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  • Offshore Wind Training Facility Opens in Massachusetts

    28 October 2019
    Training & Education

    The Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MMA) has launched the nation’s first offshore wind training facility. The facility includes a crew transfer training vessel (CTV), which supports safety training for workers moving from relatively small CTVs to the fixed support structures of offshore wind turbines. Initially, MMA will focus on Basic Safety Training for the industry with a […]

  • TerraSond Wraps Up Surveys at Mayflower Wind

    23 October 2019
    R&D

    TerraSond has completed a geophysical survey at the Mayflower Wind offshore wind project in Massachusetts, U.S. In the two-month campaign, the Acteon company surveyed the site located 20 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard that is said to have a capacity to support up to 1,600MW of offshore wind. TerraSond said it acquired high-resolution geophysical data using […]

  • USA: Cape Wind Faces New Foe

    11 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    Cape Wind has been faced with a new foe. Namely, a newly formed group called the New England Ratepayers Association has written to the United States Department of Energy to disapprove Cape Wind’s USD 300 million loan guarantee which will, as NERA believes, stop Cape Wind development, writes the Union Leader. In his letter, Marc […]

  • Netsurvey Exhibits at Offshore Wind 2011 (UK)

    28 June 2011

    NETSURVEY, part of MMT Group, are exhibiting at Offshore Wind 2011 this week in Liverpool. You can visit them on Stand 218 to find out how their Marine Survey Services can give your Offshore Wind project the detailed, high quality survey data required for a successful installation as well as their innovative, cost effective, monopile […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Can Be Global Powerhouse

    20 January 2017
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    The UK’s offshore wind sector is at a “pivotal moment” and has a “unique opportunity” to develop skills to drive a truly world-leading industry, according to Andrew Jamieson, Chief Executive of the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult. Jamieson was speaking ahead of an “Industry Leaders’ Debate” at Scottish Renewables’ Offshore Wind Conference, which will be held in […]

  • Icebreaker Offshore Wind Project Moves Forward

    1 August 2017
    Authorities, Environment, Wind Farm Update

    The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) has found that Icebreaker Windpower Inc.’s application for a permit to construct the 20.7MW Icebreaker wind farm in Lake Erie off Cleveland is now in compliance and ready to be processed.

  • ORE Catapult Shares Offshore Wind Vision

    26 February 2018
    R&D, Technology

    Service robots, drones, automated motherships and 40-rotor turbines could become the norm for offshore wind farms by 2050, Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult predicts.

  • UK Approves Rampion Offshore Wind Farm

    16 July 2014
    Authorities

    Rampion offshore wind farm off the coast of Sussex has today been given consent from the government to go ahead. The project is expected to support over 750 jobs and bring over £2 billion of investment into the UK’s economy. Once built, the wind farm would generate enough electricity to power approximately 450,000 homes. The […]

  • Vattenfall’s Offshore Wind Production Spikes in 2019

    5 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms generated 6.8 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2019, a near 31 percent increase compared to 5.2TWh generated in 2018. The increase was mainly attributed to the full commissioning of the 407MW Horns Rev 3 wind farm in the Danish North Sea. Vattenfall’s operating offshore wind capacity at the end of 2019 […]

  • Danes Establish Offshore Wind Cluster in Taiwan

    11 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    Six Danish companies have established a cluster in Taiwan to support the local offshore wind sector. ProCon Wind Energy, A-LEAF Specialized Consulting, ALL NRG, Comtech, HYTOR and Site Solutions have entered into a collaboration with an aim to work together towards keeping offshore wind costs down. ”The industry and our customers require that we are […]

  • Wind Energy Safety Training Numbers Rise

    21 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    An estimated 5-10% of the global workforce in wind energy is trained to GWO standards, according to the Global Wind Organisation (GWO). At the end of 2018, 74,432 persons, which represents a 65% increase, held a valid certificate for the training, the non-profit reported. In addition, 68 new GWO certified training sites were added last year, a 31% […]

  • ABB and Aibel Forge Offshore Wind Links

    4 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    ABB and Aibel have formed a strategic partnership to deliver offshore wind integration solutions. ABB will focus on its high voltage direct current (HVDC) technology, while Aibel will take turnkey Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) responsibility for the design, construction, installation and commissioning of the offshore platforms. The partners will collaborate on the design, engineering and […]

  • Canada Starts Offshore Wind Development Assessments

    27 March 2023
    Authorities

    The government of Canada has, together with the government of Nova Scotia and the government of Newfoundland and Labrador, launched the start of the regional assessments of offshore wind development in the two provinces. The recently released Agreement and Terms of Reference outline how the assessments will be conducted, and sets out their goals, objectives, […]

  • 40 Wind Turbines Up at Beatrice OWF

    18 December 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Forty wind turbines have been installed at the Beatrice offshore wind farm and the project is now two turbines away from reaching a halfway mark. 

