Latest Offshore wind power Stories
NIEUWEGEIN, The Netherlands, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pressure On Markets Undiminished, Forecast for 2013 Upheld - Pressure on markets undiminished - Stable order book of EUR1 732 million - Forecast for 2013 upheld The pressure on markets was undiminished in the first quarter, leading to fierce competition, price pressure and bankruptcies. The competition faced by capacity-driven markets in particular has been cut-throat. This...
NIEUWEGEIN, The Netherlands, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ballast Nedam has signed a contract for the installation of foundations at the German EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm with ARGE BALTIC 2 Foundations, a joint venture between HOCHTIEF Solutions AG, GeoSea N.V. and HOCHTIEF Offshore Crewing GmbH. Ballast Nedam will erect the project's 39 monopile and transition piece foundations and provide the logistics between the feeder ports in Rostock and Lubmin and the Baltic 2...
Offshore Wind China 2013 to be held in Shanghai this June SHANGHAI, Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Despite the considerable challenges and bottlenecks faced by China's offshore wind power market, the country's efforts in technologies for development of offshore wind power have remained strong. Thanks to years of coordination and cooperation between the government and domestic offshore wind power players, the first batch of offshore wind power license projects, most of which have...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The wind energy industry, one of the key growth engines amongst renewable energy technologies slipped into a slowdown in 2012 plagued by Europe's and other developed countries' economic woes, its first since witnessing double digit growth rate y-o-y since 2009. Amidst this, the wind energy industry is likely to regain its lost sheen back in 2013 with the extension of federal tax credit in the US and Japan's recent announcement to...
Tokyo, Jan 17, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - In addition to previously acquired participations in BorWin 1 and BorWin 2, Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) has now also acquired the share of HelWin 2 and DolWin 2 in Germany for approximately 40 billion yen (EUR 340 million). With this acquisition, MC's involvement in the offshore transmission business in Europe now stands at 7 assets, bringing its transmission capacity to 3,800 megawatts, or 815 kilometers of cable in total...
SHANGHAI, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- "Wind power has become the third-largest electric power in China," said Liu Qi, deputy director general of the National Energy Administration. "There is no electric power to substitute the position of wind power as No. 3, following thermal power and hydropower." It was said in the report of the 18th CPC National Congress that "China is determined to promote the revolution of energy generation and consumption, to control the total consumption...
CLEVELAND, Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today $5 million in new funding for Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo), the non-profit corporation leading the effort for the first freshwater offshore wind project in the nation. Through a one-year cooperative agreement, the DOE has committed $4 million to support the advancement of the offshore wind energy project known as "Icebreaker", which consists of five to nine wind...
ABERDEEN, Scotland, Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Wood Group has been awarded a £17 million management contract to fabricate, install, commission, operate and maintain two weather monitoring stations in one of the UK's largest offshore wind farm developments off the Norfolk and Suffolk coast. The project will be delivered by the Wood Group Kenny business unit, including leading renewable energy consultancy SgurrEnergy. The masts will collect vital wind data that will be used to...
