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  • Offshore Wind Third Most Popular for Corporate Power Purchase Agreements in Europe

    8 July 2020
    Business & Finance

    Offshore wind is the third most opted for energy source for corporate power purchase agreements (CPPAs), according to a survey of the European CPPA market carried out by law firm Fieldfisher. Some 54 per cent of survey respondents said they would consider signing a power purchase agreement (PPA) for offshore wind energy. This ranks offshore […]

  • Ocergy Foundation Technology Picked for Salamander Pre-FEED Design

    28 October 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    A joint venture between Simply Blue Group, Subsea 7, and Ørsted has awarded Ocergy with a pre-FEED foundation design contract for its 100 MW Salamander floating offshore wind project in Scotland. Last year, Salamander signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ocergy to evaluate its foundation design for the development in northeast Scotland. The project […]

  • RWE Wraps Up Gwynt y Môr Foundation Installation

    28 April 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    The installation of all 160 foundations at the world’s second largest wind farm, Gwynt y Môr, has been successfully completed. The final transition piece was installed on Wednesday 23rd April more than eight miles off the North Wales coast by RWE’s jack up installation vessel, Friedrich Ernestine. The vessel has now completed its scope of […]

  • SEA-KIT’s USV Completes Demo Survey Operations

    20 August 2020
    Technology, Vessels

    SEA-KIT’s 12-metre Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV), for which the company recently received an order from Fugro, has completed a 22-day demonstration project, carrying out remote surveys on Europe’s continental margin in the Atlantic. “The project’s overall aim was to demonstrate the capabilities of current technologies to survey unexplored or inadequately surveyed ocean frontiers and we […]

  • South Korean Floating Wind Attracts Big Names

    28 January 2019
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    The City of Ulsan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with four domestic and foreign partnerships and investors to build and maintain floating wind farms, as well as to create a local supply chain in South Korea. The four developers include a partnership between Royal Dutch Shell and CoensHexicon, which is a joint venture between […]

  • Scotland and England to Compete for Gamesa’s USD 237 Million Investment

    28 February 2012

    The Scottish port of Leith and the English town of Hartlepool are vying for a $237 million investment from Spanish wind-turbine manufacturer Gamesa, which plans to build a turbine and blades plant in the U.K. to be operational by 2014. Scotland and England are competing to create a hub for the country’s $52 billion offshore […]

  • Vattenfall to Collaborate with Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (UK)

    17 December 2012

    Vattenfall has tied up a strategic collaboration with the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator, as part of the European energy company’s commitment to help drive down the cost of offshore wind power. Vattenfall, the owner of the second largest fleet of offshore wind farms in the world and one half of a joint venture partnership […]

  • FIT Cuts Drive Wind Energy Development in China

    18 June 2015

    China’s new installed and grid-connected capacity outlook for 2015 are upgraded to 24GW and 25GW, respectively, based on a substantial approved pipeline in Class I, II and III wind sites and 34GW of projects announced in the fifth batch of centrally planned projects, according to Make. IPPs aim to rush those projects affected by the […]

  • Germany: BARD Repositions in Wind Energy Market, Announces Layoffs

    20 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    BARD Group announced yesterday that it is repositioning itself in the wind energy market. With the offshore wind farm BARD Offshore 1 construction completed, the BARD Group has set a milestone in offshore wind energy. By September, all 80 wind turbines will be connected to the grid. After the completion of the construction phase of […]

  • Boskalis Starts Prepping Finesse for Offshore Wind Work

    29 June 2017
    Vessels

    Singapore-based Keppel Shipyard has secured a contract from Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V for the conversion of a semi-submersible heavy lift vessel, Finesse, to a crane vessel.

  • Largest Freshwater Offshore Wind Farm At Full Tilt

    8 December 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The 382.7 MW Windpark Fryslân, the largest wind farm built in a body of fresh water, has been fully commissioned. Located in the IJsselmeer Lake in the Netherlands, Windpark Fryslân comprises 89 Siemens Gamesa 4.3 MW wind turbines which have been fully tested and in operation since November. Data at the project’s website shows that the […]

  • Dutch Gov’t to Launch Next Offshore Wind Tender in September 2025, Postpones Procedure for One Site

    21 November 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has published draft regulations and plot decisions for the offshore wind tender for the IJmuiden Ver Gamma and Nederwiek I areas and said that the government would open the tendering procedure in September 2025. Previously planned as a 4 GW, four-site tender, the procedure will offer three sites as one is […]

  • IKEA Owner Continues Acquisition Spree, Buys Stake in OX2 Swedish Offshore Wind Projects

