Category: Wind

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Safety And Rescue Academy’s GWO certification renewed
Audit shows 98% participant satisfactionHailo Wind Systems’ Safety And Rescue Academy (SARA) continues to satisfy the demanding training requirements of the Global Wind Organisation (GWO). In the GWO’s annual audit, Hailo was confirmed as meeting the international standard for First Aid, Fire Awareness, Working at Height… Read more »

Today´s energy transition can only come along with an innovation of our power supply infrastructure. Future energy supply systems must be capable to balance demand for power and supply continuously and to guarantee network stability, efficiency and reliability. The rapid development of these technologies will be showcased at WindEnergy Hamburg. The world’s leading expo for… Read more »

14 July, 2016 – LM Wind Power, the world’s largest independent designer and manufacturer of wind turbine blades, announced today that it has broken ground for a 17 hectares piece of land in Bergama, Turkey, from the Bergama Organized Industrial Zone (BOSBI). The site will become home to a world class, high technology factory for… Read more »

Friday 8 July, Jan De Nul Group signed a contract with Dong Energy from Denmark for the transport and installation of 36 monopiles and transition pieces for the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 2 in German territorial waters. Additionally, the Group was also awarded the supply, transport and installation of scour protection for all foundations…. Read more »

• United Energies MTOI enters energy market in Kazakhstan• Technology transfer of UE DirectDrive wind turbine production • Inauguration of rst production hall before Expo 2017 05 July 2016. In June 2016 United Energies MTOI signed a license agree- ment for the establishment of a national wind industry in Kazakhstan. Wind industry development encompasses technology… Read more »

• FWT to supply 20 x FWT 2500 wind turbines to Kalmykia wind energy project with a nominal capacity of 2.55 MW• Delivery scheduled to start by end of 2016, start of commercial operation scheduled for 2017• Corporate Energies company, Energy Competence Centre (ECC), assigned as owner’s engineer Berlin, 05 July 2016. Recently ALTEN Ltd…. Read more »

July 8, 2016, WESTFIELD, NJ – ACL is proud to announce that it officially took delivery of the third new vessel in the G4 fleet, ATLANTIC SEA on June 30, 2016. The ATLANTIC SEA sailed from China on July 4th and will take its place in the Company’s transatlantic schedule in early August. The remaining… Read more »

Houston, US; July 11 2016: Global Maritime Consultancy & Engineering, a provider of marine warranty, dynamic positioning and engineering services to the offshore sector, has signed a contract with leading offshore wind developer Deepwater Wind to provide marine warranty services for the Block Island Wind Farm, America’s first offshore wind farm. Services that will be… Read more »

Less than a month after the official launch of Ideol’s first demonstrator (Floatgen), Hitachi Zosen and Ideol have signed a contract launching the construction phase of their 2 floating offshore wind turbines. This second contract follows the achievement of the design & engineering phase which started a year ago. These 2 floaters will be each… Read more »

BREDA (NL) | The National Business Success Award Institute has selected Tideway BV (a subsidiary of the Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group, DEME) as Best Performing Employer 2016 in the marine engineering sector. Thanks to Tideway’s strong positioning, this DEME subsidiary remains a leader in its market. The Nominations Committee was impressed by… Read more »

Maersk Training is the first Global Wind Organisation certified training centre in the world to deliver the new Basic Maintenance Training (BMT) Following the release of the Basic Maintenance Training Standard by the Global Wind Organisation (GWO) on 4 July 2016, DNV-GL has certified Maersk Training in Esbjerg as the first organisation to conduct all… Read more »

Germany’s parliament approved a plan to reform the country’s renewable energy law by ending feed-in tariffs in favour of competitive auctions and putting clear volumes on wind energy deployment. Lawmakers have agreed to cap the annual auctions for onshore wind at 2.8GW and offer fluctuating tenders for offshore wind in order to control renewables installations… Read more »

Work starts on first UK offshore wind tower factoryArgyll, Scotland, gets £27m South Korean investment Work on the UK’s first offshore wind tower factory will officially start in Argyll today (July 7) at a ground-breaking ceremony attended by Scotland’s Energy Minister.CS Wind UK’s base in Campbeltown, which employs 175 people, is set for a £27… Read more »

Trelleborg’s engineered products operation announces it has been awarded a contract by the Siemens/Petrofac consortium for its first floatover installation of an offshore converter platform – BorWin3 wind farm project. The high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter station will sit nearly 130 kilometers off the German coast in the North Sea. Siemens will supply the… Read more »

Deutsche Windtechnik Ltd. passed the certification audit performed by independent international auditor DNV GL in June. For a whole week the auditors examined quality, industrial safety and environmental management at company headquarters in Edinburgh and two complete wind farms. The certificates attest that the British subsidiary of Deutsche Windtechnik AG fulfils all the quality, health,… Read more »

Hinesburg USA, July 5th 2016: Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG), a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, announced today that it has supplied complete resource assessment packages to French developer VALOREM to support their renewable energy project development activities in Africa. VALOREM is currently building a pipeline of five… Read more »

