The French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) has approved two more floating wind pilot projects as part of the country’s call for tenders for the development of floating wind launched in August 2015. One of the two new winners of the call for pilot floating farm projects is EDF Energi
GE Renewable Energy has appointed John Lavelle as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its Offshore Wind business. The appointment is effective 1 November. In this role, Lavelle will lead the global business strategy with the mission to become one of the top three players in the offshore wind indust
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs’ Office of Coastal Zone Management and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center will host public information meetings to discuss recent and upcoming planning and assessment activities related to future offshore wind projects in fede
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Tetsushi Mizuno has been appointed a new Co-CEO of MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, a joint venture between MHI and Vestas. Mizuno will replace Jin Kato, who will stay on as a senior advisor to the company for the next six months before reassuming a senior role at MHI in Japan.
Senior management of Offshore Group Newcastle (OGN) and North Tyneside MP Mary Glindon had a meeting with UK Energy Minister Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe, as the company is worried about local content in UK offshore wind projects. OGN, which teamed up with Belgian Smulders this year, expressed its co
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) is to invest up to GBP 3 million in developing a water-jetting tool which could potentially ”double trench production rates in seabed trenching operations.” The subsea and engineering technology company has awarded a contract to Northumberland-based Osbit to be the lead d
Thirteen local organisations in Lancashire and Cumbria coastal communities have been awarded grants totalling GBP 250,000 through DONG Energy’s new Walney Extension Community Benefit Fund. Each year, approximately GBP 600,000 will be made available for community projects for the expected 25-year lif
The European Commission’s ”leaked” plan to end the “priority dispatch” for renewable energy in electricity grids is set to harm investments in European wind and solar power systems to the tune of billions of Euros, according to European industry initiative EU ProSun. According to an article publishe
The Netherlands-based Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) plans to lay off 450 of the existing 770 employees at the company’s head office in Zwijndrecht, as well as at its yards in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Poland, partly due to ”the combination of price pressure and unfavourable contractual c
Hjelmsted Consulting and NIRAS will act as strategic advisors to the State of New York to secure that a significant part of the state’s electric supply will come from offshore wind in 2030. The two companies said they are among the first European advisors to expand their consulting activities in off
Norwegian transmission system operator (TSO) Statnett and Germany’s DC Nordseekabel GmbH, a 50:50 joint venture between TenneT TSO and KfW, have applied for a EUR 800 million loan with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to partially fund the construction of the 1.4GW NordLink high voltage direct cur
Australia’s Macquarie Capital and Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs signed a Memorandum of Understanding which will see the Sydney-based company invest around USD 792 million in offshore wind projects in Taiwan over the next three years, the company’s chairman John Walker said in an interview wi
An independent nominations committee has nominated five trustees to run the Green Purposes Company Ltd (GPC), a newly incorporated organisation tasked with keeping the UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) green. In February 2016, the UK Government announced that GIB would create a ‘special share’ as p
With Offshore WIND heading towards the launch of its International Business Guide (IBG) 2017, the Business Focus articles will update you on the companies listed in our IBG that appeared in the news over the past few weeks. Bladt Industries The final six transition pieces for the 402MW Veja Mate off
