Danish transmission operator Energinet has selected AP Sensing to monitor the cables at the Kriegers Flak offshore wind project. AP Sensing is monitoring a total of 300km of cable, using 6 Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) units with a range of 30-50km for thermal profiling and to detect thermal
Senvion has delivered the last turbine for the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) offshore wind project in Germany. According to Senvion, all components for the 200MW wind farm have been finished and shipped to Eemshaven. Trianel Windpark Borkum II comprises 32 Senvion 6.2M152 turbines installed on
Italian subsea cable specialist Prysmian has completed the DolWin3 High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore grid connection project in the German North Sea. Prysmian had secured this project in February 2013, with a contract awarded by Alstom Grid (now GE Grid GmbH) on behalf of the Dutch-German
Vattenfall has contracted 3sun Group to carry out statutory inspections across its offshore and onshore wind farms. Under the deal, 3sun will provide inspections across Vattenfall’s 50 offshore and onshore wind farms in the UK, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. “Vattenfall is delighted t
The next UK government should go faster and harder on offshore and onshore wind in a bid to reach the net zero targets by 2050, according to SSE Chief Executive Alistair Phillips-Davies. In its interim results, SSE called on political leaders to put renewable power “front and center” of the plans to
Dutch transmission system operator TenneT TSO B.V. has issued a tender for offshore unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey, identification and clearance at the zones identified in the Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap 2030. The tender covers the 700MW Hollandse Kust Noord, the 700MW Hollandse Kust (west) Alpha
GE Renewable Energy has signed a cooperation agreement with State Power Investment Corp (SPIC) to bring the Haliade-X 12MW offshore wind turbine to China. GE announced in March last year that it will invest more than USD 400 million to develop and deploy Haliade-X 12MW, the world’s most powerful off
Siemens Gamesa has been selected as the preferred supplier of turbines for the 300MW Hai Long 2 offshore wind project in Taiwan. The agreement is subject to contract and final investment decision from project developers Northland Power Inc. and Yushan Energy. Siemens Gamesa said it will use its exis
A nacelle from GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X 12 MW offshore wind turbine has arrived at the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s testing facility in Blyth, Northumberland, ahead of a testing programme designed to prepare it for years of operation at sea. This nacelle, comparable in size to s
Wiking Helikopter Service GmbH has signed a multi-year contract with Siemens Gamesa to support wind turbine maintenance on the East Anglia ONE wind farm offshore UK. Wiking will provide helicopter hoist operations for service technicians and material to Siemens Gamesa’s 102 7MW wind turbines onsite
E.ON and RWE Renewables have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for more than 20 offshore and onshore wind farms in the UK. Under the 2.5-year agreement, E.ON buys around 3TWh of power annually from wind farms in the UK which are operated by RWE. The deal covers a capacity of 892MW of wind gene
Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs plans to set a goal of developing further 10GW of offshore wind capacity between 2026 and 2035. During the inauguration of the Formosa 1, Taiwan’s first commercial offshore wind farm, the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, asked the Ministry of Economic Affairs
Fraunhofer IWES has commenced a project focused on investigating how the wind conditions in the German Bight could change if offshore wind farms are expanded on a large scale. The X-Wakes “Interaction Between the Wakes of Large Offshore Wind Farms and Wind Farm Clusters With the Marine Atmospheric B
GE Renewable Energy has posted a video showing the installation time-lapse of the Haliade-X 12MW wind turbine at Maasvlakte, the Port of Rotterdam. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Youtube. The GE Haliade-X 12MW prototype wind turbine produced its
