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  • Sif Mulls Vineyard Wind Setback Consequences

    21 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    Sif said a delay in monopile production for the Vineyard Wind project is “inevitable” due to a setback in the approval of the Final Environmental Impact Study (FEIS) for the 800MW offshore wind farm. The Dutch company planned to begin manufacturing 84 monopiles for Vineyard Wind in the first half of 2020, but the requirement of […]

  • Anbaric to Develop Massachusetts Offshore Wind Grid

    14 February 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has granted Anbaric Development Partners (ADP) the rights to solicit customers and sell transmission rights to a 2GW–2.4GW offshore wind transmission system in southern New England called the Massachusetts Ocean Grid. ADP will offer its offshore grid to developers that currently hold federal offshore wind leases as well as to those that are yet to obtain them.

  • Germany Underlines Its Intent in Offshore Wind

    5 August 2012

    More than 20 offshore wind parks have been approved in the North Sea and three more in the Baltic, all outside the 12 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Inside the EEZ, four wind parks have been approved in the North Sea and two in the Baltic. In total, there are 4,700 turbines planned to […]

  • GWEC: Offshore Wind Spreading Like Wildfire

    25 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Environment

    The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has released its Global Wind Report: Annual Market Update, showing a maturing industry successfully competing in the marketplace, even against heavily subsidized traditional power generation technologies.

  • US Territories Step Closer to Offshore Wind

    7 September 2018
    Authorities, Environment

    The US House Committee on Natural Resources has unanimously passed the Offshore Wind for Territories Act that would amend federal law to authorize offshore wind energy development in the Exclusive Economic Zone adjacent to all five US territories. The Natural Resources Committee has unanimously reported the bill to the full House of Representatives for consideration. […]

  • Wind Power Grows in Europe’s Electricity Mix

    22 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    Wind energy provided 14% of the EU’s electricity in 2018, which is an increase from 12% in 2017, according to statistics by WindEurope. Last year, wind power capacity rose by 11.3GW in Europe, with 2.65GW offshore and 8.6GW onshore. According to WindEurope, continued growth in capacity and the use of more powerful turbines are helping to increase wind’s share […]

  • FOWIND Identifies Offshore Wind Areas in India

    17 June 2015

    The FOWIND Consortium has released pre-feasibility reports (PFRs) for offshore wind development in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. The reports identify key offshore areas where detailed wind resource assessment should take place off the coasts of the two states. “This is a key first step in identifying sites for offshore wind development, and we are pleased […]

  • US Starts Working on Offshore Wind Standards

    13 September 2017

    An initiative to create offshore wind standards in the U.S. has been launched by key leaders of the American industry, as the country prepares for the imminent development of large scale offshore wind energy projects.

  • Offshore Wind Consultants Nets Taiwanese Job

    5 December 2016

    Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) will provide technical due diligence services to assess vessel suitability for wind turbine installation in the Taiwan Strait, the company informed today, leaving the Taiwanese client and contract value undisclosed. The contract represents OWC’s first assignment in the Taiwanese offshore wind sector. “Offshore Wind is growing rapidly in Taiwan and elsewhere in […]

  • WIND SERVER to Get Busy from January

    18 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Today, DBB Jack-Up Services A/S officially took delivery of its new offshore service vessel from Nordic Yards in Germany. During the handover ceremony, the ship was named WIND SERVER. Thorsten Jalk, CEO of DBB Jack-Up Services A/S said: “The new jack-up vessel will be in operation from as early as January, maintaining offshore wind farms in […]

  • UK: Unstable Wind Turbines in Need of Repair

    27 March 2012

    Vattenfall, Swedish wind farm operator, admitted the wind turbines at the Kentish flats wind farm are unstable and need welding work, reported This is Kent. Workers will need to ship a total of 180 steel brackets to the wind farm site, where they will need to weld six plates to the base of each wind […]

  • Germany Plans Energy Superhighway for Offshore Wind

    20 May 2011
    Grid Connection

    Germany is planning an energy superhighway from north to south to connect its growing wind energy supply with high energy demand regions. Both onshore and offshore wind energy is so far generated primarily in northern Germany, whereas energy consumption is highest in southern and western regions. Today, more wind power is produced in Germany than […]

  • Cape Wind Publishes New Report (USA)

    4 November 2011

    Cape Wind produced a new report today entitled, ‘Cape Wind & Massachusetts – Creating Jobs and Providing Clean Power to Massachusetts’. This new report details how Cape Wind can uniquely deliver large scale clean energy benefits to Massachusetts, create jobs and enhance energy security and reliability. Half of Cape Wind’s power has already been sold […]

