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  • Government Rejects Accusations of Stalling Offshore Wind Development (UK)

    14 September 2011
    Authorities & Government

    The government has rejected accusations that its policies are stalling offshore wind development and that the UK could lose its lead in…   By Will Nichols (businessgreen) [mappress] Source: businessgreen, September 14, 2011

  • Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm Readies for Giant Turbines

    29 May 2017
    Authorities & Government, Storage

    Inch Cape Offshore Limited (ICOL) has submitted a scoping report for the revised 784MW Inch Cape offshore wind farm to the Scottish Ministers.

  • Seagreen 1A offshore wind project secures marine licence

    13 December 2021
    Authorities & Government, Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy

    Scottish Government Ministers have approved the Marine Licence application for the 36-turbine Seagreen 1A offshore wind proposal being brought forward by SSE Renewables and TotalEnergies. The Marine Licence covers the offshore elements of the project, including an export cable approximately 110 kilometres in length, to connect the project to the grid at Cockenzie in East […]

  • Marlinks to monitor cables at Baltic Sea offshore wind farm

    3 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Marlinks has won a contract to provide cable health monitoring services for the Arcadis Ost 1 wind farm located offshore Germany in the Baltic Sea. According to Marlinks, Arcadis Ost 1 is situated in an area of the Baltic Sea where challenging seabed conditions are present and a swampy topsoil layer accelerates the embedment of […]

  • K2 Management to Develop Global Offshore Wind Installation Database

    24 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The U.S. Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has engaged K2 Management to build a global installation database for offshore wind. The objective is to provide NREL and thereby the US wind industry with easy accessible data on installation times, correlation effects, implications and processes to secure use of best practice and avoid delays […]

  • Seabed issue could relocate Danish offshore wind farm

    8 October 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    An issue with soft seabed conditions at the Hesselø offshore wind farm site is currently being investigated in relation to the framework set for the project and the planned (and currently paused) tender process, with one of the solutions now mentioned being the development of the second of Denmark’s three new large-scale offshore wind farms […]

  • 14 Bidders Competing for New York Offshore Wind Area

    28 October 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has identified 14 companies as legally, technically and financially qualified to participate in the upcoming commercial wind lease sale of 79,350 acres offshore New York, including industry leaders such as DONG Energy, innogy and Iberdrola’s Avangrid Renewables. The lease sale has also attracted EDF Renewable Development, Statoil Wind US, wpd offshore Alpha, Deepwater […]

  • Fishermen Argue Against New York Offshore Wind Lease

    10 February 2017
    Authorities & Government, Environment

    U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., is expected to deliver a ruling on a motion for a preliminary injunction against the lease sale of 127 square miles of ocean off the coast of Long Island, New York, for wind energy development.

  • Fishermen Argue Against New York Offshore Wind Lease

    10 February 2017
    Authorities & Government, Environment

    U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., is expected to deliver a ruling on a motion for a preliminary injunction against the lease sale of 127 square miles of ocean off the coast of Long Island, New York, for wind energy development.

  • TenneT’s First Major Offshore Wind Grid Connection Operational

    3 February 2015
    Storage

    TenneT’s offshore connection BorWin2 is now operational and transports the German North Sea electricity to the grid on land. BorWin2 has a capacity of 800 megawatts (MW) and can provide around one million households with electricity. With BorWin2, four grid connections with a total capacity of approximately 1,400 MW are realized. In addition, at this moment there are […]

  • Aarkstore reports about “Offshore Wind Farm Manufacturing Worldwide “

    23 April 2010
    Business & Finance, Environment, Research & Development

    The global move to offshore wind farm development is enabling nations to accelerate wind energy adoption while reducing reliance on land-… [mappress] Source: prminds, April 22, 2010;

  • USA: New Jersey Could Divert Offshore Wind Funds

    20 July 2012
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

      State of New Jersey is a leading place for offshore wind development, since it has rather shallow waters and generous wind resources. However, the state now copes with certain financial issues regarding revenues that are targeted to offshore wind projects for generating electricity. Fears have been raised among the developers that revenues could be […]

  • Maritime Industry Also Relies on Offshore Wind Energy (Germany)

    23 December 2011

    Shipyards, suppliers, shipping companies and ports do not have a really good year behind them. The expansion of offshore wind energy will bring a turnaround. But this can take time. According to the official announcement, by the year 2025 wind energy at sea is to cover about 15 percent of German electricity demand today. Goals […]

