Damen Shipyards Group has appointed Marc van Heyningen as the new Chief Operations Officer (COO). Van Heyningen will assume the position as of 1 April, succeeding Jan-Wim Dekker, who started as COO on 1 January. According to Damen, the new COO spent the majority of his career working for Fluor Corpo
Van Oord has reported a revenue of EUR 571 million in its offshore wind business unit in 2019, a 23.6% decrease compared to the EUR 706 million in 2018. Van Oord states that this decrease in offshore wind activities was driven by the smaller number and size of projects currently under construction.
Norwegian investment company Magnora ASA has acquired a stake in a 500MW shallow-water offshore wind project in Northern Europe. According to Magnora, the final transaction agreements for the offshore wind project have been signed. The cooperation with the founders and the development of the project
The global offshore wind industry installed a record 6.1GW of new capacity in 2019, bringing the total capacity to 29GW, according to the latest report by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). The 6.1GW of new capacity in 2019 represents a 35.5% increase compared to the previous year, which saw 4.5
Total and Simply Blue Energy have established a partnership to develop floating offshore wind projects in the Welsh waters of the Celtic Sea. The newly established joint venture, Blue Gem Wind, will focus on developing some of the first floating offshore wind projects with pre-commercial size, Green
Ørsted and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) have agreed to establish a joint venture company, Choshi Offshore Wind Farm K.K., to work together on the Choshi offshore wind project in Japan. The companies will submit a joint bid in the Round 1 auction once the Japanese government official
Ørsted and Good Energy Group have signed a renewal of an agreement under which the UK company will source power from the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm for its customers for a further three years. The agreement continues to secure 12% of the output of the 210MW wind farm located 8km off the Yor
Dutch offshore lifting equipment provider KenzFigee has expanded its services to the UK. KenzFigee (UK) Ltd. will provide clients in the UK sector with its services directly from its hub in Aberdeen, Scotland. According to the company, the move comes due to a growing demand for offshore expert equip
The slowdown in the German offshore wind market is increasingly becoming an existential threat to Germany’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) active within the industry, according to the wind energy agency WAB e. V. According to WAB, Germany’s Federal Government has failed to meet its own go
The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub has launched the second round of Flexible Funding to advance research into the opportunities and challenges of offshore wind, wave and tidal energy. This second round will award up to GBP 1.2 million to researchers at UK Higher Education Institutions
Pict Offshore has received a GBP 250,000 Regional Selective Assistance grant from Scottish Enterprise to expand production of the Get Up Safe (GUS) ladder-less access system at its site in Inverkeithing, Fife. The Get Up Safe system is a motion-compensated hoist solution that enables technicians to
The European Commission has released EUR 980 million of funding for key European energy infrastructure projects with major cross-border benefits. The EU funding comes from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), the European support programme for trans-European infrastructure. This is seen as a crucia
HeliService International has entered into long-term cooperation with the Japan-based Nakanihon Air Service for the Japanese offshore wind market. According to HeliService, Nakanihon deems to offer helicopter offshore services in Japan and Asia as the offshore wind market is evolving in the region.
The Netherlands-based BLIX Consultancy has opened a branch office in Taipei, Taiwan, to support the offshore wind business in the Asia Pacific region. The new office, opened on 11 March, will be the base for Maarten Timmerman, who is one of the founders of BLIX Consultancy in the Netherlands and the
