Carried out by environmental specialists from Gardline Environmental and HiDef Aerial Surveying, the extensive surveys were commissioned to enable Forewind to gather vital information about the species and numbers of bird and marine mammal species, their distributions and seasonal variations across
The exhibition on Anholt Offshore Wind Farm, DjursWindGlobe, officially opened on 25 June where Project Director Flemming Thomsen represented DONG Energy and participated in the official opening of the exhibition. In his opening speech, he pointed out the importance of the local cooperation and told
Windreich AG welcomes the agreement of the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of the Environment for a binding time schedule for connecting the offshore wind parks to the German electricity network. Also, the agreement reached on Tuesday on the part of the Ministers responsible with respect to pr
The 216MW Northwind offshore wind farm project, located in the North Sea, 37km off the Belgian coast, has reached financial close. Mott MacDonald is the lenders’ technical advisor and lenders’ engineer for the project. Northwind will cover an area of approximately 14.5km² and will include 72 Vestas
EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW) has successfully performed the capital increase adopted by resolution on 14 June 2012. In total, 26,598,504 new no-par value bearer shares were purchased at a subscription price of € 30.90 each in return for cash contributions. Gross issue proceeds thus amoun
Hutton’s, the UK’s leading ship supplier, is to merge with Harbour Chandlery Marine Services (HCMS) and in that way advance its offshore industry supply chain. Harbour Chandlery Marine Services is a Norfolk-based specialist supplier of commercial services to the offshore industry. The company will n
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (CWE) announces that it has been advised by Water Corporation that it wishes to progress discussions for up to 2MW of renewable energy supply for Southern Seawater Desalination Plant (SSDP) exclusively with Carnegie. The Water Corporation is open to
Bladt Industries, the Danish steel contractor, has won the EPCI contract for the delivery of a substation for the Northwind Offshore Wind Farm on Bank Zonder Naam off the coast of the Belgian town Zeebrugge. The substation is due to be finished on 1 June 2013, and the installation is planned to take
Japanese government officials have revealed that the country’s first offshore wind farm is expected to begin producing electricity in January 2013. It is being jointly developed by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and Tokyo Electric Power. Due to the Fukushima
Aberdeen-based offshore training provider Allied Training Services has entered a partnership with Maersk Training Aberdeen worth an estimated £100,000 over the next 12 months to provide its accredited training services to the global energy industry. Allied Training Services will provide working at h
Two German ministers presented a proposal aimed at accelerating the development of wind farms off the German coast by introducing new liability arrangements and a long-term offshore grid development plan. “We welcome the proposal by Phillip Rösler, the German federal minister for economic affairs, a
The global wind power supply chain faces a future characterized by stagnating global economic growth, low profit margins and waning government policy support. In the face of such headwinds market consolidation and/or contraction in the industry becomes ever more important, argues MAKE Consulting’s l
Karen Conover, Vice President at DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability, has been named as one of the inaugural Ambassadors for the U.S. Clean Energy, Education & Empowerment (C3E) program. The Ambassador program, one of the new components of the C3E action plan, was announced in London at the Third Clean
P&O Ferries is to highlight its future in the renewable energy sector in an industry showcase in Hull. The company has moved into the sector with the conversion of the cross-Channel freight ship, the European Seaway, into an offshore wind farm accommodation vessel and has further signalled its inten
