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  • India Issues Draft Offshore Wind Tender

    17 November 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued a draft tender to lease seabed areas off Tamil Nadu for 4 GW equivalent offshore wind project capacity during the Fiscal Year 2022-23. The tender covers specific identified offshore wind sub-blocks B1, B2, B3, B4, and G1 in the Gulf of Mannar. The developers will […]

  • Ørsted, Simply Blue, Subsea7 Submit Application for 100 MW Scottish Floating Wind Farm

    14 May 2024
    Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea7, through their joint venture partnership in Scotland, have submitted an offshore consent application for the proposed 100 MW Salamander floating offshore wind farm, one of the 13 projects selected in Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round. The floating wind farm, one of the five INTOG […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Well Positioned to Weather Hard Brexit – Report

    5 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    Offshore wind is well positioned to play a major role in the long term UK energy mix even in the case of hard Brexit, according to a joint report by Wood Mackenzie and Verisk Maplecroft. With more than 19GW of new capacity forecast by 2028, a hard Brexit is expected to have limited impact on this […]

  • Taiwan Gets Complete Offshore Wind Development Guidelines

    7 February 2017
    Authorities, R&D

    ITPEnergised (ITPE), Ramboll and BMT Asia Pacific (BMT) have delivered their third and final set of best practice guidelines for development of offshore wind farms in Taiwan and presented them to the local industry.

  • Saipem Completes Installation Works at Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm

    24 October 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Saipem has completed the foundation installation works for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) wind farm offshore Scotland. Located 15 kilometres off the east coast of Scotland, the NnG offshore wind farm will be able to generate around 450 MW of low-carbon electricity and supply enough energy to the National Grid to power around 375,000 homes. […]

  • 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. 

  • Six Key Offshore Wind Themes to Watch in 2022 – Westwood

    20 January 2022
    Business & Finance

    The following is a guest post by Westwood Global Energy Group’s Senior Analysts Michelle Gomez, Bahzad Ayoub and Ruth Chen. The offshore wind sector had another record-breaking year in 2021. Some 18.6 GW of capacity was put into operation – the industry’s highest level of annual capacity additions.   Mainland China’s push to bring capacity […]

  • Space Technology Could Reduce Renewable Energy Costs

    4 May 2015
    Technology

    Space-based radar technology could be harnessed by the renewable energy sector to drive down costs, according to academics at the University of Strathclyde. The SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) technology is currently used to help protect and manage marine environments, to detect illegal logging in tropical forests, and to aid disaster relief efforts. However, its use […]

  • Half of Gwynt y Môr Generating Power

    3 September 2014
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    More than half of the 160 turbines at RWE Innogy UK’s flagship offshore wind farm, Gwynt y Môr, off the North Wales coast, have been commissioned and are generating electricity.    The milestone was reached last week with the 81st turbine connected to the National Grid. Construction of the world’s second largest offshore wind farm […]

  • Breaking: UK Offshore Wind Strike Prices Slide Down to GBP 39.65/MWh

    20 September 2019
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore wind projects selected in the third Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 3 will be delivered at a strike price as low as GBP 39.65/MWh, a near 30% reduction compared to the second CfD auction held in 2017. For the first time renewables are expected to come online below market prices and without additional […]

  • Hochtief Reports 3Q Net Profit of EUR 98.7 Million (Germany)

    16 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    HOCHTIEF’s operating business performed as planned in the third quarter of 2011: The Group is in the black, with profit before taxes of EUR 333.0 million and consolidated net profit of EUR 98.7 million. That means HOCHTIEF achieved turnaround in the operating business, although it has not yet fully made good the loss incurred in […]

  • One-Offs Lower EDP Renewables’ Profit

    27 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    EDP Renewables, part of EDP, posted total revenue of EUR 889 million in the first half of 2016, a 15% increase compared to the same period a year earlier, on the back of the increase in installed capacity and a higher load factor, both offsetting a 7% drop in average selling price during the first six months. However, […]

  • Monopile Load-Out Starts for Italy’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    24 September 2021
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The load-out of the first monopiles for the Taranto offshore wind farm onto the MPI Resolution vessel has started, according to a social media update from MPI Offshore on 23 September. The first batch of monopiles for the 30 MW offshore wind farm in Italy arrived at the Port of Taranto last month, after they […]

  • Cadeler F-Class Jack-Up to Feature Huisman Crane

    9 June 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Technology, Vessels

    COSCO Shipping (Qidong) Offshore has awarded Huisman with a contract to design and construct a Leg Encircling Crane (LEC) for Cadeler’s newbuild F-class jack-up vessel. The contract award follows last year’s contracts for two identical 2,600mt Leg Encircling Cranes for Cadeler’s X-class vessels. With this crane, Cadeler will be capable of installing foundations and wind […]

