Category: Wind

Walk to Work vessel Kasteelborg put into service

DELFZIJL – Today the second walk-to-work ship of Wagenborg Offshore was put into service under the name ‘Kasteelborg’. The vessel has been converted from a standard offshore supply vessel to this specialized walk-to-work vessel in just 12 weeks at the Royal Niestern Sander shipyard. A performance that both NAM / Shell UK and Wagenborg are… Read more »

Vaisala Bolsters Its Global Remote Sensing Support Network

Measurement expert signs a string of regional partnerships and launches new online data platform to facilitate global adoption of the Triton Wind Profiler Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, has signed a succession of new regional partnerships in response to rising global demand for its advanced wind measurement system, the Triton Wind… Read more »

New software suite for the offshore wind market

With the wind energy market expanding strongly, there’s a great future ahead for new IT solution SITE, specially designed to improve employee safety and streamline logistics at offshore wind farms At offshore wind farms many kilometres from land, where wind and weather conditions are often extreme, employee safety is of paramount importance. To help deal… Read more »

Successful Customer Product training for “SikaCor® SW 1000 RepaCor” in Hamburg

On Wednesday, 21 February, 2018, WINDSOURCING.COM together with Sika Deutschland GmbH welcomed customers in Hamburg to the product training for the new corrosion protection coating SikaCor® RepaCor SW 1000. SikaCor® RepaCor SW 1000 was developed in a research project, and promises a significantly simpler, faster and more economical on-site repair of wind turbines. As a… Read more »

Bureau Veritas launches world-wide e-certification

Latest addition in end-to-end integrated digital platform for classification Electronic certificates issued in lieu of paper certificates following agreement with both the flag administration and the ship manager Once issued, BV e-certificates are sent by email to the recipients agreed with the ship manager and uploaded to both the VeriSTAR Info website and the My… Read more »

Successful Customer Product training for “SikaCor® SW 1000 RepaCor” in Hamburg

On Wednesday, 21 February, 2018, WINDSOURCING.COM together with Sika Deutschland GmbH welcomed customers in Hamburg to the product training for the new corrosion protection coating SikaCor® RepaCor SW 1000. SikaCor® RepaCor SW 1000 was developed in a research project, and promises a significantly simpler, faster and more economical on-site repair of wind turbines. As a… Read more »

New research highlights up to €82,000 million of opportunities in the wave, tidal and offshore wind energy supply chain.

Tackling corrosion issues and developing new materials in the wave, tidal and offshore wind sectors across Europe could save up to €84,000 million for developers and create up to € 82,000 million of supply chain opportunities by 2050, according to two new reports published today. Commissioned by the NeSSIE project, the reports investigated the economic… Read more »

PortX will optimize port asset utilization with OptiPort

Kotug International and Marana set up Joint Venture PortX Kotug International established a new Joint Venture with Marana, called PortX Holding BV, based in Rotterdam. Under the name OptiPort, the JV will provide optimization solutions for in-port vessel operations (like towing, bunkering and similar activities). Global resources and expertise of Kotug International and the maritime… Read more »

Alternate and Regenerate

• The C-Type range from Mecc Alte will reimagine the heart of power delivery for OEMs with compact, accessible and highly configurable alternator power technology • The leading independent producer of alternators will launch its C-Type series as it looks set to redefine standards Mecc Alte will unveil its next generation of alternators, the C-Type… Read more »

Wind power: TÜV Rheinland to surveil Senvion rotor blade production

Production surveillance for rotor blades / offshore wind farm “Trianel Windpark Borkum II” / follow-up order for TÜV Rheinland / completion planned for 2019 Cologne/Hamburg, February 28, 2018. TÜV Rheinland has been commissioned to perform comprehensive testing on behalf of Senvion, a manufacturer of wind turbines. The experts will surveil the production of rotor blades… Read more »

Eneco Chooses Greenbyte for Data Management

Eneco, headquartered in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is operating in the field of sustainable energy. Eneco takes on a leading role in the energy transition by connecting partners and customers so that they can work together on smart energy solutions and innovative products and services. After intensive market research and consultation, Eneco decided to implement Breeze into its wind farms. The Greenbyte services will be used by Eneco to monitor and optimize about 1 GW of wind energy. “We found Breeze to… Read more »

Siemens Gamesa signs an agreement to supply up to 1 GW in Turkey

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has signed an agreement securing the right to implement up to 1 GW in Turkey. The company is part of the consortium, which also includes the local infrastructure company Kalyon Enerji and the Turkish investor Turkerler Holding, which was awarded capacity in the country’s first wind auction, held in August. Under… Read more »

