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  • In Search of Solid Foundations at Offshore Wind Installation and Maintenance Conference

    11 August 2014

    On 29 October 2014 the Offshore WIND Installation and Maintenance Conference (OWIM) in Amsterdam will be the place to meet the international offshore wind community. The fifth OWIM Conference addresses the multiple challenges associated with solid future industry growth. This year’s conference theme – In search of solid foundations – hints at the cautiousness players in the wind […]

  • Report states how to build a UK offshore wind powerhouse

    30 June 2010
    Training & Education

    · RenewableUK’s ‘Building an Industry’ report released · Government must act now and commit to the £60m offshore wind infrastructure competition to ensure key port infrastructure upgrades will go ahead as a key requirement to attracting manufacturing jobs · Government in conjunction with industry needs to agree a realistic target for delivery if sector is […]

  • New Floating Wind Farm Proposed to Be Built Offshore Italy

    2 March 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Another 30-year concession request has been submitted to one of the local authorities under the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT) for a floating wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our sister site Offshore Energy. You can read the original article by clicking on […]

  • NASA’s Image of the Day: London Array Offshore Wind Farm

    22 January 2014
    R&D, Technology

    NASA Earth Observatory has released an image of the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the London Array, taken from space by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite. The image was captured on April 28, 2013; twenty days after the wind farm became fully operational. In April last year, the London Array […]

  • USA: Maryland Student Risk Arrest in Offshore Wind Protest

    10 April 2012
    Authorities

    On April 9, 2012, three students risked arrest on the steps of the Maryland Statehouse. The students sat down on the steps and held up three Wind Works for Maryland lawn signs, protesting the failure of the state senate to pass the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act. The group’s leader, Johanna Galat stated, “I had […]

  • UK: Norstec Hails Visibility on Strike Price for Offshore Wind

    28 June 2013

    Norstec, offshore renewables industry alliance for Europe’s northern seas, has welcomed visibility on strike price for offshore wind and Government’s call for industry to “get on with it”. The next step will be for Government to publish wider detail around contracts when it publishes its Draft Delivery Plan in July 2013. This enabling framework is […]

  • Great Lakes Offshore Wind Power Project Launching (USA)

    13 October 2010
    R&D

    Lake Erie Alternative Power (LEAP) is supporting the development of the offshore wind industry in the United States focused around the Great Lakes. LEAP has identified this region as one of the most suitable locations for offshore wind development in the United States. LEAP is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of […]

  • UK: DECC’s Consent Step Forward for Offshore Wind Industry

    6 July 2012
    Wind Farm Update

    Dudgeon Offshore Wind Limited (DOW), a subsidiary of Warwick Energy Limited, has today received all necessary consents required to build and operate the offshore works needed for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm (Dudgeon) project.  The consents were issued by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1990, in […]

  • Dogger Bank Wind Farm Attracts Coastal Investments (UK)

    26 July 2011
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Scarborough Council says years of work to capitalise on an unprecedented period of economic opportunity with the arrival of the world’s largest wind farm is now paying off, with a host of companies focusing “serious inward investment” on the North Yorkshire coast. The announcement comes following top-level talks between Scarborough Council chiefs and Yorkshire and […]

  • Belgium: OWA Names First Maintenance Vessels for Wind Farms

    9 November 2012

    Amongst great public interest, the vessels ‘Aquata’ and ‘Arista’ were named at the port of Ostend. Ms Evi Van Acker, Belgian sailor and bronze medal winner at the London 2012 Olympics, accepted to be godmother to the ‘Arista’. Mrs Sabine Cartrysse, spouse of Mr Kris Vanmassenhove, accepted to be godmother to the ‘Aquata’. The christening […]

  • Van Oord Takes Stake in Estonian Offshore Wind Developer

    20 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has acquired a stake in the Estonian offshore wind developer Saare Wind Energy. Saare Wind Energy is developing the Saaremaa offshore wind farm at an area covering up to 200 square kilometres south-west of the Estonian island Saaremaa. The area could facilitate an offshore wind farm of over 1,000 MW. The development of […]

  • K2 Management to Develop Global Offshore Wind Installation Database

    24 April 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D

    The U.S. Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has engaged K2 Management to build a global installation database for offshore wind. The objective is to provide NREL and thereby the US wind industry with easy accessible data on installation times, correlation effects, implications and processes to secure use of best practice and avoid delays […]

  • Wind Turbine Opposition Vow to Defeat Liberal Candidates (Canada)

    3 June 2011
    Authorities

    Opponents of wind energy will be out to defeat Liberal candidates in October’s provincial election, vows the head of an anti-wind lobby … By John Spears (thestar) [mappress] Source: thestar, June 03, 2011;