  • 20 MW Wind Turbines Are Feasible (Belgium)

    15 March 2011

    20 Megawatt wind turbines are feasible, according to a new report from the EU-funded UpWind project, published today at the EWEA 2011 Annual Event in Brussels. The UpWind project explored the design limits of upscaling wind turbines to 20 Megawatt (MW) and found that they would have rotor diameters of around 200 metres, compared to […]

  • Canada: Protesters not Satisfied with Wind Power Announcement

    5 April 2012

    A few hundred protestors from rural communities voiced their dissatisfaction with the Ontario’s Liberal Government in Toronto Tuesday amid the announced construction of wind turbines in the Lake Erie communities of Leamington, Union and Kingsville, the Canadian Press informs. The dissatisfaction has been caused by the harmful effects of the wind turbines on the health […]

  • Offshore Wind Exhibition at Dutch Museum of Dredging

    9 October 2015

    The Dutch National Museum of Dredging has opened an exhibition titled Offshore wind – Challenge at sea, which will run from October 8, 2015 to March 14, 2016. The exhibition is made possible through the contribution of photographs, films, models and information from Eneco, Van Oord, Boskalis, ECN, Royal IHC, Royal Dirkzwager VBMS, Sif, Wind Cats and Jan […]

  • Offshore Wind Connects New Bedford and Grimsby

    4 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    New Bedford, US, and Grimsby, UK, have signed a Memorandum of Agreement as the New Bedford port is looking to tap into the offshore wind opportunities same as Grimsby.

  • Japanese Companies Forge Offshore Wind Pact

    15 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    Japanese utility JERA and the engineering firm Shimizu Corporation have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate within the offshore wind power generation business. JERA and Shimizu will explore ways to utilize their respective know-how and resources in the offshore wind power generation business to collaborate on related projects in Japan and overseas. Based […]

  • Bladt Industries Debuts in Taiwanese Offshore Wind

    28 November 2017
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Bladt Industries has entered the Taiwanese offshore wind market by signing two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with CSBC Corporation and Century Wind Power (CWP), a subsidiary of Century Iron and Steel Industrial.

  • Danes Heading to Japan to Talk Offshore Wind

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

    A group of Danish offshore wind industry investors, developers and manufacturers is heading to Japan to meet with this country’s key stakeholders in Kitakyushu and Tokyo.

  • German Offshore Wind Industry Model for Massachusetts

    24 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    A delegation from the port city of New Bedford, Massachusetts (United States) is currently visiting the sites of the German offshore industry in Cuxhaven and Bremerhaven, as we recently reported. The 40-member delegation will be informed about the industry directly from local companies in the following couple of days. “The visit of the delegation shows […]

  • Anbaric Backs Massachusetts Offshore Wind Development

    25 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    U.S. offshore transmission system developer Anbaric has filed testimony in support of a bill expected to help set the stage for the expansion of offshore wind in Massachusetts. H 2814, An Act relative to the transmission for offshore wind energy, would create a separate bidding process for the transmission lines that would deliver offshore wind energy to […]

  • Organisations Opposing Normandy Offshore Wind Farm

    20 March 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    Opponents of a wind farm planned to be installed off the coast of Normandy will gather in front of the D-Day Landing Museum in Arromanches, France, on 8 April for demonstration against the project, claiming it will ruin the landscape of the historic site of Normandy landings from WWII, for which a UNESCO World Heritage classification procedure is under way.

  • EIB Bankrolls Seamade Offshore Wind Farm

    3 August 2018
    Business & Finance

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to provide an undisclosed amount of funding for the construction of the Seamade offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea.

  • DORIS to Support BP’s Offshore Wind Developments

    6 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain

    DORIS has been awarded a framework agreement by BP for the provision of engineering services to the company’s offshore wind projects. Across the five-year agreement, DORIS will provide engineering for scopes such as concept development, pre-FEED, FEED, and detailed design. The support provided by DORIS and its strategic partner Turner & Townsend will enable the […]

  • Mingyang to Manufacture Wind Turbines in South Korea

    5 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Manufacturing, Research & Development, Supply Chain

    China’s Mingyang Smart Energy has signed an agreement with the local company Unison to manufacture wind turbines in South Korea. The two companies entered into a joint venture to provide “top-tier products and services, contributing to carbon neutrality efforts in South Korea and the surrounding region”, said the partners. In May last year, the Chinese […]