FoundOcean has completed the grouting contract for Narec’s Offshore Anemometry Hub (NOAH), under contract to SeaRoc. The NOAH contract was a notable project in another very successful year for FoundOcean which included offshore operations in the United Arab Emirates, South East Asia, Australia, Indi
Deepwater Wind and Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) have announced an agreement that will further protect endangered North Atlantic right whales during the construction of the Block Island Wind Farm. After extensive discussions with CLF, Deepwater Wind has agreed to voluntarily adjust its planned c
On January 23rd 2013, the MV “EIT PALMINA” commenced the West of Duddon Sands project for WindForceOffshore/Dong. Combi Lift was awarded the project in August of 2012 as the flexibility of the fleet ensured the client guaranteed delivery of the heavy lift vessel with a very narrow window. In 22 cons
Siemens is to build, on a turnkey basis, the offshore part of the Noordoostpolder Wind Farm. To this end, Westermeerwind and Siemens have concluded an investment agreement (conditional contract) valued in nine figures. A total of 48 wind turbines are to be built, each with a capacity of 3 MW, in thr
Thornton Bank 2 offshore wind farm, located off the Belgian coast, was fully commissioned in January. The second phase of the wind farm consisting of 24 new wind turbines with a total output of 148 megawatts (MW) is now fully in operation and connected to the grid. The turbines are set to generate a
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has published details of the tender process and the provisional timetable for the planned 1,500 MW of offshore wind power to be set up by 2020. Since March 2012, it has been evident that Denmark should have two large offshore wind farms and several coastal offshore win
DONG Energy has decided to build the offshore wind farm Westermost Rough in the North Sea on the British east coast. The construction will represent a total investment of approximately EUR 1 billion including the construction of the transmission assets. When the wind farm goes into operation, the tr
Together with its partner DONG Energy, Siemens has at the same time pulled off a double pioneering feat: with the very first deployment of the new installation vessel, two Siemens wind turbines of the six-megawatt class complete with rotor star were installed in the record time of under 24 hours eac
During the end of last week, the quay of our site in Aalborg hummed with activity more than usual as employees from Bladt and OffshoreWindForce were working to achieve a successful load-out of the first five of a total of 108 foundations for Dong Energy and Scottishpower Renewables’ West of Duddon S
The Texas A&M Energy Institute’s Wind Energy Center will lead the Texas’ Offshore Wind Farm Innovation team as part of the Gulf Offshore Wind (GoWind) Project, which will be the most innovative wind farm built to date and will generate power at peak demand and a high capacity factor. The Wind Energy
Taiwan Generations Corporation (TGC) has been awarded as the first-place winner of the Offshore Wind Grant Scheme (the Grant Scheme) by the Bureau of Energy in Taiwan. The Grant Scheme will provide the financial support to the winners in order to realize a demonstration project composed of a 2-turbi
The first sets of wind turbine towers, blades, hubs and nacelles have arrived into the Port of Mostyn for installation at RWE npower renewables’ Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm. The Siemens 3.6 megawatt turbine components arrived on board a RoRo ferry, SeaTruck Pace, from Denmark on Friday (18th Jan)
The first four of eight piles for offshore wind turbines were loaded on January 20 in Vlissingen for shipment to offshore wind farm DanTysk located in the North Sea, 70 kilometers west of the island of Sylt on the border between the Germany and Denmark. The 65 meter long piles will be carried with 1
At the end of 2012, New England’s first two offshore wind projects, Cape Wind and the Block Island Wind Farm, each moved steps closer to fruition. Maine’s efforts to stimulate an offshore wind industry comprised of floating wind turbines took several key steps forward, while Statoil, developer of th
