Category: Wind

Jan De Nul Group wins two DPC Innovation Awards, one for Project Design in Open Water (trenching tools Sunfish and Moonfish) and another for Project Design in Inland Dredging (engineered sediments for flood control dyke construction). The Dredging & Port Construction Innovation Awards 2016 are one of the industry’s most prestigious awards. The awards are… Read more »

• Milestone for new offshore wind turbine manufacturing plant • Political leaders and company representatives on hand to celebrate • First suppliers establishing themselves locally Today Siemens celebrated the topping out ceremony for its new wind turbine manufacturing facility in Cuxhaven, Germany, attended by Parliamentary State Secretary Enak Ferlemann, Lower Saxony’s State Secretary of Economic… Read more »

Flywheel Energy Storage device DuraStor® to be installed near Paris EDF and STORNETIC have launched a joint project on advanced smart grid storage solutions. The project serves to assess the performance of flywheel energy storage technology facing the requirements of a modern grid environment. As part of the collaboration, STORNETIC is going to deliver a… Read more »

With a three-year framework agreement ZITON will become main partner to provide jack-up vessels for major component replacement at Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms. Both companies agree that this is an important step in the right direction for a more efficient and cost reducing offshore wind market.  To both Vattenfall and ZITON the key to offshore… Read more »

Rotor blade manufacturing, master plug and mould design company to augment in-house blade development and manufacturing Hamburg: Senvion, a leading global manufacturer of wind turbines, has acquired 100 per cent of the shares of EUROS Group* in an all-cash transaction, just three months after announcing the acquisition of Kenersys assets in India. EUROS, located in… Read more »

LM Wind Power announces strategic collaboration with Chinese wind turbine manufacturer CSIC (China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation) HZ Windpower to deliver blades for its newly launched H151-5.0MW platform. The blades will be delivered from LM Wind Power’s plant in Jiangyin. The first sets are expected to be installed in Q4 2016 at Rudong wind farm. The… Read more »

Hamburg, 16 November 2016. Just a short time after the market launch of the N117/3600, in September 2016 the Nordex Group received the first order from WIND-consult Measuring Company for a project with the new turbine for IEC-2 sites. In November the first N117/3600 is to start operation in Bargeshagen, near Rostock. With a wind… Read more »

Oldenburg (Oldenburg/Germany) This year german business magazine FOCUS ® and Statista present again the fastest growing companies in Germany and honor the achievements of these players for the economy and society. The winning companies from various fields of industry act as innovators and thus secure the long term growth in Germany, according to Focus special…. Read more »

SeaRenergy and SMC will provide a broad range of offshore support services to Veja Mate. The services will start 01. November 2016 with the preparation of the foundations and transition pieces for the installation of the towers and turbines and has an initial term of 150 days. The scope of work includes: Full project management… Read more »

Studies by leading wind energy consultant demonstrate excellent consistency and performance Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, has released two independent verification studies conducted by Ecofys, an international consultancy based in Europe recently acquired by Navigant. The studies used two production Triton units deployed from March 5 – May 29, 2015 and… Read more »

– Sequential Q3 revenues up 15.6 percent to EUR 584m, adjusted EBITDA margin of 10.3 percent – Market expansion and conversion of conditional orders as catalyst for future growth – On track to meet full year guidance of EUR 2.25-2.3bn Hamburg: Senvion, a leading global manufacturer of wind turbines, has increased its revenues to EUR… Read more »

€3mn fund dedicated to researching the environmental impact of offshore wind Vattenfall, the Swedish energy company, has shortlisted projects for a €3mn scientific research programme to understand the environmental impacts of offshore wind. Sixteen projects have been shortlisted from an extensive list of almost 100 original applications by a specialist scientific panel comprised of environmental… Read more »

Agreement sees Greensolver manage the construction of a 10MW wind farm in France Greensolver, the independent technical expert for wind & solar farms, has just been appointed by Belgian renewable energy producer Elicio to manage the construction of a 10MW wind farm based in France. The French market is amongst the most complex in Europe… Read more »

Following deliveries to the offshore business and the governmental organizations in Norway, Tuco Marine is now also to deliver to the Norwegian Aquaculture industry. Two ProZero 15m boats have been sold as High Pressure Cleaning Boats to Norwegian AKVA Group. Designed by a team of skilled engineers, through collaboration with multiple world leading aqua cultural… Read more »

In the framework of the Kriegers Flak Offshore Wind Farm, a 600 MW offshore wind farm in the Danish Baltic Sea, together with the Combined Grid Solution interconnector project, Energinet.dk and 50Hertz Transmission GmbH awarded the Joint Venture Iemants – Jan De Nul Group the EPCI contract for 2 Gravity Based Foundations (GBF). Iemants joins… Read more »

Hamburg/ Melbourne: Senvion, a leading global manufacturer of wind turbines, has been selected by Nexif Energy as preferred supplier of the EPC contracts and maintenance agreements for the 25-turbine Glen Innes Wind Farm in New South Wales and the 59-turbine Lincoln Gap Wind Farm in South Australia. Combined, these projects will deliver over 300 megawatts… Read more »

