. (MTS) reported that it had supported Damen during sea trials of its latest offshore cabling vessel. During comprehensive sea trials of the vessel in early 2016, the multi-purpose tug MTS Vigilant undertook anchor handling work to test the capabilities of the new vessel’s mooring […]

  • Fire Breaks Out on CTV at Nordsee Ost Offshore Wind Farm

    16 November 2017
    Vessels

    On the morning of 15 November, a fire broke out in the engine room of the crew transfer vessel (CTV) World Calima that was operating at the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm. Eight wind farm technicians and five crew members were aboard the CTV at the time and nobody was hurt during the incident.

  • Fugro Gearing Up for UXO Hunt at Beatrice

    22 August 2016
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Fugro is getting ready to carry out a survey for unexploded ordnance (UXO) across the development zone of the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm located in the Outer Moray Firth off the east coast of Scotland. Fugro will deploy three survey vessels,  Fugro Helmert, Fugro Frontier, and Meridian to carry out the survey, Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL), the developer of […]

  • Granada Reels In Nissum Bredning Crane Deal

    6 September 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has awarded the Manchester company Granada Material Handling Ltd with a davit crane contract for the 28MW Nissum Bredning offshore wind farm off Denmark.

  • Goldwind Installs ZephIR Lidar on 6MW Turbine Prototype

    12 April 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    China’s Goldwind Science & Technology has installed the wind lidar system ZephIR DM by Beijing New Energy Technology Ltd. (BNET) on the company’s 6MW prototype offshore wind turbine. Goldwind has confirmed that ZephIR lidar systems will be used to measure power curves and to understand the effects of wind flow propagation on the performance of the prototype […]

  • Siemens Choses GL for 6 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Certification (Germany)

    15 June 2011

    GL Renewables Certification (GL) has been chosen by Siemens Wind Power for the type certification of their 6 MW direct drive offshore wind turbine. The Type Certification will be carried out according to the International Standard IEC 61400-22, and the “Guideline for the Certification of Wind Turbines”, Edition 2010, GL. In general the certification confirms […]