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  • Agenda set for 2011 Wind & Ocean Energy Seminar (USA)

    25 January 2011
    Business & Finance

    The agenda is complete for CompositesWorld’s 2011 Wind & Ocean Energy Seminar, April 13-14 at the Wyndham Portland Airport Hotel in South…   (compositesworld) [mappress] Source: compositesworld, January 25, 2011

  • NYPA hopes to put wind turbines in Lake Ontario (USA)

    20 July 2010
    Authorities

    Eight U.S states and two Canadian provinces are racing to be the first to tap into the vast wind energy present in the Great Lakes, a race… [mappress] Source: niagara-gazette, July 20, 2010;

  • Taiwan Power Company Picks SMC’s Brain on Offshore Wind

    6 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    Delegates from the Taiwan Power Company (TPC) have visited Specialist Marine Consultants at their head office in Hunmanby, UK, to discuss offshore wind as TPC wishes to accelerate their activities in the Taiwanese offshore wind market.

  • 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 […]

  • O’Malley’s Offshore Wind Plan Faces Another Hurdle (USA)

    23 January 2012
    Authorities

     Organized labor wants a guaranteed role in the offshore wind project Gov. Martin O’Malley is expected to propose — and the unions want… By Michael Dresser (baltimoresun) [mappress] Source: baltimoresun, January 23, 2012

  • Cape Wind Foes Appeal Aims on New Bedford (USA)

    18 February 2011

    Opponents of the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm have appealed an air quality permit issued for the project by the U.S. Environmental…     By Patrick Cassidy (southcoasttoday) [mappress] Source: southcoasttoday, February 18, 2011

  • New Design Practices Offshore Wind Turbine Structures (UK)

    7 February 2011

    A joint industry project (JIP) led by Det Norske Veritas (DNV) has looked at offshore monopile wind turbine structures to improve the… (renewableenergyfocus) [mappress] Source: renewableenergyfocus, February 07, 2011

  • Deepwater Wind Installs Buoy off Block Island (USA)

    5 April 2011

    With a demonstration wind farm proposed for three miles southeast of Block Island, island residents are curious about how a man-made turbine… By Dan West (block-island) [mappress] Source: block-island, April 05, 2011

  • Gov. Chafee Supports RI Offshore Wind Power (USA)

    7 March 2011
    Authorities

    Rising world energy prices, spurred by demand from India and China, will make wind energy off Rhode Island’s shores a viable economic option… By Andy Smith (projo) [mappress]   Source: projo, March 07, 2011  

  • New Bedford hopes to be the staging port for Cape Wind (USA)

    9 September 2010
    Operations & Maintenance

    New Bedford hopes to be the staging port for Cape Wind’s 130 wind turbines, Mayor Scott W. Lang told Providence Business News on Tuesday.   By Kimberley Donoghue (pbn) [mappress] Source: pbn, September 08, 2010;

  • 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 […]

  • 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. […]

  • UK: Strainstall Undertakes Offshore Wind Vessel Monitoring Trial

    3 January 2013
    Technology

    Strainstall Marine have undertaken a vessel motion monitoring trial on a transfer vessel operating at an offshore wind-farm off the UK’s east coast. Strainstall’s new Vessel Motion Monitoring System™ (VMMS™) provides accurate motion monitoring for wind turbine transfer vessels to improve safety during transfer operations, as well as impact load measurement combined with a data […]

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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 […]

  • IKM Subsea Nets First Offshore Wind Job in Taiwan

    8 December 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    IKM Subsea Singapore has won a contract to provide ROV services at an offshore wind project in Taiwan, the company’s first in the region. IKM Subsea Singapore secured the deal with Solstad and will provide ROV services onboard Solstad’s construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Baltic. The company’s Merlin WR200 Workclass ROV with toolings will carry […]

  • Ørsted Picks Certification Body for German Offshore Wind Farms

    18 November 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Ørsted has awarded Germanischer Lloyd Industrial Services with a contract to provide project certification services for the German Cluster offshore wind farm 01 (GCW01). Under the deal, Germanischer Lloyd Industrial Services will carry out site conditions assessment (SCA) and project design basis evaluation (DBE). The Hamburg-based company will evaluate whether the assessment of the external conditions […]

  • New Study Puts Offshore Wind Rough Riders Into Focus

    25 April 2018
    Environment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Vessels

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult is coordinating a study on the psychological and physiological well-being of crew being transited to offshore wind farms in choppy waters.

  • SSE Renewables to Compete in Next Dutch Offshore Wind Tender

    13 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    UK energy company SSE Renewables plans to enter bids into the upcoming tenders for the 1.4 GW Hollandse Kust (west) wind farm zone in the Netherlands which are set to take place in the first half of 2022. The Dutch Government has recently issued revised draft Ministerial Orders which included tender assessment criteria for the […]