Danish companies are turning their attention to Hvide Sande which is expected to become the centre of activities related to what is to be the largest offshore wind farm in Danish waters – Vattenfall’s 406MW Horns Rev 3, the Danish Wind Energy Association (DWIA) said. The Swedish energy company and i
NorSea Group has set up an offshore wind company, NSG Wind A/S, in Esbjerg, Denmark, which has been set up to deliver the full range of offshore wind industry services to wind farm operators, wind turbine manufacturers and sub-suppliers, among others. “European offshore wind markets continue to grow
E.ON’s Rampion Project Team has completed piling work on 55 out of 116 foundations on the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm, off the coast of Sussex, UK. The update on the project was revealed in E.ON’s apology to residents living near the Sussex coastline who once again complained about suffering sl
Iberdrola plans to relocate the Wikinger project corporation to Sassnitz, Jürgen Blume, director of Iberdrola Renovables Offshore Deutschland GmbH, said during the recent topping-off event of the wind farm’s operations building at the Port of Sassnitz-Mukran. “We have always been emphasizing that we
Emden-based HeliService International has taken delivery of its first Leonardo AW169 helicopter which will be used to support Siemens’ personnel during maintenance operations on the 600MW Gemini wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands. The aircraft is on a 5-year contract for winching maintenance
GE Tabling Bid for Adwen This Week? General Electric (GE) plans to submit a bid to buy the offshore wind turbine maker Adwen, a 50 -50 joint venture between Gamesa and Areva, this week, according to the French magazine La Lettre de l’Expansion. HeavyLift@Sea Unveils Upgraded Wind Farm SOV Design Ger
Dalby Offshore is currently trialling a new system for motion and impact monitoring of offshore vessels, Oceanic Dynamics, on the recently delivered crew transfer vessel Dalby Ouse. Oceanic Dynamics is created by UK Electronic Solutions, part of NSSLGlobal Group, and is designed to protect the longe
CWind and wind turbine O&M specialist Rotos 360 have joined forces to provide blade repair and maritime logistics services working out of the port of Grimsby in the UK. Rotos 360 is using the Gurit Renuvo UV cured blade repair method on the unnamed project, while CWind is providing two vessels. One
Esvagt has taken delivery of Esvagt Njord, a service operation vessel (SOV) purpose-built to service the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm, from Havyard Ship Technology in Norway. The Dudgeon offshore wind farm will comprise 67 Siemens 6MW turbines installed some 32 kilometres off the coast of Norfol
Eight offshore wind technicians from the Humber area are about to start work on the installation of wind turbine foundations at DONG Energy’s 580MW Race Bank offshore wind farm. Race Bank is located off the North Norfolk coast and is being built out of DONG Energy’s construction base in the Grimsby
A paper proposing a novel computational tool for the reliability-based assessment of wave, tidal and offshore wind farms was published yesterday in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. The paper presents the new tool to identify typical decision problems and to shed light on the complexity
SgurrEnergy has secured a 12-year construction and operational monitoring contract for 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, for which the new financing structure was put in place this month. The scope of the contract includes monitoring of construction works and the financial and
German wind energy company Reetec has appointed Peter Vogt as the company’s new Operative Managing Director. Reetec is part of EDF EN Services, the EDF Energies Nouvelles Group’s subsidiary dedicated to Operations and Maintenance in Europe. Prior to transferring to the new position at Reetec, Vogt w
Fugro has been appointed by Nexans Norway AS for the provision of environmental advisory services as part of its global Environmental Advisor Framework. The global framework agreement with Fugro commenced this month and will be in place for one year. Nexans Marine Installation Department installs hi
