DNV GL: Renewables to Become Safest Investment by 2025
Renewable generation will become the safest investment choice in the power market and dominate power generation new builds in the next ten years, DNV GL predicts in its Technology Outlook 2025. DNV GL...
View ArticleTenneT Starts Laying Subsea Cable for Nordergründe OWF
TenneT has started installing a 28-kilometre subsea cable which will connect the 111MW Nordergründe offshore wind farm with the onshore substation near Inhausen, Germany. The 155kV export cable was...
View ArticleDutch-Danish 700MW HVDC Link Greenlighted
Dutch offshore grid operator TenneT and its Danish counterpart Energinet.dk can now start with the construction of the COBRA cable, a submarine connection between the Dutch and Danish power grids,...
View ArticleNordsee One Offshore Substation Foundation In Place
The foundation for the offshore substation of the 332MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm was installed in the German part of the North Sea on 9 May. After loading the piling hammer, the foundation was...
View ArticleVysiion Wins Rampion Onshore Cable Contract
Vysiion has secured a contract to support a 108-kilometre fibre link installation for the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm. Carillion is the main contractor for the onshore connection, a project that...
View ArticleWindEurope: Wind Can Power Quarter of Europe by 2030
Wind energy can serve a quarter of Europe’s electricity demand by 2030 if policymakers take ambitious measures to reform EU power markets, WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson told the Flame conference in...
View ArticleNew Offshore Wind Farms Lift RWE
Germany’s RWE Group recorded an operating result of EUR 154 million at its renewables division in the first quarter of 2016, a slight increase compared to EUR 153 million reported for the same period a...
View ArticleMainstream Disputes Neart na Gaoithe CfD Termination
Mainstream Renewable Power is currently in arbitration with the Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) over the terms of its CfD contract for the 450MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm in the outer...
View ArticleTenneT Raises EUR 500 Million for DolWin Trio
TenneT issued its inaugural EUR 500 million Green Schuldschein, a type of privately-placed German debt similar to a bond, which will serve to finance DolWin 1, 2 and 3 projects. The offer with an...
View ArticleSemco Maritime Ready for Sandbank OSS Commissioning
Semco Maritime is preparing for the commissioning of the Sandbank offshore wind farm’s substation. “We have about 20-25 days of intensive offshore work ahead of us,” the company said via social media....
View ArticleEnBW Baltic 2 Brings Home the Bacon
German utility EnBW AG’s Grids and Renewable Energies division recorded a 159% increase in its operating result in the first quarter of 2016 compared to the same period in 2015, largely attributed to...
View ArticleNordsee Ost Cracks 1 Million TWh Mark
The 295MW Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm has generated one million terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity almost exactly a year after its full commissioning on 8 May 2015, RWE Innogy reports. “One year...
View ArticleDenmark and USA Ink Offshore Wind MOU
Denmark and the United States have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen their cooperation on offshore wind energy projects. On 4, 2016 at the Embassy of Denmark in Washington, D.C.,...
View ArticleUK Wind Notches First Monthly Output Win over Coal
The National Grid statistics have shown that wind generated more electricity in the UK than coal over the course of an entire month for the first time this April, RenewableUK reports. In April 2016,...
View ArticleDolWin Gamma Substructure on Its Way to the North Sea
Two almost identical jacket structures for DolWin gamma offshore converter platform are on their way to be installed in the North Sea. The structures will be positioned at sea with a spacer frame,...
View ArticleBig Max Starts Laying Block Island Subsea Export Cable
The CLB Big Max has started laying the subsea cable which will export power generated by the first US offshore wind farm, the 30MW Block Island developed by Deepwater Wind, to Block Island. The Big Max...
View ArticlePFISTERER Powers DolWin Alpha-DolWin Gamma Bridge Connection
PFISTERER, an energy transmission and distribution specialist, has started the onshore work for equipping the DolWin gamma converter station. The 900MW DolWin gamma converter platform is currently...
View ArticleDNV GL and Cosco Team Up to Install BorWin Gamma
DNV GL has been awarded a contract by Cosco Shipping Company Limited of China for the installation engineering services for the BorWin gamma high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter platform. The...
View ArticleBabcock to Build World First Offshore Reactive Compensation Station at...
DONG Energy has awarded a multi-million pound contract to the UK-based engineering support services company Babcock for the construction of the world’s first offshore reactive compensation station for...
View ArticleRamboll Cracks Chinese Offshore Wind Farm Design Market
Danish engineering, design and consultancy company Ramboll has won a contract to design the 400MW Binhai North Phase 2 offshore wind farm in the Jiangsu province, China, developed and owned by the...
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