The Texas A&M Energy Institute’s Wind Energy Center will lead the Texas’ Offshore Wind Farm Innovation team as part of the Gulf Offshore Wind (GoWind) Project, which will be the most innovative wind farm built to date and will generate power at peak demand and a high capacity factor. The Wind Energy
Taiwan Generations Corporation (TGC) has been awarded as the first-place winner of the Offshore Wind Grant Scheme (the Grant Scheme) by the Bureau of Energy in Taiwan. The Grant Scheme will provide the financial support to the winners in order to realize a demonstration project composed of a 2-turbi
The first sets of wind turbine towers, blades, hubs and nacelles have arrived into the Port of Mostyn for installation at RWE npower renewables’ Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm. The Siemens 3.6 megawatt turbine components arrived on board a RoRo ferry, SeaTruck Pace, from Denmark on Friday (18th Jan)
The first four of eight piles for offshore wind turbines were loaded on January 20 in Vlissingen for shipment to offshore wind farm DanTysk located in the North Sea, 70 kilometers west of the island of Sylt on the border between the Germany and Denmark. The 65 meter long piles will be carried with 1
At the end of 2012, New England’s first two offshore wind projects, Cape Wind and the Block Island Wind Farm, each moved steps closer to fruition. Maine’s efforts to stimulate an offshore wind industry comprised of floating wind turbines took several key steps forward, while Statoil, developer of th
The innovative suction-installed foundations that represent the first stage of construction at the world’s largest offshore wind farm are now on their way to the site at Dogger Bank, 125 kilometres off the UK’s east coast. The structures, known as Bucket Foundations, will support two meteorological
Mainstream Renewable Power, the global renewable energy company that is proposing to develop the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm off the coast of Fife, has submitted a planning application to East Lothian Council for the onshore works required to connect the wind farm to the National Grid. The p
The Teesside offshore wind farm has reached an important milestone with the installation of the project’s first turbine. Operator EDF Energy Renewables has now completed the installation of the tower, nacelle and rotor blades of the first of the 27, 2.3MW wind turbine generators to be erected on the
Since spring 2012, DONG Energy has systematically established the operations organisation which will take over operation and maintenance of Anholt Offshore Wind Farm, and the first nine wind turbines are now managed by the operation and maintenance organisation. The first wind turbine technicians st
At the end of 2012, 18 wind turbines had been installed in Anholt Offshore Wind Farm, and 14 of these wind turbines had already produced electricity. This number is a little lower than expected, primarily considering the very windy periods in the last quarter of 2012. However, in December 2012, the
It is ever more evident that Windreich AG has turned out to be the cornerstone of the energy transition’s success. Willi Balz, CEO of Windreich AG said: “While BARD, EnBW, Dong and, most recently, RWE announce delays or project halts, our projects, led by Global Tech I and MEG 1, are running as plan
A planning application for the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), regarding onshore works related to the project, has been submitted by the developers to Aberdeenshire Council. The submitted application is for a cable route and substation compound to the south-east of Blackdog village
E.ON has temporarily withdrawn the planning application for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm, which it submitted on December 14. The energy company sent a letter to the Planning Inspectorate on January 2, which is published on the Inspectorate’s website, expressing its wish to withdraw the application
On Saturday 29 December 2012, the substation for Northwind Offshore Wind Park has arrived at Bladt’s facilities in Aalborg. The substation has been pre-fabricated by a subcontractor in Poland and after a long journey from Poland to Northern Denmark, it arrived in two sections – ready to be assembled
