News provided by Windpower Offshore http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/ en 2013 Windpower Offshore sales@strategyeye.com 60 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:40:00 GMT Thu, 16 May 2013 11:40:00 GMT http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/3NA4uEz3lB/2013/05/16/offshore_wind_industry_council_holds_first_meeting/ The first meeting of the new offshore wind sector council takes place today. It precedes the delivery of a government-industry led offshore wind industrial strategy. Due for publication in the coming months, the strategy aims to raise investment in the UK supply chain to build and maintain a competitive advantage in offshore wind. The strategy should guide industry and government in helping the UK to achieve these goals. The council is co-chaired by Keith Anderson, chief corporate officer of... http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/3NA4uEz3lB/2013/05/16/offshore_wind_industry_council_holds_first_meeting/ Thu, 16 May 2013 11:40:00 GMT http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/Rq6HoTlsIA/2013/05/16/dong_energy_eon_and_vattenfall_considering_danish_1gw_bids/ DONG Energy, E.ON and Vattenfall are among those considering bids for 1GW of new Danish offshore wind capacity. The companies attended a conference on Monday, at the Danish Energy Agency. It was for parties interested in bidding for the planned 400MW Horns Rev 3 and 600MW Kriegers Flak projects. Private meetings between potential bidders and the Danish Energy Agency will take place at the end of the month. It follows Vattenfall’s announcement this week, of its intention to reduce its stake... http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/Rq6HoTlsIA/2013/05/16/dong_energy_eon_and_vattenfall_considering_danish_1gw_bids/ Thu, 16 May 2013 10:14:00 GMT http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/eWIRK89ue/2013/05/16/cable_fault_causes_lillgrund_shutdown/ Vattenfall's Lillgrund offshore wind farm has been offline this week, due to a cable fault. The company has launched an investigation into the causes of the failure. Cameras are being deployed, but the 110MW development is not expected to be back online this week. Lillgrund is located in Öresund, the strait between Denmark and Sweden. It is Sweden's largest offshore wind farm and came online in December 2007. It comprises 48 Siemens SWT-2.3-93 turbines. In a Vattenfall document detailing the... http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/eWIRK89ue/2013/05/16/cable_fault_causes_lillgrund_shutdown/ Thu, 16 May 2013 09:40:00 GMT http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/3gwW6f6CPds/2013/05/16/german_offshore_wind_output_to_match_onshore_by_2045/ German offshore wind generation is expected to reach 180TWh a year by 2045, on a par with onshore wind output, according to the latest in a series of annual “Lead Scenarios” for Germany's federal environment ministry. In 2045, offshore wind capacity is expected to amount to 45.5GW and onshore to 79.7GW, the working draft of the "Scenario 2013 –  Onward Development of Lead Scenario 2011“, authored by the DLR Institute in Stuttgart, concludes. Offshore wind capacity is forecast to... http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/3gwW6f6CPds/2013/05/16/german_offshore_wind_output_to_match_onshore_by_2045/ Thu, 16 May 2013 08:55:00 GMT http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/raCSjdw7SlI/2013/05/15/germanys_49gw_project_pipeline_confirmed/ Applications for 99 offshore wind farms representing 38.8GW of capacity have been lodged for sites in German coastal waters and exclusive economic zones of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, according to data released today by Germany's federal transport ministry. Eighty-two of the projects are planned for the North Sea, amounting to nearly 35GW. The other 17 will be in the Baltic Sea. Added to the 29 wind farms that already have construction permits, they bring Germany's total pipeline to 128... http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/raCSjdw7SlI/2013/05/15/germanys_49gw_project_pipeline_confirmed/ Wed, 15 May 2013 11:47:00 GMT http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/adio1BfwTJs/2013/05/15/greater_gabbard_and_fluor_reach_agreement/ Greater Gabbard Offshore Winds (GGOWL) and Fluor have reached agreement on the remaining Greater Gabbard-related claims. The parties were in dispute over the quality of up to 52 transition pieces and up to 35 lower foundations at the 504MW offshore wind farm. GGOWL is owned by SSE and RWE. Fluor acted as principal contractor during the wind farm's construction, but a dispute arose over the quality of some of the work undertaken. GGOWL says that it is "now confident about the long-term... http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/adio1BfwTJs/2013/05/15/greater_gabbard_and_fluor_reach_agreement/ Wed, 15 May 2013 10:39:00 GMT http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/Iuk8rxWofCM/2013/05/15/tennet_offshore_awards_cable_warehouse_contract/ Rhenus of Bremerhven has won a tender to set up and operate a central storage depot in north-west Germany to hold primary spare parts for maintenance of maritime cable systems for offshore wind stations. Germany's transmission system operator Tennet Offshore has eleven offshore cable system under development or in operation in the North Sea, representing more than 6.2GW of capacity. Another 1.8GW of cable capacity is in the tendering procedure for BorWin 3 and BorWin 4. Under Germany's... http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/Iuk8rxWofCM/2013/05/15/tennet_offshore_awards_cable_warehouse_contract/ Wed, 15 May 2013 09:16:00 GMT http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/lyqsC90rkQ/2013/05/15/cgnpc_confirms_case_for_200mw_dalian_project/ China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp (CGNPC) has completed a preliminary feasibility report for a 200MW offshore wind farm near Dalian Island, Pingtan County, in southeast China’s Fujian province. Construction of the project will start next year, with a total investment of CHY 4.5bn ($714m), said Tan Jiansheng, deputy general manager of CGNPC. A framework agreement with the local government was signed in December 2012. Pingtan, with a sea area of 6,064km2, has rich offshore wind power... http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/lyqsC90rkQ/2013/05/15/cgnpc_confirms_case_for_200mw_dalian_project/ Wed, 15 May 2013 08:28:00 GMT http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/wU8nNEnyBT6/2013/05/14/first_austal_tri_swath_vessel_delivered_to_turbine_transfers/ The first of Austal’s new Tri Swath wind farm support vessels arrived in the UK last week. The 27-metre Cable Bay was built for Turbine Transfers at Austal's shipyard in the Philippines. It was offloaded in Southampton on 10 May, with handover overseen by Austal’s UK-based staff. Sea trails are underway in the North Sea and are set to continue into next week. Turbine Transfers placed an order for three of the vessels with Austal in October 2012. Constructed from aluminium, they can... http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/wU8nNEnyBT6/2013/05/14/first_austal_tri_swath_vessel_delivered_to_turbine_transfers/ Tue, 14 May 2013 14:05:00 GMT http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/kvEYLDYOYg/2013/05/14/bladt_clinches_nordsee_ost_transformer_station_deal/ The offshore transformer station platform for RWE Innogy's Nordsee Ost offshore wind project will be built by Bladt Industries, after construction firm Nobiskrug shipyard was dropped by Siemens. The developer gave notice on its contract with Siemens in March due to construction delays, an RWE spokesman told Windpower Offshore. Under the contract signed in August 2012, completion of the station was due in March 2012. It was two years behind schedule, he said, adding that lawyers would now get... http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/kvEYLDYOYg/2013/05/14/bladt_clinches_nordsee_ost_transformer_station_deal/ Tue, 14 May 2013 10:17:00 GMT