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  • EWEA Livestream: The Place of Wind Energy in COP21

    17 November 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has organized a session titled The Place of Wind Energy in COP21 at its annual conference held in Paris. The session is co-ordinated by the French Wind Energy Association (FEE), and dedicated to discuss the place of wind energy in the current climate change negotiations concluding at COP 21 […]

  • India Drafts Wind Turbine Certification Scheme

    13 November 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), in consultation with the National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE), has prepared a draft certification scheme incorporating guidelines for wind turbines.

  • 34 Wind Turbines Up at Veja Mate

    27 March 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Two and a half months ahead of schedule, Veja Mate has reached the halfway installation milestone with 34 of the total 67 wind turbines now installed.

  • New Capacity Lifts Vattenfall’s Wind Numbers

    19 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    Swedish energy company Vattenfall has reported an 18.4 percent increase in wind power generation in the first half of 2019 compared to the same period a year earlier, mainly due to the addition of new capacity. During the last twelve months, Vattenfall has commissioned the 97MW Aberdeen Bay (EOWDC) offshore wind farm in Scotland, the […]

  • Sif and IX Wind Form Taiwan Connection

    21 September 2018
    Business & Finance

    Dutch offshore foundation manufacturer Sif and compatriot consultancy and engineering company IX Wind have established a partnership under which IX will be supporting Sif in their deployment in Taiwan from September 2018 onward.

  • HCT Looking to Cash In on Booming Offshore Wind

    23 October 2015

    As the Dutch offshore wind market is developing, domestic ports and terminals are preparing to take advantage of the booming industry. One such terminal is Holland Cargo Terminal (HCT), currently involved in one of the ongoing offshore wind projects in the Netherlands. The terminal serves as an assembly site for the components of wind turbines […]

  • ESB Seeks Wind and Metocean Measurement Teams

    13 January 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has issued a contract notice for a qualification system for offshore wind resource and metocean measurement campaigns on sites off the coast of Ireland and the UK. The wind measurement and metocean data will be utilized to enable offshore structures to be designed against both extreme and fatigue loading conditions […]

  • Netherlands Overshoots 2023 Offshore Wind Target

    23 October 2023
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting

    The Netherlands will reach, and exceed, the target set in its Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap 2023 by the end of this year. The country’s first offshore wind roadmap, created following the Dutch Energy Agreement signed ten years ago, sets a goal of 4.5 GW of installed capacity by the end of 2023 – and the […]

  • Ørsted Wants In On Polish Offshore Wind Action

    23 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna S.A. (PGE) and Ørsted have decided to commence discussions regarding the sale of a 50% stake in two offshore wind farm projects in the Polish Baltic Sea with a total capacity of up to 2.5GW and the cooperation terms for their development. The subject of discussions will be a sale of […]

  • Global Offshore Wind Portfolio Tops 100GW

    19 June 2018

    The portfolio of global offshore wind projects in operation, under construction or in development grew by over 10% in the last year, according to new data from RenewableUK’s Offshore Wind Project Intelligence.

  • UK’s Offshore Wind Capacity Exceeds 5GW

    22 June 2015

    RenewableUK, the trade association for the wind and marine energy industries, is highlighting the fact that 5.054GW is now installed in UK waters, which is a significant milestone in the sector. The threshold was crossed when Gwynt y Mor wind farm, off the coast of North Wales, was officially inaugurated last week. The wind farm […]

  • Siemens Turbines Rule Offshore Wind in 2015

    22 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) annual rankings, Siemens was the number one offshore wind turbine manufacturer last year by a wide margin. The company commissioned 2.6GW in 2015, more than four times the second-ranked Adwen, a joint venture between Gamesa and Areva, BNEF said. Offshore wind statistics published by EWEA have also shown Siemens’ […]

  • Houlder’s TAS on Trial at Thanet Wind Farm

    30 June 2014
    Technology

    Houlder’s TAS (Turbine Access System) has taken a step closer to meeting operator requirements by completing a trial period within the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme on the Vattenfall’s Thanet Offshore Wind Farm, Kent. The system has been installed on CWind’s Coastal Knight 20t composite crew transfer vessel throughout June 2014. During this […]

