Energy

Chartwell Marine, a pioneer in next-generation vessel design, has announced its partnership with world leading naval architects BAR Technologies, to support in the delivery of the next generation of offshore wind crew transfer vessels (CTVs). 

Equinor and SSE Renewables, the two companies behind the world’s biggest offshore wind farm Dogger Bank, have today announced plans to build a new Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Base at the Port of Tyne.

The OGA is embedding the Net Zero challenge in its own work, and supporting the industry as it rises to this challenge

France’s ambition to increase electricity production from renewable energy sources will make the country Europe’s fourth-largest offshore wind power producer in 2030, with 7.4 gigawatts (GW) of capacity in operation. The development is going full-steam ahead despite any potential cost or supply chain issues from Covid-19.

System integrator Bakker Sliedrecht has succeeded in upgrading the automation system at the offshore energy substation of Vattenfall’s DanTysk wind farm in the North Sea without any downtime. As a result, the transport of sustainable electricity from the wind farm to the coast could continue without failure.

Swedish wave developer Seabased is joining the Ocean Energy Europe Board of Directors as a Lead Partner. As a member of the Board, Seabased VP Marcelle Askew will play an important role in steering the strategic direction of the association and in ensuring that wave energy reaches its full industrial potential. 

The Business Network for Offshore Wind announced that it will convert its flagship annual International Partnering Forum (IPF) into a series of livestream events from June through August, while the Rhode Island Convention Center where it was to hold its in person conference is turned into an overflow hospital for COVID-19 patients.

In early 2020, XELLZ secured approximately 200,000 sqm of land at the port of Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland. XELLZ has now divided the land into zones and the entire area will be known as Rosslare Europort Business Park (EBP).

Saipem has been awarded a contract by GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. for the transportation and installation of a natural gas pipeline between Denmark and Poland in the Baltic Sea. The contract, signed by its controlled subsidiary in U.K. Saipem Ltd, is worth approximately 280 million euro.

Martin Neubert, Executive Vice President and CEO of Ørsted Offshore, says:

Wind off the coasts of the U.S. could be used to generate more than double the combined electricity capacity of all the nation’s electric power plants, reports have suggested.

The UK subsidiary of the world's largest food and beverage company, Nestlé, has signed a 15-year indexed fixed price agreement with Ørsted, the world leader in offshore wind, to buy green power from the Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm.