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  • Offshore wind turbine foundations to be built at Lindo

    15 March 2010

    Skykon Offshore and Lindø Industrial Park have signed a lease on a 100,000 square metre area corresponding to approximately ten percent of the industrial park’s total available area. Skykon produces foundations for offshore wind turbines. The leased area includes parts of the original shipyard facilities and a number of buildings for administration, workshop and painting […]

  • More offshore wind power going to the U.K.

    25 June 2009

    In early April, the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) was asking the government of the United Kingdom for intervention to help the country’s renewable energy prospects, warning that the global economic crisis was putting projects, particularly offshore wind projects, at risk. The trade body’s pleas were answered later that month as the government announced its […]

  • Offshore Wind in Northeastern USA Powerful but Unstable

    15 August 2016
    Research & Development

    University of Delaware (UD) researchers, who studied wind conditions at the Cape Wind offshore site, have found that offshore wind in the northeastern United States may be more powerful, yet more unstable than expected.  The findings could have important implications for the future development of offshore wind farms in the U.S., including the assessment of how much […]

  • Denmark Probing New Offshore Wind Sites

    28 September 2018
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has contracted COWI A/S to screen parts of the North and Baltic Seas to find new potential locations for offshore wind farms to be built.

  • TRIG to Enter Offshore Wind Investment Market

    23 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    Guernsey-based investment company, The Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited (TRIG), has received approval from its shareholders to partly shift its focus from onshore wind and solar PV and invest up to 20% of its portfolio in a broader array of projects including offshore wind. Looking ahead, TRIG believes that politically-driven constraints mean that the next Contracts-for-Difference (CfDs) in the […]

  • European Ports to Discuss Offshore Wind in Oostende

    25 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Belgium’s Port of Oostende and renewable terminal operator REBO have invited representatives from European ports and the offshore wind industry to join them on 7 September in a forum aimed at encouraging ports to work together on offshore wind deployment, WindEurope reports. Ports are expanding facilities to accommodate a growing offshore wind industry that must service thousands of turbines in […]

  • Denmark to Table 800MW Offshore Wind Project

    23 April 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Project & Tenders

    An 800MW offshore wind project is part of the Danish government’s coming energy proposal, the country’s Energy, Supply and Climate Minister Lars Christian Lilleholt was reported as saying.

  • Vattenfall Forms Offshore Wind Top Team

    22 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Human Capital, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology

    Vattenfall has hired Siemens Gamesa’s Chief Executive Officer in North America, Jacob Nørgaard Andersen, and Senior Vice President from Ørsted Energy, Mats Vikholm to help the Swedish energy company develop the next generation of offshore wind farms.

  • Offshore Wind Brings Atlas Professionals to Vlissingen

    6 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Human Capital

    International recruitment company, Atlas Professionals, has expanded its network by opening a recruitment hub in Vlissingen, the Netherlands.

  • Norway: Five Zones for Offshore Wind Development

    25 February 2013

     The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy now makes the results from a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of 15 offshore wind zones in Norway available for public consultation. The SEA gives an interesting update on how offshore wind could develop in Norway and it gives an excellent update on how technology for deep water may […]

  • NIRAS to Work on Taiwanese Offshore Wind Project

    17 October 2014

    Taiwanese offshore wind farm developer, Taiwan Generations Corp. (TGC), has appointed NIRAS to act as Owner’s Engineer during the development of the Fuhai Deployment Zone on the west coast of Taiwan. The Fuhai Deployment Zone is sited approximately 8km off the western coast of Taiwan, in water depths of around 20m. The Zone will be […]

  • NIRAS to Work on Taiwanese Offshore Wind Project

    17 October 2014

    Taiwanese offshore wind farm developer, Taiwan Generations Corp. (TGC), has appointed NIRAS to act as Owner’s Engineer during the development of the Fuhai Deployment Zone on the west coast of Taiwan. The Fuhai Deployment Zone is sited approximately 8km off the western coast of Taiwan, in water depths of around 20m. The Zone will be […]

