MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has received an order from Vattenfall to supply 49 V164-8.0MW turbines that have been optimised for the 406MW Horns Rev 3 project, utilising a power mode to be able to deliver a maximum output of 8.3MW. The contract also includes a five year full scope service contract to op
CS Wind UK, which is kicking off works on the UK’s first commercial offshore wind turbine tower factory, will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Siemens to produce up to 200 towers for the company’s offshore wind turbines between 2017 and 2019. The signing of the MoU has been reported alo
TenneT has congratulated DONG Energy for winning the tender to build the wind farms off the coast of Borssele and pointed out that a “globally unique” tendering process approach in the Netherlands leads to drastic reductions in the cost of offshore wind. TenneT’s CEO Mel Kroon said: “The result of t
On 6 June, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published the Environmental Assessment (EA) for Commercial Wind Lease Issuance and Site Assessment Activities on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf Offshore New York for a 30-day public comment period. In response to stakeholder requests,
MENCK reported that it had recently mobilised to an unnamed UK offshore wind project with sister company Core Grouting. For installing monopiles, MENCK will be providing its large hydraulic pile hammer MHU 3500S with Core undertaking the grouting scope. Fabian Hippe, Managing Director at MENCK said:
German government plans to limit the installation of offshore wind farms in the period between 2021 and 2025 to 3.1GW and hold a tender for 1.7GW of offshore wind in 2017 and 1.4GW in 2018 to adjust the offshore wind development to that of the high-voltage transmission grid, according to Reuters. Pr
The offshore energy industry is constantly moving forward. Despite challenging times in the industry, there are impressive achievements that require celebration. During the first Offshore Energy Opening Gala Dinner on Monday October 24th, Navingo brings the industry together to celebrate some of the
The view at Kalmar Sound in Sweden has changed considerably since November of last year. The five NEG Micon 2MW turbines have been dismantled. It had been operational since 2001 and Vattenfall has had ownership since 2006 when DONG Energy handed over to them. Why was the Yttre Stengrund wind farm di
French transport engineering company, Octra, and her Madrid home-based sister company, Coordinadora, have transported GE’s Haliade 150-6MW offshore wind turbine to its onshore testing location in Osterild, Denmark. Three tower sections embarked the journey in Northern Spain, where the manufacturing
Vattenfall’s Offshore Hotel Finds Its Sea Legs (VIDEO) Vattenfall has shared a video of its offshore wind farm accommodation platform, the future home for the service teams working at the 288MW DanTysk and the 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm, being installed some 90 kilometres off the German North
The Marine Transfer Forum has issued “Offshore Personnel Transfer by Crane – Best Practice Guidelines for Routine and Emergency Operations”, a new guidance document that aims to support an international market with over 5 million passenger transfers a year. The guideline has been developed by EnerMe
On the 30th of June, the Belgian Offshore Cluster (BOC), in partnership with Buijsse Specials, Geoxyz and G4S, proposed a number of new services and technologies for the maintenance of offshore wind turbines in Ostend. Belgian Offshore Cluster said that with this move it unites suppliers with very s
To celebrate Nordsee Ost first TW production milestone, Fabricom Offshore Services has offered the wind farm the adoption of a Helgoland-born seal named WindSeal01. Fabricom was able to make the offer after donating to Verein Jordsand, an association involved in North Sea nature and wildlife preserv
TenneT Presents ‘Hub and Spoke’ Offshore Wind Concept (VIDEO) TenneT has presented a ‘hub and spoke’ concept to set up a large European offshore electricity system that incorporates building of an island in the middle of the North Sea. Where Does Brexit Leave Offshore Wind? With the UK referendum re
