GustoMSC congratulates A2SEA with the Offshore Renewables Award. At the Offshore Support Journal Conference, A2SEA’s offshore wind turbine installation vessel ‘Sea Installer’ won first prize. The award winning Sea Installer was built after GustoMSC’s NG-9000C design. A2SEA praised the vessel’s perfo
Medium voltage cables are successively being installed at the Global Tech I offshore wind farm where 17 foundations were already installed. 80 wind turbines will be connected with the submarine power cables to the transformer station. A special cable-laying vessel CS Sovereign is performing the layi
The Senate Finance Committee voted 7-4 in favor of the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2013 (Senate Bill 275) on Tuesday, the CapitalGazette.com reports. This is not an unexpected move, as the offshore wind bill, proposed by Governor Martin O’Malley, gained massive public support this year, alo
GL Garrad Hassan has carried out new analysis questioning the perception that the risk profile of wave and tidal projects is primarily driven by technical challenges. The work was launched today as part of RenewableUK’s Annual marine energy report: “Conquering challenges, Generating Growth,” at the
The innovation house, Supacat, has awarded the build contract to Mustang Marine (Wales) Ltd for a new concept offshore support vessel, the Supacat Multi-purpose Vessel 24. The first boat will be built at Mustang Marine’s Pembroke Dock facility and is scheduled for launch in August this year. To deve
E.ON and TAG Energy Solutions has announced that TAG has been awarded a contract to manufacture 16 monopiles and transition pieces for E.ON’s Humber Gateway offshore wind farm. The contract will see the Teesside based manufacturing firm become the first UK manufacturer to secure a substantial monopi
The Board of Directors of DONG Energy has today approved the 2012 annual report with the following financial highlights and outlook: – EBITDA was DKK 8.6 billion, down DKK 5.1 billion on 2011. In the Energy Markets business unit, EBITDA fell by DKK 6.6 billion from DKK 2.0 billion in 2011 to a loss
In a new report, the UK’s wave and tidal energy industries warn that they will only be able to grow successfully if they get the right level of support from Government – otherwise Britain risks surrendering its world lead in marine energy. The study by RenewableUK says the biggest shake-up of the en
The global wind energy industry will meet once again at the Wind Trade Fair the HANNOVER MESSE 2013 (from April 8 to April 12). All major manufacturers, suppliers, logistics providers, operators, service providers and measurement services, energy businesses, research institutions and developers from
The installation of the first of two innovative suction-installed foundations on Dogger Bank on the weekend represents the first stage of construction of the world’s largest offshore wind development. The foundations will support meteorological masts that will monitor wave and wind conditions at the
Partrac will present a paper at All Energy, titled “Scour Prediction at Offshore Structures: Utility of the DNV (2011) Guidance and the Way Forward for Scour Prediction”. All Energy takes place 22-23 May in Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre. Scour occurs at the seabed due to flow acceleratio
The Obama Administration’s renewable energy program has authorized dozens of renewable energy projects on public lands and will hold the first-ever auctions for commercial wind development in the Atlantic this year, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar told offshore wind stakeholders at a conferenc
Even though there were no offshore wind farms that became operational in 2012, the Netherlands recorded a 0.7% of offshore wind power in its domestic electricity consumption, according to the statistics from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). The Netherlands has four completed offshore wind far
Plans for a new harbor within Grimsby’s Royal Dock, which will be used by the Danish energy giant Dong Energy, have been revealed, reports Grimsby Telegraph. Dong already announced that it is planning to come to Grimsby to construct Westermost Rough windfarm and to conduct operations and maintenance
