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  • Future Skills Pipeline Vital to Make Offshore Wind Industry Work

    14 November 2016
    Business & Finance, Human Capital

    More than 200 offshore wind players were challenged to embrace students into their organisations at the Offshore Wind Week event at OrbisEnergy, Lowestoft, organised by the East of England Energy Group (EEEGR). Champions of East of England offshore wind must invest in the industry’s future by offering work placements and internships now to secure longevity for […]

  • German Researchers Start Testing Offshore Wind Energy Storage System

    14 November 2016
    Human Capital, Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    German researchers have started trialing a 1:10 scale model of the StEnSea (Stored Energy in the Sea) undersea compressed air energy storage system designed to temporarily store electricity generated by offshore wind turbines. After several years’ research work, the StEnSea project, funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, has now entered the test phase. In the framework […]

  • Taiwanese Premier Champions Offshore Wind During Formosa 1 Tour

    16 November 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Taiwan is actively developing offshore wind power, which will be an important factor in transforming the country’s overall energy structure, Premier Lin Chuan said during a tour of the recently constructed 8MW Formosa One offshore wind farm off Miaoli County. The nation’s first two offshore wind turbines, just completed in October, show that Taiwan has entered a […]

  • Technip to Close Offshore Wind Business, 190 People to Lose Jobs

    8 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Human Capital

    Technip has decided to shut down its offshore wind division based in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, after all undergoing projects are completed. The company is also leaving the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) project, writes the Press and Journal. This decision was made according to Technip’s business review, which resulted in the company’s decision to focus […]

  • Alstom’s 6MW Haliade Offshore Wind Turbine Produces First kWh

    25 September 2014
    Storage, Technology

    On September 19th, Alstom’s next-generation Haliade™ 150-6MW offshore wind turbine, installed just off the Ostend coast at Belgium’s Belwind facility, produced its very first kWh. The assembly and the tests conducted have so far helped to optimise the turbine’s installation and commissioning procedures at sea. Tests will continue in order to confirm how the machine […]

  • Industry, Academia Join to Study Long Island’s Offshore Wind Resources

    25 September 2014
    Research & Development

    Deepwater Wind has announced a collaborative study of Long Island’s offshore wind resources with Stony Brook University (SBU), New York’s top-ranked public university, and AWS Truepower (AWS), an Albany, N.Y.-based renewable energy consultant.  Already underway, this collaboration will provide SBU with tools and resources that will strengthen its research in the growing renewable energy industry […]

  • OFFSHORE WIND SUPPORT SCHEMES: Current status of European support schemes

    19 January 2015

    With over 70GW planned to come online over the next ten years, offshore wind continues to show exceptional potential and offers some of the best industry growth prospects against a backdrop of maturing onshore developments in the EU. Indeed, the extreme weather conditions offer higher wind speeds, allowing turbines to produce more electricity than onshore, […]

  • Thrustmaster Backs USA’s Offshore Wind Industry with Portable DP System

    10 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Thrustmaster of Texas, a marine propulsion design and manufacturing company from the U.S., is looking to give an edge to U.S. based marine jack-up operators wanting to enter the national offshore wind farm construction and maintenance sector by cutting the cost of entry in half with a unique propulsion system that allows conversion of existing vessels to […]

  • Jacob Securities to Arrange Offshore Wind Project Financing for Beothuk Energy

    21 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Canadian Beothuk Energy Inc. (BEI) has retained Jacob Securities Inc. (JSI) to identify project financing for the company’s previously announced demonstration offshore wind park. BEI’s plans include developing, owning and operating a portfolio of large-scale offshore wind energy projects in the Atlantic Provinces and northeastern United States. The arrangement with JSI of the project equity and project […]

  • SIOW Report Shows Roadmap for Reducing Offshore Wind Costs in NY

    10 March 2015

    A new study, offering a roadmap of key strategic steps New York State can take to reduce costs of offshore wind power over the next decade, has been published. Conducted by the University of Delaware’s Special Initiative on Offshore Wind (SIOW) for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), the study finds that […]

  • U.S. Offshore Wind Capacity Could Reach 86 GW by 2050

    17 March 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Leaders of the U.S. wind energy industry said their companies and workers can deliver on a bold new vision for wind power to double in America over the next five years and ultimately become one of the country’s largest sources of electricity, with the savings to consumers reaching tens of billions of dollars a year. […]

  • Prysmian wraps up export cable work at Sofia offshore wind farm

    14 April 2025
    Business Developments & Projects

    Prysmian has completed the installation and HV testing of the export subsea cables that connect the Sofia offshore wind farm to the UK mainland. The 1.4 GW offshore wind farm comprises more than 440 kilometers of ±320 kV offshore export cables with XLPE insulation, manufactured in Prysmian’s Pikkala plant in Finland, and 15 kilometers of […]

  • JDR wins inter-array cable work on largest US offshore wind farm

    3 December 2024
    Project & Tenders

    DEME Offshore has contracted JDR Cable Systems, part of the TFKable Group, for cable installation and commissioning work on the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. The 2.6 GW CVOW, developed by Dominion Energy, is the largest offshore wind farm under construction in the United States. Under the contract, JDR will carry out pull-in, termination, […]