  • UK: APEM Moves into New Offices

    24 July 2012

    APEM staff based at Hawarden Airport near Chester have moved into new offices following two years of spectacular growth. Originally housed in portakabin-style temporary buildings, the staff have moved to a larger, better equipped facility that offers room for continued growth, improved IT and better working conditions. The Hawarden Airport office is now home to […]

  • Germany: Offshore Wind Industry Positively Affects Bremerhaven Employment Rate

    2 May 2012

    “I was born and studied in Bremerhaven, but when I left in 1996, there were no career opportunities there”, says Ronny Meyer. BY the mid-1990s, the shipping and fishing industries that had traditionally dominated north-west Germany, where Bremerhaven is situated were dying, and there was felt to be no future. “The unemployment rate was very […]

  • UK Renewables Set New Records

    16 January 2014

    Recently released, the UK’s new national infrastructure plan saw the Government shifting incentives toward offshore wind power—and away from onshore wind farms and solar parks projects. Likewise, the recently published “Levy Control Framework” will see a boost to the UK’s spending on solar, wind and other renewable energy projects to £7.6 billion pounds a year […]

  • SeaRoc to Supply Two Meteorological Towers for Dogger Bank (UK)

    24 October 2011
    Technology

    SeaRoc, part of the Natural Power group, has been selected to project manage the supply, installation and commissioning of two lattice meteorological towers in accordance with a specification provided by Forewind – the consortium responsible for developing UK Round 3 offshore wind farm site Dogger Bank. The announcement is part of a wider offering by […]

  • RWE Innogy awards contract for offshore sea cable to ABB (Germany)

    4 August 2010
    Grid Connection

    RWE Innogy and ABB have today signed a contract for delivery of underwater cable for the offshore wind farm “Nordsee Ost”. In total, ABB will supply around 63 kilometres of sea cable. They will be used to network the 48 wind turbines of the wind farm with one another and connect them to an offshore transformer station. The undersea cable will be produced by an ABB subsidiary in Sweden. The contract is valued at around EUR 10 million.

  • US Awarding USD 14.5 Million for Offshore Wind Environmental Research

    18 January 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is allocating up to USD 14.5 million for environmental research to support U.S. offshore wind development. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support regionally-focused, coordinated research efforts to increase understanding of the environmental impacts of offshore wind, as well as projects that advance and validate tools to monitor and minimize impacts. […]

  • TenneT’s Transmission Capacity 96.4% Available

    21 September 2015
    Grid Connection

    TenneT has published its interim report for the period from January to August 2015, in which the company highlighted that approximately 4,300 MW of offshore transmission capacity has been available 96.4% on average. This exceeds the statutory requirement for an average minimum availability of 92.3%. In its interim report, TenneT analyzed data from January to August 2015. During this period, the company has […]

  • Hornsea One Onshore Construction to Kick Off

    5 January 2016
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Onshore works for the Hornsea Project One wind farm are scheduled to start this month with the construction of an onshore substation at North Killingholme, North Lincolnshire.   This will be followed by burying an onshore cable underground and works around the landfall site where the onshore cable meets the offshore cable. The cable route on land will run approximately […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Plans Producing ‘Made in USA’ Offshore Wind Turbine Nacelles in New York

    13 February 2023
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa has revealed plans to build a major manufacturing facility for offshore wind turbine nacelles at the Port of Coeymans, in New York, if wind farms comprising its turbines are selected by the state in the ongoing third offshore wind solicitation. This is the second facility the company has announced for the US, the […]

  • EIB Grants EUR 150 Mln for Dutch Transmission Upgrade

    20 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) and TenneT have signed the latest contract for a EUR 150 million loan, part of a total EUR 450 million financing to TenneT Holding B.V. agreed in 2011. The financing is provided by the EIB to support construction and operation of ‘Randstad 380 kV’; a 83 km 380kV transmission connection […]

  • UK: Alicat Workboats Names Third London Array Crew Transfer Vessel

    31 May 2012

    On Wednesday 30th May Alicat Workboats held a naming ceremony for the third London Array Crew transfer vessel. A competition was run to name the vessel and this was won by an eight-year-old Thanet schoolgirl , as part of her prize she won a VIP family break and £500 for her school. Cerys Jones, who […]

  • GDG Backs Irish Gem

    13 July 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Simply Blue Energy (SBE) has appointed the Dublin-based engineering consultancy, Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions (GDG), to provide development support services for the Emerald floating wind project in the Celtic Sea. GDG has been commissioned to provide both technical and consenting support during the foreshore licence process, providing a metocean assessment, conduct a landfall suitability assessment […]