Tag: offshore wind

Deepwater Wind has announcedthat the Block Island Wind Farm has completed its commissioning and testing phases and begun commercial operations, delivering electricity into the New England region’s grid on a regular basis. Block Island Wind Farm is the first offshore wind farm to deliver energy to the American power grid.

The EU Commission has concluded that Belgian plans to finance electricity generation from offshore renewable energy are in line with EU state aid rules. The measure will further EU energy and climate goals whilst maintaining competition in the Single Market.

MPI Offshore has announced that the wind turbine installation vessel, MPI Discovery, has completed foundation installation works at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm off the south coast of England. Working closely together with Swire Blue Ocean’s Pacific Orca, MPI Discovery installed the last foundation on 8 November.

The Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group DEME and China COSCO Shipping have formed a joint venture to develop offshore wind energy in China.

DNV GL has awarded Vattenfall with a final statement of compliance for its offshore accommodation platform. This is the first offshore platform in the North Sea to host up to 50 operation and maintenance staff members working at the nearby DanTysk offshore wind farm.

Sustainable electricity is to become increasingly important for the Port of Rotterdam in the coming decades. The Minister Kamp of Economic Affairs in late October announced that cable connection will be realised by grid manager TenneT between wind farm ‘Hollandse Kust (south)’ and the Maasvlakte and transported to the national high-voltage grid via Rotterdam.

Together with global partners, DNV GL, has launched a Joint Industry Project (JIP) aiming to create a better understanding of turbulence modelling to reduce uncertainty in the design of wind farms.

The 295 megawatt offshore wind farm project, one of the first to be developed in Germany, is fully certified for safe and reliable power generation.

DONG Energy is planning to create the UK’s largest offshore wind operations and maintenance hub which will have the capacity to support other east coast wind farms in the company΄s future development pipeline.