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  • Spain: Repsol Eyes Renewable Energy Sources

    24 July 2012

    Repsol is no stranger to offshore activity, having operated in the most demanding of environments for the exploration and production of oil and gas. However one of the challenges for Repsol as an energy company has been to increase its knowledge and experience by investing further in the research and development of renewable energy sources. […]

  • Ørsted Backs Dutch Sea Rescue Institution

    13 March 2019

    Ørsted and The Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution (KNRM) have established a partnership under which the offshore wind developer will help KNRM with fundraising and will financially support four coastal rescue stations. The collaboration starts in the province of Zeeland where Ørsted is developing the Borssele 1+2 offshore wind project. The cooperation will be extended […]

  • MHI Vestas: Netherlands Pre-Assembly & Logistics Site Holds Big Advantages (Expertise Hub Video)

    1 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Human Capital, Ports & Logistics

    Setting up a pre-assembly and logistics facility at BOW Terminal Vlissingen allows us to be closer to Dutch offshore wind zones where we see a potential pipeline of projects, Bo J. Bjerregaard, Director of Pre-Assembly & Logistics at MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, said.

  • Wind Energy Cost Could Be Up to 41% Lower by 2050

    14 September 2016
    Research & Development

    The cost of producing electricity via wind power is expected to fall 24-30 percent by 2030 and 35-41 percent by 2050, according to a new survey which covered three wind power applications: onshore wind, fixed-bottom offshore wind, and floating offshore wind. Cost reductions are anticipated as a function of continued advancements in wind energy technology. The findings […]

  • Floating LIDARs Ace Gwynt y Môr Trials

    20 February 2015
    Research & Development, Technology

    RWE Innogy, together with the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme, completed a two year trial at what is soon to become the world’s second largest offshore wind farm. They tested the Light Detection and Ranging units (LIDAR) technology mounted on floating buoys at the 576MW Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm in the Liverpool Bay. The trial, […]

  • Germany: Global Tech I Named ‘Wind Deal of Year 2012’

    23 July 2012

    The international magazine Environmental Finance has named the financing model of the North Sea wind farm, Global Tech I, as the “Wind Deal of the Year 2012”. Only ten projects in various industries have been recognized for their financing solutions in the last twelve months. Last year, the project developer Global Tech I Offshore Wind […]

  • EOWDC Onshore Work Wind Planing Permission

    23 July 2014
    Authorities & Government

    Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm Ltd was granted planning permission for its onshore work for the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC). In November last year, Aberdeenshire Council refused the planning permission for two substations, access road and installation of an underground cable between the substation compound and Mean Low Water Springs. The council said that […]

  • DONG Marks 1000th Turbine in Water

    25 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    DONG Energy has become the first company worldwide to have installed 1,000 offshore wind turbines, after recently installing the landmark turbine at the Gode Wind 2 offshore wind farm in German North Sea. Developments have been moving forward at a rapid pace since the first Danish offshore wind turbine with a capacity of 0.45MW started […]

  • Fugro developing offshore drone base for wind farm maintenance

    3 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance

    Fugro is developing an offshore platform from which uncrewed vessels and drones can perform inspection and maintenance operations on offshore wind farms. Together with three partner companies and a research institute, Fugro has been granted EUR 3.3 million for the RoboDock project by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). The RoboDock platform enables various uncrewed vessels […]

  • Top News of the Week Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2015

    1 November 2015

    DONG to Build World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm DONG Energy today 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 […]

  • Highlights of the Month – February 2018

    1 March 2018

    World’s First Floating Wind Farm Outdelivers The 30MW Hywind Scotland, the world’s first commercial-scale floating wind farm, performed better than expected in its first three full months in production, Statoil, the operator of the wind farm said. Ørsted Streamlines Hornsea Project Three Ørsted has published updated plans for the proposed Hornsea Project Three offshore wind […]

  • New Offshore Markets Up Wood Mackenzie’s Wind Outlook

    10 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Wood Mackenzie has recently upgraded its Global Wind Power Market Outlook Update: Q4 2018 by 2% compared to the outlook published in the third quarter, partly due to favourable developments in emerging offshore wind markets such as South Korea, Japan, and the USA. More than 680GW of new wind power capacity will come online globally […]

  • Moray OWF Developers Organize Meet the Buyer Event in Wick

    22 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Moray Offshore Wind farm Ltd (MORL), a joint venture between EDP Renewables and Repsol Nuevas Energias UK, will hold a supply chain event on May 8 in Wick, Caithness. At the event, EDP Renewables will give a comprehensive review of its offshore wind sector, and in particular its Moray offshore wind development. This is a […]

