SSE has opened the first round of the Partnership Fund for the Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm (BOWL), making GBP 600,000 available to support transformative community projects in both Highland and Moray in the first year. The Beatrice Partnership Fund, worth a total of GBP 3 million over a five-year pe
SSE has opened the first round of the Partnership Fund for the Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm (BOWL), making GBP 600,000 available to support transformative community projects in both Highland and Moray in the first year. The Beatrice Partnership Fund, worth a total of GBP 3 million over a five-year pe
K2 Management has been awarded a contract for a feasibility study for an offshore wind farm in South Korea. The company said that, on its client’s request, it will not disclose any project-related information. K2 Management will partner up with a local engineering company for the development of wind
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will support the construction of the Norther wind farm off the Belgian coast with a loan of EUR 438 million, with half of the amount to be guaranteed under the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI). The total cost of the project is estimated to be EUR 1.1
Norther N. V. has taken Final Investment Decision (FID) for the Norther project and awarded MHI Vestas with a contract for the supply of 44 of its 8MW wind turbines. Van Oord has been hired as the Balance of Plant contractor. The V164-8.0 MW turbines have been optimised for the project, utilising a
Last night, A2SEA’s Sea Installer completed the installation of 32 MHI Vestas 8MW turbines at DONG Energy’s Burbo Bank Extension in the Irish Sea. At 8:25PM GMT yesterday, the final blade on turbine 32 at Burbo Bank Extension was lifted into place. The 258MW wind farm off the coast of Liverpool, UK
DONG Energy is teaming up with Eversource Energy, a transmission builder from New England who has acquired a 50% ownership interest in Bay State Wind, to jointly develop the project planned off Massachusetts, the United States. The proposed offshore wind farm would be located approximately 15-25 mil
DONG Energy is teaming up with Eversource Energy, a transmission builder from New England who has acquired a 50% ownership interest in Bay State Wind, to jointly develop the project planned off Massachusetts, the United States. The proposed offshore wind farm would be located approximately 15-25 mil
Mooreast will supply nine of its Mooreast MA5P anchors for a floating wind turbine demonstration project off Kitakyushu, Japan, set to enter the construction phase next year. Glocal Inc., a Japanese company which is part of the consortium behind the demonstration project, carried out product perform
Last week, all 150 wind turbines at the Gemini offshore wind farm produced power simultaneously. “Testing and final works will be continued, to ensure the wind park is completed on time in Q1/2 2017,” the project team said on their media pages. Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel Aeolus installe
Last week, all 150 wind turbines at the Gemini offshore wind farm produced power simultaneously. “Testing and final works will be continued, to ensure the wind park is completed on time in Q1/2 2017,” the project team said on their media pages. Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel Aeolus installe
AXYS Technologies’ FLiDAR WindSentinel buoy has been deployed in Brittany, France. Equipped with dual LiDAR sensors, WindSentinel will measure the wind resource and expected energy production at the Bay of Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm, developed by Ailes Marines. The WindSentinel system will be d
TenneT has connected the Veja Mate offshore wind farm to the BorWin2 offshore grid connection. With wind turbines yet to be installed, the grid connection will be used to obtain power for the works carried out during the construction phase. The connection between BorWin beta and Veja Mate’s substati
Buss Orange Blue Terminal and Senvion have signed an agreement for the Nordsee One offshore wind farm, under which Buss will take care of planning, transport and interim storage on the terminal premises to pre-assembly and subsequent delivery of the components to the quayside. From February 2017, a
