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  • Germany: ABB’s Presence in Offshore Wind Industry

    7 June 2012
    Grid Connection

    Over the past three years, ABB’s wind power business has grown on average over 50 percent a year, but historically there have been difficulties associated with wind farms, such as the amount of space they occupy, the importance of their siting (without obstructions such as trees or hills), their noise and the threat to birds […]

  • Germany: IQPC to Kick Off Conference on Offshore Wind Vessels

    23 November 2012

    Offshore wind manager at Carbon Trust, Jan Matthiesen, will open International Vessels for Offshore Wind Park Supply and Installation conference on Monday at the Grand Elysée in Hamburg. This conference will provide cutting edge case study presentations on the following topics: The latest foundation installation vessels for deep water projects that deliver significant cost savings […]

  • Wind Energy Covers Over 30 Pct of Danish Electricity Consumption

    31 January 2013

    By the end of 2012 wind energy covered more than 30% of Denmark’s electricity consumption. Denmark is thus still well on its way toward the target of 50% wind energy in 2020, and remains the country with the highest share of wind energy in the electricity system in the world. The share of 30% wind energy […]

  • Interior Secretary to Discuss Job Creation Opportunities of Offshore Wind Energy in RI (USA)

    15 August 2011
    Authorities

    U.S. Senator Jack Reed, Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and Environment, and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Representative Jim Langevin, and U.S. Representative David Cicilline announced that U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will travel to Rhode Island on August 17 to discuss the economic benefits and job creation opportunities of offshore […]

  • Goldwind’s New Offshore Wind Turbine Smashes Rotor Diameter Record

    18 October 2022
    Technology

    Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Goldwind and China Three Gorges (CTG) Corporation held a ceremony in the Fujian offshore wind industrial park on 13 October as Goldwind rolled out the nacelle for its first 13.6 MW turbine that will have a rotor diameter of 252 metres.  While Vestas’s and Siemens Gamesa’s currently largest offshore wind turbines […]

  • EEW Korea Signs Hai Long Pin Piles Contract

    12 October 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Hai Long Offshore Wind Project has signed the pin piles fabrication contract with EEW Korea Heavy Pipe Construction (EEW KHPC) after naming the company a preferred supplier back in October 2021. EEW KHPC will provide pin piles for the Hai Long 2B and 3 offshore wind projects in Taiwan, for an installed capacity of 744 […]

  • Siemens Gamesa 8MW Offshore Wind Turbine Gets DNV GL Certificate

    3 October 2019
    Technology

    DNV GL has awarded Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy with the Type Certificate for offshore for its SG 8.0-167 DD offshore wind turbine. The certificate confirms full compliance of the turbine design to the international wind turbine standard IECRE OD-501 and allows for immediate market implementation. The turbine will be installed in offshore wind parks worldwide […]

  • UK: FoundOcean to Pile Grout World’s Largest Wind Turbine

    12 June 2013

    FoundOcean has been awarded the contract by Graham Construction to pile grout the foundation for the world’s largest offshore wind turbine, developed by Samsung Heavy Industries, in Fife, Scotland. This will be the first 7MW turbine to be installed. Each blade measures over 80m, longer than the wingspan of an Airbus A380, making them the […]

  • France Reveals Potential Developers of Two Offshore Wind Farms

    27 March 2023
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    France has selected candidates who will participate in the competitive dialogues for the two offshore wind farm projects located off the Ile d’Oléron (AO7) and Normandy (AO8). The two wind farms will have a combined capacity of 2.5 GW. The candidates selected to participate in the tendering procedure for the 1 GW Ile d’Oléron wind […]

  • Estonia and Latvia Ramping Up Work on Joint 1 GW Offshore Wind Project

    9 September 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    A decision on selecting specific areas for further development within the Elwind offshore project could be adopted in early 2022, according to the Ministry of Economic of Latvia, which announced on 8 September that Hendrikson & KO and Pondera Consult were awarded a contract for a pre-feasibility study. The pre-feasibility study will assess the pre-selected […]

  • TRG Wind Sells Recruitment Business, Opens Offshore Wind Base in Hull

    15 November 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    UK-based wind turbine support company TRG Wind has sold its recruitment business to a member of its senior management team and has secured premises at Tower House Lane Business Park in Hull for its new operations centre which is expected to help the company expand its activities in the offshore sector. Nico Young, formerly operations co-ordinator at TRG […]

  • Vattenfall Pulls Plug on Vesterhav Offshore Tenders

    29 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall will cancel and reissue a number of tenders for the Vesterhav Syd and Vesterhav Nord offshore wind projects in addition to the recently announced construction delay. Due to complications with the project environmental impact assessments (EIA), Vattenfall will reopen the tenders for the production and installation of foundations, transition pieces and cables, as well […]

  • N-Sea Completes BorWin3 UXO Campaign

    28 October 2015

    N-Sea has completed an unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey, ID and disposal campaign for the TenneT project, BorWin3. Taking place between January – August this year, the work scope involved surveying the seabed to identify and remove undiscovered explosive devices along the cable route of BorWin3. Transmission system operator, TenneT’s grid connection system connects wind parks […]