    29 November 2023
    Business & Finance

    OX2 has agreed with Ingka Investments, the investment arm of Ingka Group, the biggest IKEA retailer, to sell a 49 per cent stake in next-generation Swedish offshore wind projects. The transaction includes the Pleione offshore wind projects, located east of Gotland, and Neptunus, located southeast of Blekinge which amounted to 2.4 GW in OX2’s development […]

  • Germany: Q3 Strongest for Nordex

    14 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    In the first nine months of the current year, the Nordex Group posted a 7 percent increase in sales to EUR 715.5 million (2011: EUR 668.2 million). Business in Europe, which is the company’s most important region, rose in particular, with sales climbing by 16 percent. With business volume EUR 294.4 million, the third quarter […]

  • CfD Auction Design Changes Come with GBP 1.5 Billion Price Tag

    16 May 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    The 2017 Contracts for Difference (CfD) will cost UK consumers significantly more relative to the additional capacity secured due to the changes in the auction design which allowed small fuelled-technology projects to raise the strike price of larger projects, National Audit Office (NAO) has found.

  • UOW Working on Super Efficient Offshore Wind Turbines

    28 November 2014
    R&D, Technology

    Researchers from University of Wollongong (UOW) are developing technologies for next generation offshore wind turbines that are one-third the price and 1,000 times more efficient, and they could be installed off the coast of Australia in the next five years. Materials scientist Dr Shahriar Hossain, from the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials at UOW, […]

  • Danish Energy Agency Receives 1.8GW Open-Door Offshore Wind Application

    11 October 2019

    Wind Estate A/S has submitted applications to the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) to conduct feasibility studies for the development of three open-door offshore wind projects with a combined capacity of up to 1.8GW. DEA said it had sent the three applications to relevant authorities and consultation parties, whose response is expected by 11 December. The Minister will then decide […]

  • Entire Output of World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Sold Out

    24 November 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    15-year offtake Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) have been signed for the third phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, SSE Renewables and Equinor said. Dogger Bank Wind Farm will be constructed over 130 kilometres out to sea off the north-east coast of England and is expected to be fully […]

  • GE Seals Dogger Bank C Deal

    18 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Dogger Bank Wind Farm and GE Renewable Energy have finalised contracts for the supply of 87 Haliade-X 14 MW turbines and a five-year service and warranty agreement for Dogger Bank C, the third and final phase of what will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm. GE Renewable Energy secured a preferred turbine supplier agreement […]

  • Parkwind Tweaks Selection Guide for Northwester 2 OHVS Tender

    14 December 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    After inviting requests to participate in the tender for the supply and installation of the Northwester 2 offshore high voltage substation (OHVS) in late November, Parkwind recently updated the selection guide with more specifics on the selection process and information to be provided by interested parties. 

  • Sunderland Port Makes Case for Dogger Bank Work

    24 September 2019
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    The Port of Sunderland has declared itself “ready, willing and able to deliver” for the Dogger Bank offshore wind project selected in the UK Government’s third Contracts for Difference (CfD) allocation round. The port, owned and operated by Sunderland City Council, said it expects to see strong interest in its facilities and services, after the Government’s decision to approve the […]

  • Work Begin on Expansion of Belgium’s Thornton Bank Offshore Wind Farm

    22 April 2011
    Wind Farm Update

    Installation of the first foundation structures marks the start of works to extend the Thornton Bank wind farm, located off the Belgian coast. In recent weeks, the underwater area has been prepared. Now works are starting to drive the first steel piles into the sea bed. Each pile is about 40 metres long, and four […]

  • World-First Hybrid Daughter Craft Coming to Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm

    30 September 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Great Yarmouth-based marine and engineering specialist Alicat has won a multi-million-pound contract with North Star Renewables to build a hybrid-powered daughter craft fleet to be used on the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm. Following a competitive tender involving multiple UK shipyards, Alicat has been awarded North Star’s initial contract to bring its first two daughter […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Secures Formosa 1 Phase 2 Turbine Order

    3 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has been contracted to supply an additional 120MW of capacity for the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan, with the installation of the 20 SWT-6.0-154 wind turbines scheduled to start in 2019.

  • RVO Soon to Open Geotechnical Survey Tender for IJmuiden Ver V & VI

    3 June 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) plans to publish a call for tenders for geotechnical investigations at IJmuiden Ver V and VI offshore wind sites around the end of June 2022. Together with the two sites, the agreement with a successful tenderer will also include two other investigation areas, which RVO did not specify in its […]

  • UK Government Puts Green Investment Bank on the Block

    3 March 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The UK government has today launched the UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) sale process to move the bank into the private sector. The transaction will involve both the sale of existing shares owned by the government and also the commitment of additional capital for GIB by new investors. The GIB sale process will involve […]