Estonian shipbuilder Baltic Workboats AS signed a contract with the Estonian State Fleet for the design and construction of a new environmentally friendly multipurpose vessel.
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JANUARY 15, 2019 — Rostock, Germany, headquartered Neptun Ship Design has been granted ABS Approval in Principal (AiP) for its Blue Azurit Wind Turbine Transport Vessel design, the first to support transporting parts for turbines greater than 9 Mega Watts (MW).
The 178 m long Blue Azurit design allows wind turbine manufacturers to produce full length welded towers ready for installation. The energy-efficient vessel is designed to pick up components direct from the supplier’s berth, transport...
JANUARY 8, 2019 — Laksevåg, Norway, headquartered Vestdavit has won orders to supply davits for three newbuild Esvagt Service Operations Vessels (SOVs) destined to support wind farm maintenance in challenging North Sea conditions.
Developed by Havyard Design & Solution and built by Havyard Ship Technology, the Esvagt trio will be delivered in 2020-2021. The construction project continues a run of eight Havyard designed vessels built for Esvagt, but the davit contract has brought Vestdavit...
JANUARY 7, 2019 — Dubai, UAE, based Topaz Energy and Marine has signed a contract that, it says underlines the growing significance of offshore wind projects to the company.
A large north European contractor is chartering Topaz’s newbuild subsea vessel, Topaz Tangaroa, for work on renewable energy projects, primarily in support of offshore wind farms in the southern North Sea.
Booked last month, the charter adds to Topaz’s revenue backlog, which as of September 30, 2018 stood at $1.4 billion.
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DECEMBER 31, 2018 — In a competitive solicitation process, Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has selected Ørsted’s Revolution Wind project to move forward to negotiate a fixed price power purchase agreement (PPA) with the state’s power distribution companies for 0.42 TWh (terawatt hours) per year, equivalent to 100 MW offshore wind capacity.
Subject to contract signing and Ørsted’s final investment decision, construction of the wind farm is expected to start in...
DECEMBER 20, 2018 — EDF Renewables North America, a subsidiary of Électricité de France S.A , and Shell New Energies US LLC (Shell) reports that it has formed a 50/50 joint venture, Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, LLC to co-develop the OCS-0499 lease area within the New Jersey Wind Energy Area (WEA).
The lease for OCS-0499 was originally awarded to U.S. Wind, a subsidiary of Italy’s Toto Holding SpA, in 2015, which bid just over $1 million for the lease. According to Bloomberg, the lease has now...
DECEMBER 18, 2018 — More details are emerging about Mayflower Wind Energy LLC, the provisional winner of block 0521 in last week’s offshore Massachusets wind auction with a bid of $135 million.
Mayflower is a 50:50 joint venture between EDPR Offshore North America LLC (EDPR) and Shell New Energies US LLC (Shell).
EDPR Offshore is a subsidiary of EDP Renewables (Euronext: EDPR), whose main shareholder is Energias de Portugal, S.A. and which is a major world player in solar and wind energy markets.
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DECEMBER 14, 2018 — Today’s BOEM offshore wind lease sale of some 390,000 acres offshore Massachusetts drew competitive winning bids from three companies totaling approximately $405 million. That was way more than the previous highest grossing offshore wind lease sale in December 2016 for the lease area offshore New York that received a winning bid of over $42 million. It was also much more than the $178 million in high bids generated in August’s region-wide Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 251..
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DECEMBER 14, 2018 — SeaTwirl, a Swedish company developing an innovative vertical axis wind turbine, had two items of good news on the funding front to report this week.
On Wednesday, the company said that it had joined the Ocean Energy Scale-Up Alliance (OESA), giving it access to consultancy services as well as funding of EUR 433,952 (about $493,000).
OESA, which is coordinated by the Dutch Marine Energy Center, has been granted funding from the EU Interreg North Sea Region development fund for...
NOVEMBER 29, 2018 — MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has appointment of Jason Folsom as National Director of Sales, U.S. He is the company’s first official hire in the U.S. market.
“I have been watching with great interest how MHI Vestas has approached the U.S. market,” said Folsom. “I feel the company has been very strategic in their approach to the market. No doubt they have a great product for the market and are extremely committed to developing a U.S. footprint once they have visibility on the...