Fire Breaks Out at Vestas’ Turbine Blade Facility A chemical store that is part of Vestas’ facility for the development of large wind turbine blades on Isle of Wight caught fire. Two Companies Sentenced for 2010 Fatal Accident UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) revealed that Fluor Ltd and Siemens
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) and the national Nature Agency have made the environmental impact assessment (EIA) report for Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm available for public consultation. In line with this, Energinet.dk will hold three public meetings. Before the construction of the offshore wi
The Dutch National Museum of Dredging has opened an exhibition titled Offshore wind – Challenge at sea, which will run from October 8, 2015 to March 14, 2016. The exhibition is made possible through the contribution of photographs, films, models and information from Eneco, Van Oord, Boskalis, ECN, R
Last week, Bladt Industries assembled the first jacket foundation for Wikinger offshore wind farm. At Bladt’s Lindø Facility in Denmark, the first upper A-frame was installed and thereby, the first 3-D offshore jacket foundation structure was completed. The Wikinger offshore wind farm is being devel
DONG Energy, the LEGO Group and William Demant are celebrating the inauguration of the Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm today, in the presence of His Royal Highness Prince Joachim of Denmark who officially opened the wind farm. With a nominal power per turbine of 4.0 MW, the 78 wind turbines wi
Statkraft is supporting a new policy research programme at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The new programme of policy analysis will focus on the transition to the low-carbon economy and will contribute hi
Alstom has published a video about its Haliade™ 150-6MW offshore wind turbine, its onshore and offshore installations and projects that will feature the turbine. The first prototype of this turbine was tested at an onshore site at Carnet, near St Nazaire. In November 2013, Alstom installed the secon
Following a 7.7% market growth in 2014 compared to 2013, the European market is expected to expand by another 8.7% in 2015 in a policy-induced rush to build, which will lead to record numbers. MAKE expects more than 144GW of wind power capacity to be commissioned in Europe from 2015 to 2024. Norther
Louisiana-based Keystone Engineering Inc. has announced the opening of its newest office located in Baltimore. This news follows the announcement that the company was awarded the contract to design the meteorological mast tower foundation for US Wind’s Maryland offshore wind development lease. Ben F
Friends of the Supergrid (FOSG) teamed up with EASE, ECI, ESTELA, EWEA, and E3G to comment in a joint letter on key elements of the European Commission’s public consultation on the new electricity market design. These leading associations, NGOs and industry groups from Europe’s energy sector share t
ABS Group Ltd. has issued its certification of the design basis for Ocean Resource Ltd’s innovative Sea Breeze Gravity “float-out-and-sink” offshore wind turbine foundation system. ABS Group issued its certification in accordance with the relevant standards, including IEC 61400 and the ABS Guide for
Donald Trump has taken the fight against the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) project to the Supreme Court in London, which held a hearing today. After losing a couple of times in the Scottish courts, the Trump Organization decided to file a lawsuit against the 11-turbine project to
Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: One of the two offshore high voltage substations (OHVS) at the Gemini offshore wind farm. Gemini offshore wind farm has two substations for each of the two wind farm parts, Buitengaats (300MW) and ZeeEnergie (300MW). The first offshore substation at the offshore win
RES and GES have signed a strategic alliance agreement, bringing together complementary skills and common values to provide asset management and O&M services to the offshore wind industry. Jim Sandon, COO of RES Offshore said: “GES stands out as a leading company in the installation and maintenance
