Export Development Canada (EDC) today announced financing of EUR 125 million for Toronto-based clean energy company Northland Power, the largest loan EDC has ever provided in the wind power sector. The financing will be used by Northland to purchase a 60 per cent ownership stake in Project Gemini, a
All 160 wind turbines at the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm are now installed. A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Worker, supported by Sea Bravo and Sea Echo, was deployed to install Siemens’s 3.6 MW turbines. Now, the work is underway on the last wind turbine to fit the blades. Cable laying vessel Sia, own
First Flight Wind has scaled back its offshore wind project in Northern Ireland, due to concerns related to shipping and commercial fisheries. First Flight Wind, a consortium comprising B9 Energy, DONG Energy and Renewable Energy Systems Ltd (RES), initially planned to develop a 600MW offshore wind
Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: Ballast Nedam Offshore installing 47th wind turbine foundation at the Butendiek Offshore Wind Farm, which marks the company’s 500th installed foundation. Ballast Nedam Offshore is contracted to design, supply and install 80 foundations at the German offshore wind fa
A new vessel has been deployed at the Meerwind Süd/Ost offshore wind farm site. Namely, Seewind 1 is carrying out crew transfers from and to the offshore wind farm’s substation near Helgoland, North Sea, Germany. WindMW, a joint-venture between Blackstone Energy Partners and Windland Energieerzeugun
A network of more than 60 kilometers of underwater cable now spreads over the construction field of the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm. This is almost the length of the Eurotunnel that connects the UK with Continental Europe. The inter-array cabling was completed in altogether less than four months.
The installation vessel BOLD TERN from Fred. Olsen Windcarrier is now also installing rotor stars at the Global Tech I offshore wind farm. In accordance with planning, the project company Global Tech I Offshore Wind GmbH is flexibly deploying its three installation vessels VIDAR, BOLD TERN and BRAVE
The consortium behind the Fukushima Experimental Offshore Floating Wind Farm Project has completed the construction of a three-column semi-submersible floater as part of the second phase of the project. The floater has been moored at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Wo
Works at the Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm are in full swing, as several vessels are currently carrying out their job. The cable maintenance vessel Ndurance is expected to start operations at the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm today (June 10). Ndurance will work for six weeks in the eastern part of
The first of a total of 80 transition pieces (TP) at the Butendiek offshore wind farm has been installed. Transition pieces, manufactured by Bladt Industries in Esbjerg, Denmark, are being installed by the DP heavy-lift vessel Jumbo Javelin from Jumbo Shipping. Each TP weighs approximately 330 tons,
Iberdrola has selected Navantia shipyards in Puerto Real (Cadiz, Spain) as the preferred supplier to manufacture the foundations of the offshore substation for Wikinger, an offshore wind project being developed by Iberdrola in Germany. The nearly €70-million contract will only be executed once suffi
The UK Government has signed eight contracts awarded under the Final Investment Decision (FID) Enabling for Renewables process, including five contracts for offshore wind projects. In April, the Government revealed eight awarded projects, which include offshore wind farms, coal to biomass conversion
Sandbank Offshore Wind GmbH has invited tenders for offshore monitoring work. The work involves monitoring the condition of foundations in the Sandbank offshore wind farm. The foundation monitoring concept is based on online monitoring of two representative wind turbine foundations. The online monit
On May 8, one of three offshore wind supply chain workshops for the Moray offshore wind farm was held. The workshops are organized by Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise on behalf of Moray Offshore Wind Limited (MORL). Those attending the event could hear about the contracting s
