We are bringing you a list of ten most read news on offshoreWIND.biz in the month of November 2019. Japanese Trio Orders Big Wind Turbine Installer Penta-Ocean Construction, Kajima Corporation, and Yorigami Maritime Construction have agreed to jointly construct a wind farm installation vessel capabl
HSM Offshore BV has rolled out the topside for the Borssele Beta offshore high voltage substation at its yard in Schiedam, the Netherlands. Once completed in 2020, the 700MW Borssele Beta will connect the 731.5MW Borssele 3 & 4 wind farm to the Dutch grid. The offshore construction on the wind farm
First Subsea has delivered the cable protection system for the beach landing export cables on the WindFloat Atlantic floating wind project in Portugal. According to the UK-based company, the cable protection system is designed to suit the export cable and consists of clamps, bellmouth and cable prot
2010, ZephIR HQ, Worcestershire, U.K.: the ZephIR 300 Lidar – a remote sensing wind measurement tool capable of collecting wind data remotely from its installed location by use of a infra-red laser – was born, following an 18 month product development program that focused on improving the ‘usability
2010, ZephIR HQ, Worcestershire, U.K.: the ZephIR 300 Lidar – a remote sensing wind measurement tool capable of collecting wind data remotely from its installed location by use of a infra-red laser – was born, following an 18 month product development program that focused on improving the ‘usabilit
Crown Estate Scotland has confirmed the timeline for the launch of the ScotWind leasing round for offshore wind projects. Crown Estate Scotland has confirmed that the launch of ScotWind will take place after the publication of Marine Scotland’s draft Sectoral Marine Plan (SMP) as announced in Septem
Lindø port of Odense has signed a purchase agreement with Liebherr for a mobile harbor crane that is said to be capable of handling giant offshore wind turbines. The crane is a custom-built Heavy Lift version with High Rise of the world’s largest mobile harbor crane, Liebherr’s LHM 800, Lindø port o
Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard has launched the first specialized deck carrier, which will be used by MHI Vestas to transport offshore wind turbine components, at its yard in Zhenjiang, China. The 148.5-metre deck carrier, named Boldwind, is the first in a series of two vessels ordered by Germany’s Unit
Ørsted has partnered with safety innovators Active Training Team Ltd (ATT) to build a learning center which will serve a number of industries across the Humber, the UK. The facility, to be designed by ATT and located at MODAL’s training complex in Immingham, will start off hosting an induction day d
The UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and the Danish Energy Innovation Cluster have signed an innovation collaboration agreement for the offshore wind sector. The two organizations will work together to develop a technology roadmap for offshore wind, highlighting innovation and R&D oppor
The UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and the Danish Energy Innovation Cluster have signed an innovation collaboration agreement for the offshore wind sector. The two organizations will work together to develop a technology roadmap for offshore wind, highlighting innovation and R&D oppor
The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has revealed the winners of the competition designed to accelerate the development of technologies that have the potential to reduce emissions and fuel consumption for crew transfer vessels (CTVs) in offshore wind. The winners are Chartwell Marine a
Van Oord-Cablel Hellenic Cables consortium has awarded First Subsea with a contract to supply a cable protection system (CPS) for the Hollandse Kust (zuid) export cables, and a cross over protection for TenneT’s Net op zee Hollandse Kust (zuid). Under the contract, First Subsea will engineer, test,
Equinor and Masdar have joined forces with Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult to share operational data from the Hywind Scotland floating offshore wind farm. The floating offshore wind data is available for supply chain businesses and academia through ORE Catapult’s Platform for Operational Da