Hamburg/Paris: Senvion, a leading global manufacturer of wind turbines, has recently concluded contracts totaling 56.1 megawatts (MW) for the Antilope wind power project in the Hauts de France region with renewable energy developer Eurowatt. Senvion will equip the Champ de la Grand-Mère, Terres Noires and Croix Noire 1 and 2 wind farms with a total… Read more »

• Siemens to provide service and maintenance for an additional 10 years at the 343 MW Lower Snake River wind project in Washington State • Power Boost function and High Wind Ride Through® digital upgrades included to help increase power production and turbine availability Siemens has been awarded a long-term contract for service and maintenance… Read more »

Hamburg, 3 November 2016. The Nordex Group has received in September a new order from its regular customer Acciona Energia for the construction of a wind farm in Mexico. The wind farm “El Cortijo” will consist of 56 AW125/3000 turbines. The site is located in Tamaulipas in the north-east of Mexico, 40 km to the… Read more »

SeaRoc Group have announced they will be hosting a series of workshops for industry professionals – the first in this series will focus on developments of the company’s SeaPlanner Marine Management System under the subject of ‘Innovation in Marine Coordination’. The workshop aims to educate those responsible for managing logistics for projects offshore, focusing on… Read more »

Long-term wind resource fluctuations highlight need to factor yearly variability into crucial regulatory decisions  VAISALA CORPORATION                     PRESS RELEASE                         NOVEMBER 2 2016 Analysis of wind speed trends in Germany for the years 2009-2015, conducted by Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement and provider of renewable energy consulting services, has revealed… Read more »

Eksim Yatirim orders 37 turbines for three projects Hamburg, 1 November 2016. The Nordex Group is strengthening its position in Turkey: in September the manufacturer received three new orders from its regular customer Eksim Yatirim. Nordex will be installing a total of 37 N117/3000 turbines for Eksim as part of the extension of the “Amasya”,… Read more »

Manufacturer sells turbines with total capacity of 93.3 MW Hamburg, 28 October 2016. So far this autumn, Nordex has obtained six new orders for wind farm projects in France. Altogether, 38 turbines with a combined capacity of 93.3 MW have been sold to different customers: 17 N117/2400s, 15 N100/2500s and six N90/2500s. Nordex will provide… Read more »

Global Marine Systems Limited, with joint venture partner Huawei Marine Networks (HMN), has mentored a team of four, sixth form students to the 2016 Engineering Education Scheme (EES) National finals where they were crowned champions. The team, comprising of students from the Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School including Charlotte Buttery, Jahnina Queddeng, Alicia Trew and… Read more »

UK based company, SeaPlanner Ltd. are to launch an international tender for businesses in the South East Asia offshore wind market,  interested in entering a reseller agreement for its leading marine management software solution. SeaPlanner™ is an established management and monitoring system in Europe having been selected to support 26 wind farms in UK, Germany,… Read more »

• Direct-drive wind turbines for the German states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein • 23 units in total with outputs ranging from 3 to 3.3 megawatts • All projects to be installed by spring 2017 Direct-drive wind turbines from Siemens are gaining ground on the German market: Siemens has now received five orders for 23… Read more »

The Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) in Cleveland, Ohio has appointed international engineering and operations support services contractor Offshore Design Engineering Limited (ODE), part of the DORIS Group located in the U.K., as the engineering representative for Icebreaker Wind, a 20.7 megawatt offshore wind project in Lake Erie, and the first freshwater offshore wind… Read more »

Global Marine Systems Limited is pleased to announce that it has succeeded in upgrading its ISO 9001 certification to the new International Quality Standard ISO 9001:2015.  Demonstrating its continued commitment to being at the forefront of developments in this discipline, Global Marine is one of the first companies in the industry to achieve accreditation to… Read more »

Revolutionizing Offshore Wind Measurement Capabilities in Massachusetts Hinesburg USA, October 11th, 2016:  High-fidelity, hub-height wind measurement has arrived off the south coast of Massachusetts thanks to a newly installed WINDCUBE® Vertical Profiling Lidar. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), working with AWS Truepower of Albany, New York, has installed the WINDCUBE at WHOI’s Martha’s Vineyard Coastal… Read more »

At this year’s Offshore Energy exhibition, a leading global deck machinery specialist, ACE Winches, is pleased to announce a new 500te Linear Winch to its range of specialised deck equipment.  The company will be showcasing its extensive range of products and services supplied to European clients operating within Marine, Renewables and Oil & Gas sectors…. Read more »

ExxonMobil Introduces Mobil SHC™ Grease 102 WT, an Advanced Wind Turbine Grease for Extreme Low Temperatures ·        New synthetic grease protects wind turbine bearings from extreme temperature conditions as high as 120 degrees Celsius to as low as -50 degrees Celsius ·        The product meets the wind industry’s need for extreme low temperature grease ·      … Read more »