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  • Two Accommodation Vessels on Route to German Offshore Wind Projects

    16 August 2013
    Operations & Maintenance

    Comfort-at-Sea – the joint venture between Blue Water Shipping and International Shipping Partners has made an agreement with Areva to deliver two accommodation vessels for wind-projects in the German part of the North Sea. The vessels ‘Ocean Atlantic’ and ‘Sea Discoverer’ will operate on the offshore wind projects Global Tech 1 and Trianel wind farm […]

  • Normand Jarstein to Work on First German Offshore Wind Farm

    27 August 2020
    Vessels

    Solstad Offshore is set to deploy accommodation and walk-to-work vessel Normand Jarstein at the Alpha Ventus offshore wind project in Germany. The vessel, mobilized with an Ampelmann E 1000 motion compensated gangway, is ready to operate for Siemens Gamesa and Adwen on what is the first German offshore wind farm. According to AIS data, Normand […]

  • HeliService Orders Another AW169 Helicopter for Offshore Wind Ops

    13 October 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    HeliService International has ordered another AW169 helicopter for offshore wind farm operations from Leonardo-Finmeccanica. The contract was signed around month and a half after the first AW169 was delivered to support Siemens’ O&M works on the Dutch Gemini offshore wind farm. The new aircraft will be delivered in 2017 and will be used for offshore wind farm support missions in the North Sea. […]

  • Update: Worker On Board Wind Pioneer Injured by Fire Hose

    23 February 2016
    Authorities, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    British and Danish authorities have started an investigation to determine the root cause of the accident in which a worker on board the jack up vessel Wind Pioneer was injured on Saturday, 20 February, while the vessel was carrying out maintenance work at the 172MW Gunfleet Sands offshore wind farm. The injured worker suffered a laceration to […]

  • USD 160 Million Funding Opportunity for Offshore Wind in USA

    10 May 2012

    This Department of Energy’s (DOE) FOA is part of President Obama’s “All-out, All-of-the-Above” energy strategy. This is a six-year, $180 million initiative to help the United States achieve energy independence, with only $20 million of this that has been appropriated for 2012. The focus of this FOA is on the deployment of up to four […]

  • Energy Minister Pushes for Scotland to Become Offshore Wind Hub

    16 April 2012
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    In an interview for Bloomberg, Scotland’s Energy Minister Fergus Ewing announced intention of reducing corporate tax levied by the UK with an aim of bringing more investors in the oil and gas industry and laying foundations for fast-tracked development of offshore wind power. “The budget was difficult for us. Oil and gas producers want stability […]

  • Crowdfunding Campaign Starts for French Floating Offshore Wind Project

    24 May 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Qair, TotalEnergies, and BW Ideol, the partners behind the EolMed project, have launched a new crowdfunding campaign on 12 May targeting EUR 3 million (approximately USD 3.2 million) to finance the 30 MW floating wind farm in the French Mediterranean. Supported by Enerfip, the French crowdfunding platform dedicated to renewables, the campaign is initially running […]

  • Foundation Installation at French Offshore Wind Farm Grinds to a Halt

    15 June 2021
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord’s installation vessel Aeolus has stopped installing the foundation pin piles at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm after experiencing technical issues with the drilling equipment. Van Oord is responsible for the transport and installation of 62 jacket foundations for the wind turbines, three pin piles each, and the four foundation pin piles for the […]

  • The Netherlands: Offshore Wind Creates 2150 Full-Time Jobs

    17 October 2014
    Jobs & Recruitment, Training & Education

    In a study released yesterday, Ecofys  assessed the economic impact of Dutch offshore wind energy. Commissioned by the Dutch Top consortium Knowledge and Innovation Offshore Wind Energy (TKI-WoZ), the study finds that offshore wind energy has so far created 2150 full-time jobs and generated a turnover of 900 million euro in 2014. The ambition of […]

  • Six Companies Plan Large Offshore Wind Investment in Japan

    5 September 2012

    Six Japanese companies plan to invest GBP 962 million in offshore wind projects at the coastal area of the Kyushu region in the southern part of the country. According to GT Global Trader news site, Toshiba Corp, Hitachi Zosen Corp, JFE Steel Corp, Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd, Toa Corp and Toyo Construction Co. Ltd. will […]

  • UK Government Backs ERM’s Floating Wind-to-Hydrogen Project

    19 May 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Technology

    Environmental Resources Management (ERM) has been awarded GBP 8.6 million (EUR 10.1 million) in funding from the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio Low Carbon Hydrogen Supply 2 fund by the UK government for the ERM Dolpyn floating wind-to-hydrogen project. The funding will be used for offshore demonstration trials to evaluate systems during 2023 which will produce […]

  • Maine Getting USD 2 Million Offshore Wind Support

    2 October 2020
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    U.S. Department of Commerce is awarding a USD 2.166 million grant to support the development of the offshore wind industry in Maine. The grant, awarded by the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), will be used to develop a roadmap for establishing an offshore wind industry in this U.S. state. This will be matched with USD […]

