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  • Seaway Strashnov Locked and Loaded at Triton Knoll

    9 January 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Seaway 7’s installation vessel Seaway Strashnov has arrived at the Triton Knoll offshore wind project site with the first turbine foundations. According to innogy, the vessel will begin installing the foundations as soon as weather conditions are favorable. Triton Knoll will comprise 90 MHI Vestas 9.5MW turbines mounted on monopile foundations some 32km off the Lincolnshire […]

  • Sea Installer Gearing Up for Race Bank

    14 March 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Ahead of the turbine installation at the Race Bank offshore wind farm, due to start at the end of April, A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Installer has been fitted with four massive adapter rings for wind turbine tower sea fastening.

  • French Floating Wind Pilot Project Stands Complete

    12 October 2023
    Floating Wind, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The third and final wind turbine of the Provence Grand Large floating offshore wind project was installed 17 kilometres off the coast of Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, France. Less than a month after the first departure from the Port of Marseille Fos, the other two wind turbines were in turn towed offshore and anchored at a depth of […]

  • GustoMSC Kit for Eneti’s Next-Generation Jack-Up

    22 June 2021

    Houston-headquartered NOV has been awarded contracts for the design and the supply of equipment for Eneti Inc’s first wind turbine installation jack-up vessel. The vessel will be built by South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) for scheduled delivery in the third quarter of 2024. The jack-up is of the GustoMSC™ NG-16000X design by […]

  • Inch Cape Awards Foundation Design Contract

    23 September 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Sea and Land Project Engineering (SLPE) has won a contract to provide the turbine foundation concept design for the Inch Cape offshore wind project in Scotland. According to SLPE, the project site has varying seabed depths and ground conditions making it one of the most complex in Europe. This is said to require structural, hydrodynamic […]

  • ASM Industries Starts Making Windpark Fryslân Tower Sections

    27 October 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    ASM Industries has begun the fabrication of 42 tower sections for the Siemens Gamesa turbines destined for the Windpark Fryslân offshore wind project. The fabrication activities began in September and will be taking place at ASM Offshore in Aveiro Port during the next months. “This is a very important milestone achieved. Our new facility has […]

  • Danes Switch Nissum Bredning Demo Wind Farm On

    14 May 2018
    Authorities, Grid Connection, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Denmark’s minister of Energy, Utilities and Climate Lars Christian Lilleholt has officially inaugurated the 28MW Nissum Bredning demonstration offshore wind farm.

  • Offshore Structures Britain Ships Out Final Walney Extension Transition Pieces

    4 May 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Offshore Structures Britain (OSB) has shipped out the last six transition pieces built for DONG Energy’s Walney Extension offshore wind farm.

  • Eneco Seeks Gearbox Crew

    3 August 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Eneco Windmolens Offshore B.V. is looking for a provider of turbine gearbox supply and refurbishment services on the Princess Amalia offshore wind farm (Prinses Amaliawindpark) in the Dutch North Sea. The anticipated scope of work comprises providing gearboxes, new or refurbished, for the purpose of exchange on the wind turbine generators at the wind farm. This […]

  • Jan De Nul Installs All Formosa 1 Phase 2 Foundations

    20 August 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul has completed the installation of all 20 turbine foundations at the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Seaway Yudin began installing the foundations at the beginning of June at the project site some 6km off the west coast of the Miaoli district in the Taiwan Strait. Germany’s EEW SPC produced the monopiles and Thailand’s CUEL Limited manufactured […]

  • Manor Finishes Hohe See Job

    23 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Manor Renewable Energy (MRE) has completed its operations at the EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm in Germany. MRE was in charge of providing temporary power, personnel and a multi-purpose vessel during the project’s turbine commissioning under a contract secured with EnBW in April. Located approximately 98km from the German coast, Hohe See covers an area of roughly […]

  • Van Oord Adds Niels Winther Maritime to Deutsche Bucht Team

    21 May 2019
    Ports & Logistics

    Van Oord has appointed the Esbjerg-based Niels Winther Maritime to serve as an agent for the wind farm installation vessel Aeolus over the summer. Aeolus will be working out of the Port of Esbjerg over the summer, loading turbine components for the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind project and then transporting and installing them in the German […]

  • Hornsea One Foundations All In Place

    26 April 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    DEME Offshore installed the final of the 174 monopile foundations on the 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm on Thursday, 25 April. The first monopile was installed at the site some 120 kilometres off the Yorkshire coast in the UK in January 2018. According to DEME, four of the company’s jack-ups has since worked at […]

