DONG to Build World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm DONG Energy today decided to construct the 660MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm, located in the Irish Sea, approximately 19 km off the west coast of Britain. Van Oord: Dredging Companies Venturing into Offshore Wind (Interview) During the Offshor
Renewables generation in Great Britain saw a 31% surge in the third quarter of 2015 compared to the same period a year earlier, driven in part by a 23% increase in the combined output from both offshore and onshore wind generation, the energy and power markets analyst EnAppSys said in its ”GB Electr
Fugro’s Q3 results have shown that the offshore wind industry has provided a steady business area for the company under continuing challenging market conditions in the oil and gas industry. The company’s offshore revenue dropped 18.2% to EUR 83.9 million related to the overall lack of deepwater proj
Energinet.dk has started the repair work on Anholt offshore wind farm export cable. The Danish transmission system operator is replacing two sections of the cable, the first 400 meters of the submarine cable from Grenå and the last 4 km before the substation. To remind, the 400MW Anholt offshore win
UK-based specialist engineering consultancy HR Wallingford today marked one year from the official opening of their Fast Flow Facility, a 75-meter-long flume designed to simulate the interaction of waves, currents and sediments at large scale and in more detail than was previously possible. Since it
Vattenfall is seeking specialists for quality control and site representation for the Sandbank offshore wind farm construction. According to the developer, the contract shall comprise pre-assembly, installation and commissioning phase. The Port of Esbjerg will serve as the pre-assembly site while th
Siemens reported today that it had received an order for 56 of its SWT-6.0-154 wind turbines, including a 15-year service contract, for the Galloper offshore wind farm, for which the final investment decision was reached today. So far, the company has sold about 300 of its SWT-6.0-154 wind turbines
DEME Group will organize a series of offshore wind supply chain events in the UK between November and December 2015. The company said it is aiming to facilitate collaboration with local companies, and will hold the events at 13 nationwide locations. With new projects and contracts in the pipeline fo
RenewableUK says today’s announcement by RWE Innogy of new project partners and investors for the Galloper offshore wind farm off the coast of Suffolk demonstrates the robustness of Britain’s world-leading offshore wind market. It follows the announcement on Wednesday that DONG Energy has made a fin
Azerbaijan is moving forward with its plans to develop an offshore wind farm in Caspian Sea. Namely, the plans for the 200MW offshore wind project have been submitted to the Azerbaijan government, writes Trend News Agency. The project, worth AZN 450-500 million (EUR 390-433 million), has attracted i
VBMS has been awarded two contracts with a total value of approximately €200 million for the Galloper Offshore Wind Farm. VBMS has signed a contract for the export cabling scope in a consortium with nkt cables, for the supply and installation of two 45km long export cables, including route preparati
RWE will start building the Galloper offshore wind farm next month, after the final investment decision was made with three new partners on board for the project. UK Green Investment Bank (GIB), Siemens Financial Services and Macquarie Capital have joined RWE Innogy in becoming 25% joint equity part
The proposed National College for Wind Energy (NCfWE) Shadow Board is calling for expressions of interest from skills providers who can offer specialist facilities and qualifications as part of developing the required national partnership. Board member, the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)
US wave energy specialist Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has redeployed the APB350 (A1) PowerBuoy off the coast of New Jersey and resumed sea trials. OPT also plans to release selected performance data gathered during the A1’s initial deployment as well as initial results of the Accelerated Life Tes
