The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has organized a session titled The Place of Wind Energy in COP21 at its annual conference held in Paris. The session is co-ordinated by the French Wind Energy Association (FEE), and dedicated to discuss the place of wind energy in the current climate chang
Port of Cherbourg is getting ready for the first French offshore wind farms, with 44ha of port land alongside a heavy-load quay with a bearing capacity of 15t/m2 already available for the marine renewable energies sector. The new heavy-load quay has been in service since March 2015. With the ongoing
The Renewables Consulting Group (RCG) has added Elaine Greig to its team as a Director and Head of Service Delivery. Greig has over 22 years’ experience in the electricity supply industry, with the last 14 in wind energy development, engineering, finance, construction and operations. She has joined
Deutsche Windtechnik AG is stepping up its foreign operations, especially in Spain, Poland and the United Kingdom. By the end of 2015 the company will have 122 employees outside Germany, 43 more than at the start of the year. Deutsche Windtechnik aims to increase the proportion of foreign revenue fr
First German Floating Foundation Secures Grid Connection German engineering consultancy Gicon has received permission from a governmental agency to feed 2.3MW of grid connection capacity through the country’s first floating offshore foundation – GICON®-SOF. RWE-Led Consortium to Bid for Dutch Borsse
Global Wind Service (GWS) has gathered its UK team in an office at OrbisEnergy in Lowestoft. Jason Smith, operations manager, said: “We are quite busy with our array of services. Onshore order books are filling up well and we definitely expect a fair share of the offshore market in 2016 and beyond.
Since its official commissioning on September 21, the offshore wind farm EnBW Baltic 2 in Stralsund has helped the Karlsruhe-headquartered electric utilities company EnBW improve EBITDA in its renewable energies segment for the first nine months of 2015, and partly offset a 5.3% fall in revenue in t
Ocean Tech Services (OTS) has deployed an AXYS WindSentinel buoy based LIDAR system near offshore wind development areas along the coast of New Jersey as part of a contract to install, operate and maintain the buoy for a 1-year data collection mission signed with Pacific Northwest National Laborator
Offshore wind services provider CWind has completed a week of cable team demonstrations at its training facility in Barrow-in-Furness, where wind farm owners, cable-laying companies and inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) service providers from the UK, Benelux and Germany, were given the opport
Danish O&M jack-up services provider DBB Jack-Up Services A/S has placed a EUR 100 million senior secured bond, the proceeds of which will be used to refinance the company’s existing debt. The bonds, maturing in 2019, will be listed on Oslo Stock Exchange within one year from the issue date. The com
The Danish-Swiss wind turbine optimizer ROMO Wind is extending its business activities to France, offering local contact and support for the company’s spinner anemometer technology iSpin which is now available to French wind farm operators. Guillaume Steinmetz has been appointed to the position of a
Berlin-headquartered conglomerate Siemens AG saw its bottom line for the fourth quarter of 2015 boosted by EUR 72 million net profit recorded in the company’s wind power and renewables arm. Siemens added EUR 2.716 billion of new orders through the wind power and renewables department in the quarter
German municipal utility Trianel has partnered up with compatriot Gesy Green Energy Systems to jointly market and sell the electricity produced at the 200MW Trianel Wind Farm Borkum situated in the North Sea. With the latest agreement, the combined portfolio of the two companies now stands at 3.5GW.
UK-based marine service provider Marine and Towage Services Group Ltd. (MTS) has completed the charter to deliver the Sea Slice, a specialist offshore vessel, to its new Danish owners, Advanced Offshore Solutions. The 1996-built Sea Slice, originally designed as an experimental vessel for the US Nav
