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  • Offshore Wind Consultants coming to South Korea

    25 June 2020
    Business & Finance

    Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) is setting up an office in South Korea to support the local offshore wind market. “We continue our expansion into key emerging markets such as South Korea. We believe a local presence is central to leveraging our global expertise and providing the best possible local support to wind farm developers,” said […]

  • Ormonde offshore wind farm set for surveys

    23 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The survey of the seabed cable system and all of the turbine jacket foundations is about to start at the Ormonde offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea.

  • New offshore wind era dawns in France

    6 May 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    The west coast of France was this week treated to sights never before seen in this country. If you happened to be in or near the Port Atlantique La Rochelle in the past several days, you might have witnessed a first in France’s emerging offshore wind industry: a giant jack-up vessel loading the first wind […]

  • OWC adds new offshore wind offering

    28 January 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) has set up its own energy yield assessment service capability for offshore wind projects. As part of the move, OWC appointed Okan Sargin to head up the new integrated service offering for offshore wind developers. The team led by Sargin will support clients with early conceptual design, site screening and pre-feasibility […]

  • Amazon buys more offshore wind power

    8 February 2021
    Business & Finance

    Amazon has signed an agreement with Shell Energy Europe to offtake renewable power from the subsidy-free Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm being constructed in the Netherlands. Starting in 2024, Amazon will offtake a total of 380 MW from the wind farm, 250 MW from Shell and 130 MW from Eneco. According to Shell, this […]

  • Tunisia takes first offshore wind steps

    16 March 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Tunisian government officials have taken part in an offshore wind training course organized by the Netherlands, representing the country’s first steps towards offshore wind energy. The Dutch Energy Transition Facility (ETF) organized an offshore wind training course for a group of 20 Tunisian government officials in cooperation with the ANME and DOB-Academy. The four-day course […]

  • Crowley creates offshore wind and LNG division

    7 January 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance

    Crowley Shipping has set up a new division focusing on the emerging U.S. energy sectors of offshore wind and liquefied natural gas (LNG).

  • Germany greenlights Kaskasi offshore wind farm

    18 December 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy

    German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has granted planning permission for the 342 MW Kaskasi offshore wind farm (officially known as Kaskasi II). Kaskasi II is the first offshore wind farm in Germany to receive planning permission under the new offshore wind law (WindSeeG), following participation in the auction held under the so-called interim […]

  • Offshore Wind Consultants names APAC head

    12 January 2021
    Business & Finance

    Offshore Wind Consultants has appointed Tom Whittle to the newly created role of Asia Pacific regional director. Whittle, previously OWC’s country manager in Taiwan, has worked as a project director, project manager and package manager on a number of offshore wind projects in the UK, Europe and Asia, the company said. The APAC regional director […]

  • Fugro to survey Hesselø offshore wind farm

    25 September 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Fugro Netherlands Marine B.V. has won the contract to carry out a geophysical survey at the proposed Hesselø wind site offshore Denmark. Located in Kattegatt, Hesselø is the second of the three offshore wind farms proposed in Denmark’s Energy Agreement 2018, the first being the Thor project. Both Hesselø and Thor will be commissioned in 2027. Denmark plans […]

  • Duke Energy not so keen on offshore wind?

    21 August 2020
    Business & Finance

    Duke Energy, a North Carolina-headquartered electric power holding company, does not see offshore wind as having big enough potential until the end of the next decade, according to information from the company’s recent earnings call. Responding to a question asked by a Goldman Sachs analyst Michael Lapides, who inquired about the role offshore wind played […]

  • Palfinger enters Japanese offshore wind market

    28 May 2020
    Heavy lifting

    Austrian crane specialist Palfinger has won a contract to deliver 33 fixed boom cranes for Japan’s first large-scale commercial offshore wind farm project. The 139 MW Akita Noshiro offshore wind farm project comprises two wind farms extending across 730 hectares. Both will be located in the Akita Prefecture coastal zone, one at Akita port, the […]

