Hamburg/Germany, 25 July 2014 – As part of the installation phase at one of Africa’s largest wind farms Ashegoda in Ethiopia, DNV GL has inspected wind turbines of the French manufacturer Vergnet. DNV GL confirmed the compliance of the installed wind turbines with DNV GL’s A-Design Assessment. The wind farm shall help to reduce the… Read more »
• Further step in ramping up serial production of innovative offshore wind turbine rated at 6 megawatts• Tested and certified for 25 years lifetime Siemens Energy has obtained type certification by certifying body DNV GL for the company’s innovative D6 offshore wind turbine. The model Siemens SWT-6.0-154 is equipped with a modern direct drive generator,… Read more »
Romax Technology has provided Europe’s largest renewable energy company Statkraft with end of warranty inspection services and maintenance training for its Sheringham Shoal wind farm site. Operated by Statkraft and jointly owned with the Norwegian gas and oil company Statoil, Sheringham Shoal is one of the UK’s largest wind farms with 88 Siemens 3.6MW turbines…. Read more »
Dutch offshore companies realised a unique operation in the North Sea. Under the direction of Seaway Heavy Lifting, one of the world’s largest convertor platforms – a ‘power socket at sea’ – is installed to the west of Sylt, the East Frisian Island. Siemens built the SylWin alpha platform. It is so large and heavy… Read more »
• Two significant milestones for German offshore grid expansion• First four North Sea platforms from Siemens will transmit wind-based electricity to supply around three million German households• Successive commissioning between 2nd half of 2014 and 1st half of 2015 Siemens has installed a fourth offshore platform in the North Sea, completing an important stage for… Read more »
• Publicly-operated wind farm to use modern, direct-drive systems• Option “Reactive Power at No Wind” for grid stabilization• Service contract for a term of 20 years Siemens Energy has secured an order for a total capacity of 36 megawatts (MW) in Nordfriesland. Siemens is to supply twelve direct-drive wind turbines, eleven model SWT-3.0-113 and one… Read more »
Beijing/China, 14 July 2014 – DNV GL and the wind turbine blade manufacturer Sinoma signed a partnership agreement for certification of Sinoma’s products to improve the reliability and quality of blades manufactured in China. Certification ensures that turbines that use blades produced by Sinoma comply to international safety and reliability standards throughout their lifespan, in… Read more »
– 16 commercial offshore wind farms are under construction totalling 4.9 GW of power capacity. – 224 new offshore wind turbines, totalling 781 megawatts (MW), were fully grid connected in Europe during the first six months of 2014 – 25% less than during the same period in 2013 (1,045 MW). – 282 wind turbines have… Read more »
CWind Ltd, a leading provider of services to the offshore wind industry, is once again among the winners at the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2014. The Gold award in the prestigious annual scheme run by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) was presented during a ceremony at the ExCeL London,… Read more »
Senvion SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group, the world’s fifth-largest* manufacturer of wind turbines, has announced the official registration of the Dutch subsidiary, Senvion Netherlands B.V., at an official inauguration ceremony for the wind turbine manufacturer’s service base in Nijkerk in the Netherlands. Senvion already has over 150 megawatts (MW) installed capacity… Read more »
Optimum functionality with the smallest possible dimensions – the entire product range of HOLGER CLASEN GmbH & Co. KG based in Hamburg is geared towards these demands of installation and service engineers from the wind energy industry. The trade fair innovation that the owner-operated company now presents at WindEnergy 2014 also uncompromisingly puts this claim… Read more »
• Siemens wind turbines have capacity to power approximately three million average U.S. households Siemens Energy has reached the significant milestone of ten gigawatts (GW) of installed wind power capacity in the Americas. Siemens has installed more than 5,600 wind turbines in Canada, the U.S. and in South America, including Peru, Chile and Brazil. This… Read more »
WindEnergy Hamburg – The global on- & offshore expoat the Hamburg Fair site from 23 to 26 September 2014 Hamburg, 7 July 2014/ WEHH6WindEnergy Hamburg runs from 23 September, giving the global wind industry a four-day forum to present its innovative technologies and services. It features some 1,000 exhibitors from all parts of the world,… Read more »
· Renewable Energy Association (REA) recognises the Energy Efficiency Financing Scheme (EEF) with “Finance Product of the Year”· Darren Riva, Head of Energy Efficiency Financing at SFS in the UK, appointed as Chair of the REA’s Asset Finance Forum Siemens Financial Services (SFS) has been awarded “Finance Product of the Year” at the annual British… Read more »
• Onshore wind power plant in the harbor of Antwerp• First phase of “Wind aan de Stroom” project will consist of 11 direct-drive wind turbines Siemens Energy has secured its first wind power contract in Belgium with an order for the first phase of the Wind aan de Stroom project on the left bank of… Read more »
LEOSPHERE, the world leader in LiDAR technology, has announced today the validation of its patented Flow Complexity Recognition (FCR) system upgrade to deliver wind measurement data of superior accuracy on complex wind sites. The strong performance of the FCR-upgraded WINDCUBE V2 LiDAR was field-tested and validated by DTU, on ERS’ 48 MW wind farm located… Read more »
WindEnergy Hamburg – The global on- & offshore expo at the Hamburg Fair site from 23 to 26 September 2014 Hamburg, 1 July 2014/ WEHH-UK WindEnergy Hamburg will be held from 23 to 26 September, attracting energy experts from all parts of the world. Some 1,000 exhibitors from the global wind industry will present their innovations,… Read more »
Hamburg: : Senvion SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group, the world’s fifth-largest* manufacturer of wind turbines, installed the first offshore turbines for Nordsee Ost last week. The RWE offshore wind farm is located approximately 35 kilometres north of the island of Heligoland and is equipped with a total of 48 model 6.2M126… Read more »
