Offshore Wind
Danish Offshore Wind Company Opens UK Office
Danish offshore wind energy service provider All NRG has opened its first office in the UK. From its new base at the Port of Grimsby, off the Humber Estuary in North England, the company will provide dedicated preassembly, installation, operations and maintenance services to its clients developing o
Minesto Welcomes EU’s Energy Union Plans
Minesto has welcomed EU’s new strategy for a resilient Energy Union with a forward-looking climate change policy. “An important and necessary step to speed up the process to reach a sustainable future,” said Minesto’s CEO, Anders Jansson. The European Commission has published its strategy to reboot
Norway-Denmark Interconnector Inaugurated
High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) cable system interconnecting Norway and Denmark has been inaugurated. Prysmian was awarded the contract for the land HVDC cable system for the Skagerrak 4 interconnection between Norway and Denmark worth approximately € 40 million by the Danish transmission grid op
Norway-Denmark Interconnector Inaugurated
High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) cable system interconnecting Norway and Denmark has been inaugurated. Prysmian was awarded the contract for the land HVDC cable system for the Skagerrak 4 interconnection between Norway and Denmark worth approximately € 40 million by the Danish transmission grid op
ABB Scoops Walney Extension Job
ABB has won $130 million order from Dong Energy to supply a high-voltage cable system connecting Walney Extension offshore wind farm to the grid. The Walney Extension will provide additional generation potential of 660 MW on top of the existing offshore wind farm’s 367 MW. When completed, both offsh
RES Improves Offshore Export Cables
RES Offshore has designed a new rating method for export power cables set to vastly improve power transportation from offshore wind farms, with currents improved by up to 22%. The new cable rating method, developed in cooperation with University of Southampton, has moved away from the traditional po
Hughes SSE Launches New Corporate Brand
Hughes Sub Surface Engineering (Hughes SSE), specialized in subsea construction and recently innovating emergency response solutions, officially launched its new corporate brand, including a new logo, tagline and customer materials today at EWEA Offshore 2015 in Copenhagen. A new website will launch
Hughes SSE Launches New Corporate Brand
Hughes Sub Surface Engineering (Hughes SSE), specialized in subsea construction and recently innovating emergency response solutions, officially launched its new corporate brand, including a new logo, tagline and customer materials today at EWEA Offshore 2015 in Copenhagen. A new website will launch
Dong, Jan De Nul Ink Race Bank Cabling Deal
Dong Energy has signed an agreement with the Jan De Nul Group for the installation of subsea export cables at the Race Bank offshore wind development project in the UK. Jan De Nul Group has experience within dredging, and has now extended its business into cable installation. Race Bank offshore wind
Dong Selects Siemens’ Turbines for 2nd Phase of Walney Extension
Dong Energy has chosen Siemens as preferred supplier for delivery of their 7.0MW wind turbine for the second phase of the Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm. The second phase of the Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm will have a total capacity of 330MW. Mats Vikholm, Senior Vice President for Dong
DNV GL Awards Best 2015 PhD Thesis in Renewable Energy
DNV GL today announced Nikola Vasiljević, Ph.D from DTU Wind Energy, the Technical University of Denmark, as the winner of the 2015 PhD Award in Renewable Energy. He was awarded a €5000 cash prize for his winning thesis, “A time-space synchronisation of coherent Doppler scanning lidars for 3D measur
DNV GL Awards Best 2015 PhD Thesis in Renewable Energy
DNV GL today announced Nikola Vasiljević, Ph.D from DTU Wind Energy, the Technical University of Denmark, as the winner of the 2015 PhD Award in Renewable Energy. He was awarded a €5000 cash prize for his winning thesis, “A time-space synchronisation of coherent Doppler scanning lidars for 3D measur
Hull and Humber’s Renewables Sector Promoted across Europe
Hull and Humber’s emerging renewable energy sector is being promoted across Europe through a series of international exhibitions that are being supported by the Green Port Growth Programme (GPGP). Under the Humber Renewables brand, the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), local authority partn
Evopod Survives 6-Month Trials
Since the 7th of August 2014 E35 has successfully completed six months of continuous deployment in Sanda Sound. The trials have demonstrated Evopod’s low motions and survivability characteristics in the moderately fast flowing (4 to 5 knots) tidal site, which in the winter months is also exposed to