Category: Wind

Vestas receives 33 MW order for first V126-3.3 MW turbines in Austria

smart-energy Betriebs GmbH orders 10 V126-3.3 MW turbines for a wind power plant in Lower Austria. Vestas is pleased to announce a firm and unconditional order for 10 V126-3.3 MW turbines from smart- energy Betriebs GmbH for their wind power plant Hohenruppersdorf II. The turbine delivery is expected to start in the fourth quarter of… Read more »

Semco Maritime wins record offshore wind telecommunications order for DONG Energy

DONG Energy has selected Danish contracting and engineering company Semco Maritime to establish a new offshore telecommunication infrastructure in the North Sea. With a total value of up to DKK 100 million, the order is Semco Maritime’s largest ever in offshore wind telecommunications. After months of intense work, Semco Maritime has secured its largest single… Read more »

Moventas Opens Multi Brand Service Workshop In St Paul Minnesota

Moventas, one of the world’s leading wind gear manufacturers and service providers, today opens a wind gearbox service workshop in St Paul, Minnesota, answering the growing demand for multi-brand expert wind drivetrain service in the midwestern United States. Moventas is expanding its network of high quality wind gearbox service centers in North America by opening… Read more »

CWind wins Health & Safety ROSPA Gold Award third year running

CWind, a leading provider of services to the offshore wind industry, has once again won the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Gold Award. The Gold award in the prestigious annual scheme run by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) recognises the company’s approach and commitment to occupational health and safety, achieving high… Read more »

Centerbridge completes acquisition of wind turbine manufacturer Senvion

Hamburg/London: The wind turbine manufacturer Senvion SE (“Senvion”), previously part of the Indian group Suzlon Energy Limited (“Suzlon”), has changed owners. Centerbridge Partners, L.P. (“Centerbridge”), through its Centerbridge Capital Partners private equity investing strategy, has successfully completed the acquisition of Hamburg-based Senvion. All the necessary administrative, legal and financial preparations for the transfer of ownership… Read more »

vortex energy constructing three wind farms of the output of 140 Megawatts in Poland

The project development company is buying a Polish joint venture company 29 April 2015, Szczecin. vortex energy Polska Sp. z o.o. (Limited Liability Company) having its registered office in Szczecin, a project development company, has acquired KWE Sp z o.o. (Limited Liability Company) (Konin Wiatr Energia). The enterprise is a joint venture company established in… Read more »

Helukabel Introduces New Wind Cables At North Americas Premier Wind Energy Conference

ELGIN, Illinois (US)/MISSISSAUGA, Ontario (CA) – HELUKABEL, one of the world’s leading cable manufacturers, will showcase their latest cabling technologies for the wind energy industry in Orlando, Florida May 18-21 at the industry’s leading annual conference and exhibition, WINDPOWER 2015, hosted by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). One of the largest wind energy events… Read more »

NOAA buys WINDCUBE Scanning Lidars from Renewable NRG systems

Renewable NRG Systems, a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, announced today the recent sale of two WINDCUBE 200S 3D Scanning Doppler Lidars to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). WINDCUBE 200S Lidars incorporate advanced techniques to measure the wind components on a large scale for short… Read more »

seebaWIND Service is the first enterprise to use the RDS-PP® Standard-based REGAS software

Osnabrück, 28.04.2015. seebaWIND Service GmbH is the first enterprise to implement the requirements set by the new international RDS-PP® Standard Reference Designation System for Power Plants for the wind power sector using REGAS application software. This manufacturer-independent service provider initially uses the software, which works based on the standard, for its own technical operations management…. Read more »

Ultrasonic wind sensors for the DWD’s maritime monitoring network come from Lufft

In a call for bids for the renewal and extension of ultrasonic wind sensors in the maritime monitoring network of the German Weather Service, the ultrasonic wind sensor Ventus from the Fellbach-based manufacturer of environmental measuring equipment won the day against all competitive products. In meteorology, the DWD – Germany’s largest weather service – is… Read more »

DONG Energy’s Burbo Bank Extension project gets green light using FLiDAR wind data

DONG Energy recently decided to construct the offshore wind farm, located 8 km off the United Kingdom coast in Liverpool Bay. It is the world’s first offshore wind project to be built using energy yield calculations based on wind resource data collected from a floating lidar (FLiDAR). A FLiDAR buoy was the only device measuring… Read more »

Senvion wins new order of 18 megawatts for Italian wind farm / Senvion liefert sechs Anlagen für 18-MW-Windpark in Italien

