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  • Vattenfall Places EOWDC Order with MHI Vestas

    27 September 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has received an order from Vattenfall-owned company, Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm Ltd, to supply turbines and services for the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), also known as Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm, in the UK. MHI Vestas will deliver eleven V164-8.0MW turbines, which will be the first to be able to power up to […]

  • Large Wind Farms Yield Less Energy, New Study Says

    25 August 2015
    R&D

    A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by an international group headed by scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena evaluated the effects of large wind farms on the atmospheric flow and its implications for how much renewable energy these can generate. As every wind turbine […]

  • Top News of the Week Jul 22– 27, 2013

    28 July 2013

    Germany: Seajacks Installs First Turbines at Meerwind Wind Farm Seajacks installation vessels Leviathan and Zaratan departed from the port of Esbjerg during the 16th and 17th July 2013, to begin installing the first batch of 80 Siemens 3.6MW offshore turbines at Meerwind Offshore Wind Park. Sweden: Vattenfall Splits into Two Units Vattenfall splits up its […]

  • China’s First Floating Wind Foundation Sails Out – Photos

    9 June 2021
    R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Shanghai-headquartered Wison Offshore & Marine has shipped out China’s first floating wind foundation platform from its yard in Zhoushan. The floating platform will be installed for demonstration purposes off the coast of Yangjiang City in Guangdong Province at the 400 MW Yangxi Shapa III offshore wind farm being developed by China Three Gorges (CTG). The […]

  • A2SEA Gearing Up for Burbo Bank 2

    5 August 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    A2SEA’s self-propelled jack-up vessel Sea Installer is currently mobilising in Liverpool and preparing for the installation of 32 MHI Vestas 8MW turbines on DONG Energy’s 252MW Burbo Bank Extension, the Danish company said. The vessel is preparing to handle the new large turbines, which will make their debut on Burbo Bank Extension. The turbine installation is scheduled to start […]

  • Race Bank Pushes Grimsby Over 1GW Offshore Wind Mark

    27 June 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Following the installation of 20 out of 91 Siemens 6MW wind turbines at the 573MW Race Bank offshore wind farm, Grimsby has surpassed 1GW of offshore wind capacity operated from the town, local media report.

  • GEV Readies Habitat Structure for Testing

    7 January 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    GEV Group has announced that a prototype of its turbine maintenance structure is now complete and ready for field trials. The structure is an inflatable habitat for servicing wind turbine blades, which has been developed to drive down the costs of O&M since it will will dramatically reduce the number of cancelled ‘down’ days which currently blight the […]

  • Tahkoluoto Nacelles Reach Pori

    2 May 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The wind turbine nacelles for the 40MW Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm in Finland have arrived to the Port of Pori.

  • Siemens to Present Cost-Cutting Innovations at EWEA Offshore

    26 February 2015
    R&D, Technology

    The international wind energy conference EWEA Offshore 2015 in Copenhagen in early March will see Siemens focusing on innovations supporting cutting the costs of offshore wind power. In addition to further developing the technology of its wind turbines, the company is advancing the efficiency of turbine-to-grid connections and creating new offshore logistics concepts for turbine […]

  • Ørsted Contracts Global Maritime for Greater Changhua 1 & 2a MWS

    12 May 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Ørsted has awarded a Marine Warranty Services (MWS) contract to Global Maritime Singapore, which will provide the services for the wind turbine installation phase at the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind farm in Taiwan. “This project will expand our footprint in the growing Offshore Wind market in Asia which is a key aspect […]

  • First Kincardine Floating Giant Heads to Scotland

    9 December 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Boskalis has started towing the first Kincardine floating wind turbine from Rotterdam in the Netherlands to the installation site some 15 kilometres southeast of Aberdeen, Scotland. The anchor handler Manta started towing the first of the five MHI Vestas 9.525 MW floating wind turbines from the Port of Rotterdam on Tuesday, 8 December. At the […]

  • MingYang Launches Business & Engineering Centre in Hamburg

    7 July 2020
    Business & Finance

    MingYang has established a business and engineering centre in Hamburg, Germany, with an aim to introduce its latest offshore wind turbine products into the European market. The Chinese wind turbine manufacturer said that it was motivated by the growth of the offshore wind market in Europe, and that with its new centre it also wants […]

  • Danes Seek Input for Proposed Offshore Wind Duo

    21 October 2019
    Environment

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) is inviting input for the environmental impact report (EIR) that will be prepared for the Aflandshage and Nordre Flint offshore wind projects. DEA is inviting the public and relevant authorities to submit ideas and proposals for the two projects developed by Greater Copenhagen Utility (HOFOR) no later than 18 November. In March, the […]

  • Photo of the Day: Borkum Riffgrund II, Horns Rev 3 Towers at Port of Esbjerg

    2 July 2018

    The Port of Esbjerg posted a photo on its social media pages on 2 July, showing 20 wind turbine towers for Borkum Riffgrund II and 14 towers for Horns Rev 3 waiting at the port to be loaded onto vessels and then installed at their respective sites in Germany and Denmark.

