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  • Wind Blade Composites Market Grows as Offshore Wind Energy Advances (Germany)

    16 January 2012

      Many nations have set challenging targets for renewable energy production and it was in this setting that AMI held the latest global conference on Wind Turbine Blade Manufacture in December 2011 in Dusseldorf, Germany. The UK Minister for the Environment had announced potential plans for another 29,000 wind turbines mainly offshore, and Siemens Energy […]

  • Multifunctional Floating Offshore Wind Farm Support Vessel Design Gets ClassNK Nod

    28 February 2024
    Business development, Research & Development, Vessels

    K Line Wind Service, together with Japan Marine United Corporation and Nihon Shipyard, has been jointly granted Approval in Principle (AiP) from Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) for the design concept of the multifunctional floating offshore wind farm support vessel (MFSV). The MFSV is designed to perform whole mooring works efficiently for floating offshore wind turbine […]

  • Fred. Olsen 1848, Huisman Introduce Novel Solution for Major Component Exchange on Floating Wind Farms

    27 September 2022
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Fred. Olsen 1848 and Huisman have developed a new concept for major component exchange on floating offshore wind farms and aim to bring the solution into operation before the end of this decade. The Floating Maintenance Solution enables major component exchange at a wind farm’s offshore site, with no need to disconnect the foundation and […]

  • Taiwan’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Delivers First Power

    21 April 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has achieved successful delivery of first power from the 900 MW Greater Changhua 1 & 2a wind farm offshore Taiwan. According to Ørsted, the first power was delivered as scheduled with the installation and energisation of the first batch of offshore wind turbines which were transported from the Port of Taichung to the site. […]

  • CIP’s Changfang-Xidao Wind Project Completed Offshore Taiwan

    22 May 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners has completed the construction of the 600 MW Changfang-Xidao project in Taiwan, the company’s first offshore wind farms in the Asia Pacific. Located 11 kilometres off the west coast of Taiwan, the Changfang-Xidao offshore wind project is majority-owned by CIP’s Flagship funds CI II and CI III. Minority stakes are held by […]

  • Iberdrola Greenlights Its Third Offshore Wind Project in German Baltic Sea

    27 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Iberdrola has taken the final investment decision (FID) for its Windanker offshore wind farm in Germany, which has now advanced to the delivery phase. Windanker is the third offshore wind project for Iberdrola in the German Baltic Sea. The company already operates the 350 MW Wikinger and is developing the 467 MW Baltic Eagle project. […]

  • French Council of State Dismisses Appeals Against Two Offshore Wind Farms

    25 July 2019
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The French Council of State has dismissed appeals against the concession permits allowing the Courseulles-sur-Mer and Fécamp offshore wind projects to occupy publicly owned maritime zones. The projects have a combined capacity of around 950MW and are being developed EDF Renewables, a subsidiary of the EDF Group, and its partners Enbridge, a North American energy infrastructure […]

  • Ramboll Cracks Chinese Offshore Wind Farm Design Market

    20 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Danish engineering, design and consultancy company Ramboll has won a contract to design the 400MW Binhai North Phase 2 offshore wind farm in the Jiangsu province, China, developed and owned by the State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC). The contract makes Ramboll the first non-domestic company to design an offshore wind farm in China. Valued at more than EUR 4 million, the contract […]

  • Buoyant Vestas Plans EUR 50 Million Blade Factory in India

    5 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Denmark’s Vestas is planning to build a new blade manufacturing facility in India and is expecting up to EUR 1 billion more in revenue in 2015 after posting encouraging operating results for the quarter ended September 30. The construction of the new factory will start in 2016, and the project is expected to cost around EUR 50 million, Bloomberg […]

  • LA NAVAL Shipyard: Spanish shipyard geared for future offshore wind projects

    16 October 2012

    Sestao-based LA NAVAL Shipyard has not been taken aback by the withdrawal of a newbuilding order by the financially troubled German offshore wind farm developer and shipowner BARD Engineering. It continues developing multipurpose vessels fit to assist installations of wind turbines. Relying on capacities and experience in meeting special requirements for jacking systems, huge capacity […]

  • UK to Award GBP 10 Million for Innovations in Offshore Wind

    5 November 2012
    Authorities

    Innovators with novel ideas to reduce the cost of offshore wind energy are today being invited to get their ideas off the drawing board and into turbines out at sea with the launch of two competitions. As highlighted in the Offshore Wind Technology Innovation Needs Assessment (TINA) published by the Low Carbon Innovation Coordination Group […]

  • Vestas Takes 11th Place Among World’s Most Innovative Companies (Denmark)

    20 September 2011
    R&D

      Published by Harvard Business Review Press, the book took the authors Clayton Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen six years to study some of the world’s biggest and most innovative companies to discover which companies were placing innovation at the forefront of success. From this analysis Vestas was ranked 11. The authors said Vestas […]

