The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has opened a tender dedicated to corrosion protection for secondary steel components of offshore wind substructures. The selected party will be in charge of carrying out a study looking into all aspects of corrosion, including problem identification
Siemens Gamesa reported a 12% year-on-year increase in revenue in the first nine months of the 2019 fiscal year, to EUR 7,283 million, driven by record activity in offshore wind. Siemens Gamesa also saw a 23% rise in revenue year-on-year in the third quarter, amounting to EUR 2,632 million, said to
German utility EnBW has launched its first two green hybrid bonds on the capital markets with a total issue size of EUR 1 billion which will be used to fund offshore and onshore wind projects and photovoltaics. This makes EnBW the first German green hybrid bond issuer, the company said. Rating agenc
Prysmian Group has shared additional details on their contract to provide cables for Vattenfall’s Hollandse Kust Zuid 3 and 4 offshore wind farms in the Netherlands. The award follows Vattenfall’s successful bid for the permit to develop these non-subsidised wind farms. The notice to proceed is expe
RPS Group has secured Level 2 certification from DNV GL for its Floating LiDAR technology. According to RPS, the certification qualifies the RPS Lidar 4.5 buoy type to collect bankable wind resource data for the development of offshore wind farms. The news comes after a six-month validation deployme
The first MHI Vestas 8.4MW wind turbine at the 269MW Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm has been commissioned and is delivering power to the German grid, Northland Deutsche Bucht GmbH said. “This is a great achievement for our Deutsche Bucht project,” said Jens Poulsen, Project Director of Northland
DNV GL has invited wind energy stakeholders to join a new Joint Industry Project (JIP) to explore the potential of using light detection and ranging (LIDAR) to measure wind speed turbulence intensity (TI) for various applications in the wind industry. LIDAR is becoming the preferred technology for w
Northern Ireland’s coastline is not suitable for fixed offshore wind farm development, according to a report by the Department of Economy. The report writes that as 99% of Northern Ireland’s potential offshore wind sites are located within 13km off the coast the visual impact would represent a signi
HRH Prince Charles of Wales officially opened the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Moray Firth, Scotland, on Monday, 29 July. Located 13 kilometres off the coast of Caithness in the North Sea, the 84-turbine Beatrice – the fourth largest offshore wind farm in the world – was completed in Jun
Drydocks World has signed a contract with Petrofac and end-client TenneT to construct the topside for the Alpha platform at the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm zone. Drydocks will provide production engineering, construction, mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, commissioning assistance,
The European Commission has approved the support for six French offshore wind farms selected in the country’s first two tendering rounds. The projects include Courseulles-sur-Mer, Fécamp, Saint-Nazaire and Saint-Brieuc from the Round 1 tender in 2012, as well as Round 2 winners Dieppe-Le Tréport and
Ørsted Wind Power A/S has selected Fred. Olsen Windcarrier to provide a service jack-up vessel or vessels to assist in major component replacements at offshore wind farms. The scope of services for the tender comprises a charter of a jack-up or jack-ups to carry out heavy lifting operations, and the
First Subsea Ltd has won a contract to provide platform mooring connectors to the Kincardine floating offshore wind farm situated off the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland. The company, part of the First Tech Group based in Aberdeen, has confirmed it’s secured the contract with Spanish developer and con
The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy Hub has awarded UK universities with nearly GBP 1 million to support research projects on offshore renewable energy in the first round of its Flexible Fund. The Flexible Fund has been established to allow UK researchers to assess a number of key offshore renewa
