Author: Francesco

Osbit, the energy transition-focused engineering company, has announced a series of new appointments as it enters a significant growth phase. As part of its expansion strategy, the business, which was recently acquired by offshore wind services company Venterra Group, has strengthened its leadership team to enhance the running of day-to-day business operations. The new appointments… Read more »

Høvik, Norway, 16 December 2021 – The exponential growth of offshore wind power will be the main driver of a nine-fold increase in demand for ocean space by the middle of the century, according DNV’s Ocean’s Future to 2050.  The report forecasts that by midcentury, offshore wind will require ocean space which is the equivalent… Read more »

The agreement means that FIMER, the leading solar and e-mobility company, is officially the only local manufacturer of photovoltaic inverters for the Algerian market. Thanks to the agreement signed on December 14th 2021, FIMER and ENIE will collaborate on the local production of photovoltaic inverters to support all national government tenders and the free market,… Read more »

Seacat Services sends OESV to support Moray East’s operations team off the coast of Fraserburgh, Scotland Aberdeen, 16 December, 2021 – Class leading offshore energy support vessel (OESV) operator Seacat Services (Seacat) today announces that it has signed a long-term charter for catamaran Seacat Weatherly with Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Limited. Seacat Weatherly began its… Read more »

[Oslo, Norway]: Miros AS today announced it has signed an agreement with Prysmian Group, a world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, for the installation of their IoT dry-sensor WaveSystem including Miros Cloud Services, delivering real-time wave and current data onboard the MV Leonardo Da Vinci. Miros AS is excited to extend… Read more »

WindESCo Swarm™ to unlock 3-5% annual energy production gains for 306MW Milford wind farm in first-of-its-kind deployment Boston, MA, USA: 7th December 2021 – Pioneering wind asset optimization innovator WindESCo has closed a pre-launch deal with Boston-based renewable energy developer, owner and operator Longroad Energy to deploy its market-leading swarm optimization technology onto Longroad’s 306 MW… Read more »

Together, the two Norwegian companies will create a leading global service provider for the green shift in maritime industries. Based on hundreds of years of industrial history, listed Scana ASA has sharpened its focus and become a strong equipment and service supplier to the maritime industries in recent years. Now, the company is taking a… Read more »

250 km of inter-array cable to be installed at world’s biggest wind farm. Thursday, December 16, 2021 — Antwerp, BE – Earlier today, DEME Offshore, subsidiary of the DEME Group, announced it has been awarded a sizable (1) EPCI contract for the inter-array cables at the Dogger Bank C wind farm in the UK. Dogger… Read more »

The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, the UK’s leading research and innovation centre for offshore wind, wave and tidal energy, has promoted Andrew Macdonald into the role of Offshore Wind Development & Operations Director, effective from 1st February 2022. Andy will take responsibility for the Catapult’s extensive portfolio of projects in Smart Operations & Maintenance… Read more »

ABB has signed an order with HydrogenPro, a hydrogen plant company, to provide electrical equipment for the world’s largest single stack high-pressure alkaline electrolyser – a system that generates hydrogen by using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Once deployed, at a specially built test facility in Herøya, Norway in 2022, the system will… Read more »

Pfeiffer Vacuum, one of the world’s leading providers of high-tech vacuum solutions for the semiconductor market as well as the analytical, industrial and research & development markets, opened up a new 10,000 square foot Silicon Valley Innovation Center (SVIC) in San José on December 10th. This state-of-the-art facility is located at 2381 Bering Drive, San… Read more »

The construction group ARIKON AG and Doosan Lentjes, a global provider of proprietary environmental technologies for thermal waste treatment and energy generation, are breaking new ground together in terms of digital collaboration. The current joint construction project, a thermal waste treatment plant in Wiesbaden, is being centrally managed in the planning and execution phase with… Read more »

Swiss based marine engine technology developer WinGD has published a new white paper outlining the steps it believes will enable deep-sea shipping to decarbonize in line with IMO provisions. The guide aims to provide shipowners with an illustration of the choices that can be made with confidence today to drastically reduce emissions, rather than waiting… Read more »

ABB has been appointed to ‘power’ the Red Sea Project, Saudi Arabia’s biggest sustainable tourism scheme owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF). Spanning 28,000 square kilometers, the project is one of the world’s most ambitious regenerative tourism projects and will bring together the natural world with first class personalized accommodation, across an archipelago of… Read more »

In an exciting move for Verton, they have today announced that Sparrows Group (Sparrows) has signed up to be their first Australian distributor. Sparrows is a global provider of specialist engineering, inspection, operations and maintenance services to the offshore energy, renewables and industrial markets. Their mission is to support their clients to optimise their efficiency,… Read more »

Autonomous blade inspection pioneer set to enable next phase of renewable energy industry growth with solutions that help customers manage their fleets across the full asset lifecycle. SALT LAKE CITY, UT (December 8, 2021) – SkySpecs CEO Danny Ellis today announced the launch of SkySpecs’ expanded suite of asset management solutions for renewable energy. The… Read more »

SAN RAMON, Calif. – December 9, 2021 – GE Digital today announced that it is partnering with its valued customer UK Power Networks on a world-first smart substation project. The project, known as Constellation, is designed to optimize utilization of the distribution network to facilitate the rise of renewable energy generation across the United Kingdom…. Read more »

For the offshore wind farm Vesterhav Nord & Syd in Denmark, Jan De Nul Group will transport and install a total of 41 wind turbines of 8.4 MW each on behalf of Vattenfall Denmark. All together, these turbines will produce enough green electricity for the annual needs of approximately 380,000 Danish households. Jan De Nul’s… Read more »

