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Statoil Seeks Lease for U.S.’s First Floating Wind Farm
The world’s first full-scale floating wind turbine, Hywind, being assembled in the Åmøy Fjord near Stavanger, Norway in 2009, before deployment in the North Sea. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Statoil ASA,...
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Portugal Installs First Floating Offshore Wind Turbine [VIDEO]
Click here to view the embedded video. Located 4000 meters off the northern Portuguese shoreline in approximately 50 meters of water, a pioneering piece of floating machinery is delivering up to 2MW of...
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Look up there! It’s a bird, it’s a plane…no, it’s a ship?!
Photo : Crew Seafox 5 ©Workfox B.V. Yes, that’s right, it’s a ship [a self-propelled DP2 jack-up, heavy lift ship to be precise]. For the uninitiated, it could look like the Empire’s AT-AT landing...
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Subsea Power Links Unbuilt Windmills
Photo of UK windmills by electropod Dusseldorf – German consumers are paying millions of euros to link the national power grid to windmills in the North Sea that haven’t yet been built, grid operator...
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M/V Windlifter – Interesting Ship Of The Week
The M/V Windlifter concept vessel is a Dynamically Positioned single lift offshore wind turbine installation vessel not limited by waterdepth. With an X-BOW® hull design, the Windlifter can transport 4...
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Testing Offshore Wind Technology – Scotland To Build Massive Center
Hunterston, Scotland Scottish Enterprise (SSE), a public body of the Scottish Government dedicated to economic development and innovation, is investing up to £4.3 ($7 USD) million to build an offshore...
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U.S. Awards Second Offshore Wind Farm Lease But Uncertainty Remains
(Bloomberg) — The U.S. Interior Department agreed to lease more than 96,400 acres of ocean off the Delaware coast for an offshore wind farm, while NRG Energy Inc., the project’s owner, considers...
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U.S. Announces First-Ever Offshore Wind Energy Lease Sales
Image (c) Eugene Suslo/Shutterstock The U.S. Department of The Interior today announced the nation’s first-ever lease sales for renewable energy development in two wind energy areas (WEAs) on the...
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European Interest Boosts Confidence in US Offshore Wind
(Bloomberg) — European energy companies are considering participating in U.S. offshore wind-farm auctions, a sign of increasing confidence in the viability of marine-based wind power off U.S. shores,...
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U.S. to Award $169 Million to Offshore Wind Pilot Projects
By Andrew Herndon The U.S. Department of Energy will award as much as $169 million to seven proposed offshore wind projects in six states. The wind farms, off the coasts of Maine, New Jersey, Ohio,...
View ArticleABS 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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