Deutsche Windtechnik has won a contract to equip the entire Nordergründe offshore wind farm (OWF) with an Aircraft Detection Light System (ADLS). Deutsche Windtechnik will equip the 111 MW wind farm with an ADLS, which comprises a total of 18 Senvion 6.2M 126 wind turbines. All services related to t
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Centre in Blyth, North East England, has simultaneously broken ground on a multimillion-pound offshore wind robotics centre and a manufacturing cell that will be used to research next-generation wind turbine blades. UK government’s Getting Building Fund
The National Offshore Wind Research & Development Consortium (NOWRDC) has awarded support to two GE’s research projects, one developing a robust joining process for large iron castings and one focused on the use of an Autonomous Inspection Vessel (AIV) for offshore wind turbines. GE said on 3 Febr
Dutch heavy lifting company Mammoet said it has started investigating what the company describes as ”the possible violation of its intellectual property rights by Huisman and BMS Heavy Cranes.” The investigation concerns the recently announced series of land cranes, including a 3000-ton ring crane,
Japanese shipping company, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line), has signed a memorandum of understanding with compatriot Power X, Inc. to set forth the terms of a strategic business alliance for the development and testing of Power X’s marine energy storage solutions (ESS), the Power ARK power transfer v
Dutch maritime contractor Van Oord has deployed iXblue’s Long Baseline (LBL) subsea positioning solution to conduct the installation of 190 offshore wind farm piles in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc, France. Van Oord conducted metrology operations using iXblue’s Canopus transponders, Ramses transceivers an
South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has installed the 8 MW offshore wind turbine prototype at the Korea Wind Power Demonstration Center in Baeksu, Yeonggwang, South Jeolla Province. The commissioning of the prototype will start at the end of this month, after which international cer
Offshore Design Engineering Ltd (ODE) has been selected by AWC Technology Ltd to oversee the concept and pre-FEED works for the AWC Demonstration Project, one of the eleven projects which secured funding under the UK’s Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) Demonstration Programme . The AWC Demonstration Proj
Gazelle Wind Power has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Bridon-Bekaert Ropes Group (BBRG) for the supply of mooring lines for the dynamic mooring system of its 2 MW pilot floating wind project at the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN). Dublin-based Gazelle has developed a
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has granted Approval in Principle (AIP) to a coordinated design for a wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) in conjunction with the BargeRack feeder barge system by Friede and Goldman (F&G). The design is said to enable the Jones Act-compliant barge in a lifting s
The UK’s Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has granted GBP 10 million to technology partners – SENSEWind, Glosten, and Subsea Micropiles, and six delivery partners to design and construct a SENSE PelaStar floating wind turbine demonstrator off the coast of Scotland. The
Maersk Supply Service and Ørsted plan to launch the world’s first full-scale offshore charging station for vessels, at an offshore wind farm, in the third quarter of 2022. As part of the project, Maersk Supply Service has now launched its offshore vessel-charging venture, Stillstrom, to support the
The UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has awarded GBP 31.6 million (approximately EUR 37.7 million) in grant funding to eleven projects through the Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) Demonstration Programme. With an aim of reducing costs as well as increasing the rate of de
The Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Demonstrator has been awarded GBP 9.6 million of UK government funding to develop and demonstrate a suite of UK-manufactured innovative floating wind technologies for the first time. The Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) Demonstrator Programme funding provided through
