An offshore hydrogen production plant powered by electricity from a floating wind turbine is scheduled to be put into operation next year in France. The hydrogen production system will be installed at the SEM-REV demonstration site, off the coast of Le Croisic in France where it will be linked with
EDF Renouvelables (EDF Renewables) has awarded contracts for geotechnical, geophysical and unexploded ordnance (UXO) surveys for an offshore wind site in the Bay of Biscay. A consortium between Geotec SAS and Igeotest will carry out geotechnical survey in water depths of between 20 and 80 metres for
Hitachi ABB Power Grids has launched a portfolio of transformer products for offshore floating applications. The transformer products are designed to overcome the challenging offshore environment and withstand the physically demanding conditions on floating structures, the company said. The portfoli
Equinor has selected Sweden’s MMT to carry out the 2021 export cable route surveys for the Beacon Wind wind farm offshore Massachusetts, US. The project is led by MMT’s team based in Providence – MMT US Inc. Having commenced in April to complete in July, MMT, the Ocean Infinity company, is conductin
Offshore installation work is set to start this month on a new offshore wind farm to be built off the Scottish coast, for which one of Saipem’s crane vessels and Prysmian’s cable laying vessels will soon mobilise. The DP2 heavy lift vessel S3000 is currently in the Port of Schiedam and will be mobil
Conservative wind turbine design lifetime limits are a costly distraction from the potential of offshore wind projects to continue to help meet decarbonisation targets, K2 Management said, calling on the offshore wind industry to be better aligned in project timelines and equipment lifecycles. As th
Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy is reviving its interest in offshore wind investments after deciding to bow out and stop investments and sell its ownership stakes in a number of wind farms in late 2015. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our sister site Offshore Ene
US-based Jones Act maritime solutions provider Crowley and Denmark-headquartered safety training specialist RelyOn Nutec have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on delivering offshore wind safety training across the US. Through a newly established consortium, the two companies will de
Two uncrewed vessels remotely controlled from shore have travelled up to 40 kilometres offshore into the North Sea to undertake survey work for Berwick Bank and Marr Bank Offshore Wind Developments, owned by SSE Renewables. The XO-450 Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs), owned and operated by XOCEAN, pe
Five companies operating in the North of Tyne region have been selected to showcase their innovative technologies to offshore wind industry players Equinor and EDF Renewables as part of the Technology, Innovation and Green Growth for Offshore Renewables (TIGGOR) programme. The successful companies –
The Netherlands is studying eight new areas off its coast as potential locations where offshore wind farms would be built after 2030. All but one of the eight search zones is expected to have a lower Levelised Cost of Energy (LCoE) compared to the IJmuiden Ver Wind Farm Zone. According to a prelimin
Marine energy and infrastructure services company Acteon has secured an integrated project with Saipem for casing installation and drilling support on the Calvados (Courseulles-sur-Mer) wind farm offshore France. The contract was signed by LDD, a product and service line brand in the Acteon foundati
Ørsted has announced a ban on the landfilling of wind turbine blades and has committed to either reuse, recycle, or recover 100 per cent of the blades coming from repowering or end-of-design-life decommissioning of its offshore and onshore wind farms. As part of its new sustainability strategy and w
Dogger Bank Wind Farm has chartered two newbuild Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOV) for the construction and commissioning work on Dogger Bank – the world’s largest offshore wind project. Dogger Bank Wind Farm signed charter agreements for one CSOV each with Edda Wind and Awind AS. Under
