Guernsey-based investment company, The Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited (TRIG), has received approval from its shareholders to partly shift its focus from onshore wind and solar PV and invest up to 20% of its portfolio in a broader array of projects including offshore wind. Looking ahead, TRI
SgurrEnergy has secured a 12-year construction and operational monitoring contract for 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, for which the new financing structure was put in place this month. The scope of the contract includes monitoring of construction works and the financial and
German wind energy company Reetec has appointed Peter Vogt as the company’s new Operative Managing Director. Reetec is part of EDF EN Services, the EDF Energies Nouvelles Group’s subsidiary dedicated to Operations and Maintenance in Europe. Prior to transferring to the new position at Reetec, Vogt w
Fugro has been appointed by Nexans Norway AS for the provision of environmental advisory services as part of its global Environmental Advisor Framework. The global framework agreement with Fugro commenced this month and will be in place for one year. Nexans Marine Installation Department installs hi
James Fisher Subsea Excavation, part of James Fisher and Sons, has launched what the company describes as the world’s most powerful mass flow excavation tool, the SP12000. The hydraulically-driven SP12000 produces more than 6 tonnes of thrust at full power and a volume output of 12,000 litres of wat
Scotland-based renewable energy consultancy Natural Power has appointed Giles Dearden to the role of a permanent Director of Due Diligence with an international remit, following his 12-month stint as the company’s ‘acting’ director. During 2015 Natural Power’s international due diligence business gr
Germany-based Transmission System Operator (TSO) TenneT has awarded LIOS Technology with a contract for the supply of a Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) unit for an export cable of an offshore wind farm in the North Sea. The LIOS EN.SURE DTS will allow a real time fibre optic temperature monito
Amrumbank West’s meteorological mast was removed from the site in February 2016, as reported by SGS, a Hamburg-based inspection and certification company that supervised the decommissioning at the 302MW offshore wind farm. Prior to the dismantling, the met mast had been gathering data on wind condit
Fugro is getting ready to carry out a survey for unexploded ordnance (UXO) across the development zone of the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm located in the Outer Moray Firth off the east coast of Scotland. Fugro will deploy three survey vessels, Fugro Helmert, Fugro Frontier, and Meridian to carr
A group of Taiwanese companies has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with three US-based companies involved in certification and development of offshore wind technology as part of the recent visit of Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) to the United States. Representatives from Taiwan’s
Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm Ltd (AOWFL), the company behind the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), has invited members of the regional business community to the second local supply chain event to be held at Chester Hotel, Aberdeen, on 9 September. Vattenfall, the sole owner of the win
The Business Network for Offshore Wind, a nonprofit network championing the development of the U.S. offshore wind supply chain, has established its presence in New Jersey with the opening of an office in Woodbridge. The opening of the office coincided with the the 6th anniversary of New Jersey Gover
This summer, VBMS has completed cable installation and post-lay burial work at Vattenfall’s 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm in the German Bight. The company’s scope of work included cable supply, CPS, installation, post lay burial, and termination & testing of 76 infield cables. VBMS deployed its
Danish engineering, design and management consultancy, Ramboll, improved its financial results in the first half of 2016 largely due to a solid performance in the company’s Nordic business units and in the global energy business unit which helped offset adverse conditions in the oil & gas related ma
