Tag: offshore wind

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.

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) applauded the Massachusetts state legislature which just passed a new law that will dramatically expand procurement of renewable energy in the state.

Trelleborg’s engineered products operation announces it has been awarded a contract by Petrofac for its first floatover installation of an offshore converter platform - BorWin3 wind farm project.