  • 300 MW Chinese Offshore Wind Farm Connects to the Grid

    8 April 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The 300 MW Zhuhai Golden Bay offshore wind farm in China has been fully connected to the grid. The project comprises 55 MingYang MySE5.5MW turbines, which can survive a super typhoon of 17th grade, the turbine supplier said. MingYang added that it had delivered all the turbines in a record-breaking 5 months despite Covid-related challenges. […]

  • USA: UMaine Submits Bid for Floating Offshore Wind Project

    4 September 2013
    Authorities

    The University of Maine submitted a bid for its floating offshore wind project to the Maine Public Utilities (PUC) on August 30, the Bangor Daily News writes. Details of the bid remain undisclosed, because the PUC is obliged to protect confidential commercial information. However, university spokeswoman Margaret Nagle says that the University believes this to […]

  • Fugro Secures Second Offshore Wind Farm Trenching Contract

    3 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    In the last few days, Fugro secured two contracts to perform cable burial and survey operations at two wind farm sites in the UK. Beside the recently announced contract for CT Offshore at RWE Innogy’s Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm off the North Wales coast, the company announced that it had won a second […]

  • Offshore Wind Farms Bringing Faster Internet to North Norfolk?

    18 April 2018
    Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall and community broadband group Better Broadband are investigating ways in which the proposed Norfolk Vanguard and Norfolk Boreas offshore wind projects could bring broadband improvements in North Norfolk, UK.

  • Ex-Coal Power Plant Starts Offshore Wind Makeover

    12 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    Commercial Development Company (CDC) is rebranding the retired coal-fired power plant Brayton Point Power Station in Massachusetts, U.S., to a support center for the offshore wind industry. 

  • Taiwan Move to Spark Offshore Wind Activities in Asia Pacific

    2 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Taiwanese government’s award of grid connection capacity to a total of over 3.8GW of offshore wind projects on 30 April will have a positive impact on other offshore wind markets in Asia, according to a partner at the law firm Hogan Lovells. 

  • BizMDOSW Wraps Up Meeting with European Offshore Wind Experts

    19 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Representatives of over 250 of the world’s most experienced offshore wind companies attended the Business Network for Maryland Offshore Wind’s (BizMDOSW) International Offshore Partnering Forum in Baltimore from November 12-14, 2014. This 3-day gathering of European and American business executives, government officials, technical experts and academics consisted of over 18 separate workshops and 88 speakers. […]

  • SgurrEnergy to Stay at Merkur Offshore Wind Farm Until 2028

    23 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    SgurrEnergy has secured a 12-year construction and operational monitoring contract for 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, for which the new financing structure was put in place this month. The scope of the contract includes monitoring of construction works and the financial and operational performance of the project to provide regular reporting […]

  • UK: OGN Aims at Becoming Large Offshore Wind Player

    8 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    Offshore Group Newcastle Ltd. (OGN), a Tyneside-based company working within the offshore oil & gas and renewable energy industries, is looking for ways to become a larger player in the renewables market by spreading its business. “The River Tyne is ideal for wind turbine companies with its location for access to the proposed Round 3 […]

  • DNV GL Works on Reducing Offshore Wind Costs by 25%

    25 September 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D

    DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy experts today share the findings of its latest report “Offshore wind: a manifesto for cost reduction” at WindEnergy Hamburg 2014. Industry action on reducing offshore wind costs is widely regarded as essential to secure the future of this strategically important energy source in Northern Europe as […]

  • Fugro Developing Offshore Drone Base for Wind Farm Maintenance

    3 February 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    Fugro is developing an offshore platform from which uncrewed vessels and drones can perform inspection and maintenance operations on offshore wind farms. Together with three partner companies and a research institute, Fugro has been granted EUR 3.3 million for the RoboDock project by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). The RoboDock platform enables various uncrewed vessels […]

  • Offshore Wind Power: Critically Needed Clean Energy for Wildlife

    2 October 2014
    Environment, R&D

    Collin O’Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), has written a blog post on American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) website, in which he discusses offshore wind power in terms of its effect on wildlife.  Our treasured wildlife and wild places are sending powerful signals that now is the moment to act on […]

  • Spain: IREC to Organise Symposium on Offshore Wind Technologies (OffWindTech)

    14 May 2013

    IREC to organise the Symposium on Offshore wind technologies (OffWindTech) in the frame of the project KIC-Offwindtech. The aim of this project is to identify the main challenges and limitations in offshore, especially deep water offshore wind energy, and to seek and analyze viable alternatives in the field of power transmission, and offshore blades. [mappress] […]

  • Skegness RNLI Lifeboat Crew Trains for Wind Farm Evacuation

    17 September 2014
    Training & Education

    Skegness RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat crew members had the opportunity for some valuable training this weekend, working with one of the vessels that maintain the wind turbines off the Lincolnshire coast.  Centrica Energy’s Lynn, Inner Dowsing and Lincs wind farms consist of 129 turbines, each nearly 150m tall and in total providing enough power to supply […]