  • Top News of the Week, 1 – 7 May 2017

    7 May 2017

    Offshore Wind Sparks Recruitment Drive at DEME Belgium’s DEME Group is recruiting more than 200 new employees throughout 2017 to meet the demand driven by the growth in offshore wind energy industry. Adwen’s Prototype 8MW Turbine Dwarfs Bremerhaven Skyline Adwen’s prototype 8MW wind turbine generator, currently under construction in Bremerhaven, Germany is now mechanically complete, […]

  • Latest Dutch Offshore Wind Farm Comes with a Bag of Tricks

    30 July 2020
    R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The 759 MW Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind farm will include five technology demonstrations that could be implemented at full-scale in the future, CrossWind, the consortium developing the wind farm, said. These include a floating solar park, short-term battery storage, wind turbines that are optimally tuned to the network to minimise the negative ‘wake’-effects that […]

  • West of Duddon Sands OWF Halfway Through

    5 March 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    On March 4, A2SEA’s SEA INSTALLER installed turbine number 54 on West of Duddon Sands in the Irish Sea. This means that SEA INSTALLER now has installed half of the 108 Siemens 3.6MW turbines on the site. Work is progressing as planned and within the last five days alone, she has installed six turbines. SEA […]

  • Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm Goes Full Throttle

    1 February 2018
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Full power output has been achieved at Ørsted’s Race Bank offshore wind farm located off the North Norfolk coast, UK.

  • ONYX InSight: Data Access Restrictions Hamper Offshore Wind Growth

    9 April 2019
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The long-term success of offshore wind is being put at risk by restrictions on access to wind turbine performance data that prevent operators from reducing operations and maintenance costs by up to 30%, according to ONYX InSight. Better access to turbine data allows operators to not only reduce their operational costs, but to also generate […]

  • Catch the Wind Presents Field Data From Its Vindicator Laser Wind Sensor (LWS) at EWEA 2011 (Belgium)

    15 March 2011
    R&D, Technology

    Catch the Wind Ltd. today delivered a summary report of data collected to date from its Vindicator® Laser Wind Sensor (LWS) field trials and customer evaluation programs at the European Wind Energy Association 2011 Annual Event in Brussels, Belgium. Specific energy output data collected over a span of 11 months indicated that the Vindicator® LWS […]

  • First Subsea Gets GBP 130K from GROW:Offshore Wind

    22 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    Subsea connector specialist, First Subsea, has been awarded £130,000 of Process Technology Innovation Funding under the Government’s GROW:Offshore Wind programme. The award is for development of a monopile interface connector and hang off cable connector for offshore wind farms; and top tension mooring connector for floating wind turbines. These developments will place the UK at […]

  • Poland: MARE-WINT Initial Training Network Project Launched

    28 February 2013

    A major new research through training project – lead by the Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery of Polish Academy of Sciences – has been launched with the aim of training in the context of doctoral programmes for 14 researchers in multi-disciplinary area of future generation of Offshore Wind Turbines. One of the strategic objectives of […]

  • Offshore ReWIND: The Most Read News in the First Half of 2017

    21 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Vessels

    To remind you of just how interesting the first half of 2017 was, the Offshore WIND editorial staff compiled a list of the most read articles published during first six months of this year. Even though the industry has been notably active since the beginning of July as well, our team has decided to set the time parameter to end with 30 June and thus provide a new overview in addition to our annual Offshore ReWIND.

  • Vineyard Wind to Feed First Power Into Massachusetts Grid by Year-End

    7 December 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have installed the first five GE Haliade-X turbines at the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project and are preparing to deliver first power from their wind farm to the electric grid in Massachusetts, the US. Once energized in the coming weeks, Vineyard Wind 1, the first large-scale offshore wind project […]

  • Transition Piece Crosses the River (UK)

    20 April 2011
    Training & Education

    Today will see a major step forward in the development of a unique course in Great Yarmouth for the fast growing offshore wind energy sector. A full scale offshore windfarm turbine foundation will be making its way by road across the town to be installed at its new base on Trinity Quay, home of East […]

  • University of Tokyo Looking to Adapt SeaTwirl Floating Wind Tech to Japanese Conditions

    28 September 2022
    R&D, Technology

    Swedish floating wind technology developer SeaTwirl and the University of Tokyo have entered into cooperation to explore how to adapt SeaTwirl’s floating wind technology to Japanese conditions. The research is being performed by a research group led by Associate Professor Shinichiro Hirabayashi at the Department of Ocean Technology, Policy and Environment, and focuses on the […]