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  • First Made-in-USA Offshore Wind Service Vessel Delivered

    11 April 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    Atlantic Pioneer, the first US-built offshore wind service vessel, was delivered to Atlantic Wind Transfers over the last weekend. The 21-meter crew transfer vessel was built by the Rhode Island-based Blount Boats to service a 20-year crew transfer contract with Deepwater Wind for its 30MW Block Island offshore wind farm. During the ceremony, Atlantic Pioneer crossed paths […]

  • Shell Makes Case for 20GW of Dutch Offshore Wind by 2030

    13 April 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    Oil and gas major Royal Dutch Shell has called on the government in the Netherlands to increase its target for installed offshore wind capacity by 2030 to 20 gigawatts, Reuters reports.

  • BOEM to Discuss Rhode Island, Massachusetts Offshore Wind Plans

    1 May 2017
    Authorities & Government, Human Capital, Research & Development

    BOEM will hold a Rhode Island and Massachusetts Joint Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force meeting on 16 May in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

  • Massachusetts Utilities Table First Offshore Wind Request for Proposals

    2 May 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Storage

    The utilities in the State of Massachusetts have issued the first Request for Proposals (RFP) to procure up to 800MW of offshore wind energy generation.

  • Massachusetts Utilities Table First Offshore Wind Request for Proposals

    2 May 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Storage

    The utilities in the State of Massachusetts have issued the first Request for Proposals (RFP) to procure up to 800MW of offshore wind energy generation.

  • Italy: Taranto to Get First Mediterranean Offshore Wind Farm

    8 July 2015
    Authorities & Government

    An Italian offshore wind story that started 5 years ago got its closure at the beginning of this month, when a project proposed to be built off the coast of Taranto got wind at its back after a years-long legal battle. A decision by the Italian Council of State has now opened doors to a company called Beleolico s.r.l. […]

  • DeepOcean to Install Offshore Wind Cables off Belgian Coast

    17 July 2015

    DeepOcean 1 UK Ltd., a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV (DeepOcean), has been awarded the inter array cable installation contract for the Bligh Bank Phase II Offshore Wind Farm offshore Belgium. Nobelwind NV is developing the Bligh Bank Phase II Offshore Wind Farm with fifty 3.3MW wind turbines offshore Belgium, with an estimated installed […]

  • Offshore Wind Developers Reaffirm Their UK Projects with Crown Estate

    7 August 2015
    Authorities & Government

    The Crown Estate has announced today the first series of agreements reached with offshore wind developers, including EDF Energy Renewables, Eneco Wind UK Limited (Eneco) and Forewind Limited, to replace their previous zone development agreements with project specific agreements. Since the award of zone agreements in 2009, developers have had exclusive rights to areas of UK […]

  • Basque Country Funding Floating, Offshore Wind Tech-Testing

    12 August 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    The Basque Energy Agency (Ente Vasco de la Energía; EVE) will financially support demonstration and validation of emerging marine energy technologies with EUR 2.5 million. Specifically, subsidies will be made available for pilot projects demonstrating and validating full scale, or almost full scale, prototypes of wave energy converters, floating wind platforms, and offshore wind turbines. Funding also covers prototypes of […]

  • G9 Issues Report on Offshore Wind Transfer Design Issues

    19 August 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    A report resulting from the G9 Offshore Wind Health and Safety Association (G9)’s first Safe by Design workshop is now available. The report explores a number of key topics associated with the transfer of personnel from a Crew Transfer Vessel to a transition piece via the traditional push on method (including design of the transfer […]

  • NJ Senator Backs Fishermen’s Energy Offshore Wind Project

    20 August 2015
    Authorities & Government

    At one of the public hearings on the New Jersey Energy Master Plan (EMP), held by the state’s Board of Public Utilities (BPU), chairman of Senate Environment and Energy Committee, Senator Bob Smith, expressed his support to offshore wind as a valuable renewable energy source.  Discussing offshore wind energy at the hearing inevitably led to the case of Fishermen’s Energy’s proposed project […]

  • Palfinger to Deliver Hundreds of Cranes for UK Offshore Wind Projects

    8 October 2015

    Palfinger Marine has secured orders for the delivery of more than 200 platform cranes and five substation cranes for UK offshore wind projects. This includes 116 electric platform cranes with a fixed boom (PF 6000 with an outreach of 2.4m) for the Rampion offshore wind farm, which is being built by E.ON alongside the Green Investment […]

  • China Three Gorges to Invest in Moray Offshore Wind Project

    26 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    EDPR has entered in an Investment Cooperation Agreement with China Three Gorges (CTG), by which the Chinese company proposes to invest in and develop the Moray wind offshore project alongside with EDPR and other potential investors. Pursuant to the agreement, CTG intends to acquire up to 30% of the equity and shareholder loans directly or indirectly owned […]

