Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ new fund Copenhagen Infrastructure III had its third close on Thursday, 13 July with total commitments reaching EUR 1.9 billion, after 4 months of fundraising.
GustoMSC, the company behind the design of a number of vessels deployed on offshore wind projects, recently introduced a new self-propelled jack-up with a telescopic leg crane and has also used its expertise to develop a floating wind foundation.
Danish crew transfer vessel (CTV) owner KEM Offshore has won a framework agreement for providing CTVs for the installation and commissioning of Energinet.dk’s two offshore substations on the Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm.
Although Europe has experience and knowledge in O&M of offshore wind farms, the O&M strategies employed in Europe cannot be copied one-on-one in the U.S. or Asia, a recent study carried out by the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) shows.
The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has launched a competition targeted at finding new ways to inspect offshore wind substructures and reduce the cost of offshore wind.
The developers of the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm have launched the next round of applications for the Moray Beatrice Local Fund.
The election of French president Emmanuel Macron signals exciting opportunities in the French wind sector, where targets are in place for 32GW of onshore and offshore capacity by 2023, according to A Word About Wind’s Finance Quarterly.
Burntisland-based Briggs Marine Contractors has deployed a recently purchased dual basket diver Launch and Recovery System (LARS) on an offshore renewables project.
Vineyard Wind, an offshore wind energy developer vying to build the first utility-scale project off the coast of Massachusetts, has hired Jack Arruda to serve as Technical Development Manager for the company.
A research-business partnership between Siemens Gamesa, DONG Energy and three UK universities has secured a portion of a GBP 78 million grant funding for an offshore wind project.
The engineering company INNAS and technology company Hydrautrans are developing a mechanical-hydraulic transmission for offshore wind turbines with a capacity of more than 12MW.
Uptime International has entered into a contract with Turkey’s Cemre Marin Endüstri A.S. for delivery of a full Uptime access solution.
Chinese power cable manufacturer ZTT has contracted SeaRenergy to provide QHSE management & support for the HVAC export cable connection between the BorWin gamma platform and the 497MW EnBW Hohe See wind farm in the German North Sea.
STX France AS has completed the steel works on the offshore distribution station for the 385MW Arkona wind farm in the Baltic Sea.
