Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) and Innovate UK are organising a fully-funded visit to China for up to 15 high growth UK businesses operating in the offshore wind sector. The visit is planned for March, with the application period open until 22 January.
TenneT CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management, Mel Kroon, will resign in the second half of 2018. TenneT’s Supervisory Board has already started the search for his successor, while Kroon will continue to fulfil his role until this process is completed.
The global offshore wind market is set to grow at a 16 percent compound annual rate from 2017 to 2030, reaching a cumulative capacity of 115 gigawatts compared with 17.6 gigawatts today, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Samuel Leupold, CEO of Ørsted Wind Power, has decided to resign from the company and will leave Ørsted on 28 February 2018. He will be succeeded by Martin Neubert, currently Senior Vice President at Ørsted Wind Power, who will take over the position from 1 February.
Private market investment managers, Partners Group, has signed an agreement to join the Blauwwind consortium developing the Borssele III & IV offshore wind farms as an equity investor on behalf of its clients.
MHI Vestas launched a new office in Warrington, UK, on 8 January.
Ramboll is merging its energy and oil & gas divisions into Ramboll Energy in response to a changing world energy market and a strong push towards renewables.
German wind turbine manufacturer Senvion reported a firm order intake of EUR 306 million in its offshore wind segment in 2017, compared to no firm orders recorded a year earlier.
On 4 January, Global Wind Service (GWS) celebrated ten years since it was founded. The company, now employing 600 people, worked on over 300 projects in 35 countries and has local business units in ten countries.
Delft-based high voltage engineering and consultancy company Energy Solutions BV has won a contract to provide the Dutch transmission system operator TenneT with heat monitoring systems for sea and land cables.
3i Infrastructure has completed an EUR 376 million refinancing of Esvagt, which is expected to enable the Danish vessel supplier to continue its offshore wind services expansion.
Oceanteam and Royal IHC have signed a contract by which IHC will acquire all of the outstanding share capital of Oceanteam’s Dutch-based engineering and consultancy company KCI The Engineers.
Siemens Convergence Creators, a Siemens subsidiary that recently signed an eight-year contract for its SCADA Networks and Telecommunication Systems to be used at Ørsted’s offshore wind farms, has been acquired by Atos, a specialist in digital transformation.
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has called for a procurement of at least 800MW of offshore wind power between two solicitations to be issued in 2018 and 2019.
