CWind, a leading provider of services to the offshore wind industry, have signed a three year contract to provide crew and equipment transfer for DONG Energy and Scottish Power at the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm. The contract, which includes an optional extension for a further 2 year per
DNV GL (uniting DNV, KEMA, Garrad Hassan and GL Renewables Certification), has together with STRI (the Swedish Transmission Research Institute) and ten industry players developed a methodology for technology qualification of offshore HVDC technologies through a joint industry project. As offshore wi
ALE were contracted to perform the float-over ballasting during the 14,000t SylWin Alpha platform installation in the North Sea. ALE provided all necessary equipment and designed bespoke control and monitoring systems to perform the float-over ballasting during installation. The Sylwin Alpha was tra
Seagreen Wind Energy Ltd (Seagreen), a joint venture partnership formed by SSE Renewables Developments (UK) Ltd and Fluor UK Ltd, will hold a drop-in public consultation event tomorrow. Namely, Seagreen submitted a Proposal of Application Notice (PAN) to Angus Council for an amendment to the undergr
Javier Sanmartin joined QED Naval and in so doing builds on the fluid modelling capabilities. Javier is an accomplished ANSYS Fluent user having completed his Masters thesis on modelling wind turbines. With this latest recruit QED Naval maintains its capability to model the fluid and wave loading on
Cutting costs of offshore wind energy through innovation, and smarter and cheaper production and installation of offshore wind turbine substructures are the common goals for a whole host of international experts who will be gathering on 12 September at LORC Testing Centre. Keynote lecturers from S
This year the Holland Pavilion at SMM will be the largest ever. The first official pavilion of Netherlands Maritime Technology breaks records by hosting 52 companies and expanding 1,000 m2 of the exhibition space in hall B7 of the Hamburg Messe. Also elsewhere on the trade show floor and in the port
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited hosted former Japanese Prime Minister Mr Naoto Kan this morning at its Fremantle Wave Energy Research Facility. Japan has the potential to host a significant capacity of wave power projects, with approximately 34,000km of coastline and a wave energy
Sunken Barge Carried Working Platforms for Baltic 2 OWF A barge that sank on Wednesday morning (August 13) off Darßer Ort in the Baltic Sea was carrying four working platforms for the EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm, the company confirmed to Offshore WIND. Siemens: Order Placed for 67 Dudgeon Offsh
Several environmental organisations will protest against the usage of brown coal for energy production in the Lusatia region this Saturday. Activists from several countries will try to form an eight kilometre human chain between Kerkwitz in Germany and Grabice in Poland. Greenpeace, Bund and Berline
Marine Ecological Surveys Ltd (MESL) has been appointed to undertake regional seabed monitoring, consisting of over 2,500 samples, on behalf of eight marine aggregate operators with licensed interests in the southern North Sea through a contract being coordinated by the British Marine Aggregate Prod
A barge anchored to the seabed during the peak of a spring flood tide represents another milestone at Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE). This is the first time a barge has been moored to the seabed at the FORCE site. The barge trials took place during peak flows of a spring tide, making
RenewableUK is today hailing the announcement that funding has been secured to build the first phase of the world’s largest tidal energy array in the Pentland Firth region in North Scotland. The MeyGen project has a capacity of up to 398MW and will provide clean electricity for 175,000 homes and 100
50Hertz Transmission GmbH, a German transmission system operator, is looking for engineering services, onshore and offshore. 50Hertz Transmission GmbH is responsible for the grid connection of offshore wind farms in the German part of the Baltic Sea. As part of the investment project “Offshore Grid
