Denmark’s Samso offshore wind farm, also known as Paludans Flak, is out of action after one of the turbines collapsed and crashed into the sea early Saturday morning, Søren Hermansen, Director of the Samso Energy Academy, confirmed to Offshore WIND. The break happened on a steel tower of the turbine
Germany’s EMS Maritime Offshore GmbH (EMO) will provide a marine coordination team during the construction phase of the 332MW offshore wind farm Nordsee One. The marine coordination team will take care of 24/7 coordination of all construction activities at the offshore site and work in close coopera
Crown Estate Creates Offshore Wind Interactive Map The Crown Estate has launched an interactive map that shows the estimated percentage of UK electricity demand being met by offshore wind on an hourly basis. Vibratory Piling Faster and Less Noisy, Tests Show Results of a project testing vibratory me
Cargotec’s MacGregor has won an order for substructure connection mooring systems for Statoil’s Hywind pilot park in Scotland, the world’s first floating offshore wind farm. MacGregor will be responsible for the delivery of the Pusnes substructure mooring connection system for the project’s five flo
Statoil has awarded a contract to Isleburn Limited in North of Scotland for providing the suction anchors to the world’s first floating wind farm. Isleburn Limited, part of Global Energy Group, will provide 15 suction anchors for the Hywind pilot park to be delivered in the beginning of 2017. “The s
The submarine cable that connects Anholt offshore wind farm to the grid has been repaired. Energinet.dk reported that the repair work has gone faster than expected and that DONG Energy’s 400MW Anholt offshore wind farm has been feeding power to the Danish grid since Saturday. The replacement of the
Lancashire-based VolkerInfra has been awarded its first contract with Siemens Energy which will see the company work on the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm. The company will install extra high voltage cables required to connect the onshore substation to the wind farm which is off the Norfolk coast. Volke
Germany’s EMS Maritime Offshore GmbH (EMO) and Veja Mate Offshore Project GmbH signed a contract for guarding the offshore wind farm with its fleet of guard vessel. Starting in January 2016, the vessel provided by EMO will evaluate if any risk of collision or unauthorised entrance from non project-r
The first five of total 15 tower sections arrived Wednesday at the Port of Providence, where Deepwater Wind and General Electric (GE) are setting up a new temporary facility for the assembly of turbine components for the Block Island Wind Farm. GE recently acquired Alstom’s offshore wind unit and is
ScottishPower Renewables has agreed on a GBP 25 million, thirty-year deal with the Port of Lowestoft to act as a construction and operations hub for the East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm. Following discussions with Associated British Ports, ScottishPower Renewables will utilise the Port of Lowestof
ScottishPower Renewables has officially submitted plans for East Anglia THREE, a new 1,200MW wind farm to be located off the coast of Suffolk. The East Anglia THREE development will require up to 172 wind turbines, and covers an area of 305km2 in the southern North Sea. Once completed, the wind farm
Today’s speech by the UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd which has set out the Government’s future direction for energy policy has given offshore wind developers confidence to make further investments in the British economy, according to RenewableUK’s Deputy Chief Executive Maf Smith. According to Smith
Denmark-based offshore wind power developer DONG Energy plans to invest GBP 6 billion in the Humber region over the period of 2013 – 2019, according to a new report released during the UK’s first Offshore Wind Week. The report titled Impact of DONG Energy Investments in the Humber Area shows that ov
AMBAU started fabricating the 43m long tower sections for Nordergründe wind farm’s turbines at its facilities in Cuxhaven. The company said this is a result of an integrated design approach of a tower, transition piece and monopile foundation. The remaining required tower length will be realized by
