Cape Wind’s offshore wind farm: Cape Wind Signs Major Cable Contracts Offshore Produkte Techniken-Windkraft Windenergie Windparks Wirtschaft 17. März 2014 Werbung (WK-news) - BOSTON – Cape Wind announced today that South Carolina-based Prysmian Cables and Systems USA has been awarded the contract for the eventual supply of the intra array and export power cables for Cape Wind’s offshore wind farm and New Jersey-based Caldwell Marine International has been awarded the contract for the installation of the underwater cables. The new contracts mark significant project milestones. “I am pleased that Prysmian Cables and Systems USA and Caldwell Marine International will play important roles in helping build Cape Wind, they are capable companies that will help establish a domestic offshore wind supply chain,” said
Alstom verkauft erstmals 6MW-Offshore-Turbinen an Deepwater Wind / USA Offshore Produkte Techniken-Windkraft Windenergie Windparks Wirtschaft 12. Februar 201412. Februar 2014 Werbung Alstom signed its first export contract with Deepwater Wind in the US to supply the Haliade™ 150-6 MW, the world’s largest installed offshore wind turbine Alstom signed a contract to supply 5 offshore wind turbines for Deepwater Wind’s 30-MW Block Island pilot Wind Farm located off the coast of Rhode Island, USA, in the presence of Arnaud Montebourg, French minister of economic recovery; Amy Ericson, Country President Alstom USA and Jeffrey Grybowski, Deepwater CEO. (WK-intern) - The project, scheduled for commissioning in 2016, will be one of the first offshore wind farms in the U.S. and will be the world’s first to
Cape Wind project, America`s first offshore wind farm Finanzierungen Offshore Techniken-Windkraft Windenergie Windparks Wirtschaft 23. Januar 2014 Werbung Clean Energy Future Moves Closer - Legal Victory for Cape Wind, FAA Approval Upheld (WK-intern) - BOSTON, MA - Cape Wind today again defeated the efforts of its opponents to block the country's first offshore wind farm. In a significant decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the FAA's approval of the Cape Wind project, rejecting every argument that had been advanced by the project's opponents. "The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, the Town of Barnstable and their financial backer-coal billionaire Bill Koch-- have failed yet again in their continuing campaign to use the courts to
ABS Group Presents Certification to Vattenfall Wind Power Ltd Offshore Windenergie Windparks Wirtschaft 20. Dezember 2013 Werbung London- ABS Group will present Vattenfall Wind Power Ltd with the Certified Design Basis Verification for the Kentish Flats Extension Offshore Wind Farm Project. The project, which has been successfully completed, will be located off the North Kent coast, adjacent to the existing Kentish Flats Wind Farm. (WK-intern) - Although obtaining this independent certification is not a legal requirement in many countries, it is considered a best practice for asset owners to assure reliability before moving into the detailed design phase of a project. This process allows for potential design specific issues to be identified and corrected in the early stages of
FoundOcean leads latest wind-industry development off the northeast coast of the UK Offshore Windenergie Windparks Wirtschaft 19. November 2013 Werbung Marlow, UK – FoundOcean has started work on a ground-breaking offshore wind farm off the northeast coast of the UK. The wind farm is using the latest design in Transition Pieces, adopting a bolted-flange connection for all of the 73 turbine foundations. As well as the bolted-flange, the Transition Pieces are also being secured using a high strength grout which is capable of being mixed and pumped using a high-output Recirculating Jet Mixer (RJM). When complete, the wind farm will produce 219MW, enough to power 170,000 homes. (WK-intern) - The award follows a very successful onshore trial to demonstrate that FoundOcean could exploit
CT Offshore is currently working on the West of Duddon Sands Offshore Wind Farm in the Irish Sea Offshore Techniken-Windkraft Windenergie 3. September 2013 Werbung (WK-intern) - Cable Installation West of Duddon Sands OWF - Halfway and Ahead of Schedule A total of 108 cables are to be laid, and by 25 August CT Offshore was halfway through the project with laying and installation of 54 cables. Frank Hansen, CEO at CT Offshore A/S is very proud of the current status. “It is a very important project to us and I’m impressed with the energy and professional approach the company and the team involved in this project have shown from the beginning”, Frank Hansen says and emphasizes “The record so far is 2½ cables installed in one
First Flight Wind appoint Natural Power for Ecological survey work Offshore Windenergie Windparks 7. August 20137. August 2013 Werbung (WK-intern) - Leading renewable energy consultancy Natural Power has been appointed by First Flight Wind Ltd, the developers of Northern Ireland’s first offshore wind farm, to provide bird and marine mammal advisory and survey works over the Wind Resource Zone off the Co. Down coast of Northern Ireland. First Flight Wind, a consortium comprising of B9 Energy, DONG Energy and Renewable Energy Systems Ltd (RES), was awarded a Wind Resource Zone of approximately 438km² off the Coast of County Down, Northern Ireland, by The Crown Estate in Autumn 2012. Starting in July 2013, Natural Power’s experienced Ecology team commissioned a local Kilkeel
Grout connections at Nordsee Ost move below water Offshore Produkte Techniken-Windkraft 6. August 2013 Werbung (WK-intern) - Marlow, UK – Together with RWE Innogy, FoundOcean is currently working on the 48-jacket Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm in the German sector of the North Sea. The project teams are undertaking onshore trials to investigate effective ways of speeding up the foundation installation process. One option under consideration is moving to a subsea connector that will allow the grout material, Masterflow® 9500, to be delivered directly to the annulus. FoundOcean has an extensive track record of working subsea and this experience means that more options can be explored to enable faster grouting times. In such circumstances FoundOcean’s 3–inch ROV grout
