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  • Vole au vent Heads to Borkum Riffgrund 2

    5 March 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul’s wind turbine installation vessel Vole au vent has left the port of Eemshaven loaded with the first set of monopiles and transition pieces to be installed on the 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Thai Oil & Gas Company Debuts on Formosa 1 Phase 2

    20 August 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    The Thailand-based oil & gas company CUEL Limited has secured a contract with Jan De Nul for the fabrication and supply of 20 transition pieces for the Formosa 1 Phase 2 project in Taiwan, marking its first offshore wind contract.

  • Haizea Wind Bilbao Plant Stacks Lloyd’s Certificates

    17 August 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Ports & Logistics

    Haizea Wind Group’s facility in the Port of Bilbao has obtained five Lloyd’s ISO, EN and OSHAS certificates since its inauguration a little over two months ago.

  • Photo of the Day: Siemens OTM Jacket Gears Up for Beatrice

    23 January 2018
    Grid Connection, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    The jacket foundation for a Siemens Offshore Transformer Module (OTM) has been loaded onto a barge destined for the Beatrice offshore wind farm, after undergoing final preparations at BiFab’s yard in Fife, Scotland. 

  • Vattenfall and Per Aarsleff Form Danish Nearshore Connection

    12 July 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has awarded Per Aarsleff A/S with a contract to supply and install the onshore grid for the Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd nearshore wind projects in the Danish North Sea.

  • ODE to Support Vattenfall’s Offshore Wind Projects

    26 September 2017

    Vattenfall has awarded ODE, an integral part of the DORIS Group, with two framework agreements for its offshore wind projects across Europe. 

  • TU Delft Buys Power from Eneco Luchterduinen OWF

    15 February 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and Eneco have signed a power supply contract under which a portion of the university’s needs will be met by the power produced from six turbines at the 129 MW Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm. The contract is part of the Dutch university’s s plan to only purchase renewable energy generated […]

  • VIDEO: Boom Lock Fights Off High Winds

    4 February 2016
    Technology

    High Wind tested the Boom Lock system on a 6MW Senvion wind turbine blade, helping the blade be completely still in wind conditions of 15m/s average wind speed and gusts up to 20m/s. The test also proved the benefit of the intelligent guidance system on heavy loads like nacelles and towers, High Wind said. The Boom Lock is […]

  • Top News of the Week Apr 14 ‒ 20, 2014

    20 April 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    40th AREVA Wind Turbine Installed at Global Tech I The construction of towers and nacelles in the North Sea wind farm Global Tech I is running in full gear: During the weekend the 40th AREVA Wind turbine has been installed. Siemens Bags BorWin3 Contract from TenneT Siemens has received an order from TenneT for an […]

  • Jee Provides U-Tube for Tidal Project

    21 September 2015

    Scottish Tidal Project moves one step closer with the completion of the tidal cable management and protection structure. Jee’s cable protection and recovery solutions are helping Scotland commercialise marine energy by ensuring cables are well protected and maintainable, using Jee’s U-Tube concept. The system is designed to meet the cable installation, protection and retrieval requirements […]

  • Rambiz Heavy Lift Barge Installs Top Section of Walney 2 Substation (UK)

    21 June 2011
    Wind Farm Update

      On Tuesday 5 May 2011, the jacket for the Walney 2 offshore substation was placed, but then a period with windy weather put the operation on hold. It took 14 days before the top section could be placed on top of the jacket, but on 19 May 2011, the heavy lift barge Rambiz lifted […]

  • Denmark: Port of Roenne Hails Energy Island Plan

    25 May 2020
    Ports & Logistics

    Port of Roenne has welcomed Danish government’s plan to make the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea an energy island, facilitating the connection of 2 GW of offshore wind capacity. “We are pleased that Bornholm has been appointed by the Government to become an energy island, that a 2 GW offshore wind farm is […]

  • Germany: Cuxport Loads Final Tower Section for Thornton Bank II and III Offshore Windfarms

    27 June 2012

    Cuxport GmbH completed another major order for the plant construction manufacturer REpower Systems SE on 20 June 2012 with the tenth loading operation involving tower segments for offshore wind turbines. The components, which were produced by AMBAU GmbH and transhipped at Cuxport, are destined for the Thornton Bank II & III offshore wind park in […]