  • Vattenfall Starts First Ever Offshore Wind Farm Dismantling

    4 December 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    Sweden’s Vattenfall has started dismantling the 10MW Yttre Stengrund offshore wind farm after thirteen years of operating in the waters of Kalmar Sound, the company confirmed to Offshore WIND. Yttre Stengrund consisted of five 2MW NEG Micon turbines. Only 50 of such turbines were ever made. The last turbine at Yttre Stengrund stopped turning on 2 November. The four other wind […]

  • RenewableUK Welcomes Offshore Wind Move from GIB and Marubeni

    31 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Maf Smith of RenewableUK backed the offshore wind investment announcements made today by the Green Investment Bank. The announcements stated the Green Investment Bank was investing jointly with the Marubeni Corporation to purchase a 50% share in Dong Energy’s Westermost Rough wind farm, which is being built off the coast of East Yorkshire, and also […]

  • UK: Teesside Offshore Wind Farm Generates First Power

    29 April 2013

    The North East’s first large scale offshore wind farm has now started to produce electricity as work continues towards completion of the project. The first three wind turbine generators at the EDF Energy Renewables Teesside offshore wind farm have now been fully commissioned and are supplying electricity to the National Grid. When complete the 27 […]

  • Merkel’s Cabinet Approves New German Offshore Wind Law

    30 November 2012
    Authorities & Government, Storage

    A draft law that regulates offshore wind liability issues and lowers the limit on damages that grid operators must pay for delays when connecting offshore wind farms to the grid has been approved by German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet and will take effect later this year. So far, grid operators who link offshore wind farms […]

  • India Plans Demonstration Offshore Wind Farm in Tamil Nadu

    19 March 2018
    Authorities & Government

    India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) will install four to five 6MW offshore wind turbines at Arichamunai in the state of Tamil Nadu, according to The Hindu. The wind turbines will be set up as a demonstration facility and the investment to build the project and put it into operation would cost around ₹300 crore (approx. EUR 37.4 million). 

  • GICON Is Present at First Permanent Offshore Wind Exhibition in Germany

    7 May 2013

    On 24 April 2013, as part of the Future Technologies Conference “Wind & Maritim 2013”, the Offshore Infocenter Rostock (OIR) was officially inaugurated.  GICON is supporting the exhibition with the permanent loan of a model of the GICON Floating Offshore Foundation (GICON – SOF) for offshore wind turbines, currently in development by GICON and which […]

  • Natixis, Swiss Life to Co-Finance Offshore Wind Project

    10 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    French branch of the insurance specialist Swiss Life and Natixis, a French corporate and investment bank, will co-finance an offshore wind project, as part of an infrastructure debt cooperation agreement signed on 9 December. “Under the terms of this agreement, Swiss Life will invest €300m, benefiting from the expertise of Swiss Life Asset Managers and Natixis in this asset class,” it was […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Contracts Await Innovators and Cost Cutters

    24 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Human Capital, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Companies hoping to win contracts in the GBP 25 billion UK offshore wind farm investment must be innovative and cut their costs to be part of it, over 250 supply chain representatives heard during an event to celebrate Offshore Wind Week held in Lowestoft. Businesses supplying services, products and skills to help meet the target of […]

  • Conference Dedicated to Offshore Wind Opens Its Door in Amsterdam

    29 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Offshore WIND Installation and Maintenance Conference kicked off this morning as part of Offshore Energy 2014 Exhibition & Conference. Frans van der Loo, owner of LOO e-Consult and Andy Barwise, Business Development Director of Gardline Geosciences Limited gave keynote speeches at the event dedicated to the offshore wind. Mr. van der Loo spoke about […]

  • Denmark: Offshore Wind Farms Need Alternative Capital Sources

    18 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    The continuing economic crisis has created a need for alternative sources of capital for the renewable energy sector, people attending a panel session at the EWEA 2012 Annual Event in Copenhagen heard on Wednesday. Torben Pedersen, of PensionDanmark, also said there are considerable pressures on public finances due to debt issues and on the banking […]

  • Offshore Wind Power Industry Needs to Prove Itself (UK)

    13 May 2011

    The offshore wind power industry has some way to go to prove it can take its place as a sustainable part of the energy mix, according to Offshore Proof… (bymnews) [mappress] Source: bymnews, May 13, 2011

  • Eneco Moves Its Offshore Wind Division into New Office

    17 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Eneco’s Dutch offshore wind division has moved into a new office at the Vlissingenstraat 43 from its old building at Industriestraat. Currently, Eneco is building its second offshore wind farm, Eneco Luchterduinen together with Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation, which is leading to a significant expansion of work in IJmuiden. Therefore, the construction team of Eneco Luchterduinen […]