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  • The Next Chapter of Offshore Wind Energy: W2H2, Wind to Hydrogen

    25 February 2020

    As the offshore competition is growing in expanding new markets, the balance between productivity and profitability has never been so aligned with being competitive in the market of renewable energy. By: Mr Virginio Paratico – Area Sales Manager – FACCIN S.p.A Great advancements have been made in the offshore wind tower industry ever since it […]

  • Siemens Putting Finishing Touches on Moray East Offshore Topsides

    20 February 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens AG is preparing to undertake the final commissioning of the offshore substation platforms for the Moray East offshore wind project in Scotland.

  • India: Tamil Nadu Plans 200MW of Offshore Wind Energy

    6 February 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    At a recently held Renewable Energy to Tamil Nadu (RE2TN) seminar, Sudeep Jain, chairman and managing director of Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA), has confirmed this Indian state’s efforts to develop offshore wind energy.  Since Tamil Nadu is planning to install 200 MW of offshore wind power by 2023, Jain said that Indian Government’s timely completion of a […]

  • TenneT’s First Major Offshore Wind Grid Connection Operational

    3 February 2015
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    TenneT’s offshore connection BorWin2 is now operational and transports the German North Sea electricity to the grid on land. BorWin2 has a capacity of 800 megawatts (MW) and can provide around one million households with electricity. With BorWin2, four grid connections with a total capacity of approximately 1,400 MW are realized. In addition, at this moment there are […]

  • Germany Allocates Connection Capacity to Eight Offshore Wind Farms

    28 October 2014
    Authorities, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    In its first allocation of connection capacity process for wind farms at sea, the Federal Network Agency (BNA) has reviewed applications for capacity allocation process.  Eleven applications from operators of wind farms at sea were submitted by October 1, 2014. Eight of them were approved. Three were rejected because the application was not complete or the wind farm is located in […]

  • Balfour Beatty to Run Gwynt y Môr’s Offshore Transmission

    26 January 2015
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Ofgem has decided to grant an offshore transmission licence for the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm to a proposed licensee entity set up by a consortium comprising Balfour Beatty Investments Limited and Equitix Limited.  Ofgem noted that the final confirmation of its decision has not yet been made. Gwynt y Môr is a greater than £2billion offshore wind farm which is capable […]

  • Plans for OGN’s Multi-Million Offshore Wind Factory Frozen

    16 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    Offshore Group Newcastle (OGN) has halted its plan to build a GBP 50 million facility for the construction of jacket foundations for offshore wind turbines at Hadrian Yard in Wallsend. The 36,000-square metre factory had been expected to be completed in 2014, following a GBP 4.5 million grant from the Regional Growth Fund, but OGN has decided to […]

  • Offshore Wind Investment Reached USD 19.4 Bln in 2014

    9 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    World clean energy investment rebounded strongly in 2014, boosted by demand for solar photovoltaics on the back of its greatly improved competitiveness, and by the financing of a record $19.4bn of offshore wind projects. Authoritative annual data, published today by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, show that global investment in clean energy was $310bn last year. […]

  • Ming Yang’s 6MW Second Best Offshore Wind Turbine

    8 January 2015
    Technology

    China Ming Yang Wind Power (Ming Yang) has announced that its 6.0MW Super Compact Drive (SCD) wind turbine generator has won the silver award for the Best Offshore Wind Turbines in the Windpower Monthly Turbines of the Year Awards 2014. The wind turbine generators winning the Windpower Monthly Awards were assessed for the quality of design […]

  • MAKE: European Offshore Wind Heading toward 2016 Cliff

    22 December 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D

    As the offshore wind industry is making important progress to reduce cost of energy in support of an outlook for global average annual growth of 22% to 2023, the European near term outlook shows a sharp decline of more than 60% in grid connected offshore wind capacity in 2016 compared to 2015, as the UK […]

  • Tranberg Launches Advanced C&H Lights for Offshore Helidecks

    20 November 2014
    Technology

    Tranberg AS has announced the worldwide product launch of the new CHLITE Touchdown/Positioning Marking fully applying to CAP437, 7th Ed. with Amendment.  The CHLITE Helideck Lighting Solution is a cooperation between Calzoni S.r.l. – founded 1834 in Bologna-Italy (today an L-3 Company) and Tranberg – founded 1901 in Stavanger-Norway (today member of the R.Stahl Group). […]

  • Offshore Wind Developers to Face Financing Problems, Moody’s Says

    20 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    While recent growth in offshore wind capacity and plans for future expansion to meet EU renewable energy targets are fuelling demand for credit in the sector, the assets come with distinct challenges for investors, says Moody’s Investors Service in a Sector In-Depth report published recently. “A new offshore wind project, when compared to an onshore […]

  • Alicat, South Boats IOW to Exhibit at EWEA Offshore 2015

    7 November 2014

    Alicat Workboats Ltd. and sister company South Boat IOW Ltd. will once again be co-exhibiting at next years EWEA Offshore 2015 conference and exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark. Representatives from both companies will be present, showcasing some of the latest vessel designs and promoting the extensive portfolio of services available from both facilities. EWEA Offshore is […]

