ABS Releases Comprehensive Guide for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has released the ABS Guide for Building and Classing Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Installations to provide the most comprehensive requirements to date. Based on...
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US Announces First Offshore Wind Farm Lease Auction
(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Interior announced this week that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold the first ever competitive lease sale for renewable energy in federal waters...
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Thialf Installs World’s Highest-Voltage Offshore Converter Station
Thialf, the world’s largest crane vessel was recently put to work in the North Sea by Swiss power and automation group, ABB, to install the world’s highest-voltage offshore converter station. In a...
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Damen’s “Twin Axe” Windfarm Support Vessels in High Demand as Sure Wind Takes...
Image: Damen Offshore wind farm support vessel owner Sure Wind has accepted delivery of the first of two Damen “Twin Axe Fast Crew Suppliers” ordered last September. A Damen FCS 2610 design, the vessel...
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High Tech Yellow Boxes Transmit Germany’s Wind Power to Shore
BorWin2 converter station, image: Siemens Off the North Sea coast of Germany is an impressive array of wind farms that feed an enormous amount of renewable energy to the European power grid. Due to...
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HelWin Beta HVDC Converter Station Leaves Zwijndrecht
Image: TenneT On Saturday June 14, the topside structure of TenneT’s HelWin beta high voltage converter station left Heerema Fabrication Group’s (HFG’s) yard in Zwijndrecht, Netherlands. This 10,200...
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World’s Most Powerful Heavy-Lift Jackup Installs Rotor Stars Offshore Germany...
The wind farm installation vessel Innovation, owned by the HOCHTIEF subsidiary HGO InfraSea Solutions is currently installing rotor stars offshore Germany at the Global Tech I offshore wind farm....
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UK Storm Drives Wind Turbines to Record Output Levels
Image (c) Carlos Moura/shutterstock.com By Rachel Morison Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) — Heavy gales battering the U.K. will peak in the north later today before heading south, leaving thousands of homes...
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WATCH: Offshore Wind Turbine Technician – No Job for Wimps
Atop a 60-meter tall wind turbine tower. Check out this series of videos from Siemens highlighting the daily life of offshore wind turbine technician, André Carstens. In the videos, Carstens explains...
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Ulstein Lands First ‘X-Stern’ Order
An illustration of the ULSTEIN SX175 offshore wind service vessels for Windea. Illuatrations courtesy Ulstein Norwegian shipbuilding group Ulstein says it has booked its first order for newbuilds...
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United States’ Deepwater Wind Block Island Now Fully Financed
File image (c) Teun van den Dries/shutterstock.com Deepwater Wind Block Island, a 30-megawatt offshore wind farm development project located south of Rhode Island, is now fully-funded following the...
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Van Oord Christens Nexus, First Offshore Wind Cable Layer [IMAGES]
Van Oord’s newest, and only cable-laying ship Nexus was christened this past weekend by Mrs J. Damen-Carli, the wife of Mr Kommer Damen, chairman of Damen Shipyards Group. The ship is designed to...
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