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  • RWE Renewables Plans 2GW-3GW Annual Capacity Boost

    14 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    German energy company RWE plans to add between 2GW and 3GW of capacity annually to its renewable energy portfolio in three core markets: Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific. The portfolio will be managed by RWE Renewables and the technologies in focus will be onshore and offshore wind, as well as photovoltaics and storage. The capacity […]

  • Gerard Lak Declared Winner of EWEA 2013 Expert Challenge

    3 December 2013

    Gerard Lak of Volker Staal & Fundering was declared the winner of the 2013 Expert Challenge at the EWEA Offshore in Frankfurt, Europe’s largest offshore wind energy conference and exhibition. The Expert Challenge was hosted by IHC Hydrohammer, IHC Handling Systems and IHC Sea Steel, all three business units of IHC Merwede. They challenged industry […]

  • The Baltic – A Sea of Opportunities for Poland

    17 February 2016

    The Baltic Sea holds an offshore wind potential of 40GW, according to a report by Baltic Sea Region Energy Co-operation (BASREC) from 2012. However, some of the countries whose coasts are splashed by the Baltic Sea are still struggling with regulatory framework when it comes to offshore wind development. One of these is Poland, which […]

  • USA: Agreement Reached to Protect Right Whales, Expedite Clean Energy in Mid-Atlantic

    12 December 2012
    Environment

    In a first of its kind collaboration, a coalition of leading environmental organizations and offshore wind developers has agreed to a series of voluntary measures that will protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, while helping to expedite responsible offshore wind development, in the Mid-Atlantic. Building upon proposed federally mandated protections, the Conservation Law Foundation […]

  • Vattenfall Books North Sea Shipbrokers

    17 October 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders

    Vattenfall and North Sea Hagland Shipbrokers have signed a framework agreement for the provision of various shipbroking services for Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms.

  • ZPMC to Supply Three Gorges Dafeng with Booster Station

    1 November 2017
    Storage

    Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) has won a contract to construct and install the booster station for the 300MW Three Gorges Dafeng offshore wind farm located in the East China Sea.

  • GL Garrad Hassan Offshore Experts Chosen for SMart Wind’s ‘Hornsea’ Zone (Germany)

    15 November 2010

    SMart Wind, the consortium lead by Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures, has appointed GL Garrad Hassan to act as Independent Engineer for the first two 500MW projects in the 4GW ‘Hornsea’ zone located off the coast of Yorkshire. Last month the consortium announced it has secured grid connection for the first two 500MW […]

  • Crown Estate Welcomes Burbo’s Extension

    29 September 2014
    Authorities & Government

    The Crown Estate has welcomed the news that the Secretary of State for the Department of Energy & Climate Change has given consent to DONG Energy Burbo Extension Limited for an extension to the existing Burbo Bank offshore wind farm.  The development consent order will allow for the provision of up to 259MW of additional […]

  • Six Innovative Concepts to Receive Further Funding from Carbon Trust (UK)

    30 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    A boat with suspension inspired by Paris Dakar-winning rally cars that can remain stable and a ‘seahorse’ vessel consisting of a towering keel that minimises movements in the ocean swell are two of the six innovative concepts that will receive further funding from the Carbon Trust’s Offshore wind Accelerator (OWA), its flagship collaborative RD&D programme. […]

  • First Subsea Secures GROW Funding

    22 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    First Subsea has been awarded £130,000 of Process Technology Innovation Funding under the Government’s GROW: Offshore Wind programme. The award is for development of a monopile interface connector and hang off cable connector for offshore wind farms and top tension mooring connector for floating wind turbines. The most labour intensive and time-consuming element of installing […]

  • MHI Vestas Joins Global Wind Energy Council

    1 August 2018

    MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has become a member of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), the trade body representing the global wind industry, whose board of directors MHI Vestas representatives will soon join.

  • Top News of the Week Apr 15 – 20, 2013

    21 April 2013

    VIDEO: EWICON ‒ Bladeless Windmill ecanoo Architects designed the model EWICON (Electrostatic WIndenergy CONvertor) using technology developed by researchers Johan Smit and Dhiradj Djairam from the Delft University of Technology in a consortium with Wageningen UR and commercial companies in an economy-ecology-government partnership program context. EWEA: Is German Offshore Wind Under Threat? European Wind Energy […]

  • Cable Installed at Experimental Offshore Floating Wind Farm Project

    11 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    A consortium comprising of Marubeni (project integrator), the University of Tokyo (technical advisor), Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan Marine United, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Hitachi, Furukawa Electric, Shimizu, and Mizuho Information & Research have been participating in an experimental offshore floating wind farm project sponsored by the Ministry of […]

