Wind

Foundation piling operations completed at Moray East offshore wind farm

Wednesday, 04 March 2020 Robin Whitlock

DEME Offshore has announced that it has now installed all 37,000 tonnes of pin piles for the Moray East offshore wind farm project in the Moray Firth concession area.

TÜV NORD to Certify One Of the World’s Biggest Wind Farm Zones

Tuesday, 03 March 2020 REM TÜV NORD is carrying out its first project certification in accordance with the innovative, internationally recognized IECRE OD-502 scheme. The installations to be certified are the Dutch offshore wind ...

Belgium

First of SeaMade’s two offshore substations sets sail to the Belgian North Sea

Tuesday, 03 March 2020 Robin Whitlock

The first of two offshore substations for the SeaMade offshore wind farm left the construction yard in Hoboken for its final destination in the Belgian North Sea.

Highest Offshore Wind Load Factors Recorded Since 2015

Wednesday, 19 February 2020 REM The latest research from Cornwall Insight highlights that as a result of the elevated wind speeds experienced in January onshore wind load factors averaged 42% for the month, and older offshore sites ...

Industrial Scale Renewable Hydrogen Project Advances to Next Phase

Tuesday, 18 February 2020 REM Funding in the amount of £ 7.5 million has been awarded for the next phase of Gigastack, a new renewable hydrogen project, as part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) ...

France

DEME Offshore and Herrenknecht to manufacture a subsea drill for the construction of Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm

Friday, 14 February 2020 Robin Whitlock DEME Offshore and Herrenknecht have signed an agreement for the fabrication of a subsea drill to be deployed at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France, which will be the first wind farm in the ...

US wind industry experiences third strongest year on record

Thursday, 30 January 2020 Robin Whitlock The US wind industry experienced its third strongest year on record in 2019 as project developers added 9,143 megawatts (MW) of wind power capacity to the grid - enough to power over three million American ...

GE to Help Deliver Wind Energy to 375,000 Homes in Scotland

Friday, 17 January 2020 REM GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business has been awarded a multi-million dollar project for the design, supply, construction and commissioning of onshore and offshore wind substations for the ...

Northwester 2 offshore wind farm Delivers Energy to the Belgian Grid

Tuesday, 14 January 2020 REM The first Northwester 2 offshore wind farm turbine started supplying electricity to the Belgian grid over the weekend of January 11-12, 2020. The wind farm is expected to be fully operational before the ...

Belgium

Foundation installation successfully completed at Belgium’s largest offshore wind farm

Tuesday, 07 January 2020 Robin Whitlock

DEME has successfully completed the installation of 58 monopile foundations and two offshore substation foundations at the SeaMade offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea.