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  • Fred. Olsen Windcarrier Readies For Mega-Turbines

    3 March 2020
    Vessels

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier is upgrading one of its Gusto 9000 jack-up vessels with a new crane capable of installing foundations and all known next-generation offshore wind turbines, the company said. Upon delivery in 2022, the Huisman 1600t LEC 65500 leg encircling crane will be the highest in the market. “With this new crane, we are […]

  • Vestas Remains on Top of Turbine OEMs List

    23 February 2015

    Vestas holds the first place on FTI Intelligence’s preliminary rankings for the world’s top five wind turbine original equipment manufacturers. According to the report, the Danish company remains in the lead for the second year running with a significant margin over the competition. Authored by members of the FTI-CL Energy practice the report will be […]

  • Xiangtan to Deliver 10 Turbines for Putian Project

    30 December 2014

    Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing signed an agreement to supply wind turbines for 50MW wind farm located in Pinghai Bay in Fujian province. Its wholly-owned unit XEMC Windpower will deliver ten of its 5 MW wind turbines next year, Xiangtan said today in a statement to the Shanghai stock exchange. Furthermore, the company was announced bid-winner for […]

  • Siemens Manufactures First 4MW Turbine in China

    17 November 2014
    Technology

    On November 7, the first SEC – Siemens 4.0MW wind turbine rolled off the assembly line at the production facility at Lingang, Shanghai. The wind turbine is also Siemens’ first localized  4.0MW wind turbine. Its 63-meter-long rotor blades gives it a swept area of 13,300 square meters, which is equal to approximately two football fields, […]

  • Repowering Wind Turbines Discussed in Leer, Germany

    12 November 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    With steady growth of the offshore wind industry in the near and further future, offshore wind turbines reach their age limit or maximum operating duration. The need for repowering of wind turbines is foreseeable and provides the players of the offshore wind industry, politics and business with new challenges. The onshore wind energy shows that […]

  • Last 6MW Turbine Up at Westermost Rough

    30 March 2015
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The last of the 35 turbines was lifted into position by A2SEA’s specialist jack-up vessel Sea Challenger at the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm on Friday, March 27.  Westermost Rough, located off the UK’s East Coast, is the first offshore wind farm to make commercial use of the Siemens 6MW wind turbine. The wind farm is […]

  • Decision Support for OW Turbine Installation Discussed

    10 April 2015
    R&D

    A meeting on the project “Decision support for offshore wind turbine installation” (informally known as DECOFF) has been held at Christian Michelsen Research (CMR) in Bergen. The objective of the project is to develop methods for improved decision support when installing wind turbines offshore, where the cost to a large degree is driven by waiting for […]

  • Wind Turbine Innovation: Blades? How about No?

    22 May 2015
    R&D, Technology

    In the last couple of days, a wind energy innovation has attracted so much attention that it has not gone unnoticed on Offshore WIND either, even though it involves only small-scale wind. Vortex Bladeless, a Spanish start-up, has developed a bladeless wind turbine and is set to launch its crowdfunding campaign on June 1 to fund part of its commercialization […]

  • UK: A2SEA Installs 1.000th Wind Turbine

    12 June 2013

    Today at the RenewableUK Offshore Wind exhibition in Manchester, A2SEA announced that the company had just installed turbine no. 1,000 in its 12 year history. Turbine no. 1,000 was installed by SEA JACK at the Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm in the Irish Sea. ”It is a huge achievement for our company and we […]

  • Floating Turbines Receive Boost at RenewableUK’s Event

    12 June 2013
    Authorities

    RenewableUK has heralded new announcements planned today which will bring floating turbines a step closer to UK waters and open up the possibility of further developments. At RenewableUK’s Offshore Wind conference in Manchester, the Crown Estate, the managers of the seabed, will announce a new offshore wind leasing round for innovative structures. This is to […]

  • Senvion Installs Nordsee Ost First Turbine

    1 July 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    Senvion SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group, installed the first offshore turbines for Nordsee Ost last week. The RWE offshore wind farm is located approximately 35 kilometres north of the island of Heligoland and is equipped with a total of 48 model 6.2M126 turbines. Each turbine has a rate power of 6.15 megawatts, enabling it […]

  • Senvion Starts Installation of 6.2M152 Wind Turbine

    26 March 2014

    Senvion SE has started to install the prototype of its new 6.2M152. With this turbine, the company is setting new standards for efficient electricity generation in offshore wind farms. In a first step, the access routes to the Langen-Neuenwalde location (20 km north of Bremerhaven) are being built. The turbine is scheduled to begin operations at the end […]

  • Gamesa Certifies Its 5MW Wind Turbine

    10 March 2014
    Technology

    Gamesa has secured type certification for its first offshore wind turbine, the G128-5.0 MW Offshore, from DNV-GL, an accredited independent body. This milestone completes the process of certifying the company’s first offshore product – in less than seven months – and constitutes an endorsement for the platform’s technology that in turn bolsters the marketing and […]

  • MHI Vestas Planning 10 MW Turbine?