  • Natural Power to Manage EIA on Narec’s Offshore Wind Demonstrator Scheme

    30 November 2010

    Leading international renewable energy consultancy, Natural Power, has been appointed as the environmental impact assessment (EIA) co-ordinators for the offshore elements of the Narec Offshore Wind Demonstrator Scheme after a competitive tendering exercise run by Turner and Townsend on Narec’s behalf. The Demonstrator will be located offshore from Narec’s Blyth headquarters, and will enable turbine […]

  • Britain Is Only Just Beginning to Exploit Its Vast Resources of Offshore Wind

    19 August 2016

    Below, we bring an article on the UK’s offshore wind energy status and potential, written by Simon Watson, Professor of Wind Energy at Loughborough University, and originally published by The Conversation. In 1993, nine 300kW turbines were installed on the eastern pier at Blyth Harbour, near Newcastle on England’s east coast. One can question whether this […]

  • Offshore Wind Powers Port of Blyth in 2017

    1 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    Port of Blyth has released its 2017 financial results, reporting a turnover of GBP 20.6 million alongside an adjusted operating profit of GBP 1.32 million and total investment of GBP 4.2 million. Last year also saw record commercial vessel movements which grew by 3% on 2016’s previous record high, while total cargo tonnage increased by 6% over the same period.

  • Brunsbüttel Ports to Present in Husum, Germany

    17 September 2012

    Brunsbüttel Ports will offer solutions for the supply chain as well as experience and expertise in large-component handling at Husum WindEnergy 2012, the leading wind energy trade fair. On stand 4E15 the port group will present their range of services specially designed for the wind energy industry together with the SCHRAMM group. As a part […]

  • University of Delaware Launches Offshore Wind Initiative

    26 February 2014
    R&D, Training & Education

    The University of Delaware will steer the way toward making offshore wind turbines a reality in the United States through a new initiative announced yesterday at a major industry conference.  The Special Initiative on Offshore Wind, housed at the University’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, will serve as an independent catalyst for offshore wind […]

  • Finland’s Koverhar Harbour Planned to Support Construction of Multi-Gigawatt Noatun Offshore Wind Project

    11 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Ports & Logistics

    Euroports Group and the partners behind the Noatun offshore wind project, OX2 and Ålandsbanken Fondbolag, have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to establish Koverhar Harbour in Hanko, Finland, as a logistics hub for the construction of the Noatun North offshore wind farm, with an option to use the hub for Noatun South as well. […]

  • Edison Chouest Offshore Signs Empire Wind SOV Contract

    13 May 2022
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor and BP, has awarded a long-term service operations vessel (SOV) charter agreement to the US-based Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) to support the Empire Wind offshore wind farm project. The charter agreement has a fixed period of 10 years, with commencement in the mid-2020s. The plug-in hybrid SOV […]

  • Ørsted Piles On Greater Changhua Pin-Pile Orders

    24 October 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has signed a contract with CSBC Corporation for the manufacture of ”a significant number” of wind turbine foundation pin-piles for the first 900MW Greater Changhua projects in Taiwan.

  • Westermeerwind Produces First Power

    9 November 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    The Dutch 144MW Westermeerwind offshore wind farm has produced first electricity. The milestone was achieved last week using the 44km of electricity cables installed by VBMS. Also, Siemens has installed a total of 17 out of 48 of its 3 MW turbines. When completed the 144MW wind farm will be able to produce electricity for […]

  • First Flight Wind Lists Offshore Wind Courses

    20 November 2014
    Training & Education

    Belfast Metropolitan College and B9 Energy have collaborated to deliver the City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Wind Turbine Operation and Maintenance.  In addition, First Flight Wind has published a list of courses leading to careers in offshore wind on its website. It is not an exhaustive list, but gives a sense of the […]

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Safe air inspection

    25 June 2013

    Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are available in all sizes and are applied to various fields of services including aerial mapping, surveying, security, inspections, etc. When it comes to the wind energy market the UAVs or drones are already being used for blade inspections on land based turbines. The idea has been picked up by a few companies to apply the […]

  • UWIG Highlights Workshop Results (USA)

    16 March 2011

    For the fourth year in a row, UWIG conducted its Workshop on Variable Generation Forecasting Applications to Utility Planning and Operations in Albany, New York, February 23-24. With over a hundred attendees from the U.S., Canada, and Europe, the workshop, which traditionally has focused on wind forecasting, featured a session devoted to solar power production […]

  • German Wind Energy Market Not so Interesting for Chinese

    23 December 2011

    Slender blades on dozens of turbines, each propped on a tower more than 100 meters tall, slowly spin in the sea breeze near Bremerhaven… By Cao Haili (caixin) [mappress] Source: caixin, December 23, 2011; Image: alpha-ventus

  • US Offshore Wind Farm Encounters Another Construction Hiccup

    5 November 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    After a delay in the construction of the onshore substation that also delayed the project’s commercial operation date, the Revolution Wind offshore wind farm in the US has faced a challenge with the installation of one of the offshore substation monopiles. This is according to the information shared by Ørsted in the company’s third-quarter results, […]