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  • Offshore wind autonomous O&M project reports several breakthroughs

    24 June 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, IT & Software, Technology

    The team behind the Innovate UK-funded, two-year MIMRee (Multi-Platform Inspection, Maintenance and Repair in Extreme Environments) project has revealed breakthroughs achieved during its first year of running. The MIMRee project has made concrete steps toward reaching its ultimate goal of having an autonomous system capable of planning its own operational missions to offshore wind farms and […]

  • DLBA Naval Architects designs SATV for US offshore wind market

    22 June 2020
    Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Virginia-based DLBA Naval Architects has developed a concept Service Accommodation and Transfer Vessel (SATV) for the US offshore wind market. The 120’ SATV is conceived as a possible alternative to traditional North Sea crew transfer vessel (CTV) designs, specifically developed for the US market and concept of operations. According to DLBA Naval Architects, the US […]

  • LS Cable & System sends first offshore wind cables to Taiwan

    22 June 2020
    Business Developments & Projects

    South Korean cable manufacturer LS Cable & System has shipped off the first batch of submarine power cables for the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan. This is also the company’s first shipment of submarine cables for an offshore wind project in Taiwan. Last year, LS C&S won the right to supply all the high-voltage […]

  • Kajima to handle construction at 700 MW Japanese offshore wind farm

    12 June 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Japanese consortium developing the Akita Yurihonjo offshore wind farm has selected Kajima Corporation as the project’s contractor in charge of construction. The consortium, led by Renova, is developing the Akita Yurihonjo project through the special purpose company – Akita Yurihonjo Offshore Wind GK (AYOW). Members of the consortium also include Cosmo Eco Power, JR-EAST Energy […]

  • Norway opens two offshore wind areas, 4.5 GW available

    12 June 2020
    Authorities & Government, Project & Tenders

    Norway has opened two areas for offshore wind development, which are said to together have a capacity of 4,500 MW. The applications for the Utsira Nord and Sørlige Nordsjø II areas will launch on 1 January 2021, and limits have been set on the amount of wind power that can be developed. Utsira Nord is […]

  • Innogy gives status report for Dublin Array offshore wind project

    21 May 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Innogy is planning to commence stakeholder and community consultations for the Dublin Array offshore wind project in Ireland early this autumn. The wind farm is currently in the development phase, and data gathering will continue until the summer to refresh the environmental reporting and project design, innogy said. Ecological surveys are also underway in the […]

  • Port of Esbjerg getting €134 million investment for offshore wind facilities

    14 May 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Ports & Logistics

    Nordic infrastructure fund Infranode is preparing an investment of up to kr. 1 billion (circa €134 million) for new infrastructure facilities at the Danish port of Esbjerg which will be used for the offshore wind industry. The investment will go into port facilities for storage, preassembly and manufacturing of components for offshore wind turbines. “This […]

  • New joint venture exploring South African offshore wind market

    13 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    Swedish floating multi-turbine platform designer Hexicon AB and South African wind developer Genesis Eco-Energy Developments are joining forces to explore the development of offshore wind in South Africa. The development program will be carried out via a joint venture company in South Africa named GenesisHexicon (Pty) Ltd. “This is the winning formula for large scale energy production […]

  • World’s largest offshore wind farm selects O&M base

    13 May 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    Equinor and SSE Renewables plan to build a new Operations and Maintenance (O&M) base at the Port of Tyne, UK, to service the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank offshore wind project. Dogger Bank Wind Farm is a 50:50 joint venture (JV) between Equinor and SSE Renewables. The construction of the wind farm, led by SSE Renewables, […]

  • MHI Vestas inks conditional agreement for Seagreen offshore wind project

    2 June 2020
    Project & Tenders

    MHI Vestas has signed a conditional agreement for the delivery of turbines for the Seagreen offshore wind project in the UK. In October last year, the company entered into a preferred supplier agreement with Seagreen Wind Energy Limited to supply and service up to 114 turbines for the 1,140 MW wind farm. Situated over 27km […]

  • Navantia and Harland & Wolff to jointly pursue UK offshore wind projects

    27 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    Navantia and Harland and Wolff (Belfast) Limited are in advanced teaming agreement discussions for cooperation in the offshore wind sector. The partnership will focus on fixed and floating foundations for the offshore wind sector in the UK. The teaming agreements are in relation to a series of specific projects that have been identified as commercially […]

  • Fast solutions needed for physical separation in offshore wind crew transfer

    7 May 2020
    Safety, Vessels

    Social distancing measures in response to the ongoing pandemic have taken their toll on offshore wind crew transfer. The industry is now seeking rapid solutions to increase physical separation of technicians on offshore crew transfer vessels (CTVs). According to ORE Catapult, the current COVID-19 situation has forced some operators to limit CTV operations to a […]

  • Eurogrid’s debut green bond to finance German offshore wind connections

    7 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    Eurogrid GmbH, the parent company of 50Hertz, has issued its debut green bond in the amount of EUR 750 million, which will finance the Ostwind 1 and 2 grid connections in Germany. The corporate bond with a term of 12 years and an interest rate of 1.113% was issued on the regulated market with the […]

