Category: Wind

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, 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 »

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 »

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 »

•   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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 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 »

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 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 »

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 »

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 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

• 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 »

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, 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 »

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 »

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 »

Within an hour, the steel cylinder of the bucket foundation had sunk down into the soil. This installation method for the foundations of offshore wind turbines is both fast and avoids pile driving noise, meaning it can also be employed for sites in regions subject to noise restrictions. The technique consists in the pumping of… Read more »

SeaPlanner, leading Marine Management System, has announced the release of its new Permit to Work system, providing a fully integrated solution for managing work authorisation processes. SeaPlanner provides advanced personnel and operational planning tools for large scale projects, enabling you to plan and monitor operations, using a controlled, compliant and auditable method. The software features… Read more »

Technical advisor’s due diligence enabled lenders to gain an understanding of the technical risk profile of the offshore wind project Group of lenders includes Aviva Investors, BlackRock Investment Management and Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions DNV GL’s track record of lenders’ and owners’ due diligence for over 30 GW of wind projects gave new players’… Read more »

Tekmar Energy Limited was named company of the year at Subsea UK’s annual awards last night while Richard Marsh was recognised for his outstanding contribution to the industry. The awards, which celebrate the achievements of companies and individuals in the UK subsea industry, were presented at a gala dinner in Aberdeen during Subsea Expo –… Read more »

ELA Container Offshore GmbH, in cooperation with its US subsidiary and the German American Chamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S., Inc (GACC) have initiated a one-day conference to share ideas about the “Energiewende”. This conference about “Wind Energy – How to power the future” will be held on February 27, 2018 at the Texas… Read more »

Over 800 MW in four U.S. projects connected to grid Hamburg, 8 February 2018. The Nordex Group closed the year 2017 with a robust installation performance in the United States of America. Last year the manufacturer connected some 260 turbines with a total capacity of 806 megawatts to the grid for its customers in the… Read more »

OESV operator amongst the first to achieve new ISO 9001: 2015 and ISO 14001: 2015 accreditations, renewing commitment to highest operational standards February 8th 2018, Isle of Wight – Class-leading offshore energy support vessel (OESV) operator, Seacat Services, has attained a fresh set of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) accreditations, following independent assessment by certification body DNV… Read more »