Category: Wind

The Danish engineering company R&D Test Systems has delivered the world’s largest dual-axis blade exciter to the US-based Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s Wind Technology Testing Center (WTTC) The development of new and larger wind turbines has never been faster than we currently experience. Hence, the rest of the supply chain needs to be ready and… Read more »

Cable-laying vessel Isaac Newton, multipurpose vessel Adhémar de Saint-Venant and a remotely-controlled cable burying vehicle of consortium Jan De Nul Group-LS Cable & System have completed the installation of the second marine cable for the offshore wind farm ‘west Alpha’. In recent weeks, more than 60 kilometres of cable was laid and buried in the… Read more »

The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has outlined plans to develop a virtual environment for better planning and maintenance of offshore wind farms, led by its Operations and Maintenance Centre of Excellence in Grimsby. The Digital Operation and Maintenance Environment (DOME), supported by £600,000 funding from Innovate UK, will provide offshore wind developers and operators… Read more »

POTTSTOWN, Pa., June 22, 2023 – VideoRay, a global leader in underwater robotic systems, is proud to welcome U.S. Navy veteran Mario Pais as the company’s new Program Manager. Pais is responsible for leading and managing a multidisciplinary team to exceed customer expectations on cost, performance and scheduling. He also manages the production, services tasks… Read more »

OEG Renewables, the newly established offshore wind focused division of the wider OEG Offshore group (OEG) today announced the acquisition of 23 Degrees Renewables (23D). 23D is a nearshore and onshore power installation contractor, specialising in HVDC / HVAC and telecom submarine cable projects, often operating in difficult and remote locations, across a range of… Read more »

Engineering researchers have won a £125k grant from renewables investor Greencoat UK Wind to develop their innovative wind turbine recycling process. The researchers, from the University of Edinburgh, are developing a technique to turn old wind turbine blades into powders that could be used to protect engineering and structural components, including new wind turbine blades…. Read more »

London, 14 June 2023. BladeBUG, a UK-based robotics company designing and developing inspection and repair robots for the wind industry, has today announced its strategic collaboration with global non-destructive testing (NDT) specialist, FORCE Technology. The joint project will see FORCE Technology produce custom NDT solutions for integration within BladeBUG’s innovative crawler robot, which is specifically… Read more »

Pembrokeshire, Wales, 13 June 2023 —Seacat Services, class-leading offshore energy support vessel operator, announces its partnership with Mainstay Marine Solutions, specialist marine engineering firm, to build the 20th vessel in its fleet, and the fifth Seacat Chartwell Ambitious design. The partnership comes amidst ongoing complexities in the UK shipbuilding market, where skill shortages and a… Read more »

RenewableUK’s latest EnergyPulse market intelligence data report shows that the UK’s pipeline of offshore wind projects has reached 97,944 MW, up from 91,287MW a year ago, while the global pipeline topped 1.23TW, an increase of nearly 400GW in the last year. The pipeline includes projects at every stage of development: operational, under construction, consented or… Read more »

London/Munich, Monday 12th June 2023 – Octopus Energy’s generation arm – who manage £6bn worth of renewable assets and energy transition projects globally – makes its fourth wind farm investment in Germany in less than a year. The new 11.4 MW wind farm is being built on a disused site of a former US air… Read more »

Propulsion and propeller solution from BERG for transformative ro-ro ship always optimizes vessel’s sustainable performance, even when not in use. Sweden, 06 June 2023: An integrated control to propeller solution from Berg Propulsion has been selected to ensure that the visionary Neoliner ro-ro vessel will always achieve optimized performance, whether it is powered by wind alone or with… Read more »

The partnership includes the exclusive and long-term charter of the two next-generation offshore installation vessels Les Alizés and Voltaire. Both can be used at RWE’s current and future offshore construction projects and, if needed, to run maintenance campaigns at its existing offshore wind farm portfolio. Philippe Hutse, CEO of Jan De Nul Offshore Energy: “We… Read more »

To meet UK government targets to grow offshore wind power capacity from 13.7 GW to 50 GW by 2030 – a 265 percent increase – global technology firm ABB estimates that a further 24 wind farms with an average 1.5 GW[i] capacity need to become operational during the next seven years. If achieved, the UK’s… Read more »

Jan De Nul Group has signed an agreement with RWE, a German energy provider, for the long-term chartering of two next-generation installation vessels for future offshore wind foundation and turbine construction. The charters are supported by a Service Agreement through which Jan De Nul Group will provide both in-house and market solutions and services, to… Read more »