Hamburg: Senvion SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of wind turbines, has signed a contract for the supply of six Senvion 3.0M122 turbines with PLC System’s Burgentia Energia. The turbines with a rated output of 3 Megawatts (MW) and a rotor diameter of 122 metres will… Read more »

seebaWIND changes the gearbox on an MM92 turbine for the first time

Osnabrück, 22.04.2015. The manufacturer-independent service provider seebaWIND Service GmbH replaced a gearbox using a tried and tested special construction in only three days. seebaWIND specialists replaced the gearbox of a Senvion MM92 wind turbine for the first time at the Waldhausen wind farm near Würzburg. It was the first gearbox change on this turbine type… Read more »

Ela Container Offshore Delivers Containers For The Project Gemini Owf

ELA Container Offshore GmbH delivered 7 Living Quarters and 2 Stairway Containers to Tiefbau GmbH Unterweser in Oldenburg. Each ELA Living Quarter generates living space for two people with a shared sanitary unit and is additionally equipped with high quality LCD televisions. The containers will be used for the windpark project “Gemini OWF” located 55… Read more »

Markos Composite Manufacturer En 1090 Certified

MARKOS (Polish composite manufacturer) has been EN 1090 certified by TÜV SÜD. The main production activity of MARKOS company is glass reinforced plastic production of wind turbine nacelles, hub covers, lifeboats, rescue boats, tenders, RIBs, leisure boats, technical boats and other products. However MARKOS also manufactures steel elements designed for wind turbine nacelles and steel… Read more »

CTRUK WINS ORDER FOR TWO MORE 22m COMPOSITE WORKBOATS

Colchester, 20 April 2015 – CTruk has won an order for two more of its 22m multi-purpose catamaran Wind Farm Service Vessels (WFSVs). Both will be delivered to leading offshore wind service supplier CWind this summer as the first-of-class CWind Sword continues to impress on the EnBW Baltic 2 Offshore Wind Farm in Germany. Peter… Read more »

CWind orders four AMC crew transfer vessels

CWind, a leading provider of services to the offshore wind industry, has today announced that it has placed an order for four new crew transfer vessels from Aluminium Marine Consultants (AMC), a shipbuilding and consulting company based on the Isle of Wight. The order consists of two 23m aluminium catamarans and two 26m aluminium catamarans…. Read more »

Senvion wins four UK orders with Blue Energy totalling over 45 MW

Senvion SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group and one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbines, has signed four new contracts totaling 45 megawatts (MW) with leading renewable energy developer Blue Energy. These represent the first contracts Senvion has signed with the UK developer and will involve the supply of turbines… Read more »

Siemens receives order for Grand Bend Wind Farm in Canada

• Supply and maintenance of 40 direct drive wind turbines• 100-megawatt project to supply 30,000 Canadian households with clean electricity Siemens has received an order for the supply, installation and commissioning of 40 SWT-3.2-113 direct drive wind turbines. Customer is Grand Bend Wind Limited Partnership, a partnership between Northland Power Inc., a Canadian independent power… Read more »

ECOWindS project publishes its joint action plan and call for stakeholder feedback

ECOWindS (European Clusters for Offshore Wind Servicing) project has published the first iteration of its Joint Action Plan outlining key research and innovation activities for the cost effective progression of the offshore wind servicing industry. ECOWindS is a collaborative project involving partners from Denmark, Germany, Norway and the UK that will contribute to cost reduction… Read more »

Senvion develops turbine for even more efficient energy generation

Hamburg: Senvion SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group and one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbines, launches a new wind turbine on the market in spring 2015. The turbine type Senvion 3.2M122 is particularly suitable for low-wind sites and offers higher yields compared with its predecessors thanks to its capacity… Read more »

On- and Offshore Solutions at Booth 213 in Hall 3

ELA Container Nederland and ELA Container Offshore GmbH are jointly participating at Maintenance NEXT from April 21st – 23rd, 2015. The exhibition will again take place at Ahoy Rotterdam and will be dealing with the maintenance industry of today and tomorrow, with focus on employment increase, innovation and value creation. At booth 213 in hall… Read more »

wpd windmanager and Impax agree long-term cooperation in Finland

wpd windmanager Scandinavia Oy is taking over the technical and commercial management of a portfolio of wind farms in Finland owned by a renewable energy fund managed by the British fund manager, Impax Asset Management (AIFM) Limited. The first project is the 27MW Joukhaisselkä wind farm near Sodankylä in Lapland. The first turbines of type… Read more »

Seaway Heavy Lifting

Seaway Heavy Lifting has entered into a contract with Cardon IV in Venezuela for transportation and installation of the Perla project gas production platforms complete with tie-in of the subsea infrastructure. The Perla development consists of 3 gas production platforms connected to the shore landing near Punto Fijo, through a 30″pipeline. The water depth in… Read more »