  • Dutch Offshore Wind Mission to Japan and Korea Bears Fruit

    6 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    From 25 October to 4 November, a delegation of twenty-five Dutch offshore wind companies and knowledge institutions visited Japan and Korea. The offshore wind delegation was part of the economic mission led by Minister of Economic Affairs Henk Kamp and it ran parallel to the state visit of King Willem-Alexander and queen Máxima to Japan […]

  • Rhenus Offshore Launches Fixed-Price Cargo Service to OWFs

    4 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    Rhenus Offshore Logistics started adopting a sustainable approach this month with fixed prices for cargo runs to wind parks out at sea. Customers can now arrange supply and disposal services for their platforms and ships from Emden and Cuxhaven – at any time of day or night. “We handled at least a dozen of these trips to […]

  • DeepOcean to Install Offshore Wind Cables off Belgian Coast

    17 July 2015
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DeepOcean 1 UK Ltd., a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV (DeepOcean), has been awarded the inter array cable installation contract for the Bligh Bank Phase II Offshore Wind Farm offshore Belgium. Nobelwind NV is developing the Bligh Bank Phase II Offshore Wind Farm with fifty 3.3MW wind turbines offshore Belgium, with an estimated installed […]

  • Met Office Modelling Offshore Wind Data for Crown Estate

    14 July 2015
    Authorities, R&D

    The Met Office is supplying new modelled datasets for the UK’s offshore wind resource to The Crown Estate. The Met Office said the new data is more accurate than previous modelled datasets and backed up by 30 years of historic data. It provides a higher resolution picture of the UK’s offshore wind resource that will […]

  • ABB Wins French Multi-Million Offshore Wind Job

    8 July 2015
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    ABB has won a contract worth around $25 million from the electrical transmission system operator RTE France to supply transformer products and services for grid connections for ongoing French offshore wind power projects. ABB will supply nine 400-megavolt ampere (MVA) booster transformers to help regulate the voltage of power transmitted from four large-scale offshore wind projects […]

  • Offshore Wind Makes Sif Group Expand to Rotterdam (VIDEO)

    30 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Roermond-based Sif Group has decided to expand its production capacity with more than EUR 60 million to be invested in the headquarters in Roermond and in Rotterdam at Maasvlakte 2.  In Rotterdam, an assembly hall and a coating hall will be built at Maasvlakte 2. In addition, a storage and logistical hub covering approximately 40 hectares […]

  • JECS Offshore Shows What It’s Got at Gode Wind

    25 June 2015

    Some of the access equipment set up at the Gode Wind 1 and 2 offshore wind farms has recently deemed not fit for purpose by the Health & Safety team at DONG Energy, after which the developer contacted JECS Offshore with a request for scaffolding materials and two teams of scaffolders to work in shifts so that they […]

  • VIDEO: Foundation Construction for the First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm

    19 June 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Deepwater Wind, the developer of the first offshore wind farm in the United States, has published another video of the progress that has been made to install the first wind turbines at the Block Island wind farm site.  The video shows work on the steel foundations that will be installed at the site. Steel jacket structures for […]

  • Photo Gallery: Umoe Mandal’s New Offshore Wind Vessel

    18 June 2015
    Vessels

    Yesterday, the Carbon Trust hosted the first UK demonstration of the Wave Craft vessel Umoe Ventus at Seawork International 2015 in Southampton. The new vessel, developed by Umoe Mandal with support from the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), is a surface effect ship (SES), using an air cushion to lift 80 percent of the vessel and ensuring that only a small part […]

  • Burgess Marine Hands Over 25m Vessel to Mainprize Offshore

    17 June 2015
    Vessels

    Burgess Marine has completed a £3m contract for the first of a new generation of offshore support vessels. The company has built the craft for Mainprize Offshore at its shipyard at Trafalgar Wharf in Portchester, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK. The 25-metre boat, the MO2, was delivered at the Seawork 2015 commercial marine and workboat conference […]

  • EU Commission Authorises Portugese Offshore Renewables Demonstration Projects

    23 April 2015
    Authorities, R&D

    The European Commission has found a Portuguese scheme that will support demonstration projects producing wave, tidal and offshore wind energy to be in line with EU state aid rules. Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, said: “The development of new renewable technologies is crucial to help Europe meet its environmental commitments. Today’s approved scheme is […]

  • MVDC Could Reduce Offshore Wind Costs, Study Says

    13 April 2015
    Business & Finance, R&D

    At this year’s EWEA Offshore 2015 in Copenhagen, Gordon McFadzean represented TNEI where he was selected as a poster award winner in the “Grids” topic. His poster tackled Medium Voltage Direct Current technology for offshore wind farms. TNEI Services has been commissioned by Scottish Enterprise, which is working in partnership with SP Energy Networks (SPEN), […]

  • GWEC: Installed Offshore Wind Reaches 8,759 MW in 2014

    2 April 2015
    R&D

    The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) launched its flagship publication the Global Wind Report: Annual Market update yesterday in Istanbul. The report details wind power’s remarkable growth in 2014, as well as updating GWEC’s rolling 5 year market projections, which show continued growth for the rest of the decade. Led by China and Brazil in the first […]