  • DNV GL: Offshore Wind to See Benefit from Robots with AI

    22 November 2017

    DNV GL has released a new position paper that describes how Artificial intelligence (AI) will increasingly automate operations over the next several years in the solar and wind industries and boost efficiencies across the renewable energy sector. The position paper “Making Renewables Smarter: The benefits, risks, and future of artificial intelligence in solar and wind” explores where […]

  • MHI Vestas turbines for 700 MW Japanese offshore wind project

    9 April 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Renova has selected MHI Vestas to supply turbines for the Akita Yurihonjo offshore wind project in Japan. The project is expected to have a power generating capacity of approximately 700 MW, making it one of the largest offshore wind farms in Japan. “The Yurihonjo project will be a pioneer in the Japanese offshore wind market, […]

  • Rovco Wraps Up ROV Inspection at Galloper Offshore Wind Farm

    20 November 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Rovco has completed an extensive remotely operated vehicle (ROV) inspection contract for the Galloper offshore wind farm. The circa £1 million contract has resulted in completion of the baseline asset integrity survey at the Galloper, a 353MW installed capacity wind farm which lies 30km off the coast of Suffolk, UK. Rovco deployed a Cougar XT […]

  • NKT to Supply Export Cable for Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm

    19 November 2018
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    NKT has signed an export cable Pre-Construction Agreement (PCA) for delivery and installation of export cable system to the UK offshore wind farm project Inch Cape. The project is being developed by Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm Ltd, a subsidiary of Red Rock Power. The PCA is signed in a consortium with Boskalis Subsea Cables & Flexibles. The PCA […]

  • JDR Partners Up with McAllister on US Offshore Wind Cable Services

    15 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    JDR and McAllister Towing have established a memorandum of understanding for the development and collaborative operation of a US East Cost Offshore Wind subsea power cable service base with an integrated cable training center. This new facility is being targeted to be developed on an existing McAllister quayside waterfront property in the north eastern United […]

  • New Project to Improve Offshore Wind Turbine Monopiles Scour Protection

    8 June 2018
    Equipment, Research & Development

    Scour researchers from several institutions are set to start work on a collaborative project at HR Wallingford’s Fast Flow Facility (FFF) as part of PROTEUS, an EU-funded Hydralab+ project. The research project aims to improve the design of scour protection around offshore wind turbine monopiles, as well as future-proofing them against the impacts of climate change. […]

  • Work Starts for Norther Offshore Wind Farm Cable Landing in Zeebrugge

    19 September 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    Norther NV has started work on the beach of Zeebrugge in order to connect the Norther Offshore wind farm to the Belgian electricity grid. The work follows the completion of the installation of the high-voltage station at sea in the middle of August, the company said. The cable-laying vessel Nexus will lay the 24-kilometer long […]

  • JDR 66 kV Cables for European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre

    13 December 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    JDR has been awarded a contract by offshore cable installation specialist VBMS, part of Boskalis, to supply 66 kV inter-array and export cables for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC). Located in Aberdeen Bay, the 92.4 MW, 11-turbine development is Scotland’s largest offshore wind test and demonstration facility. JDR will supply more than 20 […]

  • New offshore wind targets to fuel REPowerEU green hydrogen ambitions

    20 May 2022
    Authorities & Government, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    The 150 GW of offshore wind capacity pledged to be reached by 2050 by Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands under the Esbjerg Declaration, signed on 18 May at the North Sea Summit, will contribute to large-scale onshore and offshore production of green hydrogen, one of the focal points of the European Commission’s REPowerEU strategy, launched […]

  • Fugro gets call for 3 GW offshore wind sites in the UK

    12 April 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Fugro has won a contract with BP and EnBW to carry out a geotechnical site investigation campaign at the Morgan and Mona offshore wind projects in the Irish Sea. Fieldwork will run from May to September at the site located approximately 30 kilometers off the coast of North Wales and North West England in an area known […]

  • Dutch offshore wind-to-hydrogen project gathers feasibility study team

    27 September 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The consortium comprising RWE and Neptune Energy has awarded contracts to Siemens Gamesa and Dutch engineering companies H2SEA and Enersea to support concept engineering work as part of the feasibility study for the H2opZee green hydrogen project in the Netherlands. H2opZee, announced earlier this year and planned to be built before 2030 in the Dutch […]

  • Offshore wind firms take aim at decarbonising Scottish oil and gas

    20 September 2022
    Environment

    Vårgrønn and Flotation Energy have formed an offshore wind partnership aimed at decarbonising the oil and gas industry in Scotland. Vårgrønn, a Norwegian full cycle offshore wind company owned by Plenitude (Eni) and HitecVision, and Flotation Energy, an Edinburgh-based floating wind specialist, plan to generate renewable energy from offshore wind farms to enable the electrification […]