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best website builder Ingka Investments has made its second investment in the 1,333 MW Golden Plains Wind Farm in Victoria, Australia, taking a 15% stake in Stage 2 of the €2.5 billion project slated to be the biggest wind farm in the southern hemisphere. The first turbines have started spinning at the 756 MW Stage […]

best website builder Associated British Ports (ABP) and Sarens have entered into a strategic collaboration that aims to explore solutions for Floating Offshore Wind (FLOW) in the Celtic Sea. The collaboration hopes to combine ABP’s infrastructure in Port Talbot with Sarens’ experience in providing heavy lifting and transport solutions for offshore and floating wind projects.  […]

best website builder Equinor has acquired 41,197,344 shares in Ørsted, corresponding to 9.8% of the shares and votes in the company. The transaction establishes Equinor as the second largest shareholder in Ørsted, after the Danish State, which holds a controlling stake in the company. “Equinor has a long-term perspective and will be a supportive owner […]

best website builder Empire Energy Partners‘ Offshore Division has signed an agreement with Sarens to enhance the development of U.S. offshore wind projects.  This collaboration, which combines Empire Energy’s EPC capabilities with Sarens’ expertise in large-scale heavy lifting and transport, aims to create a unified solution for offshore wind developers. This formalizes the intent of […]

best website builder SeaRenergy has been awarded a multi-year contract by Siemens Energy to provide offshore infrastructure services for 13 converter platforms: nine in the German Bight, starting with BorWin5, and four in the U.K. North Sea.  The scope of work covers integrated onshore and offshore logistics and support services, set to be executed throughout […]

best website builder Youwind Renewables and Westwood Global Energy Group have signed a data integration agreement between the two companies. The agreement has Westwood integrating proprietary data from its WindLogix platform that can be used in the Youwind engineering and financial modeling platform through the applications Pixel+ and OptiWindow.  The company says users will have […]

best website builder Iberdrola has inaugurated the 496 MW Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in Brittany, France, the second largest in the country.  With an investment of €2.4 billion, the project began development in 2012 and entered full operation this year, following three years of construction. It consists of 62 turbines, each with a capacity of […]

best website builder TGS has completed an ultra-high-resolution 3D (UHR3D) survey on behalf of Community Offshore Wind in the New York Bight, characterizing soil conditions at the site.  The survey commenced last October 2023 and lasted eight months. Community Offshore Wind, a joint venture between RWE and National Grid Ventures, won the parcel in the […]

best website builder According to a white paper released by Shoreline Wind, with the offshore wind industry deploying scaled-up turbines, new O&M challenges threaten to undermine profitability, efficiency and safety in the sector. The paper, “Robust O&M Plans Boost the Profitability of Offshore Wind Farms,” describes turbine size swelling from 2 MW versions in 2000 […]

best website builder Nexans has announced plans to invest €90 million to support the growth of offshore wind in Europe.  The investment will include the construction of a new, 53-meter tower for the insulation of onshore cables at Nexans’ plant in Charleroi, Belgium and will allow for the production of 3,000 mm2 525 kV HVDC […]