Gamesa and AREVA have signed the definitive agreements and have closed the transaction for the creation of Adwen, a joint venture dedicated to offshore wind, having 700 employees, 50-50 owned by its two parent companies and registered in Zamudio, Spain. The joint-venture is responsible for the desig
Alstom has received formal notice to proceed (NTP) from Deepwater Wind, after the US company completed the financing of its 30MW offshore wind project. Deepwater Wind Block Island, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deepwater Wind, plans to install five Alstom Haliade 150 6-MW turbines offshore Block Isla
On March 7, Jan De Nul launched the world’s largest multipurpose cable laying vessel Isaac Newton at the Uljanik shipyard in Pula, Croatia. The Isaac Newton will be able to perform different jobs as a trenching and offshore support vessel, as a subsea rock installation vessel and as a cable laying v
More than 199 technicians and 200 small businesses in the North East have benefited from a European Regional Development Funded project (ERDF) related to offshore wind and marine training, delivered by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult. Over the past two years, the project, delivered at t
Acta Marine has acquired Offshore Wind Services B.V. (OWS) of Rotterdam, including the UK subsidiary OWPMS Ltd. OWS owns 10 Crew Transfer Vessel that are operated to transfer technicians and parts to and from offshore wind turbines. OWS will be renamed Acta Marine Wind Services. The daily management
Siemens and GE led a group of multinational industrial conglomerates that improved their positioning within MAKE’s top 15 global rankings, according to MAKE’s Global Wind Turbine OEM 2014 Market Share analysis. Multi-industrial turbine OEMs accounted for 37% of the global market in 2014, an increase
Van Oord has awarded Vos Prodect Innovations with a contract for the design and supply of cable protection systems for the Gemini offshore wind project. This is the first project where Vos Prodect will utilize its recently developed Monopile Entry System (Pro-MES). The Pro-MES system will be install
CTruk, in collaboration with BMT Nigel Gee, has added a 26m Semi-SWATH vessel to its offering, for which it believes to be an ideal solution to meet the increasingly complex demands of the burgeoning European offshore wind industry. Essex-based CTruk is the second largest producer of crew transfer v
Being awarded the concession to develop three French offshore wind farms is not only a great opportunity for EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDF EN) to further expand its renewables portfolio but also a great opportunity for the country’s industrial sector and offshore wind knowledge base. Offshore WIND int
Naming ceremony for the first BlueTec tidal platform will be held on April 9 in Den Helder, the Netherlands. Shortly after the event, the tidal turbine will be installed offshore the isle of Texel and will start generating power for a Texel-based facility. BlueTec is a joint project of 12 Dutch high
Today, TenneT launced a special website where relevant stakeholders can provide feedback on the development of an offshore electricity grid. For some time, TenneT has been consulting stakeholders on technology and planning. The overall goal of this process is to optimize, together with stakeholders,
The steel structures that make up the bioWAVE 250kW pilot unit have been fabricated and are currently undergoing machining, painting, and assembly. The complete bioWAVE, with integrated O-Drive, will undergo onshore tests and commissioning in the coming months, before being transported to the ocean
The certification company SGS has been commissioned for the certification of the Veja Mate offshore wind farm project in the German North Sea. The certification work ranges from the examination of the project’s fundamentals to its final design — in accordance with the standards of the German Maritim
FLiDAR has wrapped up the onsite wind measurements at Mainstream Renewable Power’s 448MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm. The FLiDAR floating LiDAR buoy provided on-site wind measurements and resulted in a considerable development time and cost saving compared to a traditional meteorological mas
