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• GE Adds MRI Magnet Technology to Cost-effectively Scale-Up to 15MW Wind Turbines (USA)

  1 September 2011

  R&D, Technology

    With the wind industry moving toward larger wind turbine platforms in the future, GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company, today announced it has begun work on the first phase of a 2-year, $3 million project from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a next generation wind turbine […]

• Vestas Appoints New Head of Offshore Business, Could Supply Wind Turbines for Kentish Flats (UK)

  

  20 January 2012

  Danish wind turbine giant has appointed Hans Jörn Rieks as the head of the offshore business, reports Windpower Monthly. Rieks, who had worked for Vestas for 18 years as the president of Vestas Central Europe, will replace Anders Søe Jensen, who lost his job due to the recent company restructuring. Vestas has also been recognized […]

• IberBlue Plans to Install 18 MW Floating Wind Turbines on Spanish-Portuguese Atlantic Ocean Border

  

  11 April 2023

  Wind Farm Update

  IberBlue Wind has announced plans to build two floating wind farms on the North Atlantic border between Spain and Portugal. The projects, planned to be installed off the coasts of Baixo Miño in Pontevedra and Viana do Castelo, would have a total of 109 18 MW wind turbines and a combined capacity of up to […]

• New Partnership to Extract Rare Earth Magnets from Retired Wind Turbines for Use in New Ones

  

  12 September 2023

  Business development, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Manufacturing, Wind Turbines

  Sustainable materials specialist, EMR, rare earth magnetic materials recycling company, HyProMag, Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, Magnomatics, and the University of Birmingham have formed a partnership which will focus on extracting the rare earth magnets from end-of-life wind turbines and enabling their use in new wind turbines, both onshore and offshore. Named Re-Rewind, the partnership, […]

• New Offshore Green Hydrogen Project Aims to Link Converted Jack-Up Rig to Wind Turbines

  

  21 September 2021

  R&D

  Offshore engineering company Aquaterra Energy, renewable hydrogen producer Lhyfe, and offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling have entered into a partnership to develop an industrial scale offshore green hydrogen production concept which would use a converted jack-up rig and offshore wind turbines in the North Sea. The project, called Project Haldane, involves the deployment of an […]

• New German Offshore Wind Farm Planned to Use 15 MW Turbines and Include Hydrogen Production

  

  14 July 2022

  Wind Farm Update

  Nordsee Two, a German offshore wind project owned by RWE (51 per cent) and Northland Power (49 per cent), is planned to include an electrolyser to demonstrate the technical and commercial feasibility of producing hydrogen at sea. RWE unveiled the plan as the company announced on 13 July that the project was pre-selected for funding […]

• German Offshore Wind Farm Operators Retrofitting Turbines Ahead of New Law on Aviation Obstruction Lighting

  

  9 September 2022

  Industry

  Wind farm owners/operators in Germany are retrofitting wind turbines to equip them with a lighting system that will switch on only after an aircraft is detected in a wind farm’s proximity, as new law on light pollution and aeronautical obstruction lighting systems will go into effect next year. As reported in August, Nordergründe is the […]

• Belwind Makes Its Offshore Wind Farms Available to Lead Wind Turbine Testings Project (Belgium)

  7 April 2011

  Business & Finance, R&D

  Belwind NV, the leading Belgian producer of alternative energy from offshore wind farms, is pleased to announce that, provided NER300 funding is approved, it will be making part of its latest wind farm concession site off the Bligh Bank on the Belgian continental shelf available for a project. This project will test the latest turbines […]

• RI Fishermen Worried About Expansion of Deepwater Wind’s Proposed 200 Offshore Wind Turbines (USA)

  13 May 2011

  Rhode Island’s fishermen are feeling betrayed over the continuing expansion of Deepwater Wind’s proposed 200-wind turbine offshore … By Chip Young (golocalprov) [mappress] Source: golocalprov, May 13, 2011;

• Port of Argentia Lands Deal to Handle Turbine Blades for US East Coast Offshore Wind Farms

  

  19 September 2024

  Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics, Supply Chain

  The Canadian Port of Argentia has secured a contract to receive and store wind turbine blades that eventually will be transported and installed at offshore wind farms along the eastern coast of the US. The arrangement with Scan Global Logistics, a global transportation and logistics company headquartered in Denmark, will see 220 wind turbine blades […]

• Giant Jack-Up Voltaire Soon to Install First Turbines at World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

  

  3 August 2023

  Vessels, Wind Farm Update

  The campaign to install the first turbines at the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank offshore wind farm is underway, with Jan De Nul’s Voltaire jack-up vessel leaving the Able Seaton Port with the first batch of wind turbines and heading to the offshore construction site about 130 kilometres off the east coast of Yorkshire, the UK. […]

• Vestas to Supply 15 MW Turbines for 504 MW Floating Wind Project Offshore South Korea

  

  10 November 2023

  Business & Finance, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

  Vestas has been confirmed as the preferred wind turbine supplier for BadaEnergy’s Ulsan Gray Whale 3 floating offshore wind farm in South Korea. The announcement was made in March this year, but at that time, the company left the project and its client unnamed. As per the agreement, Vestas will provide 33 units of the […]

• Vattenfall Switches from Siemens Gamesa to Vestas 15 MW Turbines for Norfolk Offshore Wind Projects

  

  21 December 2023

  Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

  Vattenfall has signed agreements with Vestas for three large-scale offshore wind projects in the Norfolk Zone, UK, where the developer plans to use the new V236-15 MW wind turbines. This marks a switch in the wind turbine model planned for the projects as the developer first named Siemens Gamesa as the preferred supplier in 2021. […]

