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  • Offshore Marine Academy Launches Subsea Cables Course

    27 April 2015

    Offshore Marine Academy (OMA) has unveiled a brand new course for 2015 tailored to address the knowledge and skills gap in subsea power cable operations. OMA’s ‘Understanding Subsea Power Cables’ course, which launched earlier this month, will ensure personnel are trained in the use of subsea power cables as well as understand the problems and […]

  • ZephIR to Boost Lincs Offshore Wind Farm’s Performance

    16 April 2015

    ZephIR Lidar has installed a turbine-mounted ZephIR DM wind lidar on the 270 MW Lincs Offshore Wind Farm located five miles off the Skegness coast It is anticipated that the installation of the lidar unit will help to identify opportunities where a possible improvement to production from the installed 75 Siemens 3.6 MW wind turbine […]

  • Three Dalby Offshore’s Vessels to Work on Greater Gabbard

    9 April 2015
    Vessels

    Dalby Offshore’s vessels Wharfe, Aire & Humber have won a contract to work on the Greater Gabbard Wind Farm for SSE, modifying the davits on 117 turbines. The contract is set to last until the end of 2015. The vessels have been mobilising for the job for the past few weeks and are now ready to start […]

  • 2015 Offshore WIND Vessel Directory Launches at Seawork

    11 June 2015
    Vessels

    The 2015 edition of the Offshore WIND Vessel Directory will be launched on Tuesday 16th June during Seawork International in Southampton. The Vessel Directory is a new publication from the Offshore WIND group of products. This year’s edition builds upon the previous overview of operating wind farm support vessels in the European offshore wind industry now including information on WTIVs , […]

  • DoE Issues RFI on Facilitating Offshore Wind in U.S.

    20 May 2015
    Authorities, R&D

    U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind and Water Power Technology Office (WWPTO) has issued a request for information (RFI) on facilitating the development of offshore wind energy in the United States.    WWPTO seeks input from any of the stakeholders in the broader U.S. offshore wind energy community. The purpose of the RFI is to solicit feedback from […]

  • Cape Cod Community College to Discuss Offshore Wind

    20 May 2015

    Cape Cod Community College will host a forum on Thursday as part of the “Big Choices” series. The forum titled “Big Choices: Offshore Wind and Community Benefit” aims to accelerate community-based progress toward a sustainable energy future, according to Cape Cod. President of the Board for Cape & Islands Self-Reliance Chris Powicki said, “Part of […]

  • Hiab Cranes to Make Offshore Wind Debut in China

    21 February 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Load handling equipment manufacturer Hiab, part of Cargotec, has signed a contract to supply a minimum of 100 HIAB light-range loader cranes for a wind turbine manufacturer in China.

  • KCI Extends Chinese Offshore Wind Contract Scope

    15 February 2017
    Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    Beijing-based Huadian Heavy Industries has extended KCI the Engineers’ scope for the offshore wind contract awarded last December.

  • SeaRoc Launches Communications System for Far Offshore Projects

    6 February 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    SeaRoc Group has provided what the company calls ”a unique communications and logistic data solution” for DONG Energy Wind Power, with its first deployment on the UK-based Race Bank offshore wind farm.

  • UK Offshore Wind Innovation Hub Gets to Work

    25 January 2017
    R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    The Offshore Wind Innovation Hub (OWIH) has launched its first programme, the Offshore Wind Innovation Exchange (OWIX), the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult reports. The news of the first programme being launched was announced on Wednesday, 25 January, at the Rushlight Show Cleantech Conference by Nick Hurd, UK’s Minister of State for Climate Change and Industry […]

  • Taiwanese Delegation Visits Danish Offshore Wind Sites

    22 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    A Taiwanese offshore delegation interested in enhancing cooperation between the Danish offshore hub and Taiwan recently visited Denmark. Invited and hosted by Offshoreenergy.dk, the delegation visited the MHI Vestas and Siemens pre-assembly sites at the Port of Esbjerg, as well as the wind turbines at Maade (near Esbjerg) and LORC on Funen, Denmark. Offshoreenergy.dk initiated cooperation between […]

  • Hitachi Unveils HTW5.2-136 Offshore Wind Turbine

    8 September 2016
    Technology

    Hitachi has developed a 5MW offshore wind turbine generator system, the HTW5.2-136, with a downwind configuration. Hitachi has increased the rated power of the new HTW5.2-136 5MW-class wind turbine system to 5.2MW by optimizing its setup and control programs. It has also made it possible to increase output in light-wind regions that have an annual […]

  • OHT Enters Offshore Wind with Hywind Scotland Contract

    5 September 2016
    Vessels

    Technip has hired Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) for the provision of transportation services for the 30MW Hywind Scotland Pilot Park. Torgeir Ramstad, CEO of OHT, said: “This marks our entry into the offshore wind business, a market with enormous needs for logistical and transportation services. OHT has a long track record of providing a timely, predictable […]

