Business & Finance

Three More FORCE Tidal Projects Get Boost

Nova Scotia Government has granted four awards that will help tidal energy developers deploy the first turbine arrays in the Bay of Fundy. In October, developers at the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) applied to the Department of Energy to receive a developmental feed-in tariff, an es

Atlantis Awarded FiT for 4.5 MW of Tidal Power at FORCE

Atlantis Resources Limited’s Canadian subsidiary has been awarded a Feed-in Tariff (FiT) for up to 4.5 megawatts of tidal generation to be deployed at the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) in Nova Scotia, Canada. The Developmental Feed-In-Tariff award of C$530 (£292) per megawatt hour (

MAKE: European Offshore Wind Heading toward 2016 Cliff

As the offshore wind industry is making important progress to reduce cost of energy in support of an outlook for global average annual growth of 22% to 2023, the European near term outlook shows a sharp decline of more than 60% in grid connected offshore wind capacity in 2016 compared to 2015, as th

MHI Vestas Receives Order for 32 8MW Turbines for Burbo Bank Extension

DONG Energy has placed the first commercial order for 32 of MHI Vestas Offshore Wind’s record breaking V164-8.0 MW, the world’s most powerful wind turbine, for the 258MW Burbo Bank Extension project in the UK. Blades for the project will be manufactured at the recently announced production facility

Dong Decides to Build Burbo Bank Extension

DONG Energy has decided to construct the offshore wind farm Burbo Bank Extension located 8 km off the United Kingdom coast in Liverpool Bay. Burbo Bank Extension will have a total capacity of 258MW and is expected to be commissioned in 2017. Burbo Bank Extension is the first of three projects for wh

Boskalis, VolkerWessels to Handle Wikinger’s Foundations

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) and Volker Stevin International (VolkerWessels) have been awarded a contract by Iberdrola Renewables Offshore Deutschland GmbH for the transport and installation of seventy wind turbine foundations and six offshore substation piles for the Wikinger Offshore

More Work for Havyard with Esvagt’s Dudgeon OWF Deal

Havyard Ship Technology AS has signed a contract with the Danish shipping company ESVAGT for the design and building of another Havyard 832 SOV wind farm service vessel. ESVAGT will use the vessel on a long-term contract with Dudgeon Ltd. for the provision of services for Dudgeon offshore wind farm,

Navantia Wins EUR 160 Mln Wikinger OWF Contract

IBERDROLA and Navantia have entered into an agreement valued at €160 million, under the terms of which the shipbuilding firm will be completing work for the Wikinger offshore wind farm in Germany at its facilities in Puerto Real (Cádiz) and Fene (A Coruña). The contract is one of the largest awarded

EnBW Buys Albatros Offshore Wind Farm

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG has acquired the Albatros offshore wind farm project from the consortium partners STRABAG and the Norderland/ETANAX Group. This offshore wind project, which has approval for 79 wind turbines of the 5-7 megawatt rating class, is located 105 kilometres from the coast

CG Bags Another Northwind Contract

Avantha Group Company CG has been awarded a contract from the Belgian offshore wind farm operator Northwind to provide operation and maintenance services for the 216 MW wind farm offshore substation on the Lodewijk bank, 40 km off the Belgian coast. This prestigious order follows a previous contract

Dong Energy Becomes Sole Owner of Barrow Offshore Wind Farm

Esvagt’s SOV to Work on Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm

Dudgeon Offshore Wind Limited has awarded a 5 year contract for the Service Operation Vessel to Esvagt AS. The contracted Service Operation Vessel (SOV) for Dudgeon wind farm is of the Havyard-832 design with a length of 83.7 meters and a width of 17.6 meters. The SOV is a DP-2 Class operated vessel

GeoSea’s New Jack-Up Vessel to Feature TTS’s Crane

TTS Group ASA has, through its subsidiary TTS NMF GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, secured a new contract for the delivery of one 800 tonne Leg-Encircling Crane. The crane is for a jack-up vessel, to be built for Belgium-based GeoSea at Uljanik Shipyard in Croatia. The total contract value is approx. 120 M

EnBW Fights for Offshore Wind Network Connection

On the recommendation of the Higher Regional Court of Dusseldorf, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG and German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), in consultation with the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), have entered into an arrangement with respect to the capacity allocation for German