Ex-Statkraft Engineer Develops New Foundation Installation Solution Arild Bolsø, an engineer who worked for Statkraft in Norway and Forewind in the UK, has developed a new technical concept for offshore wind foundation installation. According to Bolsø, the concept would reduce installation time by 3
UK-based unexploded ordnance (UXO) specialist Ordtek has expanded the geographic scope of its interactive online mapping service, Mine Map, to cover Danish waters. The online tool has already been used on the Horns Rev 3 and Kreigers Flak wind sites off Denmark and has helped identify three wartime
Aarsleff has been awarded a contract for the 28MW Nissum Bredning project in Denmark, where Siemens will test a variety of its new offshore wind solutions.
JBA Consulting has signed a reseller agreement with the Met Office which will now offer JBA’s metocean risk management software – ForeCoast Marine – to its marine and offshore clients. ForeCoast Marine is a planning, visualisation and decision support tool which utilises Met Office forecast data to
Danish blade maker LM Wind Power and the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) have developed blade tips which are said to increase offshore wind farm yields.
Smulders Projects has won a contract to manufacture and assemble suction bucket foundations for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC). The company will manufacture lower parts of jacket structures and carry out the final assembly of the 11 foundations at its manufacturing fac
Researchers from Norway, the United Kingdom and Spain have formed a consortium dubbed IDeCON to combat technical barriers currently hampering the practical deployment of High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) grids in the North Sea needed to exploit the potential of the wind resource. The project is bei
Siemens has installed the SWT-8.0-154 at the national test centre in Østerild, Denmark.
Norway’s Ulstein will be launching its new heavy lift jack-up vessel solution for offshore wind installation, developed in cooperation with SeaOwls, in early February. The concept vessel design, dubbed SOUL (SeaOwls ULstein), is a combination of Ulstein’s expertise in shipbuilding and SeaOwls know-h
The first segments for the BLUE Hammer by Fistuca BV, which Sif is manufacturing in collaboration with Huisman, are ready at Sif’s Maasvlakte 2 facility. The hammer will be the world’s largest pile-driver hammer, being specially designed to drive the largest monopiles in the world. BLUE Piling Techn
Offshore wind is the lowest cost means of decarbonising the UK’s energy sector and the industry ticks every box in the government’s new Industrial Strategy, ScottishPower Renewables’ Jonathan Cole said during Scottish Renewables’ Offshore Wind Conference in Glasgow. This week marked something of a t
The APQP4Wind project has marked the official go-live of the new APQP4Wind manual, website, and coming training courses to deploy new common standards for quality assurance in the production of wind turbines. The manual, the website and the training concept were presented on January 25 at the APQP4W
WaveCom, a new radio communications system to serve the East of England’s growing offshore wind farm construction industry, has won a GBP 50,000 grant as part of the Supply Chain Innovation for Offshore Renewable Energy (SCORE) programme. This custom-built two-way radio network to provide coverage a
European offshore wind projects attracted a record EUR 18.2 billion of investments in 2016, according to WindEurope. Eleven projects reached Final Investment Decision (FID) in 2016. This represents 4,948MW of new capacity across five countries, half of it in the UK. Giles Dickson, Chief Executive Of