97 stiff boom cranes for Gode Wind 1 and 2 Continued success of proven stiff boom crane range One liferaft davit for each transformer station PALFINGER MARINE has won the order for 97 PF 8000 cranes, which has been developed especially for the wind farms Gode Wind 1 and 2. The wind farms are located… Read more »
The team behind wind power software Breeze has built a free interactive infographic map showing the cumulative installed wind power capacity per country and continent from 1981-2013. Drag the slider or push play to see the how the global wind power capacity distrubtion changes between nations over time. It might come as a surprise how… Read more »
WINDFORCE trade fair and conference draw to a successful close Bremen, 19 June, 2014. WINDFORCE 2014, the central event of the offshore wind industry, draws to a close today on a very positive note. Over three full days, the 14 topic sessions of the conference brought together over 500 national and international experts. At the… Read more »
CWind delivering, project management, manpower and logistics at Westermost Rough CWind, a leading provider of services to the offshore wind industry, has been awarded a contract by Technip Offshore Wind, for the provision of cable pull-in services, complete with crew transfer vessel, to transport CWind technicians on site and support the cable pull-in. Building on… Read more »
Moventas has developed a special gearbox lubrication upgrade for customers operating WinWind made WWD3 turbines, to extend their lifetime considerably. The first one of these projects will be carried out for Innopower in the Ajos wind park in Kemi, Northern Finland. This summer, Moventas carries out a lubrication upgrade for ten turbines in the Ajos… Read more »
Sea-keeping Tests Support Development of ECOTLP Floating Concrete Tension Leg (TLP) Platform for Offshore Deep Water WTGS Amsterdam, The Netherlands June 11, 2014 -Mocean/DBD Systems/Ewind was selected by Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) to conduct a 2 week long wave tank tests on a unique TLP foundation for deep water sites suitable for the Siemens… Read more »
Ammonit Measurement GmbH (Ammonit), leading supplier of high quality measurement equipment for wind and solar resource assessment and monitoring, complements its remote sensing portfolio with the wind lidar technology ZephIR. As ‘Trusted Service Provider’, Ammonit supplies ZephIR Lidar via its global market channels. By implementing ZephIR technology, Ammonit’s customers benefit from accurate affordable wind data… Read more »
DNV GL’s FORCE report (For Reduced Cost of Energy) identifies cost of energy savings of at least 10% through the integration of four market-ready technologies. Cost savings of 10% equate to a conservative estimate of over €1Bn[1] in NPV terms over the next decade. The cost of energy produced from offshore wind is around 50%… Read more »
The latest offshore wind support vessel to leave the CTruk production line in Essex made straight for Southampton and is currently on show at berth V25 at annual commercial marine exhibition and forum, Seawork. Ocean Warrior, a brand new 18.5m advanced composite twin-hull CTruk 20T MPC was officially named during an informal ceremony at the… Read more »
Leading offshore wind solutions provider CWind’s successful boat share scheme has to date attracted investment from different groups within the maritime community, with commercial fishermen and superyacht skippers among current partners. Now, a group of three ex-Royal Marines is set to invest, in partnership with CWind, in the next generation of offshore wind support vessel… Read more »
German Renewables Shipbrokers will present its ship and service portfolio at booth A30 at the Windforce trade fair in Bremen. Hamburg-based shipbroker GRS welcomes all visitors to booth A30 in hall 5 at Windforce 2014. The shipbroker team will be at your disposal there for all questions concerning offshore tonnage and equipment for your renewable… Read more »
Leading renewable energy consultancy, SgurrEnergy, has completed technical due diligence and resource assessments for GE Energy Financial Services’ equity investment in two Irish onshore wind farms. SgurrEnergy conducted the lender’s engineer and wind analysis services for the 17.1MW Acres onshore wind farm in County Donegal and the 34.2MW Barranafaddock onshore wind farm in County Waterford…. Read more »
The 40 AREVA M5000 turbines for the German Trianel wind farm Borkum have been installed successfully by Trianel in the German North Sea. Located 52 kilometers off the German coast, this wind farm has a 200 MW capacity and covers an area of 56 km2. “This key milestone demonstrates AREVA’s expertise in the offshore wind… Read more »
The online trading platform WINDSOURCING.COM displayed a five-fold increase in the range of wind energy technology and services it has on offer for the second quarter of 2014: from 2,300 to more than 12,000 wind energy products currently available. This makes it the largest sales portal for wind energy products globally. “We are particularly pleased… Read more »
REN 21’s Renewables 2014 Global Status Report launched Now 95 emerging economies nurture renewable energy growth through supportive policies, up six-fold from just 15 countries in 2005; Renewable electricity capacity achieves new record level, jumps 8.3% in 2013, accounts for more than 56% of net additions to global power capacity; renewables meet almost one-fifth of… Read more »
Composite high-speed craft designer and builder CTruk has appointed shipbuilding industry veteran Peter McIntosh OBE to succeed Andy White as chairman. The former executive director of VT Group PLC has extensive experience of the marine and defence industries and will steer the innovative company through its next stage of growth. Andy will remain on the… Read more »
• Installed capacity in Klixbüll rises from 15 to 39 megawatts• Reactive Power at No Wind to stabilize the grid Siemens Energy has been awarded an order for the community wind power plant Klixbüll in Schleswig-Holstein. Eight modern wind turbines with direct drive technology and a 3 megawatts (MW) capacity each will be installed at… Read more »
Zwijndrecht 26. May 2014 – Yesterday GeoSea finalized the installation of the foundations for the Westermost Rough (UK) offshore wind farm project. This DONG Energy project consists of 35 wind turbine positions 9 km from the coast near Hull in the north east of England, UK. As main contractor for the foundations GeoSea has been… Read more »