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  • U.S. opens Pacific Coast for (floating) offshore wind

    26 May 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    The U.S. government has decided to advance areas northwest of Morro Bay and off Humboldt County, California, for offshore wind development. With these two initial areas, the U.S. is opening up the Pacific Coast for commercial scale offshore wind projects. The two areas could accommodate up to 4.6 GW of installed offshore wind capacity, 3 […]

  • Shell to bid for two offshore wind areas in Norway

    17 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Dutch oil major Shell has partnered with Norwegian hydropower producers BKK and Lyse to apply for licenses in two areas currently offered by Norwegian government for offshore wind development. The consortium is now working to prepare applications for projects in the Utsira Nord area, deemed better suitable for floating wind technology, and Sørlige Nordsjø II, […]

  • Half of Triton Knoll offshore wind farm up

    9 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The 45th wind turbine has been installed at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm site in the UK, bringing the installation on the 90-turbine project to a halfway mark. According to the latest update from the project, the 857 MW offshore wind farm remains on track to complete offshore construction by the end of the […]

  • Offshore Wind Consultants, Ambiens team up in Poland

    10 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) and Polish environmental consulting company Ambiens have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate on offshore wind developments in Poland. OWC, a subsidiary of AqualisBraemar LOC, is supporting projects that are already in development in Poland, but also projects for which the leasing processes have only just started. “New sites […]

  • Crowley and Watco working together for US offshore wind

    10 February 2021
    Business & Finance

    Crowley and Watco are partnering to create a single-source terminal and supply chain management solution to support the U.S. offshore wind industry. The parties will collaborate to provide customized terminal design, project management, warehousing, logistics, supply chain management and equipment maintenance through their commercial expertise and curated supply chain networks. Watco will use its skillset in […]

  • ScotWind offshore wind leasing round opens for applications

    15 January 2021
    Project & Tenders

    Crown Estate Scotland has opened the application window for the ScotWind seabed leasing round for offshore wind projects. From today, 15 January, registered developers are able to apply for seabed rights to build Scotland’s next generation of offshore wind farms. The closing date for submitting applications is 31 March. Opening the application window follows Marine […]

  • Seajacks stays on Akita Noshiro offshore wind farm

    11 January 2021
    Vessels

    Seajacks Japan LLC has been awarded a contract with Kajima Corporation to transport and install the wind turbines at the Akita Port and Noshiro Port offshore wind farms in Japanese waters. Seajacks Japan, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the UK-based Seajacks International, will in total transport and install 33 MHI Vestas V117 – 4.2 MW wind […]

  • Okeanus eyes offshore wind with Rhode Island base

    22 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment

    Okeanus has expanded its geographical footprint to include offices and equipment storage facilities in the state of Rhode Island, to support the offshore energy sector amid increasing offshore wind activity in the northeastern United States. The US-based oceanographic equipment provider now has a new waterfront facility, located at Prime Marina, in East Greenwich. The company […]

  • Ineos buys Northwester 2 offshore wind power

    17 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    RWE Supply & Trading and Ineos have entered into a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the Northwester 2 offshore wind farm in Belgium. RWE signed a long-term PPA with project developer Parkwind last year with plans to sell the electricity and guarantees-of-origin to its large industrial and municipal customers. Under the terms of the […]

  • Scots commission study to help SMEs in offshore wind

    28 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    BVG Associates has begun a new study to help pave the way for Scottish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the offshore wind sector. The Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council commissioned the research with the aim of helping SMEs win business in the global offshore wind market. The council’s Supply Chain and Clusters group and […]

  • Rotech Subsea continues Taiwan offshore wind streak

    8 January 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    Rotech Subsea has secured a contract for a follow-up phase of sand wave clearance and seabed leveling work at an offshore wind project in Taiwan. In Q3 2020, the company mobilized its TRS2 Controlled Flow Excavation (CFE) and Suspended Jet Trenching tool, setting sail from Aberdeen to Taiwan, where the TRS2 completed a sand wave […]

  • SeaMade offshore wind farm begins countdown to completion

    26 November 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The SeaMade offshore wind farm is nearing completion with only three wind turbines left to be installed. Located 50 kilometres off the Belgian coast in the North Sea, the offshore wind farm will comprise 58 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW turbines, 55 of which are now in place. This is according to social media posts from […]

