A newly formed consortium of Lake Ontario based organizations that have come together to encourage and facilitate the development of offshore wind power in Ontario is announcing its list of members. The Lake Ontario Offshore Network (LOON) is comprised of large and small employers in the Hamilton, B
The countdown is on for the world’s leading maritime exhibition – the 25th shipbuilding, machinery & marine technology, international trade fair hamburg, which will be fully booked again this year. “We are already better placed than at the highly successful SMM 2010,” says Peter Bergleiter, Project
Many nations have set challenging targets for renewable energy production and it was in this setting that AMI held the latest global conference on Wind Turbine Blade Manufacture in December 2011 in Dusseldorf, Germany. The UK Minister for the Environment had announced potential plans for another 29,
China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited (“Ming Yang” or the “Company”), a leading wind turbine manufacturer in China, announced that it has successfully hosted its 2012 Ming Yang Wind Power Strategic Supply Chain Conference in Zhongshan, China between January 9 to January 13, 2012. A total of 276 d
Drydocks World, the established international maritime service provider, announced that it has entered into a contract with Aibel, the leading Norwegian provider of services to the energy industry, for building a Wind Power Offshore Platform structure, to receive power generated from offshore wind f
The increasing length of offshore wind turbine blades has prompted the use of advanced composite materials, with positive operational experiences so far, but with a limited range of supporting analysis and testing methods that can be directly applied to large scale wind turbines. DNV initiated the i
Q10 Offshore Wind B.V. (Q10) has obtained a permit for the construction and exploitation of an offshore wind farm in the Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone in the Q10 Sector. Q10 intends to include a limited number of innovative offshore wind turbines (WTG) in the wind farm by means of a concession contr
The last major economy in Europe that is not a member of the offshore wind club is due to knock on the clubhouse door this year. France will be joining the club with a huge 3GW enrolment fee. This month, to be precise, 11 January 2012, was the deadline for the tenders to be submitted […]
A company that plans to build what could be the nation’s first offshore windmills said it was all but ready to break ground and begin construction on its multimillion-dollar project, with a goal of being up and running and turning out power by Labor Day 2013. Fishermen’s Energy of Cape May hopes to
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TenneT Offshore GmbH eyes subsea cable installation contractor. The contractor will be in charge of establishing a grid connection between an onshore transformer substation and one or several offshore Wind farms located in the offshore wind farm cluster BorWin on the North Sea. The services include
400,000. This is the number of Danish households that as of next year will have their power consumption covered by Anholt Offshore Wind Farm. Today, DONG Energy starts construction. ”It’s in fact somewhat of a record; in early July 2010, we won the project based on the Danish Energy Agency’s tender.
A new strategic alliance between Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker, and clean energy financier Narec Capital will unlock fresh opportunities for firms in the renewable energy market to develop and scale up technologies that generate low carbon power from the air, sea and sun. By com
University of Oldenburg has announced a joint project “GW Wakes”. This project will investigate wind currents in a very large offshore wind farm with 100 or more wind turbines. The Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) will be funding the project over the
