Noreq’s Danish subsidiary, NoreqActa, has been awarded the contract for 108 pieces WTPC’s (Wind Turbine Platform Cranes) to be placed on the West of Duddon Sands (WODS) offshore wind farm. The West of Duddon Sands wind farm is a joint venture between Scottish Power Renewables and Danish company DONG
On Wednesday 27 June, Mr Wathelet, State Secretary for Environment, Energy, Mobility and Institutional reforms has awarded a concession to THV Mermaid for construction of the seventh and final wind farm in the North Sea in the region provided by the Royal Decrees of 12 December 2000 and 3 February 2
Northwind NV has announced the formal financial close with all key stakeholders and banks for their Northwind Offshore Wind power plant. This ends a series of intense negotiations and deliberations that constitutes one of the largest financial investment transactions in Belgium in recent years. The
Saturday the 9th of June, Holland Shipyards successfully delivered a 32 persons accommodation module to Keppel Verolme. The accommodation module was built under high QA/QC demands and a stringent deadline, which were both met by the yard. This accommodation will be placed on the Transformer Substati
Following less than 18 months of intense construction work, Energinet.dk is now ready to transmit power from the coming offshore wind farm between Anholt and Grenaa to the power grid. On 20 June 2012, commissioning was completed with all system parts fully energised, and a relieved project team coul
The French offshore wind farm project of Le Treport may see its resurrection, according to Les Echos news site. Allegedly, some industrial groups and local institutions are pushing the idea “behind the scenes” to file an appeal to the government in order to continue with discussions on the proposed
Principle Power, Energias de Portugal, Repsol, A. Silva Matos (ASM), Vestas Wind Systems A/S and InovCapital announced the inauguration of Portugal’s first offshore wind turbine on June 16th, 2012. The turbine is installed on an innovative floating foundation called the WindFloat. In addition to bei
Off the coast of Borkum, the construction phase starts on Riffgat offshore wind farm, developed by EWE in collaboration with Enova. After about twelve years of planning time, the first of a total of 30 foundation piles (monopiles) has been installed into the seabed. It is up to 70 meters long and ha
Walney (UK) Offshore Windfarms Ltd has today confirmed that its commissioning of the world’s largest operational offshore wind farm is now complete. All of the wind farm’s 102 turbines are fully operational and all have exported electricity. The £1 billion wind farm, which was officially opened on 9
Van Oord Offshore Wind Projects has successfully installed all 27 monopiles for the Teesside Wind Farm. Foundation installation began on the 6th of February 2012 and the last monopile has been installed last weekend. This means that the installation of the Monopiles has been completed ahead of sched
The installation of monopiles and transition pieces is ongoing at full speed, and as of 1 June, 69 monopiles and 27 transition pieces are installed in the Anholt wind farm, and Jumbo Javalin has just arrived at the site with a new load of transition pieces. The installation of monopiles is expected
Lincs Wind Farm Limited, a joint venture between Centrica plc, DONG Energy and Siemens Project Ventures GmbH, has finalised agreements to provide non-recourse project finance facilities for the 270MW Lincs offshore wind farm. The facilities, totalling £425 million, will be provided by a consortium o
An unending potential lies in the world’s oceans which provides energy resource larger than the global need is, John Olav Tande of the Norwegian SINTEF research foundation stated. The fact that at the end of 2010, 98.5% of the world’s wind turbines were on land is now going to change, as the idea of
Shanghai Donghai Wind Power Co., developer of China’s first large-scale offshore wind farm in the city, will invest USD 300 million in development of a 100MW offshore wind farm next year. As Bloomberg writes, the project represents the second phase of the East China Sea Bridge wind farm and will use
