Dutch transmission system operator TenneT TSO B.V. has issued a tender for offshore unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey, identification and clearance at the zones identified in the Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap 2030. The tender covers the 700MW Hollandse Kust Noord, the 700MW Hollandse Kust (west) Alpha
GE Renewable Energy has signed a cooperation agreement with State Power Investment Corp (SPIC) to bring the Haliade-X 12MW offshore wind turbine to China. GE announced in March last year that it will invest more than USD 400 million to develop and deploy Haliade-X 12MW, the world’s most powerful off
Siemens Gamesa has been selected as the preferred supplier of turbines for the 300MW Hai Long 2 offshore wind project in Taiwan. The agreement is subject to contract and final investment decision from project developers Northland Power Inc. and Yushan Energy. Siemens Gamesa said it will use its exis
A nacelle from GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X 12 MW offshore wind turbine has arrived at the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s testing facility in Blyth, Northumberland, ahead of a testing programme designed to prepare it for years of operation at sea. This nacelle, comparable in size to s
Wiking Helikopter Service GmbH has signed a multi-year contract with Siemens Gamesa to support wind turbine maintenance on the East Anglia ONE wind farm offshore UK. Wiking will provide helicopter hoist operations for service technicians and material to Siemens Gamesa’s 102 7MW wind turbines onsite
E.ON and RWE Renewables have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for more than 20 offshore and onshore wind farms in the UK. Under the 2.5-year agreement, E.ON buys around 3TWh of power annually from wind farms in the UK which are operated by RWE. The deal covers a capacity of 892MW of wind gene
Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs plans to set a goal of developing further 10GW of offshore wind capacity between 2026 and 2035. During the inauguration of the Formosa 1, Taiwan’s first commercial offshore wind farm, the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, asked the Ministry of Economic Affairs
Fraunhofer IWES has commenced a project focused on investigating how the wind conditions in the German Bight could change if offshore wind farms are expanded on a large scale. The X-Wakes “Interaction Between the Wakes of Large Offshore Wind Farms and Wind Farm Clusters With the Marine Atmospheric B
GE Renewable Energy has posted a video showing the installation time-lapse of the Haliade-X 12MW wind turbine at Maasvlakte, the Port of Rotterdam. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Youtube. The GE Haliade-X 12MW prototype wind turbine produced its
The Rampion wind farm offshore Sussex, UK has been shut down due to a fault on the wind farm’s high voltage electrical distribution system, a spokesperson from the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm confirmed to Offshore WIND. According to BBC, the 400MW wind farm has been shut since 26 October. ”We are in
Ørsted and project partners have held an inauguration ceremony for the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind project in Taiwan. Formosa 1 Phase 2 is an extension of the existing two-turbine Formosa 1 Phase 1 project, which was officially commissioned in April 2017. The 120MW project comprises 20 Siemens G
The Board of Directors of MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has appointed Johnny Thomsen as the new Co-CEO following the resignation of Lars Bondo Krogsgaard. The appointment of the Co-CEO is the role of the Chairman of the Board of Directors as part of the joint venture agreement. Vestas holds the chairmans
Vroon’s walk-to-work vessel VOS Start has begun operating at the Northwester 2 offshore wind project in Belgium. For the charter, VOS Start has been fitted with a three-dimensional motion-compensation system (3D Tip), with a lifting capacity of up to 5t. All operations are being conducted from the p
The UK-based InfraStrata has opened a share sale to raise a minimum of GBP 6 million to finalize the purchase of Harland and Wolff from administrator BDO NI. InfraStrata revealed it is seeking to raise the amount through a placing of new Ordinary Shares by way of an accelerated bookbuild at 0.3 penc