  • MeyGen Subsea Turbines Lose to Offshore Wind

    11 September 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Atlantis’s tidal stream project in northern Scotland, MeyGen, was not awarded a contract for difference (CfD) from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in this allocation round in respect of Phase 1C of the project. According to Atlantis, cost reduction for the Phase 1C achieved through improvements in the technology, larger turbines, […]

  • Arup names US offshore wind head

    9 April 2020
    Business & Finance, Human Capital

    Arup has appointed Saygin Oytan to head its offshore wind team in the U.S. As an associate principal in the Boston office, Oytan will lead strategic business development initiatives aimed at expanding Arup’s presence in the U.S. offshore wind market. “We are anticipating major growth in the offshore wind market in the US in coming years,” said Brian Swett, […]

  • The Offshore Wind Industry’s Urgent Need for Professionals

    18 July 2018

    The offshore wind industry is developing rapidly. Last year, the use of wind energy grew with 19% in the EU. It is expected that by 2030, wind energy will be the most important source of energy. Not only the market is growing; when it comes to technical developments, changes are also rapidly taking place. The […]

  • Program announced for Offshore Wind Event 2018

    18 July 2018

    On 22 and 23 October 2018 Offshore Energy Keynote: Offshore Wind Event will be taking place.

  • Program details Offshore WIND Conference announced

    20 June 2017

    The 2017 Offshore WIND Conference program has been announced in further detail. As well as the very first speakers from Siemens, Falck, TNO, and the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment. Want to know more about the Offshore WIND Conference? Or find the answers to what will happen next? Head to www.OffshoreWINDConference.biz to find out […]

  • Boost for the UK offshore wind supply chain

    26 October 2010

    The Crown Estate and the UK Government have announced today that they have agreed a letter of intent to work together to support the development of the UK’s offshore wind manufacturing capacity. This is to ensure that port infrastructure requirements do not delay offshore wind deployment.

  • Damen to Announce New Offshore Wind Vessel

    18 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    At the Offshore WIND Installation & Maintenance conference on Wednesday, Peter Robert, Business Development Manager at Damen Shipyards Group, whetted the appetite of the delegates for more information about a new offshore wind vessel able to provide in field accommodation and work space for engineers working on all phases of a wind farm project. More […]

  • Largest offshore wind turbine erected Scotland

    28 August 2006

    For the first time, a REpower type 5M wind turbine has been set up on the open sea. In the Scottish North Sea, in the Moray Firth, the first of a total of two turbines for the “Beatrice” demonstrator wind farm has just been set up on a lattice-like jacket structure, piled to the seabed […]

  • Offshore wind farm sites set out

    17 February 2009

    Plans to build 10 wind farms off the coast of Scotland moved a step forward after the Crown Estate gave companies the green light to explore the sites. Scottish Power and E.ON are among the nine firms to be awarded “exclusivity agreements” for locations which include the Solway Firth and Wigtown Bay. This will allow […]

  • Two offshore wind farm plans due

    8 January 2010

    Plans for two massive new wind farms off the north and south coasts of Wales will be unveiled later. The sites off Anglesey and in the Bristol Channel are among nine new offshore wind farm locations in the UK.

  • Statkraft Welcomes Major Offshore Wind Investment

    25 March 2014

    Reacting to the Siemens’ announcement regarding the decision to invest £160 million in wind turbine production and installation facilities in Yorkshire, while at the same time Associated British Ports (ABP) is investing a further £150 million in the Green Port Hull development, Bjorn Drangsholt, Statkraft UK Managing Director, said: “Statkraft welcomes the announcement to construct two […]

  • China’s Offshore Wind to Pick Up the Pace

    25 June 2014

    Following the announcement by the Chinese government on feed-in tariff for offshore wind earlier this month, Fliss Jones wrote an article about it. Jones is a part of DNV GL, company which became one of the leading global providers of services for managing risk after a merger in September 2013. China’s offshore wind tariffs announced last week […]

  • RWE Launches Heligoland Offshore Wind Base

    5 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Service and operating station of RWE Innogy was inaugurated today on Heligoland. Over a period of 20 years, the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm is to be operated and serviced from there. The wind farm is currently being built approx. 30 kilometres north of Heligoland. This is what a two-storey building with storage hall, offices […]