Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Vestas Wind Systems have appointed Philippe Kavafyan to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Lars Bondo Krogsgaard to Co-Chief Executive Officer (Co-CEO) of MHI Vestas Offshore Wind.
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.
Vattenfall has hired Siemens Gamesa’s Chief Executive Officer in North America, Jacob Nørgaard Andersen, and Senior Vice President from Ørsted Energy, Mats Vikholm to help the Swedish energy company develop the next generation of offshore wind farms.
Bladt Industries has appointed Klaus Steen Mortensen as new CEO starting from 1 January 2018, and replacing Jan Kjærsgaard.
Peter Terium, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of innogy SE, is leaving the company with immediate effect in agreement with the Supervisory Board.
EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG has decided to build an Operations & Maintenance (O&M) base on an airfield in Emden, Germany, for the company’s offshore wind farms in the North Sea.
M2 Subsea has appointed David Sinclair, former Bibby Offshore Engineering and Innovation Manager, as Business Development Manager for renewables and decommissioning to its European business development team.
The University of Hull presented its findings on the impact of Green Port Hull One at an event yesterday, 4 December, a year after Siemens Gamesa opened the blade manufacturing facility at Alexandra Dock.
Naval Energies, formerly known as DCNS Energies, is cutting 100 out of 260 jobs with 30 employees being transferred to its parent company Naval Group (former DCNS Group) and 70 people losing their jobs completely, according to French media.
Setting up a pre-assembly and logistics facility at BOW Terminal Vlissingen allows us to be closer to Dutch offshore wind zones where we see a potential pipeline of projects, Bo J. Bjerregaard, Director of Pre-Assembly & Logistics at MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, said.
Dutch offshore lifting equipment provider Kenz Figee Group has appointed Jan Pieter Klaver as the company’s new CEO.
Lars Blicher, CEO and Director at Swire Blue Ocean, resigned from the position on 16 November.
3sun Group has invested more than GBP 1.4 million in staff training to fulfil existing contracts and in anticipation of a record work pipeline for 2018. 3sun Group said its business shifted from 50% oil & gas and 50% renewables in 2015 to about 85% renewables and 15% oil & gas in 2017.
Siemens Gamesa’s ongoing integration of legacy structures will affect up to 6,000 employees and, being part of Siemens Gamesa, Adwen is no exception with some of its people soon to lose their jobs after negotiations with the works council began in May.
