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  • Sofia Offshore Wind Farm Applies For Generation Licence

    27 April 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Project & Tenders, Storage

    Swindon-based Sofia Offshore Wind Farm Limited has made an application to the UK Gas and Electricity Markets Authority for an electricity generation licence.

  • MCC Preps Steelwork for Offshore Wind Blade Upgrade

    7 May 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    M. C. Construction (Cleveland) Limited (MCC) has completed the fabrication and coating of two blade rack grillages as part of a blade upgrade campaign at an offshore wind project.

  • Polish TSO Gauging Grid Capacity for Offshore Wind

    9 May 2018
    Storage

    Poland’s transmission system operator (TSO) Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne (PSE) has launched a survey to determine how much generation capacity is currently in the country’s pipeline with proposed offshore wind projects, and what their status is, to support further phases of planning the grid development.

  • MO4 Raring to Go on Nordergründe Offshore Wind Farm

    9 June 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    MO4, Mainprize Offshore Ltd’s newest wind farm service vessel (WFSV), is ready to start an eight-year contract with Deutsche Windtechnik on the Nordergründe wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • New Offshore Wind Investments Drop 60% in 2017

    6 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    Six projects worth EUR 7.5 billion reached Final Investment Decision (FID) last year – a 60% decrease from 2016 and the first decrease in investments since 2012 – according to WindEurope, which states that the transition to auctions has resulted in a lull in FIDs and that the auctions of the last two years are expected to lead to new project FIDs in 2018.

  • Seagreen Boosts Alpha and Bravo Offshore Wind Projects

    28 February 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment

    Seagreen Wind Energy Limited will apply to Scottish Ministers to vary the existing Seagreen Alpha and Seagreen Bravo consents that would allow the combined maximum capacity of the two wind farms to be increased from 1,050MW to 1,500MW.

  • French Senate Rejects Offshore Wind Renegotiation Proposal

    15 March 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The French Senate has voted against a proposed amendment which would allow the government to renegotiate the feed-in tariffs of the six offshore wind projects selected in Round 1 and Round 2 tenders, according to local media.

  • Mitsubishi Buys Stake in Scottish Offshore Wind Farm

    26 March 2018
    Business & Finance

    Mitsubishi Corporation has entered into an agreement with EDP Renewables to acquire 33.4% of shares in Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Limited (MOWEL) through its wholly owned UK-based subsidiary Diamond Generating Europe Limited (DGE).

  • Offshore wind farm in Atlantic at least a year away

    28 August 2009

    Red tape and disputes among residents around Nantucket Sound have delayed efforts by the Obama administration. Reporting from Martha’S Vineyard, Mass., and Washington — For at least one more summer, vacationers on Martha’s Vineyard won’t be able to gaze across the water and see, far off on the horizon, the churning blades of offshore wind […]

  • First Offshore Wind Turbine Installed in German Waters

    24 July 2009

    On 15 July 2009 Jack-Up Barge B.V. celebrated a major milestone in the company’s history as its newbuild monohull Jack-Up platform JB-114 completed the installation of the first ever German offshore wind turbine on her maiden voyage. After mobilization in Eemshaven, the Netherlands, the JB-114 was towed to the offshore location, about 45 km north […]

  • Scottish offshore wind future set for £30bn investment

    27 November 2009

    Investment of about £30bn is needed to develop Scotland’s offshore wind power potential, it is to be claimed. The first Scottish Renewables Offshore Wind Conference is being held in Aberdeen’s Marriott Hotel on Thursday. More than 200 representatives of the rewnewables and offshore oil and gas sectors are expected to attend.

  • Canadian Hydro acquires largest offshore wind project

    15 October 2009

    Canadian Hydro Developers, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the rights to a 4,400 MW offshore wind prospect (“Offshore Wind Prospect”) in Lake Erie, Ontario (Canada) from Wasatch Wind, Inc. When completed, this facility would be the largest offshore operation in the world, supplying enough renewable energy to power over two million […]

  • World’s Deepest Offshore Wind Farm Nearing Installation

    25 July 2006

    At the Talisman Energy Inc.-operated Beatrice oil platform last week, work started on the installation of a 35 million GBP (USD$ 64 million) deepwater wind farm demonstrator project 25 kilometers off the east coast of Scotland. Attending were Andris Piebalgs, Energy Commissioner for the European Union, Deputy First Minister for Scotland Nicol Stephen and Jim […]

  • Offshore wind farm plan hits obstacle in Congress

    5 March 2006

    A proposal before Congress that would limit the construction of wind turbines near shipping lanes could effectively doom plans to build the country’s first offshore wind farm near Massachusetts, the project’s supporters say.

