K2 Management has announced its role as the general consultant to Formosa Wind Power Co. Ltd. in helping Formosa 1 Offshore Wind Farm. Formosa 1 Offshore Wind Farm (128 MW) will be Taiwan’s first utility-size offshore wind farm planned for commissioning by 2018. K2 Management has performed wind mode
On Friday, September 12, Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick joined Cape Wind Associate’s Jim Gordon to announce that Cape Wind has entered into a lease agreement with the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) to stage its historic, first-in-the-Nation offshore wind project out of the Sout
After a feasibility study of Indian offshore wind potential, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu have been selected as ideal to feature the first Indian offshore wind farms. The two planned projects will have a 100MW capacity and will fit right into plans of the country’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy to
Scour protection work is due to recommence within the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm on the 21st September until further notice. The work will be carried out by the vessel Tideway Rollingstone. The rock dumping vessel Tideway Rollingstone will be commencing operations at various locations within and
Following the Laidlaw Capital Group’s acquisition of the Deutsche Bucht wind farm in the North Sea, around 90 km off Borkum, the UK-based company has now acquired the neighbouring Veja Mate wind farm. The purchase of the wind farm project from the BARD Group was completed yesterday. Once finished, t
Cuxport has been supporting the Dutch company Ballast Nedam Offshore in the use of an alternative technique to transport and install monopiles at the “Amrumbank West” wind park on behalf of E.ON since the middle of August. The foundation piles are no longer just transported to the offshore site on b
Fugro has undertaken two key tasks at the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm, successfully completing the trenching and burial of inter-array cables for CT Offshore and providing unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey support. Once complete, RWE Innogy’s 160-turbine Gwynt y Môr, in the Irish Sea off the North
One of the Dutch offshore wind farms, Eneco Luchterduinen is taking shape, according to Eneco. Van Oord’s jack-up vessel Aeolus installed a total of 16 foundations by 8 September. Eneco added that they faced windy weather at the beginning of August, “but the last few weeks are very good. We had some
Westermost Rough offshore wind farm produced its first electricity last week, according to Grimsby Telegraph. The wind farm, located eight kilometers off the Yorkshire Coast, is the first to feature Siemens’ 6 MW turbines in the UK. With a total capacity of 210MW it will be able to provide enough el
A serious accident occurred in the night of Sunday 6 July 2014 at the German offshore wind farm Butendiek. The victim, a Danish employee hired by Ballast Nedam, was admitted to the hospital in critical condition. Due to the seriousness of his injuries, he spent 6 weeks in hospital. He will need furt
Deepwater Wind has received the final federal approval needed to build the Block Island Wind Farm – a project that remains on-track to be the first U.S. offshore wind farm. The project’s lead federal permitting agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACORE), has granted its approval of the Block I
Service and operating station of RWE Innogy was inaugurated today on Heligoland. Over a period of 20 years, the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm is to be operated and serviced from there. The wind farm is currently being built approx. 30 kilometres north of Heligoland. This is what a two-storey buildi
SEA CHALLENGER‘s first job – installation of 35 Siemens 6MW turbines at Westermost Rough offshore wind farm, has begun. The first 3 turbines have been installed. Delivered in March 2014, the new vessel has been optimised to operate at depths of up to 60 metres depending on tide and penetration, maki
RWE Innogy UK continues to lead the development and construction of Galloper Offshore Wind Farm after agreeing exit arrangements with SSE. Along with this announcement, the company has provided a short update on the project’s status. The project is progressing along the existing timeline, with new s
