335 results found for 'norfolk zone'

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  • Ørsted Streamlines Hornsea Project Three

    12 February 2018
    Environment, Grid Connection, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has published updated plans for the proposed Hornsea Project Three offshore wind farm, highlighting the changes that have been made as a result of feedback received through consultation events, one-to-one meetings and wider briefings with statutory bodies and interested parties. 

  • Iberdrola Renovables creates Offshore Wind Division

    2 March 2010

    IBERDROLA RENOVABLES has created a Offshore Wind Division to develop a major portfolio of offshore wind projects awarded the Company that totals close to 10,000 MW around the world.

  • Statoil: Dudgeon Comes In On Time and Under Budget, All Turbines Now Producing

    7 September 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    All 67 Siemens 6MW turbines on the 402MW Dudgeon wind farm off Norfolk are now producing electricity, according to Statoil, the operator and part owner of the offshore wind farm.

  • Sheringham Shoal Extends Tidal Transit Contract

    24 March 2015
    Vessels

    Tidal Transit has recently received an extension of the contract for its vessel Ginny Louise from Statkraft, the Norwegian company that running the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm. This follows the current extension for its sister vessel, Tia Elizabeth. For almost three years one or more of Tidal Transit’s personnel transfer vessels (PTVs) have been […]

  • Global Wind Service On East Anglia ONE Tower Duty

    11 February 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Gamesa has contracted wind turbine installation and service company Global Wind Service (GWS) to assemble all 102 towers for the East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm in the UK. The towers will be assembled at the Norfolk port of Great Yarmouth ahead of their load-out and installation offshore as part of the wind farm […]

  • DONG Energy Preparing for Race Bank’s Cable Connection

    6 April 2016
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Works on connecting Race Bank wind farm’s offshore cables to the ones on land at a landfall site north of Sutton Bridge should start this month, DONG Energy reported in its project newsletter. Landfall works will be done with a specific approach, since the area comprises a saltmarsh and a sea defence bank. DONG Energy has developed the site-specific […]

  • UK: RWE Selects Preferred Locations for Triton Knoll’s Electrical Infrastructure

    26 June 2013
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    One of the UK’s leading renewable energy developers and operators today announced the preferred locations for the onshore infrastructure for the proposed offshore wind farm Triton Knoll. If built, Triton Knoll could generate enough clean energy to power hundreds of thousands of homes. It is also estimated that Triton Knoll could create 500 UK jobs […]

  • Ecosse Subsea to Prepare Hornsea One Seabed for Export Cable

    20 September 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Tideway, a subsidiary of DEME, has awarded Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) a seabed clearance contract for Hornsea Project One export cables. ESS will deploy its SCAR2 Seabed System along a 25-metre corridor from an anchor handling vessel. 

  • Peter Sutton of Dong Energy Signs Up for SNS2014

    5 February 2014

    DONG Energy’s Peter Sutton has joined the line-up of international speakers at the SNS2014 Conference and Exhibition in Norwich next month. He became Head of UK Operations-East for the global energy giant last autumn, shortly before Dong announced it was taking over a project for the Racebank windfarm 17 miles off the Norfolk coast. Regional […]

  • DOW Receives Permission for Necton Onshore Substation (UK)

    1 October 2012
    Authorities, Grid Connection

    Dudgeon Offshore Wind Limited (DOW), a subsidiary of Warwick Energy Limited, has today received planning permission from Breckland Council to build and operate an onshore substation near Necton, Norfolk, together with an associated buried cable route spur. The substation is needed to connect the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm (Dudgeon) project to the national electrical transmission […]

  • Edda Passat Drops Anchor in Grimsby

    7 March 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Service Operations Vessel (SOV) Edda Passat has arrived in Grimsby ahead of deployment on Ørsted’s Race Bank offshore wind farm in the UK.

  • EEEGR Hosts East Anglia ONE Supply Chain Event

    23 July 2015
    Training & Education

    Contract opportunities on the £2bn East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm were outlined by ScottishPower Renewables and turbine suppliers Siemens to more than 500 business people at an event in Norfolk. East Anglia ONE aims to create up to 3,000 jobs with at least 50% of its content sourced in the UK. The blades for […]

  • DONG Energy’s UK East Coast Community Fund Benefit Area Mapped Out

    10 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    UK community fund administrator GrantScape has, on behalf of DONG Energy, issued a preliminary map showing which coastal communities in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Norfolk Coast stand to benefit from the GBP 9.3 million East Coast Community Fund.  The East Coast Community Fund is being set up to ensure that local people benefit from the operation of two […]

