Last week, CT Offshore completed the installation and burial of 44 inter-array cables at the DONG Energy wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 1. “The valuable experience gained from the West of Duddon Sands and Gwynt y Môr projects earlier this year has played an important role to secure a smooth running proj
The Crown Estate has welcomed the news that the consortium SMart Wind has been granted development consent for Hornsea Project One by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. The project is scheduled to commence operation by 2020 when it will become the world’s first gigawatt scale far
Construction of the 15 foundation structures for the Kentish Flats Extension project is underway. The boat landing sections which will provide access to the turbine and external working platforms are being completed. One of the external working platforms has just received its third coating of corros
RenewableUK says the Government’s announcement on the go-ahead for a major new offshore wind project shows that the sector is developing robustly. Hornsea 1, which will be located 64 miles (103 km) off the East Yorkshire coast, will have an installed capacity of 1.2 gigawatts (GW) – enough to power
Modern telemedicine technology will facilitate medical emergencies at sea and on offshore wind turbines in future emergency care for patients in the North and Baltic Seas. The German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger; DGzRS; Die Seenotretter), the
On October 11, an offshore meteorological mast was installed at the Inch Cape offshore wind farm site, which will gather accurate wind resource, wind direction and wind velocity data. Our reader Marc Pearce has sent some recently taken photographs of the Inch Cape met mast to Offshore WIND. The comp
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) published the final contract material for the concession to build and operate the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm on Friday, following the final approval from the parties behind the Energy Agreement from 2012. The deadline for bids for the 400MW Horns Rev 3 is February
Siemens has installed two of its SWT-6.0-154 offshore wind turbines at an onshore site in Wehlens near Wilhelmshaven. This represents the first onshore installation of 6MW offshore turbines, however it is already being installed at 210MW Westermost Rought offshore wind farm. Project owner Bioenergie
Today, the offshore wind farm DanTysk, located 70 kilometres west of the island of Sylt, will supply the German electricity network with its first wind power from the North Sea. The 80 wind turbines are now successively in the commissioning phase for the production of electricity. DanTysk is then ex
The publishing of the dialogue paper on Danish offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak is slightly delayed, the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) notified on its website. “We expect the paper to be published next week,” the DEA said. In order to ensure that potential tenderers can offer their views on these frame
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) was invited by RWE to look around the giant Gwynt Y Môr site. The wind farm is nearing completion and has an excellent health and safety record throughout the construction period. Despite the many risks associated with the activities undertake
The developers of the First Flight Wind offshore project, Dong Energy, RES and B9, have given up on the project that could have comprised 100 wind turbines off the coast of Northern Ireland. The companies behind the project cited new regulatory requirements as the reason the project became nonviable
TÜV SÜD PMSS, the global renewable energy consulting firm, has been appointed by Fishermen’s Energy as an independent engineering adviser for the US offshore wind developer’s Atlantic City demonstration project. Under the terms of the agreement, TÜV SÜD PMSS will provide an independent review of the
Global Tech I Offshore Wind GmbH is reorganizing its management team. With the completion of the construction phase, Arjen Schampers finished his activities as Technical Managing Director in early November. Dr. Jan Podbielski, the former General Project Manager for installation and commissioning has