  • Trident Winds Eyes Floating Turbines Offshore Morro Bay

    16 September 2015

    A wind energy company has reached out to the owners of shuttered power plant in Morro Bay as well to the city over the use of their facilities for its renewable energy project. Namely, Trident Winds LLC, is considering building a project comprising 100 floating turbines offshore Morro Bay. The company plans running export cables […]

  • Ørsted Hires Taylor Hopkinson for German Offshore Wind Couple

    30 March 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Ørsted has awarded Taylor Hopkinson with a framework agreement to supply contract personnel for its Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind projects in Germany. Under the deal, Taylor Hopkinson will provide personnel across a broad range of roles within the allocated lots, from construction, engineering and O&M to project management and commissioning. […]

  • Ørsted and POSCO Form Offshore Wind and Hydrogen Pact in Korea

    27 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted and POSCO Group, one of the largest conglomerates in Korea, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen collaboration on offshore wind and renewable hydrogen in Korea. POSCO and its affiliates will apply the group’s joint capabilities to support the development of Ørsted’s 1.6 GW offshore wind projects off the coast of Incheon […]

  • Germany Raises 2030 Offshore Wind Target to 20 GW

    12 May 2020
    Authorities

    German federal government, the coastal states, and the transmission system operators have signed a joint agreement to raise Germany’s offshore wind capacity target from 15 GW to 20 GW by 2030. Following the meeting of the energy ministers last week, the final work on the agreement has now been completed. With the agreement, all parties […]

  • Developer Cancels Offshore Wind Project over Turbine Size

    9 December 2021
    Authorities, Environment, Wind Farm Update

    A Denmark-based developer has decided to cancel an offshore wind project after not managing to find a turbine model that would fit the project’s original design parameters. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our sister site Offshore Energy. You can read the original article by clicking on the link below:

  • Lower Offshore Wind Availability Hits Vattenfall’s Q1 Results

    29 April 2021
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall reported a lower earnings contribution from its Wind operating segment in the first quarter of the year, which stood at SEK 400 million (approx. EUR 39.5 million), mainly due to lower wind speeds and lower availability of offshore wind. The company posted a 11 per cent net sales decrease in the first quarter of […]

  • UK: Enventi Completes Analysis of Offshore Wind Cable Installation

    8 May 2012
    Grid Connection

    Enventi announces the completion of its comprehensive investigation into power cable installation in the offshore wind industry which forms part of the company’s strategic move into the design of offshore wind farm infrastructure. Enventi’s General Manager, Scott Macknocher commented on the findings: “Until now, we have found it difficult to understand why power cable installation […]

  • First Foundation Stands at World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    26 July 2022
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Installation of the 277 wind turbine foundations has started on the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm which is being developed 130 kilometres off the Yorkshire coast, the UK. The campaign to install turbine foundations at what will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm has commenced in recent days, with the installation of the […]

  • Japan Achieves 153.5 MW of Offshore Wind Capacity in 2023

    8 February 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Industry, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    Japan has added 572.3 MW of new wind capacity in 2023, resulting in a total operational wind energy capacity of 5,213.4 MW for the first time, according to preliminary data published by the Japan Wind Power Association (JWPA). As for offshore wind, the country had 153.5 MW of installed capacity at the end of last […]

  • A2SEA Takes Part in Danish Wind Industry Annual Event

    26 March 2014

    A2SEA is participating at this year’s Danish Wind Industry Annual Event 2014 taking place in Messecenter Herning, Denmark. The event is designed to accommodate the global interest for the companies in the Danish wind industry. This year the program has been strengthened, as the Danish Research Consortium for Wind Energy is co-organizer. This has led to an […]

  • LEEDCo to Design Offshore Wind Foundations Optimized for Fabrication in U.S.

    18 December 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) announced today that it is leading an international engineering team to design an offshore wind turbine foundation optimized for fabrication in the United States. The design will catalyze domestic manufacturing growth by removing barriers to entry faced by U.S.-based steel fabricators that want to supply foundations for the […]

  • Two First Flight Wind’s Marker Buoys Drift Away

    11 December 2013
    Technology

    Two of four cardinal buoys, which were deployed within the Northern Irish Wind Resource Zone as part of an offshore wind project, have drifted away from their positions. Fugro EMU Limited has been commissioned by First Flight Wind Limited to install and maintain two MetOcean wave monitoring buoys, four accompanying markers, and two seabed frames […]

  • UK: SNP MSP Responds to Offshore Wind Sector Attack

    10 August 2012

    Scottish MEP Struan Stevenson’s recent attack on offshore wind energy sector has been categorised as an attack on jobs and investment by the SNP MSP John Wilson, who is the deputy convener of the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee. Namely, yesterday at a meeting organised by Communities Against Turbines Scotland (CATS) in Girvan, Ayrshire, Mr […]