Offshore Renewables

OSBIT Power (OP), Siemens Wind Power and Statoil announced on Wednesday that they have successfully completed offshore trials of OP’s innovative offshore wind turbine access system, MaXccess.

Two German engineering and private equity companies have joined together to acquire offshore windfarm concessions to develop and prepare them for the construction phase before selling them on.

Dutch marine contracting company Van Oord’s wind turbine installation vessel order is back on track, following an interruption in progress after the German shipyard contracted to build the vessel filed for bankruptcy.

A Hull UK shipyard is to build and operate a fleet of vessels to serve Round 3 offshore wind farms planned for the North Sea.

Plans have been revealed for the first wind farm support vessel to be powered by the innovative Voith Linear Jet propulsor unit.

CWind, the only British company to be awarded a Siemens vessel charter contract on the London Array out of a European shortlist, has taken delivery of CWind Athenia, a 20 ton payload,…

Great Yarmouth based Seajacks UK Ltd has provided an update on progress as it prepares to take delivery of its third purpose built wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) in just two years.

The Galloper Wind Farm project has moved a stage closer with acceptance, by the UK’s Infrastructure Planning Commission, of the application for a Development Consent Order.

Vestas’ plans to build a wind turbine manufacturing facility at the UK port of Sheerness have moved a step closer with submission of a planning application to Swale Borough Council.

The European Wind Energy Association has provided a snapshot of the offshore wind industry with publication of ‘The European offshore wind industry key 2011 trends and statistics’.