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  • Texo Pursues Offshore Wind with New Blyth Office

    18 March 2019
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Texo Group has opened a new office in the Port of Blyth with the aim of supporting the needs of the offshore wind sector and focusing on back-of-deck and mechanical equipment projects. Texo has also made three new appointments to its engineering leadership team to head up the new office in the North East of England […]

  • CHC Awarded Six-Year Contract for Hornsea One Heli Ops

    20 September 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy has awarded CHC Group with a six-year contract for aviation services for the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the UK. Working with Uni-Fly as a sub-contractor, CHC will support the construction phase and the first five years of operations and maintenance of the wind farm.

  • Analysis: Neart Na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm to Have GBP 827 Million Impact on Scottish GDP

    28 August 2017
    Business & Finance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    The 450MW Neart Na Gaoithe offshore wind project is estimated to add GBP 827.4 million to Scotland’s GDP during its lifetime, according to an analysis carried out by the Fraser of Allander Institute (FAI) at the University of Strathclyde.

  • Inter-Array Cable Installation Starts at Beatrice OWF

    10 November 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The first inter-array cable installation campaign at the Beatrice offshore wind farm started today, 10 November, as the cable laying vessel Siem Aimery, supported by CSV Siem Stingray, is set to install up to 24 cables in the south part of the project site.

  • MHI Vestas to Test 9.5MW Offshore Wind Turbine in US

    24 October 2017
    R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    MHI Vestas Offshore Wind and Clemson University in South Carolina announced that the world’s most powerful wind turbine, the V164-9.5MW, will have all testing and verification of the wind turbine’s gearbox and main bearings carried out at the university’s 15MW test bench.

  • Denmark Backs TetraSpar Floating Wind Project

    19 October 2017
    R&D, Technology

    The TetraSpar floating wind foundation, brought forward by Henrik Stiesdal – a Danish inventor and former Chief Technology Officer at Siemens Wind Power – has won a DKK 9 million grant (approx. EUR 1.2 million).

  • Statoil Picks Heavy Offshore Maintenance Challenge Winners

    8 June 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Statoil has chosen Ampelmann, Axtech and Largeway as the winners of the Norwegian energy company’s innovation challenge on heavy maintenance of offshore wind turbines.

  • Seagreen Requests Scoping Opinion for Seagreen Phase 1

    5 July 2017
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Seagreen Wind Energy Ltd has requested a scoping opinion from Marine Scotland Licensing Operations Team, on behalf of Scottish Ministers, for the proposed 1.05GW Seagreen Phase 1 wind farm project.

  • EDS HV Wraps Up Cable Sentry Trials at Gwynt y Môr

    23 March 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    High voltage engineering specialist EDS HV Group has successfully completed trials at the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm as part of its EU Funded Horizon 2020 project.

  • Offshore Wind Opportunity to Redesign North Sea, Report Says

    25 May 2018
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Offshore wind potential offers opportunity to redesign the North Sea and increase marine biodiversity, according to the latest white paper from Ecofys, which also pointed out that there is an urgent need to improve collaboration and understanding to facilitate the development of a net-positive approach towards the future offshore wind roll-out across the North Sea countries. 

  • Gannets Steer Clear of Offshore Wind Turbines

    8 February 2018
    Environment, R&D, Technology

    APEM has released a study suggesting that four times fewer Northern gannets collide with offshore wind turbines than previously thought.

  • GCube Launches Report on Wind Turbine Fires

    17 November 2015

    GCube Underwriting Ltd. (GCube) today launched a report on wind turbine fires. The report, Towering Inferno, analyses the root causes, impact and mitigation of wind turbine downtime events, the company explained. Despite the increasing use of fire suppression throughout the industry, turbine fire incidents typically result in the total or near-total loss of a multi-million dollar asset. GCube […]

  • Mojo Maritime Launches Mermaid

    20 October 2015
    Technology

    Mojo Maritime, part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has launched its marine operations planning and risk optimisation system, Mermaid. Mermaid (Marine Economic Risk Management Aid) gives companies involved in marine operations increased understanding of the impact of weather and tidal forces on a project’s schedule. By accurately simulating marine operations against historical weather and tidal […]

  • Europe Powered by Wind; 2015 Strong Year for Offshore

    9 February 2016

    Wind energy added more new capacity than any other form of power in Europe in 2015, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) said. Across the 28 EU member states, wind accounted for 44% of all new power installations, connecting a total of 12.8GW to the grid – 9,766MW in onshore and 3,034MW offshore. The volume of […]

