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  • DONG Becomes Safari Guide

    29 August 2016
    Environment, Human Capital

    Danish offshore wind developer DONG Energy will be taking 4,500 compatriots on offshore wind safaris this September to showcase how the company’s offshore wind farms are contributing to the country’s green energy transformation. According to a survey conducted by Megafon, eight out of ten Danes support the conversion of the energy supply from fossil fuels to […]

  • Top News of The Week July 29 – August 3, 2013

    4 August 2013

    Petrofac Bags €40 Million Contract for Two German Offshore Wind Farms Petrofac has won a €40 million contract from Siemens Energy to provide support during the commissioning phase of two offshore wind converter station platforms in the German North Sea. Germany: First Wind Turbine Installed at Borkum West 2 “The first wind turbines are standing,” […]

  • NWEA supporting partner Offshore Energy

    8 August 2018

    Offshore Energy is pleased to welcome the NWEA as a supporting partner to the exhibition and conference.

  • WindEurope: UK getting seabed leasing ‘badly wrong’

    9 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The UK’s recent Offshore Wind Round 4 seabed leasing represents a risk for raising costs of offshore wind due to the option fee that investors need to pay upfront for the right to develop projects, WindEurope said. In its latest leasing round, the UK introduced a new bidding system that makes investors pay the option […]

  • Vattenfall plans new wind farm offshore Sweden

    13 July 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Vattenfall is investigating the possibility of developing a new offshore wind project in Sweden called Kattegatt Syd. The Kattegatt Syd project is located at a circa 177km2 area approximately 25km offshore Falkenberg, north of the planned Stora Middelgrund offshore wind project. The site is situated within the Swedish economic zone and outside the Natura 2000 […]

  • Belgium to Inaugurate OWI-Lab

    25 September 2012

    Minister-President of the Flemish Government and Flemish Minister for Economy, Foreign Policy, Agriculture and Rural Policy, Kris Peeters and Patrick Janssens mayor of the city of Antwerp will inaugurate Offshore Wind Infrastructure Application Lab in Antwerp on September 27. A large environmental chamber – unique in its kind – has been built to test and […]

  • Photo of the Day: Aeolus Stretching Its Legs

    31 July 2014

    Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: Van Oord’s first transport and installation vessel for the construction of offshore wind farms, Aeolus, jacked up. The vessel is currently conducting testing of the jacking in the North Sea off the coast of Zandvoort. Mrs K. Aboutaleb-Erahoutan, wife of the Mayor of Rotterdam named the vessel last month […]

  • Highlights of the Month: October 2015

    4 November 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    DONG to Build World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm DONG Energy decided to construct the 660MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm, located in the Irish Sea, approximately 19 km off the west coast of Britain. Van Oord: Dredging Companies Venturing into Offshore Wind (Interview) During the Offshore Energy 2015 Exhibition and Conference, Offshore WIND met with […]

  • Expertise Hub VIDEO: The Big People Behind Big Projects (Atlas Professionals)

    3 July 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    With the sector now largely moving into the operations and maintenance phase – in addition to construction – even more space for employment is being created and it is a win-win-win situation, with the skilled workforce, recruiters and the industry players all benefiting from the industry’s progress.

  • Expertise Hub VIDEO: Timing Is Key in O&M (ZITON)

    17 November 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    The introduction of innovations in the offshore wind operations and maintenance segment (O&M) is a constant balancing act and the companies must always have their finger on the trigger and evaluate every day when to pull it, Bent Thambo Jensen, Chief Commercial Officer of ZITON, said.

  • Bladt Shares Its Formula for Success

    17 December 2013
    Technology

    This year’s EWEA Offshore in Frankfurt served as an excellent opportunity for Offshore WIND team to meet with industry leaders, including Bladt Industries. The company recently joined DONG Energy’s Gode Wind project, and we wanted to find out a little bit more about this large contract from Bladt Industries’ Tenna Horby. When asked to give […]

  • CWind Taiwan’s new CTV tandem starts working at Yunlin OWF

    10 November 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    CWind Taiwan’s two new crew transfer vessels (CTVs) Phenom and Phoenix have commenced work on their first project in Taiwan, the company reported via social media. The 12-pax CTVs are supporting Siemens Gamesa during construction work on the Yunlin offshore wind farm. “They are the first in country to obtain the passenger ship safety certificate. […]

  • Highlights of the Month: August 2017

    1 September 2017

    MHI Vestas Turbine Catches Fire at Østerild Test Centre An MHI Vestas V164 wind turbine has caught fire at the Østerild – National Test Centre for Large Wind Turbines in Denmark. E.ON Wins Robin Rigg Dispute Against MT Højgaard The UK Supreme Court has ruled against MT Højgaard (MTH) in the Robin Rigg offshore wind […]

  • MHI Vestas and CIP Commit to Local Content in Taiwan

    29 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Human Capital, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders

    MHI Vestas Offshore Wind and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have signed a localisation agreement for offshore wind projects in Taiwan.