  • Vestas Makes Major Progress in Wind Industry

    7 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    Vestas has received a record number of wind turbine orders per month in December, which amount to 1,346 MW. The record was triggered by wind energy developers in the United States, who were under pressure to meet the deadline to qualify for a tax credit, Reuters informs. A year ago, the U.S. Congress extended the […]

  • Windy Weather Affects Progress on Walney 2 (UK)

    23 January 2012

    The progress on Walney 2 is still dramatically affected by the windy weather, which has lasted for several months. The commissioning of the turbines requires a number of technician visits to each turbine in order to secure all settings and that communication is in a proper order. For safety reasons, the visits are generally restricted […]

  • DONG Energy Picks Natural Power for Blade Inspections

    25 August 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    DONG Energy has selected Natural Power to deliver turbine blade inspection services at wind farms in the UK, Denmark and Germany.

  • Improved Technology, Policy to Boost Ming Yang’s Turnover

    16 July 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Chinese wind turbine manufacturer, Ming Yang, has found a way to return its profit through investment in research and development and improvement of its technology. The company faced annual loss for the last two years, but Ming Yang is now convinced that its luck will change, especially with the Government’s decision to provide more support […]

  • New Project Proposed in Taranto Waters, Home of Italy’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    1 August 2023
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Wind Farm Update

    The Italian authorities are currently processing a concession application for a wind energy project in the waters off Taranto, where the country’s first offshore wind farm was built. While the wind turbines now spinning near the Port of Taranto stand on fixed-bottom foundations, the new application is for a project that would be built farther […]

  • First Steel Cut for Cadeler’s Second X-Class Newbuild

    22 February 2023
    Vessels

    The first steel has been cut for Cadeler’s second X-class wind turbine installation vessel at COSCO Shipping Offshore’s shipyard in Qidong, China. The Danish service provider Cadeler signed a contract with COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry for the construction of two new X-class wind turbine installation vessels in June 2021. Each vessel, equipped with a crane […]

  • Ørsted, DSV to Test Drone Deliveries at Anholt Offshore Wind Farm

    29 June 2022
    R&D, Technology

    Ørsted and the transport and logistics company DSV have teamed up to carry out tests with the transport of spare parts and tools using long-distance freight drones at Anholt wind farm in the Kattegat offshore Denmark. The aim of the trials is to find out whether drones can be a realistic supplement to the logistics […]

  • Deutsche Bucht Offshore Substation Stands

    4 April 2019
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Heavy lift vessel Seaway Strashnov has installed the jacket foundation and the substation topside on the 269MW Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. “With the installation of the offshore substation completed, we have once more accomplished another milestone on schedule,” said Jens Poulsen, Project Director at Northland Deutsche Bucht GmbH. “In […]

  • Ocean DEMO Greenlights Three Floating Wind Projects

    1 April 2020
    R&D, Technology

    Ocean DEMO, a EUR 13 million Interreg-funded project, has recommended two floating wind technology developers for support packages under the second call.

  • Denmark: Siemens Opens World’s Largest Test Facilities

    12 March 2013
    R&D

    Siemens Energy has opened two major Research & Development test facilities for wind turbine technology in Denmark. The new test center in Brande features test stands for major components of Siemens wind turbines, including generators, main bearings and complete nacelles. In Aalborg, seven blade test stands are capable to perform full scale tests of rotor […]

  • Jan De Nul’s Mega Jack-Up Sets Sail from UAE to Europe

    29 March 2023
    Vessels

    Jan De Nul’s new jack-up vessel, Voltaire, has left Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where it underwent further commissioning and project-specific adjustments ahead of its first assignment, and is now on its way to Europe. The vessel’s first deployment will be on the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm project offshore the UK, the world’s […]

  • RWE Backs Self-Erecting Crane Development

    16 December 2022
    R&D, Technology, Vessels

    RWE has signed a letter of intent with WindSpider, a Norwegian-based company that is developing a new modular self-erecting crane system for the offshore wind market. To improve operability and scalability for turbine installation as well as major component replacements, the WindSpider solution uses the tower of the wind turbine as part of the crane. […]

  • Nordergründe’s Aircraft Detection Light System Upgrade Completed and Approved

    4 August 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    The Nordergründe offshore wind farm in Germany is the first offshore wind farm in the world to be equipped with a fully functional, officially approved Aircraft Detection Light System (ADLS), according to Deutsche Windtechnik, the company that performed the upgrade. The operating permit has been issued by the relevant authorities after the company fitted its […]