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  • Hohe See Substation Topside Heads Home

    19 June 2018
    Grid Connection, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The EnBW Hohe See substation topside has left ENGIE Fabricom’s yard in Hoboken, Belgium, and is now sailing towards the installation site in the German North Sea.

  • Bladt Ships Out First Beatrice Jackets

    30 August 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The first four jacket foundations for the Beatrice offshore wind farm left the Bladt Industries’ site in Lindoe, Denmark, last week.

  • DNV GL and Goldwind Form Offshore Wind Connection

    21 June 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    DNV GL has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China’s Goldwind International to develop a new portfolio asset management platform to support Goldwind’s international offshore and onshore wind market operations.

  • Trianel Windpark Borkum II Gets Go-Ahead

    7 April 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    As of spring 2018, the construction of Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWB II) in the German sector of the North Sea will start, after 20 shareholders from Germany and Switzerland agreed to build the project on 7 April.

  • Hywind Buoyant on French Connection

    27 December 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    French cable maker Nexans has awarded its compatriot, Bardot Group, with a contract to supply buoyancy modules for the power cables of Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating wind farm. The 30MW floating wind farm, located 30 kilometres off the coast of Peterhead, will be operated by Norwegian oil and gas major Statoil. Hywind will consist of […]

  • Winter Is Coming for House of Tahkoluoto

    28 September 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Offshore construction works at the site of the 40MW Tahkoluoto wind farm off Pori, Finland, are winding down ahead of the start of autumn storms and the subsequent winter period, Suomen Hyötytuuli Oy, the owner and developer of the wind farm, reports. The marine construction works are scheduled to resume in April 2017, when the first wind turbine components […]

  • Photo of the Day: Beatrice Jacket Readies for a Lift

    2 June 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL) has shared a photo of the teams at Burntisland Fabrications’ (BiFab) facility in Methil preparing to upend one of the jacket foundations built for the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm.

  • WindEYE LiDARs for Chinese Offshore Wind Farm

    27 April 2017
    R&D, Technology

    Danish technology group Windar Photonics plc has received a new order for 15 of its WindEYE LiDAR units from a newly appointed regional distributor focused on potential specific IPP customers in China.

  • J/U WIND SERVER Completes Borkum Riffgrund 1 Work

    2 July 2015

    DBB Jack-Up’s new purpose-built vessel J/U WIND SERVER has completed her first large commercial operation performing commissioning support during the turbine commissioning of the Borkum Riffgrund 1 project in the German North Sea. The vessel has worked on more than 50 turbines during the three months’ charter for Siemens AG. “The use of WIND SERVER […]

  • Wagenborg Transports Pile Gripper Tool

    19 June 2015

    Wagenborg has transported a so-called Pile Gripper Tool from Middelburg to Esbjerg where it was fitted on a wind turbine installation ship, Pacific Orca. The manufacture and transportation of the Pile Gripper Tool, including a hydraulic HSD-frame, took around three months. After driving the Pile Gripper out of the construction hall, Wagenborg placed the Pile Gripper upon prepositioned construction […]

  • MT Højgaard to Speak at Offshore Wind Conference in Hamburg, Germany

    8 October 2013

    Danish MT Højgaard is speaking at the Offshore Wind Construction, Installation & Commissioning Conference in Hamburg from 14 to 15 October. On 14 October MT Højgaard will be giving a presentation on the study of the foundation types XL-monopiles and jackets – seen from an EPCI perspective. The presentation takes as its point of departure […]

  • Beatrice Stays On Track

    14 November 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    33 of 84 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines have now been installed on the Beatrice offshore wind farm and are exporting power to the Scottish grid, SSE plc said.

  • Sollatek to Keep Beatrice Onshore Substation Steady

    14 November 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens has selected Sollatek to provide stabilisers for the Beatrice offshore wind farm’s onshore substation.

  • Aero Enterprise Chopper Drone Takes Flight Offshore

    6 September 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Austrian-based Aero Enterprise has performed its first offshore wind turbine inspection using the in-house developed helicopter drone AERO-SensorCopter. Back in July, Aero Enterprise carried out inspection flights around the offshore wind turbines some 70 kilometers from the German/Dutch coastline of the North Sea. Prior to this campaign, So far, the AERO-SensorCopter had operated only onshore. According to the company, the AERO-SensorCopter, […]

  • Saipem Enters Hywind Scotland Project

    19 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Italian oil & gas and renewables industry contractor Saipem has signed a contract with Statoil for the lift and mating operations of offshore floating wind turbines for the 30MW Hywind Scotland Pilot Park project. The deal is part of EUR 430 million worth of E&C contracts this subsidiary of the Italian oil and gas major Eni announced today. Hywind […]

