Construction of Sheringham Shoal is complete, now the wind farm will need ongoing maintenance to ensure the blades keep turning and power keeps generating. As well as providing and installing the 3.6MW wind turbines, Siemens also has a five-year service contract with Scira to maintain and repair the
The increase in offshore activities means a lot of new work for the repair and conversion industry – and Shipdock is busily improving its position in this market: most recently with the lengthening of the GMS Endeavour’s four massive ‘legs’. New orders are streaming in at Shipdock Amsterdam from the
Offshore Marine Support Ltd and Energy Marine Services will host for the first time The UK and Ireland Vessel Co-Operative Conference next year. The first Conference will be held at the Furzedown Hotel, Great Yarmouth, NR30 4EN, on the 26th February 2013 09.30. The Event is designed to bring owners,
The departure of the floating hotel Regina Baltica, which was the final construction vessel on the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm, marks the end of an intense period of activity and the start a new operational phase, which has been in the planning for the past five years. Now the only vessels t
Ratos and the Sixth AP Fund together with the Norwegian industrial and financial group Ferd, have signed an agreement to acquire all the shares in Aibel, a leading Norwegian supplier of services related to oil, gas and renewable energy. The purchase price (enterprise value) amounts to approximately
Off the shores of the United States and the Great Lakes is a power source with four times the energy potential of the entire U.S. electric power system: the wind. Offshore winds blow stronger and more uniformly than on land, resulting in greater potential to generate energy. The development of the U
Chief executives, energy ministers, international journalists and energy experts from all around the world will meet in Vienna at the EWEA 2013 annual event from 4-7 February 2013, to discuss Europe’s energy policy and the future of wind energy. Last year 150 journalists, 10600 visitors and 523 exhi
While the installation activity at Anholt wind farm is intensified, the personnel logistics is also optimised in the week before Christmas. On 1 December 2012, the floating hotel Wind Perfection arrived at Grenaa Harbour to be ready to take its position in the wind farm to act as floating hotel for
Forewind’s second stage of offshore wind development, Dogger Bank Teesside will be divided into two separate Development Consent Order (DCO) applications, each for two offshore wind projects. Dogger Bank Teesside will comprise four wind farms, which could have a total installed capacity of up to 4.8
The installation vessel Sea Worker has arrived at Grenaa and is now working side by side with Sea Power to utilise the weather windows allowing installation. Sea Worker is a jack-up vessel capable of rising above the water surface on its 73 metre long legs when installing the wind turbine components
Planning application for East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm has been submitted by East Anglia Offshore Wind (EAOW), a joint venture between Vattenfall and ScottishPower Renewables, EADT24 news site reports. National Infrastructure Directorate will now consider the planning application and, if approv
On 6 July 2012, Nexans started connecting the connecting cables which the vessels Stemat 82 and Toisa Wave were laying on the seabed between the substation and the 111 foundations during summer 2012. Only six months after – on 5 December 2012 – Nexans had completed the work after having connected th
Over the last year, E.ON has listened to feedback received from over 1,000 people and organisations in Sussex through a major community consultation and has made changes to its Rampion Offshore Wind Farm proposals which were submitted to the Planning Inspectorate on Friday 14 December. The final pla
Danish national transmission system operator, Energinet.dk, postponed the COBRA Cable project that will link the country to the Netherlands and will be part of an integrated European grid. According to the company’s modified plans, published on December 14, the link could be completed in 2017, inste
