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  • HIE to Host Moray Offshore Wind Workshops

    2 May 2014

    Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise are going to organise a series of workshops on behalf of Moray Offshore Wind Limited, a partnership between EDPR and Repsol, next week. This is a great opportunity for companies with the potential to supply the offshore wind sector  with the services it needs to meet directly with […]

  • Eekels Joins Northern Netherlands Offshore Wind

    10 May 2013
    Business & Finance

      Eekels (a part of TBI), a company specialised in electrical and mechanical engineering, has joined  Northern Netherlands Offshore Wind (NNOW). Offshore wind is becoming increasingly important in the production of sustainable energy. This development offers great opportunities for the business sector as there are many companies that are or would like to be active […]

  • Local Support Boosts Wind Energy Bid

    24 July 2014

      Local communities are set to benefit from offshore wind development in Massachusetts’ waters, writes South Coast Today news site. This is the first time the Bureau of Offshore Energy Management (BOEM) will include community benefit agreements (CBA) in an offshore wind energy lease auction. The 5 percent credit will be given to developers who […]

  • Long Islanders Launch Offshore Wind Coalition

    22 April 2020
    Business & Finance, Environment, Jobs & Recruitment

    Labour, environment, and community organisations from Long Island, New York, have formed an offshore wind coalition called Wind Works Long Island.

  • Ramboll Establishes Wind Energy Hub in Netherlands

    6 December 2022
    Business & Finance

    After a more than a two-year expansion of its wind business in the US, Japan, Spain, and Poland, Ramboll, a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company, has established a Wind Energy hub in the Netherlands. Ramboll said it will utilise its existing office in Delft but is also contemplating the possibility of establishing new office […]

  • EnBW Eyeing Dutch Offshore Wind Zones

    22 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    German energy company Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) is reportedly making preparations to participate in the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind tender in the Netherlands.

  • Tecade Secures Italian Offshore Wind Work

    7 June 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    The Sevilla-based Tecade has secured a contract by Haizea Wind Group for the Beleolico offshore wind farm in Italy. The Spanish company will provide ten external access platforms, ten airtight platforms and ten boat landings for what will be the first offshore wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea. To remind, Haizea recently secured a contract with Renexia […]

  • Vineyard Wind Meetings to Proceed Despite Shutdown

    25 January 2019
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will reschedule public meetings for the 800MW Vineyard Wind wind projects offshore Massachusetts ”very soon”, according to David Bernhardt, the Interior Department’s Acting Secretary. As previously reported, BOEM postponed public meetings scheduled for January due to the government shutdown. BOEM will use carryover funds which were previously appropriated […]

  • Metocean Surveys Start on Irish Wind Farm

    14 October 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    A floating lidar metocean buoy will be towed out from Drogheda Port and deployed at the Oriel wind farm in the Outer Dundalk Bay, Ireland, a marine notice said. The duration of deployment is one day, and it will be carried out in the two-week period 11-25 October, subject to weather conditions. The surveys will […]

  • Avanti Attends China Wind Power 2012

    13 December 2012

    More than 400 leading wind power companies from more than 20 countries attended the China Wind Power 2012 Exhibition in Beijing. Avanti Wind Systems was among the exhibitors, and the Avanti team led by CEO Erik Laursen introduced the visitors to Avanti’s Service Lift, Ladder systems with Climb Assistance, Fall Arrest system and other safety […]

  • Japan Approves New Offshore Wind Bill

    30 November 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment

    A bill promoting the commercial use of offshore wind in Japanese waters has passed both houses of Japan’s National Diet.

  • VIDEO: Underwater Life on Offshore Wind Turbines

    28 February 2013
    Environment

    A North Sea wind farm has had hardly any negative effects on fauna. In fact, it can provide benefits for marine life. According to researcher Prof. Han Lindeboom and his colleagues at IMARES, part of Wageningen UR, and fellow scientists at Bureau Waardenburg and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), the wind farm at Egmond aan Zee (OWEZ) provides […]

  • Offshore Wind In Centre of Statoil’s Competitive Portfolio

    7 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    Statoil plans to set up a competitive portfolio including new energy solutions with a focus on offshore wind, low carbon solutions, ventures and R&D.

