South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (DHIC) has received a type certificate for its 5.56MW offshore wind turbine from the international certification agency UL DEWI-OCC. A type certificate is issued after a comprehensive evaluation of the system’s design, performance test of both the
ERSG has appointed Chris Stupack as Head of Offshore Wind in the United States. Stupack will be leading ERSG’s office in Boston, which opened in November last year, where the company will be focusing on supporting the development of the offshore wind market. “I am delighted to be heading up the Bost
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and Vattenfall have launched a GBP 1.5 million programme for UK companies to test and demonstrate O&M technologies at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) project. The three-year programme is seeking technologies that solve current O&M challen
Japanese industrial and engineering corporation Hitachi Zosen and French offshore renewable energy technology developer Naval Energies have agreed to cooperate in the field of floating wind energy. The project between the two companies is based on a feasibility study to jointly design and build floa
Wind farm support vessel (WFSV) Windcat 3 has assisted in the rescue of a casualty vessel nearby the Gwynt y Môr wind farm offshore Rhyl, the UK. Windcat 3 responded to an all ships broadcast call in the morning of 7 July when the starter motor of a speedboat preparing to return from fishing seized.
Siemens Gamesa has taken over operational control of the scheduled maintenance and troubleshooting of turbines at the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the UK, according to the project’s latest Weekly Notice of Operations. Siemens Gamesa has engaged crew transfer vessels (CTVs) Seacat Mischief and Seac
Equinor, the Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) and Korea East-West Power Corporation have established a consortium to develop a 200MW floating offshore wind project in South Korea. The Donghae 1 floating offshore wind farm would be developed near KNOC’s existing Donghae gas platform located 58km
Boskalis and Hwa Chi Construction Co have established a joint venture to transport and install offshore foundations at two wind farms in Taiwan developed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The Changfang and the Xidao offshore wind farms have a combined capacity of 600MW and are expected to
Ørsted has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with EEW to work towards establishing a monopile fabrication facility in Paulsboro, New Jersey, for the Ocean Wind project. According to the project documents, the foundation manufacture facility may longer term expand its scope of activities as
Dutch offshore foundations specialist Sif Holding will manufacture 84 monopiles for the 800MW Vineyard Wind project in Massachusetts, USA. Sif’s scope comprises manufacturing of the monopiles, storage at the company’s Maasvlakte 2 facility in the Port of Rotterdam, and delivery by RoRo load-out via
Siemens Gamesa has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Formosa Plastics Corporation for offshore wind in Taiwan. According to the company, the agreement adds up to a series of earlier agreements with local and international parties to promote a competitive supply chain. To remind, Siemens Game
Turner Iceni’s new crew transfer vessel (CTV) Iceni Revenge has completed its sea trials. The UK company bought the vessel, then named Don Quixote, from Vroon at the beginning of the year with plans to have it undergo full refits. Built in 2009, the 20m South Boat is re-engined with 1400hp MAN and H
The 100th Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbine has been installed at the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the UK. Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s Bold Tern is in charge of installing 88 out of the project’s total 174 turbines, with A2SEA’s Sea Challenger responsible for installing the remaining 86 units. A
Mita-Teknik has launched a new blade pitch system for offshore and onshore turbines with a capacity of up to 12MW. The Mita Pitch System boasts a design life of 30 years and is designed to reduce O&M costs and downtime, Mita-Teknik said. According to the company, the system features a modular pitch
