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  • Nexans’ New Third-Generation Cable Layer Will Be Able to Lay Four Cables at Once

    26 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Business development, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Nexans is investing in a new third-generation cable-laying vessel in order to, as the company says, support a record project backlog and meet future needs of offshore wind and interconnector projects. According to Nexans, building upon the cutting-edge technology featured on the flagship vessel Nexans Aurora, the new vessel goes further with improved design, comfort […]

  • Scottish Scientists Developing New Ways to Recycle Old Wind Turbine Blades

    14 June 2023
    R&D, Technology

    Engineering researchers, from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, have won a GBP 125,000 grant from renewables investor Greencoat UK Wind to develop their innovative wind turbine recycling process. The researchers are developing a technique to turn old wind turbine blades into powders that could be used to protect engineering and structural components, including new […]

  • PTSC Sends Off First Greater Changhua 2b & 4 Jacket Foundations

    2 December 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    The first batch of four jacket foundations, manufactured by Petrovietnam Technical Services Corporation (PTSC), has set sail from Vietnam. The units will be installed at Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 2b & 4 offshore wind farms in Taiwan. To celebrate this milestone, PTSC and others held a special ceremony on 1 December, with Vietnam’s Prime Minister Phạm […]

  • Master Builders Solutions Hits Motherlode Offshore Taiwan

    27 January 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Master Builders Solutions has won the grout supply contracts for the Formosa 2, the Changfang and Xidao, and the Greater Changhua 1 and 2a offshore wind projects in Taiwan. In total, Master Builders Solutions will be supplying MasterFlow 9500 and MasterFlow 9800 to 222 offshore foundations over the next three years. “2020 has been a […]

  • Le Béon Manufacturing and Partners to Provide Material for Floatgen Mooring System

    1 June 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN), a French engineering school and research institution, has selected an international consortium led by Le Béon Manufacturing to supply the material needed for anchoring Floatgen, a floating wind turbine demonstrator developed by the French company Ideol. The concept is based on a concrete floater built by Bouygues Travaux Publics. ECN invited tenders […]

  • World’s Largest Monopile Factory Secures Planning Approval

    17 June 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    SeAH Wind Ltd, a subsidiary of South Korea’s pipe manufacturer SeAH Steel Holdings, has received planning approval for its proposed GBP 300 million UK XXL monopile factory to be built at Teesworks. Site works are scheduled to commence in July with overall completion anticipated in 2024. The 40-metre high, over 800-metres long building, part of the Teesside’s […]

  • US State Enters Offshore Wind Cooperation Agreement with Denmark

    11 January 2022
    Authorities

    Denmark’s Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities has entered into a cooperation agreement on offshore wind with the US state of Virginia, after a few months of working on the agreement with the government of Virginia, together with the Danish Energy Agency and with assistance from the Danish embassy in the US. According to the […]

  • Sif Acquires KCI the Engineers

    16 March 2021
    Business & Finance

    Sif Holding has finalised the takeover of KCI the engineers from Royal IHC, as announced in December 2020, when the companies inked the initial agreement for Sif’s acquisition of the Dutch engineering consultancy company. Financial details of the acquisition have been left undisclosed. KCI, which bagged EUR 9 million in sales profit last year, employs […]

  • USA: DOE Launches Report on Environmental Effects of Marine Energy Development

    10 February 2013
    Authorities, R&D

    As part of an international collaboration with the International Energy Agency, the Energy Department has launched a new database that includes results of environmental monitoring and research efforts on wave, tidal, and current energy development worldwide. Called “Tethys,” after the Greek titaness of the ocean, the database will help industry regulators and energy project developers […]

  • LS Cable & System Scores Big Offshore Taiwan

    6 October 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    South Korea’s LS Cable & System has secured a preferred bidder status for a KRW 200 billion (around EUR 145 million) contract to provide submarine cables for the Hai Long offshore wind farm in Taiwan. LS Cable & System was selected for the project by CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE), Taiwan’s first EPCI offshore wind power […]

  • Vestas Books Marco Polo’s New CSOV for Asia Pacific Offshore Wind Projects

    15 December 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Marco Polo Marine’s Taiwan-based subsidiary, PKR Offshore, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Vestas Taiwan for the deployment of Marco Polo’s new commissioning service operations vessel (CSOV) on offshore wind projects in the Asia Pacific region. The new CSOV will be deployed across offshore wind farms in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, over […]

  • GWEC Expects Record Year in Offshore Wind Installations

    9 September 2021
    Business & Finance

    The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) expects 2021 to be the new record year for new offshore wind capacity installed globally. Last year, 6.1 GW of offshore wind capacity were installed globally, a slight decrease from a record 6.24 GW in 2019. With China’s offshore wind sector rushing to install 7.5 GW ahead of the […]

  • ECE Offshore, Jan De Nul to Collaborate on TenneT 2 GW Grid Connection Projects

    27 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Supply Chain

    The Dutch company, ECE Offshore, has secured a contract with Jan De Nul Group to support cable laying and execution on the TenneT 2 GW grid connection projects. The scope of ECE Offshore is part of Jan De Nul’s framework agreement with the Dutch-German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT on the German 2 GW grid […]

  • Deep Wind Offshore Unveils Plans for Gigawatt-Scale Floating Offshore Wind Farm in Sweden

