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  • DCNS to Dive Into India´s Offshore Renewables

    17 July 2012

    A France-based company DCNS, which is presently constructing submarines for the Indian Navy, has plans to focus on the offshore renewables in India and use the opportunities of the country´s maritime resources. DCNS aims at lowering the costs of energy produced from these sources. Specifically, the Gulf of Cambay and Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat […]

  • REpower Develops System to Harmonise Wind Farm Management Systems (Germany)

    20 September 2011
    Technology

      REpower Systems SE (WKN 617703) is launching a system to harmonise wind farm management systems in September. The new REguard Interface B IEC 61400-25 is available now for all wind farms around the world in which REpower turbines are used. The system means that the various interfaces in a wind farm can be replaced […]

  • France: A Decade of Profound Change for Alstom

    11 March 2013

     Patrick Kron was appointed Chairman & CEO of Alstom on 11 March 2003. In the decade between 2003 and 2013, the company battled for survival from 2003 to 2005, then enjoyed strong growth in the years between 2006 and 2009, and finally coped with the global financial and economic crisis from 2010 onwards. On 21 […]

  • Mingyang Starts Trading on London Stock Exchange

    14 July 2022
    Business & Finance

    At 8:00 GMT on 13 July, Mingyang Smart Energy started trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The company was admitted to trading on the Shanghai segment of the LSE through an offering of the Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs), with the proceeds from the offering to be used to expand Mingyang’s overseas business and to […]

  • Denmark: Blue Water Shipping Acts as Agent for ‘Pacific Orca’

    4 December 2012

    In November, Blue Water Shipping acted as agent for the world’s largest wind turbine installation vessel “Pacific Orca”, which was undergoing minor adjustments at Lindoe Industrial Park before duty calls. Blue Water Shipping was responsible for coordination with the port authorities as well as with the customs authorities, transport of the ship’s crew in connection […]

  • First-Ever Subsidy-Free Offshore Wind Farm Halfway Done

    1 November 2022
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Cadeler’s wind turbine installation vessel Wind Osprey has installed the 70th Siemens Gamesa 11 MW wind turbine at the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The installation of the 70th turbine marks the halfway milestone on the 140-turbine project, Cadeler said. Once fully installed and commissioned in the […]

  • Existing End-of-Life Blades Are Recycled into Cement. Next-Gen Ones Could Become Gummy Bears

    24 August 2022
    R&D, Technology

    Researchers at the Michigan State University have developed new composite material for wind turbine blades that can be recycled into, among other things, sweet treats such as gummy bears. This adds to the momentum within the industry which, along with the reuse of other wind turbine components, is recycling existing end-of-life blades into products such as […]

  • EMO to Build Merkur Service Base in Eemshaven

    23 October 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Merkur Offshore, the developer of German Merkur offshore wind farm, has signed a long-term contract with the Dutch subsidiary of EMS Maritime Offshore (EMO) for the construction of a service base in Eemshaven, the Netherlands.

  • Blades for 30 MW Floating Wind Project Touch Down in France

    30 August 2024
    Floating Wind, Ports & Logistics, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    All the blades for the Les Eoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) floating offshore wind farm have been delivered and unloaded at the port of Port-La Nouvelle wind terminal in France. Earlier this week, the FWN Arctic vessel, specially designed for the transport of wind components, delivered the last sets of blades for the […]

  • NORCOWE Mapping Offshore Winds at FINO1

    12 July 2016
    R&D

    NORCOWE has reported that it gathered an extensive data set of both point and remote measurements of the wind field in and around the Alpha Ventus wind farm as part of the Offshore Boundary-Layer Experiment (OBLEX-F1) at the German wind energy research platform FINO1, which is running since May 2015. “To our knowledge, a measurement […]

  • Altitec Lifts Rampion Installation Team

    7 August 2017
    Technology, Training & Education, Wind Farm Update

    UK-based turbine blade access and repair specialist Altitec has delivered the last of an initial batch of five ActSafe ACX powered ascenders to the installation team at the Rampion offshore wind farm.

