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  • Natural Power Appointed on Offshore Electricity Transmission Networks (UK)

    9 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    UK Offshore Transmission Operator, Transmission Capital Partners has announced the appointment of renewable energy consultancy Natural Power to deliver NP /ControlCentre services including: 24/7 alarm monitoring, voltage control, access control, emergency de-energisation, emergency response management and liaison with National Grid (working as National Electricity Transmission System Operator) and the Distribution Network Operator. Services will be […]

  • Lloyd’s Register Releases New Offshore Wind Rules (UK)

    14 June 2013
    Operations & Maintenance

    Lloyd’s Register releases all-new Rules, Class Notation and Guidance Notes for ‘Wind Turbine Installation and Maintenance Vessels and Liftboats’ to reflect industry best practice and new novel designs. The new Rules form part of the wider Mobile Offshore Unit Rule set 2013 launched by Lloyd’s Register in June, and is for vessels engaged in installation […]

  • UK: Narec Seeking Contractor for Geotechnical Survey Offshore Blyth

    31 May 2013

    Narec is seeking a contractor to undertake a geotechnical survey for the Blyth Offshore Wind Demonstrator Project. Under the contract, the company should survey contractor should be able to: Provide vessels and equipment suitable for undertaking geotechnical survey at the site, in the anticipated water depths, metocean conditions and seabed types; Provide vessels that meet […]

  • Offshore Substation Installed at West of Duddon Sands OWF, UK

    21 May 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    Offshore construction at the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm, a 50/50 joint venture between DONG Energy and ScottishPower Renewables, is officially underway following the successful installation of the project’s offshore substation on site in the east Irish Sea. The entire project will consist of 108 wind turbines with a total installed capacity of […]

  • UK: Public Information Days for Rhiannon Offshore Wind Farm

    15 May 2013

    The team behind the proposed Rhiannon wind farm has submitted a Scoping Report relating to the onshore elements of the scheme to the Isle of Anglesey County Council. The report outlines Celtic Array’s proposed approach to the environmental assessment that will be undertaken to support an application for planning permission for land-based works required to […]

  • UK: Teesside Offshore Wind Farm Generates First Power

    29 April 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    The North East’s first large scale offshore wind farm has now started to produce electricity as work continues towards completion of the project. The first three wind turbine generators at the EDF Energy Renewables Teesside offshore wind farm have now been fully commissioned and are supplying electricity to the National Grid. When complete the 27 […]

  • Belgium: MPI Resolution to Work on GeoSea’s Offshore Wind Projects

    24 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    MPI Offshore announces the award of a charter party in respect of MPI Resolution by GeoSea N.V., subsidiary of the Belgian based DEME Group.  MPI Resolution is scheduled to commence work on a series of GeoSea projects situated in the North Sea and Baltic Sea area as from the middle of June 2013 for a […]

  • RWE Looks for Offshore Wind Farm Foundation Developer (Germany)

    16 December 2011

    Essen based renewable energy developer, RWE Innogy​, is looking for a contractor to design, fabricate and supply up to 54 foundations for Innogy Nordsee 1 offshore wind farm. The contractor will deliver at least 44 and maximum 54 certifiable foundations. Each foundation will consists of four piles, a substructure (jacket) and a transition piece. Contractor will […]

  • Trump in Secret Talks with Offshore Wind Farm Developers (UK)

    7 December 2011

    Donald Trump’s representatives yesterday held a secret meeting with the companies behind plans for a 200 million offshore wind farm…   (heraldscotland) [mappress] Source: heraldscotland, December 07, 2011

  • The Netherlands: Experts Discus European Supergrid at EWEA Offshore Wind

    30 November 2011

    A European offshore supergrid – with interconnections between European countries and to offshore wind farms in Europe’s seas – is the vision, but there are big and significant barriers to achieving that vision. ‘We don’t have an interconnected European network today, and we don’t have an offshore grid,’ Ana Aguado from Friends of the Super […]

  • UK: CTruk to Build Two Vessels for Offshore Turbine Services

    5 March 2012

    CTruk Boats has signed a deal to build two 20-tonne payload MPCs for a new company, Offshore Turbine Services. Both vessels will be delivered in the spring of 2012. Offshore Turbine Services will be taking advantage of CTruk Boats’ flexible pod system (patent applied), which was designed specifically to meet the varied needs of wind […]

  • German Conference to Focus on Challenges and Future Development of Offshore Cabling

    24 February 2012
    Grid Connection

    One of the key elements in the successful construction of an offshore wind park is the skilful installation of cables – a complicated task that is often subject to huge repair costs. Cable damage causes over 70% of all insurance claims on installed wind parks, which shows that there is great need for improving the […]

  • Offshore Wind Power Drives Development of New Technologies (USA)

    22 February 2012

    Wind energy is the most mature technology among all renewable energy solutions. Finding appropriate sites for developing onshore wind farms might, however, soon pose a challenge due to dense urbanization (especially in western Europe) and concerns about the negative visual impact that wind farms could have on the surrounding environment. This is creating a promising […]

  • Great Support for Future Wind Turbines Offshore Maryland (USA)

