Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has awarded DataVerse-AIM Ltd with a contract for the supply of its asset integrity management software for the operations and maintenance phase of an offshore wind farm in Germany.
Independent renewable energy developer Element Power has entered the offshore wind market by taking over the development of the North Irish Sea Array (NISA) offshore wind site in the Irish Sea from Gaelectric.
The Buss Orange Blue Terminal Eemshaven has signed a contract with GeoSea for port logistics services of 87 monopiles and transition pieces for the 497MW Hohe See and the 112MW Albatros offshore wind farms in the German North Sea.
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.
Vattenfall has procured OceanWise’s Raster Charts XL (eXcluding Land) as a Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) for Northern Europe.
MHI Vestas Offshore Wind and Ramboll have jointly developed a software tool which allows foundation designers to independently perform integrated load analyses in an encapsulated or closed-system version of the full turbine model used for detailed foundation load simulations.
UK consultancy MarineSpace Ltd has won a contract from London Array Limited for the provision of consent and licensing services at the 630MW London Array offshore wind farm in the Thames Estuary.
Canadian company JV Driver, through its subsidiary DF Barnes, has acquired BiFab as part of an agreement brokered by the Scottish Government to support new opportunities at BiFab’s renewables and marine fabrication and construction yards in the UK.
MPI Offshore’s wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) MPI Enterprise was upgraded with spudcans during drydocking activities in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Swedish crew transfer vessel (CTV) operator Northern Offshore Services (N-O-S) is establishing a physical presence in Germany by opening an office in Hamburg.
Swire Blue Ocean’s wind turbine installation vessel Pacific Osprey has installed the first monopile foundation on the 497MW EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
Flintstone Technology Ltd is diversifying its Subsea Mooring Connector (SMC) to help drive down costs for the offshore floating wind industry. According to Flintstone Technology, the SMC system, which has been used in a number of oil & gas projects, is a low cost, easy to install solution which will
All 116 of the turbines at the Rampion wind farm development offshore Sussex are now able to generate electricity and are delivering power to the UK grid, E.ON, the developer of the wind farm, said.
The German research center Fraunhofer IWES has completed tests on two large-scale suction buckets at a 1:5 scale, which confirmed the potential of this foundation concept for reliable and cost-effective deployment in offshore wind farms.
