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  • Construction of DanTysk’s Accommodation Platform in Full Swing

    7 March 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    An accommodation platform for the DanTysk offshore wind farm, comprising five and a half stories, is taking shape in Kiel. The platform, which is 20 meters high and weighing 2,500 tons, will be rising 20 meters above the sea surface. Nobiskrug shipyard, based in Schleswig-Holstein, is building this “house of steel” on behalf of Vattenfall […]

  • BOEM Gives Thumbs Up to Principle Power’s Project

    6 February 2014
    Authorities

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has given the go ahead to Principle Power for the wind energy project offshore Coos Bay, Oregon, having determined that there was no other competitive interest in the area. Principle Power is required to submit a formal plan for their 30 MW pilot project, which would use […]

  • UK Signs MoU with Japan for Investment in Energy Generation Projects

    13 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on Tuesday by the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), secured the UK considerable funds for low-carbon energy generation and transportation projects, including that aimed at offshore wind industry development. Taking into account the UK’s plan to cover 21% of its power needs […]

  • Germany: GL Renewables Certification Strengthens Wave and Tidal Business

    7 May 2013

    GL Renewables Certification (GL RC) appoints Holger Trecksel as new Head of Department Marine Renewables. Wave and tidal energy is a promising realm of renewable energy. As technology advances, GL RC is providing expertise to designers, manufacturers, investors and insurers who are involved in the evaluation of engineering integrity and safety of ocean energy systems. […]

  • Cuxhaven Ready For Heavy Offshore Wind Loads

    23 August 2017

    Lower Saxony’s Minister of Economics, Labour and Transport Olaf Lies has inaugurated a new berthing space and a new ramp at the port of Cuxhaven’s offshore terminal.

  • JDR Extends EnBW Baltic 2 Contract

    2 February 2015
    Grid Connection

    JDR has extended its service support operations for the EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm by Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH. Under a contract, JDR is providing pre-commissioning, test and termination services for the 80 turbine project in the Baltic Sea, off the coast of Rostock (Germany). JDR’s offshore wind test and termination team was commissioned to […]

  • JECS Offshore Supports SeaMade Cable Termination

    19 November 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    JECS Offshore Services has secured a contract to provide support to Hellenic Cables during termination works on the export cables at the SeaMade offshore wind farm in Belgium. JECS Offshore will design, supply and erect the scaffolding access platforms required for technicians to prepare and position the cables and carry out the terminations of the […]

  • Ørsted and ATT Partner Up for Safety Training

    28 November 2019
    Training & Education

    Ørsted has partnered with safety innovators Active Training Team Ltd (ATT) to build a learning center which will serve a number of industries across the Humber, the UK. The facility, to be designed by ATT and located at MODAL’s training complex in Immingham, will start off hosting an induction day developed for the construction team […]

  • Enefit Green Presses Ahead with Estonian Offshore Wind Project

    12 December 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Enefit Green’s Liivi Bay offshore wind farm has undergone an environmental impact assessment (EIA), showing no significant negative effects on the environment and boosting labour market activity and municipal revenues with proper mitigation measures, according to an expert group from Skepast and Puhkim. The team from Skepast and Puhkim analysed the environmental impact of three […]

  • Harland and Wolff

    28 June 2013

    Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries Ltd. in Belfast, a Fred. Olsen related company specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, recently completed a contract to build the world’s first commercial offshore suction Bucket Foundations. Three Bucket Foundations have left the Harland and Wolff fabrication yard in the past months on board the Fred. Olsen Windcarrier vessel […]

  • Freudenberg Group Enters American Wind Energy Market

    27 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Freudenberg Group has developed a broad range of technically challenging product solutions and services for the fast growing American wind energy market. Various operating companies of the Freudenberg Group are dedicating considerable effort to the development of renewable energy resources. The extensive product portfolio ranges from sealing product innovations from Simrit, over several thousand […]

  • Construction Done on CIP’s Second Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan

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

    Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and China Steel Corporation (CSC) have organised a ceremony to mark the completion of the construction of the 300 MW Zhong Neng offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The Zhong Neng offshore wind project was constructed by a team led by Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP), CIP’s exclusive offshore wind development partner, and […]

  • US Approves Two Offshore Wind Farms in One Day; 2.8 GW of Projects Off New Jersey Get Green Light

    2 July 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The US Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have approved the 2.8 GW Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind South Project in the federal waters off New Jersey, developed by a joint venture between Shell and EDF Renewables. BOEM issued a Record of Decision (ROD) for the proposed development, comprising […]

  • Seajacks Scylla Mobilising for Hollandse Kust Noord, Kraken Changing Out of Oil & Gas Attire Ahead of Offshore Wind Work

    13 March 2023
    Vessels

    Jack-up vessels Seajacks Scylla and Seajacks Kraken are currently moored in two Dutch ports, where they are being mobilised for offshore wind projects. Seajacks Scylla arrived in the Port of Amsterdam on 1 March, according to the vessel’s AIS data available online, while Seajacks Kraken arrived in the Port of Den Helder on 11 March. […]

