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  • Vestas Nets EPC Contract for Intertidal Wind Farm in Vietnam

    23 December 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Vestas has secured an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the 50MW Tra Vinh intertidal project in Vietnam. This marks Vestas’ second intertidal contract in Vietnam within a week, followed by a deal to provide 13 V150-4.2 MW turbines for a 50MW intertidal project in the Bạc Liêu Province for the local EPC construction […]

  • Offshore Wind Energy: “Safety at Sea Has the Highest Priority” (Germany)

    22 August 2012

    The use of real offshore technology is indispensable for sound training of personnel for deployment in offshore wind farms, and for their safety on site. “Preparedness for emergencies, concepts for the saving and recovery of employees in emergency situations, and the maintenance of industrial health and safety standards are prerequisite for the safe erection and […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Goes to Eleven

    26 November 2019
    Technology

    Siemens Gamesa has expanded its product portfolio with the launch of the new Siemens Gamesa DD Flex concept and the SG 11.0-193 DD Flex offshore wind turbine. Built on the current largest offshore wind turbine in the Siemens Gamesa fleet, the SG 11.0-193 DD Flex can reach a capacity of 11MW under specific site conditions, […]

  • Haizea Wind Delivers Its Last Batch of SeaMade Towers

    14 August 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Haizea Wind has sent off the final two towers for the SeaMade offshore wind turbines from Bilbao. The Spain-based Haizea Wind is delivering 12 wind turbine towers for the project, which will feature 58 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW turbines. The first tower parts arrived from the port of Aviles in Spain to Belgium in mid-March, onboard […]

  • GeoSea Finalizes A2SEA Buy

    4 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    GeoSea, part of DEME Group, has completed the acquisition of A2SEA from DONG Energy and Siemens. 

  • Mini SOUL Jack-Up Put Through Paces

    10 July 2017
    R&D, Technology, Vessels

    A 1:200 scale model of the SOUL wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), a joint development of SeaOwls and Ulstein Design & Solutions, is currently being tested at the PEUTZ test facility in the Netherlands.

  • EnBW Baltic 2 Fully Erected

    12 June 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    The EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm has come to the finish line, as the eightieth and last wind turbine was installed yesterday at the construction site in the German Baltic Sea. On Tuesday, the fortieth turbine was put into operation and has been feeding power into the grid. In the meantime, two more were fully commissioned. The remaining wind turbines will […]

  • VBMS to Wire East Anglia ONE Array with JDR 66kV Cables

    12 April 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    VBMS has awarded JDR the supply of 66kV inter-array cables for the East Anglia ONE (EA1) offshore wind farm, developed by ScottishPower Renewables.

  • Extended Rotra Mare Back in Action

    14 March 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Siemens’ roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) vessel Rotra Mare has completed her first delivery of wind turbine components since being upgraded and extended to be able to transport the ever-increasing turbine parts. The vessel, which docked at Sif’s new terminal at Maasvlakte 2 on Wednesday 09 March, transported tower sections for Vattenfall’s 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid wind […]

  • University of Oldenburg Wins EUR 3.8 Million for Offshore Wind Research Project (Germany)

    30 December 2011
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) will sponsor the new research project, GW Wakes, on offshore wind energy at the University of Oldenburg, with 3.8 million euros over the next three years. The aim is to study the wind currents and wakes in large offshore wind farms with hundreds of […]

  • DNV GL Launches Turbine.Architect Software

    16 November 2015
    Technology

    DNV GL today unveiled Turbine.Architect, a new in-house software tool enabling turbine engineers and component developers to quickly calculate the impact of their technology on Levelised Cost of Energy (LCOE) for a realistic wind project. DNV GL will conduct the first public demonstration of Turbine.Architect’s capabilities at the annual European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) event […]

  • Ørsted, PGE Add Ayesa Polska to Baltica 2 Team

    8 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain

    Ayesa Polska has signed an agreement for investor supervision of the offshore part of the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 wind project, built by PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) and Ørsted. Under the agreement, Ayesa Polska will be responsible for ensuring investor supervision over the entire offshore part of the wind farm, including the process of installing […]

  • VIDEO: Simultaneous Measurements Taken Upwind and Downwind

    20 May 2013

    ZephIR Lidar has conducted the world’s first simultaneous measurements taken upwind and downwind of a wind turbine for the Technical University of Denmark, Wind Energy department, formerly known as Risø DTU. The deployment was videoed by Micro Quadcopter, here showing a standard ZephIR Dual Mode at the front of the turbine and a modified ZephIR […]

  • EU-Funded Project Solving Blade Erosion Problem

    4 December 2020
    R&D, Technology

    The EU-funded project LEAPWind, which has been working on preventing blade erosion on offshore wind turbines, has put its solution(s) to test on an existing wind turbine in Portugal. LEAPWind said it was using a new commercial leading-edge blade component with new thermoplastic materials and innovative manufacturing processes to prevent blade erosion already at the […]

