This month, German first offshore wind farm alpha ventus surpassed the mark of one terawatt hour of generated power. With 12 wind turbines, alpha ventus has generated the equivalent of one billion kilowatt hours of climate-friendly power for the German transmission grid. This figure is equivalent to
Mainstream Renewable Power has selected Siemens Wind as the preferred supplier of wind turbines for the proposed 450MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm to be located off the coast of Fife in Scotland. The project will utilise Siemens SWT-6.0-154 wind turbines, and the company will now enter exclu
Phase 2 of the London Array offshore wind farm will not be developed, the consortium behind the project informed today. Members of the consortium (DONG Energy owns 50%, E.ON has 30% and Masdar has 20%) reviewed their respective portfolios, the technical challenges and the environmental uncertainties
Forewind has reduced the total capacity of wind energy projects in the Dogger Bank Zone from 9 GW to 7.2 GW. The revision of the current development potential has been made in agreement with The Crown Estate, following more than four years of offshore and onshore surveys and assessments, which have
Virginia-based energy company Dominion plans to join the bidding process for Maryland offshore wind leases, and the company today applied with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to participate in the auction. The area of nearly 80,000 acres off the coast of Maryland will be auctioned in tw
Ecosse Subsea Systems Ltd (ESS), a Scottish subsea technology company, has been awarded a £5 million contract to design, build and operate a cable-lay system for a European utilities provider, which remains unnamed for now. ESS will support the array cable lay and pull-in component of a wind farm pr
Canadian renewable energy company, Beothuk Energy Inc. has selected a preferred location for its demonstration offshore wind farm in St. George’s Bay, in western Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Consequently, the company has requested an investigative permit from the Government of Newfoundland and
Visser & Smit Marine Contracting B.V. (VSMC) will complete the installation and termination of infield cables for the DanTysk offshore wind farm, which is situated west of the island of Sylt in the German North Sea, directly on the German-Danish border. Under the contract that VSMC had signed with t
Deepwater Wind has awarded a wind turbine installation contract to a Bold Tern, Bonheur and Ganger Rolf joint venture. Bold Tern will install 5 Alstom’s 6MW wind turbines located about three miles off the coast of Block Island, R.I. The installation is scheduled for the third quarter of 2016. A few
A six-month examination phase for Dogger Bank Creyke Beck starts next week with Planning Inspectorate’s preliminary meeting. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 18, in Hull City Hall, and will be focused on the procedures that will be involved in the examination of the application for the
The jack-up vessel Innovation, which is going to pick up foundations for Westermost Rough Offshore Windfarm in the British part of the North Sea, called yesterday at Aalborg Harbour. With a loading capacity of 8000 tonnes and a high performance 1500-tonne crane, Innovation is one of the largest spec
TenneT today announced that it had connected Riffgat offshore wind farm to the grid, and that sustainable wind power will begin to flow from sea to land as of tomorrow (February 12). Aside to 50 kilometers of submarine cable, 30 km of land cable was laid. Riffgat offshore wind farm was completed in
ABB has won an order worth around $55 million to supply a submarine AC (alternating current) power cable system for a new wind farm, located off the coast of Norfolk. The underwater cables will feed the electricity generated by the 400-megawatt (MW) Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm into the UK national gr
Mainstream Renewable Power today unveiled eight utility-scale wind and solar projects which are to reach financial close and begin construction works this year. The projects, which are spread across four continents, have a combined capacity of over 1,000 megawatts (MW) and will generate enough elect