  • BlueFloat, Renantis Submit EIA for 1.3 GW Italian Floater

    15 January 2024
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Renantis and BlueFloat Energy have submitted the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study for the Odra Energia floating offshore wind project to the Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security (Mase) and the Ministry of Culture (MiC). The EIA study, which marks the beginning of the EIA procedure for the floating offshore wind project, comprises a […]

  • Shell and Eneco Joint Venture Looks to Build Greener Offshore Wind Farm

    16 June 2023
    Environment

    Ecowende, the joint venture (JV) of Shell and Eneco, has unveiled plans for building an offshore wind farm that will be in harmony with nature, with minimal impact on birds, bats, and marine mammals. Ecowende, which presented its holistic approach at WindDay 2023, said it is going to implement various innovations, large-scale mitigating and stimulating […]

  • Nervion Buys Siemens Gamesa’s Factory in Spain to Build Offshore Wind Foundations

    22 February 2023
    Business & Finance

    Nervion Naval Offshore, a subsidiary of the Spanish Amper Group, has bought the factory that Siemens Gamesa had built in As Somozas, A Coruña, for wind turbine blade production. The Bilbao-based company plans to open a fabrication facility for jacket and floating offshore wind foundations there as soon as in the second half of this […]

  • Maersk, Edison Chouest Offshore Partner to Build Feeder Vessels for Maersk’s WIV Jack-Up

    15 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Danish Maersk Supply Service and the US vessel owner and operator Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) are partnering on the construction and operation of a feeder vessel spread designed for Maersk Supply Service’s wind installation vessel (WIV), currently being built in Singapore. The feeder spread, which includes two tugs and two barges, will be built by […]

  • Fred. Olsen 1848 Launches Modular Floating Foundation

    5 May 2022
    Industry, R&D, Technology

    Norway-based Fred. Olsen 1848 has launched a new floating offshore wind turbine foundation named BRUNEL after several years of development. According to Fred. Olsen 1848, the main challenge for floating offshore wind to become industrialized and respond to deployment at scale is the ability to manufacture and assemble floating foundations at a volume that is […]

  • Fraunhofer IWES Partners with ABB on World’s Largest Mobile Grid Simulator

    2 May 2022
    R&D, Technology

    Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) has partnered with ABB to develop what is said to become the world’s largest mobile grid simulator that will enable testing of next-generation offshore wind turbines. The simulator is being developed under the Mobil-Grid-CoP project launched in 2020 and publicly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic […]

  • Estonian Energy Company Developing 1.2 GW Offshore Wind Farm

    20 October 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Estonian energy group Utilitas is developing an offshore wind project whose first phase would have an installed capacity of 1,200 MW and has now contracted Ramboll to a pre-FEED study for the offshore wind farm, which is planned to be built in the Gulf of Riga. Ramboll will analyse the technical solutions for the project, named […]

  • SeAH Wind, Smulders Investment in UK to Create 1,000 Jobs

    7 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    New investments to be made by offshore wind foundation manufacturers SeAH Wind and Smulders, backed by the UK government, in their production facilities in the UK are set to create and safeguard more than 1,000 jobs across the North-East of England and the Humber. The companies’ facilities on the Humber and at Wallsend in Newcastle-upon-Tyne […]

  • Vestas to Take Full Ownership of MHI Vestas

    29 October 2020
    Business & Finance

    Vestas Wind Systems and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have signed an agreement through which Vestas will acquire MHI’s shares in the MHI Vestas Offshore Wind joint venture. Vestas is to acquire MHI’s 50 per cent share of the MHI Vestas joint venture against 5,049,337 shares in Vestas that will be issued at closing of the transaction, […]

  • Jan De Nul Loads First Taiwan-Bound Jackets in South Korea

    21 May 2020
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul has loaded the first jacket foundations built in South Korea for the 109.2 MW Taiwan Power Company Offshore Windfarm Phase 1 Project. Jan De Nul will transport a total of 21 four-legged jacket foundations from Samkang’s fabrication yard in South Korea to the installation site offshore Taiwan in the coming weeks. The […]

  • Dudgeon Halfway Done

    3 June 2016
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Installation works on the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm are progressing according to plan and the project is halfway to being completed, according to Dudgeon Offshore Windfarm Limited (DOWL). The wind farm’s export cables were laid and the jacket for the offshore substation was installed in May. The crane vessel Oleg Strashnov has installed half of […]

  • Siemens, deugro Launch New Offshore Wind Logistics Concept

    17 November 2015

    Siemens presented a new offshore logistics concept at EWEA 2015 in Paris. The company has signed a long-term framework contract with transport service provider deugro Danmark A/S, utilizing two purpose-built transport vessels to efficiently link Siemens’ existing production locations in Denmark with the new production facilities in Cuxhaven in Germany and Hull in the UK. Instead of loading […]