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  • Offshore WIND Vessel Directory 2016 Looking For a ‘Cover Girl’

    15 April 2016
    Vessels

    The offshore wind industry will have a new reference directory at Seawork International in June: the Offshore WIND Vessel Directory 2016. This third edition of the directory offers an updated overview of available vessels in the market, including a new category: the Multicat work boats. For this third edition of the vessel directory we are […]

  • Avanti Joins Beijing International Wind Power Exhibition (China)

    7 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    China has the most important marked for wind industry in the world. During the last five years, the Chinese wind power industry has doubled its capacity every year. Therefore, the Beijing International Wind Power Exhibition has grown year by year. A few years ago it was in a sports hall – this year there were […]

  • The Netherlands: Groningen Seaports to Further Develop Beatrixhaven for Offshore Wind

    19 July 2013
    Operations & Maintenance

    Groningen Seaports plans to construct the west side quay of the Beatrixhaven, which will be used for purposes of the offshore wind industry. The offshore terminal, which is also referred to as Beatrixhaven Quay, Stage 5, will be used for storage of construction elements of wind turbines and a loading dock for goods. The quay […]

  • BZEE to Hold Service Technician for Wind Turbines Course in Husum

    13 May 2014
    Training & Education

    From September the 8th 2014 to December the 5th 2014 BZEE will run the first English language Service Technician for Wind Turbines course in Husum, Germany. Course contents: – Fundamentals of wind energy technology – Work safety – First aid – Working at heights and rescue training – Wind turbine electronics, mechanics and hydraulics – […]

  • Fraunhofer IWES to Test Soil in German Offshore Wind Zones

    9 April 2018
    Environment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has selected Fraunhofer IWES, among others, to conduct the preliminary assessment of soil conditions in the first bidding round for new offshore wind farm zones in the North and Baltic Sea. Fraunhofer IWES said it will conduct multichannel seismic measuring, which, in combination with isolated findings from geological […]

  • Seaway7 to Wire Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm

    30 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Supply Chain

    Ørsted has awarded Seaway7, part of the Subsea7 Group, a contract for the transport and installation (T&I) of the inter-array cables at the Hornsea 3 offshore wind project in the UK. Seaway7’s scope of work covers the transportation and installation of 192 66 kV inter-array cables, measuring approximately 500 kilometres in length, with offshore activities […]

  • Rotech Wraps Up IRM at North Sea Wind Farm

    17 June 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Rotech Subsea Ltd. has completed a three-phase inspection, repair, and maintenance (IRM) scope at an offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Rotech mobilized its TRS1 Controlled Flow Excavation (CFE) tool to carry out cable de-burial and retrenching at the project, while also deploying its new RSG1 cable grab tool. According to the company, the work was conducted […]

  • RNLI Answers Wind Farm Support Vessel SOS Call

    15 August 2019
    Vessels

    The Harwich RNLI Lifeboat Station assisted a wind farm support vessel which started catching fire on 13 August offshore the UK coast. According to the Harwich RNLI, just before 9 a.m. local time, a lifeboat was launched to help a wind farm support vessel due to smoke caused by an engine failure. The three-person crew […]

  • Offshore Wind Cost Reductions Achievable, Says JIP WiFi

    15 October 2013
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Wind turbines at sea could be much cheaper. The members of the Joint Industry Project ‘Wave Impact on Fixed turbine’ (JIP WiFi) are convinced that cost reductions are achievable. The design rules currently used to determine the impact of breaking waves on the turbines are very conservative. The thinking is that improving design guidelines and […]

  • Developers Join Forces on EIA for Offshore Wind Area in Japan

    28 December 2021
    Authorities, Environment, R&D

    Twenty companies looking to build wind farms off the town of Yuza in Japan’s Yamagata Prefecture have been asked by the Prefecture to consolidate their Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) documents as much as possible and the developers are now streamlining their efforts through a consortium established solely for this purpose. The prefectural authorities have requested […]

  • BOEM to Talk Gulf of Maine Offshore Wind Next Month

    29 April 2022
    Authorities

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) plans to hold the next Gulf of Maine Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force meeting on 19 May as part of the agency’s work on refining the process for identifying a Wind Energy Area in the Gulf of Maine that is suitable for leasing. The meeting will focus on […]

  • Wison Receives Offshore Wind Farm Installation Vessel Order

    25 May 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Shanghai-headquartered Wison Offshore & Marine has won a contract from China’s Shandong Lankun Offshore Engineering for the construction of an offshore wind farm installation vessel that will be able to handle offshore wind turbines of up to 16 MW. Under the contract, Wison Nantong Heavy Industry, a subsidiary of Wison Offshore Engineering, will provide engineering, […]

