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  • Last Albatros Turbine Stands

    23 September 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    All 16 Siemens Gamesa 7MW wind turbines have been installed on the 112MW Albatros offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, EnBW said. This marks the completion of the turbine installation on the largest offshore wind project in Germany which includes the 71 wind turbines on the neighbouring Hohe See wind farm, according to […]

  • Bladt Loads Out Northwester 2 Offshore Substation

    21 August 2019
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Bladt Industries has loaded out the offshore substation destined for the Northwester 2 offshore wind farm. According to Bladt, the substation will soon leave its facility in Aalborg, Denmark, for the project site in the Belgium part of the North Sea. The 235t transformer was installed on the offshore substation in April by using three cranes. To remind, Bladt […]

  • Vattenfall Looks For DanTysk Turbine Maintenance Squad

    28 May 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Vattenfall has issued a tender seeking wind turbine maintenance services on the 288MW DanTysk offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The service agreement covers the scheduled maintenance of 54 wind turbines in 2020 and 80 units in 2021. The contract is expected to start in June 2020 and end in June 2021. The […]

  • Record-Breakers in 2018

    2 January 2019

    It has somewhat become business as usual for the offshore wind industry to mark record-breaking activities every year and 2018 was no different. We bring you a selection of five of the most notable 2018 record-breakers:

  • EU Commission Okays Dunkirk OWF Funding Plan

    11 December 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The European Commission had approved the public funding that France plans to put in place for the construction of the Dunkirk offshore wind farm.

  • Germany to Curb New Offshore Wind Capacity

    5 July 2016

    German government plans to limit the installation of offshore wind farms in the period between 2021 and 2025 to 3.1GW and hold a tender for 1.7GW of offshore wind in 2017 and 1.4GW in 2018 to adjust the offshore wind development to that of the high-voltage transmission grid, according to Reuters. Previously, it was agreed that two offshore wind tenders […]

  • COBRAcable Lands in Netherlands

    9 November 2018
    Grid Connection

    Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT brought the COBRAcable ashore on 9 November, according to the TSO’s social media posts. 

  • Deutsche Windtechnik Inks Sandbank Deal

    29 June 2016

    Vattenfall has appointed Deutsche Windtechnik to oversee the construction and commissioning of the Sandbank offshore wind farm. Engineers and technicians from Deutsche Windtechnik are currently supervising the preassembly of the 72 SWT-4.0.130 wind turbines at the port of Esbjerg. The company has already worked on Vattenfall’s Dan Tysk offshore wind farm. “We are delighted that the […]

  • MENCK’s Largest Hammer Set for Burbo Bank 2 Monopiles

    27 May 2016

    MENCK will deploy its largest hammer for the installation of 32 monopiles at the Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm. The MHU3500S has a 6.5m pile sleeve, powered by 3 MHP 1600 hydraulic power packs in parallel setup. The hammer will be operated from Van Oord’s offshore construction vessel Svanen. Offshore construction of the 258MW wind farm is […]

  • Jan De Nul Relies on Mermaid

    7 December 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Jan De Nul Group is now licenced for the use of Mojo Maritime’s Mermaid®, which will help the offshore construction company to better assess weather risk for offshore operations. Mermaid allows users to realistically simulate marine operations to uncover the risks and identify critical operations before going offshore. Rich Walker, Senior Marine Operations Analyst at Mojo Maritime […]

  • InterMoor Completes Suction Pile Sea Fastening Work

    24 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    InterMoor Marine Services Ltd. engineers based in their Aberdeen office have completed design and installation of sea fastenings for sea transportation of suction piles and other project equipment. The 7.5 metre diameter suction piles weighed 180 Tonnes with a height of 13 metres. Sea fastening design was a critical requirement as the piles were required to be transported […]

  • MPI Offshore, Vroon Exhibiting in Hamburg

    24 September 2014

    MPI Offshore and Vroon Offshore Services are taking part in this week’s WindEnergy Hamburg exhibition. This event, which covers 65,000 square metres, is open until Friday 26 September. More than 1,200 exhibitors from over 30 countries are present to share innovations from all areas of wind industry, from research to planning and financing, installation, operation […]

  • Eurocopter Takes on New Name Airbus Helicopters

    10 January 2014

    The rebranding of Eurocopter as Airbus Helicopters, effective today, marks a new era in the history of the company, which joins Airbus and Airbus Defense & Space within the new Airbus Group – the global leader in aerospace, defense and related services. Airbus Helicopters will benefit from and enrich the Airbus brand as it develops, […]

  • UK: Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm Back on Track

    11 December 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    DP Vessel ‘Fugro Commander’ and the jack-up ‘Excalibur’ are both back on Walney offshore wind farms site after the recent poor weather. ‘Excalibur’ is accompanied by the support tug ‘MTS Valiant’, and an additional DP Vessel ‘MV Gargano’ is expected to arrive on site, according to KIS-ORCA. This marks the beginning of further development of […]

