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  • Siemens Cuts Ribbon at Hull Wind Turbine Blade Factory

    30 November 2016

    Today, Siemens officially opened its wind turbine blade manufacturing plant in Hull. The factory has been delivered ahead of programme and within budget, according to the company. For the occasion of the official launch, Siemens unveiled a 75m blade, the first of hundreds to be manufactured at its Hull factory. The opening ceremony is marked with a visit from […]

  • Innogy Sends Drone to Inspect Nordsee Ost Turbine Blades

    10 February 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    At the end of the last month, innogy sent a drone to inspect the blades on a turbine at the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm for the first time.

  • Pontoon Loaded with OW Turbine Parts Sinks Off Germany

    15 August 2014

    A pontoon loaded with parts for offshore wind turbines sank on Wednesday morning (August 13) in the Baltic Sea, German media informs. Divers are currently investigating the underwater area in front of the cape Darß where the large floating pontoon sank. They will examine whether the pontoon lays flat or upright and whether the cargo […]

  • Westermost Rough OWF: First 6MW Turbine Standing Up

    15 August 2014
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The first of 35 Siemens 6MW turbines has been successfully erected at the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm. The Westermost Rough offshore wind farm marks the first time that the next generation Siemens 6MW turbine will be used on a commercial scale – an important step on DONG Energy’s cost of energy reduction strategy. The […]

  • CS Wind Nabs Funding for Turbine Tower Facility in Humber

    13 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    South Korean CS Wind Corporation has been awarded Regional Growth Funding from the UK Government Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) to build an offshore wind tower manufacturing facility in the Humber, UK. However, the company will not start the construction of what would be first factory to commercially produce offshore wind turbines prior […]

  • Ming Yang’s 6MW Second Best Offshore Wind Turbine

    8 January 2015
    Technology

    China Ming Yang Wind Power (Ming Yang) has announced that its 6.0MW Super Compact Drive (SCD) wind turbine generator has won the silver award for the Best Offshore Wind Turbines in the Windpower Monthly Turbines of the Year Awards 2014. The wind turbine generators winning the Windpower Monthly Awards were assessed for the quality of design […]

  • Dong Selects Siemens’ Turbines for 2nd Phase of Walney Extension

    12 March 2015

    Dong Energy has chosen Siemens as preferred supplier for delivery of their 7.0MW wind turbine for the second phase of the Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm. The second phase of the Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm will have a total capacity of 330MW. Mats Vikholm, Senior Vice President for Dong Energy Wind Power, said: “The […]

  • Siemens Tops 1GW in Turbines Installed off German Coasts

    1 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Siemens has supplied, installed and commissioned 80 wind turbines for the 288-megawatt DanTysk offshore wind farm, which was officially inaugurated yesterday. The installed capacity of all Siemens wind turbines in German waters is now more than 1 gigawatt. Around 300 wind turbines installed across eight projects contribute to this milestone, the company said. In addition to this, […]

  • Belgium: Pacific Osprey to Deploy 6MW Turbine at Belwind OWF

    13 June 2013

    In the first half of July, the Pacific Osprey, operated by Swire Blue Ocean will bring the 6MW haliade of Alstom from the REBO-site to the Belwind wind farm. As announced in 2011, Belwind NV, the leading Belgian producer of alternative energy from offshore wind farms made part of its latest wind farm concession site […]

  • UK: Siemens Technology in Oceanflow’s Semi-Submersible Turbine Design

    31 July 2013

    Oceanflow Energy’s Evopod is a tidal turbine with a difference. A semi-submersible turbine design, it has shown excellent seakeeping performance in tests, and it incorporates Siemens gear and inverter units. As a floating, tethered device, it has lower deployment costs than seabed mounted devices, and it is claimed to impose less disturbance on sensitive seabed […]

  • UK: Alstom’s 1MW Tidal Turbine Generates Power at EMEC

    4 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Following its recent acquisition of Tidal Generation Limited from Rolls-Royce, Alstom’s 1MW tidal turbine generated power for the first time at the European Marine Energy Centre’s (EMEC) tidal test site in Orkney, Scotland. After the successful test of its 500kW device, it is the second Alstom tidal turbine generating power to the grid. This milestone […]

  • Vestas to Supply 43 Offshore Wind Turbines for Dutch Project

    27 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Vestas will supply 43 V112-3.0 MW offshore-turbines for the Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands. Eneco Luchterduinen is owned by Dutch energy company Eneco and Mitsubishi Corporation from Japan. Construction of the project will begin in July 2014. The order with a total capacity of 129 MW includes supply, installation […]

  • Van Oord Sets Out Norther Turbine Installation Timeline

    5 February 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    All of Norther wind farm’s 44 turbines are expected to be installed in the Belgian North Sea by late April, Van Oord, the project’s Balance of Plant contractor, said. Van Oord’s installation vessel Aeolus started installing the first batch of MHI Vestas 8.4MW wind turbines at the site some 23 kilometres offshore Zeebrugge over the […]

  • Mingyang Delivers First Turbine for Guangdong Offshore Wind Project

    31 October 2018
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    China’s Mingyang Wind Power has delivered the first MySE5.5/7.0MW semi-direct drive wind turbine platform to be installed on a commercial offshore wind project in Guangdong Province.