  • EOLFI Responds to French Floating Wind Call

    13 August 2015

    EOLFI, a wind power company based in Paris, has made a submission to the Call for Proposals for the deployment of pilot floating wind farms published by ADEME on August 5, 2015. The French Government will to support the development of pilot floating wind farms in four geographical areas. EOLFI said it has actively contributed to […]

  • USA: Sierra Club Promotes Offshore Wind

    17 July 2012

    This Sunday afternoon Sierra Club organised a meeting at Virginia’s most visited state park, First Landing State Park, located by the Chesapeake Bay to promote offshore wind power. They used kites, pinwheels to show the Congress why they should renew Production Tax Credit for wind energy. Sierra members said that many local jobs depend on […]

  • Azerbaijan Moves Forward with Offshore Wind Plans

    30 October 2015
    Authorities

    Azerbaijan is moving forward with its plans to develop an offshore wind farm in Caspian Sea. Namely, the plans for the 200MW offshore wind project have been submitted to the Azerbaijan government, writes Trend News Agency. The project, worth AZN 450-500 million (EUR 390-433 million), has attracted interest from German, Chinese and investors from Arab countries. […]

  • GE and Poles Sign Offshore Wind Agreement

    29 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    The Polish Ministry for Investments and Development and GE Renewable Energy have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to cooperate on the development of Poland’s offshore wind sector. Polish Minister of Finance, Investment and Development Jerzy Kwieciński and GE’s Sławomir Żygowski and Fabrice Kermorgant signed the LoI on 28 October in Warsaw. Under the agreement, the two […]

  • New Report on Wind Turbines and Foundations Available

    25 August 2014
    R&D

    MarketResearchReports.Biz include new market research report “Offshore Wind Turbines And Foundations Global Market Size, Market Share, Regulations And Key Country Analysis To 2020” to its huge collection of research reports.  The report analyzes offshore installed capacity, power generation, average wind turbine sizes, average installation prices and annual investment by turbine and foundations, both globally and […]

  • Offshore Wind in Spotlight of Van Oord’s Success

    24 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Van Oord has published its annual report for 2014, which was an exceptional year for the company, according to CEO Pieter Van Oord. Van Oord said: “The year was special because for the first time in our history, our turnover broke the two billion euro barrier. It was also special because we achieved a breakthrough in […]

  • Offshore Wind Demonstrates Unprecedented Cost Cuts

    11 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    After the UK government awarded three offshore wind projects with Contracts for Difference (CfDs), RenewableUK and Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult commented on the news, highlighting the major decline in the cost of offshore wind.

  • Offshore wind supply chain development in the UK

    13 May 2010

    Enabling the development and growth of the offshore wind supply chain will be essential to sustain the rapid expansion of UK offshore wind… [mappress] Source: enabling-offshore, May 13, 2010;

  • Arkona Offshore Wind Farm Sparks Into Life

    24 September 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The 385MW Arkona offshore wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea has supplied the first electricity to the German electricity grid.

  • Ørsted and IFEZA Form Offshore Wind Partnership

    13 February 2023
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Ørsted and the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority (IFEZA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen the cooperation on the green transformation and carbon neutrality of the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) in South Korea. Under the MoU, Ørsted Korea and IFEZA agreed to explore key areas of collaboration, including Ørsted Korea’s 1.6 […]

  • USA: The future is in direct drive wind turbines

    5 May 2010
    Environment, R&D, Technology

    The standard for wind turbines being built by the ever-innovating wind industry in utility-scale installations has changed from 1.5… [mappress] Source: greentechmedia, May 04, 2010;

  • Natural Power Developing Wind Modelling Software

    4 November 2015
    R&D, Technology

    Natural Power has invested in a wind farm modelling software. The company said its technical team has been developing new models for a more accurate prediction of wind farm performance and has produced results from its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models at wind farm scale within five to six days, rather than the 60 days previously needed. Claude […]