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  • French Top Court Clears Saint-Brieuc Offshore Wind Farm

    25 July 2019
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The French Council of State has rejected appeals opposing the construction of the Bay of Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project being developed by Ailes Marines. Environmental conservation organization Gardez les caps and Nass & Wind, who competed in the tender for developing the wind farm, submitted the appeal citing irregularity in the selection procedure and seeking an annulment. Despite […]

  • New UK Task Force Targets More Offshore Wind Workers

    24 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    The Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) has set up a new task force aimed at helping increase the number of skilled people working in the UK’s offshore wind sector. The Investment in Talent Group is developing a passporting system to ensure all parts of the energy sector recognize transferable skills and training, to enable offshore workers to move […]

  • Crown Estate Holds Offshore Wind Round 4 Bidders Meeting

    9 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    The Crown Estate has held a Bidders Information Day for the recently launched Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4. The event hosted more than 130 industry representatives who are potential participants in the Round 4 leasing round and their advisors. Participants were provided with details on the tender process set to open later this month with […]

  • EnBW Opens Heli Services Tender for German Offshore Wind Pair

    3 October 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    EnBW has issued a tender for a rescue helicopter to service the Hohe See and Albatros offshore wind projects in Germany. EnBW is looking for a helicopter including aeronautical and medical crew which will be used for rescuing injured personnel at the offshore wind farms. The contract will start on 1 March 2020 and will take […]

  • Goldwind 6.7MW Offshore Wind Turbine Gets DNV GL Certificate

    24 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Goldwind has obtained the Type A certificate from DNV GL for its GW154/6.7MW offshore wind turbine. The certificate comes after Goldwind secured the Wind Turbine Type Approval Certificate issued by the China General Certification Center (CGC) for its new turbine. According to the Chinese company, with these two certificates in place, GW154/6.7MW became China’s first high-power offshore wind […]

  • BOW Terminal and Groningen Seaports Put Pen to Paper at Offshore Energy

    23 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics

    BOW Terminal has signed an agreement with Groningen Seaports to purchase a total of 22ha of land in Eemshaven to build a new offshore wind logistics hub in the northern part of Groningen, the Netherlands.

  • WindEurope: Better Port Infrastructure Slashes Offshore Wind LCoE by 5.3%

    27 September 2018
    Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Investing EUR 500 million to EUR 1 billion in new port infrastructure in Europe could help the offshore wind sector cut costs by up to 5.3% according to figures released by the WindEurope Ports Platform at the Global Wind Summit in Hamburg.

  • Airbus Helicopters Sees Thousand Strong Offshore Wind Fleet Coming

    24 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Airbus Helicopters views the support for wind farms as a business segment that is undergoing global growth and expects demand for up to a thousand helicopters over the coming two decades, corresponding to revenues of approximately EUR 9 billion.

  • Record-Shattering Massachusetts Offshore Wind Auction Enters Day Two

    13 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Three commercial wind leases offshore Massachusetts have brought in a total of USD 285 million in bids in the first 24 auction rounds, sending a strong signal that developers are committed to the US offshore wind market.

  • Report: Offshore Wind Market to Grow by USD 17 Billion by 2023

    29 May 2019
    R&D

    The global offshore wind power market size will grow by more than USD 17 billion during the period 2019-2023 at a nearly 18% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), according to a research report by Technavio. The forecasted growth of the global offshore wind market in the next five years is due to wind power registering […]

  • MAN to Power New Offshore Wind Heavy Cargo Deck Carrier

    10 January 2019
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    The German United Wind Logistics (UWL) has selected MAN GenSets engines for its new heavy cargo deck carrier for offshore wind projects, currently being built at the Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard in China. The Chinese shipyard placed an order for two MAN 9L 21/31 and two MAN 6L16/24 GenSets in connection with the construction of the vessel, which […]

  • Vattenfall Wraps Up First Ever Offshore Wind Farm Decommissioning

    25 January 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall’s Yttre Stengrund wind farm has disappeared from the horizon in Kalmar Sound, Sweden, the power company said in a statement. Work on dismantling the five wind turbines with a total capacity of 10 megawatt (MW) which made up the Yttre Stengrund wind farm in Kalmar Sound began at the end of November. The job of […]

  • 3rd International Conference Offshore Foundations for Wind Turbines Nears (Germany)

    19 June 2013
    Technology

    Leading industry experts will be present at IQPC’s 3rd International Conference Offshore Foundations, July 3-5, 2013 in Hamburg, where attendees will have an opportunity to find out how which foundation designs offer the greatest potential. The optimisation of offshore foundations is a key challenge in reducing the overall carbon dioxide emissions and thus making offshore […]

  • RES Offshore Appoints New Wave & Tidal Project Development Manager

    27 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    RES Offshore, providers of end-to-end development, engineering, construction and O&M support for wave and tidal projects, has announced the appointment of well known industry figure, Dr Douglas Watson, to the post of Project Development Manager for Wave and Tidal. Ray Hunter, Marine Energies Manager said: “We are delighted to have Dougie on board. His unparalleled […]

