Top five of the most read news on Offshore WIND from 16 to 22 July.
Tecnalia has launched HarshLab, a floating laboratory for offshore renewable energy technology, in Bermeo Port in Spain on 20 July.
Kinewell Energy has launched a licensed version of its inter-array layout optimisation software, KLOC, which was initially launched as a consultancy tool for Kinewell Energy in 2015 after two years of research and development.
The first MHI Vestas 8.3MW wind turbine has been installed on Vattenfall’s 406.7MW Horns Rev 3 wind farm in the Danish North Sea.
U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) has announced a funding opportunity for advanced research and development (R&D) to reduce wind energy costs and environmental impacts.
German offshore wind industry has urged the country’s government to ramp up its offshore wind energy game if it wants to achieve the goal of covering 65% of Germany’s power generation with renewable energies by 2030.
Developers of the Mermaid and the Seastar wind farms in the Belgian North Sea have merged the two projects into one – the 487.2MW Seamade.
Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm, the 588MW Beatrice, has started generating power for the first time.
ScottishPower Renewables has partnered with Cambridge-based Aveillant, part of the Thales Group, to test a new radar system that aims to safeguard the UK’s offshore wind industry.
CSBC has commenced construction of a 140m barge that will serve the offshore wind sector in Taiwan.
The Deutsche Bucht Mono Bucket pilot demonstrator project has reached financial close, Northland Deutsche Bucht GmbH said.
Jiangsu Longyuan Zhenhua Marine Engineering (Longyuan Zhenhua) has signed two new offshore wind contracts in China, one for two met masts off the Guandong province and the other for construction works on a project in the Liaoning province.
Van Oord’s cable lay vessel Nexus has loaded the final set of inter-array cables for the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm and is currently installing them at the site in the German North Sea.
Innogy has concluded two legally binding agreements – one with E.ON, another with RWE – on the planned integration of innogy into E.ON and the planned integration of innogy’s renewables business into RWE. As reported earlier, E.ON and RWE reached an agreement under which E.ON would acquire RWE’s 76.
