SgurrEnergy’s flagship product, Galion Lidar, was deployed last month on FINO1, Europe’s most established offshore met mast. Located in the German North Sea, the offshore research platform is equipped by German Wind Energy Institute, DEWI, with meteorological sensors to study the offshore environmen
Pharos Offshore Group Ltd will be speaking at the Subsea Power Cables Seminar being held on 12th-13th November in London. Pharos Offshore Group will be presenting on cable operations and maintenance for offshore wind farms and interconnections Established in 2009 but incorporating companies that hav
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) released its long-awaited consensus document, AWEA Offshore Compliance Recommended Practices 2012 (OCRP 2012), today at its Offshore WINDPOWER Conference in Virginia Beach. Developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable
After arriving at the Port of Tyne a few days ago, MPI Adventure is now installing a weather-testing station including a 750-tonne Met Mast off Blyth’s coast, the News Post Leader reports. MPI Adventure, a wind turbine installation vessel was commissioned by the National Renewable Energy Centre (Nar
In wind energy, the operating environment, specifications and guidelines change quickly and innovation cycles are short. The demand for safety training is increasing with the expansion of offshore wind energy. So say Germanischer Lloyd and that is one of the reasons why they have added training stan
Under the direction of the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Timmons Group collaborated with researchers and scientists from the Virginia Center for Wind Energy at James Madison University and WeatherFlow Inc. to develop the Wind, Weather and Energy Viewer on the recently deployed V
The contract is for the construction of one Installation Support Vessel, with option for one additional vessel. The associated gross project cost for the first vessel, ready for operation, is approx. USD 55 million. The firm vessel is scheduled for delivery in March 2014. The vessel, which shall hav
Maine’s new online wind energy-ME supply-chain product and business locator will be demonstrated on October 9 -11 in the Maine Wind Industry Pavilion – booth 326 – at the AWEA Offshore WINDPOWER at the Virginia Beach Convention Center in Virginia, VA. “The online wind energy-ME supply-chain product
In little over a month, the first-ever Offshore Wind Energy Summit with an exclusive focus on grids, foundations and installation technology will take place in Hamburg, the principal location for offshore wind in Europe. More than 150 senior level wind industry executives – already comprised of 25 U
With offshore wind having become a busy and fast emerging business over the past few years, in which money seems to be present in abundance, the industry seems to be blind for lessons learned. Even to the point that fatal accidents have been accepted at a very early stage, in the development phase.
DONG Energy has appointed Benj Sykes as Head of UK Market for its Wind Power business. Benj commented; “I’m looking forward to leading DONG Energy’s UK wind power business into its next exciting period of development here in the UK. We have an outstanding portfolio of operating assets as well as a f
The AWEA Offshore Windpower Conference and Exhibition in Virginia Beach kicks off as the people involved and interested in the offshore wind sector gather on its first day, the Associated Press reports. The featured speakers today are Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and the director of the Bureau of Ocean Ene
The University of Delaware’s Kent Messer leads a research team that is conducting two studies at the Delaware coast to determine how people would react to offshore energy production and how that could impact the state’s economy. The first study was conducted at Cape Henlopen and Rehoboth Beach and i
Kaj Lindvig, who has played a major role in A2SEA since the company’s founding in 2000, among others as CEO and latest as CSO, handed over the baton to Martin Huss who up till now has held the position as A2SEA’s Regional Manager for Germany and the Benelux Countries. After 5 years as CSO in [&helli