The first of North Star’s new offshore wind fleet, the Grampian Tyne, has been officially named at a VIP ceremony at Equinor’s Port of Tyne base in the North East of England (UK), ahead of its early handover to the Dogger Bank Wind Farm. The traditional good luck celebration, involving the customary champagne bottle being… Read more »

SeaRenergy relies on Johanniter’s paramedics for offshore rescue operations Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe and SeaRenergy Offshore Holding GmbH & Cie. KG have entered into a framework agreement for the provision of services for offshore wind projects. The collaboration came into force on January 1st of this year and covers the provision of a comprehensive rescue concept, including the… Read more »

The ICCP-SAM is specifically designed to remotely install ICCP anodes on monopile foundations of all sizes, anywhere on the foundation and in the roughest ocean conditions. The ICCP-SAM(Subsea Assembly Method) is extremely compact and can be transported and deployed with minimal resources. The ICCP-SAM is operated remotely and maneuvers the anode underwater into the desired… Read more »

Ocean insights leader Miros releases a new unique dual sensor for measuring directional wave spectra, developed by the offshore wind industry. WaveFusionTM is the first of the new next-generation wave radar series by Miros. The directional wave radar provides more visibility and insights over the sea state in all-weather critical maritime operations including shallow waters…. Read more »

This Tuesday (6 June), the Vineyard Wind project hit another exciting milestone with the start of the installation for the monopiles, designed by Wood Thilsted. Wood Thilsted and engineering partner WSP designed the foundations which were reviewed by an independent third-party and approved by the federal government. Design of the monopile portion of the foundation… Read more »

A strategy shift in favour of renewables will bring significant economic advantages as power systems are expanded.  Speaking last week at the West Africa Energy Transition Forum in Dakar in the presence of key energy decision-makers, experts from Wärtsilä shared insights on the impact renewables will have on power system cost, flexibility, and stability in… Read more »

NKT is finalizing the power cable contract for the first major offshore wind farm in Poland NKT will soon sign the order for a 230 kV AC high-voltage export power cable system for the Polish project Baltic Power Offshore Wind Park with a capacity of up to 1.2 GW. NKT is finalizing the contract for offshore… Read more »

All the way back in 1860, Abraham Lincoln referred to the potential of wind power. “Of all the forces of nature, I should think the wind contains the largest amount of motive power,” he said. Now, wind turbines are running across the globe, generating renewable energy for millions. But what keeps them going? Here, Andrew… Read more »

Covestro, a leading manufacturer of high-quality polymer materials and their components, has signed a 90 megawatt (MW) virtual power purchase agreement (vPPA) with Ørsted, a clean energy leader in the U.S. market, headquartered in Denmark. With various agreements in place, Covestro fosters the growth of renewable energy projects around the world. This newest 15-year agreement… Read more »

Wood Thilsted is delighted to announce it has been recognised for its market leading advisory work by winning Technical Advisory of the year last night at the Wind Investment Awards 2023. The Technical Advisory award is given for innovative solutions for projects over the last 12 months and was received in recognition on Wood Thilsted’s… Read more »

With a strong background, Dennis Naldal Jensen enters the position of Chief Technology Officer at Blue World Technologies. Dennis will take over from Co-founder Mads Bang, who will return to Aalborg University in the position of Innovation Director. In the role of CTO, Dennis will, as part of the company’s corporate management, lead the technology… Read more »

In 2022, the global economy was confronted with a turbulent environment. COVID-19 maintained a strong presence in Asia in the first semester, albeit in a less disruptive way. However, thanks to our operational knowledge, we managed to put our (offshore) activities in the region on the right track. This resulted in a timely high-quality delivery… Read more »

RWE is strengthening its position in the German offshore market. The company has become the sole owner of a 1.6-gigawatt (GW) cluster of offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. The Nordseecluster, consisting of four sites located north of the island of Juist, was formerly co-developed with Canadian company Northland Power, which has now… Read more »

Osbit, the offshore wind technology company has established, and is now operating, a Netherlands business entity and office. The company has undertaken the move to further grow its local offering and capabilities for its Dutch customer base. The newly established entity, Osbit B.V, is now operational from the business’s new Dutch office, based in Rotterdam…. Read more »

Wood Thilsted’s co-founding partner and CEO, Alastair Muir Wood, has today been named to the 2023 Wind Power List. The Wind Power list showcases the top 100 people that have had the greatest impact in the wind sector globally in the past 18 months.  Alongside Christian Leblanc Thilsted, he has created Wood Thilsted, a design… Read more »

The Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) has today (May 24) announced that 15 UK businesses, seven based in Scotland, have secured a share of £2 million Innovation Grant funding. The selected companies will be supported by OWGP on projects that could improve the reliability of offshore wind and help decarbonise its operations. Responding Claire, Chief Executive… Read more »