  • C-bed Presents New Offshore Wind Hotel Vessel

    6 October 2015

    Dutch offshore accommodation specialist, C-bed, has presented a new tailor-made offshore wind hotel vessel, Wind Innovation. The vessel was built for optimising the installation and commissioning stages for offshore wind farm operators. “With her DP2 capacity and Comfort Class 3 certification, she is the most advanced offshore hotel vessel ever in the C-bed fleet. Wind […]

  • Fraunhofer IWES Studying German Bight Offshore Wind Clusters

    12 November 2019
    Research & Development

    Fraunhofer IWES has commenced a project focused on investigating how the wind conditions in the German Bight could change if offshore wind farms are expanded on a large scale. The X-Wakes “Interaction Between the Wakes of Large Offshore Wind Farms and Wind Farm Clusters With the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer” research project is funded by […]

  • UK Prime Minister Pledges Offshore Wind Target Increase

    14 November 2019
    Authorities & Government

    UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to increase the UK’s 2030 offshore wind target from the current 30GW to 40GW if his Conservative party wins the general election. UK’s current target to have 30GW of connected offshore wind capacity by 2030 was set with the launch of a new joint government-industry Offshore Wind Sector […]

  • Maersk and East Coast College to Provide Offshore Wind Training

    22 November 2019
    Human Capital

    Maersk Training has established a partnership with the UK’s East Coast College to provide training courses for offshore renewable energy. The training courses will be held at East Coast College’s Energy Skills Centre in Lowestoft and Offshore Wind Skills Centre in Great Yarmouth. The GBP 11.4 million Energy Skills Centre, home to the East Coast […]

  • East Anglia Offshore Wind Farms Cleared for DCO Review

    25 November 2019
    Authorities & Government

    The UK Planning Inspectorate has accepted applications for orders granting development consent submitted by ScottishPower Renewables for the East Anglia ONE North and the East Anglia TWO offshore wind farms. The UK Secretary of State has decided to accept these applications for examination. ScottishPower Renewables submitted the Development Consent Order (DCO) applications for the two […]

  • High Seas Offshore Wind Faces Legal Barriers – Report

    4 December 2019
    Research & Development

    The development of wind energy in the high seas could unlock offshore potential, but the lack of a legal framework might become a major obstacle, according to a report by Chatham Partners. The Offshore Wind in High Seas: Unlimited potential beyond national control? report writes that if technology allowed the construction of wind farms in the […]

  • WAB: WindEurope Report Underestimates German Offshore Wind Potential

    12 December 2019
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    German wind energy agency WAB has brought into question the results of a report recently published by WindEurope, saying that Germany’s offshore wind potential is around 21GW higher than stated in the report. According to the report, the potential of offshore wind capacity in German waters by 2050 accounts to some 36GW. However, WAB has […]

  • DEME Lays Keel for First Offshore Wind Maintenance SOV

    16 December 2019

    DEME Group has held a keel-laying ceremony for its first dedicated service operation vessel (SOV) for offshore wind farm maintenance. The keel-laying ceremony took place on 13 December at the CEMRE shipyard in Yalova, Turkey, for what is said to be the world’s first DP2 twin-hulled SOV. Due to be delivered in 2021, the SOV […]

  • Taiwanese Offshore Wind Training Center Enters Construction Phase

    10 June 2019

    A groundbreaking ceremony has been held for the Kaohsiung Marine Technology Industrial Innovation zone in Taiwan which will comprise an offshore wind training center. The training center will provide offshore wind GWO training for which Maersk Training and the Metal Industries Research and Development Centre (MIRDC) signed an agreement in February. According to Maersk, besides training technicians […]

  • Taiwanese Offshore Wind Training Center Enters Construction Phase

    10 June 2019

    A groundbreaking ceremony has been held for the Kaohsiung Marine Technology Industrial Innovation zone in Taiwan which will comprise an offshore wind training center. The training center will provide offshore wind GWO training for which Maersk Training and the Metal Industries Research and Development Centre (MIRDC) signed an agreement in February. According to Maersk, besides training technicians […]

  • France to Set 1GW Annual Offshore Wind Tendering Target

    13 June 2019
    Authorities & Government, Project & Tenders

    France will increase its offshore wind tendering target from around 600MW a year to 1GW a year until 2028 as the Dunkirk tender has shown that the costs are decreasing, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said. ”Today, the project off Dunkirk shows that costs fall even faster when projects are well set up,” Prime Minister Philippe […]

  • UK EIC and World Forum Offshore Wind Sign MoU

    19 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    The UK Energy Industries Council (EIC) and the World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on offshore wind. Under the MoU signed in Aberdeen, the two parties agreed to cooperate on offshore wind supply chain project activities. “We work extensively with supply chain companies and especially those diversifying from oil […]