As of 1 April 2012, 37½ of the 111 monopiles that make up Anholt Offshore Wind Farm are installed, and as such one third of the driving is complete. As expected, there are great challenges associated with the seabed where both very soft areas and very hard areas are present. The driving of monopile
Chancellor Angela Merkel has revealed her plan to construct offshore wind farms that will stretch over an area six times the size of New York City, reports Bloomberg. The plan expected to cost 200 billion euros ($268 billion), according to the DIW economic institute in Berlin, will also include inst
A stalwart vessel of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm fleet has left the Greater Wash after reaching another project milestone, the completion of the undersea works to prepare the site for the installation of the cables that transport the power generated by the wind turbines. The 77m vessel S
The Offshore Wind farm proposed off the Atlantic coast has failed to justify economic benefits for the second time this month. This was confirmed by the state’s consultant, reports Njspotlight. Back in May 2011, Cape May-based Fisherman’s Energy gained New Jersey approval for a demonstration project
M/V Sea Discoverer, which is part of the Comfort at Sea fleet, has been chartered for the world’s largest, offshore wind project, the London Array. With its capacity of 294 persons, the ship will be serving as an offshore floating hotel for technicians and project management. The M/V Sea Discoverer
Construction of Germany’s offshore wind parks will not be on time due to setbacks in connecting turbines to the power grid caused by the problems with ensuring cables and transformer stations, reports Bloomberg. Consequently, EON AG (EOAN) and RWE AG (RWE) have stressed their intention to suspend in
The wind farm proposal introduced by Gov. Martin O’Malley has not been supported by the Senate Finance Committee since its members believe offshore wind will impose financial challenges on the consumers. O’Malley perceives wind as one of Maryland’s most abundant sources of energy and according to hi
AGI reported that the Sicilian regional government has voted against offshore wind farm permits. The issue was forwarded to Rome after voting by the Sicilian Regional Council. Councillor Sebastiano Di Betta explained “the waters off the coast of Sicily – including protected waters and marine reserve
Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has announced the completion of a GIS-based data study for the first stage of Forewind’s planned Round 3 Dogger Bank offshore wind farm development. Undertaken by OMM’s Survey and Subsea department, the work utilised the company’s in-house Esri GIS facilities to unde
A2Sea’s Sea Worker has successfully installed the first two of 175 turbines at Array Offshore Wind Farm, and it is expected for them to start producing power in March, reports Businessgreen. They are the Siemens’ 3.6MW machines, which were tested at Hornsea zone and are already being used at the Bur
Since the first monopile was installed at 19.00hrs on New Year’s Eve, periods of good weather have been used to install foundations. On 1 February 2012, Svanen had erected 14 monopiles. Even though the January weather has been rough, it has been good for foundation installation. Since 27 December, t
State officials are urging the government to help businesses along the East coast take advantage of renewable energy boom. Suffolk MP has invited the government to boost local businesses in that area. Waveney MP stated in the parliament that East Anglia Array Wind Farm offers great opportunity for d
Aberdeen councilors are going to discuss the Aberdeen coastline plans for 11 wind turbines, reports stv. Donald Trump stands hard against that project. He has delayed his luxury project at Balmedie, until his requests for stopping the project are fulfilled. The European Offshore Wind Deployment Cent
RWE NPower Renewables has changed their plans for connecting a 1,2 GW wind farm to the grid. They initially planned to bring power to the grid trough a 50 mile network of pylons across East Lindsey. The National Grid gave the company an offer to connect the wind farm to the existing electricity tran
