Several initiatives were formed in recent days to promote a bright future for offshore wind with electricity transmission operator TenneT in the center of it all. On the one hand TenneT itself comes up with a vision of an artificial island in the North Sea to synchronize offshore networks internationally. On the other the company is facing massive delays in the connection of offshore networks in Germany.
Wind-turbine developer and manufacturer Lagerwey, based in Barneveld, has developed the world’s first climbing crane to enable faster and cheaper construction of wind turbines.
VBMS has been awarded a contract by Vattenfall Vindkraft A/S for the installation of 33kV inter-array cables for the Horns Rev3 offshore wind farm (OWF).
In the framework of its strategy to focus activity and investments in the United Kingdom, United States, México, Brazil and Spain / Under the agreement, the company sells renewable assets in Italy, including 100% in SER S.P.A. and 4% in SER 1 S.P.A, to CEF 3 Wind Energy S.P.A. / The transaction means divesting five onshore wind farms with total installed capacity of 245 MW
Contract covers inspections from manufacturing, transport, installation and commissioning of wind farm.
Serial production of jacket foundations continues at Bladt Industries’ facilities, as Seaway Heavy Lifting has awarded Bladt Industries an order for 30 jacket foundations to the Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm
Twenty four monopiles have been installed at the Veja Mate offshore wind farm, thus crossing a milestone of having one-third of its 1300T monopiles in their respective positions.
Tomorrow a consortium of 16 Dutch companies and research institutes will launch an innovation program for offshore wind: GROW. The plan for the program will be presented to Minister Kamp at the Winddagen 2016 congress in Rotterdam. The consortium's mission is to bring the cost of offshore wind further down to seven eurocents per kWh by 2030.
ABPmer, a recognised provider of metocean services, has launched Version 2 of its weather downtime calculator. The updated service now has wider application across the offshore wind, subsea cable and oil/gas sectors.
Fugro has been awarded a geotechnical site investigation survey contract for the Hollandse Kust (zuid) Wind Farm Zone. This follows previous contracts awarded earlier this year for geophysical survey and metocean monitoring at the same site.
WindMW is Owner of Meerwind, One of Germany’s Largest Offshore Windfarms
This year’s edition of BNEF’s long-term forecast sees $11.4 trillion investment in global power generation capacity over 25 years, with electric vehicles boosting electricity demand by 8% in 2040.
The agreement includes the maintenance of this customer's G90-2.0 MW turbines, installed in several wind farms in Castile & León
Gurit today announced that it will open a wind blade mould production facility in Szczecin, Poland. The expansion is targeted at further increasing the Company`s Tooling market share in Europe.
1000 EC-B erects wind turbine with a hub height of 149 m / Tower crane reaches a final hook height of 164 m / Space-saving assembly on a small hilltop in the middle of the Black Forest
Eidesvik has been awarded yet another support vessel contract from Siemens Wind Power to support their operations in the German sector. Contract commencement will be in June this year.
Tata Power's Generation Capacity to cross 10,000 MW reinforcing its position as India's largest integrated power company / Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited's renewable assets portfolio grows to about 2,300 MW making it the largest Renewable Power Company in India
Participation in 8 wind farms for a total installed capacity of 131 MW / Structure of transaction optimizes the internal rate of return after taxes
Laying of 70 kilometers of inter-array cables / Special purpose cable-laying vessels in use / All 54 wind turbine foundations and substation foundation have been already installed / Commissioning of the 332 megawatt wind farm anticipated in 2017
The Scottish Government’s forthcoming review of Scotland's energy strategy must make greater use of the nation’s amazing renewables potential and set out plans to secure half of all our energy needs from renewables, said environmentalists
Future North Sea Infrastructure will make Europe’s energy transition feasible and affordable / Large offshore wind farms will be combined with international electricity highways (spokes) interconnected by a centrally built island (hub) / Transport of offshore wind energy and international power trade in one connection: the "Wind-connector"
Veja Mate Offshore Project is pleased to announce the installation of one-third of its 1300T monopiles. The construction phase began in April 2016 and Veja Mate contractor Offshore Wind Force (OWF) has managed to successfully install 24 monopiles, in the German North Sea using the world’s largest Jack-up vessel, Scylla.
Tekmar Energy, which supplies cable protection systems (CPS) to the offshore windfarm industry, has successfully carried out a full-scale demonstration of its products at The Underwater Centre, the subsea training and trials facility based in Fort William.
On 08/06 the works for the installation of scour protection (First phase) around the 51 foundations of the Nobelwind project are finished.
From summer 2018, A2SEA will play a key role in building the Danish offshore wind farm Horns Reef 3 off the west coast of Denmark. Project owner is Vattenfall and the total capacity of the wind farm is 400MW.
Over 140 new positions will be created at the MHI Vestas blade factory in Nakskov, Denmark to meet demand for V164-8.0 MW projects. The facility will supplement the lead blade factory on the Isle of Wight, where production has been ongoing since mid-2015.
Market shows keen interest: Green Bond almost four times oversubscribed / TenneT's second consecutive EURO Green Bonds issue from its established programme / Moody's investors services assigns Green Bond Assessment of GB1 ("Excellent")
Broadwind Energy, Inc. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Broadwind Towers, Inc. has signed a $137 million, three-year framework agreement to supply wind turbine towers to a U.S. wind turbine manufacturer.
Kent addition to offshore wind fleet praised for innovation
For the 12th time, representatives of the offshore wind industry met in Bremen where the Windforce Conference took place during these last three days. And although the industry in Germany has managed to become a profitable one worth millions in transactions in the past two years, there is great uncertainty about the future. Thus Uwe Beckmeyer, Parliamentary Secretary of the German Department of Trade and Industry got to know the ramifications of an industry in fear.
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