  • Germany: Van Oord Wins Contract to Install Cables for DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm

    5 July 2011
    Operations & Maintenance

      Van Oord has been awarded the contract for the infield cabling and burial of the DanTysk offshore wind farm project 70 km off Sylt, Germany. The laying work will begin in the spring of 2013 and be completed around six months later. The DanTysk wind farm is a joint venture between Vattenfall Europe Windkraft […]

  • Biodiversity Research Institute Wins USD 4,5m Grant for Offshore Wind Research (USA)

    9 September 2011
    Environment

      The Biodiversity Research Institute will study the risks to sea birds and marine mammals from offshore wind-power development.   (mpbn) [mappress] Source: mpbn, September 09, 2011

  • USA: UMaine Wins 1st Phase of Deepwater Floating Offshore Wind Demonstration Project

    31 January 2013
    Research & Development, Technology

    The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center has been awarded the first phase of a potential $93.2 million deepwater offshore wind demonstration project by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The UMaine Composites Center-led team of industry leaders and national laboratories is one of five awardees selected from over 70 competing proposals. In […]

  • UK: Technip Offshore Wind Completes Milestone Cable Installation with Award-Winning PIM

    7 February 2013
    Storage

    Technip Offshore Wind has safely and successfully completed contractual work on the installation of 38 array and 8 substation cables on the Lincs wind farm located off the Lincolnshire coast. The project was the first to use the award-winning Pull-In Module (PIM) Technology. Geoff Fisher, Vice President, Marine Renewables and Cables Division said: ‘The positive […]

  • Vattenfall taps Correll Group for multi-year offshore wind services

    20 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Correll Group, a subsidiary of SPIE Global Services Energy, has been awarded two multi-year framework agreements from Vattenfall to carry out cable testing and fault finding for Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms in Europe. The two framework agreements cover Vattenfall’s existing and potential new offshore wind farms in Europe (excluding Germany) for an initial five-year period. […]

  • XELLZ buys more land for Irish offshore wind supply base

    10 July 2020
    Ports & Logistics

    XELLZ has acquired an additional 100.000m2 of land at the Port of Rosslare in Ireland to establish an offshore wind supply base. At the beginning of the year, the Dutch company secured about 200.000m2 of land to facilitate a supply base for installation and operating companies for the near future offshore wind industry. According to […]

  • MHO-Co joins Spectrum on Hornsea Two offshore wind project

    3 July 2020
    Vessels

    Spectrum Offshore has selected MHO-Co’s vessel MHO Grimsby to assist the construction survey support at the Hornsea Two offshore wind project. The vessel, which is equipped with special survey gear for the task, will be working on the project for the next two years, MHO-Co said. Last month, Spectrum secured a construction survey support contract […]

  • US companies plan construction of two SuperFeeder offshore wind vessels

    17 June 2020
    Vessels

    U.S. companies MiNO Marine and 2nd Wind Marine are planning to start building two offshore wind construction support vessels in early 2021. They recently engaged U.S. shipyards, which are now evaluating the vessel design and preparing estimations on construction costs and building timeline. The Jones Act compliant vessels, called SuperFeeders, are DP2 purpose-built jack-ups that will […]

  • Aker BP eyes offshore wind-oil & gas combo in Norway

    15 June 2020
    Business Developments & Projects

    Aker BP is planning to explore the opportunity of using offshore wind energy at new oil & gas development areas offshore Norway. Aker BP and Equinor recently entered into an agreement in principle on commercial terms for the coordinated development of the licenses Krafla, Fulla, and North of Alvheim (NOAKA) on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. […]

  • Ørsted reaches 7 GW offshore wind capacity with turbine No. 1500

    11 June 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Ørsted has installed its 1,500th offshore wind turbine with which the world’s leading offshore wind developer reached 7 GW of capacity installed. Ørsted achieved this milestone recently after installing the 25th Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbine on the 752 MW Borssele 1 & 2 wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. Before construction start […]

  • Seacontractors’ vessel duo completes first offshore wind gig in Taiwan

    24 September 2020
    Vessels

    Seacontractors’ multi-purpose vessels Sea Charlie and Sea Buffalo, chartered by Jan de Nul, have completed their first job in Taiwan at Taiwan Power Company’s Changhua Phase 1 offshore wind farm. The vessels were assisting Jan De Nul, which is responsible for the design, fabrication and installation of the foundations, the installation of the wind turbines, […]

  • Scorpio sells two more bulkers amid switch to offshore wind

    15 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Transition, Vessels

    Bulker owner and operator Scorpio Bulkers is pushing forward with the disposal of vessels as part of its strategy to secure a foothold in the offshore wind market. In its latest move, Scorpio inked agreements with an unaffiliated third party to sell SBI Phoenix and SBI Samson, two Ultramax bulk carriers built in 2017 for approximately […]