  • GMS Comments on Current Offshore Wind Events

    25 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    The welcome news that Siemens plans a £160 million expansion to manufacture turbines in East Yorkshire, plus the UK Green Investment Bank’s (GIB) investment in the Westermost Rough project off the Yorkshire coast, must be balanced against high costs and risks but low confidence levels that could still affect future UK offshore wind developments, Green […]

  • Offshore Wind Goes Mainstream as Costs Slide

    21 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    Speaking at the Global Offshore Wind conference in Manchester, RenewableUK’s new Chief Executive, Hugh McNeal, said that offshore wind cost reduction “is on a scale that you might associate more readily with consumer electronics than with multi-billion pound infrastructure projects.” In his first speech to the offshore wind industry, he described the renewable energy sector […]

  • USTDA Puts Jamaica on Offshore Wind Map

    10 October 2017

    The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has awarded a grant to the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) supporting the development of an offshore wind farm in Jamaica.

  • Offshore Wind Forum to Talk Block Island

    6 December 2017
    Environment, Research & Development

    The Southern New England Offshore Wind Energy Science Forum is taking place on 11 and 12 December at the University of Rhode Island (URI) Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) in Narragansett to discuss developments related to the Block Island offshore wind farm.

  • UK Schedules Offshore Wind Trip to Belgium

    11 December 2017
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

    Department for International Trade (DIT) Belgium is organising an event to brief UK companies on the supply chain opportunities of the Mermaid, Seastar and Northwester 2 offshore wind farms.

  • Statkraft Setting Stage for Offshore Wind Brexit

    9 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Norway’s Statkraft is preparing a possible divestment of its shares in the operational Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm, as well as the Dudgeon and the Dogger Bank projects.  The revised strategy follows the announcement in December 2015 that Statkraft would make no new investments in offshore wind. Preparations for the divestment will be carried out in […]

  • Scotland Bankrolls Offshore Wind Accelerator Programme

    2 August 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Human Capital, Research & Development, Technology

    The Scottish Government has invested a further GBP 1.5 million in the Carbon Trust’s collaborative research, development and demonstration (RD&D) programme – the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA).

  • Cuxhaven Ready For Heavy Offshore Wind Loads

    23 August 2017

    Lower Saxony’s Minister of Economics, Labour and Transport Olaf Lies has inaugurated a new berthing space and a new ramp at the port of Cuxhaven’s offshore terminal.

  • Cuxhaven Ready For Heavy Offshore Wind Loads

    23 August 2017

    Lower Saxony’s Minister of Economics, Labour and Transport Olaf Lies has inaugurated a new berthing space and a new ramp at the port of Cuxhaven’s offshore terminal.

  • Boskalis Buys VolkerWessels Out Of Offshore Wind

    7 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Netherlands-based Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire offshore activities from compatriot VolkerWessels. Under the intended transaction, Boskalis will acquire maritime and offshore wind energy related activities of VolkerWessels, which include VBMS, Stemat and Volker Stevin International (VSI). VBMS, a 50/50 Boskalis – VolkerWessels joint venture, is an offshore […]

  • RWE’s 2015 Results Powered by Offshore Wind

    8 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    The commissioning of new wind farms with a total generating capacity of some 1GW, including Nordsee Ost and Gwynt y Môr, had a considerably positive impact on 2015 financial results of RWE’s Renewables Division.  The unit posted an operating result of EUR 493 million, more than double the amount it marked the year before (EUR 186 million). On the other […]

  • MacArtney Equips Freja for Offshore Wind Ops

    31 March 2017

    Following the recent launch of a new drill ship Freja in Denmark, MacArtney informed that it had provided a turnkey solution for the vessel, enabling the execution of advanced geotechnical drilling techniques and site investigations in water depths of up to 60m.

  • Matchmaking for Offshore Wind Companies During OEEC

    12 May 2017

    A special international matchmaking event will be organised during the 2017 edition of Offshore Energy, headed by the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN).