TenneT has awarded Aker Solutions, NSG Wind and Fichtner with contracts for the maintenance of onshore and offshore converter station components and AC power transmission systems in the Dutch and German North Sea.
The Siemens Gamesa 7MW wind turbines on the Nissum Bredning demonstration site in Denmark produced first electricity on Saturday, 17 February, Nissum Brednings Vindmøllelaug said.
UK-based Quortus and Belgian e-BO Enterprises are collaborating on enabling an LTE voice and data solution for offshore wind farms.
Siemens Gamesa has rolled out the first D7 nacelle for the 309MW Rentel offshore wind farm from its new production facility in Cuxhaven, Germany.
The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) has completed seafloor mapping in the New York Wind Energy Area, a proposed offshore wind site near Long Island in the US.
Ørsted and the University of Oxford have signed a five-year research agreement to optimize the design of foundation structures for offshore wind turbines.
Siemens Gamesa has unveiled its 3-year strategic plan, with the L3AD2020 program, which includes a series of measures that will unlock EUR 2 billion of cost reductions.
James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS), part of James Fisher and Sons plc, is to supply E.ON with its offshore wind management system (OWMS).
Ulstein has installed the SMST equipment on Acta Marine’s new walk-to-work vessel Acta Auriga at Ulstein Verft in Norway.
PGE Energia Odnawialna started a two-year wind measurement campaign for its planned 1GW offshore wind farm project, after deploying a floating LiDAR in the Polish Baltic Sea at the end of January. As Offshore WIND reported earlier, Spanish floating LiDAR specialist EOLOS supplied the EOLOS FLS200 Li
SeaRoc Group is launching a new Permit to Work system for its SeaPlanner marine monitoring and management solution.
The German Fraunhofer IWES is studying the installation of suction bucket foundations and their tensile behavior at the Test Center for Support Structures at the Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Denmark plans to set aside around DKK 210 million to fund testing of wind turbines outside the established test centers in Høvsøre and Østerild.
APEM has released a study suggesting that four times fewer Northern gannets collide with offshore wind turbines than previously thought.