  • OMSG Joins QED’s Subhub Project

    15 September 2015
    R&D

    QED Naval have teamed up with Offler Marine Services Group (OMSG) to provide offshore expertise with the selection of installation and recovery methods, to help de-risk and reduce cost exposure of the Subhub project and its payload of tidal turbines. QED Naval received a real boost to their plans to reduce the costs of deployment […]

  • EEW Scores Walney Extension Deal

    14 September 2015

    DONG Energy has named Germany’s EEW SPC (EEW) as the main supplier of foundations for its 660 megawatt (MW) Walney Extension offshore wind farm off the Cumbrian coast. The contract covers the supply of 87 foundations for which the monopile structures will be manufactured by EEW in Rostock. The associated transition pieces will be produced under […]

  • Westermost Rough Funds New Withernsea Promenade

    8 September 2015

    Westermost Rough offshore wind farm has committed £80,000 to deliver a brand new promenade feature for Withernsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Westermost Rough is teaming up with the Withernsea and South East Holderness Regeneration Partnership and Withernsea Big Local Partnership to install a pavement fountain with amphitheatre style seating on the Central Promenade. […]

  • Nexans Wins Scottish Subsea Link Contract Worth EUR 120 Million

    26 August 2013
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Nexans, a worldwide expert in the cable industry, has been awarded a contract worth in excess of Euro 120 million by Scottish Hydro Electric (SHE) Transmission plc to supply and install a subsea power link to upgrade the electricity transmission network between the Kintyre peninsula and mainland coast in Southwest Scotland. The upgrade, which is […]

  • UK: Alstom’s Tidal Turbine Reaches Full Potential

    31 July 2013

    From its immersion in January 2013, at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland, Alstom’s full-scale tidal device has reached the full nominal power of 1MW after a series of gradual increases in power. The turbine connected to the grid has now generated over 10MWh of electricity, in actual operating conditions. Both are […]

  • DECC Launches GBP 4 Million Fourth Call for Offshore Wind Innovation Proposals (UK)

    1 March 2013
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Following the announcement of the first three winners of the second call of the Offshore Wind Component Technologies Development and Demonstration scheme, DECC has yesterday launched a £4 million fourth call, aimed at driving forward further innovation in the offshore wind sector and helping even more organisations benefit under this scheme. Energy and Climate Change […]

  • Qinetiq Maritime Software to Support Development of Tidal Energy Industry Vessel

    5 November 2013
    Technology

    Paramarine software has been selected by Mojo Maritime Ltd. to support the design of a new dynamic positioning (DP) offshore construction vessel, the HiFlo-4 (HF4,) which will have applications for the tidal energy industry. The purpose of the HF4 is to reduce the installed cost of marine renewable energy devices to initiate industrialisation. The vessel […]

  • Wick Businesses Explore Offshore Wind Opportunities (UK)

    10 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    A group of Caithness and Sutherland businesses, including Wick Harbour Authority and Scrabster Harbour Trust, have travelled to Suffolk to look in detail at the services and facilities offered at the extensive offshore wind operations base which has been established there. The visit to Lowestoft was funded by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) as part […]

  • The Crown Estate Appoints Legal Advisors to Energy and Infrastructure Portfolio (UK)

    16 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Crown Estate today announced that it has appointed Norton Rose Fulbright and Bond Dickinson to sit on the legal panel for its energy and infrastructure portfolio. The two firms recently emerged from a competitive tender process which aimed to consolidated legal advice across an extremely diverse portfolio. Norton Rose Fulbright will be responsible for […]

  • UK: Osiris Projects Builds Second Survey Vessel

    16 October 2013

    Osiris Projects, part of Bibby Marine Survey Services, announced building has commenced on a sister ship to Bibby Tethra, named Bibby Athena, to be launched in winter 2014. The vessel will mirror the capabilities of Bibby Tethra with a few subtle changes to reflect the company’s development into shallow geotechnical sampling and more challenging offshore […]

  • Severn Subsea Supplies Oceanus 2 with Telemetry & Control System

    2 July 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Severn Subsea Technologies, part of the Severn Glocon Group, has developed an integrated telemetry and control system for wave power company Seatricity’s Oceanus 2 wave device, now moored at the Cornish Wave Hub. The SST system will enable researchers to correlate wave movement with power generated, and thus optimise power generating conditions offshore. Briefly, Seatricity […]

  • Hydrosphere Provides O&M Services to FLiDAR

    30 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Hydrosphere is working with FLiDAR NV offering operations and maintenance services for the FLiDAR wind measurement buoys that are deployed within UK waters.  FLiDAR NV has developed the world’s most accurate buoy integrated Lidar for wind resource assessments. The state-of-the-art LEOSPHERE WINDCUBE®v2 LiDAR equipment has been installed on a custom-made data buoy platform designed by […]