Danish wind turbine maker Vestas said Tuesday it had won an order from Hibiki Wind Energy to supply offshore wind turbines for the Kitakyushu-Hibikinada offshore wind farm project in Japan.The offshore wind project is located offshore Kitakyushu city…
Ship design company Ulstein Design & Solutions has designed an offshore wind installation vessel that it says is 'a safer, smarter, and more competitive ship design solution for transporting, upending and installing large monopiles on DP.'The patent-pending U-STERN design…
The Netherlands and Britain plan to build what would be Europe's biggest cross-border electricity link connected to an offshore wind farm, their energy ministers said on Monday, part of efforts to boost energy security. The 'LionLink' interconnector will be able to transfer 1…
Floating wind is viewed as the final frontier for offshore wind as turbines can be installed in deeper waters than fixed-bottom foundations, harnessing stronger and more continuous wind to generate more power.There are two main types of tender for traditional and floating wind projects…
After a bumper year for floating offshore wind farm tenders, the nascent industry is poised for explosive growth in the coming decade as countries strive to cut their carbon emissions. But it's unlikely to be all plain sailing. Rising costs…
Energy ministers from European countries surrounding the North Sea are set to pledge to quadruple offshore wind energy capacity by the end of the decade as they aim to turn the region into an engine of renewable power. Seven European Union countries…
Spanish renewable energy firm Iberdrola has signed a long-term power supply deal with Salzgitter Group.Under the agreement, Iberdrola's Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in the German Section of the Baltic Sea will deliver electricity for Salzgitter's project to produce carbon-neutral steel…
German renewable energy firm RWE said Thursday it would be the first developer in the world to utilize Siemens Gamesa’s GreenerTower at its Danish offshore wind farm Thor. The tower steel plates are made of greener steel that produces at least…
Heerema Marine Contractors has installed what has been described as the world’s first unmanned High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore substation at the Dogger Bank Wind Farm project site in the UK North Sea.The substation is the first of three platforms…
Representatives of the European transmission system operator TenneT, the Hitachi Energy/Petrofac partnership, and the three consortium partnerships GE/Sembcorp (SMOP), GE/McDermott, and Siemens Energy/Dragados met in Berlin on Thursday to sign…
Offshore energy industry services provider HST Marine said Thursday it had secured a long-term contract in the North Sea for its HST Hudson fast crew supplier, to continue working with Belgium-based offshore wind firm Otary.'In order to assist Otary with its emission reduction journey…
The HSI consortium comprising HSM Offshore Energy, Smulders, and Iv-Offshore & Energy has won a contract to deliver substations and jackets for the largest offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, the Gennaker.Under the contract, awarded by 50Hertz…
Singapore-based Cyan Renewables has contracted Ulstein Design & Solutions BV to design a series of new floating foundation installation vessels (FFIV) dedicated to offshore wind. Ulstein said that the new FFIVs would feature adequate deck space…
Onshore substations springing up to receive electricity from its burgeoning North Sea wind farms are triggering rapid change in the electrical infrastructure landscape of the Netherlands, renowned for its windmills in an earlier era. After years of lagging behind its European partners…
China's CIMC Raffles has recently secured an order to build a self-propelled offshore wind turbine installation vessel for CRCC Harbour & Channel Engineering Bureau (CRCC-HCEB.)According to CIMC Raffles, the jack-up vessel will be China's most…