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EWE Seeks Helicopter Services for Two German Offshore Wind Farms

German EWE Group, which owns the Riffgat and Alpha Ventus offshore wind farms, the latter together with RWE and Vattenfall, has opened tenders for offshore helicopter services for the two wind farms located in the North Sea. Through the two tenders, open for applications until 2 December, a two-year

Three US Ports Secure Federal Financing for Offshore Wind Projects

Three US ports have secured around USD 93.2 million through the Port Infrastructure Development Grants for projects aiming to serve the offshore wind industry. The Arthur Kill Offshore Wind Terminal Project on Staten Island, New York, has secured a little over USD 48 million to fund the dredging of

Dominion Energy, Attorney General File Settlement Agreement for 2.6 GW CVOW Project

Dominion Energy Virginia, the Office of the Attorney General, Walmart, Sierra Club, and Appalachian Voices have filed a settlement agreement in Dominion Energy’s pending petition to the State Corporation Commission of Virginia (SCC) to reconsider the performance guarantee included in the final order

BP to Open Offshore Wind Office in Germany, Starts Recruitment Drive

Global energy major bp plans to open an office in Hamburg, Germany dedicated to the development of offshore wind projects and is in the process of seeking employees for the new office. Offshore wind turbines are essential for a successful energy transition, and in Germany, the topic of wind power is

Ramboll to Design Atlantic Shores 1 Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations

Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, a 50:50 joint venture between EDF Renewables and Shell New Energies US, has selected Ramboll for the design of the wind turbine foundations for Atlantic Shores Project 1, the 1.5 GW offshore wind farm planned to be built offshore New Jersey. Ramboll will provide a comp

Vestas to Manufacture Blades for 15 MW Turbines in Italy

Vestas has announced it will begin serial production of V236-15.0 MW blades from the third quarter of 2023 at its blade factory in Taranto, Italy. A few days ago, Vestas rolled out the first 115.5-metre blade built for the V236-15.0 MW offshore wind turbine prototype, using the mould which was manuf

Dutch-Belgian Joint Venture to Deliver Ostwind 3 Offshore Substation

German offshore transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz has selected the Dutch-Belgian joint venture (JV) comprising HSM Offshore Energy, Smulders, and Iv-Offshore & Energy to deliver the Ostwind 3 offshore high voltage substation in the Baltic Sea. The joint venture will be responsible for the e

TotalEnergies and Shell Join First Hydrogen Area at Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference

The following is a press release from Navingo BV, the owner of offshoreWIND.biz and organiser of the annual Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2022, coming up on 29 and 30 November in Amsterdam, will feature a Hydrogen Area

Vestas Rolls Out First 115.5-Metre Wind Turbine Blade

Vestas has manufactured and rolled out the first 115.5-metre blade built for the V236-15.0 MW™ offshore wind turbine prototype. The blade was manufactured in Vestas’ production facility in Nakskov, Denmark, using the mould which was built at the factory in Lem, Denmark. The design of the blade has r

X1 Wind Installs Downwind Floating Prototype

Siemens Gamesa Installs Nacelle on Prototype Turbine in Denmark

Shortly after installing the towers for the SG 14-236 DD offshore wind turbine prototype at the test center for large wind turbines in Oesterild, Denmark, Siemens Gamesa has placed the nacelle at the top of the tower – an exercise known as ‘the big lift’, the company wrote in an update on social med

GC Rieber Shipping Orders Two WindKeeper SOVs

Norway-headquartered GC Rieber Shipping has placed an order for two WindKeeper service operations vessels (SOVs) for offshore wind operations at Cemre shipyard in Türkiye. The shipowner and project house has set up a stand-alone company for the vessels called WindKeeper with a total investment of ap

High Offshore Wind Demand Lifts Fugro

Fugro has reported a revenue of EUR 480.2 million for the third quarter of 2022, an increase of 17.4 per cent compared to EUR 378 million in Q3 2021, said to be supported by high demand for offshore wind solutions. The increase in revenue was fuelled by ongoing high client demand across markets, mos

Offshore Wind Could Create 17,000+ Jobs in Spain by 2050

Offshore wind could create over 7,000 new jobs in Spain until 2030, with more than 17,000 people working in the sector by 2050, according to estimates in a white paper released by the Spanish Wind Energy Association (AEE). The white paper states that, if Spain reached its 2050 targets for installed