Netherlands Enterprise Agency has awarded Fugro has been awarded a geotechnical site investigation survey contract for the Hollandse Kust (zuid) Wind Farm Zone, in the Netherlands. This follows previous contracts awarded earlier this鈥
云顶赌场老虎机 wind is headed toward new highs with the North Sea region serving as the backbone of the global market, says Douglas-Westwood鈥檚 Celia Hayes. Image from iStock. The offshore鈥
Siemens has begun construction at its new wind turbine plant in Cuxhaven, one year after the initial investment decision. Soil compaction and the preparation of the pile foundation, with 1900 concrete piles, have already been completed. Construction鈥
Work has started on a UK offshore wind farm which will be the first to use 66kV cables and the first in the UK to use gravity based foundations. Onshore construction work has started on the project, EDF Energy Renewables' Blyth wind farm鈥
The offshore substation jacket for the Dudgeon 云顶赌场老虎机 Wind Farm, made in Lowestoft by Sembmarine SLP, has been successfully installed in the seabed on site. The four-legged jacket, designed and built by Sembmarine SLP, stands at a near-perfect verticality of 0鈥
The second turbine bound for EDF鈥檚 Paimpol-Bréhat tidal array has been successfully deployed by OpenHydro, a DCNS company. When the turbines are connected to the grid over the summer the project will be the world鈥檚 first grid-connected tidal array鈥
While Europe has been leading the charge in offshore wind development, the US and other regions including India are starting to build activity. In India, there are two main regions, the states of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, on the west coast of India鈥
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has initiated a new project with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to capture the wealth of knowledge and experience amassed in Orkney through testing wave energy devices in real sea conditions. Results鈥
Siemens has received a further order for an offshore wind power plant in Scotland. The company is to supply, install, and commission 84 wind turbines, each with a 154m rotor diameter designed to generate 7MW of power, for the 'Beatrice' project鈥
Subsea 7 and Dutch contractor Seaway Heavy Lifting are to work together on the Beatrice offshore wind farm. The wind farm, operated by SSE, was given the green light today, and has been described as one of the largest private investments made in Scottish infrastructure鈥
Bladt Industries and Semco Maritime are been awarded a contract to build three substations for the Hornsea Project One, described by its developer as the world's largest offshore wind farm. It is the first time in Bladt Industries鈥 and鈥
Norway's DNV GL has been awarded a contract by China's COSCO Shipping Company for the installation engineering services for the BorWin gamma high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter platform. The Dutch-German transmission system operator鈥
Orkney-based Scotrenewables Tidal Power has launched its 2MW SR2000, the world鈥檚 largest energy generating tidal turbine. The company launched the 550-tonne machine at Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries in Belfast on 12 May. This is the first commercial scale machine the company has built鈥
A jacket built for the for the Dudgeon 云顶赌场老虎机 Wind Farm offshore substation by Sembmarine SLP in Lowestoft, England, sailed away from the yard yesterday (11 May). The 1500-tonne structure that has dominated Lowestoft鈥檚 port skyline鈥
DeepOcean has named its latest vessel, the Maersk Connector, in Newcastle. The ceremony was held at A&P Tyne, where work to install the duel concentric 7000-tonne split capacity basket carousel, loading arms and associated cable handling equipment is nearing completion鈥
