Vattenfall Europe Windkraft GmbH is looking for a provider of helicopter services for the offshore wind farms DanTysk, Sandbank, Horns Rev 1 and Horn Rev 3. The EUR 6 million framework agreement is divided into two lots and will last for 2 years. The first lot covers crew transfers, either on a fixe
BREAKING: USA Just Got Its First Offshore Wind Farm “The Block Island Wind Farm is now fully constructed,” Jeff Grybowski, Deepwater Wind’s CEO, informed via social media. Timelapse: Dudgeon OSS Topside Lowered into Place Statoil has shared a timelapse video of a heavy lift vessel Oleg Strashnov ins
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up installation vessel Brave Tern will now commence its transit back to Europe for final demobilisation in Esbjerg, Denmark, after it installed the final wind turbine at the Block Island Wind Farm yesterday. “The Block Island Wind Farm project has truly been a team eff
J. Murphy & Sons has been appointed to carry out the onshore work for the European Offshore Deployment Centre (EOWDC), also known as the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm (AOWF). This includes the pre-construction design, onshore cabling, construction of a substation, and connecting the wind farm to the n
High voltage engineering specialist EDS HV Management has been appointed to act on behalf of EDF Energy Renewables (EDF ER) as owner’s engineers monitoring the cable manufacture for the 41.5MW Blyth offshore wind demonstration project in Northumberland. The offshore wind farm, located 5.7km off the
The government of Kitakyushu city in Japan is auctioning off 2,687 hectares of water area controlled by the city’s port to companies interested in constructing and operating a nearshore wind farm at the site. The capacity of the wind farm has not been disclosed yet. The government started distributi
WindEurope expects EUR 5.2 billion and 1.4GW in Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) by June 2017, compared with EUR 10 billion and 2.2GW that were achieved for the same period last year. Transactions that are now approaching financial close are Rentel (300MW), Norther (370MW), Deutsche Bucht (252MW),
A poll of nearly 1,000 bosses by the Institute of Directors found that nearly eight in ten, or 78.8% to be more precise, support the increased deployment of offshore wind in UK waters. 998 members of the Institute of Directors replied to the survey between 11-26 May 2016. Out of those surveyed, 44.5
John Laing Group, a London-based international originator, investor and manager of infrastructure projects, has acquired a 30% stake in the 110.7MW Nordergründe offshore wind farm, which saw its first turbine going up on Tuesday. The Nordergründe project is John Laing’s second German wind investment
The global market for HVDC converter stations is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 24% between 2016 and 2020, spurred on by the recent rise in offshore wind installations, according to a report issued by market analysts at Technavio. Power generated from offshore wind power plants needs to be
The first Senvion 6.2M126 turbine was installed at the Nordergründe offshore wind farm on Tuesday, 16 August. After the installation of all 18 foundations, the installation vessel MPI Enterprise erected the first wind turbine at the 110.7MW Nordergründe offshore wind farm, wpd reported today. Norder
Below, we bring an article on the UK’s offshore wind energy status and potential, written by Simon Watson, Professor of Wind Energy at Loughborough University, and originally published by The Conversation. In 1993, nine 300kW turbines were installed on the eastern pier at Blyth Harbour, near Newcast
Dutch offshore shipping company, C-bed Floating Hotels, will send its DP2 Walk-2-Work vessel, Wind Innovation, on a new offshore wind project in the German part of the North Sea, scheduled to start early next year. According to C-bed, this vessel will be deployed during the installation phase of a 4
“The Block Island Wind Farm is now fully constructed,” Jeff Grybowski, Deepwater Wind’s CEO, informed via social media this evening. The installation of wind turbines at the first American offshore wind farm was completed today with the last blade attached to the fifth GE Renewable Energy Haliade 15
