Category: Wind

By combining a flat deck carrier to load multiple jackets with HLP’s new ring crane concept, project developers could cut deployment costs by 60% Edinburgh, Scotland, 03 July 2023. Adopting a new approach to marshalling and load-out of windfarm jackets could cut logistics costs for project developers by as much as 60%, according to analysis… Read more »

DEME announces that the revolutionary offshore installation vessel ‘Green Jade’ officially joins the fleet today. The momentous occasion was celebrated during a festive naming ceremony, held at the Kaohsiung shipyard in Taiwan. ‘Green Jade’ is the second vessel of its kind to join DEME’s fleet, following the successful deployment of the offshore installation vessel ‘Orion’,… Read more »

LIFTKET Hoffmann GmbH takes over the company Action Lift from Mohamed Essabar in France and Spain with immediate effect. The Action Lift team has more than 15 years of experience in the entertainment and industry sector and has been the exclusive distributor for LIFTKET and CHAINMASTER in France and Spain for many years. Mohamed Essabar… Read more »

Renewables, green hydrogen and decarbonizing the industry are key topics – with conference, forum programme and a special H2 Area HUSUM | 29 June 2023. HUSUM WIND continues to expand its range of topics: At the industry fair in September, representatives from the wind sector, renewable energy economy and energy-intensive industry will meet on various… Read more »

06/30/2023, Bremerhaven – The Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck, the President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Andreas Bovenschulte, and the Senator for Science and Ports of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Claudia Schilling, met in Bremerhaven today to inaugurate the Fraunhofer Institute… Read more »

Industrial tools specialist, Enerpac, announces an upgrade to its Wind Power Milling Machine for manufacturing turbine blades, an important stepping stone in its aim of producing next generation milling machines capable of milling blades up to 10m diameter.  Developed specifically for machining the root end of turbine blades, Enerpac Wind Power Milling Machines are a… Read more »

Latest collaboration with Japanese wind energy giant to bolster continued expansion in the APAC region June 27, 2023 – Nearthlab, a leading provider of autonomous drone technology, announced that the wholesale deployment of its plug-and-play solution NearthWIND Mobile is underway across wind farms managed by Eurus Technical Service, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eurus Energy Holdings… Read more »

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 »