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NOVEMBER 27, 2018 — Floating wind turbines will play a key role in taking offshore wind farms into deeper waters. Last month, Spain’s Cobra Energia last month started exporting energy to the U,K. market from its Kincardine floating wind farm, located 15 kilometers offshore of Aberdeen in Scotland. Cobra calls the Kincardine project a pioneering facility that marks the “first milestone in the race for the most powerful floating marine wind farm in the world.”

Installation of the first Kincardine...

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018 — Damen Shipyards Group has designed a Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 3410 service accommodation and transfer vessel (SATV) incorporating numerous design features tailored for operations in the developing offshore wind market in North America.

The FCS 3410 would be built in the United States. For many years, U.S. partner shipyards have built Damen designs at domestic locations, providing American shipowners with access to Damen’s designs while complying with the requirements of the...

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OCTOBER 19, 2018 — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke this week announced three major developments in American offshore wind energy spanning from coast to coast: a much-anticipated wind auction in federal waters off the coast of Massachusetts; the environmental review of a proposed wind project offshore Rhode Island; and the next steps to a first-ever wind auction in federal waters off of California.

“We are always looking at new ways to increase American innovation and productivity to...

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OCTOBER 17, 2018 — Orlando, FL, headquartered Aeolus Energy Group (AEG), a market leader in onshore wind turbine maintenance and repair, announced its expansion into the developing U.S. offshore wind market back in April with an aggressive plan to build a Jones Act compliant fleet of installation, maintenance and crew transfer vessels.

It has now followed through by inking an agreement with Ulstein Design & Solutions, B.V. to design a Service Operations Vessel (SOV) that, when constructed, will...

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OCTOBER 15, 2018 — Major companies involved in the development of U.S. offshore wind farms need confidence in the availability of proven vessel concepts, as they continue to explore opportunities and justify investment decisions in the growing sector, says Hampshire, U.K., based Chartwell Marine, a pioneer in next generation vessel design involved in the development of the first Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) for the U.S. market.

Chartwell says that further collaboration between firms in the...

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OCTOBER 9, 2018 – Danish headquartered Ørsted A/S, the world’s largest developer of offshore wind farms, has entered into an agreement with the D.E. Shaw Group to acquire a 100% equity interest in Rhode Island-based Deepwater Wind for a purchase price of $510 million.

The Deepwater Wind project portfolio has a total potential capacity of approx. 3.3 GW and includes Block Island (30 MW), the only operational offshore wind farm in the U.S.

Ørsted’s current U.S. offshore wind portfolio has a total...

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OCTOBER 2, 2018 — An 826 ton buoy under construction by shipbuilder Vigor in Oregon for Irish based wave power pioneer Ocean Energy has the potential to meet the power demands of energy hungry and rapidly expanding IoT technology companies and many others..

Called the OE Buoy, the 125 feet long, 68 feet tall, and 59 feet wide wave device, or “marine hydrokinetic convertor” is set for completion next spring, when it will be towed to the U.S. Navy Wave Energy Test Site on the windward coast of...

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2018 — What could be the first offshore wind farm in federal waters took a major step forward last month when Dominion Energy applied to the Virginia State Corporation Commission for approval to build two 6 MW wind turbines and the project’s grid infrastructure.

Called the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project (CVOW), it would located about 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach on 2,135 acres of federal waters leased by the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. The...

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 — Classification society DNV GL has published a revised standard for design of floating wind turbine structures DNV GL-ST-0119, and a new guideline for the certification of floating wind turbines, DNVGL-SE-0422.

Together, the two documents define design and certification requirements for floating offshore wind turbine concepts, prototypes and projects. The guidelines provide a comprehensive technical reference suite for this emerging technology, enabling the safe and reliable...

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