  • ‘Innovation’ Arrives at Aalborg Harbour

    12 February 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    The jack-up vessel Innovation, which is going to pick up foundations for Westermost Rough Offshore Windfarm in the British part of the North Sea, called yesterday at Aalborg Harbour. With a loading capacity of 8000 tonnes and a high performance 1500-tonne crane, Innovation is one of the largest specialized vessels to ever arrive at Aalborg […]

  • UK Moves Up CfD Timetable

    22 January 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Following an early completion of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) appeals from unsuccessful applicants, UK government has moved up the schedule for the first allocation of the subsidy scheme. Low Carbon Contracts Company, owned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), announced the sealed bid window for CfD will open on 29 January, […]

  • Bladt, NLMK DanSteel to Work on Dong’s Lightweight Foundation

    21 May 2014
    Technology

    Bladt Industries is to deliver a lightweight foundation to Dong Energy in cooperation with NLMK DanSteel. The foundation is designed by Dong Energy under their offshore Wind Project PISA, which is part of the Carbon Trust’s offshore wind accelerator project. The aim of the project is to lower the weight and costs of offshore foundations […]

  • All Baltic 2 Jacket Pin Piles Installed

    15 April 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    All jacket pin piles have been installed at the Baltic 2 offshore wind farm, the project’s developer EnBW confirmed to Offshore WIND. Workers on the jack-up vessel Goliath have driven the jacket pin piles into the seabed. An important part of the work on the foundations is now complete, the company said. Baltic 2 consists […]

  • IEA Wind Proposes New Task

    13 July 2015
    R&D

    International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Wind unit issued a proposal for a new task called “Wind Energy Systems Engineering: Integrated RD&D” in May, which was approved by the IEA Wind Executive Committee. The task consists of three parts: Developing a framework for multi-disciplinary design and evaluation activities for wind energy. Formulating reference wind farms and wind turbines. Conducting […]

  • First Esvagt SOV Goes to Work

    24 February 2015
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Esvagt’s first offshore wind Service Operation Vessel (SOV), “ESVAGT FROUDE”, went on contract on Wednesday February 18th, while her sister ship, “ESVAGT FARADAY” is contracted  to start at the beginning of April – in both cases to work for Siemens Wind Power. The German energy company has provisionally chartered “ESVAGT FROUDE” for a five year contract  to […]

  • Photo Gallery: ‘Cable Enterprise’ Revamped

    26 March 2015
    Vessels

    As recently reported, Prysmian’s cable laying barge Cable Enterprise has been upgraded into a DP2 cable layer at the Viktor Lenac shipyard in Croatia.  The upgraded vessel will operate autonomously without the need of tugs during cable laying and will have a total of 9.2 MW of power supplying 6 thrusters. The vessel will keep its ability to ground […]

  • Energinet.dk Seeks Cable Route Survey Services

    22 May 2015
    Grid Connection

    Energinet.dk has issued an invitation to tender for survey of Kriegers Flak’s cable route. The work is expected to be carried out in 2015. As part of the Kriegers Flak (KF) Combined Grid Solution (CGS), the Danish TSO Energinet.dk and the German TSO 50Hertz Transmission GmbH are preparing the installation of two parallel HVDC cables from the KFBE substation at […]

  • UK: Innovative Offshore Wind Foundation Visited by Carbon Trust, Fred. Olsen, Forewind

    6 September 2012

    On September 4th a delegation from Fred. Olsen, the Forewind Consortia (made up of representatives from RWE Innogy, SSE Renewables, Statkraft and Statoil) and Carbon Trust visited the Harland and Wolff facility in Belfast. The delegation saw the fabrication of the innovative suction installed bucket foundation technology that will be used on two meteorological masts […]

  • Ormazabal Promotes Ecodesign Tools for Renewable Sector (Spain)

    3 February 2012
    Technology

    As part of its commitment to the environment (social, economic and environmental), Ormazabal has promoted and implemented the application of ecodesign tools in the design phase of products, in order to minimize the carbon footprint both in the electricity distribution network and when integrating renewable energy. Ecodesign Basque Center is an entity based in the […]

  • Last Day for Residents to Have Their Say on Proposed Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

    10 November 2011

    Pembrokeshire communities have until close of play today to have their say over plans for a massive offshore wind farm. The chance to comment on the RWE npower renewables Atlantic Array Offshore Wind Farm, which will be located 16km off the south Wales coast, closes at 5pm today (Thursday). If the development goes ahead it […]

  • Partrac Technical Director to Present at International Conference on Scour & Erosion (France)

    4 January 2012

    The Partrac Group announced that Dr Kevin Black (Technical Director) has been accepted to present at the 6th International Conference on Scour & Erosion in Paris on the 27th – 31st August 2012. Dr Kevin Black’s presentation entitled, ‘Scour Prediction at Offshore Structures: The Experience within the UK offshore Wind Industry and the Utility of […]