Category: Wind

An innovative technology acceleration programme that has raised £9 million for offshore wind entrepreneurs and attracted international industry sponsors, opens for new applications today (Wednesday). The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s national Launch Academy has been running since 2019 and 20 companies have progressed through the nine-month programme that focuses on accelerating technology within the… Read more »

Vattenfall has taken a big step forward to delivering the Norfolk Boreas Wind Farm and has today signed a contract with LS Cable System and DEME Group to deliver the export cables that will connect the wind farm to National Grid. The consortium is also selected as the preferred bidder for the export cable packages… Read more »

TenneT has awarded a consortium consisting of Semco Maritime and SeaRenergy a 5-year service  contract for mechanical & electro-technical integrated maintenance of offshore grid connection systems, which comprise offshore and onshore installations in the German and Dutch sectors. The contract covers  2023-2028 and initiates the strategic partnership in the consortium.  Following the turnkey construction of… Read more »

Tidal stream energy could plummet below £80 per MWh by 2035 if current opportunity is realised, a new industry-leading report has predicted. The ‘Cost Reduction Pathway of Tidal Stream Energy in the UK and France’ report, produced by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult as part of the Interreg FCE funded TIGER project, documents the… Read more »

Dutch heave compensation specialist Seaqualize has signed its first contract for their newly developed offshore lifting device: the Heave Chief 1100. DEME Offshore US will deploy the HC1100 on the first commercial scale wind farm installation project in the USA, Vineyard Wind, to transfer delicate wind turbine components to and from heaving supply vessels. The… Read more »

Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City – International design, engineering and advisory company Aurecon has appointed Lorenzo Claveri as Wind and Renewables Leader and Chanon Mahisanan as Senior Engineer, Power Generation to bolster its renewables capabilities in Southeast Asia. These two appointments are part of Aurecon’s continued investment and expansion across Asia, signifying the company’s commitment… Read more »

Vietnam, 12th October 2022 — ONYX Insight, the independent engineering and data analytics consultancy for the global wind industry, has begun work on its first offshore wind project in Vietnam, in partnership with Korean energy investment manager ST International (formerly Samtan Co. Ltd). A five-year contract to use ONYX’s AI HUB digital O&M platform for… Read more »

Liebherr has developed a lubricant, Duro Wind PBG (durable pitch bearing grease), for use in pitch and azimuth bearings of wind turbines. The grease ensures very low wear, and thus longer bearing life. Moreover, this effective lubrication shows outstanding results in terms of corrosion protection, be it moisture corrosion or false brinelling. Duro Wind PBG… Read more »

KenzFigee, a well-established lifting and service specialist of high end equipment for the marine, offshore and wind energy industry, officially launches its first up-tower crane solution for offshore application at the WindEnergy Conference & Exhibition in Hamburg. After an extensive development process, KenzFigee launches its first generation up-tower crane for offshore application. This GenHookTM offshore… Read more »

RP Global today revealed its new brand outlook and launched its new website. RP Global is a large-scale developer with 35+ years of experience in the renewable energy sector. Its new brand colours, blue and green, have been selected to represent not only stability, but also the sustainable energy RP Global generates throughout its operations…. Read more »

Latest update from Fraser of Allander Institute finds the industry also generated an estimated £5.6bn in output and supported more than £2.5bn in gross value added (GVA) Calls for UK and Scottish Governments to significantly improve data available on renewable energy sector in time for 2023 report Scotland’s renewable energy industry and its supply chain… Read more »

Ventus Group has launched TripleCMAS, a product that converts the rotor and swept area into a condition monitoring and alarm system. Launched on a global scale simultaneously at Wind Energy Hamburg in Europe and at the Renewable Energy India Expo 2022, TripleCMAS offers a new way of improving asset health and performance management thanks to… Read more »

04/10 October 2022: COWI, a leading international engineering consulting group, has been selected by Statkraft as owner’s engineer for the North Irish Sea Array (NISA) offshore wind farm. COWI will support Statkraft in preparing an auction application for the first offshore competition under the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (ORESS-1) in Ireland. COWI will be responsible… Read more »

Diana Haagen assumed her position as project director of HUSUM WIND on 1 October| Trade fair launches web portal in a new design HUSUM | 6 October 2022. HUSUM WIND, leading technology trade fair for renewable energy for the German market, has a new management. Diana Haagen started as project director for HUSUM WIND on… Read more »

Barge Master successfully develops motion-compensating solutions for the off-shore industry. By means of machines developed in Rotterdam, it is still possible to work accurately and safely on the open sea with significant wave motions. Due to their recent innovation on their existing technology, the solution now also offers great added value for the construction of offshore wind… Read more »

A £3 billion joint venture between TotalEnergies (51%) and SSE Renewables (49%), Seagreen, located approx. 17 miles offshore, will be Scotland’s largest and the world’s deepest fixed bottom offshore wind farm. It will provide enough green energy to power more than 1.6 million homes. V164-10 MW turbines have been positioned on each of the 114… Read more »

Sulzer Schmid, a Swiss company pioneering UAV technology for wind rotor blade inspections, announced today that it has completed its fourth successive European inspection campaign for Vestas, covering 4,000 wind turbines in seven countries across Northern and Central Europe. The collected data gives Vestas and their customers actionable insights on the health of their fleet…. Read more »

