COSCO Shipping (Qidong) Offshore has awarded Huisman with a contract to design and construct a Leg Encircling Crane (LEC) for Cadeler’s newbuild F-class jack-up vessel. The contract award follows last year’s contracts for two identical 2,600mt Leg Encircling Cranes for Cadeler’s X-class vessels. Wit
The impending shortage of specialised vessels in offshore wind is not limited to the installation phase and could hit areas of project development such as seabed mapping and UXO surveys, according to a US company that recently introduced a solution to this issue in the form of a portable autonomous
For the first time ever in the renewables industry, special collars were installed around the monopile foundation at the seabed level on RWE’s Kaskasi wind farm offshore Germany. The ‘collared monopile’ is a design based on a RWE patent. The new technology is expected to provide additional support f
Ørsted and venture capital firms Nysnø Climate Investments (Nysnø), Wiski Capital, Norrsken Foundation, and Antler have invested, via a seed funding round, in a “deep-tech” start-up Spoor that is developing an artificial intelligence (AI) system to monitor and track birdlife at offshore wind farms.
MingYang Smart Energy has produced its first MySE 12 MW hybrid drive offshore wind turbine at the Guangdong Shanwei manufacturing facility in China. The model has been designed to withstand super typhoons of 78.82 m/s. MySE 12 MW, which is certified by the China General Certification Center (CGC) is
Azerbaijan has the potential to install 7 GW of offshore wind power by 2040 with the right long-term vision, infrastructure development, investment, and policies according to the recently released roadmap. The first-of-its-kind Offshore Wind Roadmap for Azerbaijan was released by the Ministry of Ene
The Norway-based company OSC AS (previously known as Offshore Simulator Centre) will build a high-end simulator for Jan De Nul’s two next generation offshore wind installation vessels, Voltaire and Les Alizés. The crane simulator will be a digital twin, based on real physics and the actual vessel mo
DNV, together with 30 industry partners, has launched a new Joint Industry Project (JIP) aimed at improving technology development for floating offshore wind substations, with a particular focus on how export cables and topside equipment tolerate movements of a floating substructure. The objective i
China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has towed what it says is the country’s largest floating wind turbine to its designated location in waters south of Guangdong Province. The floater, called Fuyao and developed by CSSC’s subsidiary Haizhuang Wind Power, is equipped with a 6.2 MW typhoon-res
Spain’s Acciona Energía has acquired 24 per cent of the capital of Eolink, a French company specializing in the development of floating offshore wind foundations, becoming the main shareholder in the process. The operation, subject to certain conditions, follows a financing round launched by the Fre
Siemens Gamesa is currently producing the first recyclable blades to be installed on an offshore wind farm at its factory in Hull, the UK. The wind turbine manufacturer described the RecycleBlade as the world’s first wind turbine blade ready for commercial use offshore that can be recycled at the en
Danish engineering and consultancy company that recently decided not to take on any new oil and gas projects, COWI, is a partner on Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ (CIP) Hydrogen Island project, announced earlier this month. Together with Danish architectural firm Arkitema, COWI will assist CIP
Environmental Resources Management’s (ERM) floating wind-to-hydrogen project, ERM Dolphyn, has entered the commercial demonstration phase, which will be supported by Offshore Design Engineering (ODE) after the company just won a contract to provide topside Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) service
The following article is a guest post by Una Softic, a Global Partnerships Advisor at PowerX. Japanese company PowerX is addressing renewable energy transfer challenges with strategic partners in Japan and globally, developing a power transfer vessel – Power Ark, and building a large-scale battery a