  • Japan to Commence Wind Farm Construction Offshore Fukushima

    21 January 2013

    Japan is planning to begin the construction of the world’s largest wind farm in July, placing it 16 kilometers off the coast of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, reports RT news portal. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011, Japan turned off all of their 54 nuclear reactors and turned to renewable resources, […]

  • Ofgem Selects Hornsea Two OFTO Preferred Bidder

    5 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Ofgem has selected Diamond Transmission Partners as the preferred bidder for the offshore transmission of the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm in the UK. The company now has to resolve certain matters before being granted the Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO) license for the 1.3 GW project. Diamond Transmission Partners has to establish the necessary arrangements […]

  • World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Goes into Operation

    31 August 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has fully commissioned its 1.3 GW Hornsea Two project in the UK, which has now become the world’s largest wind farm in operation, taking over that title from its sibling project, the 1.2 GW Hornsea One. The 1.3 GW offshore wind farm, located 89 kilometres off the Yorkshire Coast, alongside Hornsea One, comprises 165 […]

  • EDP Picks AXYS for Demowfloat Project

    20 March 2014

    EDP Inovação (EDPi) has selected the AXYS WindSentinel™ for deployment off the coast of Portugal in support of their Demowfloat Initiative. The Demowfloat project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 296050 and gathers 12 entities of 5 different countries who aim to […]

  • Upwind EU Project Resulting in Reliable Modelling of Wind Power Technology According to Vattenfall (Denmark)

    7 July 2011
    R&D, Training & Education

      Vattenfall has been participating in a EU project on challenges on up scaling wind power technology. The project came to an end in March 2011, which resulted in reliability modelling and design criteria of future wind turbines / wind farms and improvements on the grid integration issues. The UPWIND European project was initiated in […]

  • Troubled Waters? – Managing Risk in Floating Offshore Wind

    18 May 2022
    Business & Finance, Contribution, Industry, Operations & Maintenance

    The following article is a guest post by Jonathan Morton, Associate at the international commercial law firm Haynes and Boone. The embrace of floating offshore wind has come surprisingly fast. There is already talk of floating wind sites with more than 100 turbines being built by 2032, and the interest and investment in the industry […]

  • First Minister Unveils GBP 35 Million Fund for Scottish Offshore Wind

    27 September 2011
    Authorities

    FIRST Minister Alex Salmond today unveiled a new £35 million fund to attract offshore wind turbine manufacturers to Scotland… (scotsman) [mappress] Source: scotsman, September 27, 2011

  • Banks of River Humber Could Host Thousands of Manufacturing Jobs (UK)

    18 July 2011
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Thousands of hi-tech manufacturing jobs could be created along the banks of the River Humber as negotiations to bring further wind turbine… (yorkshirepost) [mappress] Source: yorkshirepost, July 18, 2011;

  • Siemens substation will help in creating civil engineering jobs (UK)

    7 September 2010
    Jobs & Recruitment, R&D

    Siemens has awarded a contract for building two new offshore wind turbine substations to a firm in Northern Ireland, which will help to…   (careerstructure) [mappress] Source: careerstructure, September 07, 2010;

  • Federal Government Plans $50.5 Million in Offshore Wind Research (USA)

    9 February 2011
    Authorities

    The yachts and gulls might need to make some room off the mid-Atlantic coast for the offshore wind turbines that the government is hoping to…   (latimesblogs) [mappress] Source: latimesblogs, February 09, 2011

  • Regulations for Wolfe Island wind farm are on the way

    15 April 2010
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Kingston was approved for Ontario’s first offshore wind power project last week, yet no regulations exist governing where turbines can be…   [mappress] Source: thewhig, April 14, 2010;

  • UK Bankrolls Kite Power Developers

    22 February 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    A British engineering consortium led by Kite Power Solutions Ltd (KPS) has secured a GBP 1 million grant from the UK Government’s Innovate UK Energy Catalyst to accelerate the development of its kite power generation technology. The GBP 1m Innovate UK grant will be used to scale-up KPS’s technology to a 500kW kite turbine and validate the […]

  • Germany: Aquacultures among Offshore Wind Farms Create Complex Legal Situation

    4 March 2013
    Environment

    A research group from the Faculty of Law at the University of Rostock, led by Professor Detlef Czybulka, is advising the Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven on legal matters. It is a joint project on new territory ‒ development of fish breeding facilities. In Bremerhaven, […]