MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has made it official – its V164 turbine platform has broken the double-digit barrier and has now achieved a power rating of 10MW.
The Global Wind Summit 2018 has officially started in Hamburg, Germany.
Swire Blue Ocean’s Pacific Orca has installed 20 out of 84 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines at the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland.
Canadian power company Northland Power Inc. has opened an offshore wind operations hub in Germany.
Alpha Offshore Service has completed more than 4,000 offshore wind turbine blade inspections so far in 2018, a 56% increase compared to 2017, previously said to be the company’s most productive period.
Scottish utility SSE plc is taking full ownership of the 1.5GW Seagreen offshore wind projects under development by Seagreen Wind Energy Limited, in which it currently has a 50% share.
Jan De Nul has utilised a recently acquired wind farm installation vessel, Taillevent, on an offshore wind project in the German Baltic Sea.
World Marine Offshore (WMO) has, through its daughter company, recently signed a contract with Navantia Shipyards to provide the onshore and offshore logistics services for the commissioning of the offshore substation on the East Anglia One wind farm.
Airbus Helicopters views the support for wind farms as a business segment that is undergoing global growth and expects demand for up to a thousand helicopters over the coming two decades, corresponding to revenues of approximately EUR 9 billion.
Subsea power cable specialist Prysmian Group has announced a successful commissioning of the inter-array cable system for Iberdrola’s Wikinger offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea.
Swedish offshore wind power developer and operator Vattenfall has signed a five-year cable repair framework agreement with power cable and asset management services provider CWind covering Vattenfall’s European assets.
The 385MW Arkona offshore wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea has supplied the first electricity to the German electricity grid.
The development of floating offshore wind will be held up by the limitations of current port infrastructure, a recent research has revealed.
Danish offshore wind operations & maintenance services provider ZITON A/S has raised EUR 100 million in a senior secured bond and EUR 25 million in a second secured bond.