Peikko delivers rock foundations to the Marker wind park in south-east Norway

Peikko Group’s Norwegian subsidiary Peikko Norge AS, has received a substantial order to deliver rock foundation technology to the Marker Wind Park, located in the Ørje area of south-east Norway. Peikko will deliver all the steel components for all 15 foundations at the wind farm. The deliveries comprise FATBAR Rock Anchors, tower adapter plates, drilling… Read more »

Ingeteam wins control center contract with leading Mexican renewable energy company Zuma Energía

Ingeteam, an independent global supplier of electrical conversion and turbine control equipment, announced today that it has been awarded a substantial contract by leading Mexican renewable energy developer Zuma Energía to provide a state-of-the-art control center for its operational wind farm in Oaxaca, PE Ingenio. The platform will collect all the relevant information on the infrastructure of… Read more »

Jumbo Completes Project for the Arkona Offshore Wind Farm

Earlier this year Jumbo completed their project for the Arkona offshore wind farm (E.ON and Statoil). The entire project involves the construction of a 385MW offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. Van Oord contracted Jumbo for the installation of the 60 transition pieces. The vessel chosen to tackle the job was the MV… Read more »

Winterthur Gas & Diesel confirms Wärtsilä and CSSC Marine Service as global service providers

To extend their global service offerings, Winterthur Gas & Diesel (WinGD), recently signed agreements with Wärtsilä Services and CSSC Marine Service Co. Ltd. (CMS) as Authorized Global Service Providers. With these new agreements, valid from January 1st, 2018, both providers can now offer support for all two-stroke engine brands from Winterthur Gas & Diesel, namely… Read more »

Senvion wins 101,2 MW EPC project from ReNew Power The Bhuwad wind energy project is the first contract in the country

Hamburg / Mumbai / New Delhi: Senvion, a leading global manufacturer of wind turbines, has been awarded a 101,2 MW project from ReNew Power – one of India’s largest clean energy companies, to deliver the Bhuwad Wind Project (part of Round 2 bidding from Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited – a company of the… Read more »

Siemens Gamesa signs a new contract for the supply of 36 MW in Bosnia and Herzegovina

•   The company will install 18 of its G97-2.0 MW turbines at the Jelovaca wind farm and will maintain them for five years. Siemens Gamesa has secured a new order in Bosnia and Herzegovina from F.L. Wind, one of country’s independent power producers (IPP), for the supply of 36 MW. This is the company’s second project… Read more »

Offshore CCU Specialist Cargostore Worldwide Trading Ltd. opens container depot in Eemshaven, NL.

Cargostore Worldwide Trading Ltd have opened a container depot in Eemshaven to meet the demands of their customers in Northern Europe. Utilising DHSS yard space, the independent depot is testimony to the rapid growth the company has experienced, necessitating the expansion into Holland to supply offshore equipment efficiently. The depot enables Cargostore to manage a… Read more »

SMST gangway assists Jacket installation by Olympic Taurus

Olympic Subsea ASA has rewarded SMST a rental contract for their motion compensated gangway, including stacking modules for working on height. The Telescopic Access Bridge M-Series will be installed on board of Olympics’ Multipurpose Offshore Vessel, Olympic Taurus, to assist the Jacket installations in the East Anglia ONE Offshore windfarm. Crossing from vessel to windfarm… Read more »

First foundation for the offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak installed in Denmark

This weekend, the first Gravity Based Foundation for the offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak was installed in Denmark, another milestone in this project. It concerns a 8,000 tonnes GBF which was floated off the semisubmersible barge and towed to the installation location where the heavy lift vessel Rambiz in combination with an in-house designed ballast… Read more »

Nordex scores once again in Greece

Hamburg, 19 February 2018. The Nordex Group has received a contract for the construction of two neighbouring wind farms in Avlaki, Εtoloakarnania, Greece, where the manufacturer will be installing 16 wind turbines of the N117/2400 and N100/2500 series. Deliverables include the servicing of the turbines over a period of 15 years. To take care ideally… Read more »

Wood supports South Plains Wind Farm

Wood recently supported TerraForm Power with power performance testing (PPT) at South Plains I Wind Farm located near Lockney, Texas. The 200 MW site, which comprises 100 Vestas V100 wind turbine generators (WTGs), has the capacity to generate enough energy for approximately 60,000 households. Wood was appointed to undertake power performance testing as part of… Read more »

Greencoat Renewables to Acquire Lisdowney Wind Farm for €22.5 million

Dublin, London, 16 February 2018 |  Greencoat Renewables PLC (“Greencoat Renewables”) the Irish renewable infrastructure company, today announces the acquisition of Lisdowney, a 9.2MW wind farm situated in County Kilkenny, for a total consideration of €22.5 million. Lisdowney wind farm consists of four Enercon E82 turbines. The wind farm was commissioned in November 2016 and… Read more »

The factory roll-out of the first nacelle for the 309 MW Rentel Offshore Wind farm is a fact.

