This wind farm, with 80 locally manufactured 6MW wind turbines, is located between 12 and 20 km off the coast of Guérande and will be operational before the end of 2022 and is the result of a €2.2b public investment. Sarens, world reference in heavy lifting, engineered transport and crane rental, has been involved since 2021 in the load-in, load-out, transport and storage of monopiles and transition pieces weighing up to 980t at the port of La Rochelle, from where they were transferred to their final destination. Read more
Siemens Gamesa, Arise and Foresight Group will collaborate for another major project in Sweden using the company’s most competitive onshore platform, the Siemens Gamesa 5.X. The project will be acquired by Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners, Foresight Group’s flagship energy transition fund. Read more
Memorandum of Understanding covers investigations on several Korea-focused fronts including construction of new Korean production facilities. Non-binding agreement envisioned as paving the way towards expanding Korean offshore wind industry. Read more
An international research consortium intends to demonstrate the technical and financial feasibility of floating wind turbines. Scientists and companies from Germany, France, Spain, Great Britain, Norway and Belgium are working together on the FLOATGEN project (Demonstration of Two Floating Wind Turbine Systems for Power Generation in Southern European Deep Waters). The Spanish turbine manufacturer Gamesa is responsible for coordinating the partners. Read more
The project, jointly owned by Dong Energy, Masdar and E.ON, announced that the first 630 MW phase of the offshore wind farm in the Thames estuary is completed. With all 175 turbines now fully operational, the project is setting the new world record for the largest wind farm, according to the World Record Academy. Read more
Last year, the German offshore wind farm alpha ventus fed 267.8 GWh of electricity into the transmission grid. This means that the energy yield exceeded the original forecast by 15.3%, says the operator consortium DOTI. The positive earnings trend is expected to continue in the first quarter of 2013. Read more
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