So what is new is we starting to benefit from economies of scale for the offshore market. The regulatory regime is falling into place.

Utility company E.ON announced plans to install the first turbine foundation for the Rampion offshore wind project in the UK. The 40o-MW project is located in the English Channel and being built by E.ON, the UK Green Investment Bank, and Canadian energy company Enbridge. The project remains on schedule, despite adverse weather conditions that already…

DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy experts and certification body, has awarded Siemens Wind Power with final Type Certification for its new 7-MW offshore wind turbine SWT-7.0-154, confirming full IEC-61400-22 compliance ahead of schedule. The new award-winning Siemens model delivers nearly 10% more energy production than its predecessor under offshore wind conditions, while…

Big numbers sound impressive but what was the Array’s capacity factor? The figure, which can tell us more about the Array, is a percent or ratio of a wind farm’s maximum capacity.

Lloyd’s Register’s consulting business will be working with Denmark’s transmission system operator, Energinet.dk, to measure underwater sound propagation for the Horns Rev 3 wind-farm substation development. The collaboration provides a critical approach on how to control noise transmission at sea, and will help safeguard marine life and ensure a sustainable project delivery. The 400-MW Horns Rev…

Success of the offshore wind industry will depend on finding the lowest cost and lowest impact design turbine support or foundation.

he world’s largest operational offshore wind farm, London Array, has set a new record for the amount of clean electricity produced by an offshore project in a single calendar month.

Spinning high off the shores of Jiangsu and Fujian provinces in China stand the avant garde of China’s renewable energy future: wind farms that will enable the country to reach an installed wind-power capacity of 200 GW by the end of 2020*. Outpacing the Chinese government’s own projections, the rapid growth speaks of the immense…

FoundOcean has successfully completed the grouting of foundations at Gemini Wind Farm on behalf of the main contractor, Van Oord. The 600-MW offshore wind farm, situated 85 km north of the Dutch province of Groningen, is made up of 150 wind turbines and spans across two sites. Following the continued success of FoundOcean and BASF’s collaboration,…

Honeywell’s new Miller DuraSeal Self-retracting Lifeline (SRL) is designed to provide greater reliability and safety in the harshest environments, including for offshore wind-power sites. The DuraSeal SRL offers patent-pending sealed technology that prevents contaminants from entering the mechanism, earning the design an IP69K certification — the industry’s highest sealed technology rating. The seal ensures that the…

This research note analyzes offshore O&M dynamics and trends. It forecasts out of warranty offshore capacity and estimates the total market revenue potential.

Beothuk Energy, an Atlantic Canada-based company, has announced plans for a major offshore wind farm off the coast of Nova Scotia. The company has proposed to manufacture and install a 1000-MW wind farm in shallow waters off the southwest coast. The project is estimated to cost CAD 4 billion. The proposed site has world-class wind resources and will…

Fugro recently completed the burial of export cables at the Gemini offshore wind park, off the Netherlands’ coast. The company was awarded the project back in April by international contractor, Van Oord. To execute the export cable burial works, Fugro mobilized one of its two Q1400 trenching spreads onto the Van Oord support vessel, the…

MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has received an unconditional order for 40 V164-8.0 MW turbines for the offshore Walney Extension West project in the UK. The 330-MW order is placed by power-development company, DONG Energy, and the contract covers supply and commissioning of the wind turbines, as well as a five-year full-scope service contract. The project will…

Editor’s note: The Energy Department (DOE) recently deployed the AXYS WindSentinel buoy off the coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey. The buoy is intended to help researchers gather data for planning future offshore wind projects in the U.S. Here’s the release from the DOE. The United States is one step closer to harnessing the vast amount of…

With 3.6GW new capacity, 2015 is set to become a record-year for grid-connections, corresponding to a near doubling of the added capacity in 2014.

The first offshore construction season is now complete for America’s first offshore wind farm, with all five steel jacket foundations fully installed at the Block Island Wind Farm site. Construction crews installed the last deck platform on November 21. All of the construction and crew vessels associated with the operation have now demobilized from the site.…

Siemens has won the contract with Norwegian company, Statoil, to supply floating offshore wind turbines for a pilot project off the coast of Peterhead in Aberdeenshire. Siemens is set to supply five of its SWT-6.0-154 direct-drive offshore wind turbines for the 30-MW Hywind Scotland Project, which will be the largest floating wind farm in the world. This…

DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy experts and certification body, awarded component certification to Spanish technology company Ingeteam for its new frequency converter at the annual European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) Conference in Paris this week. The DFM 3000 Ingecon Wind converter offers operational flexibility, energy management benefits, and compliance with technical…

SATH is a prestressed concrete floating platform consisting of two cylindrical and horizontal hulls with conical ends, and linked to each other through bar frames structures.