  • Top News of the Week Apr 20-26, 2015

    26 April 2015

    Germany Halts Farshore Wind Energy Projects Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency BSH has halted licensing procedures for offshore wind projects until further notice. Offshore Wind in Spotlight of Van Oord’s Success Van Oord has published its annual report for 2014, which was an exceptional year for the company, according to CEO Pieter Van Oord. […]

  • RenewableUK, Seastar Take Over Norstec’s Workstreams

    12 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Norstec, the network for offshore renewables in northern Europe, will today hand over its three main workstreams to other organisations as part of a restructuring of industry networks. The Norstec Academy, which was launched in 2014 and saw 20 higher education students win tours of the UK offshore wind industry, will now be housed within […]

  • Technip Awards Cable Pull-In Services Contract to CWind

    18 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    CWind has been awarded a contract by Technip Offshore Wind, for the provision of cable pull-in services, complete with crew transfer vessel, to transport CWind technicians on site and support the cable pull-in. Building on previous project scopes, CWind is now project managing the entire tower side pull in operation including the supply of equipment. CWind […]

  • Japanese consortium to bid for wind project offshore Akita

    29 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    A consortium of eight Japanese companies will jointly bid to develop an offshore wind power project in Akita Prefecture for which a public tender is scheduled. Sumitomo Corporation, INPEX Corporation, Japan Petroleum Exploration, JR-EAST Energy Development, Kato Construction, Narita Construction, TEPCO Renewable Power, and Venti Japan will jointly take on the project near the cities […]

  • Study: LCoE of Future Wind Farms Offshore the Netherlands

    24 December 2018
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

    BLIX Consultancy and Pondera Consult have carried out a study on the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) of future offshore wind farm sites in the Netherlands.

  • Study: LCoE of Future Wind Farms Offshore the Netherlands

    24 December 2018
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

    BLIX Consultancy and Pondera Consult have carried out a study on the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) of future offshore wind farm sites in the Netherlands.

  • USA: DOE Studies Potential Offshore Wind’s Economic Impact on Southeast Region

    18 July 2013
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

    On July 11, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a fact sheet that summarizes the findings of a study on potential economic impact of offshore wind energy on the Southeast Region. To better understand the employment opportunities and other potential regional economic impacts from offshore wind development, the U.S. Department of Energy funded research […]

  • GDF SUEZ Reaches 1GW of Installed Wind Energy (France)

    5 January 2012

    Gérard Mestrallet, Chairman and CEO of GDF SUEZ, and Yves de Gaulle, Chairman and CEO of Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) and member of the GDF SUEZ Executive Committee, inaugurated the CNR wind farm at Guerville, in the French Seine-Maritime department. With the commissioning of this 12 MW facility, GDF SUEZ passes the 1,000 MW […]

  • Vessels reshuffle as Taiwanese wind farm nears offshore construction

    7 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    Major offshore wind projects in Taiwan have entered or are about to enter offshore construction and the vessels involved have started mobilising and departing for this increasingly active offshore wind market. As one of these projects is reaching this stage, one of the contractors seems to have had to deploy a substitute vessel to carry […]

  • VIDEO: UMass Doctorate Students Review Cape Wind

    15 May 2014

    An interdisciplinary group of doctoral students who study wind energy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, conducted a case study on the subject of Cape Wind, a project which could become America’s first offshore wind farm. They reviewed the development, as well as the current status of the project, and looked into the factors that […]

  • Top News of the Week Jul 20-26, 2015

    26 July 2015

    BREAKING: Offshore Construction of First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Kicks Off Block Island Wind Farm, the U.S. first offshore wind project, has entered the offshore construction phase, according to Jeff Grybowski, Deepwater Wind’s CEO. UK Offshore Wind on Way to Become Subsidy Free Statkraft has welcomed the latest report by BVG Associates, which outlines how […]