ESVAGT, Siemens Gamesa and Ørsted are looking into using drones for spare parts and tools transfer from service operation vessels (SOVs) to offshore wind turbines. The three companies will examine the potential in meeting offshore wind turbine technicians’ needs in an easier way within a project cal
Ørsted has opened the operations & maintenance (O&M) base for the Borssele 1 + 2 offshore wind farm in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. Located in Vlissingen-Buitenhaven at the North Sea Port, the 2,100m2 facility will provide employment to 50-100 persons. All construction work and maintenance will be c
UK company Energy Integrity Services has been developing new technology that is said to save the European wind industry GBP 250 million per year in maintenance costs.
The operations and maintenance base for the Galloper offshore wind farm has officially opened in Harwich, the UK. Located at the Harwich International Port in Essex, the GBP 10 million facility will be used for O&M of the Galloper project for the next twenty years. The base includes offices, a 24/7
Deutsche Windtechnik has won a contract to provide maintenance of the six Adwen AD 5-116 (M5000) wind turbines on the alpha ventus offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The contract was awarded by Deutsche Offshore-Testfeld und Infrastruktur (DOTI), a joint venture established by EWE AG, E.ON
Veja Mate Offshore Project GmbH has selected fos4X GmbH to provide a rotor blade condition monitoring system on the 402MW Veja Mate wind farm in the German North Sea. The fos4X “retroX” system, consisting of a sensor platform and intelligent software, was installed on strategically selected 10% of t
ScottishPower Renewables has awarded James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS) with a contract to provide scheduled maintenance at the East Anglia One offshore wind project. Under the GBP 5.6 million contract, JFMS will provide scheduled and corrective maintenance to the wind farm, with work including sta
Rotech Subsea Ltd. has completed a major sand-wave clearance scope at the Norther offshore wind project in Belgium. The UK-based company deployed its non-contact TRS2 Controlled Flow Excavation tool to carry out the work for Van Oord. According to Rotech, the result was that instead of the two campa
Vattenfall Vindkraft A/S has issued a contract notice for the provision of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for the company’s offshore wind farms in Denmark. The tender is divided into several sub-tenders for specific offshore wind farms, and there is one lot for general ad-hoc and short and long term c
Vattenfall has contracted 3sun Group to carry out statutory inspections across its offshore and onshore wind farms. Under the deal, 3sun will provide inspections across Vattenfall’s 50 offshore and onshore wind farms in the UK, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. “Vattenfall is delighted t
Wiking Helikopter Service GmbH has signed a multi-year contract with Siemens Gamesa to support wind turbine maintenance on the East Anglia ONE wind farm offshore UK. Wiking will provide helicopter hoist operations for service technicians and material to Siemens Gamesa’s 102 7MW wind turbines onsite
Australian engineering company Worley has entered the offshore wind operations and maintenance market through the acquisition of the UK-based 3sun Group Ltd . Worley acquired 100% of shares in the offshore wind energy installation, inspection and maintenance business for an enterprise value of GBP 2
Siemens Gamesa and EnBW have put the Service Operations Vessel (SOV) Bibby Wavemaster Horizon into operation in the Port of Hamburg. The 90-meter-long SOV will service the EnBW Hohe See and Albatros offshore wind farms in the North Sea. “Offshore wind energy already supplies reliable clean electrici
Bibby Marine Services has taken delivery of its second Damen Accommodation Support Vessel (ASV) 9020, Bibby WaveMaster Horizon, at Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania. On her arrival in the North Sea, the Bibby WaveMaster Horizon will begin maintenance work off the coast of Germany on two EnBW and Enb
