2016 will be the first year in which we will see over ten offshore wind financings, according to Jérôme Guillet, Managing Director at Green Giraffe, a specialist advisory boutique focused on the renewable energy sector. These financing projects may not close until 2017, but they will certainly start
Energinet.dk is looking for an EPCI contractor for two gravity-based substructures for substations at Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. The scope of work includes detailed engineering, procurement, construction and offshore installation based on the basic design and general specifi
Offshore wind has shown to be a fruitful field for Briggs Marine & Environmental Services in the past year, especially since the company expects further growth based on its performance in 2015. Briggs Marine increased its turnover to GBP 62 million in the fiscal year ended 31 March, 2015, with the t
UK-based subsea cable specialist ETA has announced the formation of a new division to focus on the provision of marine cable connectors, terminations and accessories. The new division will continue to provide bespoke designs and at the same time develop ETA’s production lines for larger scale projec
The U.S. Bureau of Energy and Ocean Management (BOEM) held the first two of the three meetings scheduled for this week to gain insight in public opinion on the development of offshore wind energy off the coast of South Carolina. BOEM identified four areas for offshore wind development off South Caro
Following the UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd’s announcement that the government will hold three Contract for Difference (CfD) auctions before 2020, the first of which will kick off this year, Chris Willow, Senior Associate at BVG Associates, has selected front runners in the race to win the first au
GE Power Conversion has signed a contract to equip offshore wind turbines manufactured by Shanghai Electric Wind Power Equipment (Sewind) with 4MW Fully Fed LV3 wind converters. Totalling 1GW, the deal is set to be one of the biggest offshore wind projects in China, GE said. The converters will be m
Business Intelligence and Strategy Research (BIS Research) has recently published a report titled “Asia-Pacific Wind Energy Market Outlook, Focus on Equipment, Deployment and Geography: Estimation and Forecast 2015-2020”. Owing to the increasing energy demands and a dire need for safeguarding measur
Tim Curtis has been appointed as managing director of Ricardo Energy & Environment, taking over from Robert Bell, who retires following a 40-year career with the company. Commenting on this new appointment, which builds on his previous senior managerial positions with the company since 2007, Tim Cur
A2SEA is currently planning the installation of two foundations and two Siemens 4MW turbines on the Taiwanese project Formosa 1, scheduled to start in June 2016. The foundations and turbines will be installed by M/V Torben, formerly known as Friedrich Ernestine. A2SEA is operating the vessel under a
Waypoint North has changed its company name to SeaState Aviation to reflect its focus on the offshore wind market. Managing Director Johan Hansen said the new name is a better representation of the company’s core services, which is providing independent offshore aviation consulting and safety assura
Sure Diamond, a 26m wind farm crew transfer vessel, has been delivered to its owner Sure Wind. The StratCAT 26 vessel, built by Strategic Marine in Vietnam, completed sea trails in September 2015 and will be operating in Heligoland, Germany. Sure Wind’s second StratCAT 26 vessel, Sure Dynamic, has a
U.S.-based NovaVis, the Virginia Offshore Wind Coalition (VOW) and Germany’s WAB e.V.; Windenergie-Agentur have agreed to use the NovaVis supply chain technology in order to build the Trans-Atlantic Bridge. The “bridge” consists of a singular hub of collaboration and exchange among German and U.S. e
The Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition has appointed Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as the new chairman and Gina Raimondo, Governor of the first U.S. state developing an offshore wind farm, as vice chair for the 2016 term. “As the governor of the first state in the nation to develop offshore wind resour
