Norway’s Kvaerner is establishing two new focus areas with an aim to expand its operations within the renewables industry, including offshore wind, and the oil & gas sector. The move comes as Kvaerner aims to increase its annual revenue for around 40% within a few years, from circa NOK 7.3 billion i
Energi Coast, North East England’s offshore wind cluster, has recently expanded to include some of the leading offshore wind developers such as Equinor, innogy, and SSE. “The cluster now includes developers Equinor and SSE which are joint venture partners in Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farms and innog
The Bristol Airport in the UK has signed an agreement with Ørsted to have 100% of its electricity supply powered by renewables. Under the three-year agreement, Bristol Airport’s annual electricity use of 17 million kWh will be powered entirely by renewable sources. Over the duration of the contract,
German wind turbine manufacturer Senvion has entered into an exclusivity agreement with Siemens Gamesa to pursue negotiations for the sale of selected Services and Onshore assets in Europe. The agreement was approved unanimously by Senvion’s creditors’ committee. The approval of the insolvency plans
CEO of the Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA) David Connolly has called for greater urgency from the Irish government and political system to support the development of offshore wind. According to Connolly, Ireland’s Climate Action Plan sets out the vision and actions on how offshore wind can be d
Global Renewables Shipbrokers (GRS) has won a contract to procure offshore transport and installation services for the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan. GRS is in charge of selecting and contracting all service providers for the transport of foundations from Europe to Taiwan, as well as the subse
PGE Group and Orlen Group have signed a letter of intent (LoI) to cooperate on the development of offshore wind in Poland. Under the deal, the parties intend to exchange offshore wind know-how, prepare for investments in maritime infrastructure and supply logistics and assess the key parameters of t
SeaTwirl has initiated the S2 floating wind turbine project after having secured a EUR 2.48 million grant from the European Commission. SeaTwirl said it will use the grant for detailed construction and project management, as well as marketing and commercialization of the full-scale SeaTwirl S2 1MW f
Ørsted is preparing for a potential Taiwan New Dollar (TWD) denominated green bond issuance in Taiwan towards the end of this year to finance the Greater Changhua offshore wind projects. The company has selected BNP Paribas, Bank of Taiwan, CTBC Bank, and Deutsche Bank as arrangers. In April 2019, Ø
ALE has provided a full pre-piling template installation package to DEME Group’s jack-up vessel Apollo ahead of piling operations at the Moray East offshore wind farm in the UK. ALE carried out barge load-out, transportation and installation of the pre-piling template and provided 20 axle lines of S
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) is holding a workshop in October about the Dutch offshore wind farm zones, with focus on the Hollandse Kust (Noord) tender. The event will take place on 8 October at the RAI Amsterdam convention center during the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2019
Dutch offshore foundations manufacturer Sif opened a sales office in Tokyo, Japan, on 5 September. Te Roermond-headquartered company said that it has closely followed offshore wind market developments in Japan since 2015 and that it for that purpose teamed up with Japan’s Sato Tekko. The Japanese go
DeepOcean Group is splitting DeepOcean UK into two entities, including DeepOcean Subsea Cables and a new division dedicated to its seabed intervention and trenching business. The company said the split will see the existing Cable Lay and Trenching division (DeepOcean CL&T) divided into a seabed inte
Innogy and RWE Supply & Trading have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Deutsche Bahn (German Rail – DB) for the supply of electricity from the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm. The supplied volume comprises 25MW, which is the equivalent of four turbines, representing 8% of the total product
