His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Denmark is set to inaugurate Vattenfall’s Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm on 22 August. The wind farm will be officially launched with a reception at the Port of Hvide Sande, which will be used as an O&M base for the project’s 49 MHI Vestas V164-8.3MW turbines f
Jan De Nul’s cable-laying vessel Willem de Vlamingh has completed the installation of the export cables on the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Under the EPCI contract, Jan De Nul installed 17 inter-array and three export cables at the 120MW offshore wind farm. According to the compan
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) has agreed to acquire Ocean Breeze Energy, the owner of the BARD Offshore 1 wind farm in Germany. MIRA, who will carry out the acquisition via a Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 5 led consortium, will buy the company from Unicredit. “Offshore win
Ørsted is holding formal consultations related to the Hornsea Project Four offshore wind farm in September in the UK. At the events, the project’s location, as well as a non-technical summary of the preliminary environmental information report will be presented. The meetings will be held from 2 to 7
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Bold Tern is leaving the Port of Hull with the 19th loadout of turbines destined for installation at the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm. According to the company, Bold Tern has so far installed 71 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines at the project site some 120km of
The Manchester Metropolitan University has secured a GBP 124,000 grant from the Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub to test solutions for stabilizing floating offshore wind turbines. In the one-year project, the UK university will develop computer models to test the best methods to stabiliz
The Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA) and the Power for America Training Trust Fund (P4A) are launching an apprenticeship program to provide training for renewable energy jobs, including those for offshore wind. The new union program will provide skills training and a path to employment for in
The construction of the offshore wind foundation production site being developed in Taiwan by the Century Bladt Foundation joint venture is going according to schedule, Bladt reported. The company said that the construction work of the 31,000m2 production facilities and the 4,000m2 administration bu
E.ON’s Renewables division saw a EUR 39 million increase in adjusted EBIT in the first half of 2019, primarily said to be due to the commissioning of offshore wind farms in the UK and Germany. The renewables adjusted EBIT equals EUR 275 million in the first six months, with the primary reason being
Deep Ocean Engineering Inc. (DOE) has unveiled a new Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) which can be used for the maintenance of offshore wind farms. The Phantom X8 is a work-class vehicle configured with six vectored horizontal and two vertical 2.2 kW Tecnadyne brushless thrusters. It boasts high defi
The University of Strathclyde has secured a share of GBP 1 million funding from the Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub for two projects focused on offshore wind research. The first project that received a share from the first round of the hub’s Flexible Fund includes developing a cost-effe
Equinor reported adjusted earnings of USD 3.15 billion in the second quarter of 2019, which is down from USD 4.31 billion in the same period last year. Equinor saw a net operating income of USD 3.52 billion in the period, which is again lower than the USD 3.84 billion in the second quarter of 2018.
Dominion Energy and the U.S. Business Network for Offshore Wind are holding an event in Virginia with an aim to support the state’s inclusion of large-scale offshore wind in its energy mix. The Sea to Land event will bring together the supply chain business community with federal and state governmen
Vattenfall has selected the Port of Hvide Sande as the operations and maintenance hub for the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in Denmark. Located on the Danish west coast, the port will be used as a base for O&M of the project’s 49 MHI Vestas V164-8.3MW turbines. Once Vattenfall establishes a facilit