  • MO4 and Seaqualize Take Home Offshore Wind Innovation Awards

    12 December 2019
    R&D, Technology

    MO4 and Seaqualize have been declared winners of the Offshore Wind Innovation Award 2019, Offshore Wind Innovators said. During the Q-meeting of Van Oord and Siemens Gamesa, the audience of 240 wind energy professionals awarded Seaqualize with the public prize. The prize of the professional jury went to MO4. MO4 has developed a software that […]

  • AIS Prepping Deep Ocean Crew for Offshore Wind Work

    2 February 2017
    Grid Connection, Training & Education

    AIS Training has secured a contract with offshore cable installation contractor, DeepOcean, to upskill its workers as the company prepares to deliver several new offshore wind contracts. The scope of the contract will see AIS train up to 100 of DeepOcean’s workers in mandatory global wind qualifications at its industrial training village in North Shields, which […]

  • Britain leads the development of Europe’s Offshore Wind Energy market

    6 July 2010
    R&D

    British projects will lead the offshore wind energy market for the next eight years. This conclusion is drawn by GL Garrad Hassan in the new edition of their “Offshore Wind Energy Market Report”. Development of offshore wind will be strong in further Northern European markets such as Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden. The report […]

  • Vineyard Wind Submits Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Report

    5 September 2018
    Authorities, Environment, Wind Farm Update

    US offshore wind developer Vineyard Wind has submitted a Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Report (SDEIR) to the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Office (MEPA) for the 800MW Vineyard Wind project offshore Massachusetts.

  • Denmark: All Anholt’s Wind Turbine Positions Connected to Substation

    17 December 2012
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    On 6 July 2012, Nexans started connecting the connecting cables which the vessels Stemat 82 and Toisa Wave were laying on the seabed between the substation and the 111 foundations during summer 2012. Only six months after – on 5 December 2012 – Nexans had completed the work after having connected the last cable string […]

  • Offshore Construction Starts on World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    28 March 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Offshore construction has started on Dogger Bank A, the first of the three 1.2 GW phases of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the world’s largest offshore wind farm under construction. The offshore works are kicking off with a geophysical pre-lay survey along the Dogger Bank Aexport cable corridor in the Southern North Sea […]

  • Full Offshore Substation Package Sought for French Wind Farm

    18 November 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    French transmission system operator RTE Réseau de Transport d’Electricité has issued a contract notice for the construction, delivery, and subsequent operations and maintenance of an offshore substation that will deliver electricity from the Dunkirk offshore wind farm to the grid. The procurement process aims at awarding one single awardee with two contracts. One EPCIC contract […]

  • Multi-Turbine Floating Wind Catcher Attracts Strategic Partner

    10 June 2022
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Wind Catching Systems AS (WCS), the Norwegian developer of a floating wind system using multiple turbines, has completed a Series A investment round of up to USD 10 million led by the venture capital arm of an undisclosed global industrial company. The proceeds from the Series A financing will be used to fund the development […]

  • ABB HVDC Gear for World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    30 October 2019
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    ABB has secured a contract to supply its high-voltage direct current (HVDC) Light® converter systems to connect the Dogger Bank offshore wind project to the UK transmission network. In the first-ever use of the HVDC technology in the UK’s offshore wind market, ABB will supply technology with one of the smallest environmental footprints, due to the […]

  • Sunly Homeports Its Offshore Wind Plans at Port of Tallinn

    8 July 2022
    Ports & Logistics

    Estonian renewable energy developer, Sunly, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Port of Tallinn on realising its offshore wind projects in the Baltic States by using Port of Tallinn-owned harbours to build and maintain its planned wind farms offshore Estonia, as well as Latvia and Lithuania. Sunly is developing offshore wind projects west […]

  • Scotland Allocates GBP 1.5 Million for Offshore Wind Projects

    20 June 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D

    The Scottish Government has awarded GBP 1.5 million (approx. EUR 2 million) of funding to the Carbon Trust to support its Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) research and design programme. The Carbon Trust will fund projects in regard to floating offshore wind technology in Scotland, international collaboration on efficiency of Scottish offshore wind projects, and knowledge sharing on innovation and […]

  • iPad Helps Siemens’ Wind Turbine Technicians Transform the Industry

    17 December 2013
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Wind turbine technicians at Siemens Energy-Wind Service are working to help transform the wind energy industry. “Our technicians really believe in what they’re doing,” says Jennifer Dillon, Siemens manager of business improvement. “They’re on the front line, and they’re helping to change the way energy is generated.” And iPad is changing the way they do […]

  • Shell Makes Case for 20GW of Dutch Offshore Wind by 2030

    13 April 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    Oil and gas major Royal Dutch Shell has called on the government in the Netherlands to increase its target for installed offshore wind capacity by 2030 to 20 gigawatts, Reuters reports.

  • Floating Wind Joint Industry Project Opens New Tenders

    5 January 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Grid Connection, R&D

    The Carbon Trust-led Floating Wind Joint Industry Project (JIP) has opened tenders for monitoring and inspection, as well as for dynamic export cable development.