Although the Netherlands does not have plans to deploy floating offshore wind turbines in its waters, at least not yet, professionals from the industry are coming together to talk floating wind on 29 November at RAI Amsterdam, where Navingo is organising its annual Offshore Energy Exhibition & Confe
Vestas has signed a multi-year framework agreement with its long-time partner TPI Composites Inc. (TPI), a supplier of wind turbine blades and services, in an effort to strengthen the company’s scalable global supply chain network for current and future wind turbine blades. TPI is currently supplyin
Dutch metal construction company HSM Offshore has won a contract to build the first electrified ONE-Dyas N05-A gas production platform in the North Sea which will run entirely on offshore wind power. The N05-A project is part of the so-called GEMS area, an area approximately 20 to 80 kilometres nort
Croatian shipyard Brodosplit has completed the fabrication of the buoy ordered by Ocergy, which will equip it with a LiDAR and systems to collect metocean and biodiversity data, both aerial and marine, before deploying the platform in the French AO6 offshore area, for which the floating wind tenderi
On 15 November, the nacelle for Vestas’s prototype V236-15.0 MW turbine arrived at Østerild National Test Centre from the company’s factory in Lindø, both in Denmark. The installation of the prototype wind turbine is well underway with all tower sections already installed, the company says. The nace
Ingeteam has developed the INGECON® WIND FULL CONVERTER MV, a new product range of medium voltage full power converters already available for offshore turbines up to 15 MW and projected to be ready for 18 MW machines by 2024. This latest innovation is part of Ingeteam’s suite of full power drive tra
Huisman has been awarded a contract by TOA Corporation and Obayashi in Japan for the delivery of a monopile gripper. The gripper will allow TOA and Obayashi to upend and install monopiles without using a separate upending bucket, which is said to improve the safety and efficiency of operations on bo
The Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) has launched a new Innovation Grant funding competition aimed at decarbonising the offshore wind sector and improving reliability. Sponsored by Equinor, Ocean Winds, and ScottishPower Renewables, OWGP launched its latest Innovation Grant competition which
Equinor and Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult have announced a collaboration agreement that will tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the offshore renewables sector. According to the partners, ORE Catapult and Equinor have a joint aim to collectively invest in technology readiness for
Heerema Marine Contractors and C1 Connections have tested the C1 Wedge Connection offshore that can be used for offshore wind turbines. The partners said that the conventional bolted L-flange connections are reaching their capacity limits and are complex to design, install, and maintain and this is
ConocoPhillips China (COPC) and CNOOC have announced the commencement of the Penglai offshore wind farm pilot project in China. The project’s clean energy will supply power to the Penglai oilfield, China’s largest offshore oil and gas production base under the production sharing contract, located in
Eolink, Valorem, and Centrale Nantes have been awarded EUR 14.9 million from the funding programme “France 2030” for the manufacturing of Eolink’s floating wind turbine and its deployment at the SEM-REV test site offshore Le Croisic in France. The 5 MW, pre-commercial floating wind turbine will be c
Huisman has completed a Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) for its first Jacking Gearbox, which will be part of the Jacking System that is specifically designed for wind turbine installation jack-up vessels. The Jacking System is available in two gear versions – L and XL versions – suitable for vessel de
Vestas has announced it will begin serial production of V236-15.0 MW blades from the third quarter of 2023 at its blade factory in Taranto, Italy. A few days ago, Vestas rolled out the first 115.5-metre blade built for the V236-15.0 MW offshore wind turbine prototype, using the mould which was manuf