  • Infographic: French Floater Explained

    12 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Engie, EDP Renewables, Caisse des Dépôts and Eiffage last week submitted their proposal for a pilot floating wind farm of up to 36MW in capacity at the Leucate site in the Mediterranean. The proposal includes installation of 3 to 6 wind turbines of a minimum of 6MW each some 15 to 22 kilometres off the coast in […]

  • Heerema Nets Galloper OSS Fabrication Contract

    4 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Petrofac has awarded Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) with a contract to deliver an offshore substation platform for the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm. Heerema Hartlepool will be in charge of fabricating the unmanned offshore substation, with project engineering and procurement being undertaken by Petrofac as part of the GE-Petrofac Consortium. The Galloper offshore substation, scheduled for delivery in […]

  • Top News of the Week June 2 – 8, 2014

    8 June 2014

    Westermost Rough Offshore Substation Installed Offshore construction at the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm has completed its next significant milestone with the successful installation of the project’s offshore substation on site in the North Sea. Jan De Nul’s New Multi-Purpose Vessel Under Construction This week, Uljanik Brodogradilište (Uljanik Shipyard) in Pula, Croatia, started with the […]

  • Vessels Get Busy at Walney Offshore Wind Sites

    29 May 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    An infield survey is underway at Walney 1 and 2 offshore wind farms,  approximately 15 km off Walney Island in the UK’s part of the Irish Sea. A 14-meter long survey vessel Argus-G has been fitted with sounding equipment for the task. The vessel started carrying out the survey, as well as the inspection work […]

  • Scotland to Develop Floating Offshore Wind Project

    5 November 2012
    Authorities

    The Crown Estate plans to develop a demonstration offshore wind project in water depths of about 100 metres, off the Scotland’s west coast. The authority held a consultation with around 50 stakeholders and public bodies, planning to issue a licence to a developer who would construct the demonstration project comprising floating wind turbines. Senior development […]

  • Fred. Olsen Renewables Secures Offshore Grid Connection for Codling Wind Park (Ireland)

    19 December 2012
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Fred. Olsen Renewables Ltd. has confirmed that it has signed a grid connection offer of 1GW for Codling Wind Park, with co-owners Hazel Shore Ltd satisfying the typical power requirements of more than 160,000 homes. The Irish Waters project, which is situated in shallow waters, currently consented for 220 turbines with a further 200 turbines […]

  • UK: Three Winners of Tidal Leasing Round Known

    14 November 2012
    Authorities

    Later today,the Crown Estate will confirm lease agreements for a number of demonstration project sites in connection with the Scottish Government’s Saltire Prize. The Eco-Island Partnership, collaboration between the Isle of Wight Council and a group of local businesses, Scotrenewables Tidal Power and Minesto are among winners of the Crown Estate’s latest leasing round, according to […]

  • The Three Gorges First Wind Farm Project (Pvt.) Signs Onshore and Offshore Wind Contract (Pakistan)

    23 May 2011
    Business & Finance

    The contractors would supply and install Goldwind wind turbines. The wind farm of 49.5MW is located in Jhampir, district Thatta Sindh, Pakistan. Chinese Wind Energy Information Center, or CWEI, has announced that The Three Gorges First Wind Farm Project Pvt. Ltd has signed an offshore and onshore wind power engineering, procurement and construction, or EPC, […]

  • Offshore Wind Industry to Cooperate with Oil and Gas (UK)

    6 May 2011

      In order for consumers to receive cheap energy from renewable sources, the offshore wind industry will have to work with the oil and gas sector. This is the opinion of Finlay Crossan, a partner in legal firm Bond Pearce, who told Renewableenergyfocus.com that both sectors have to co-operate if we are to make the […]

  • World’s Largest Floating Wind Farm Entering Offshore Construction Phase

    25 March 2022
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore construction on the 88 MW Hywind Tampen floating wind farm is set to start next week with the transport and installation of the suction anchors at the site located about 140 kilometres off the Norwegian coast, DOF Subsea said. The subsea AHTS vessel Skandi Skansen and the DOF Subsea team are currently preparing to […]

  • Danish Developer Proposes 3+GW Wind Farm Offshore Australia

    8 March 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Denmark’s Copenhagen Energy A/S has set in motion the plan to develop an offshore wind farm with a capacity in excess of 3 GW off Western Australia. Leeuwin Offshore Wind Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Copenhagen Energy, is proposing the construction, operation, and decommissioning of the Leeuwin offshore wind farm within Geographe Bay, off […]