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  • Turbine Transfers Appoints Business Development Manager

    26 August 2015
    Vessels

    Turbine Transfers has appointed Andy Nattrass as Customer and Business Development Manager. Andy’s career spans over 18 years within the maritime industry with experience in front-line vessel operations, including time as Master of Survey Vessels, Workboats and CTV’s, and additional experience in Health and Safety and project and supplier management. Andy, a former Project Manager […]

  • AMI Preparing for Wind Turbine Blade Manufacture

    19 August 2015

    The sizes of wind blades are continuing to expand and top manufacturers and turbine makers will be talking about their latest developments at the 6th annual conference on Wind Turbine Blade Manufacture 2015, which will take place from November 30 to December 2 at the Maritim Hotel in Dusseldorf, Germany.   The conference will kick off […]

  • Fairbanks Nijhuis Develops Bi-Directional Turbine

    10 July 2015
    Technology

    Fairbanks Nijhuis, part of Pentair, has introduce a bi-directional turbine optimised  for generating energy from tides while being  almost 100% fish-friendly. “The bi-directional turbine is an evolution of our low head turbine. The big difference between the two is that the existing turbine is only suitable for use in rivers because water can only pass […]

  • Siemens Signs Turbine Order for Race Bank

    3 July 2015

    Siemens has received an order to supply, erect and commission 91 of its 6MW direct drive wind turbines at DONG Energy’s  580 MW Race Bank project. Installation of the turbines, with a rotor diameter of 154 meters, is to commence during the spring of 2017. This order is part of the frame agreement concluded between DONG Energy […]

  • Areva’s 5MW Turbines to Spin at Wikinger OWF

    22 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    IBERDROLA and Areva have signed a contract for the supply of wind turbines to the Wikinger offshore project. The contract has been valued at approximately €620 million.   The French company will supply 70 M5000-135 5MW wind turbines, worth €550 million. For the first time, IBERDROLA will be installing 5-MW turbines in a wind facility. Under the terms […]

  • Kentish Flats Extension Turbines Hit the Road

    17 June 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Construction at Kentish Flats Extension offshore wind farm is well underway. The first batch of towers, blades and nacelles was loaded onto Neptune at MHI Vestas factory this weekend and began their journey on Monday, said Vattenfall. The vessel is due to arrive on site today with the commencement of installation shortly after. An individual […]

  • VIDEO: Underwater Life on Offshore Wind Turbines

    28 February 2013
    Environment

    A North Sea wind farm has had hardly any negative effects on fauna. In fact, it can provide benefits for marine life. According to researcher Prof. Han Lindeboom and his colleagues at IMARES, part of Wageningen UR, and fellow scientists at Bureau Waardenburg and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), the wind farm at Egmond aan Zee (OWEZ) provides […]

  • Chilmark forum about wind turbines (USA)

    12 August 2010
    Training & Education

    A panel of Island community leaders and Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker blew some gale-force criticism Gov. Deval Patrick’s…   By Janet Hefler (mvtimes) [mappress] Source: mvtimes, August 12, 2010;

  • Wind Turbines in Lake Erie Costly (USA)

    8 December 2010

    Green energy is all the rage, and Ohio is jumping on the bandwagon with little regard for financial considerations. The proposed offshore… By Mary McCleary (toledoblade) [mappress] Source: toledoblade, December 08, 2010

  • PowerWind Sells 10 Wind Turbines to Bulgaria

    28 February 2011

    The German manufacturer is thus strengthening its position in the Bulgarian community segment with project sizes of up to 10 MW. The turbines of the type PowerWind 56 with a rated power output each of 900 kilowatt will be installed by the end of 2011 at various locations on the Black Sea (Hadji Dimitar, Poruchik […]

  • Vestas to Develop Floating Wind Turbines (Denmark)

    28 February 2011

    Vestas, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of wind turbines, has announced that it will be working in collaboration with WindPlus to… By Timon Singh (inhabitat) [mappress] Source: inhabitat, February 28, 2011

  • Virtual Prototyping for Wind Turbine Design (Belgium)

    25 February 2011

    The Ormazabal team looks forward to seeing you at the Ormazabal booth 11929 and Ormazabal poster presentation “MV switchgear’s impact on turbine efficiency and reliability in special wind farm application” during the European wind energy conference and exhibition which will take place in Brussels, March 14-17. EWEA is the annual wind power event comprising all […]

  • Wind Turbines and Birds Might Mix (USA)

    30 March 2011
    Environment

    A feathered stakeholder showed up at a presentation about offshore wind turbines in which one of the concerns addressed was–how do the…   By Brandie Jefferson (ellicottcity) [mappress] Source: ellicottcity, March 30, 2011

