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  • Australia: NSW Takes Oceanlinx to Court

    15 March 2013

    The Government of New South Wales (NSW) is taking wave energy developer, Oceanlinx, to court over broken promises to remove the decommissioned wave energy generator, Illawarra Mercury writes. Oceanlinx was testing whether the Port Kembla waters are suitable for wave energy development from2006 to 2009, and since then the decommissioned “Mark 1” wave generator is […]

  • Eneco Gets Permit for Another Dutch Offshore Wind Farm

    31 October 2013
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Rijkswaterstaat, part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, announced that it has granted a final permit for Q4 West offshore wind farm. The offshore wind farm will be located 26 kilometers off the coast and immediately behind wind farm Q4, for which Eneco obtained a license in 2009. There is still no […]

  • Innogy Kicks Off Sofia Onshore Cable Route Investigations

    4 October 2019
    R&D

    Geotechnics Ltd has carried out onshore cone penetration tests for innogy’s Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK. The work was carried out at Marske-by-the-Sea, Teeside, as part of site investigation works for the project’s onshore export cable route. Sofia, the largest project in innogy’s development portfolio, will comprise up to 200 turbines located 165km off the UK’s North […]

  • EEW OSB Rolls Out First Borssele Steel

    4 April 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Teesside-based EEW Offshore Structures Britain has rolled out the first of the 35 transition pieces (TPs) built for Ørsted’s Borssele 1 + 2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The first TP was photographed on its way to the blast shed, EEW OSB said. EEW SPC, the parent company of EEW OSB, is […]

  • Sumitomo and Parkwind Deepening Belgian Offshore Wind Ties

    10 July 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Belgium’s Parkwind and Summit Tailwind Belgium, part of the Sumitomo Corporation, have submitted a notification of concentration to the European Commission for the acquisition of the joint control over Northwester 2.

  • Bristol Welcomes Zhoushan Delegation

    26 October 2015
    Training & Education

    Bristol will welcome delegation of government officials and representatives from industry in Zhoushan, China, as part of Bristol 2015 Marine Energy Accelerator Programme today. The delegation will meet with Bristol and south west UK representatives from local government, industry and the regional, academic Partnership for Marine in Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) to discuss areas for […]

  • BOEM Extends Virginia Offshore Wind Public Comments Deadline

    6 January 2015
    Environment

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is giving the public an extra two weeks to comment on wind energy project offshore Virginia. The Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) plans to install and operate two 6 MW wind turbine generators as part of research activities plan called Virginia Offshore Wind Technology Advancement […]

  • Norwegian Subsea Company Opens UK Office

    1 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian company Omega AS has opened its UK subsidiary in Aberdeen, Omega Subsea UK, as part of the company’s strategic expansion in the Subsea Engineering and Operations sectors of the oil and gas and renewable energy industries. The objective is to establish a strategic business unit to facilitate organic growth for Omega Subsea UK and capitalise on the […]

  • ABL Secures Work on French Offshore Grid Connections

    9 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Energy and marine consultancy company, ABL, has been appointed as marine warranty surveyor (MWS) to support the marine transportation and installation (T&I) operations for the Centre Manche 1 and Centre Manche 2 offshore substations in France. Centre Manche 1 and Centre Manche 2 are part of two offshore wind projects – Appel d’Offre 4 (AO4) […]

  • Shell and Iberdrola Bid for Large-Scale Floating Wind Farms Offshore Scotland

    16 July 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Shell and Scottish Power Renewables, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Iberdrola, have joined forces to bid to develop the world’s first large-scale floating offshore wind farms in the north-east of Scotland. The partnership has submitted multiple proposals for new large-scale floating offshore wind farms as part of Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind leasing round which closes for […]

  • RVO Opens Geotechnical Investigation Tender for Doordewind Offshore Wind Zone

    11 April 2024
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has launched a tender for geotechnical investigations at the Doordewind zone, one of the three new areas the Dutch Government designated in 2022 as part of the plan to add more offshore wind capacity. Valued at a total of more than EUR 42 million, the contract will be awarded for offshore geotechnical […]

  • Baltica 2 Final Investment Decision Expected in Second Half of 2024

    5 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Polish energy company PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna and Ørsted are expected to reach the final investment decision (FID) on the Baltica 2 offshore wind project in the second half of this year, Dariusz Marzec, Chairman of the Board at PGE, said at the Polish Wind Energy Association (PWEA) Conference on 4 June. The 1.5 GW Baltica […]

  • Hi5Jack Aims at Lighter, Cheaper Jacket Foundations

    15 November 2019
    R&D

    The EUDP (Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program) is funding a newly established project collaboration that seeks to reduce the weight and cost of jacket foundations for offshore wind turbines using a high strength steel tubular joint design. Jacket foundations are characterised by having tubular main legs and in between smaller cross stiffening tubulars welded […]

  • Ocean Winds Forges Ties with Portuguese Port

    14 March 2023
    Business & Finance, Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    Ocean Winds (OW), a joint venture between EDP Renewables and Engie, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Port of Setúbal in Portugal to work together on preliminary steps in getting the port infrastructure ready for the upcoming offshore wind development in the country. José Pinheiro, Ocean Winds’ country manager for Southern Europe, […]

  • Ex-Coal Power Plant Starts Offshore Wind Makeover

    12 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    Commercial Development Company (CDC) is rebranding the retired coal-fired power plant Brayton Point Power Station in Massachusetts, U.S., to a support center for the offshore wind industry. 

