MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has signed a conditional agreement for the Borssele III & IV offshore projects in the Netherlands, for which the consortium comprising Shell, Eneco, Van Oord, and Mitsubishi/DGE won the tender in December 2016.
Hamburg-based Opus Marine has won a contract to provide crew transfer services during the construction of the 385MW Arkona offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
BAM Nutall has completed the roof panel installation on the five self-installing gravity base foundations being constructed for EDF Energy Renewables’ 41.5MW Blyth Offshore Demonstrator (BOD) wind farm.
Dounreay Tri Ltd has closed a EUR 45 million senior secured bond issued in the Nordic bond market, the proceeds of which will be used to partially fund construction costs of the company’s planned 10MW floating offshore wind installation.
Fugro will start a geophysical survey in and around the 586MW Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm in early April, a notice to mariners reveals.
A consortium of MARIN, Deltares, Witteveen + Bos, Vuyk Engineering and ECN has set up a Joint Industry Project to investigate the critical aspects in the transportation, installation and project logistics of gravity-based support structures for offshore wind turbines.
The first complete nacelle built by Siemens for the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm underwent its ‘first-click’ test in Esbjerg on Tuesday, 28 March, innogy SE said.
German offshore wind farms in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea generated 12.09 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in 2016, a 45.7 percent jump compared to 8.3 TWh generated by wind farms off Germany in 2015, TenneT reports.
Sif Group reported a revenue of EUR 400.3 million for 2016, a 24.6% increase from EUR 321.3 million in 2015, with the company’s net earnings rising by 5% from EUR 35.6 million in 2015 to EUR 37.4 million last year. The company’s net debt also increased, but mainly due to building new facilities that
GeoSea’s jack-up vessel Innovation has installed all 56 turbine foundations at the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm two months ahead of schedule, Galloper Wind Farm Ltd. reports.
Scotland’s Port of Cromarty Firth has been awarded two contracts by Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) to support the installation of the 580MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in Outer Moray Firth.
C-Job Naval Architects will provide the Basic Design package for the new wind farm installation vessel ordered by DEME from COSCO (QiDong) Offshore in China.
Offshore wind could potentially be fully integrated into the market on a competitive basis in some European countries within the next decade, according to a new report published by the International Energy Agency’s Renewable Energy Technology Deployment programme (IEA-RETD).
One of the primary drivers of non-access days at offshore wind farms is wave height, and new generation crew transfer vessels (CTVs) with a larger wave height operating range would be expected to bring non-access days down for sites with higher mean monthly Hs, according to the SPARTA Portfolio Revi
