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Alstom Commissions EnBW Baltic 2 Substation

Alstom has commissioned an AC offshore substation in the wind farm EnBW Baltic 2, Germany’s second offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. The wind farm hosts 80 wind turbines feeding up to 288 MW into...

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CT Offshore Wins Walney Extension Cable Job

CT Offshore has signed an agreement to install 87 inter-array cables on DONG Energy’s Walney Extension offshore wind farm. “It is a very important contract to sign for CT Offshore. We are proud to be...

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Renewables Surpass Coal in Great Britain’s 3Q Electricity Generation

Renewables generation in Great Britain saw a 31% surge in the third quarter of 2015 compared to the same period a year earlier, driven in part by a 23% increase in the combined output from both...

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MMT Wins Kriegers Flak Survey Job

Energinet.dk has awarded a survey job for Kriegers Flak project to MMT. The Swedish company will undertake a geophysical and geotechnical survey of a 26 km long cable route corridor. As part of the...

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GE Finalizes EUR 9.7 Billion Alstom Power and Grid Deal

U.S. conglomerate General Electric (GE) has completed the EUR 9.7 billion (USD 10.7bn) purchase of Alstom’s power and grid businesses, GE’s largest ever industrial acquisition, following the regulatory...

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Beatrice Granted Planning Permission for Onshore Works

Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL) has been granted permission to develop the onshore transmission works associated with connecting the development to the electricity network. The detailed planning...

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Statoil Sets Aside EUR 214 Million for Hywind Scotland Pilot Park

Norwegian energy company Statoil has made the final investment decision to build the Hywind Scotland Pilot Park, the world’s first floating wind farm, offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, after...

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Highlights of the Month: October 2015

DONG to Build World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm DONG Energy decided to construct the 660MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm, located in the Irish Sea, approximately 19 km off the west coast of...

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Hydro Group’s System to Connect MeyGen Tidal Energy Project

Aberdeen-based Hydro Group has secured a contract with Atlantis Resources to supply connection systems for the MeyGen tidal energy project. More than £50 million has been raised to finance the initial...

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Kentish Flats Extension: 1 Billion Cups of Tea Anyone?

Swedish power company Vattenfall reported that the Kentish Flats Extension has generated enough electricity to power 4,072 houses since the first of fifteen MHI Vestas V112 3.3MW wind turbines...

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Renewables En Route to Cover Third of Germany’s Energy Needs

The share of renewable energy input into Germany’s gross national energy requirement is set to hit the 33% mark in 2015 if the unpredictable late autumn stats do not throw a spanner in the works,...

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DONG Picks Van Oord to Install Foundations at Walney Extension

Rotterdam-based dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has reached an agreement with Denmark’s DONG Energy to transport and install the 87 foundations at Walney Extension offshore wind farm in the...

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WERPO Seeking Cash to Clear Backlog

Wave Electricity Renewable Power Ocean (WERPO) has entered into a new agreement with Sunbelt Israel, part of the Sunbelt Business Network capital group, to secure funding for the outstanding projects....

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EDF Floats Partnership Idea to GE & Alstom Energy

French energy company EDF sees the recently merged GE and Alstom Energy as the perfect partner for the company’s plan to diversify its energy mix by further expanding into renewable energy sector, GE...

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CWind Demonstrates Cable-Handling Capabilities

CWind has completed a week of cable team demonstrations at its training facility in Barrow-in-Furness. CWind utilised the Barrow-in-Furness training tower of NWFTC, its training centre, to demonstrate...

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DeepOcean Finds NEMO

DeepOcean 1 UK Ltd., a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, has been awarded a contract by J-Power Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., for the provision of all...

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PNE Wind Upbeat Despite Posting Q3 Loss

German wind farm project developer PNE Wind AG is optimistic about the future on the account of a well-filled development pipeline for offshore and onshore wind projects, Markus Lesser, the company’s...

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OWC: Building an Industry without Borders

The central theme of the sixth annual Offshore WIND Conference held last month in Amsterdam was “Building an industry without borders.” According to a study published by the European Commission titled...

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Last Horns Rev 3 Land Cable Installed

Energinet.dk has installed the last piece of the land cable which will connect the future Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm to the national grid. The 220kV power cable has been installed between Endrup...

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Kentish Flats Extension: A Billion Cups of Tea Anyone?

Swedish power company Vattenfall reported that the Kentish Flats Extension has generated enough electricity to power 7,072 houses since the first of fifteen MHI Vestas V112 3.3MW wind turbines...

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