  • US Offshore Wind Skills Academy Kicks Off

    8 January 2019
    Business & Finance, Human Capital

    The Danish Energy and Climate Academy (ECA) and the University of Delaware have developed the Offshore Wind Skills Academy (OWSA) to provide education for the U.S. offshore wind market. The aim of OWSA is to prepare professionals from traditional energy industries, supply chain companies, regulators, investors, consultants and others who may be new in the offshore wind sector. […]

  • TEPCO Ponders 1GW Offshore Wind Farm in Japan

    9 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) is mulling a 1,000MW project in Japan that could be built off Choshi in Chiba Prefecture, The Japan News (The Yomiuri Shimbun) reports. TEPCO plans to set up an offshore wind farm comprising 200 5MW wind turbines, installed on fixed-bottom foundations, according to The Japan News, which further writes that the Japanese […]

  • New Dutch Offshore Wind Atlas Ready for Release

    17 January 2019
    Research & Development, Technology

    The ECN part of TNO, KNMI (the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), and Whiffle, a Delft University of Technology spin-off, are releasing the new Dutch Offshore Wind Atlas on Thursday, 17 January. The Dutch Offshore Wind Atlas (DOWA) is said to include an unprecedented level of detail where the wind is mapped up-to 600m in height and […]

  • Polish Offshore Wind Farm Secures Capacity Boost

    30 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Polenergia and Equinor have secured an additional 240MW of capacity for their 600MW Bałtyk Środkowy II offshore wind project in Poland. The capacity boost is part of the terms that the two companies secured from Polish grid operator Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne (PSE) for establishing a power link between the project and the grid, a spokesperson for Polenergia told […]

  • FEE: France’s Offshore Wind Targets Not Ambitious Enough

    30 January 2019
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    France Energie Eolienne (FEE), the country’s wind energy association, has expressed concerns that France’s offshore wind targets proposed in the Multiannual Energy Programme (Programmation pluriannuelle de l’énergie (PPE)) are not ambitious enough. As reported earlier, France plans to tender up to 6GW of offshore wind and floating wind capacity from 2019 to 2028. The country’s […]

  • Thirteen Respond to Polish Offshore Wind Partnership Call

    30 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Thirteen potential partners have responded to PGE Group’s invitation to develop offshore wind farm projects in the Polish Baltic Sea, Poland’s state-owned power company said. PGE intends to sell up to a 50% stake in two special purpose vehicles that are preparing the offshore projects with a combined capacity of up to 2,545MW, and to operate […]

  • First Northern China Offshore Wind Turbine Spinning

    31 January 2019

    China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) has put into operation the first 6.45MW turbine of the Dalian Zhuanghe offshore wind project. The 6.45MW unit is the country’s first low-temperature turbine and its launch marks the first commercial operation of an offshore wind project in northern China, CCCC said. The 300MW project is located in the Zhuanghe waters offshore Dalian in the […]

  • First Northern China Offshore Wind Turbine Spinning

    31 January 2019

    China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) has put into operation the first 6.45MW turbine of the Dalian Zhuanghe offshore wind project. The 6.45MW unit is the country’s first low-temperature turbine and its launch marks the first commercial operation of an offshore wind project in northern China, CCCC said. The 300MW project is located in the Zhuanghe waters offshore Dalian in the […]

  • Germany Starts Probing New Offshore Wind Areas

    1 February 2019
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

    Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Das Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH)) is launching the second round of preliminary investigations of offshore wind farm sites on Friday, 1 February. The second round of investigations will cover three areas in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea. The three areas will feature […]

  • Europe Sees 2.6GW Offshore Wind Boost in 2018

    7 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    Europe installed 2.6GW of new offshore wind energy capacity in 2018, an 18% increase, according to the latest statistics by WindEurope. Fifteen new offshore wind farms were commissioned last year, with the UK and Germany accounting for 85% of the new capacity by adding 1.3GW and 969MW respectively. The average size of the new turbines […]

  • Belgium Proposes 4GW by 2030 Offshore Wind Target

    7 February 2019
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    The Federal Parliament of Belgium has proposed a target of 4GW of total installed offshore wind capacity by 2030 in the draft of the National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP). The draft of the NECP was presented on a workshop that the Federal Parliament organized with EUFORES (the European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources) on 5 […]