Posts Tagged ‘offshore wind farm’
11 April 2012
Project managers for Cape Wind, set to become the US’ first offshore wind farm, have selected construction contractors for the project.
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9 February 2012
The world’s largest offshore wind farm is now operational off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness in the north of England.
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11 January 2012
UK consultancy Natural Power has been contracted by E.ON to carry out an energy yield assessment and site classification study for the permitted 230MW Humber Gateway offshore wind development.
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25 November 2011
Swedish energy company Vattenfall is planning to build a 576MW offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
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23 November 2011
The European Investment Bank is set to invest £150m into the 150 turbine Thanet offshore wind farm off the Kent coast in the UK.
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18 November 2011
Dutch transmission company TenneT has written a letter to German government organisations the Federal Chancellery, the Federal Ministry of Economics and the Federal Environment Ministry, advising them against the further construction of cables in the North Sea for offshore wind projects.
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8 November 2011
German wind farm specialist PNE Wind Energy has sold the development rights to the Nautilus II offshore project to SSP Technology Holding, a company owned by private equity firm Ventizz Capital Funds IV, for an undisclosed sum.
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21 October 2011
UK marine engineering company SeaRoc has been contracted to manage the supply, installation and commissioning of two meteorological towers for the Round 3 offshore wind farm site Dogger Bank.
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11 October 2011
German energy giant RWE has completed installation of 25 jacket foundations for the Thornton Bank 2 offshore wind farm off the coast of Belgium.
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10 October 2011
US company Deepwater Wind has submitted a proposal for a 1GW offshore wind farm off the coasts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts following the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement call for information and nominations for projects in federal waters off the New England coast.
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26 September 2011
The Long Island – New York City Wind Collaborative has taken the next step in developing a proposed 350MW offshore wind farm by filing a lease application with the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.
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20 September 2011
Danish power company Dong Energy has secured a loan worth €280m from the Nordic Investment Bank to finance the construction of the 400MW Anholt offshore wind farm.
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5 September 2011
South Korea-based conglomerate Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction has partnered with industrial group Posco ICT to create a 60MW offshore wind near Jeju Island.
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2 September 2011
Dutch infrastructure developer Ballast Nedam has been contracted by German wind developer wpd for the engineering, supply and installation of 80 turbine foundations for the Butendik offshore facility in Germany in a deal worth €250m.
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26 August 2011
Swiss energy company ABB has been contracted to supply frequency converters for the offshore wind farm Global Tech I in a deal worth more than $30m.
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23 August 2011
US company Neptune Wind has announced plans to develop a 500MW offshore wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean.
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19 August 2011
Swedish energy company Vattenfall has delivered the first electricity to the UK from the 150MW Ormonde offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea.
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9 August 2011
Danish transmission specialist nkt cables has been contracted by German energy company 50Hertz to install high voltage subsea cables for the Baltic 2 offshore wind farm.
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8 August 2011
The announcement that project developers of Germany’s largest offshore wind development Meerwind will locate the facility’s base station on the Island of Heligoland marks the last major planning proposal for the 288MW project.
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27 July 2011
A bipartisan group of seven US Senators has pledged support for legislation that will provide financial incentives for the development of the US offshore wind industry.
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