E.ON’s Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm is making progress with 37 of 73 turbines already installed. E.ON UK Chief Executive, Tony Cocker confirmed this in a press release accompanying its interim financial results. First wind turbines at the project’s site were installed at the end of July, and a
On October 24, the Concept Scoping Report for the Dutch offshore wind site off the town of Borssele was published for public consultation. This concept scoping report has been prepared by Pondera Consult and Grontmij and describes what the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) will examine. The obje
During the 3rd General Assembly of the INFLOW (INdustrialization setup of a FLoating Offshore Wind turbine) demo project, which was held on October 22nd 2014, it was announced that a key milestone of the project has been successfully reached. The offshore site for testing the novel floating vertical
Diving and subsea engineering specialist Red7Marine Offshore has concluded a successful six-month diving campaign at London Array, the world’s largest operating offshore wind farm. Winter weather prevented completion of the work at one of the 175 turbines in the Thames Estuary; the small amount of r
WindMW GmbH has officially opened the Meerwind Süd|Ost offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The offshore wind farm is located 23 kilometers off the island of Helgoland and consists of 80 Siemens 3.6 MW wind turbines with a total capacity of 288 megawatts. Construction of Meerwind began in 201
Boskalis Offshore worked on the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm located 14 kilometers off Walney Island. The company was responsible for the post-lay installation of scour protection around 108 monopiles. 92,000 TE of 9 – 18” armour rock was installed through the side dump unit of DP fallpip
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners has acquired 25% of the UK offshore wind project Beatrice. The Beatrice project is located in Outer Moray Firth, Scotland and is one of five offshore wind projects in the UK awarded an Investment Contract by the UK government (fixed inflation indexed settlement pri
During October 2014 Inch Cape offshore wind farm accomplished another very important milestone in its development: an offshore met mast has been installed to gather accurate wind resource, wind direction and wind velocity data. The mast has a gravity base foundation mainly made out of concrete. This
Pontoon specialist Marine Designs Ltd, part of the A&P Group, has completed its 11th offshore wind related project with the installation of crew transfer pontoons in Grimsby Fish Docks for E.ON’s Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm Project. The company, based in Falmouth, Cornwall, designs, builds and
Ofgem today granted Transmission Capital (TC) Lincs OFTO Limited a licence to own and operate the transmission link to the Lincs wind farm. Lincs is located eight kilometres off the coast of Skegness and comprises 75 turbines generating 270MW, which is enough to provide clean energy to 200,000 homes
The order for AMBAU to manufacture 41 transition pieces (TPs) for Bladt Industries A/S to be used in the EnBW Baltic 2 wind farm came to an end on 16 October 2014 as the TPs were loaded for shipment. With a footprint of 13.5 metres, these TPs were the largest components ever to have left the facilit
Chinese company, Ming Yang Wind Power has installed super compact drive (SCD) 6.5WM wind turbine at Longyuan Rudong Intertidal Wind Farm in Jiangsu province. Zhenhua Heavy’s construction vessel carried out the installation in calm weather. Longyuan Rudong wind farm is used as a testing ground for 9
EDF Energy Renewables (EDF ER) has acquired the rights to develop the Blyth Offshore Wind Demonstration Project near the port of Blyth in Northumberland, securing both the seabed rights from The Crown Estate, and associated land rights and meteorological data from the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE)
MPI Offshore’s wind-turbine-installation vessel, MPI Adventure, has successfully completed the installation of the Humber Gateway Substation, following a very efficient transportation and installation period. This contract, which was undertaken for E.ON, involved the load out and installation of a t
