Transportation of offshore wind power plant components on the manufacturer´s production site requires a high degree of manoeuvrability and flexibility. Due to the large dimensions and the ever-increasing weight of offshore installations, this has led to an increasing use of modular transport systems
A subsidiary of China Datang Corporation, Fujian Datang International Wind Power Development, intends to invest up to 6 billion yuan (USD 952 million) in an offshore wind farm off Chinese southern coast, which would be the first one there, according to DesignBuild Source news site. The company has a
ENERGY Minister Fergus Ewing has welcomed figures published by Scottish Renewables, saying that Scotland’s offshore wind developers have invested around £165m in the Scottish economy so far. Minister Fergus said: “Offshore wind is an exciting emerging energy sector, still in its infancy but with gre
Last week, Alstom launched construction works of its first two offshore wind turbine factories in Saint-Nazaire, France. The plants will be entirely devoted to assembling nacelles and manufacturing generators for the 6 MW Haliade 150 offshore wind turbine. Check out the artist impression of the plan
Mitsubishi is planning to take a 10 % of the world’s offshore wind market by 2017, according to Bloomberg. Even though Siemens and Vestas are holding 80 % share in this market, Mitsubishi is planning to take its piece of the renewable pie by developing a large-scale wind power generation system that
“It can be so easy to make big things happen. When you’re a giant.” This is the message sent by RWE in its animated commercial on renewables. RWE has found a clever way to promote renewable energy, i.e.,via an animated renewable energy giant, being one itself. The video wittily shows the giant using
During the end of last week, the quay of our site in Aalborg hummed with activity more than usual as employees from Bladt and OffshoreWindForce were working to achieve a successful load-out of the first five of a total of 108 foundations for Dong Energy and Scottishpower Renewables’ West of Duddon S
The Texas A&M Energy Institute’s Wind Energy Center will lead the Texas’ Offshore Wind Farm Innovation team as part of the Gulf Offshore Wind (GoWind) Project, which will be the most innovative wind farm built to date and will generate power at peak demand and a high capacity factor. The Wind Energy
Norwegian energy giant Statoil has reached a milestone with their wind energy project offshore Maine’s Boothbay Harbor, writes the Associated Press. Specifically, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved Statoil’s contract with utility companies after the company reduced costs of its Hywind Ma
Dungeness-based new venture, Technical Marine Support Ltd, has taken delivery of its first vessel, a design-enhanced CTruk 20T MPC. Destined to start work this week on the Lincs offshore wind farm as part of CWind’s growing charter fleet, Endeavour sports this popular support vessel’s latest design
The State of Oregon has adopted a new Territorial Sea Plan (Part 5) that includes policies and maps governing how and under what conditions ocean renewable energy will be allowed to develop in state waters. On Thursday, January 24th, after a full day of comments and discussion, the Land Conservation
GL Garrad Hassan has supported Mitsubishi Corporation (Mitsubishi) in making a major investment in the European offshore wind sector by providing strategic advice and technical due-diligence as part of a wider structure advisory team. Mitsubishi, Japan’s largest trading group has acquired a 50% inte
Taiwan Generations Corporation (TGC) has been awarded as the first-place winner of the Offshore Wind Grant Scheme (the Grant Scheme) by the Bureau of Energy in Taiwan. The Grant Scheme will provide the financial support to the winners in order to realize a demonstration project composed of a 2-turbi
The first sets of wind turbine towers, blades, hubs and nacelles have arrived into the Port of Mostyn for installation at RWE npower renewables’ Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm. The Siemens 3.6 megawatt turbine components arrived on board a RoRo ferry, SeaTruck Pace, from Denmark on Friday (18th Jan)