  • American offshore wind pioneer to undergo cable repairs

    5 October 2020
    Business Developments & Projects

    National Grid and Ørsted have begun mobilizing teams that will work on replacing limited segments of the Block Island wind farm and sea2shore transmission cables to achieve greater burial depths. Construction-related activities will be ongoing throughout the fall and winter, with an anticipated completion date by the end of May 2021. The effort includes replacing […]

  • Lithuanian parliament gauging new offshore wind scheme

    30 September 2020
    Authorities & Government, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    A draft offshore wind bill in Lithuania that recently began its journey through the system to get approved is now before the Lithuanian parliament (the Seimas), which is considering its amendments to the current laws that would set up conditions for the development of offshore wind projects in the Baltic Sea. Early this summer, the […]

  • German offshore wind farm needs insurance policy

    16 June 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum has issued a contract notice for insurance policy services covering the 200 MW Trianel Windpark Borkum I offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The contract covers combined property damage and business interruption all risks insurance for the operational phase of the wind farm consisting of 40 offshore wind turbines including […]

  • TEPCO Renewable Power to spend big on offshore wind

    11 June 2020
    Business & Finance

    TEPCO Holdings’ renewable energy unit, which commenced business operation as an independent company on 1 April under the name TEPCO Renewable Power, has revealed a big investment in offshore wind projects. The company plans to invest JPY 1-2 trillion (€ 8.22 billion to € 16.44 billion) in 6-7 GW of offshore wind and hydroelectric projects […]

  • Offshore Wind California coalition adds new member

    9 June 2020
    Business & Finance

    French company Naval Energies has joined the Offshore Wind California coalition, which gathers offshore wind developers and technology companies supporting a goal of 10 GW of installed offshore wind capacity in California by 2040. “We look forward to working with the Naval Energies team as we advance policies for the responsible development of offshore wind […]

  • Siemens electrical kit for US offshore wind farm

    9 June 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Siemens has secured an order from Semco Maritime to provide the main electrical equipment for the electrical service platform (ESP) of the Mayflower Wind offshore wind farm. The project is located in a federal lease area approximately 25 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts in the United States, and will have a capacity to generate up […]

  • LOC wraps up French offshore wind work

    15 September 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Longitude, part of LOC Group, has completed a range of environmental engineering analyses for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project to support the planning for the export cable installation operations. Under the contract with Prysmian, the work included analysis of vessel grounding and mooring in nearshore locations, landfall cable pull-in analysis, export cable free lay from […]

  • Orient Cable cracks Vietnamese offshore wind market

    11 September 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Chinese power cable specialist Orient Cable has secured its first engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract for an offshore wind project in Vietnam. Orient Cable has been contracted to provide and install a 185-kilometre, 35 kV subsea cable system for the Binh Dai offshore wind farm. The project is located in the Binh Dai […]

  • 16 turbines standing at SeaMade offshore wind project

    7 August 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Sixteen out of 58 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW turbines have been installed at the SeaMade offshore wind project in Belgium. According to Otary CEO Mathias Verkest, the 9th turbine load-out is currently being prepared at the Port of Oostende. DEME’s Apollo installed the first turbine at the project site located some 50km off the coast in […]

  • Galloper makes offshore wind scarecrow tried-and-true

    3 August 2020
    Environment

    A scarecrow system installed on the substation of the Galloper offshore wind farm has reduced seabird guano on the structure from approximately 50-60% coverage to almost none in the last 12 months. The Scaretech system was installed on the substation located 27km off the Suffolk coast in the UK in July last year to address […]

  • Tekmar Gets Offshore Wind Farm Remedial Work

    27 February 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Tekmar Group has signed a remedial contract worth approximately £3 million for execution over the next six months. The contract is for bespoke remedial cable protection systems for replacement subsea cables to be installed on an existing UK offshore wind farm. James Ritchie, Tekmar Group CEO said: “This is an important project for the Group. It […]

  • Winter brings good tidings to Belgian offshore wind

    1 April 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    This winter, offshore wind energy covered some 9 percent of the total electricity demand in Belgium, which represents a 50 per cent increase over the annual average in 2019.

  • France greenlights 8.75 GW offshore wind target

    23 April 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    France will put up to 8.75 GW of offshore wind capacity out to tender from 2020 to 2028, the Multiannual Energy Programme (Programmation pluriannuelle de l’énergie (PPE)) shows. The new PPE has entered into force on Thursday, 23 April. As proposed earlier, the PPE also increases the intended operating offshore wind capacity from between 4.7GW […]