UK connectivity provider SSE Enterprise Telecoms has won a contract to provide the communications infrastructure for what will be Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm – the 1,075 MW Seagreen 1. Having been selected to spearhead the project following a competitive tender process, SSE Enterprise Tele
MingYang Smart Energy’s MySE8.3-180 hybrid drive offshore wind turbine has made its debut at the Xinghua Bay II offshore wind farm, the Chinese turbine maker said. Unveiled in November 2019, the MySE8.3-180 turbine features 86.5-metre blades sweeping an area of 24,900 square metres, MingYang said. D
The VindØ consortium has revealed its vision of the world’s first energy island. The VindØ consortium comprises two of Denmark’s largest pension funds, PensionDanmark and PFA, and Denmark’s largest utility company, Andel. The artificial island, made of submersible concrete boxes, is to be built in t
Elia Group is set to launch its fifth Open Innovation Challenge which will focus on innovative solutions for offshore wind applications. Elia Group comprises two transmission system operators, Elia in Belgium and 50Hertz in northeast Germany. The Open Innovation Challenge aims to connect the industr
Ørsted, Siemens Gamesa, ITM Power, and Element Energy have been awarded EUR 5 million in funding to demonstrate and investigate a combined wind turbine and electrolyser system designed for operation in marine environments. The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking (FCH2-JU), a public private p
Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy plan to jointly apply for one or more seabed leases in the Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind leasing round for offshore wind projects. The two companies will look to develop floating wind projects if successful in obtaining the leases. “We have over 15 years of e
Innovation Norway has granted financial support to the Deep Purple project, which is developing a green hydrogen production system powered by offshore wind, with the hydrogen being stored on the seabed. A consortium led by TechnipFMC is working on a pilot project that will see a green hydrogen offsh
Ramboll has completed a pilot test of its True Digital Twin technology at Iberdrola’s 350 MW Wikinger offshore wind farm in the German sector of the Baltic Sea. The results of the pilot test, carried out as part of the EU Horizon 2020’s ROMEO project, have been summarised in two reports, according t
As we said our goodbyes to 2020, a lot of us will look back on a challenging year, but also a year which drew resilience, agility and the power of powering through into the spotlight. The same goes for the offshore wind industry, which met its fair share of challenges, but continued delivering in th
The offshore wind sector was busy throughout the last year and we saw more than a few big news. In this article, our editorial team brings a list of those that were most read on OffshoreWIND.biz in 2020. Orion’s Heavy Lift Crane Collapses – Video A heavy-lift crane installed on the offshore installa
At the beginning of December, the components of the part-scale PivotBuoy floating wind platform arrived at the port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where they are now being assembled. The manufacturing commenced this summer at DEGIMA facilities in Santander, Spain, after X1 Wind and its partners comp
X1 Wind, which leads the PivotBuoy floating wind platform project in Spain, has been selected in the last round of funding in the pilot phase of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator. The company has been chosen for funding support together with 37 European start-ups and SMEs to receive
Hitachi ABB Power Grids has introduced a 72.5 kV high-voltage hybrid switchgear for offshore wind – Plug and Switch System (PASS) M00 – Wind. The hybrid switchgear will be installed at China’s first 66-kilovolt offshore wind farm, Huadian Yuhuan Phase 1, to optimize the energy landscape in the Yangt
Norway’s NEL Hydrogen ASA has won the contract to deliver the offshore electrolysis system for the PosHYdon project in the Dutch North Sea. The PosHYdon pilot is an initiative of Nexstep, the Dutch association for decommissioning and reuse, and TNO, the Dutch organisation for applied scientific rese