  • Sweden Nixes Vattenfall’s Offshore Wind Project

    27 July 2023
    Authorities, Environment, Wind Farm Update

    The government of Sweden has rejected Vattenfall’s application to build an offshore wind farm at Stora Middelgrund off Sweden’s west coast, citing ”negative effects on the environment” and ”national interests” as the reasons for the decision. The Swedish government will not grant Vattenfall permission to build and operate the wind farm located offshore Halmstad, saying […]

  • Dutch Industrial Park to Run on Offshore Wind

    8 February 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    USG Industrial Utilities (USG) has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Eneco for a portion of electricity generated at the Fryslân wind farm located in lake IJsselmeer, the Netherlands. Starting January 2022, some 350 GWh of electricity generated at the Fryslân wind farm will be supplied to USG each year to power Chemelot industrial […]

  • Lithuanian Government Adopts Offshore Wind Rules

    4 August 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The government of Lithuania has approved the conclusion of the country’s Ministry of Energy which should allow for better conditions for the development of offshore wind energy in the Baltic Sea. The legislation sets out the proposals which are mainly related to the terms of the future tender and the limits of the responsibilities of […]

  • Taiwanese Consortium Sets Sights on Offshore Wind

    11 November 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Training & Education

    A consortium led by shipbuilder CSBC Corp. has launched a strategic alliance aimed at helping Taiwan reach 520MW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2020 and 3GW of installed capacity by 2025, the state-run Taiwan Today reports. The public-private consortium includes government-backed enterprises and research bodies such as the Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan Power Co. and China Steel Corp., as […]

  • Eversendai Bags Two Offshore Wind Contracts

    1 June 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Petrofac has awarded the Dubai-based Eversendai Offshore with two substantial contracts for the offshore wind-related projects in the Netherlands and in Scotland, UK. Eversendai Offshore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysia’s Eversendai Corporation Berhad, will fabricate and construct a jacket foundation and the accompanying piles for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Beta substation platform to be […]

  • Connecticut Releases Draft Offshore Wind RFP

    3 July 2019
    Authorities

    The Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) and the Bureau of Energy Technology Policy have issued a Draft Request for Proposals (RFP) for up to 2,000MW of offshore wind energy. The RFP comes as Connecticut’s Governor Ned Lamont signed into law the House Bill 7156, An Act Concerning the Procurement of Energy Derived From Offshore […]

  • Suzlon Welcomes India’s Offshore Wind Step

    11 September 2015

    Shri Tulsi Tanti chairman of Suzlon has welcomed a recent approval of India’s National Offshore Wind Energy Policy by commenting. “The approval on the national off-shore wind energy policy marks an epoch in India’s renewable energy history. It once again demonstrates the government’s thrust and serious action towards harnessing the renewable energy potential of our nation. Also, it […]

  • UK Adds 2GW of Offshore Wind in 2018

    17 December 2018

    The UK is marking a record this year as it added more than 2GW of offshore wind capacity to the grid, which can produce enough clean electricity to power over 2,300,000 households per year. 

  • Germany: Wind Power Spine of Energy Transition

    24 April 2015

    On the occasion of tomorrow’s day of renewable energy in Germany, German Wind Energy Association (BWE) issued a press release today, saying that the country has already secured nearly 30 percent of renewables in national power demand and that wind energy, which makes 10 percent, is the main driver of the energy transition.  Hermann Albers, President of BWE […]

  • 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 […]

  • NCSU Studies Offshore Wind’s Impact on Tourism

    7 April 2016
    R&D

    Wind turbines that could be spinning off the coast of North Carolina in the future would affect the state’s tourism, despite the fact that people generally support wind energy as a clean source of power. According to a study by economists at North Carolina State University (NCSU), nearshore wind farms are likely to negatively impact […]

  • Finnish Offshore Wind Project Digs Deep 

    11 October 2023
    Business development, Research & Development

    Suomen Hyötytuuli has made seabed test excavations at a depth of 43 metres, deeper than ever before in Finland, at the Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm expansion project site, said the developer. The Tahkoluoto demonstration project wind turbines will be placed in waters deeper than ever before in Finland, according to the developer. The dense moraine […]

  • Disinformation Methods of Anti-Wind Groups (USA)

    28 February 2011

    Wind energy ought to be a shoo-in. Yes, the infrastructure costs a lot of money but the fuel is free and plentiful, turbines produce no… By Andrea McDowell (this) [mappress] Source: this, February 28, 2011