GE Renewable Energy has appointed John Lavelle as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its Offshore Wind business. The appointment is effective 1 November. In this role, Lavelle will lead the global business strategy with the mission to become one of the top three players in the offshore wind indust
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs’ Office of Coastal Zone Management and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center will host public information meetings to discuss recent and upcoming planning and assessment activities related to future offshore wind projects in fede
VBMS has recently executed the first export cable shore landing for the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm utilising its newly invented method for lowering the cable onto the seabed by using a remotely controlled progressive buoyancy release system which eliminates the need for divers, wet riggers or
J. Murphy & Sons has begun installing underground cables in North Lincolnshire for what will be the world’s biggest wind farm, DONG Energy’s 1.2GW Hornsea Project One. The cable route will run approximately 38km from the landfall site at Horseshoe Point to the onshore substation at North Killingholm
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Tetsushi Mizuno has been appointed a new Co-CEO of MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, a joint venture between MHI and Vestas. Mizuno will replace Jin Kato, who will stay on as a senior advisor to the company for the next six months before reassuming a senior role at MHI in Japan.
Senior management of Offshore Group Newcastle (OGN) and North Tyneside MP Mary Glindon had a meeting with UK Energy Minister Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe, as the company is worried about local content in UK offshore wind projects. OGN, which teamed up with Belgian Smulders this year, expressed its co
WWF-Canada has launched Renewables for Nature, a new interactive decision-making tool to help identify regions with high renewable-energy potential and comparatively low conflict with nature in and offshore Canada. Energy types included in this interactive mapping tool are wind, offshore wind, solar
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) is to invest up to GBP 3 million in developing a water-jetting tool which could potentially ”double trench production rates in seabed trenching operations.” The subsea and engineering technology company has awarded a contract to Northumberland-based Osbit to be the lead d
The Danish government is expected to propose new test sites for large wind turbines before Christmas, according to Danish media. The government will thus be following up on the work that took place in 2011, when the test centre comprising seven sites was established in Østerild. Since then, all the
Thirteen local organisations in Lancashire and Cumbria coastal communities have been awarded grants totalling GBP 250,000 through DONG Energy’s new Walney Extension Community Benefit Fund. Each year, approximately GBP 600,000 will be made available for community projects for the expected 25-year lif
The European Commission’s ”leaked” plan to end the “priority dispatch” for renewable energy in electricity grids is set to harm investments in European wind and solar power systems to the tune of billions of Euros, according to European industry initiative EU ProSun. According to an article publishe
The Netherlands-based Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) plans to lay off 450 of the existing 770 employees at the company’s head office in Zwijndrecht, as well as at its yards in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Poland, partly due to ”the combination of price pressure and unfavourable contractual c
Hjelmsted Consulting and NIRAS will act as strategic advisors to the State of New York to secure that a significant part of the state’s electric supply will come from offshore wind in 2030. The two companies said they are among the first European advisors to expand their consulting activities in off
The Nobelwind offshore wind farm has reached two milestones with the last week of October, when the first MHI Vestas wind turbine was installed and the offshore high voltage substation (OHVS) powered, according to Parkwind’s social media pages. The OHVS for the Belgian offshore wind project, also kn
