Dutch provider of step-changing technical solutions Huisman has developed a Motion Compensated Platform to transfer wind turbine components from a feeder vessel. Since using internationally-flagged wind turbine installation vessels is restricted in the U.S. under the Jones Act, a feeder vessel with
Project partners Shell, RWE, GASCADE, and Gasunie have signed a declaration of intent to further intensify their collaboration on the AquaDuctus project. The AquaDuctus pipeline will transport green hydrogen from the German North Sea directly to the continent. It is part of the AquaVentus initiative
Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios, in a consortium with Esteyco, has won a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for the Empire Wind offshore wind project in New York. The Spanish companies will analyse the feasibility of a concrete gravity-based foundation for the offshore wind farm developed
Ørsted and Poland’s Port of Gdynia Authority have signed a Letter of Intent to cooperate in the field of unmanned vehicles, drones, robotics, and sustainable transport for the development of offshore wind energy in Poland. The aim of the cooperation is the development of innovative technologies and
Gould Heavy Lift Services and DEME Offshore have performed the load-in, assembly, and preparations for the load out of the new offshore drill equipment for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project. For DEME, the Dutch company provided the engineering, project management, rigging and turnkey execution
The acceleration of deepwater offshore wind development is being held back by a singular focus on floating wind, while innovative fixed-bottom or buoyant foundations provide an immediate route to large-scale, cost-effective deployment at many high resource sites, Enterprize Energy said in its latest
Van Oord is using Ansys software to speed up the design of wind turbine foundations for the offshore wind industry. Van Oord’s engineers are using Ansys Cloud and Ansys Mechanical to optimize new product design, minimize project risk, streamline supplier negotiations and slash product development ti
Shell, Eneco, CrossWind, Siemens Gamesa, TU Delft, and GROW Foundation have started the work on the Dynamic Wind Farm Flow Control project. This project, focussed on reducing the wake effect by using real-time data, is one of CrossWind’s five innovations expected to contribute to a more constant ele
Seven European transmission system operators have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the launch of Eurobar, an initiative for interconnecting offshore wind platforms across Europe. The Eurobar partners include Germany’s 50Hertz Transmission GmbH and Amprion, Sweden’s Affärsverket svenska kraft
US oil major Chevron, together with Norwegian company Moreld Ocean Wind, is set to invest in offshore wind technology at Ocergy, a US company developing a low-cost floating wind foundation and a multi-disciplinary environmental monitoring buoy. Ocergy secured the investments through its Series A equ
XOCEAN has completed a survey at the Hornsea One offshore wind farm in the UK, using its uncrewed surface vessel (USV). The USV conducted the offshore operation in three-and-a-half-days, mobilising from Bridlington Harbour in Yorkshire. The vessel was launched and recovered from shore, 120 kilometre
Bakker Magnetics is about to start the production of magnetic assemblies for the GE Haliade-X turbines that will be installed at the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank offshore wind project in the UK. Bakker Magnetics will fabricate and assemble magnetic assemblies for the turbines across all three phases of what i
South Korea’s SK Engineering & Construction and POSCO have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a new floating offshore wind foundation. The companies will work together on the basic design for the foundation, water tank testing, production of the prototype, as well as demonstration
Nekkar has secured a NOK 21 million grant from Innovation Norway to progress with the development of SkyWalker, its disruptive wind turbine installation solution. SkyWalker uses active heave compensation derived from offshore lifting systems combined with digital solutions that allow for remote-cont