  • EUR 1,289 M Investment Financing for the Construction and Operation of a 325 MW Offshore Wind Farm (Belgium)

    26 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    C-Power is pleased to announce that it has closed the financing of the second and third phases of the offshore wind farm on the Thornton Bank (located about 30 km in the North Sea off the Belgian coast). A group of 7 commercial lenders: KBC, Rabobank, Société Générale, KfW Ipex-Bank, Commerzbank, Dexia and ASN Bank […]

  • Three Is Not a Crowd off Block Island

    11 August 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s installation vessel Brave Tern has installed three of the five GE Renewable Energy Haliade 150-6MW turbines at the Block Island Wind Farm. This is the first offshore wind farm to be installed in US waters and the first project Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has worked on outside of Europe. “The first turbine on this landmark […]

  • CCCC Secures Foundation Order for 50MW Wind Farm

    3 March 2015

    CCCC Third Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. has won a bid for the wind turbine foundation construction and installation works of the 50MW offshore wind power project at Pinghai Bay, Putian, Fujian Province. The contract value is EUR 34.14 million (CNY 240 million) with a construction period of 411 calendar days. With a proposed total installed […]

  • Construction Begins on China’s Qingzhou 4 Offshore Wind Farm

    9 September 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    MingYang Smart Energy and partners have launched the construction of the 500 MW Quingzhou 4 offshore wind project in the South China Sea. The project, located off the coast of Yangjiang in Guangdong Province, will feature 25 MingYang’s MySE 11-230 and 18 MySE 12-242 offshore wind turbines. MingYang will also deliver a floating turbine for […]

  • SeaTwirl Continues Patent Streak

    10 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    The Chinese patent authority has awarded the Swedish wind power company SeaTwirl with a patent for its divisible offshore wind turbine. The solution includes a turbine that is divisible above and below the house that holds the generator and bearing, meaning that their entire housing can be replaced just above the water surface by boat, SeaTwirl […]

  • JD-Contractor Nabs Nissum Bredning Cable Job

    29 August 2017
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    JD-Contractor, a danish subsea specialist, has won the contract for the cabling of the 28MW Nissum Bredning test and development wind farm off Denmark where Siemens Gamesa plans to utilise a range of new offshore wind solutions.

  • EU Funds New Offshore Wind Project

    1 December 2015
    R&D, Technology

    EDP has been granted European funding to develop new technology for offshore wind power. DEMOGRAVI3 is a project that aims to develop an innovative gravity based foundation for offshore wind turbines and will be funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme. The project will last for four years and will include a full-scale demonstration […]

  • Top News of the Week Oct 5 – 11, 2015

    11 October 2015

    Fire Breaks Out at Vestas’ Turbine Blade Facility A chemical store that is part of Vestas’ facility for the development of large wind turbine blades on Isle of Wight caught fire. Two Companies Sentenced for 2010 Fatal Accident UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) revealed that Fluor Ltd and Siemens Winpower A/S were sentenced today […]

  • OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE: O&M is Still Evolving

    11 May 2015

    Servicing around 2,200 wind turbines and 56 substations under fixed maintenance contracts, as well as repairs and assessments for a further 1,500 plants, Deutsche Windtechnik AG has experienced rapid growth since being established in 2007. Last year, the company experienced a near 40% in turnover, which passed the 70 million Euro mark for the first […]

  • Video: Jan De Nul Discusses the Next Generation in Offshore Wind

    20 December 2018

    Watch the Expertise Hub video to find out more about what Jan de Nul is preparing for the future in renewable energy and next-generation turbines.

  • India: SEFORGE to Supply Machined Flanges for Wind Towers

    6 March 2012

    SEFORGE Limited, a Suzlon Group subsidiary, announced a key purchase agreement with a leading wind turbine manufacturer for the supply of machined tower flanges, used for wind towers, over a period of three years. The Rs. 367 crore (US$ 75 mn) contract covers supply of flanges for wind turbine towers for projects in India and […]

  • France Grants EUR 14.9 Million for Eolink’s Floating Wind Demo

    3 November 2022
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Eolink, Valorem, and Centrale Nantes have been awarded EUR 14.9 million from the funding programme “France 2030” for the manufacturing of Eolink’s floating wind turbine and its deployment at the SEM-REV test site offshore Le Croisic in France. The 5 MW, pre-commercial floating wind turbine will be commissioned in 2024 at the test site which […]

  • GE Goes Into Haliade-X 12 MW Details (Infographics)

    10 May 2018
    Technology

    GE Renewable Energy has revealed additional details on the size and power of the Haliade-X 12 MW offshore wind turbine.

  • SgurrEnergy’s PPT Services In Line with New IEC Standard

    10 May 2017

    SgurrEnergy, part of Wood Group, has informed that its Power Performance Testing (PPT) services, which deliver wind turbine power curve tests, are fully compliant with the recently issued 2nd edition of IEC 61400-12-1 wind turbine standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission.

  • Artificial Island for Windpark Fryslân to Be Built by September

    13 July 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Zuiderzeewind, a consortium of Van Oord and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, plans to finish building the artificial island near Kornwerderzand, the Netherlands, in September. The island, which will first serve as the construction stage for the Windpark Fryslân nearshore project and after that as a nature reserve and a bird sanctuary, is located next to […]