RentOcean, a 100 percent owned subsidiary of Oceanteam Shipping ASA, has been awarded a contract to supply Van Oord Offshore Wind Projects BV a 3000t demountable onshore turntable system and accompanying equipment for a long-term storage project. The turntable and additional equipment will be used f
A 4,400-ton substation for the EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm has been prepared for transport at the shipyard of Abu Dhabi Mar Kiel. Since a very good weather for transportation and installation offshore is expected in the next few days, the platform should be moved directly to the construction fi
Eneco’s Dutch offshore wind division has moved into a new office at the Vlissingenstraat 43 from its old building at Industriestraat. Currently, Eneco is building its second offshore wind farm, Eneco Luchterduinen together with Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation, which is leading to a significant expans
In the last week of August, the first of a total of 80 wind energy plants of the Baltic 2 offshore wind farm was erected. For INROS LACKNER this also marks an important milestone as the company is involved in the offshore wind project on behalf of EnBW. The wind farm, with a total capacity of 288 [&
RES Offshore has won a contract with Moray Offshore Renewables Limited – a joint venture between EDP Renewables and Repsol Nuevas Energias UK – to provide management contractor services for the first project within the Moray Firth Round 3 zone, located off the north-east coast of Scotland. RES Offsh
K2 Management has announced its role as the general consultant to Formosa Wind Power Co. Ltd. in helping Formosa 1 Offshore Wind Farm. Formosa 1 Offshore Wind Farm (128 MW) will be Taiwan’s first utility-size offshore wind farm planned for commissioning by 2018. K2 Management has performed wind mode
On Friday, September 12, Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick joined Cape Wind Associate’s Jim Gordon to announce that Cape Wind has entered into a lease agreement with the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) to stage its historic, first-in-the-Nation offshore wind project out of the Sout
After a feasibility study of Indian offshore wind potential, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu have been selected as ideal to feature the first Indian offshore wind farms. The two planned projects will have a 100MW capacity and will fit right into plans of the country’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy to
Scour protection work is due to recommence within the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm on the 21st September until further notice. The work will be carried out by the vessel Tideway Rollingstone. The rock dumping vessel Tideway Rollingstone will be commencing operations at various locations within and
Following the Laidlaw Capital Group’s acquisition of the Deutsche Bucht wind farm in the North Sea, around 90 km off Borkum, the UK-based company has now acquired the neighbouring Veja Mate wind farm. The purchase of the wind farm project from the BARD Group was completed yesterday. Once finished, t
Cuxport has been supporting the Dutch company Ballast Nedam Offshore in the use of an alternative technique to transport and install monopiles at the “Amrumbank West” wind park on behalf of E.ON since the middle of August. The foundation piles are no longer just transported to the offshore site on b
Fugro has undertaken two key tasks at the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm, successfully completing the trenching and burial of inter-array cables for CT Offshore and providing unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey support. Once complete, RWE Innogy’s 160-turbine Gwynt y Môr, in the Irish Sea off the North
One of the Dutch offshore wind farms, Eneco Luchterduinen is taking shape, according to Eneco. Van Oord’s jack-up vessel Aeolus installed a total of 16 foundations by 8 September. Eneco added that they faced windy weather at the beginning of August, “but the last few weeks are very good. We had some
Westermost Rough offshore wind farm produced its first electricity last week, according to Grimsby Telegraph. The wind farm, located eight kilometers off the Yorkshire Coast, is the first to feature Siemens’ 6 MW turbines in the UK. With a total capacity of 210MW it will be able to provide enough el