• New offshore SWT-8.0-154 turbine with up to 10% higher AEP based on existing offshore direct drive platform• Direct drive SWT-3.3-130 onshore wind turbine passes type certificate from DNV GL Siemens’ direct drive wind turbine technology for offshore and onshore wind turbines reaches the next development milestone: The latest addition to the offshore direct drive… Read more »

Trade visitors and delegations expected from all parts of the world WindEnergy Hamburg – at the Hamburg Fair site from 27 to 30 September 2016 WE7/ Hamburg, 4 July 2016WindEnergy Hamburg, the world’s leading wind industry fair, will be held from 27 to 30 September. Once again it will be the global business platform for… Read more »

• 50 wind turbines for one of the largest onshore wind power plants in Norway• Power sold to Google data centers across Europe Siemens has received an order to supply, install and commission 50 onshore wind turbines in Norway. Project developers are Zephyr AS and Norsk Vind Energi AS. Funds managed by BlackRock are providing… Read more »

The wind service operation vessel (SOV) for the Dutch Gemini project has been christened “Windea la cour” today in Hamburg. The vessel is to set sail to start operations at the Gemini offshore wind power plant this summer. Siemens has supplied 150 wind turbines with a capacity of 4 megawatts each and will service the… Read more »

• Siemens to provide service and maintenance for an additional 15 years at the Clyde wind farm in Scotland, one of Europe’s largest wind projects• Sixth service agreement with majority shareholder SSE since July 2015 Siemens has been awarded a long-term contract extension for service and maintenance at the 350-megawatt (MW) Clyde wind farm in… Read more »

Healthy H1 construction pipeline sees medium wind manufacturer complete ten turbine installations by June, with a further nine turbines consented and under construction 28th June 2016 – Medium-scale wind turbine manufacturer Norvento has announced the successful completion of ten new turbine installations throughout the UK in the first half of 2016. A healthy order pipeline… Read more »

Near to the port of Blyth in Northumberland in the UK, an offshore wind farm will be developed by EDF Energy Renewables. MHI Vestas have been asked to deliver five of the largest wind turbines ever manufactured in the world (V164-8.0 MW) turbines, and these will be installed using the by Jan De Nul Group… Read more »

Deutsche Windtechnik and Vattenfall GmbH further expand their cooperation in the offshore segment: After working together extensively with Deutsche Windtechnik on the DanTysk offshore wind farm, Vattenfall has once again chosen the independent specialist in wind energy services to oversee the construction and commissioning of the Sandbank offshore wind farm. Engineers and technicians from Deutsche… Read more »

• Installation of three SWT-3.2-113 turbines beginning in autumn 2016• Special medium-voltage switchgear for optimal grid compatibility• Long-term service contract for 20 years Siemens will supply three direct drive wind turbines of the type SWT-3.2-113 for the onshore wind power plant Naundorf. These modern wind turbines add about ten megawatts (MW) to the site’s existing… Read more »

SeaRoc Group has announced the launch of their new website at www.searoc.com which represents the company’s strategy to focus on integrated software solutions for the offshore renewable energy sector. The website includes detailed information on SeaRoc Group’s complete scope of products and services and demonstrates the capabilities of its leading marine management and monitoring solution,… Read more »

Facilitating India’s transition towards low carbon economy by development of offshore wind power NEW DELHI, 29 June 2016 – The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) launched a new report today: “Supply Chain, Port Infrastructure and Logistics Study” for offshore wind development in the states of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu in India. This study is a… Read more »

Leading European O&M service provider for offshore wind market changes name to ZITON DBB Jack-up Services A/S, a leading provider of operations and maintenance services for the European offshore wind industry, announced today it has changed its name to ZITON A/S. The change signals the Denmark-based company’s increased focus on specialist onsite expertise within offshore… Read more »

Global Maritime Part of 12-Member Consortium With Project Objective to Reduce Costs in Wave Energy Development London, UK; June 15 2016: Global Maritime Consultancy & Engineering, a provider of marine warranty, dynamic positioning and engineering services to the offshore sector, is to provide mooring and risk management support to the European Union’s OPERA (Open Sea… Read more »

The Boom Lock© system by High Wind increases wind limits and accelerates installation processes of increasingly larger wind turbine components. Zwijndrecht, Belgium, 23 June 2016. LM Wind Power and Adwen announced earlier this week the world’s longest blade, an 88.4-metre blade specifically designed for Adwen’s 8MW turbine. LM Wind Power’s CEO Marc de Jong called… Read more »

The Boom Lock© system by High Wind increases wind limits and accelerates installation processes of increasingly larger wind turbine components. Zwijndrecht, Belgium, 23 June 2016. LM Wind Power and Adwen announced earlier this week the world’s longest blade, an 88.4-metre blade specifically designed for Adwen’s 8MW turbine. LM Wind Power’s CEO Marc de Jong called… Read more »