Port Of Cherbourg 1st Handling Of Industrial Cargo At The New Heavy Loading Dock Quai Des Flamands

After 2 years of construction works, the extension of the “Quai de Flamands” was finally completed this March. The port of Cherbourg now boasts a 680m linear wharf, accessible to vessels up to 14m draught. This extension was accomplished within the framework of the renewable marine energies project and is also designed to handle heavy… Read more »

Uptime International Announces New Walk To Work Contracts

Uptime International has entered into contract with Ulstein Verft AS for delivery of two active motion compensated gangways. The walk to work systems will be mounted during first half of 2016 on two new built wind turbine service operation vessels (SOV) ordered by Bernhard Schulte and their affiliate Windea Offshore. This is the first dedicated… Read more »

Prysmian New Award Worth Approximately 230 M For Offshore Wind Farm Grid Connections In Germany

Activation Of Option Within Contract Signed In May 2014 With 50Hertz Milan, 1 April 2015. Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has secured a new award by 50Hertz Offshore GmbH – a subsidiary of 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, transmission grid operator in Germany – worth approximately € 230 million to… Read more »

Siemens receives major order for 300-MW wind project in Oklahoma

• Siemens to supply and service 130 wind turbines for Kay Wind project• Onshore wind power plant to be located in Kay County, Oklahoma• Clean energy for approximately 100,000 U.S. homes Siemens has been awarded an order from Apex Clean Energy to supply, support installation and provide long-term service for 130 wind turbines for the… Read more »

SeaZip Offshore Service takes delivery of two more Twin Axe Fast Crew Suppliers

On 28 March, SeaZip Offshore Service named two new Damen Fast Crew Suppliers (FCS) 2610 at Damen Shipyards Gorinchem. The two vessels, named SeaZip 3 and SeaZip 4, will expand their owner’s offshore wind farm support capacity in the North Sea region. SeaZip 3 and SeaZip 4 can be described as the Mark II version… Read more »

UNITED HEAVY LIFT established – In best location with best views

UNITED HEAVY LIFT, a newly-established heavy lift shipping and project transportation company, founded in February 2015 by Lars Rolner, who previously held various executive positions in the heavy lift industry for over 30 years. On April 1st 2015, United Heavy Lift moved into its new Hamburg Headquarters „Am Kaiserkai 69″ – in the heart of… Read more »

Emerging Markets Drive Global Wind Growth

1 April, Istanbul. The Global Wind Energy Council launched its flagship publication the Global Wind Report: Annual Market update today in Istanbul. The report details wind power’s remarkable growth in 2014, as well as updating GWEC’s rolling 5 year market projections, which show continued growth for the rest of the decade. Led by China and… Read more »

Ecotricity announces funding evolution with Aviva Investor financing

Ecotricity has announced a £70 million refinancing deal for its green energy portfolio from leading British institutional investor Aviva Investors. The innovative refinancing deal included 60MW of operational wind and solar parks across 19 sites, including Ecotricity’s earliest project dating back to 1996. Ecotricity founder Dale Vince said the £70 million deal would not only… Read more »

DEME Concessions has entered into a partnership with Nordsee Offshore MEG I GmbH to co-develop the MEG I offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

Zwijndrecht, Belgium, 31 March 2015 – Last Thursday, 26 March 2015, DEME Concessions has entered into a partnership with Nordsee Offshore MEG I GmbH to co-develop the MEG I offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. MEG I will be one of Germany’s largest offshore wind farms and is located in the GermanBight, circa 45… Read more »

DBB Jack-Up expands into decommissioning and installation support

With DBB Jack-Up’s track record of more than 370 offshore heavy lift operations, DBB Jack-Up’s vessel crew and project teams have the required skills and experience within safe and efficient execution of offshore operations to help expand DBB Jack-Up’s business into offshore decommissioning and installation support services. For offshore wind decommissioning operations, DBB Jack-Up offers… Read more »

Tuco Marine sea trials the New 2015 ProZero 10.5m WBW Archipelago workboat.

The all-new 2015 model of Tuco Marines ProZero series, the ProZero 10.5m WBW Archipelago workboat is sea trialled in Faaborg these days. The vessel is a fast and light multipurpose workboat that features a hydraulic bow gate and a deck crane for handling cargo over the vessels side. Constructed from the flexible and unique ProZero… Read more »

SAL Heavy Lift succeeds in offshore wind energy sector: MV Lone proves as project platform for Wikinger wind farm

SAL Heavy Lift successfully completed the second phase of the Wikinger Pile Testing Campaign with DP II Class vessel MV Lone. Once again MV Lone served as perfect project platform, providing ut-most flexibility and a high degree of efficiency to our customer Bilfinger. The full test campaign comprised two phases with the tests being performed… Read more »