Category: Wind

N149/4.0-4.5 to be presented at Husum Wind Flexible turbine concept for individual site optimisation Currently the highest yielding and quietest onshore turbine for light-wind regions in the class of 4.0 – 4.5 MW Hamburg, Husum, 1 September 2017. At the Husum Wind wind fair, taking place from 12 – 15 September 2017, the Nordex Group… Read more »

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, August 31, 2017, Leading international classification society Bureau Veritas has issued new rules for the Classification of Offshore Service Vessels and Tugs, including new class notations for pipelay vessels, accommodation units, offshore construction vessels and offshore support vessels. Gijsbert de Jong, Bureau Veritas Marine Marketing and Sales Director, said: “With this new publication… Read more »

ELA Container Offshore GmbH will again be participating at the Offshore Europe 2017 in Aberdeen. The exhibition will take place from 5th – 8th of September 2017 in Aberdeen, Scotland. In Hall 1 at booth #H21, ELA Offshore will be exhibiting a two story Offshore Accommodation Complex to demonstrate one of the many configuration possibilities… Read more »

Subsea IMR provider, N-Sea, has begun work in the Cameroonian offshore market, via a contract win with Dutch offshore lifting and transportation company, Jumbo Offshore. With phase one completed in mid-July, the project takes place off the shores of Cameroon’s South Province, as a part of the Hilli Episeyo Subsea Soft Yoke Installation. N-Sea’s workscope… Read more »

Following a successful tender process, Natural Power has been selected to deliver turbine blade inspection services on behalf of DONG Energy at wind farms in the UK, and Germany. Craig Gordon, Global Head of Inspections at Natural Power, said: “As an independent provider, we can offer a cost effective and flexible service when it comes… Read more »

August 25th 2017 – The construction of Ideol’s patented floating offshore wind sub-structure has been successfully completed by Bouygues TP and was floated-off in Saint-Nazaire’s Forme Joubert lock. After several months of construction near the Forme Joubert lock, the floating foundation – which will equip France’s first offshore wind turbine – was disengaged from the… Read more »

• Creating the most from wind – discover the value of digitalization” the Siemens slogan on its booth at Husum Wind 2017 • Digitalization and engineering efficiency in focus • New wind converter portfolio, specifically for wind turbines up to ten megawatts Under the slogan “Creating the most from wind – discover the value of… Read more »

Peikko Group’s Norwegian subsidiary Peikko Norge AS has received a substantial order to deliver rock foundation technology to Storheia Wind Park in Sør-Trøndelag area, Central Norway. Peikko will deliver all steel components for the 80 foundations of the wind park. The deliveries comprise FATBAR Rock Anchors, tower adapter plates, drilling templates and foundation reinforcement. Peikko… Read more »

Gearbox manufacturer Winergy has invested in a 2.8 megawatt load test bench in its Service Center in Rockhampton, Australia. This investment means that the facility now has Australia’s largest and most advanced test rig for wind power gearboxes. As a significant quality attribute a load test is essential for every wind turbine gearbox prior to… Read more »

– H1 revenues amount to EUR 830 million in line with guidance – Adjusted EBITDA EUR 62 million in H1, with a margin of 7.4% – H1 firm orders increased 70% year on year to EUR 940 million – Revenue guidance for 2017 adjusted to EUR1.9 – 1.95bn after financial close for 299 MW Chile contract… Read more »

With the acquisition of these vessels, ZEABORN is securing sustainable operation of Rickmers-Line Bremen/Hamburg, 8 August 2017 – On 31 July 2017, the ZEABORN Group signed the contracts for the purchase of five 30,000dwt Superflex Heavy Lift ves-sels. All of these vessels are sister ships of the Rickmers Hamburg, which was previously acquired, and are… Read more »

Wood Group’s clean energy business, previously known as SgurrEnergy, has been chosen to carry out power performance testing [PPT] on Europe’s largest onshore wind power project. The 1,000 MW Fosen Vind project, which is located in central Norway on the peninsula of Fosen, the island of Hitra and in Snillfjord, comprises six onshore wind farms… Read more »

Paul Wheelhouse, Scottish Government Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy, visited Fife today to announce a further investment of £1.5 million into the Carbon Trust’s world-leading research, development, and demonstration programme – the Offshore Wind Accelerator. Responding, Lindsay Roberts, Senior Policy Manager at Scottish Renewables, said:”Scotland has huge amounts to gain from offshore wind and it’s… Read more »

Chelmsford, Thursday 3 August. Global Marine Group (GMG), a leading provider of offshore engineering services to the renewables, telecommunications and oil & gas industries, announced today that it has successfully completed a remedial cable burial project for Prinses Amaliawindpark (PAWP), a wind farm off the Netherlands’ West Coast. PAWP covers an area of around 14km2… Read more »

HUSUM | 1 August 2017 – The timing of HUSUM Wind, in mid-September, could not be better: the dynamics of the wind energy market become apparent immediately prior to the federal election and shortly after the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia. This year HUSUM Wind will therefore be a platform for very interesting… Read more »