  • Ideol and AOL Present Market-Ready Floating Substation

    5 June 2019
    Grid Connection

    Ideol and Atlantique Offshore Energy (AOE) have unveiled the details of their market-ready universal floating offshore substation. Developed in cooperation with ABB, the floating offshore substation is designed for both bottom-fixed and floating offshore wind farms starting at depths of 40 metres. It is based on Ideol’s patented and shallow-draft Damping Pool® concept and on AOE’s […]

  • New England Offshore Wind Receives Mass Support

    31 October 2017
    R&D

    Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) have conducted a study showing that the large majority of the participants support offshore wind off the New England coast.

  • Barrier Wraps Up London Array Coating Repairs and Maintenance Work

    6 October 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Specialist coatings provider Barrier Ltd, and rope access company, UK Total Solutions, both part of Barrier Group, have collaborated to complete a remedial painting and maintenance contract on the 630MW London Array offshore wind farm in the Thames Estuary. The contract involved coating system repairs to two offshore substations, which transmit power from the wind […]

  • Kriegers Flak Gets First Supply Network Committee

    21 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    More than 90 original equipment manufacturers, vendors and suppliers assembled earlier this month in Denmark to elect the first supplier business network committee which will support the future developer and operator of the 600MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. On 7 September, the Kriegers Flak vendors and suppliers teamed with some of the […]

  • Eneco: Hundreds of Offshore Wind Turbines Have This Chink in the Armor

    16 April 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Following the recent media attention given to Eneco’s Princess Amalia Wind Farm (Prinses Amaliawindpark) and its grout problem, the company yesterday said that hundreds of turbines comprised in first-generation offshore wind farms are facing this issue.  The foundation construction of the Princess Amalia Wind Farm was done according to the DNV GL certified standard, including the design which was common ten years ago in […]

  • Perspectives from a graduate trainee

    21 August 2013

    Newcastle, Strathclyde and Southampton are Britain’s top three universities to study naval architecture and Maria Dragoumerli has gained both a bachelor and masters degree in this discipline from Newcastle University. At university she became interested in the emerging and growing renewables sector of offshore engineering. As well as being clean and green, the sector has […]

  • Offshore Wind Brings GBP 8 Mln to Precision Sheet Metal Company

    11 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    A precision sheet metal specialist is exploiting the growth in offshore wind after it secured £8m of new contracts for two of the world’s largest manufacturing names. Mec Com, which employs 120 people at its Hixon base, has beat off international competition to deliver assembly and testing for Siemens and a large manufacturing package for […]

  • Norfolk Celebrates Statkraft’s Becoming Operator of Sheringham Shoal OWF

    13 January 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    A reception was held at Wind Farm Place, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk on 9 January 2014 to celebrate Statkraft becoming the Operator of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm, the 88 turbine (317 MW) power plant situated between 9 to 17 miles off the coast of North Norfolk. The two Norwegian companies, Statkraft and Statoil, are owners […]

  • AXYS Deploys Vindicator III LiDAR at Chesapeake Bay, USA

    27 February 2014
    R&D, Technology

    AXYS Technologies Inc. has deployed one of its WindSentinel Land Stations on a man-made island at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay as part of a project headed by WeatherFlow Inc. The project is funded by the Virginia Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) with the objective, “Developing an Anchored Wind Monitoring and Forecasting System for […]

  • Denmark: Ramboll to Design Cape Wind Foundations

    28 May 2012

    A new offshore wind farm in the US marks the turning point for offshore wind energy. Ramboll will as leader of a consortium with U.S. based companies design the foundations for the Cape Wind Offshore Wind Farm. The consortium expects more US offshore wind projects to be on the way.  America’s first offshore wind farm […]

  • UK Reinforces Inward Investment and Innovative Projects in Offshore Wind

    12 June 2013
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Business and Energy Minister, Michael Fallon has announced the creation of an Offshore Wind Investment Organisation (OWIO) to boost levels of inward investment and to further stimulate jobs in the UK offshore wind industry, alongside Government support for three offshore wind innovation projects. Energy Minister, Michael Fallon said: “Offshore wind is a major success story […]