  • Scottish Renewables: Report Confirms what Industry Knew about Pentland Firth

    11 July 2013

    New research from Oxford University says Pentland Firth promises to be one of the best sites in the world for tidal power. Lindsay Leask, Senior Policy Manager for Scottish Renewables, said:  “This latest report confirms what the industry has known for some time; the Pentland Firth is one of the best sites in the world […]

  • EIB Invests GBP 51 Mln in Gwynt y Môr Transmission Link

    16 February 2015
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide GBP 51 million backing for the GBP 352 transmission link to the second largest wind farm in the world. The Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm, located in Liverpool Bay, eight miles off the north Wales coast, will produce enough electricity to cater for the energy needs […]

  • Great Interest in EnBW Baltic 2 (Germany)

    21 February 2012

    The investment offer for EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm appears to be very popular: many municipal utilities, industrial companies and institutional investors from Baden-Württemberg and Germany are interested in participating in the second EnBW’s Baltic Sea wind farm. “We are delighted to be well received. In addition to partners who have already participated in […]

  • EU to Discuss Energy Infrastructure

    22 June 2016
    Authorities, Grid Connection

    Energy Union Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič and Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete will attend the Energy Infrastructure Forum tomorrow in Copenhagen, where they will also meet with the Danish Energy Minister Lars Christian Lilleholt. The forum, hosted by the European Commission and the Danish government, aims at facilitating stakeholders’ participation in the policy shaping process and […]

  • Supacat Acquires Heavy Engineering Company

    9 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Devon based design engineering firm, Supacat Group, has acquired local heavy fabrication and machining specialist, Blackhill Engineering Services Ltd, providing Supacat with the ability to manufacture large structures. Supacat is part of the South West Marine Energy Park and the new capability will strengthen the South West’s supply chain in the Nuclear, Renewable Energy […]

  • EDF Renewables and Simply Blue Enter Floating Offshore Wind Partnership in Ireland

    31 May 2023
    Collaboration, Contracts & Tenders, Outlook & Strategy

    EDF Renewables Ireland has entered into a partnership with Simply Blue Group to develop the Western Star and Emerald floating offshore wind projects. The 50:50 joint venture partners will now seek to progress the two projects to meet the Irish Government’s targets to have 2 GW of floating wind in development by 2030. According to […]

  • Almost Half of EnBW Baltic 2 OWF Sold for EUR 720 Mln

    7 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG has sold 49.89 percent of its shares in the offshore wind farm EnBW Baltic 2 to Macquarie Capital, the principal investment, advisory and capital markets arm of Macquarie Group. A corresponding purchase agreement has now been signed. “This means that we have now successfully implemented our second participation model in the […]

  • Vestas Partners with Japan’s METI to Advance Wind Energy, Signs Steel Supply MoU with Nippon Steel

    31 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    Vestas and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) have signed an agreement to work together through a study group to expand wind power in Japan and look into investing in local wind turbine production. In addition, Nippon Steel signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Vestas to supply steel for Vestas’ wind towers […]

  • Second Offshore Wind Port in Massachusetts Breaks Ground

    16 August 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Ports & Logistics

    Construction work on converting a former oil- and coal-fired power plant site in Salem, Massachusetts, into a terminal serving the offshore wind industry has started. On 15 August, Crowley Wind Services, the company managing the redevelopment and the new terminal’s operator, held a groundbreaking ceremony at the site that will become the Salem Offshore Wind […]

  • UK: Guernsey’s Tidal, Wave and Offshore Wind Resources Discussed at Westminster Event

    29 October 2012
    Authorities

    Guernsey’s capacity to act as a hub for renewable energy generation and to provide financial products and services to the cleantech sector has been discussed at an event held at the House of Commons. The renewable energy reception was held on Tuesday 11th September and included Rt. Hon. Ed Davey, MP, Secretary of State for […]

  • Tri-Nation Accord Copes with Wave, Tidal Risks

    26 October 2015
    R&D

    A tri-nation accord between firms based in Ireland, France and the UK is to result in shared research technology designed to dramatically reduce risks faced by developers of renewable tidal and wave power schemes around north western European coast lines. Known as MOREDATAS (Methods to Obtain Refined Environmental DATA from the Seas) the project addresses […]

  • Trianel Windpark Borkum Generates 452.33GWh in 6 Months

    18 March 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    First purely municipal offshore wind farm installed off German coast, Trianel Windpark Borkum, has been in operation for half a year now, and has generated 452.33GWh of electricity, with January 2016 as the month with the highest yield so far – 95.12GWh. Construction on the wind farm began in September 2011. From July 2013, all 40 AREVA Wind M5000-116 […]

  • Wind Power Exhibition Kicks Off in South Korea

    6 December 2012

    ‘Wind Power Korea 2012’ is held from 5th to 7th December by Gyeongsangnam-do, a hub of east south area of Korea. 94 companies participate in the exhibition running at CECO (Changwon Exhibition Convention Center) located in Gyeongsangnam-do, a city taking 80% of Korean Wind Power System and 50% of component industry in Wind Power industry. Gyeongsangnam-do is […]