  • Tia Elizabeth Goes Straight to Work on Arrival in UK

    3 September 2013

    The crew of Tidal Transit’s third personnel transfer vessel, the Tia Elizabeth, flew out to the shipyard in Cartagena in Spain in late August to sail her up from the Mediterranean. She left Cartagena for the port of Grimsby on 22 August. Tia Elizabeth has immediately gone to work on a short contract for RES […]

  • UK: Tidal Transit to Charter Eden Rose Workboat to Scira

    21 May 2012

    From 28 May 2012, Scira Offshore Energy, the company developing the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm [88 turbines between 9-17 miles off the coast of North Norfolk,] is to charter Eden Rose, one of Tidal Transit’s innovative wind farm personnel and equipment transfer boats, to service the site development. The Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm […]

  • Photo of the Day: Where’s the Wind Farm?

    10 March 2016

    Given the everlasting concern of visual impact that offshore wind farms might have, especially with regard to tourist destinations, Offshore WIND decided to feature this photo of the Sheringham Shoal wind farm, or rather the absence of it from the horizon. The wind farm comprises 88 Siemens 3.6MW turbines, located in the Greater Wash, between 17 and 23 […]

  • UK: Vattenfall, ScottishPower Invest GBP 15 Million in East Anglia Region

    25 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall and ScottishPower Renewables, joint venture partners behind the East Anglia Offshore Wind Zone, have awarded over £15m in contracts to businesses operating in East Anglia. Since 2010, 28 firms located in the region have benefited and it is estimated that this has helped support well over of 100 jobs. In November last year the […]

  • Equinor Delays Applying for Norfolk Offshore Wind Farm Extensions DCO

    5 October 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Equinor has decided to extend the preapplication period for its Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind farm extensions, off the Norfolk coast, and now plans to apply for the Development Consent Order (DCO) for the projects by early summer 2022, instead of this year. The developer said extending the preapplication period would allow time to […]

  • UK: Achieving Government’s Consent Important Milestone for Race Bank Project

    6 July 2012
    Wind Farm Update

    Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, today announced that its proposed Race Bank offshore wind farm project has received consent from the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The project, which is subject to final investment approval, could meet the equivalent annual electricity demand of over 450,000 homes. Race Bank has been consented for […]

  • Ørsted Allots GBP 75,000 in Skills Fund First Round

    11 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment, R&D, Technology

    Ørsted has announced the winners of the first round of its new GBP 75,000 Skills Fund, a part of the company’s GBP 465,000 East Coast Community Fund.

  • Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm Growing Roots

    5 April 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    The crane vessel Oleg Strashnov has installed the first monopile at the Dudgeon offshore wind farm, located off Norfolk, England. “Our team and suppliers have worked hard to prepare for the exciting installation phase and we are pleased to progress according to plan,” said Olav-Bernt Haga, project director for the Dudgeon project. In total, 67 turbines, as well […]

  • MOD Pushes for Wind-Farm-Friendly Radars (UK)

    13 January 2012

    The MOD has agreed a deal for energy companies to fund new wind-farm-friendly radars, with the potential to unlock more than four gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy – enough to power over two million homes. A new Air Defence Radar that is not adversely affected by wind farms has been installed and tested on the […]

  • Last Turbine Installed at Sheringham Shoal, UK

    11 July 2012
    Wind Farm Update

    The final blade of the eighty-eighth and last wind turbine at the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm was bolted into place marking one of the few remaining milestones in the construction of this 317MW project in the Greater Wash off the coast of North Norfolk.  The team on-board jack-up ‘Seajacks Leviathan’ completed the installation of […]

  • UK: Six Major OW Players to Show Why Offshore Wind Works

    11 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Six operators constructing and operating wind farms off the Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex coasts will come together to emphasise the industry’s importance on 19 November at OrbisEnergy in Lowestoft. Offshore Wind Works, one of a series of events around the UK in Offshore Wind Week, facilitated by EEEGR, will see the six major offshore wind […]

  • Top News of the Week May 30 – Jun 5, 2016

    5 June 2016

    Timelapse: Dudgeon Foundation Eased Into Place Statoil has shared a timelapse video of one of 67 foundations for the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm being installed in the UK part of the North Sea. Sandbank Partners Streamlining Turbine Installation Process Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München (SWM), together with project partner Siemens, have developed an optimised concept […]

  • Equinor Moving Forward with Wind Farm Sequels Offshore UK

    20 May 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Equinor is preparing to begin its public consultations with Norfolk communities on its proposed wind farm extension projects planned to be built adjacent to the company’s existing offshore wind farms off the North Norfolk coast. The existing Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind farms provide renewable electricity for 750,000 UK homes, Equinor said. The Sheringham […]