Waterworks Offshore Concepts’ Germany office is proud to have acted as the sole sell-side advisor in the transaction between UK-based HST Marine Holdings and Purus Marine. This deal perfectly supports the growth ambitions at HST Marine while enabling Purus Wind‘s platform model to thrive on its way to become a market leader in CTVs, SOVs… Read more »

Vos Prodect is pleased to announce a contract awarded by TKF to supply the low Hang-off systems for the Hollandse Kunst Noord (HKN) offshore wind farm. The delivery of the systems is planned for the end of Q4 2022. The 125 km2 wind park is located 18.5 km out off the coast, near Egmond aan… Read more »

VEJLE, Denmark, 8 September 2022 – Blade root damage to older wind turbines previously could only be repaired at the manufacturing site, requiring expensive logistics and long downtime, which often left operators with no choice but to purchase a new blade or scrap the entire turbine. With its new portable tool developed to efficiently replace… Read more »

ArcVera Renewables, a leading provider of consulting and technical services for wind, solar and energy storage projects, confirms the appointment of Dan Bernadett as its new Global Director of Wind Engineering. Mr. Bernadett comes to ArcVera Renewables from UL Renewables, and before that AWS Truepower, where he held titles such as Chief Engineer and Global… Read more »

eologix, Austrian market leader for ice detection on wind turbines, develops sensors that measure directly on the rotor blade surface, making renewable energies even more attractive. With new international investors, novel applications and internationalization are now to be driven forward. Graz, Austria: Renewable energies can ensure a secure energy future. The Graz-based green tech eologix… Read more »

North German state presents itself at trade fair 2023 with numerous companies   HUSUM | 8 September 2022. Lower Saxony has been named the official partner state of HUSUM WIND 2023. The federal state, intensively committed to a “green” transformation of the energy system and the economy, is once again represented in Husum along with a… Read more »

The wind energy of the future  Kitepower’s ‘mobile wind turbines’ speak to the imagination. A kind of tether connects a sea container to the kite. The kite turns in a crosswind figure of eight pattern, which produces energy. In the future, one container will be able to provide enough electricity for up to 150 households. … Read more »

Hamburg, 7th September 2022  Due to the current development in the offshore supply vessel market with increasing vessel demand  in the North Sea and the first generation of Offshore Wind PSV being no longer available, all wind  farm operators in the German North Sea are facing great challenges in securing the supply for their  assets… Read more »

Equinor has today applied to the Planning Inspectorate for permission to build extensions to both the Sheringham Shoal and the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farms, both of which are situated off the North Norfolk coast. Equinor’s Development Consent Order (DCO) submission for the Sheringham Shoal Extension Project (SEP) and the Dudgeon Extension Project (DEP) comprises a… Read more »

Jan De Nul Group successfully completed the installation of the 47 jacket foundations and 188 pin piles, the 4 export and 47 inter array cables on the Formosa 2 Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan. With the achievement of these major milestones, Jan De Nul brings its EPCI scope onto the final straight towards completion in… Read more »

Still the best, but with a new name! GeoCablePro GeoCable has now been renamed GeoCablePro and has for many decades provided precise subsea cable data to customers world wide’ Manipulate data and plan cable routes with full access to the GeoCable data set using your GIS software GeoCablePro is only available on a subscription basis… Read more »

Nottingham, UK, September 7th, 2022 – ONYX Insight, a leading provider of data analytics and engineering expertise to the global wind industry, announces the opening of an Advanced Sensing and Engineering laboratory at its UK headquarters in Nottingham today. This is following the businesses recent announcement reporting exponential international growth over the last 6 years, as… Read more »

The First Minister today (September 6) announced she is committed to publishing the final Onshore Wind Policy Statement and a Vision for Onshore Wind in Scotland, which will set out how 12GW of onshore wind can be developed. This commitment to onshore wind mirrors Scottish Renewables’ earlier call for an Onshore Wind Sector Deal which… Read more »

Polling commissioned by RenewableUK shows there is overwhelming public support for building new wind and solar farms to lower bills and tackle the cost of living crisis. The polling data, published by Survation, shows that 77% of people throughout the UK think the Government should use new wind and solar farms to reduce electricity bills,… Read more »

Global designer and manufacturer of polymeric repair and protection systems, Belzona, has announced the appointments of Charli Yu Walton and Fred Lu as Corporate Development Director (China) and Technical Director (China), respectively. The appointments follow the establishment of Belzona Molecular Technology (Nanjing) Ltd in 2019, as a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE), making the next… Read more »

Next generation people-technology transformation specialist, SeaBot Maritime, has announced two strategic appointments to its executive team.    Recently unveiling its new identity, reflecting its position at the forefront of maritime sector people-technology integration, these appointments further cement SeaBot Maritime in its growth strategy.   As Head of Training and Competency, Jon Feaver leads the curation, development and… Read more »

Portsmouth, 25th August 2022 – Innovative simulation-driven marine engineering consultancy, BAR Technologies, held the official launch of its first BARTech 30 crew transfer vessel (CTV) from its premises on The Camber, Portsmouth, yesterday.  BAR Technologies, Chair, Martin Whitmarsh – also Chair of the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership – led his BAR Technologies colleagues to officially… Read more »