The 1,128 MW of wind power awarded in yesterday´s tender adds to the role of wind power in meeting the 2020 target The installation of these projects will translate into investments in excess of 4.5 billion Euros and the creation of between 25,000 to 30,000 jobs during construction AEE considers Energy Planning that includes 2030… Read more »

Steady share of around 17% of the domestic market secured Tender design resulting in project delays in the absence of any adjustments Hamburg, 27 July 2017. The German wind power market is characterized by light and shadow at the moment. Whereas sales volumes in the industry are heading for a new record, the award of… Read more »

The successful offshore installation of Floatgen’s innovative mooring system paves the way for the installation of France’s first offshore wind turbine. The mooring system components were assembled and installed on the SEM-REV test site which will host Floatgen, 22 kilometers off the coast of Le Croisic in western France. This highly innovative system was conceived… Read more »

DONG Energy has today published a Preliminary Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) containing new information about its latest offshore wind farm development, Hornsea Project Three. The report is part of a wider formal public consultation that will run from today (27 July) to 20 September 2017. Hornsea Project Three offshore wind farm will be located over… Read more »

•   Global revenues decreased by 7% to €2,693 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2017 as a result of the temporary downturn of the Indian market. O&M service revenue expanded by 8%, to €300 million. •   The announced synergies of €230 million are now the ‘minimum’ and the company expects to realize these synergies in… Read more »

Global blade inspection and maintenance specialist hired to deliver EOW inspections at Amakhala Wind Farm in the Eastern Cape Bhisho, 26 July 2017 – Blade inspection and maintenance specialist, Altitec, has completed end of warranty (EOW) blade inspections at the Amakhala Wind Farm in South African’s Eastern Cape. The inspections were undertaken in partnership with… Read more »

Earlier this year, GeoSea has awarded subsea technology company Seatools the contract for the design and delivery of an anode cage installation tool. The tool will be used for an automated anode cage installation operations, part of the construction of the Hohe See offshore wind farm. The anode cage installation aid, designed in close collaboration… Read more »

Jan De Nul Group’s fall pipe vessel Simon Stevin arrived at the Visnes Eklogitt quarry in Norway. She will load and transport a first batch of 32,000 tonnes of rock to the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in Germany, where she will install scour protection layers onto the seabed for the 36 wind turbine… Read more »

Accreditation as RE Certification Body granted by the IECRE / IECRE certificates for manufacturers of wind turbines / Harmonized system for worldwide certification of power plants Cologne/Hamburg, July 26, 2017. TÜV Rheinland has been audited and accredited as a certification body by the International Electrotechnical Committee Conformity Assessment System for Renewable Energy (IECRE). With this… Read more »

Hamburg, 26 July 2017. The Nordex Group has signed two promising contracts with EDF Energies Nouvelles. The French utility has now ordered a total of ten turbines with a combined output of around 36 MW from Nordex. The turbines are for the “Espiers” and “Guilleville” wind farms that are being built around 100 kilometres south… Read more »

Damen Shiprepair Oranjewerf (Oranjewerf) has bid farewell to VOS Start, Vroon BV’s first DP2, subsea-support, walk-to-work (W2W) vessel. The 80m VOS Start arrived at Oranjewerf on 1 June from her build yard in China for the installation of a motion-compensated gangway system – the first of its kind – by Barge Master and Bosch Rexroth,… Read more »

The Ammonit Wind Tunnel GmbH has been accredited by the German accreditation body (DAkkS) as independent calibration laboratory according to DIN EN ISO / IEC 17025. Additionally, Ammonit Wind Tunnel GmbH meets the high quality standards of MEASNET for anemometer calibration. After the successful accreditation by the German accreditation body DAkkS and confirmation of the… Read more »

Ledbury, UK — 25 July 2017 – An independent performance verification of a nacelle-mounted ZephIR Lidar has been undertaken by DNV GL on the test site in Janneby, Germany which demonstrates the product is compliant with best-practice guidelines developed in the EUDP UniTTe programmes – widely regarded and accepted as industry benchmarks for installations of… Read more »

The first of five 11,500-tonne floating offshore wind turbines has been towed into place at the Hywind development, 15 miles off the coast of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. The device was towed across from Norway, where four more are waiting to be brought over for the trial scheme which is expected to power about 20,000 homes. Responding,… Read more »

Rhenus Offshore Logistics B.V., the Dutch company that was founded in March 2017, took over the overall logistics concept for personnel and materials for a corrosion protection campaign at the two platforms known as “Buitengaats” and “ZeeEnergie” at the Gemini wind park. Rhenus Offshore Logistics Netherlands, a co-subsidiary of the German Rhenus Offshore Logistics, worked… Read more »

18 months of meteorological data from over 200 devices in the U.S. Northwest now freely available to improve wind forecasting in areas of complex terrain The Wind Forecasting Improvement Project (WFIP2), a $5.0 million collaborative study coordinated by Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, in conjunction with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric… Read more »