Energy software provider, Smarter Grid Solutions, in partnership with AVANGRID, a leading sustainable energy company, have delivered a ground-breaking US grid integration project that has the potential to more than double wind and solar generation connections by using innovative new software that maximises grid capacity. The Flexible Interconnect Capacity Solution (FICS) project has successfully connected… Read more »

Bremerhaven, 7 December 2021 – The expansion of onshore and offshore wind energy can create more jobs in the wind industry in North Rhine-Westphalia than would be reduced by a faster coal phase-out. This is the result of a recent study by the market research institute wind:research, which was supported by WAB as part of… Read more »

The delivery of three patented 70kW rare-earth-free generators in mid-2022 will support Wind Harvest’s vertical axis wind turbine design ambitions UK firm GreenSpur Wind has today confirmed an order for three 70kW rare-earth-free permanent magnet direct drive generators to Wind Harvest International of the United States. The transaction represents a first US sale for GreenSpur…. Read more »

Waga Energy, the European leader in the production of biomethane from landfill gas, and Meridiam, an investment fund specializing in public infrastructure finance, obtained a non-recourse loan of 10.4 million euros from BNP Paribas and Banque Populaire Grand Ouest to refinance four WAGABOX® biomethane units located in France. The deal underpins Waga Energy’s ability to rely… Read more »

More than 1,000 people returned in-person to Edinburgh to see 13 winners announced Director of industry body says shortlist highlights the “leaps of innovation” of Scotland’s renewable energy industry A pioneering energy storage system which has been developed using the simple principle of gravity has been handed a top award by Scotland’s renewable energy industry… Read more »

Innovative lifting, handling, and weighing solutions for the Wind Energy & Industrial markets Richardson, Texas, USA — The Crosby Group, a global leader in lifting, rigging, and load securement hardware, today announced that it has acquired Airpes Sistemas Integrales de Manutencion Y Pesaje S.L. (“Airpes”). Airpes, based in Barcelona, Spain, is the leader in developing… Read more »

Hamburg, 2 December 2021. Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT), managed by Octopus Renewables Limited, has commissioned the Nordex Group to supply twelve N133 turbines for the Cumberhead wind farm in Scotland. The turbines will each be operated in an optimised mode of 4.165 MW. The order also includes a Premium Service for the maintenance and… Read more »

Global renewable energy equipment manufacturer FIMER, has announced its market-leading FIMER FLEXA AC Wallbox family of chargepoints has received certification from the UK’s Office of Zero Emissions (OZEV) – part of the Department for Transport – meaning it is now available for installation in the UK. The Italian-based company, which is the fourth largest tier… Read more »

Marko Gerlach appointed Chief Financial Officer Chemnitz, Germany, December 1, 2021 – 3D-Micromac AG, the industry leader in laser micromachining and roll-to-roll laser systems for the semiconductor, photovoltaic (PV), medical device and electronics markets, announces that its management board has appointed Marko Gerlach to the role of chief financial officer effective immediately. As CFO, Marko… Read more »

DEPCOM’s full-service solar power solutions will be central to Koch Industries’ development of renewable electric generation platform Wichita, Kan. – Nov. 30, 2021 – Koch Engineered Solutions LLC (KES), a unit of Koch Industries Inc. (Koch), today announced the acquisition of DEPCOM Power Inc. (DEPCOM). DEPCOM is a leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm… Read more »

The Johanna 1 & 2 projects try to determine whether clean distributed energy can offset the increasing demand for electricity in central Orange County. Ingeteam has supplied 20 battery inverters for this milestone project owned and operated by Hecate Energy and built by Mitsubishi Power. Ingeteam. December 1, 2021. Ingeteam Inc., a manufacturer of solar… Read more »

Jan De Nul has awarded the ships agency contract to DHSS with regards to its installation of high voltage cables for the grid connection for the projects Hollandse Kust (Noord) and (West Alpha) of TenneT. Jan De Nul, as part of the consortium “JLC” together with LS-Cable & System, are responsible for the supply and… Read more »

By teaming up, CORROSION and ProCon will be able to better serve customers through a larger combined network of local offices to offer local content and local know-how, together with providing more detailed technical information about their ICCP systems. “CORROSION is delighted to announce that it is partnering with ProCon,” said Niels Ros, Manager Offshore… Read more »

A confidential owner of oil and gas platforms in the North Adriatic Concession area has contracted renewable energy consultancy Megajoule to install multiple wind Lidars as part of the company’s Low Carbon Development Strategy.   The offshore industry standard Lidar ZX 300M will be deployed to begin taking measurements up to 300m from their installed… Read more »

Active in every aspect of the industry (production, logistics, maintenance), Ports of Normandy’s three sites – Caen-Ouistreham, Cherbourg and Dieppe – have the broadest geographic reach on the coast of France. They feature some of the most efficient port facilities and are currently creating almost 1000 direct jobs. On the occasion of the Wind Europe… Read more »

The new MOD 1100/2000t spreader beam at 33m span, which was the latest addition to Modulift’s modular range of popular DNV Type Approved spreader beams, has been used in it’s very first lift in Dover in the UK. The successful first lift was carried out by its new owner, heavy lfting rental company, Safe Lifting… Read more »

Since opening the production plant ten years ago, Ingeteam has manufactured in Milwaukee more than 3,000 Indar wind generators. Ingeteam has surpassed the 2GW figure of solar inverters supplied to the US. Ingeteam. Milwaukee, WI. November 23rd, 2021. Ingeteam is celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the completion of its US offices and production plant, located… Read more »