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  • FLiDAR Looking for Offshore Logistics & Technical Manager

    17 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    To support the ongoing contracts and foreseen commercial opportunities, FLiDAR has announced that it aims to strengthen its team with an offshore logistics & technical manager. The ideal candidate has relevant offshore experience to oversee the deployment of FLiDAR devices. He adopts existing procedures quickly and creates new ones where necessary, taking safety standards into account. During interventions he will be […]

  • ENECO: Touring the Dutch offshore wind farms

    22 December 2014

    On a bright Sunday morning August 31st around 450 persons gathered in the Felison terminal of the DFDS Seaways in the port of IJmuiden where the Princess Seaways cruise liner was waiting to take them on a day trip to the Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm, Dutch utility Eneco’s second offshore wind farm in Dutch […]

  • TenneT Seeks Offshore Wind Farm Services

    3 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    TenneT TSO GmbH has invited tenders for offshore wind farm services as part of authorisation for planning approval process, divided into: engineering, environmental professional planning, and project coordination. The required services throughout the planning approval process for an offshore wind power connection systems comprise 2 phase elements. Phase 1: These services are to be provided […]

  • China Scales Down Offshore Wind Estimates

    23 October 2014
    Authorities

    China is scaling back its offshore wind ambitions, said Li Peng from National Energy Administration (NEA) at China Wind Power 2014 in Beijing. According to NEA, the forecast for 2015 is cut down to 2GW and 10GW by 2020, comparing to the initial plan of installing 5GW and 30GW of offshore wind power. Peng named cost and […]

  • Massive Offshore Wind Event Comes to Aberdeen

    8 January 2015

    Scotland’s largest offshore wind and supply chain event comes to Aberdeen this month. Businesses from across Europe will flock to the city on January 27 and 28 to discuss hot topics like the Contracts for Difference funding regime, cutting-edge technology innovations and the huge amount of post-consent work still to be undertaken. Every major commercial […]

  • VIDEO: Behind the Offshore Wind Maintenance Scene

    5 January 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    During high waves, storm and hail, André Carstens goes out to sea to maintain offshore wind plants. Maintenance requires courage, experience and technical know-how. Acrophobia and seasickness have no place there. “This is not a job for sissies. It is a hard job,” Carstens emphasized. Check out this video for better insight in offshore wind maintenance: […]

  • Hartlepool Hoping to Take Part in Offshore Wind

    26 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Hartlepool is ideally placed to take advantage of opportunities offered in offshore wind industry, said Councillor Christopher Akers-Belcher responding to question submitted at a full council meeting. Resident Steve Latimer claim after failing to realize Tees Valley Regeneration’s £1billion Victoria Harbour project in 2010, the  Local Enterprise Partnerships said it will focus on bringing offshore […]

  • Offshore Wind Wise Investment for North Carolina

    5 December 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment

    The carbon pollution from five coal plants could be eliminated in North Carolina if wind power is developed off the North Carolina coast, according to a new analysis by Environment North Carolina Research and Policy Center. The report comes right as Congress considers whether to renew tax credits critical to wind development. “Wind energy is […]

  • Siemens Erects 6MW Offshore Turbine on Land

    3 December 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    Siemens has installed two of its SWT-6.0-154 offshore wind turbines at an onshore site in Wehlens near Wilhelmshaven. This represents the first onshore installation of 6MW offshore turbines, however it is already being installed at 210MW Westermost Rought offshore wind farm. Project owner Bioenergie Nord GmbH and planning engineering agency Pommer & Schwarz selected the […]

  • Njord Offshore Gets Strategic’s ‘Triple First’

    30 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Strategic Marine has delivered StratCat, a multi-purpose service vessel to Njord Offshore, a European wind farm service sector operator. The StratCat, capable of transporting up to 24 crew, is first in its class in three particulars. “We are very pleased to have a supplied a ‘triple first’ to our client,” explains Reece Newbold, Group Business Development Manager […]

  • India to Evaluate Its Offshore Wind Potential

    20 March 2015
    Technology

    India’s Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) has launched a tender for the supply of Light Detection And Ranging Instruments (LiDARs) for sites off the coast of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. The tender is run under FOWIND project which aims to facilitate offshore wind power development in India and in turn contribute […]

  • Japan Launches 1.42GW Offshore Wind Study

    18 March 2015
    Authorities

    In a bid to develop more offshore wind the Japanese Environment Ministry has selected three sites with combined capacity of 1.42GW. Iwate Prefecture and the town of Hirono were selected by the ministry to study community acceptance and environmental impact on the construction of a 200MW offshore wind farm. Also, the authorities in the city […]

  • Siemens Unveils 7MW Offshore Wind Turbine

    11 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Siemens has presented its new SWT-7.0-154 wind turbine at EWEA Offshore conference in Copenhagen.  After setting standards with its flagship 6MW offshore wind turbine, the SWT-6.0-154, Siemens today introduced a generator upgrade to seven megawatt (MW), the new Siemens SWT-7.0-154. The turbine delivers nearly ten percent more energy production than the predecessor under offshore wind conditions, […]