  • NorSea Group Opens Offshore Wind Company in Esbjerg

    30 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    NorSea Group has set up an offshore wind company, NSG Wind A/S, in Esbjerg, Denmark, which has been set up to deliver the full range of offshore wind industry services to wind farm operators, wind turbine manufacturers and sub-suppliers, among others. “European offshore wind markets continue to grow and the markets in Asia and North America are mushrooming. […]

  • New Offshore Renewable Plant Optimisation Tool Proposed

    24 August 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    A paper proposing a novel computational tool for the reliability-based assessment of wave, tidal and offshore wind farms was published yesterday in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. The paper presents the new tool to identify typical decision problems and to shed light on the complexity of optimising a wave power farm. Nevertheless, the […]

  • MMS Launches Its First Offshore Wind Catamaran

    8 August 2016
    Vessels

    Hull-based MMS Ship Repair has launched MMS Crusader, its first workboat specially built to serve the offshore wind industry, according to Hull Daily Mail. The vessel, a 26m aluminium catamaran, has been built at the company’ shipyard at Alexandra Dock for MMS Offshore Renewable Services, MMS’ subsidiary operating offshore renewables vessels. MMS Crusader has been developed to service a […]

  • Moray Offshore Renewables Met Mast to Undergo Repairs

    29 July 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd is getting ready to deploy a jack-up vessel to carry out repair works on the company’s meteorological mast structure in Moray Firth, Scotland, Kis-Orca reports. The works will use the jack up vessel to install a ‘collar’ around the existing monopile structure directly above the gravity base caisson. The majority of the […]

  • Van Oord to Buy Bilfinger’s Offshore Wind Unit

    28 July 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Technology, Vessels

    Van Oord has reached an agreement on the acquisition of the offshore wind activities of Bilfinger Marine & Offshore Systems GmbH, a German company active in the engineering, construction and installation of foundations for offshore wind farms. The agreement covers the acquisition of assets and employees related to the offshore wind activities. The acquisition will […]

  • UK Attracts Majority of Offshore Wind Investments in 2016

    27 July 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    UK offshore wind projects attracted around three quarters of all investments in Europe’s offshore wind capacity in the first six months of 2016, data released by WindEurope shows. UK-based projects which reached Final Investment Decision (FID) in the first half of 2016 carry a price tag of EUR 10.37 billion (GBP 8.7 billion) and have […]

  • European Offshore Wind Sees Record Investments in 2016

    27 July 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection, R&D

    The European offshore wind industry attracted a record EUR 14 billion in new investments during the first six months of 2016, WindEurope reports. Seven projects reached final investment decision this year, financing a total of 3.7GW of new capacity, with the UK accounting for nearly three-quarters of the new investments. However, the volume of new grid-connected […]

  • Offshore Wind to Boost Turbine Gear Oil Market

    18 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    Rise in offshore installations will significantly augment the global wind turbine gear oil market until 2020, according to Technavio’s latest market research report. The global wind turbine gear oil market is expected to record a CAGR of more than 13% until 2020, the report says. Countries across the globe are constantly concentrating on introducing measures […]

  • ACM Certifies TenneT as Operator of Dutch Offshore Grid

    15 July 2016
    Authorities, Grid Connection

    The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has certified TenneT as the offshore grid operator.  The supervisory body said it has issued the certification in a short time, so that the Minister of Economic Affairs can now designate TenneT as the official operator of the offshore grid and the company can start construction of the network which […]

  • Hindawi Calls for Research Articles on Offshore Renewables Math

    5 July 2016
    R&D

    Mathematical Problems in Engineering, a journal from Hindawi Publishing Coropration, has invited researchers and scientists to submit their original research articles on that will stimulate the continuing progress of the offshore renewable energy field, with a focus on the state-of-the-art mathematical knowledge for offshore renewables engineering. “Offshore renewable energy (ORE) such as offshore wind turbines, wave energy converters, […]

  • Boskalis and Züblin Join Offshore Terminal Bremerhaven Project

    4 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    Dutch dredging specialist Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. and Germany’s Züblin AG have won a contract to prepare the site for the construction of the Offshore Terminal Bremerhaven (OTB), a 25-hectare transshipment terminal for the offshore wind sector. Bremenports awarded the contract to the two companies at the end of last week, Boskalis told Offshore WIND. Boskalis’ share of the contract carries […]

  • Siemens Nederland Picks Eemshaven as Offshore Wind Base

    4 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Nederland N.V. has signed a contract with EMS Maritime Offshore GmbH (EMO) for the construction and operation of an offshore wind base at the port of Eemshaven. The existing EMO Terminal in Eemshaven, operated by EMO’s subsidiary Ems Maritime Offshore Nederland B.V., will by autumn 2016 get a new 600m² warehouse and a 500m² office building, parts of which will […]

  • TenneT Presents Borssele Offshore Platform Design (VIDEO)

    23 March 2016
    Grid Connection

    Along with the news that TenneT had been confirmed as the operator of the Dutch offshore grid, the TSO reported that it had finalized the design for the offshore platforms which will be part of the connection of the planned wind farms to the onshore grid.  In the coming years, TenneT will build five identical platforms with […]