Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a sizeable SURF (subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines) contract by BP for the Manuel project in the US Gulf of Mexico. Project execution will be delivered by Subsea Integration Alliance (SIA), which is a partnership between Subsea 7 and OneSubsea Schlumberger, to provide [...]
UK marine services provider James Fisher and Sons has recorded a 14% revenue increase thanks to growing demand for its offshore wind services. The results are published in the company’s trading update for the ten month period ending 31 October 2018. The company said it has secured all three five-year [...]
European Energy reported revenue of €18.6m in the first half of 2018, down 42% from €32.2m in the same period last year. The renewables developer posted a net profit before tax of €0.9m in the latest period, but this was also lower than 2017 when the figure was €5.5m European [...]
Senvion has been contracted to supply turbines totalling 275MW to the Truscott-Gilliland East wind project in Knox County, Texas. The project, which is owned by Taaleri Energia and is being co-developed with NorthRenew Energy, is expected to come online in 2020. The deal covers the supply and commissioning of 58 4.2M140 [...]
UK strategy consultancy Almach has launched an online renewable energy procurement platform. The RE-search portal has been set up to link large corporate energy users, including government agencies, local councils and other public sector organisations, with renewable project owners and developers. The procurement tool is designed to identify and secure [...]
Innergex Renewable Energy has acquired the 315MW Phoebe solar farm in Texas from Longroad Energy Partners for an undisclosed amount. Construction will start shortly in Winkler County and commercial operation is expected in the third quarter of 2019. Financial close has also been reached on the project, Innergex said. The [...]
Vattenfall has delivered power for the first time from the 93.2MW Aberdeen Bay offshore wind farm off the coast of Scotland. The project, which is also known as the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), delivered electricity to the UK National Grid on 1 July from the first two of [...]
Seaway Heavy Lifting crane vessel Stanislav Yudin has installed the first monopile foundation for Trianel's 200MW Borkum West 2.2 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. SHL is the EPCI contractor for the project, which is located some 45km off the coast of Borkum island. All 32 Steelwind Nordenham-manufactured [...]
Developer Energiekontor has selected Natural Power as owner's engineer during construction of the subsidy-free 8.2MW Withernick 2 wind farm in the East Riding of Yorkshire in England. Energiekontor achieved financial close on the project at the end of May after signing a long-term corporate power purchase agreement with an unnamed consumer goods company. [...]
WSP USA and Wood Thilsted are to design foundations for Vineyard Wind's 800MW offshore wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts. WSP will provide regulatory assistance and overall project management, while Wood Thilsted will offer knowledge on structural and geotechnical designs. The project, which is being developed by a partnership [...]
Partners SSE and Fluor are crunching the numbers on a bid in next year’s Contracts for Difference round for their up to 1.5GW Seagreen offshore wind farm off Scotland. Senior project manager Sid Anverali said a number of consent changes are being sought to “take advantage of…new innovations in turbine [...]
Utility developer Innogy and transmission operator TenneT are to investigate an “international windconnector” that would link European grid networks via offshore wind farms. The companies are to explore the potential for connecting via what they are calling a North Sea Wind Power Hub including feasible design options, economics and regulatory [...]
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