  • Greeks Studying Floating Offshore Wind Potential

    4 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    Chalkis Shipyards and a number of Greek institutions are collaborating on a project seeking to study the potential of floating offshore wind in the Greek Seas. The WIndfloat.gr – Innovative Design of Floating Wind Plants for the Greek Seas project seeks to exploit the wind potential of the Greek Seas with the aim of boosting […]

  • Offshore Wind Consultants Opens Taiwan Branch

    13 August 2018
    Business & Finance

    The UK-based Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) has opened a new office in Taipei, Taiwan, to support the local offshore wind sector.

  • Areva’s Offshore Wind Revenue Decreases (France)

    25 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Areva issued its results for the first nine months of 2013 yesterday, which show that its renewable energy business is facing revenue decrease. The company’s Renewable Energies Business Group ended the first nine months with a 26.6% decrease in revenue in comparison to the same period of 2012. The renewables revenue was up only in […]

  • Bay State Wind Offers Environmental Grants

    11 April 2018
    Environment

    Massachusetts-based offshore wind developer Bay State Wind plans to provide more than USD 2 million in grants for research and programs to protect New England’s fisheries and whale populations.

  • GWEC: Offshore Wind Set For Global Expansion

    25 April 2017
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Cumulative installed wind power capacity will top 800GW by the end of 2021, with offshore wind establishing a firmer foothold outside Europe in the next several years, according to a report by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).

  • Vattenfall’s Vice President of Offshore Wind Resigns

    5 November 2019
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Vattenfall’s Vice President of Business Unit Offshore Wind Michael Simmelsgaard has decided to leave the company. Simmelsgaard, who joined Vattenfall in 2015, will continue his career outside the company. Head of Engineering Offshore Wind Jacob Nørgaard Andersen will take over the role as Danish Country Manager. “Vattenfall’s has developed a strong offshore business over the […]

  • RenewableUK Celebrates Record Breaking Day for Wind

    25 March 2013

    RenewableUK is celebrating the fact that for the first time, wind energy in the UK generated over 5 gigawatts of electricity consistently over a 24 hour period, with the period starting on Thursday 21st at 2130nd March 2013 and continuing for the rest of Friday 22nd March 2013. This means that for this 24 hour […]

  • DPU Okays Vineyard Wind Energy Contracts

    17 April 2019
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) has approved long-term contracts for 800MW of offshore wind between Vineyard Wind and the Commonwealth’s electric distribution companies. “The approval of these contracts is an important step toward the completion of the largest offshore wind project in the country, which will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, provide Massachusetts […]

  • Massachusetts Allocates Funding for Offshore Wind Programs

    13 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Training & Education

    The Massachusetts Baker-Polito Administration is allocating USD 721,500 in grants to six academic institutions and labor organizations to establish workforce training and development programs to support the state’s offshore wind sector. The awards, which include USD 200,000 from Vineyard Wind’s Windward Workforce Fund, will be used to grow a workforce required to meet the needs […]

  • Indonesia: UPCI to Build Java Wind Farm

    24 April 2012
    Wind Farm Update

    UPC Renewables Indonesia Ltd (“UPCI”) announced on April 20, with its local development partner PT Binatek Reka Energi, the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) between The Directorate of Various New Energy and Renewable Energy, Directorate General of New Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Indonesia […]

  • EnBW Buys Albatros Offshore Wind Farm

    19 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG has acquired the Albatros offshore wind farm project from the consortium partners STRABAG and the Norderland/ETANAX Group. This offshore wind project, which has approval for 79 wind turbines of the 5-7 megawatt rating class, is located 105 kilometres from the coast in the German sector of the North Sea. The wind […]

  • North Carolina Moves Forward with Offshore Wind

    23 January 2015
    Authorities

    U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Hopper have announced the release of an Environmental Assessment (EA) supporting a potential lease sale for more than 300,000 acres of federal waters off the coast of North Carolina for wind energy development. “No challenge poses a greater threat to […]

  • Alstom, DCNS Enter Floating Wind Deal

    13 October 2014

    Alstom Renewable Power Chairman Jérôme Pécresse and DCNS Marine Energy and Infrastructures Division Director Thierry Kalanquin were on hand on 13th of October as both groups signed a partnership agreement in the floating wind energy business. The agreement aims at developing and then commercialising an integrated system for a semi-submersible floating wind turbine delivering 6 […]