Norway’s Entrion Wind and Techano AS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) through which Techano AS will join the ongoing development and test project planned to take place in Kristiansand, Norway for the patent-pending fully restrained platform (FRP) offshore wind foundation technology sa
Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Goldwind and China Three Gorges (CTG) Corporation held a ceremony in the Fujian offshore wind industrial park on 13 October as Goldwind rolled out the nacelle for its first 13.6 MW turbine that will have a rotor diameter of 252 metres. While Vestas’s and Siemens Ga
Wind Catching Systems has received a technology development grant of NOK 22 million (about USD 2.1 million) from government enterprise Enova to support the design, construction and testing of an offshore wind turbine that the company plans to install in its floating multi-turbine structure named the
Seaqualize has signed a contract with DEME Offshore US to deploy their newly developed offshore lifting device, the Heave Chief 1100 (HC1100), on Vineyard Wind 1, the first commercial-scale offshore wind project in the United States. DEME Offshore and Seaqualize have been working together on develop
Vestas has announced plans to establish a new factory in Szczecin, Poland, which will assemble components for the company’s flagship offshore wind turbine, the V236-15.0 MW model. The factory will produce nacelles and hubs for Vestas’ flagship unit which was introduced by the firm in February last y
Global engineering company 2H Offshore, in collaboration with ORE Catapult and on behalf of the Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) Centre of Excellence, has developed a qualification framework for dynamic inter-array cable technology for floating offshore wind. The scope of the framework, which is part of
Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence (FOW CoE), part of the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, has launched two new strategic programmes with the aim to accelerate the development and qualification of critical floating wind technologies. One programme will focus on dynamic inter-array
Marine Power Systems (MPS) and WavEC, one of the co-managers of the Aguçadoura test site offshore Viana do Castelo, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on deploying MPS modular floating platform technology, PelaFlex, at the Portuguese test site. The news comes shortly after MPS signed a
Environmental Resources Management (ERM), the developer of the Dolphyn technology, has awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract to Principle Power for a 10 MW floating wind-to-hydrogen demonstration project in Scotland. The ERM Dolphyn concept employs a modular design integrating elect
Spain-based renewable energy developer Acciona Energía, together with its compatriot engineering company BlueNewables, has developed two floating foundation solutions for offshore wind turbines, for which the company says can be mass-produced and reduce manufacturing costs and carbon footprint. The
Bridon-Bekaert has announced an equity investment in TFI Marine which has developed patent-protected load reduction devices for floating offshore wind mooring systems. The Ireland-based TFI Marine has developed SeaSpring, a polymer-based mooring component that the company says reduces the mooring lo
Siemens Gamesa has started the assembly process of the SG 14-236 DD offshore wind turbine prototype to be installed at the Danish national test center for large wind turbines in Oesterild. The SG 14-236 DD features a 236-metre diameter rotor, with a 43,500 m2 swept area, approximately the size of 6.
Swiss construction company Implenia and Norway’s WindWorks Jelsa (WWJ) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly offer the production of concrete structures and general services to the floating offshore wind industry in Jelsa, on the Norwegian west coast. Implenia and WindWorks Jels
Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm (PFOWF) consortium has selected Stiesdal Offshore’s TetraSub as the floating foundation technology for the 100 MW Pentland floating offshore wind farm located off the north coast of Scotland. Developed by Henrik Stiesdal, the Tetra concept is the world’s first fu