The first complete D7 nacelle built by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy in their new production facility in Cuxhaven, was rolled out of the manufacturing plant on the 15th of February. In this new facility, the different parts of the nacelle are assembled in separate production lines for the generator, hub and back end. They are… Read more »

Innovative Ramboll wind design receives German Renewables Award

The offshore wind farm project Arkona in the German Baltic Sea has received the German Renewables Award presented by the Clusteragentur Erneuerbare Energien, based in Hamburg. The project got the Innovation Product of the Year award for a newly developed method to protect the steel foundations of offshore wind turbines from corrosion. Ramboll has developed… Read more »

Siemens Gamesa unveils its 3-year strategic plan, with the L3AD2020 program, focused on profitable growth and €2 billion of savings, designed to achieve global leadership

Today, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) presented its 2018-2020 strategic plan, designed to deliver global leadership. It sets the foundations in 2018 for sustainable and profitable growth in the years ahead. Against a backdrop of increasing competition, Siemens Gamesa expects to outperform the market on sales while maintaining strict balance-sheet control. With this target in… Read more »

Jan De Nul Group to install wind turbine generators in Germany

Jan De Nul Group will install 32 Wind Turbine Generators (WTG), each with a capacity of 6.33 MW, for the Offshore Wind Farm Trianel Borkum II in Germany. The new project has been awarded by Senvion GmbH and will feature wind turbines of the type Senvion 6.3M152. The project also includes the offshore mechanical completion… Read more »

Ostend (BE) | RENTEL NV reports first shipment of the components to Ostend

Today the first Wind turbine components for the Rentel wind farm have arrived on the REBO Site in Ostend. Two blade sets and six top towers are the first components that have been shipped with the Rotra Mare from Esbjerg to Ostend. In the coming weeks more components will follow from Aalborg (blades), Esbjerg (blades… Read more »

Solutions successfully performed first cable loadout for client, more to follow

Oceanteam Solutions, in cooperation with Blue Offshore, has successfully executed the first cable loadout at client’s premises and more loadouts will follow later this year. The cable was transferred from client’s cable basket to Oceanteam’s storage solution: a barge equipped with a turntable that can hold up to 5300 tonne of cable, a loading tower… Read more »

Wind farm Hohe See relies on WINDEAcare

Emden. The holistic acute – and emergency medical care concept WINDEAcare remains the leading product for the construction and operation of offshore wind farms. EnBW and the Canadian energy company Enbridge Inc. – with their new offshore wind farm Hohe See – also put their trust in the comprehensive expertise of the partners of this… Read more »

Siemens Gamesa to supply 1,386 MW to Ørsted at the world’s largest offshore wind farm, in the UK

• It marks the largest-ever offshore project in the history of Siemens Gamesa, the world leader in the segment • The company will install its SG 8.0-167 DD turbines with power boost functionality at the Hornsea Project Two offshore facility located 89 km off the east coast of England Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has… Read more »

Jack-up vessel Seafox 5 departs Damen Verolme Rotterdam ready for the next generation of wind turbines

The 151-metre, self-propelled, DP2 jack-up rig Seafox 5 has left the Damen Verolme Rotterdam (DVR) shipyard following a four-month refit in which the boom of its main crane was lengthened to prepare it for a new contract, along with a range of maintenance and other upgrade works. Seafox 5 is now equipped to undertake offshore… Read more »

Greensmith Energy storage technology selected to deliver reliable solar power in Massachusetts

Greensmith Energy, a part of the Wärtsilä technology group, was selected by Origis Energy USA to provide advanced energy storage integrated with solar photovoltaic (PV) in Sterling, Massachusetts, USA. The resultant hybrid system will allow the PV installation to better handle peak loads and provide secure, reliable electricity supply to the Municipality and State. Greensmith… Read more »

Ørsted appoints Hobson & Porter to build the world biggest O&M hub for Offshore wind in Grimsby

Construction of the UK’s largest offshore wind operations and maintenance hub is now underway. Ørsted has appointed UK construction firm Hobson & Porter as the principal contractor for a multi-million-pound extension to its offshore wind operations centre at the Royal Docks in Grimsby. The Ørsted East Coast Hub, as it will be known, will be… Read more »

Rovco Crowned New Enterprise of the Year at Subsea UK Awards

Subsea services firm, Rovco was crowned the New Enterprise of the Year at the prestigious Subsea UK Awards in Aberdeen last week. Held during Subsea Expo, Europe’s largest subsea-focused exhibition and conference, the ceremony brought together more than 600 industry professionals to recognise the finest talent, leadership and contributions across the sector. Bristol-based Rovco was… Read more »