    28 May 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Business development, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    Norway-headquartered Deep Wind Offshore has applied to develop and operate a 1.5 GW floating offshore wind farm in Sweden. The Swedish government has received the first application for a floating offshore wind farm outside Stockholm. The Erik Segersäll floating offshore wind farm is planned around 74 kilometres east of Nynäshamn and can reach electricity consumers […]

  • Ørsted Adds Acteon to Greater Changhua 2b & 4 Team

    10 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain

    Pulse Structural Monitoring, a brand in marine energy and infrastructure services company Acteon, has signed a contract with Ørsted Taiwan to provide measurement and associated data acquisition systems for the Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farms in Taiwan. The company, which is part of Acteon’s Geo-services business line, will be responsible for the […]

  • Commerzbank: Annual Offshore Wind Growth to Be 19.1GW by 2020

    17 September 2019
    Business & Finance, R&D

    The annual global growth of the offshore wind sector will increase to 19.1GW by 2020, from the 4.3GW in 2018, according to Commerzbank AG. Commerzbank anticipates the global wind market to continue to grow, albeit with regional fluctuations, with an average growth rate of 15% in the offshore wind sector in the next ten years. The German bank said […]

  • Mines Professor to Design Foundations for Korean Wind Farm

    27 August 2014
    Technology

    Off the shores of South Korea, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology professor Sangchul Bang is making history. Designing suction pile foundations for a 2,500-megawatt (MW) wind farm, his nearly $200,000 contract with Korea Electric Power Corporation Research Institute (KEPRI) will result in foundations for 500 windmills ranging from 3 MW to 7 MW […]

  • Asia Pacific’s Offshore Wind Developer Plans 2 GW Project in Australia

    20 October 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Singapore-based renewable energy developer, Vena Energy, has unveiled plans for a 2 GW offshore wind project in Australia. The offshore wind farm, named Blue Marlin, is planned to be built off the Victorian Coast in the Gippsland Basin. The wind farm would be built across four 500 MW phases, each comprising up to 35 wind […]

  • UK: Reportlinker Releases Wave and Tidal Report

    10 January 2013

    Reportlinker.com announced a new market research report “Marine Power (Wave and Tidal) – Installed Capacity, Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), Profiles of Technology Developers and Key Country Analysis to 2030.” This is the latest report from GlobalData, the industry analysis specialists that offer comprehensive information and understanding of the marine energy industry. The report provides […]

  • RWE and Partners Secure 684 MW Japanese Offshore Wind Site

    13 December 2023
    Authorities, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    RWE Offshore Wind Japan Murakami-Tainai K.K. has been selected in a consortium together with Mitsui & Co., Ltd (Mitsui) and Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. (Osaka Gas) to deliver a 684 MW commercial-scale offshore wind project in Japan. The Japanese Government has appointed the consortium to develop, construct, and operate a fixed-bottom offshore wind farm off […]

  • Korea: ABB Delivers Propulsion Systems for Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

    19 October 2012

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, recently delivered four Azipod C propulsion systems for the Blue Ocean II Wind Turbine Installation Vessel built by Samsung Shipyard in Korea. This is a repeat order from Samsung Shipyard, following a similar scope for the first Blue Ocean Wind Turbine Installation Vessel delivered in September, 2011. […]

  • Germany: Allseas Special Vessel Lifts Offshore Platforms in One Piece

    6 March 2012

    As the major engineering partner to the Allseas Group, Bosch Rexroth has developed and engineered the drive and control system solution for the world’s largest mobile lifting mechanism for offshore installations. The special vessel equipped with this topside lifting system (TLS), “Pieter Schelte”, can lift and transport topsides of offshore platforms with a weight of […]

  • Simply Blue, NORCE, Exceedence Back FASTWIND Project

    27 November 2023
    Business development, R&D, Research & Development

    Software developer Exceedence, Simply Blue Group, and Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE) have joined forces to support a project called FASTWIND (Financial Analysis using Satellite Technology for Offshore Wind Energy) which aims to use satellite data from European Space Agency’s (ESA) satellite network to conduct resource management and energy yield analysis. Funded by ESA, FASTWIND is […]

  • Vestas 15 MW Prototype Now at Full Throttle

    3 April 2023
    Business development, Technology

    Last week, three months after it was installed at the National Test Center for large wind turbines in Østerild, Denmark, Vestas’s V236-15.0 MW prototype wind turbine reached its nominal power rating of 15 MW. The company’s new flagship wind turbine produced its first electricity shortly after being installed in December 2022 and has started operating at […]

  • CS Wind Takes Full Ownership of ASM Industries

    24 February 2022
    Business & Finance

    South Korea’s CS Wind has acquired the remaining 40 per cent stake in the Portuguese wind turbine tower manufacturer, ASM Industries, from WAM Investments. This transaction follows the sale of the 60 per cent stake in ASM by WAM to CS Wind in July 2021. WAM said the two partners concluded that the most advantageous […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Consultancy, Project Management Company Join Forces on Global Plan

    17 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Supply Chain

    UK-headquartered Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) and renewable energy project management company Bridge Wind Management have entered into a strategic alliance that will see the two partners providing a one-stop-shop solution for asset and operational management for offshore wind projects. OWC and Bridge said their aim was to enable more informed decision-making for offshore wind investors by […]