After months of intensive preparations, conversion work and test runs, Deutsche Windtechnik’s 24/7 remote data monitoring will now be housed in new spacious premises with technically well equipped workstations. The specific aim of the conversion was to create the necessary technical and safety condi
Industrial lifting company Granada Material Handling (GMH) has partnered with Siemens to improve its sea operations serving offshore wind turbines around the UK coast. GMH was using a ‘marinised’ version of a standard winch and decided to redesign from the ground up to provide a more tailor-made sol
DBB is expanding its business into offshore wind decommissioning and installation support services. The company said that with its track record of more than 370 offshore heavy lift operations, its vessel crew and project teams have the required skills and experience within safe and efficient executi
MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has been awarded an extension of the service contract at the 21 MW Sprogø offshore wind power plant in Denmark owned by A/S Storebælt. The contract extends the cooperation between MHI Vestas Offshore Wind and A/S Storebælt by three years with the option to extend the contrac
Seajacks has completed Operations & Maintenance (O&M) project at Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm. The company was commissioned by Statkraft, operator and joint owner, to support 2 gearbox changes at 317MW wind farm off the Norfolk coast. Seajacks provided specialist technicians, tooling and lift
Siemens has signed a long-term agreement with Rhyl Flats Wind Farm Ltd., 50.1% owned by RWE AG, to continue providing service and maintenance at the Rhyl Flats wind farm off the coast of North Wales for the next 15 years. Siemens has been providing service and maintenance for the 25 SWT-3.6-107 turb
ECN specialists Masoud Asgarpour and Ashish Dewan were awarded the prize at EWEA Offshore 2015 under the category “winner in supply chain, logistics and O&M”. The award was in the context of an analysis of three innovative scenarios for the installation of an offshore wind farm: Breakwaters: in orde
ANTS Offshore has started its new service for the supply of the North Sea offshore wind farms with the chartered DP II ship ABIS Dundee. It offers constant and unscheduled supply and waste disposal of the offshore stations, the wind parks of the different North Sea wind clusters and the offshore con
Dalby Offshore Services and Scarborough Borough Council formally agreed Heads of Terms for the long term lease on Endeavour Wharf, Whitby at the meeting of the Council’s Cabinet on the 17th March 2015. The lease proposals are for the creation of an offshore renewables business management and harbour
Tidal Transit’s vessel Katie Louise and her crew will work on washing the towers of the 88 wind turbines which make up the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm, located between 9-17 miles off the coast of North Norfolk in the Greater Wash. “This is an industry cleaning project of different scale,” sa
DBB Jack-Up, an operations and maintenance service provider to offshore wind farm owners and turbine manufacturers, today released a new report on O&M in the offshore wind industry. The report based on exclusive research by MAKE Consulting focuses on technology developments and the related impact on
German offshore wind farm, Alpha Ventus achieved 16,582 full capacity hours and generated 994.9 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity from 2011 to 2014, thus exceeded the generation forecasts by around seven per cent. According to the operators, EWE, E.ON and Vattenfall, the wind farm production for 2
RES Offshore has followed up the successful installation of the West of Duddon sands (WoDS) offshore met mast with a contract to carry out the operation and maintenance (O&M) of the met mast and equipment for the next 5 years. The mast was installed in August this year at the 389MW West of Duddon Sa
ELA Container Offshore GmbH has announced the production of 20 new Offshore Living Quarters and Multipurpose Rooms as of beginning of February. The company says that it wants to be able to always react to customers’ needs at short notice. Thereby, within just one year, the Offshore-Rental-Fleet incr