  • Offshore Wind Companies Want to Delay Leasing off New Jersey

    27 January 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    New Jersey Governor  Chris Christie and legislative leaders were warned to delay leasing offshore wind tracts along the Jersey coast, writes the New Jersey  Spotlight. Namely, top companies from this industry, including Deepwater Wind and Offshore MW,  wrote a letter saying that the state  could ” lose the opportunity of offshore wind entirely, should the […]

  • GeoSea Secures EUR 200 Mln in New Offshore Wind Contracts

    19 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    DEME’s marine engineering specialist GeoSea has been awarded major offshore wind energy contracts. GeoSea secured a new EPCI contract for the design, supply and installation of the foundations and another contract for the installation of 15 wind turbines for the Kentish Flats Extension Offshore Wind Farm from Vattenfall, one of the largest operators of offshore […]

  • Eiffage Acquires Main Entities of Smulders Group, Opts for Offshore Wind

    26 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Metal branch of Eiffage has signed a contract for the acquisition of the main entities of the Smulders group: Smulders, Iemants, Willems and Spomasz. The acquired businesses will generate about €200 million of revenues for 2013 (for the full year) with 770 employees located in Belgium, Netherlands and Poland. With this acquisition, Eiffage is […]

  • North Devon Rejects Atlantic Array Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

    12 September 2013
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    North Devon Council’s Planning Committee yesterday voted 10:3 against the development of the Atlantic Array offshore wind farm. Torridge District Council and Devon County Council made no objections to the project at yesterday’s meetings. However, North Devon’s councilors declined the project saying that it is not economically viable to the area, the BBC informs. The […]

  • Germany: SOOP Makes Offshore Wind Farms Cost Effective and Safer

    5 September 2013
    R&D, Training & Education

    Increasing safety and reducing costs – two aspects that play a major role in offshore wind farms. The achievement of these goals has been coordinated by the Oldenburg-based OFFIS computer science institute project group SOOP – Safe Offshore Operations. A recently published study on behalf of the Offshore Wind Foundation on energy cost reduction potential […]

  • Study Looks Into Macrobenthic Recovery After Dredging in Offshore Wind Farm

    14 November 2014
    Environment, R&D

    A new paper on macrobenthic recovery after dredging activities in offshore wind farms has been published by Springer Link. The article was authored by Delphine A. Coates, Gert van Hoey, Liesbet Colson, Magda Vincx and Jan Vanaverbeke. The abstract says: The development of offshore wind farms (OWFs) in the North Sea has increased considerably to create alternatives for fossil fuel energy. […]

  • Alstom’s 6MW Haliade Offshore Wind Turbine Produces First kWh

    25 September 2014
    Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    On September 19th, Alstom’s next-generation Haliade™ 150-6MW offshore wind turbine, installed just off the Ostend coast at Belgium’s Belwind facility, produced its very first kWh. The assembly and the tests conducted have so far helped to optimise the turbine’s installation and commissioning procedures at sea. Tests will continue in order to confirm how the machine […]

  • GBP 4.5 Mln Available for UK Manufacturers to Grasp Offshore Wind

    23 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    The GROW:OffshoreWind service has announced the opening of two fast-track funding calls worth a combined £4.5m to assist manufacturing companies in England to take a significant share of the opportunities presented by the UK’s offshore wind market. With as much capacity already installed as the rest of the world combined, the UK is seen as […]

  • UK Offers World-Class R&D Resources for Offshore Renewables

    11 April 2014
    R&D

    The news of the newly-merged National Centre for Renewable Energy and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult gives the UK the chance to develop R&D for offshore renewables at a greater pace, utilising fully the indigenous world-class expertise that the country has, BVG Associates says. Bruce Valpy, director of BVG Associates, commented: “We are delighted to […]

  • OWAP: Job Creation in U.S. Offshore Wind Industry Already Starting

    10 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    In the latest issue of the Offshore Wind Accelerator Project’s (OWAP) newsletter, its Project Director Valerie Stori writes about economic benefits and job creation within the U.S. offshore wind industry. Read the article below: The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities’ (BPU) decision last week to reject the Fishermen’s Energy offshore wind project is another setback […]

  • UK’s Tidal Lagoons to Have Cheaper Power than Offshore Wind

    21 March 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    An economic study into the cost profile of power from tidal lagoons has found that a portfolio of three UK tidal lagoons, in operation by 2021, would deliver large-scale low carbon power at a significantly cheaper price than offshore wind. The study, conducted by energy economists at Pӧyry, a management consultancy, identifies a volume-weighted levelised […]

  • Bladt, EEW SPC to Build Foundations for Gode Offshore Wind Farms

    13 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    After the news that Bladt Industries and EEW SPC  will manufacture wind turbine foundations for the U.S. Cape Wind offshore project, the two companies have teamed up again for the supply of foundations to DONG Energy’s Gode Wind 1 and 2 offshore wind projects. In November last year, Bladt Industries announced that it had signed […]