    11 July 2014
    Authorities

    Vestas revealed it is planning to test what could be the world’s largest offshore wind turbine. In papers submitted to the local government, the Danish wind turbine developer wrote it wants to test wind turbines of up to 10 MW in the waters west of Jutland. According to Reuters, Vestas said it has no immediate […]

  • Marine Current Turbines’ Director Leaves Position

    7 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    After 10 years’ service with the leading tidal developer Marine Current Turbines Ltd, a Siemens Business (MCT) David Ainsworth will now join Kite Power Solutions Ltd. Prior to joining MCT David spent 8 years as part of the management team building Bowman Power Systems, who at that time were developing compact gas turbine cogeneration systems […]

  • Photo of the Day: DanTysk’s First Turbines Erected

    18 April 2014
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: first turbines installed at Vattenfall’s DanTysk offshore wind farm. At the beginning of April, Vattenfall commenced the installation of wind turbines at its DanTysk offshore wind farm site. Now, a couple of them are up and waiting to fulfill their duty of powering up homes with clean energy. The […]

  • VIDEO: World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbine

    1 April 2014
    Technology

    As the MHI Vestas Offshore Wind joint venture has been formally established as of today, the newborn company released a video (see below) on their main focus, the 8 MW wind turbine. The joint venture is in charge of development and supply of the V164-8.0 offshore wind turbines. The two companies announced the establishment of […]

  • Siemens 7MW Turbine to Be Tested Off Denmark

    10 February 2016
    R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Nissum Bredning Vindmøllelaug has submitted the winning bid to the Danish Energy Agency’s (DEA) call for the construction of a pilot project for new offshore wind technology. According to DEA, the 28MW project “Testbed for new technologies and integrated design” proposed by Nissum Bredning Vindmøllelaug contains important experimental elements for future offshore wind technology with both high development potential and […]

  • Tocardo Installs Turbines at Eastern Scheldt Project

    25 September 2015

    Tocardo Tidal Turbines has installed five tidal turbines in the Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier (Oosterschelde barrier) to generate clean energy. This installation is the largest tidal energy project in the Netherlands as well as the world’s largest commercial tidal installation of five turbines in an array. Taking into account the water levels, the tides […]

  • Sandbank Partners Streamlining Turbine Installation Process

    30 May 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München (SWM), together with project partner Siemens, have developed an optimised concept for constructing and commissioning the 72 wind turbines for the 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm which is expected to cut the time between erecting the first wind turbine and commissioning the last one to around 89 days, a 23% reduction compared […]

  • VIDEO: Alstom’s Offshore Wind Turbine Factories

    28 January 2013

    Last week, Alstom launched construction works of its first two offshore wind turbine factories in Saint-Nazaire, France. The plants will be entirely devoted to assembling nacelles and manufacturing generators for the 6 MW Haliade 150 offshore wind turbine. Check out the artist impression of the plants in this video: [mappress] Offshore WIND Staff, January 28, […]

  • Germany: Sway Turbine Unveils ST10 Features

    23 October 2012
    Technology

    The Norwegian technology company Sway Turbine has developed an eye-catching 10MW offshore wind turbine, named the ST10. The unique features of this turbine are now presented for the first time. Sway Turbine’s CTO Mr. Eystein Borgen has presented the ST10 turbine at the 3rd International Conference on Drivetrain Concepts for Wind Turbines in Bremen, Germany. […]

  • Sway Turbine to Present ST10 in Bremen, Germany

    16 October 2012
    Technology

    Sway Turbine’s CTO Eystein Borgen will present the ST10 Turbine at the conference to be held in Bremen Germany on the 22nd-24th of October, 2012. In his presentation, Eystein Borgen will cover an overview of the ST10 direct drive turbine. The large diameter generator with ironless stator core, generator and blade rotor integration, weight and […]

  • China Takes Piece of Wind Turbine Market

    15 November 2012

    With one of the fastest growing wind markets in the world, Chinese manufacturers have been quick to step up and meet their country’s rapidly expanding demand for renewable energy – expanding their revenue significantly in the process – states a new report from business intelligence providers GBI Research. In the report, the firm analyses the […]

  • Wind Turbines Sale Decreases in UK, Germany

    17 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    In the first half of the year sales of wind turbines decreased, despite the ambitions of Germany and the UK. This makes obvious the struggle which the offshore wind sector and its financial supporters are facing in reaching the respective countries´ goals. As the financial crisis has spread throughout Europe, banks minimized the loans and […]

  • USA: LEEDCo Changes Wind Turbines Supplier

    16 July 2012

    Since GE has abandoned plans to develop products for the Great Lakes, Lake Erie Energy Development Company, LEEDCo, has switched suppliers, reports WKSU news portal. Namely, Siemens will be supplying turbines for the wind energy project in the Lake Erie instead of GE. Siemens’ wind turbines are smaller than GE’s and are less expensive to […]