Offshore Wind
Ming Yang Appoints New Member to Board of Directors
China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited (Ming Yang), has appointed Jianren Wen to its board of directors. He will replace Song Wang who had served as an executive director since September 2010. Wang resigned as a member of the board and a senior vice president and left the Company in April for pers
Top News of the Week Apr 6 – 12, 2015
Dong Enters US Offshore Wind Market DONG Energy has taken over RES Americas Developments Inc.’s (RES) more than 1000MW newly assigned development project rights off the coast of Massachusetts. First 8 Eneco Luchterduinen Turbines Onboard ‘Aeolus’ With the first days of April, Van Oord’s Aeolus arriv
Report on Tidal Energy Available at Research and Markets
Research and Markets has added the “Tidal Energy: Current Status and Future Outlook” report to its offering. This study provides a technology overview of the different tidal energy technologies currently available in the market and also technologies which are being developed currently. The study dis
Photo of the Day: Tidal Transit’s Girls at Sheringham Shoal
Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: Tidal Transit’s personnel transfer vessels (PTVs) Katie Louise, Eden Rose and Ginny Louise at the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm. Ginny Louise and Eden Rose have been in permanent use on the Greater Gabbard and Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farms since their a
Photo of the Day: Tidal Transit’s Girls at Sheringham Shoal
Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: Tidal Transit’s personnel transfer vessels (PTVs) Katie Louise, Eden Rose and Ginny Louise at the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm. Ginny Louise and Eden Rose have been in permanent use on the Greater Gabbard and Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farms since their a
FORCE to Hold Safety Zone Follow Up Meeting
Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) is holding a meeting next Thursday where they will discuss a proposed safety zone around the cables installed in the Minas Passage. As a follow up to the December meeting, the tidal energy test centre has completed mapping the seabed location of the rec
TenneT Seeks AC Subsea Cable Suppliers for DolWin3
TenneT has issued two invitations to tender for the DolWin3 offshore grid connection. The first one is for the manufacture, supply and installation of an AC submarine cable system (including compensation, fibre optic cable, secondary equipment, cable performance, etc.) between an offshore wind farm
Students Assess Newhaven Tidal Energy Potential
A team of students from Brighton school got an opportunity to work with Mott MacDonald on a project in Newhaven. Namely, 12 students together with engineers from Mott MacDonald have been working to assess the power and energy potential at Newhaven Harbour, reports Brighton and Hove News. The company
Decision Support for OW Turbine Installation Discussed
A meeting on the project “Decision support for offshore wind turbine installation” (informally known as DECOFF) has been held at Christian Michelsen Research (CMR) in Bergen. The objective of the project is to develop methods for improved decision support when installing wind turbines offshore, wher
Decision Support for OW Turbine Installation Discussed
A meeting on the project “Decision support for offshore wind turbine installation” (informally known as DECOFF) has been held at Christian Michelsen Research (CMR) in Bergen. The objective of the project is to develop methods for improved decision support when installing wind turbines offshore, wher
GICON Gets Green Light to Install Floating Foundation
Germany’s first floating offshore foundation, the GICON® SOF, has cleared an important hurdle on the way to the installation and testing phase by receiving its construction and operating license from the State Department of Agriculture and Environment of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. On March 27, GICON re
Three Dalby Offshore’s Vessels to Work on Greater Gabbard
Dalby Offshore’s vessels Wharfe, Aire & Humber have won a contract to work on the Greater Gabbard Wind Farm for SSE, modifying the davits on 117 turbines. The contract is set to last until the end of 2015. The vessels have been mobilising for the job for the past few weeks and are now ready to start
Report on Welsh Marine Energy Launched
A new report ‘Marine Energy in Wales – Investment, Jobs, Supply Chain’ completed by Marine Energy Pembrokeshire (MEP) has highlighted the compelling economic benefits created by the marine energy sector in Wales to date. The report, launched at the Marine Energy Pembrokeshire Annual Industry Seminar
DanTysk Ready for Take Off
Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München (SWM) will commission DanTysk offshore wind farm in the North Sea later this month. The construction started in February 2013 with the installation of the first foundation pile 70 kilometres west of the island of Sylt, and now the wind farm is connected to the Germa