If Equinor’s bids are successful at New York State’s latest offshore wind solicitation, that could lead to creation of up to 350 jobs related to manufacturing of wind turbine components at the Port of Albany in upstate New York. Namely, the developer included the Port of Albany in its proposals rece
Global Wind Service (GWS) is supporting MHI Vestas Offshore Wind with pre-assembly and installation activities on the Kincardine floating wind project. The 49.625 MW Kincardine is located 15 kilometres south of the Aberdeen coast in Scotland. The wind farm will comprise five MHI Vestas V164 9.525 MW
The recovery and repair of the crane that collapsed on board the installation vessel Orion during lifting trials in May are progressing at Liebherr facilities in Rostock, where the crane’s auxiliary jib and the jib head have now been transferred. The company started working on getting the crane back
North East of England’s Tees Valley is aiming to turn Teesside into ”UK’s premier offshore wind location” with a project to develop a GBP 90 million quay at South Bank on the River Tees. The work on the South Bank Quay is due to begin in August 2021, with completion expected by the end of […]
The Port of Tyne has launched a new green energy park which will be used as a strategic base for UK North East’s renewable energy sector. The Tyne Clean Energy Park will provide infrastructure catering for all renewable energy production needs, with a total of 200ha of land soon to become available
The first turbine blades to be installed on the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm have arrived at Able Seaton Port, the project’s construction port in Teesside. This marks the first time that Able Seaton Port is receiving offshore wind turbine components in its history, after a combined multi-million
Muehlhan Wind Service (MWS) has completed the wind turbine pre-assembly work for SeaMade, Belgium’s largest offshore wind farm. Under the contract with Siemens Gamesa, MWS pre-assembled 58 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW wind turbines in the Port of Oostende. From there, the wind turbines are transported and
Wergeland Group and PSW Group have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Huisman for the delivery of a Skyhook quayside crane at the Gulen Industrial Harbour, Norway. The Skyhook crane has a lifting capacity of 2,600mt in regular configuration as well as a high lift mode with a super flyjib, facilita
The UK government has agreed to invest in the development of a Drone Port at Montrose in Scotland. The government has set aside GBP 5.6 million out of the GBP 26.5 million Angus Fund to promote North Angus and Montrose as a clean growth zone where new technologies can be used to improve energy effic
As the UK government today (6 October) announced raising the country’s offshore wind targets and allocated funding for offshore wind ports and infrastructure, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) issued a request for information (RFI) related to the development of large
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out commitments to ensure that offshore wind will produce more than enough electricity to power every home in the country by 2030, based on current electricity usage, boosting the government’s previous 30 GW target to 40 GW. The commitments, part of the Build
The first turbine components for the Triton Knoll wind farm are expected to arrive at MHI Vestas’ logistics and pre-assembly hub in the Able Seaton Port in Hartlepool next month. MHI Vestas has now moved in to Able Seaton Port in preparation to start installing 90 of its V164-9.5 MW turbines at the
Construction has started on the operations and maintenance, and the construction base for the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. The O&M base is located in the Port of La Turballe. The maintenance of the 80-turbine wind farm, scheduled to be operational by 2022, is expected to create
The Spanish Navantia-Windar consortium has launched the production of foundation components for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in the Brest polder, France. Navantia-Windar has presented the main achievements delivered in its construction program for 34 of the 62 foundations that will be built i