    16 February 2012

    Gov. Martin O’Malley is getting a lot of support for his incentive to erect wind turbines offshore Maryland’s coast. Former Iowa Gov. Chet Culver came on Tuesday to Annapolis to testify in support of O’Malley’s offshore wind bill. He said that wind turbines in Iowa have helped stabilize electricity costs and have created 4,300 jobs, […]

  • University College Cork to Test Offshore Renewable Equipment (Ireland)

    13 February 2012
    Technology

    With the emergence of ‘ocean energy’ there is a need for testing of power take-off equipment as well as control and grid integration systems. At the Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre (HMRC) at University College Cork, a laboratory scale rig has been developed to emulate the power testing required at sea. With requirements for flexibility, […]

  • TenneT, Mitsubishi Team Up for German Offshore Grid Connections

    9 February 2012

    TenneT has entered into a partnership with Mitsubishi Corporation by agreeing to sell a 49% equity stake in two German offshore high-voltage cable projects, BorWin1 and BorWin2. Mitsubishi’s aggregate equity commitment will total EUR 240 million. This partnership represents a milestone transaction in Germany, allowing infrastructure investors to invest in separate clusters of regulated assets. […]

  • AWEA CEO Welcomes Salazar’s Offshore Wind Announcement (USA)

    3 February 2012

    Statement of Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) on announcement by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar regarding the development of offshore wind resources off of the mid-Atlantic states of Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Delaware:  “AWEA applauds Secretary Salazar and his staff at the Department of the Interior and the […]

  • Shanghai to Host No.1 Offshore Wind Conference in Asia (China)

    24 January 2012

    OFFSHORE WIND CHINA Conference & Exhibition 2012 is to be held again in Shanghai during May 30-June 1 in Shanghai New International Expo Center and Shangri-La’s Kerry Hotel Pudong. After three years’ of successful editions, it has become the No. 1 in Asia and No. 2 in the world for wind power trade events focusing […]

  • Maryland’s Governor to Present New Offshore Wind Bill (USA)

    23 January 2012
    Authorities

    Gov. Martin O’Malley is to unveil today a new approach to promoting offshore wind power that he hopes the General Assembly…   By Michael Dresser (baltimoresun) [mappress] Source: baltimoresun, January 23, 2012

  • EWEA Reports Stable Offshore Wind Market in 2011 (Belgium)

    19 January 2012

    2011 was a stable year for the offshore wind industry with 235 new offshore wind turbines grid connected, worth approximately 2.4 billion Euros. Today the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) published its annual offshore wind statistics for 2011 in Brussels showing that 235 new turbines with a total power capacity of 866 Megawatts (MW) were […]

  • HelWin Alpha Offshore Platform Arrives to Wismar Yard (Germany)

    4 November 2011
    Technology

    Nordic Yards, manufacturer of technologically sophisticated and innovative special ships and maritime structures, brings the HelWin alpha offshore platform to dock at its Wismar yard. The self-erecting transformer platform is being built for Siemens Energy in separate sections at Wismar and Warnemünde. The HelWin alpha is almost identical in design to the BorWin beta offshore […]

  • Norway: StormGeo Assists Construction and Maintenance of Offshore Wind Farms

    29 March 2012

    Building and maintaining an offshore wind farm requires extremely accurate predictions of the weather windows available for each operation. Navigating a specially built vessel with a wind-sensitive load of turbine parts on its deck, jagging up the vessel to prepare for turbine installation, positioning and fastening turbine foundations, towers and rotors, and accessing turbines from […]

  • USA: Engineers Pinpoint Four Sites for Offshore Wind Development

    21 March 2012

     In a study just published in Geophysical Research Letters, a team of engineers at Stanford has harnessed a sophisticated weather model to recommend optimal placement of four interconnected wind farms off the coast of the Eastern United States, a region that accounts for 34 percent of the nation’s electrical demand and 35 percent of carbon […]

  • UK: Grimsby’s Offshore Wind Potential Presented to National Audience

    20 March 2012

    GRIMSBY’S potential as a centre for the multi-billion pound offshore wind industry has been highlighted as part of national television coverage about the UK economy. Viewers of the BBC’s Breakfast programme were shown workers leaving the town’s docks on boats bound for offshore wind farm sites. During the broadcast, Sam Pick, business development director of […]

  • UK: Rampion Offshore Wind Farm Public Consultation in Albourne

    16 March 2012

    Developers of the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm will hold a public consultation event in Albourne tomorrow, reports Mid Sussex Times. Residents will get the chance to learn more about the proposed offshore wind farm located 13km off the Sussex coast, and discuss the proposals with the wind farm developer, E.ON. The company is considering a […]

  • Germany: ThyssenKrupp Mannex to Market Innovative Offshore Foundation ‘Hexabase’

    15 March 2012

    ThyssenKrupp Mannex GmbH has entered into an agreement with Maritime Offshore Group, a company specializing in offshore engineering, foundations and cable laying, on the exclusive marketing of the innovative offshore foundation “Hexabase”. “The Hexabase foundation is a jacket design which was developed specifically for offshore wind turbines and differs significantly from previously known solutions,” explains […]