Spanish company EOLOS Floating Lidar Solutions has been selected by the Lithuanian Energy Agency to perform hydrometeorological measurements to support the development of the first offshore wind farm in Lithuania. Under the tender requirements, EOLOS will deliver the services within 15 months from t
Dublin-based Gazelle Wind Power (Gazelle) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Vienna Consulting Engineers ZT GmbG (VCE) to support its 2 MW floating wind pilot project in the Canary Islands. Under the MoU, VCE will provide design services, including load capacity determination, inspe
Ersg and Taylor Hopkinson have been selected to supply personnel to work on the Moray West offshore wind project in Scotland. The two companies will supply temporary staff for the lifecycle of the project. “After a competitive tendering process, ersg are ecstatic to have been declared one of two exc
Washington-based All American Marine (AAM) has won a contract to build a research and hydrographic survey vessel for Geodynamics, an NV5 company, that will be used in the offshore wind market. The R/V Shackleford, named after the southernmost barrier island in the Cape Lookout National Seashore chai
UK-headquartered OPITO and National Offshore Wind Institute (NOWI), based at Bristol Community College in Massachusetts, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which could support thousands of new jobs in the growing US offshore wind market. Under the MoU signed at the IPF conference in New
U-Ming Marine Offshore Company Limited (UMO) has acquired two secondhand crew transfer vessels (CTVs), UMO Mistral and UMO Scirocco, and completed their reflagging. The company, a joint venture between Taiwan’s bulk shipping company U-Ming Marine Transport Corporation and Denmark’s World Marine Offs
UK-based investment company Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) has struck a deal to acquire a 7.75 per cent ownership interest in the Lincs wind farm offshore England. According to ORIT, the acquisition is expected to be completed in the second quarter of this year once the needed consen
DNV has issued a verification letter to Wison Offshore & Marine for its w.semi semi-submersible floating wind foundation technology. The verification letter demonstrates the technical feasibility and commercial readiness of the technology, and concludes the first stage of the verification process, a
Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) has partnered with ABB to develop what is said to become the world’s largest mobile grid simulator that will enable testing of next-generation offshore wind turbines. The simulator is being developed under the Mobil-Grid-CoP project launched in 202
Enefit Green has contracted Ramboll for a preliminary design of the Hiiu offshore wind farm in Estonia, with the technical analysis of the project scheduled to be completed in August this year. Meanwhile, the environmental impact assessment for the up to up to 1.1 GW offshore wind farm is also near
Louis Dreyfus Armateurs and Tidal Transit have launched the first of the three crew transfer vessels (CTVs) dedicated to the operations and maintenance of the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm. On Thursday, 28 April, the launch of the vessel was attended by representatives of the French shipyard OCEA
After sending off the first tower sections for the Hywind Tampen wind turbines from its Bilbao factory at the beginning of March, Haizea Wind Group is nearing completion of its part of the project with eight towers manufactured so far. The 8-metre-diameter towers, the world’s largest in this respect
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) plans to hold the next Gulf of Maine Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force meeting on 19 May as part of the agency’s work on refining the process for identifying a Wind Energy Area in the Gulf of Maine that is suitable for leasing. The meeting
Ørsted now expects costs to reinstate the integrity of inter-array cables affected by cable protection issues at some of the company’s offshore wind farms to amount to up to DKK 1.3 billion (around EUR 175 million) and not up to DKK 3 billion as initially anticipated. As reported, Ørsted discovered