  • Njord Offshore Takes Delivery of 26m Vessel

    2 March 2015
    Vessels

    Njord Offshore has taken delivery of its latest crew vessels. Delivered today, Njord Odin is the first out of four 26m IPS Class vessel to be delivered this year. The vessel, capable of transferring 12 passengers and four crew members,  is expected to undergo sea-trials this month. Njord Offshore manages crew transfer vessels for the offshore […]

  • MacArtney Equips Freja for Offshore Wind Ops

    31 March 2017
    Vessels

    Following the recent launch of a new drill ship Freja in Denmark, MacArtney informed that it had provided a turnkey solution for the vessel, enabling the execution of advanced geotechnical drilling techniques and site investigations in water depths of up to 60m.

  • Offshore WIND Conference 2017 Theme Announced

    17 March 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    The organization of Offshore WIND Conference 2017 has announced their theme for OWC 2017: Leading the way!

  • Dong Locates Seven UXO Offshore Britain

    25 August 2015

    Dong Energy has found seven unexploded bombs at one of its offshore wind farm sites. According to the local media, UXO have been found on the seabed of The Wash through which the export cables will be laid from the wind farm to the substation in Walpole. The Danish company is building a 75-turbine Race […]

  • EPSRC Funds Project to Improve Offshore Wind

    14 August 2015

    The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has announced the funding of MAXFARM, a three-year project to improve the reliability, lifespan and efficiency of offshore wind farms. The consortium includes researchers from Imperial College London’s Department of Aeronautics alongside other academic institutions and a number of commercial partners. MAXFARM (MAXimizing wind Farm Aerodynamic Resource via […]

  • OPT Deploys PB40 Offshore New Jersey

    28 July 2015
    Technology

    Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. has deployed its PB40 PowerBuoy off the coast of New Jersey. The deployment is OPT’s first since late 2013 and is a critical step in its intensified efforts to commercialize its technology. The PB40 PowerBuoy weighs 130 tons, is 110 feet in length, operates in 45 meters or more of water, […]

  • Siemens Turbines Rule Offshore Wind in 2015

    22 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) annual rankings, Siemens was the number one offshore wind turbine manufacturer last year by a wide margin. The company commissioned 2.6GW in 2015, more than four times the second-ranked Adwen, a joint venture between Gamesa and Areva, BNEF said. Offshore wind statistics published by EWEA have also shown Siemens’ […]

  • New England Taps Into Offshore Wind Power

    18 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    A regional transmission organization ISO New England Inc. (ISO-NE) had ran a capacity auction to procure the resources that will be needed to meet New England’s projected demand in 2019-2020, and purchased 6.8MW of capacity from Deepwater Wind’s Block Island offshore wind farm, among others.  New England’s annual capacity auction concluded on 8 February with sufficient resources to meet the […]

  • Second Offshore Wind Farm Decommissioning on the Way

    9 February 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy is preparing to decommission world’s first offshore wind farm, located off Danish island of Lolland. After 25 years of operation, Vindeby’s turbines are worn down and therefore the company is preparing to retire the wind farm, said Leif Winther, who is responsible for DONG Energy’s Danish offshore wind farms. In the summer of 1991, the 4.95MW […]

  • H145 Helicopter Passes Offshore Wind Test

    5 February 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    Following a two-day flight trial in late January, the H145 helicopter has proved its operational capabilities for offshore missions. Airbus Helicopters reported today that aviation companies Wiking Helikopter Service GmbH and HTM Offshore have tested its twin-engine multipurpose helicopter H145 in all the relevant fields of offshore operations. The flight test programme included missions such as approaching […]

  • TenneT Shelves Offshore Maintenance Centre Plan

    3 February 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance

    TenneT has abandoned its plan for the construction of an Offshore Maintenance Centre (OMC) in the north of the Netherlands for the time being. The company had planned to set up the OMC as a base for maintenance work on the transformer platforms and offshore grid connections for German and future Dutch offshore wind farms north of the Wadden Sea. Since […]

  • Offshore ReWIND: The Most Read News of 2015

    31 December 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The Offshore WIND staff thought that the New Year’s Day would be the perfect time to let you – our readers – be editors and compile a list of news you found the most interesting and worth a read in 2015. DONG Energy Seeks Technical and Consultancy Staff for Danish Projects DONG Energy has invited tenders for temporary […]

  • Dutch Senate In Session, Offshore Wind On Hold

    22 December 2015
    Authorities

    The Dutch Senate is currently in session, discussing the Stroom draft bill, under which TenneT would be in charge of construction of the offshore grid for the connection of offshore wind farms.  The bill also regulates the split of electricity companies, as the Dutch government wants to unbundle energy producers from power distributors. The country’s minister of economic affairs, Henk Kamp, […]