  • Siemens Gamesa Tweaks 8MW Turbine for Asia-Pacific Markets

    18 September 2018
    Technology

    Siemens Gamesa has modified its new SG 8.0-167 DD offshore wind turbine to address conditions across the Asia-Pacific region.

  • GMI: Offshore Wind Turbine Market to Top $16b by 2024

    23 August 2018
    R&D

    The offshore wind turbine market is expected to value more than USD 16 billion by 2024, according to the latest report by Global Market Insights, Inc.

  • Welcon to Build 80 Borssele 1+2 Turbine Towers

    26 April 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Gamesa has selected Denmark’s Welcon to manufacture 80 turbine towers for the Borssele 1+2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The towers are scheduled for delivery from mid-November 2019 to mid-June 2020. This order brings Welcon’s order backlog for turbine towers to more than DKK 1 billion, the largest order backlog in the […]

  • South Korean Offshore Wind Turbine Gets Type Certificate

    9 July 2019
    Technology

    South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (DHIC) has received a type certificate for its 5.56MW offshore wind turbine from the international certification agency UL DEWI-OCC. A type certificate is issued after a comprehensive evaluation of the system’s design, performance test of both the parts and the finished product, and evaluation of the related manufacturing […]

  • World’s First Floating Wind Turbine Finds New Calling

    8 January 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, R&D

    Equinor has entered into an agreement with Unitech Offshore for the takeover of its Hywind Demo floating wind turbine in Norway. The turbine will be renamed to UNITECH Zefyros at Hywind Technology from 1 February and will be used as an infrastructure for research and technology projects in Metcentre at Karmøy. In its next phase, the floating turbine will […]

  • Adwen Picks Sentient Science for 8MW Turbine Gearbox Testing

    24 February 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Adwen has signed an agreement with the US-based Sentient Science to validate the drivetrain for the Adwen 8MW offshore wind turbine. Under the terms of the agreement, Sentient Science’s DigitalClone computational testing software will be used to further validate the Adwen 8MW platform drivetrain’s design and standards. Sentient Science says that DigitalClone provides ”an exhaustive and comprehensive validation strategy […]

  • MHI Vestas’ 8MW Turbine Picked for Belgian Norther OWF

    18 February 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Belgian Norther offshore wind project is advancing as the developer selected MHI Vestas Offshore Wind as the preferred supplier of wind turbines. Norther NV, a joint venture between Eneco and Elicio NV, informed this morning that it had appointed MHI Vestas Offshore Wind as its preferred supplier for the V164-8 MW wind turbines and is now negotiating on […]

  • Siemens Picks Houlder to Design Sea Fastenings for Galloper Turbines

    20 May 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Wind Power has awarded UK-based marine engineers, Houlder Ltd, the contract for the design of sea fastenings for the 336MW Galloper wind farm project. The Galloper wind farm construction consists of 56 Siemens 6MW SWT-6.0-154 turbines. Critical to the successful construction of the offshore turbines is the design of sea fastenings work, and for […]

  • US Team Developing Mega Turbines Inspired by Palm Trees

    28 December 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    A US-based team of scientists plans to use a USD 3.56 million grant to develop wind turbines able to protect themselves in severe weather by folding in their rotor blades like palm trees in a hurricane. The team, led by Professor Eric Loth, Chair of the University of Virginia’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will spend the three-year grant […]

  • Report on Global Wind Turbine Industry to 2020 Out Now

    9 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Research and Markets has added the “Global Wind Turbine Industry – Statistics, Small Wind Turbine Market Analysis, Value Chain Analysis & Forecast 2001-2020” report to their offering. Divided into six sections, the report provides an in-depth analysis of the global wind turbine market. The global wind energy industry is analyzed through a market profile and statistics, wind […]

  • Moody’s: Paris Climate Agreement to Boost Wind Turbine Sales

    13 June 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, R&D

    Wind turbine makers are set to benefit from the Paris Climate Agreement (COP21) as the call for increased investments to meet a targeted reduction in CO2 emissions is expected to positively impact their sales figures, according to Moody’s Investors Service. The increased investment, particularly in emerging markets, directed towards renewable energies such as wind and solar energy […]

  • Fraunhofer IKTS Testing EKG Monitor for Offshore Turbine Foundations

    3 March 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Dresden have successfully tested in-house developed sensor rings designed to monitor the condition of wind turbine foundations at offshore wind farms. Working together with staff from Baltic Taucher in Rostock, the researchers successfully demonstrated the viability of the process in an on-site trial […]