Offshore Wind
Meet the Offshore WIND Team at WindEnergy Hamburg
With WindEnergy Hamburg due to open its doors next week, we would like to invite you to report your news, or just drop by for a chat with Dick Hill, Armin Fazlic and the rest of our team. Knowing that many companies attending WindEnergy are showcasing their innovations, products, services and expert
Meet the Offshore WIND Team at WindEnergy Hamburg
With WindEnergy Hamburg due to open its doors next week, we would like to invite you to report your news, or just drop by for a chat with Dick Hill, Armin Fazlic and the rest of our team. Knowing that many companies attending WindEnergy are showcasing their innovations, products, services and expert
Ireland Drafting Guidance for Offshore Renewables Development
A 12-week public consultation on two draft Guidance documents to help support the development of offshore renewable energy in Ireland has opened yesterday, 22 September. The draft documents aim to provide Guidance on the preparation of Environment Impact Statements (EIS) and Natura Impact Statements
Denmark’s New EUR 8.6 Million Drone Research Includes Offshore Wind
With a budget of DKK 64 million (approx. EUR 8.6 million), the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) is leading a major research project involving five of the country’s universities which will set up two new drone laboratories in collaboration with HCA Airport in Odense. The new drone laboratories th
Innogy Gets VisualEyes for Its UK Offshore Wind Site
Innogy Renewables UK, part of innogy SE – the new subsidiary of RWE, has chosen Met Office’s new VisualEyes software to provide weather forecast information across 36 of its renewable energy sites in the UK, including one offshore wind site. Under the a three-year contract, the Met Office’s intuitiv
Innogy Gets VisualEyes for Its UK Offshore Wind Site
Innogy Renewables UK, part of innogy SE – the new subsidiary of RWE, has chosen Met Office’s new VisualEyes software to provide weather forecast information across 36 of its renewable energy sites in the UK, including one offshore wind site. Under the a three-year contract, the Met Office’s intuitiv
Economist Films: New Power Generation Disrupting Oil and Gas Industry
Economist Films, part of the renowned magazine The Economist, has produced a documentary investigating how new energy technologies are disrupting the fossil fuel industry. The last part of the documentary shows how the offshore wind technology has advanced and how oil and gas companies are using the
Petrofac Training Services to Back Statoil’s UK Ops
Statoil has awarded Petrofac with a contract for training and emergency response services to support Statoil’s UK operations. In the five-year training partnership, Petrofac Training Services will provide a wide range of HSE, survival, fire and marine training services to support Statoil’s personnel
Fibre-Optic Data Cable to Run Alongside COBRAcable
TenneT and its Danish counterpart Energinet.dk will install a fibre-optic data link alongside the COBRAcable interconnector itself, in order to exchange the necessary information about the interconnection. In future, the fibre-optic link can also be used to connect offshore wind farms to the telecom
Nexans Advances Its HVDC Cable Technology
Nexans has given a boost to its high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable portfolio with cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) insulation designs now fully qualified for 320kV and type-tested at 525kV, and mass impregnated paper insulation now ready for 600kV. HVDC power links are now able to utilize Nexa
Fiberline Composites and Mitsubishi Rayon Team Up
Denmark’s Fiberline Composites has set up a joint venture with the Japanese carbon fibre manufacturer Mitsubishi Rayon to provide wind turbine makers with carbon fibre components which will enable them to produce longer and more efficient wind turbine blades. Fiberline Composites is a manufacturer o
Latest Speaker Update
Have you seen the latest speaker update for the Offshore WIND Conference? We are very proud of the complete program, focusing on what we as an industry can do to reach potential, and of the many leading companies who have accepted being part of our conference. Just a few weeks to go and we can [&hel
TÜV SÜD Develops Smart Inspection System for Turbines
TÜV SÜD has developed a smart solution for inspecting onshore and offshore wind turbines which enables results to be recorded on site using mobile devices and saved in a database in a structured manner in accordance with the RDS-PP® industry standard. A total of over 25,000 wind turbines are in oper
NKT Separating Businesses Following ABB Cable Deal
NKT has decided to split the Holding company into two separately listed companies, with the timing of this decision being linked to NKT Cables’ acquisition of ABB’s high-voltage cables business. NKT is the active and long-term owner of three industrial businesses including Nilfisk, NKT Cables, and N