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  • Norwind Offshore’s CSOV to Feature Seaonics Fully-Electric Crane

    10 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Norwind Offshore has placed an order for a stand-alone ECMC 7-tonne 3D crane for the commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) newbuild 952, Norwind Helm. The order extends the delivery of Seaonics’ first electric gangway system to Norwind Hurricane, which occurred on 21 March 2024. The crane is to be installed in connection with the delivery […]

  • NIRAS, Egis Team Up for French Offshore Wind Development

    1 April 2024
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    NIRAS and Egis have signed a partnership agreement to work jointly on offshore wind developments in the French market. The two companies signed the agreement on 20 March during the Congress Wind Europe in Bilbao, Spain. According to NIRAS, the partnership is a stepping stone for the company to further expand its business in France […]

  • ELWIND Cross-Border Offshore Wind Project Moves Forward

    1 April 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Estonia’s Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (CPTRA) has initiated superficies licence proceedings and an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for ELWIND, an Estonian-Latvian cross-border offshore wind project, based on the application submitted by the Environmental Investment Centre (EIC). The aim of the ELWIND project is to pre-develop the sea area specified in the application. This […]

  • Corio, Å Energi Enter Strategic Partnership on Offshore Wind

    4 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind

    Corio Generation and Norwegian energy company Å Energi, which have already partnered on a proposal for the Norwegian Utsira Nord floating wind tender, have signed an agreement on a strategic partnership that will see the two companies partnering on offshore wind in a broader sense. Under the agreement, Norway’s Å Energi and the UK-based Corio, […]

  • Belgium, Germany to Explore Building Hybrid Offshore Wind Link

    3 June 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Business development, Infrastructure, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    Belgian energy minister Tinne Van der Straeten and German energy state secretary Philipp Nimmermann have agreed to investigate the development of a hybrid interconnection between the offshore wind farms of both countries. Although the two countries don’t share a direct sea border because the Netherlands is situated between them, they have announced plans for future […]

  • Transition Piece Defects Beset German Offshore Wind Farm

    21 May 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    German offshore wind operator has issued a contract notice for repair works on transition pieces across an entire wind farm in the German North Sea. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our sister site Offshore Energy. You can read the original article by clicking on the link below:

  • Ørsted and Partners to Participate in Japan’s First Offshore Wind Auction

    19 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted, Japan Wind Development Co. (JWD), and Eurus Energy have formed a partnership with the aim of jointly developing offshore wind projects in the Akita Prefecture, Japan. The three companies have been developing two designated offshore wind sites under Japan’s Offshore Renewable Energy Act of 2018, both of which are located off the coast of […]

  • BP Posts Around 100 Offshore Wind Job Vacancies

    10 May 2021
    Jobs & Recruitment

    BP, which just recently entered the offshore wind market, has posted around 100 job vacancies looking for talent to support its growing offshore wind business. “bp’s ambition is to become one of the world’s leading offshore wind energy developers. To power the scale and pace of growth that we are targeting, we need the best […]

  • Lower Offshore Wind Availability Hits Vattenfall’s Q1 Results

    29 April 2021
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall reported a lower earnings contribution from its Wind operating segment in the first quarter of the year, which stood at SEK 400 million (approx. EUR 39.5 million), mainly due to lower wind speeds and lower availability of offshore wind. The company posted a 11 per cent net sales decrease in the first quarter of […]

  • Spanish Technology Gauged for New York Offshore Wind Farm

    26 April 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios, in a consortium with Esteyco, has won a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for the Empire Wind offshore wind project in New York. The Spanish companies will analyse the feasibility of a concrete gravity-based foundation for the offshore wind farm developed by oil and gas majors BP and Equinor. Cobra […]

  • Fugro Bags Offshore Wind Contracts in South Korea and US

    22 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Fugro has been awarded contracts in the offshore wind sector in South Korea and the U.S., according to the company’s results for the first quarter of 2021. In South Korea, Fugro has won a contract for a site investigation programme for a floating offshore wind farm. The company did not disclose any further details about […]

  • Construction Starts on America’s Largest Offshore Wind Manufacturing Hub

    20 April 2021
    Jobs & Recruitment, Ports & Logistics

    Ocean Wind and EEW have broken ground for the EEW monopile manufacturing facility at the Port of Paulsboro Marine Terminal in Gloucester County, New Jersey, U.S. The start of construction marks a significant milestone in delivering the largest industrial offshore wind manufacturing facility in the U.S. to date, Ocean Wind said. Construction of the facility […]

  • Ørsted Hires Taylor Hopkinson for German Offshore Wind Couple

    30 March 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Ørsted has awarded Taylor Hopkinson with a framework agreement to supply contract personnel for its Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind projects in Germany. Under the deal, Taylor Hopkinson will provide personnel across a broad range of roles within the allocated lots, from construction, engineering and O&M to project management and commissioning. […]

