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Marmen Welcon Teams Up with Smulders to Produce TPs for US Offshore Wind Market
Marmen Welcon, a joint venture between two manufacturers of onshore and offshore wind towers, has entered a strategic alliance with Smulders to produce transition pieces (TPs) for the US offshore wind market at Marmen Welcon facility which will be built in the Port of Albany. The companies will be t
Largest Floating Offshore Wind Farm Stands Complete
Installation of the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm, the Kincardine Offshore Wind, has been completed. The 50 MW project is located approximately 15 kilometres off the southeast coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The wind farm’s five Vestas 9.525 MW wind turbines and one 2 MW Vestas unit
North Star Renewables Secures EUR 112 Million Loan for Dogger Bank SOVs
North Star Renewables has secured a loan of GBP 96 million (approximately EUR 112 million) from Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) to build the three Service Operations Vessels (SOVs) that will serve the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm. The vessel owner said the loan added to its own balance sheet
Deutsche Windtechnik Sets Up Offshore Ops in UK
Deutsche Windtechnik has established an offshore wind maintenance business unit in the UK, following the same move the company did in the onshore segment in 2016. The German company’s new unit in the UK, Deutsche Windtechnik Offshore Ltd., began operations on 1 August and is managed as an independen
Busy Jack-Up Duo Brings Cadeler 253 Per Cent More in H1 Revenue
Cadeler’s wind farm installation vessels Wind Orca and Wind Osprey have achieved 87 per cent utilisation, and at competitive market rates, in the first half of this year, bringing the company a 253 per cent increase in revenue compared to the same period in 2020. Last year, Cadeler reported a EUR 9
Baltic Eagle Swoops on Port of Roenne
Denmark’s Port of Roenne A/S has been selected as an installation port for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. Iberdrola and Vestas have signed a contract to supply 50 units of the V174-9.5 MW offshore wind turbine for the Baltic Eagle project situated in German waters 40 k
NOV to Design and Equip Cadeler’s New X-Class Offshore Wind Jack-Ups
Cadeler and COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry have contracted NOV to supply the overall vessel design and jacking systems for the two X-Class wind turbine installation vessels Cadeler recently ordered at COSCO. Under the contract, NOV, the parent company of the vessel designer GustoMSC, will supply two
September Debut for Scandinavia’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm
Vattenfall will inaugurate the 604 MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm on 6 September at Geocenter Møns Klint, Denmark. Kriegers Flak is Denmark’s and Scandinavia’s largest offshore wind farm. It increases Danish electricity production from wind turbines by about 16 per cent and will cover the annua
Tender for up to Nine Substation Topsides Coming in Early September
Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts for up to nine offshore substation topsides and the accompanying module support frames (MSF) for two offshore wind farms are expected to be put out to tender in early September. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our sist
RWE Sets Up Offshore Wind Division
German energy company RWE has decided to reorganise its renewables businesses and manage the global offshore wind and onshore wind/PV businesses in separate divisions. Sven Utermöhlen will be responsible for the Offshore Wind division, and Silvia Ortín Rios will be in charge of Onshore Wind/PV. Mark
Denmark Opens Doors to Unsolicited Offshore Wind Bids
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has launched a new technology-neutral tender for multiple renewable energy technologies, with an “open-door” procedure in place for offshore wind. In its third technology-neutral tender, opened on 23 August, the DEA is inviting bids for the state support of solar power
RWE and Kansai EPCO Form Floating Offshore Wind Pact in Japan
Japan’s Kansai Electric Power (Kansai EPCO) and Germany’s RWE Renewables (RWE) have signed an agreement to jointly study the feasibility of a large-scale floating offshore wind project off the Japanese coast. The two companies agreed to further strengthen their existing relationship and leverage the
UK to Study How Offshore Wind Affects Marine Ecosystems
A new research programme has been launched in the UK to address the gap in understanding how marine ecosystems will respond to the continued growth of offshore wind as the UK sector ramps up to deliver 40 GW of offshore wind by 2030. The GBP 7 million programme – known as ECOWind – is a […]
MEM Selected Owner’s Representative for Vietnamese Intertidal Wind Farm
Climate Investor One (CIO) and ST International (STI) have selected Modern Energy Management (MEM) as the Owner’s Representative to commence commercial operations on the 48 MW Tra Vinh Wind Power (TWPC) intertidal wind farm in Vietnam. The TWPC has been under development since 2017. It is a joint i