Floating turbines

Bureau Veritas, a testing, inspection, and certification service, has delivered an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for its design and development of “Hi-Float,” a floating offshore wind turbine foundation. Based on HHI’s experience with offshore projects, the offshore floating wind substructure Hi-Float is designed to support a 10-MW wind turbine with…

Atlantic Wind Transfers of Quonset Point, Rhode Island has secured its second long-term operations and maintenance (O&M) Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) contract in the United States to provide offshore marine support services for the Siemens Gamesa offshore wind turbines to be installed for the first offshore wind project in U.S. federal waters. Atlantic Wind Transfers…

Turbine components and monopiles for Dominion Energy and Ørsted’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) pilot project are en route to North America, with the project team and vessel crews successfully navigating the worldwide coronavirus pandemic to keep the team safe and the project on schedule. The foundations, consisting of the turbines’ monopiles, transition pieces and…

DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy experts and certification body, leads a consortium to update the Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator Roadmap for the commercial acceptance of floating LiDAR technology. The other members of the consortium are Frazer Nash Consultancy, Multiversum and Fraunhofer IWES. The updated roadmap is accepted as the international industry framework…

A key patent for offshore floating wind turbines was recently issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. U.S. Patent 10,024,307 Floating Marine Wind Turbine is for floating foundations using a single vertical tube, ballasted at the bottom, with the tower projecting from the top — typically called “spar buoy.” “We introduced this simple idea…

  Written by Greg Lupion Contributor Three months after deployment, the world’s first floating wind farm surpassed performance expectations, according to its operator, Statoil. The five-turbine, 30-MW Hywind Scotland Pilot Park — situated 15 miles off the Aberdeenshire Coast — operated at 65% of its maximum theoretical capacity last November, December, and January, the Norwegian…

The development of floating offshore wind will be held up by the limitations of current port infrastructure, recent research has revealed. As part of the Floating Wind Joint Industry Report, published on behalf of the Carbon Trust, LOC Renewables, a marine and engineering consultancy, together with WavEC and Cathie Associates, examined the logistical challenges relating…

DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy experts and certification body, has published the revised standard for design of floating wind turbine structures DNV GL-ST-0119, and a new guideline for the certification of floating wind turbines, DNVGL-SE-0422. Together, the two documents define design and certification requirements for floating offshore wind turbine concepts, prototypes and projects. The guidelines provide…

The article was first published by New Energy Update Germany’s ENBW has entered the North American offshore wind market by joining Trident Wind’s project to build up to 1 GW of floating wind capacity off the coast of central California. ENBW has created a regional subsidiary, EnBW North America, and formed a joint venture with Trident…

Principle Power recently announced its involvement in a European Commission funded project to accelerate the adoption of the next generation of high capacity offshore wind turbines.  Involving the most experienced offshore industry stakeholders, the ReaLCoE project, led by German turbine manufacturer Senvion, serves a strategic mission to develop the “Next Generation 10+MW rated, Robust, Reliable and Large Offshore Wind…

Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) is moving into the U.S. wind-energy market by establishing a regional subsidiary, EnBW North America, and forming a joint venture with Seattle’s Trident Winds to develop an offshore-wind project off the coast of Central California. The initial focus of the joint venture is to obtain a site lease from the Bureau of…

Magellan Wind and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have joined forces to embark upon an early-stage development portfolio of floating offshore wind projects off the California coast and other areas of the United States. Magellan will contribute knowledge of U.S. leasing, permitting, offtake, transmission, and interconnection, and CIP will provide project design, engineering, finance, construction, and operations.…

Ideol and STX Europe Offshore Energy are teaming up to develop a breakthrough floating substation that will be compatible with both bottom-fixed and floating offshore wind farms. The solution aims at being market-ready for France’s upcoming floating commercial tenders. Based on Ideol’s shallow-draft Damping Pool concept and designed to operate in the world’s most extreme environments,…

SeaTwirl and Siemens have entered into a cooperation agreement focused on developing the technical parts of a floating wind turbine. SeaTwirl is working to launch a commercial-sized floating wind turbine in 2020. ”Siemens is working for a smart and digital industrial production where renewable energy will lead to sustainable industrial production,” said Göran Persson, division…