  • Ørsted and NOAA Ink Offshore Wind Data Sharing Agreement

    30 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Environment, R&D

    Ørsted has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with NOAA to share physical and biological information and data in Ørsted-leased waters offshore the United States. Sharing of the data and information resources will be used to plan and ensure the effective deployment, sustainable operation and maintenance,  and the efficient use of weather-dependent and oceanic renewable […]

  • European Commission Clears Germany’s Offshore Wind Aid Scheme

    29 March 2021
    Authorities

    The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a German operating aid scheme to further develop offshore wind energy generation in Germany. The modified WindSeeG will replace support for offshore wind under an existing scheme that the Commission approved in 2017. The new scheme will increase the target for installed offshore wind capacity […]

  • Jack-Ups Flock to China as Offshore Wind Construction Surges

    29 March 2021
    Vessels

    Jack-up vessels are in high demand in China’s surging offshore wind market and OHT’s fleet of semi-submersible heavy transportation vessels is working on delivering them to this construction hot spot. This includes the transportation of DEME Offshore’s Apollo from Rotterdam and the transportation of two additional liftboats and a jack-up barge from Abu Dhabi in […]

  • New England Preps for Offshore Wind Surge with DNV Analysis

    15 March 2021
    Grid Connection, R&D

    DNV has analyzed 20,000 years of plausible weather and power production for the Massachusetts-based ISO New England (ISO-NE). With the completion of this project, which began at the end of 2019, ISO-NE can now understand the magnitude, frequency, and duration of events like cold snaps or heat waves which drive regional load, as well as […]

  • EMEC Verifies Dublin Offshore’s Floating Wind Mooring Component

    12 March 2021
    Technology

    The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has inspected Dublin Offshore’s mooring load reduction device (LRD) and verified that the system is in compliance with the International Electrotechnical Commission’s technical specification (IEC TS) 62600-10. Dublin Offshore has been developing the passive LRD for use on floating wind turbines, where it reduces the tension in mooring lines […]

  • China Close to Overtaking UK in Offshore Wind Capacity Rankings

    25 February 2021
    Business & Finance

    China installed a record 3,060 MW of new offshore wind capacity in 2020, corresponding to over half of the offshore wind capacity added globally last year, according to the latest data released by GWEC Market Intelligence. Overall, China had 9,898 MW of installed offshore wind capacity at the end of 2020 and was just 308 […]

  • Construction of World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Stays On Track

    11 February 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Around 20 per cent of foundations has been installed at the 1.4 GW Hornsea Two, which is soon to become the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Ørsted said. The export cable installation works are on schedule and turbine installation is set to commence in the second half of this year, the project’s owner and developer […]

  • Fugro and NYK Add OYO to Japanese Offshore Wind Team

    26 January 2021
    Business & Finance

    Fugro and NYK Group have signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japanese geoscience specialist OYO Corporation (OYO). Back in November 2020, Fugro and NYK signed an MoU to jointly provide offshore geotechnical services in Japan, with an option to jointly operate a specialist investigation vessel for renewables projects. Fugro, NYK, and OYO will […]

  • German Offshore Wind Production Reaches New Peak in 2020

    20 January 2021
    Grid Connection

    In 2020, Germany’s total offshore wind generation was 26.89 terawatt hours (TWh), of which wind farms in the North Sea generated 22.76 TWh and those in the German sector of the Baltic Sea produced 4.13 TWh of electricity. A year earlier, wind farms operating offshore Germany generated 24.16 TWh, with 20.25 TWh coming from the […]

  • Belgian Offshore Wind Farms Generate 6.7 TWh in 2020

    4 January 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Belgian offshore wind farms generated 6.7 TWh of electricity in 2020, which represented 8.4 per cent of total electricity consumption in Belgium, or the electricity consumption of around 1.9 million families. Eight offshore wind farms are currently operational in the Belgian North Sea, with a total installed capacity of almost 2.3 GW. This includes Northwester […]

  • Denmark and Netherlands Exploring Opportunities for Joint Offshore Energy Hub

    16 December 2020
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    The Netherlands and Denmark have signed an Agreement of Intent (AoI) to together explore opportunities for an offshore energy hub in the North Sea. Under the deal, TenneT, Gasunie and Energinet will carry out further research on the development of the joint energy hub for connecting offshore wind farms. On the basis of these analyses, […]

  • TenneT Chooses ZTT for Two German Offshore Wind Connections

    15 December 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    TenneT has commissioned subsea cable manufacturer Zhongtian Technology Submarine Cable (ZTT) for two offshore wind connections in Germany. ZTT will deliver cable systems to link offshore wind farms to HelWin beta and DolWin kappa converter platforms in the North Sea, with the cable routes being five and 16 kilometre respectively. The cable systems will be […]

  • Jan De Nul Adds Connector to Offshore Installation Fleet

    10 December 2020
    Vessels

    Jan De Nul has agreed to acquire the offshore construction and cable-lay vessel Connector from Ocean Yield ASA. The vessel will be officially transferred during the fourth quarter of 2020. The acquisition is part of Jan De Nul’s strategic investment programme in the offshore installation fleet. It follows the last year’s orders of the new-build […]