Friday 27th September 2013 marks the first anniversary of the official opening ceremony of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm, owned by Statoil and Statkraft. To date, total electricity generation from the wind farm is 1.2 TWh. One year ago Norfolk’s majestic Holkham Hall was the setting for th
Torridge Council has backed down from allowing the Atlantic Array offshore wind farm construction. A couple of weeks ago, Torridge and Devon County councilors made no objections to the offshore wind project. However, Torridge Council voted 15:7 on Monday to withdraw their positive response to the pr
The installation phase of the first AREVA M5000 turbines has begun for the German offshore wind farm Global Tech I and Trianel Windpark Borkum in the North Sea. By 2014, these two parks will host 120 turbines (40 at Trianel Windpark Borkum, 80 at Global Tech I) for an installed capacity of 600 megaw
The following is a statement of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound (APNS), released after the news that the biggest utilities in Massachusetts have signed long-term contracts to buy 565 MW of electricity from wind farms in Maine and New Hampshire at prices competitive with conventional sources:
Alstom has hired “Bold Tern” jack-up installation vessel, owned by Fred. Olsen Windcarrier, to complete the offshore operations at the Belwind offshore wind farm. Recently, the company announced that they have faced a delay during the installation of Alstom’s 6MW Haliade 150 offshore wind turbine, f
A lot is happening on the offshore wind power front in Japan. In June Japan unveiled its first commercial floating turbine in Asia and the 2-megawatt turbine off the coast of Fukushima will start operation on 7 October. The first project phase, which included the setting of the Hitachi downwind-type
Windreich GmbH continues driving the development of the offshore wind farm MEG I and targets the financial close within this year. Negotiations on the new management with suppliers, potential investors and the advisory banks were positive. “We are pleased by the constructive feed-back which we got f
Yesterday, the Belgian Prime Minister Elio di Rupo officially inaugurated the Thornton Bank offshore wind farm. With a capacity of 325 megawatts (MW), the wind farm is the largest in the Belgian North Sea and will provide green electricity to 300,000 households each year. Eight European banks, the G
The munitions clearing company and the Lower Saxony munitions disposal service issued the release for the last section of the Riffgat route on September 13. The route was planned by the wind farm operator and approved by the state of Lower Saxony; transmission system operator TenneT was forced to ta
PNE WIND AG has acquired three offshore projects in the North Sea through its subsidiaries “Atlantis” I to III from BARD Engineering GmbH. The projects have been developed so far from the previous owner, and they are currently in the planning approval process at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic
The world’s leading cable protection company for the offshore wind industry, Tekmar Energy, has been awarded a cable protection contract by DONG Energy for the Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm. Situated eight kilometres off the coast of Hull, Westermost Rough windfarm will cover an area of 35 sq
Two subsea cables which connect the London Array offshore wind farm to the shore are about to be bought by Mitsubishi Corporation and Barclays Plc investment fund, Reuters informs. The investment of around JPY 100 billion includes the acquisition of 55km of power transmission cable and the accompany
Nordseewerke shipyard in Emden has been awarded a contract to build large foundations for an offshore wind farm. The project, worth almost EUR 10 million, should begin in early November. The client is the Nobiskrug shipyard in Rendsburg (Schleswig-Holstein). Later on, a residential platform for the
SCIRA, the developer of Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm, have extended their rental of the eight JET 9000 Q HV navigation buoys that are being used to mark the site. Hydrosphere originally deployed the buoys with the Trinity House Vessel Galatea in February 2010. A full maintenance visit of the