• France’s Only Floating Wind Turbine Hits Near 60 Per Cent Continuous Capacity Factor

  

  6 February 2023

  The 2 MW Floatgen demonstrator floating wind turbine has shown a capacity factor of nearly 60 per cent over the last three months and a production of 25 GWh since its commissioning offshore France in 2018, BW Ideol said. France’s first and only floating wind turbine delivered an average capacity factor of 59.2 per cent […]

• Port of Esbjerg Lines Up EUR 780 Million Investment in Offshore Wind Turbine Production Facilities

  

  7 July 2023

  Business & Finance, Business development

  The Port of Esbjerg has entered into a cooperation agreement with PensionDanmark under which the port will receive DKK 5.8 billion (about EUR 779 million) for the construction of facilities for the production of offshore wind turbines. PensionDanmark has decided to invest up to DKK 7 billion (around EUR 940 million) in the Port of […]

• Siemens Gamesa Loses UK Patent Dispute over GE Haliade-X Offshore Wind Turbine

  

  1 December 2022

  Authorities, Technology

  Judge Richard Meade of London’s High Court has ruled in favour of GE in a patent infringement dispute with Siemens Gamesa over the design of the GE Haliade-X offshore wind turbine. In its lawsuit against GE, Siemens Gamesa claimed that the Haliade-X infringed its European patent related to the use of bearings in rotor hubs […]

• VIDEO: ADX XR System Utilized during Wind Turbine Blade Transport on Jack-Up Vessel

  

  22 February 2013

  Technology

  To meet the exacting demands of navigating and docking large vessels, the measurement of low speeds, precise heading and Rate of Turn is of utmost importance to the pilot. The ADX XR Portable Pilot Unit system derives these measurements using state-of-the-art GPS/GLONASS Real Time Kinematic (RTK) techniques along with precise RoT sensors. ADX XR system […]

• Donjon Derrick Barge Unloads Wind Turbine Nacelles from M/V BBC Orinoco (USA)

  25 August 2011

  Operations & Maintenance

  Donjon Marine Co., Inc.’s Chesapeake 1000 derrick barge was recently used to unload 22 wind turbine nacelles, each weighing 87 metric…   (marinelog) [mappress] Source: marinelog, August 25, 2011;

• Eldepasco NV Confirms Vestas as Preferred Partner to Provide Turbines for New Belgian Offshore Wind Farm

  7 April 2011

  After a recent restructuring, Eldepasco NV, a joint venture between the Belgian Colruyt Group and Aspivari, announced that its plans for the establishment of Belgium’s next wind farm on the Bank zonder Naam (bank with no name) in the North Sea will go ahead as planned. In preparation of reaching financial closure, the shareholders approved […]

• Maine Deepwater Offshore Wind Report Shows Feasibility of Deepwater Offshore Floating Wind Turbines (USA)

  1 March 2011

  R&D

  The University of Maine (UMaine, Orono, Maine, USA) has issued the “Maine Deepwater Offshore Wind Report,” funded by the U.S. Department of… (compositesworld) [mappress]   Source: compositesworld, March 01, 2011  

• REpower Offshore turbines at Thornton Bank and alpha ventus achieve first class operational results (Germany)

  16 June 2010

  Operations & Maintenance

  The systems installed at the Thornton Bank wind farm achieve outstanding levels of power output and technical availability. REpower turbines at the alpha ventus test site reach positive performance levels as well Almost one year after final commissioning of the Thornton Bank wind farm in Belgium, REpower Systems AG (WKN 617703) is in a positive […]

• Princeton Power Systems Wins $1.8M Grant to Develop Converter for MW-Scale Wind Turbines (USA)

  20 October 2010

  R&D

  Princeton Power Systems (PPS) announces a $1.8M grant award to accelerate development of its Distributed Generation TransformerTM and E-QUAD… (businesswire) [mappress] Source: businesswire, October 20, 2010;

• Vestas’s Offshore Wind Turbine Order Backlog Stood at EUR 5.5 Billion on 30 June 2024

  

  14 August 2024

  Business & Finance, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

  Vestas has posted its results for the second quarter of 2024 which show the company’s offshore wind turbine order backlog on 30 June was at 4,489 MW and amounted to EUR 5.5 billion, EUR 3.1 billion more than in the same period last year. The total wind turbine order backlog stood at a little over […]

• Huadian Heavy Charters Mega Jack-Up Capable of Installing 20 MW Offshore Wind Turbines

  

  4 January 2022

  Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

  One of China’s largest offshore wind EPCI contractors, Huadian Heavy Industries (HHI), has signed a charter agreement for a jack-up vessel that will be able to install wind turbines of up to 20 MW. According to HHI’s announcement of the charter agreement on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the vessel that the company will lease for […]

• Siemens Vessels Undergoing Another Conversion, Already Too Small for Next Generation Wind Turbine Parts

  

  29 November 2021

  Vessels

  Not even five years after their conversion from containerships to roll on/roll off (Ro-Ro) vessels customized to transport wind turbine components, Siemens’s Rotra Mare and Rotra Vente will undergo modifications in response to the increasing size of wind turbine components. The 141.6-metre Rotra Vente and Rotra Mare underwent their conversions at Holland Shipyards and were […]

• GBP 6.5 Billion East Anglia Hub to Feature 14+MW Siemens Gamesa Wind Turbines

  

  2 February 2021

  Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

  ScottishPower Renewables has selected Siemens Gamesa as the preferred bidder to supply and install 14+MW wind turbines for its GBP 6.5 billion East Anglia Hub programme offshore the UK. More than 200 next-generation 14+MW turbines are planned for East Anglia ONE North, TWO, and THREE projects in the southern North Sea – collectively known as […]