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  • 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 […]

  • ‘WIND’ Drops By Port of Oostende on Its Way to Belwind OWF

    29 April 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    This morning, the jack-up vessel WIND arrived at the Port of Oostende for the first time, where it will pick up parts for the Belwind offshore wind farm. The vessel is carrying out maintenance work on Belwind. The Belwind offshore wind farm comprises fifty five Vestas’ V90-3.0MW (MHI Vestas Offshore Wind). Both Parkwind, the owner of the wind farm, and MHI Vestas Offshore Wind have […]

  • NWFTC Wins Prestigious Trade Association Accreditation (UK)

    2 November 2011
    Business & Finance

      National Wind Farm Training Centre, which provides training to the wind energy industry, has been awarded RenewablesUK’s renowned Training Standards and Accreditation for promoting and delivering best practice health and safety training and competence standards. The RenewableUK training standards are only intended to address the most significant health and safety training issues as they […]

  • Exercise Simulated Vessel Capsizing on Walney Offshore Wind Farms (UK)

    20 September 2011
    Training & Education

    Safety is a major priority on the Walney Offshore Windfarms, and in order to train the safety procedures, a number of exercises have been held. During the latest exercise, the scenario was capsizing of a large vessel resulting in 31 ‘staff’ members overboard to be rescued and given first aid on the participating crew boats. […]

  • Mid-Atlantic Wind Training Alliance Established in Virginia

    15 October 2020
    Training & Education

    A workforce training collaborative has been established in the U.S. State of Virginia to offer certifications required for operations and maintenance of offshore and onshore wind farms. The Mid-Atlantic Wind Training Alliance, announced by Virginia’s Governor Ralph Northam on 14 October, will bring courses certified by the Global Wind Organization (GWO) and wind technician training […]

  • DNV GL Kicks Off Twisties JIP

    28 March 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    DNV GL has launched Twisties, a new joint industry project (JIP) aimed at standardising and improving offshore wind logistics.

  • Blyth Foundations Stand Ready, Cable Laying Work In Progress

    11 September 2017
    R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Wind turbine foundations are now in place off the coast of Blyth to mark the latest stage of the 41.5MW Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Wind Farm project.

  • Havfram Keeps Its Fleet Busy with New Contract

    14 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain

    Norway’s Havfram has signed a reservation agreement with an undisclosed client for the transport and installation of next-generation wind turbines. Installation activities are expected to commence during the first quarter of 2029, with the project carrying on into 2030, the company said. According to Havfram, the project will be executed with one of the firm’s […]

  • Bibby HydroMap Scanning for UXO at Saint-Brieuc OWF Site

    10 April 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Bibby HydroMap is carrying out an UXO survey at the site of the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France, developed by the Iberdrola-led consortium Ailes Marines.

  • VIDEO: Moon Power in Scotland

    26 May 2014

    Twice a day, like clockwork, the moon’s gravity makes the seas ebb and flow. For Baker, a marine renewables business manager at GE Power Conversion, the tides are the perfect source of energy, more predictable and reliable than wind or solar power. “Some U.K. locations have significant tidal head ranges,” he says. “They offer a […]

  • No Use of External Generators at Anholt OWF (Denmark)

    10 June 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    So far, it has often been necessary to use external diesel generators to secure the power supply in connection with the completion of installation and commissioning of offshore wind turbines because the connection to the power grid has not been ready. In the Anholt project, all wind turbine positions have been energised at an early […]

  • The Netherlands: Van Oord Wins Luchterduinen Offshore Wind Farm Contract

    22 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Van Oord has been awarded the construction of the offshore wind park Luchterduinen. The wind farm will be located 23 kilometres from the Dutch coast between Noordwijk and Zandvoort. Client is the joint venture between Eneco and Mitsubishi Corporation. The 43 wind turbines will have a combined capacity of 129 megawatts and will generate green […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Slip Ring with Diagnostic System to Be Introduced at EWEA 2014

    28 February 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    LEINE LINDE SYSTEMS will present the new ADSR in detail at EWEA 2014 in Barcelona from March 10 to 13, 2014. The ADSR is the first slip ring with a diagnostic system for analyzing condition and predicting remaining service life. Service planning made more efficient Wind turbines, both onshore and offshore, are usually geographically distributed, […]

  • GE Renewable Energy and ORE Catapult Sign Offshore Wind Pact

    24 April 2018
    R&D, Technology

    GE Renewable Energy and the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult have signed a five-year research and development agreement to test and develop next-generation offshore wind technologies.

  • Portugal: ABS Certifies First WindFloat Facility

    15 August 2012

    ABS, the leading provider of classification services to the global offshore industry, has provided certification services for the design, fabrication and installation for the first WindFloat facility. The WindFloat Aguçadoura unit is a 2 MW floating wind turbine moored in slightly less than 50 m water depth 4 km offshore the northern Portuguese coast. The […]