  • Moray OWF Developers Organize Meet the Buyer Event in Wick

    22 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Moray Offshore Wind farm Ltd (MORL), a joint venture between EDP Renewables and Repsol Nuevas Energias UK, will hold a supply chain event on May 8 in Wick, Caithness. At the event, EDP Renewables will give a comprehensive review of its offshore wind sector, and in particular its Moray offshore wind development. This is a […]

  • OWC 2019: First look at the programme

    21 February 2019

    Join the celebratory tenth edition of the Offshore Wind Conference on October 7 and 8 to discover how offshore wind is powering the energy transition.

  • Ørsted and Eversource file bid for Sunrise Wind 2 OWF in New York

    21 October 2020
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted and Eversource have placed a joint bid for a new offshore wind project in New York, named Sunrise Wind 2, in the state’s second offshore wind solicitation. The developers filed multiple proposals for the project with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) on 20 October, to provide different configurations for […]

  • UK reviewing offshore transmission regime, seeks industry’s input

    25 August 2020
    Authorities & Government, Rules & Regulation

    The UK government has initiated a review of the country’s offshore transmission regime, as it is looking to tweak the existing regime to allow for significantly more offshore wind to be added to the UK’s energy mix in the future. The government, with input from the industry, will look into the way that the offshore […]

  • Highlights of 2015: Editors’ Picks

    29 December 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Storage

    2015 has been a momentous year for the offshore wind industry, and creating a list of highlights is not an easy task. However, after much deliberation, our editors have compiled a subjective overview of significant changes in the offshore wind landscape in 2015. DONG to Build World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm DONG Energy today decided to construct the […]

  • Carbon Trust’s OWA Subsea Inspection Competition Open

    13 July 2017
    Research & Development

    The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), a collaborative RD&D programme funded by nine offshore wind developers and the Scottish Government, has launched a competition targeted at finding new ways to inspect offshore wind substructures and reduce the cost of offshore wind. The competition is open to innovators with inspection technologies that can provide information […]

  • DNV GL Awards Young Wind Energy Professionals

    12 March 2014
    Technology

    DNV GL today announced the winner of its 3rd Annual Wind Energy Award at the EWEA 2014 in Barcelona. The prize is designed to promote young industry talent and help close skill gap in wind energy industry. The winning diploma thesis by Christian Hermann outlines a practice-oriented solution into transportation systems for offshore wind parks […]

  • Beyond technology: sustaining growth on an ever-busier seabed

    1 August 2019

    Blessed as we are by Mother Nature in the UK with some of the best conditions for offshore wind globally, and building on the remarkable progress we’ve seen on costs, the UK offshore wind sector is coming into its own.

  • France: EDF Seeking Contractor for Trenching Trials

    29 July 2013
    Storage

    EDF is inviting tenders for the cable trenching trials, as part of the development and the construction of offshore wind farms projects in France, in order to assess the performance of burial methods commonly used in the industry in the offshore wind farms sites of Fecamp, Courseulles sur Mer and Saint-Nazaire. There are 3 kind […]

  • Highlights of the Month: June 2017

    3 July 2017
    Project & Tenders

    MHI Vestas Launches 9.5 MW Offshore Wind Turbine MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has launched the V164-9.5 MW wind turbine to re-affirm the company’s drive to lower the cost of energy for offshore wind. Mating of Hywind Scotland Floating Turbines (Video) Statoil has shared a great video showing the mating of one of Hywind Scotland’s Siemens […]

  • Highlights of the Month: June 2017

    3 July 2017
    Project & Tenders

    MHI Vestas Launches 9.5 MW Offshore Wind Turbine MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has launched the V164-9.5 MW wind turbine to re-affirm the company’s drive to lower the cost of energy for offshore wind. Mating of Hywind Scotland Floating Turbines (Video) Statoil has shared a great video showing the mating of one of Hywind Scotland’s Siemens […]

  • NKT secures cable agreement for major wind farms offshore Sweden

    30 May 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    OX2 and Ingka Investments have entered into a conditional agreement with NKT for the delivery and installation of export power cables for two wind farm projects offshore Sweden. Under the agreement, NKT’s facility in Karlskrona, Sweden, will deliver the cables for the recently awarded Galene project. The agreement also covers the Triton offshore wind farm. […]