  • Wind Turbines Continue to Generate Power in Japan

    18 March 2011

    Wind turbines have continued to generate power in Japan in the wake of the most damaging earthquakes and tsunami in the island nation’s… (smartplanet) [mappress]   Source: smartplanet ,March 18, 2011

  • 20 MW Wind Turbines Are Feasible (Belgium)

    15 March 2011

    20 Megawatt wind turbines are feasible, according to a new report from the EU-funded UpWind project, published today at the EWEA 2011 Annual Event in Brussels. The UpWind project explored the design limits of upscaling wind turbines to 20 Megawatt (MW) and found that they would have rotor diameters of around 200 metres, compared to […]

  • Denmark to Test Chinese Wind Turbine Prototype

    17 July 2012
    R&D

    Denmark’s position as global center for innovative wind energy is further manifested with the import of a test wind turbine by the Chinese to Denmark. On Monday 16 July 2012, M/V “Jannes H” arrived to Esbjerg from China with tower parts and components for the first wind turbine prototype having two wings rather then the […]

  • Westminster Prefers Offshore Wind Turbines (UK)

    22 September 2011

      PLANS for wind farms in East Yorkshire have been criticised by an MP whose has branded them “costly and largely useless”. Greg Knight, who represents the region in Westminster, said energy companies should be focusing their efforts on offshore facilities rather than trying to install turbines in the countryside. It was revealed last week […]

  • UK: Unstable Wind Turbines in Need of Repair

    27 March 2012

    Vattenfall, Swedish wind farm operator, admitted the wind turbines at the Kentish flats wind farm are unstable and need welding work, reported This is Kent. Workers will need to ship a total of 180 steel brackets to the wind farm site, where they will need to weld six plates to the base of each wind […]

  • Siemens planing Romania’s offshore wind turbines

    7 April 2010
    Wind Farm Update

    Projects to develop Romania’s untapped potential in offshore wind parks in the Black Sea are now moving up a gear, according to Petru Ruset,   [mappress] Source: thediplomat, April 06, 2010;

  • Floating Wind Turbine Prototype Ready for Installation

    2 August 2022
    R&D, Technology

    X1 Wind has laid the dynamic cable for its PivotBuoy floating offshore wind turbine prototype, which is now ready to be installed at the PLOCAN test site off the Canary Islands. The voltage was increased to 20kV with a transformer, to allow the connection to PLOCAN’s smart grid with the 1.4 kilometre-long dynamic cable which […]

  • Vattenfall Scraps Hydrogen Turbine Pilot Project

    14 March 2024
    Business development, Green Hydrogen, Power-to-X, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has decided to cancel the Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1) project offshore Aberdeen, Scotland, almost two years after the firm began developing it. However, the project helped enable the creation of a regulatory and consenting regime for offshore hydrogen transportation and storage in the UK, according to the Swedish company. The HT1 project was designed […]

  • Ørsted Seeks Wind Turbine Installation Vessels

    14 January 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Leading offshore wind developer Ørsted plans to issue a contract notice in the coming weeks seeking wind turbine installation vessels for the Baltica 3 and Baltica 2 offshore wind projects in Poland. Ørsted will use the Achilles Utilities Nordics and Central Europe (UNCE) qualification system for procurement. The tender will be launched in the last […]

  • First Turbine Stands at Dutch Lake Farm

    24 March 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The first of the 89 Siemens Gamesa 4.3 MW wind turbines has been installed at Windpark Fryslân, the world’s largest wind farm in inland fresh waters. Located in the IJsselmeer Lake and some six kilometres off the Frisian coast, the Netherlands, the 382.7 MW Windpark Fryslân wind farm is being constructed by the Zuiderzeewind consortium […]

  • TGP Transporting Chinese Turbine Components to Vietnam

    3 February 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Trans Global Projects (TGP) has secured a contract to transport approximately 320,000 freight tons of wind turbine components for two offshore wind projects in Vietnam. As part of the almost year-long contract, TGP will deliver ten batches of turbine equipment from China to Vietnam via ocean vessel. The names of the wind farms have not […]

  • France’s Only Offshore Wind Turbine Overdelivers

    1 February 2021
    R&D, Technology

    The 2 MW Floatgen floating wind turbine, installed at the SEM-REV test site off Le Croisic, France produced 14 per cent more power in 2020 than in 2019, reaching an annual total of 6.8 GWh, Ideol said. In total, the Floatgen wind turbine produced 12.8 GWh of electricity throughout 2019 and 2020. Moreover, a new […]

  • Swiss Developing Turbine Design and Assessment Tool

    8 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Akselos and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have won a CHF 1.2 million grant from the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse) to deliver a next-generation structural design and assessment tool for wind turbines. The grant is part of a project that aims to increase the computational capabilities of wind turbine applications, lowering the Levelised Cost […]