  • MingYang Offshore-Tested Energy Storage System Hits the Market

    1 June 2020
    Technology

    Shenzhen Quant-Cloud Energy Network Technology, a subsidiary of MingYang Smart Energy Group, has installed its energy storage system at a wind farm for the first time, following demonstration on MingYang’s turbine at the Xinghua Bay offshore wind farm. The system has been commissioned and put into operation at the 43.2 MW coastal Huian Quanhui wind […]

  • Denmark: Anholt Offshore Wind Farm Constructed in LEGOLAND

    14 June 2013

    Soon, almost 40,000 LEGO® bricks have been used for building a miniature version of the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm in the area ‘Energy in Denmark’ in Miniland in LEGOLAND®. Together with LEGOLAND®, DONG Energy has built the offshore wind farm in Miniland consisting of seven wind turbines, which will be ready in August. The seven […]

  • DONG Energy Focuses Demonstration Activities on Wind Power (Denmark)

    30 January 2012

    DONG Energy has decided to focus the company’s demonstration activities within wind turbine testing in Frederikshavn and Gunfleet (UK), and has consequently discontinued its demonstration project near Kappel on Lolland. Recent years’ technological development in the wind industry, with the development of larger wind turbines specifically for offshore use, underpins DONG Energy’s development of offshore […]

  • California Holds Great Offshore Wind Potential (USA)

    11 August 2011

      The amount of wind blowing off the California coast has high potential. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory atmospheric scientists are working with a Norwegian company to leverage that wind as a valuable energy source. LLNL has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sway, a renewable energy company that has developed floating towers for placing wind […]

  • Highlights of the Month – October 2020

    2 November 2020

    OffshoreWIND.biz brings you the ten most-read articles on the site for the month of October 2020. Crane for Next-Gen Offshore Wind Turbines Coming to Market The Netherlands-based Tetrahedron has developed a new crane for next-generation offshore wind turbines, said to be designed to fit on both existing and new jack-up vessels. Construction Starts on World’s […]

  • Walney 1 Offshore Wind Farm in Full Operation (UK)

    21 June 2011

    All turbines in Walney 1 are now in operation. On 30 May 2011, the last of the 51 turbines in the Walney Offshore Windfarm 1 exported its first power to the grid, and a big milestone in the project was reached. Jens Hansen, Senior Project Manager: “This is a major achievement for the project, and […]

  • USA: Wind to Supply Energy Demand

    10 September 2012

    There is enough energy available in winds to meet all of the world’s demand. Atmospheric turbines that convert steadier and faster high-altitude winds into energy could generate even more power than ground- and ocean-based units. New research from Carnegie’s Ken Caldeira examines the limits of the amount of power that could be harvested from winds, […]

  • France: DCNS Turns to Harnessing Ocean Energy

    31 July 2013

    World leader for naval defence, DCNS has turned its knowledge of the sea and its unique experience of new technologies into an advantage to position itself on the renewable energy market. An ambitious plan that is already well on its way to being implemented. The theoretical potential of marine energy is unparalleled. Each year, the […]

  • VSMC Installs More than Half of Dan Tysk’s Inter-Array Cables

    29 May 2014
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Last week, Visser & Smit Marine Contracting B.V. (VSMC) laid the last cable in the southern part of the Dan Tysk offshore wind farm site, meaning that half of the 80 wind turbines are ready to be connected to the offshore substation. VSMC’s work on the inter-array cable installation at the offshore wind farm continues […]

  • AllCon Signs Contract for Big Offshore Wind Job (Germany)

    18 April 2013

    AllCon GmbH announced that one of the world’s largest manufacturers of offshore wind turbines has selected it to provide a long-term staff support of 35 service technicians for the installation of its 3.6 MW turbines at three projects in the North and Baltic Seas. The contract duration was initially envisaged to last until 30th November […]

  • Haliade-X 12 MW Project Triggers Hiring Spree in France

    3 July 2019
    Jobs & Recruitment

    GE Renewable Energy plans to recruit more than 200 employees at its LM Wind Power wind turbine blade manufacturing site in Cherbourg, France. 60 out of the additional employees were recently recruited and just began intensive training at the factory’s ‘Center of Excellence’. Opened in April 2018, the Cherbourg facility became the first wind turbine […]

  • Keel Laid for First Jones Act Compliant Offshore Wind Installation Vessel

    17 December 2020
    Vessels

    Dominion Energy has laid the keel for the first Jones Act compliant installation vessel for the U.S. offshore wind sector. The vessel, designed by GustoMSC, is being constructed by Keppel AmFELS at its Brownsville, Texas shipyard. It will base operations out of Hampton Roads in Virginia and is expected to be available to support turbine […]