Joint venture partners Navantia and Windar will load the first of 29 jacket foundations for the Wikinger offshore wind farm onto a barge this week. The foundations for Iberdrola’s 350MW offshore wind farm in Germany are being constructed at the Navantia facilities in Fene, Northern Spain. After the
Covestro and Tekmar Energy have signed a cooperation agreement on subsea cable protection for Chinese offshore wind market, set to grow towards 10GW of capacity within the next three to five years. Both companies will collaborate on the development of Cable Protection Systems for subsea energy cable
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has appointed Hugh McNeal, the Chief Executive of RenewableUK, as a Non-Executive Director. McNeal was previously a senior civil servant, most recently as Director of Change at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), and has held a number of o
DNV GL today published Standard for the warranty approval of marine operations, the first to deploy a digital solution that provides users with information most relevant to a specific project. DNV GL Standard DNVGL-ST-N001 Marine operations and marine warranty, documents design and operational requi
The Crown Estate today reported a record income return of £304.1 million to Treasury for the public finances, with the offshore wind sector as one of the key performance drivers. Income return was up 6.7% on 2015, while overall performance was significantly ahead of the market, with a total return o
Using an offshore accommodation platform combined with fast in-field vessels will be key to maximising efficiencies for large offshore wind farms built far from shore, according to an O&M logistics study carried out by Shoreline for Fred. Olsen Ocean. An O&M simulation, conducted by using Shoreline’
The third deep water installation campaign of the Western Link HVDC cable will commence at the beginning of July, according to a Notice to Mariners issued on AWJ Marine’s website. The work will be carried out in the North Channel of the Irish Sea between Scotland and Northern Ireland for about 120km
Dorothy Winters has been appointed as offshore business development manager at the Amsterdam IJmuiden Offshore Port (AYOP) with a special focus on offshore wind. Winters previously combined two functions: marketer at Port of Amsterdam and offshore wind programme manager at AYOP. The tasks of the pos
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has been hired by JD-Contractor to perform pre-cut trenching works on the 600MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. Energinet.dk plans to install two 220kV submarine export cables and a 9km connecting cable between two offshore platforms. ESS commercial di
A new design of floating turbine has been demonstrated as the collaboration behind it says it is nearing readiness for a full commercial test. The TLPWIND project, led by Iberdrola Engineering & Construction (IEC) with project partners the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and the University
Vattenfall has shared a video of its offshore wind farm accommodation platform, the future home for the service teams working at the 288MW DanTysk and the 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm, being installed some 90 kilometres off the German North Sea coast. The onshore construction of the accommodati
Ireland’s Marine Institute has extended the public notice period for the foreshore lease application to upgrade the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site has until 02 August 2016. The proposed upgrade would allow floating wind farm technology to be tested offshore at Galway Bay. The Marin
TRG Wind, a wind turbine support company, has chosen Hull as the base for its European offshore operations. The company has already added three technical staff to its team since opening an office at The Deep Business Centre earlier this month. Managing Director David Elcombe said the availability of
The Saint Nazaire-based startup Geps Techno, the developer of the MLiner independent offshore platform project, has recently adopted new financial sources with a fund raising campaign and Bpifrance grants to offer its line of products on international markets. The MLiner, also known as the ”Swiss Ar