  • CWind Completes Generator Management Works on London Array (UK)

    4 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    CWind, a leading UK offshore wind service provider, has completed generator management works on the world’s largest offshore wind farm, London Array, developed and built by a consortium comprising DONG Energy, E.ON and Masdar. CWind has recently removed the last generators from site. CWind worked with EP tools, a Denmark-based provider of generators, UPS systems, […]

  • KIC-OffWindTech Workshop to Be Held Next Month (Spain)

    30 May 2013

    KIC-OffWindTech project and IREC are organizing “Symposium on Offshore wind technologies (OffWindTech)”, to be held at ETSEIB (UPC, Barcelona) premises, on June 20th, 2013.  The goal of this workshop is providing a space to discuss the challenges of the offshore wind power by two thematic sessions: Offshore wind farm grid integration and offshore wind farm […]

  • DBB Jack-Up Earns Two More Years of MHI Vestas O&M

    9 September 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    DBB Jack-Up Services A/S and MHI Vestas Offshore Wind A/S have extended their framework agreement for offshore wind operations and maintenance services until the end of 2017. The companies signed a framework agreement for offshore wind O&M services in December 2014. “During 2015 we have experienced the benefits of the framework agreement, which enables us to cut […]

  • Canadian Company Buys 24.9% Stake in Rampion OWF

    5 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Canadian energy company Enbridge has joined the Rampion offshore wind project by acquiring a 24.9 percent interest, becoming one of the three shareholders in Rampion Offshore Wind Limited. E.ON will remain the controlling shareholder at 50.1 percent, with the UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) continuing to hold a 25 percent interest. E.ON and Enbridge […]

  • DBB Jack-Up Earns Two More Years of MHI Vestas O&M

    9 September 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    DBB Jack-Up Services A/S and MHI Vestas Offshore Wind A/S have extended their framework agreement for offshore wind operations and maintenance services until the end of 2017. The companies signed a framework agreement for offshore wind O&M services in December 2014. “During 2015 we have experienced the benefits of the framework agreement, which enables us to cut […]

  • Top News of the Week Aug 11 – 17, 2014

    17 August 2014

    Vattenfall Orders Turbines and Servicing from Siemens Vattenfall has awarded Siemens Energy an order for 72 Model SWT-4.0-130 wind turbines for its new Sandbank offshore wind farm.  Siemens’ First Service Operation Vessel Sailing to Norway  The hull of one of Siemens’ new service operation vessels (SOVs) is on its way towards Norwegian Havyard shipyard, where […]

  • Bay State Wind Launches New Bedford Office

    3 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    Bay State Wind, a partnership between Ørsted (DONG Energy) and Eversource developing the Bay State Wind offshore wind farm offshore Massachusetts, has opened an office in New Bedford.

  • WindEurope: 10-20MW Turbines to Help EU Meet Its Energy Objectives

    27 February 2018
    Research & Development, Technology

    WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson has said that developing 10-20MW offshore wind turbines will be key to unleashing Europe’s offshore wind energy potential and will help the EU meet its Climate and Energy objectives. WindEurope’s central scenario projects 70GW of offshore wind energy in Europe’s energy mix by 2030, which would meet 9.7% of electricity consumption. 

  • US Wind Says Its Maryland OWF Proposal Superior in Every Way

    30 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    Following the news that Deepwater Wind applied for building an offshore wind farm off Maryland’s coast and the start of a 6-month application evaluation period, US Wind, the company which was first to submit an application to develop an offshore wind project in the state, made a case for its Maryland offshore wind project. The developer […]

  • EOWDC to bring Aberdeenshire € 5.5 million each year for two decades

    15 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), also known as Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm and “famous” for being the offshore wind project the current U.S. President Donald Trump fought against, is estimated to bring the Aberdeenshire area more than GBP 100 million (around EUR 110 million) over its operational lifetime. Namely, according to a new socio-economic […]

  • New Tender for 20 Putian Pinghai Bay Phase II Turbines Launched

    9 February 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Fujian Zhongmin Offshore Wind Power Co. has issued a second call for tenders for the delivery of 20 wind turbines with an individual capacity of at least 5MW for the Putian Pinghai Bay Phase II (Fujian Putian City Flat Bay Phase II) offshore wind project.

  • Top News of the Week, 04 – 10 September 2017

    10 September 2017

    Ireland Reveals Big Offshore Wind Plans Ireland’s state owned electricity company Electricity Supply Board (ESB) is seeking expressions of interest for the provision of renewable energy marine services related to offshore wind farms. World’s First Offshore Wind Farm Disappears from Horizon (Video) DONG Energy has completed the decommissioning of the world’s first offshore wind farm, the […]