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Centrica sells Lynn and Inner Dowsing offshore wind farms
UK Green Investment Bank Offshore Wind Fund and funds managed by BlackRock invest £ 423 million in the acquisition of GLID from Centrica and EIG. Hereinafter, Lynn and Inner Dowsing will become UK’s...EnBW and Iberdrola conclude service contract for Wikinger
EnBW will provide services for the construction of the Wikinger offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea to Iberdrola. The contract runs for two years and covers services dealing with the...Dong Energy to build 1.2 GW Hornsea project
Dong Energy has made a final investment decision to build the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the UK. With a capacity of 1.2 GW, Hornsea will on completion be the world’s first offshore wind...
Strabag sells Albatros and OWP West
Strabag OW EVS, a joint venture of the Austrian company Strabag and the Norderland Group, has sold two of its projects. The offshore wind farm Albatros was acquired by EnBW. The OWP West project was...Siemens to equip first Finnish offshore wind farm
Siemens has been awarded its first commercial offshore wind order from Finland: the company will supply, install and commission 10 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 4 MW and a rotor diameter of...
Gothaer invests in Nordergründe
While debt funding for the € 410 million offshore wind project Nordergründe had already been arranged in June 2015 by European Investment Bank (EIB) and KfW IPEX Bank, a new co-investor, Gothaer Leben...East Anglian seabed scanning discovers German WW1 submarine
Whilst undertaking detailed seabed scanning for the development of windfarm projects in the East Anglia Zone windfarm developers ScottishPower Renewables and Vattenfall uncovered a wreck of a WW1...
FoundOcean completes grouting at Gemini wind farm
FoundOcean has completed the grouting of the foundations at Gemini wind farm on behalf of the main contractor, Van Oord. For the first time, BASF’s new grouting material MasterFlow 9800 was used.
Borkum Riffgrund 1 - The emergence
End of May, the last turbine was built up and in October Dong Energy celebrated the opening of its first offshore wind farm in Germany: Borkum Riffgrund 1. A video shows how the offshore wind park has...
Isleburn to build suction anchors for floating wind farm
Statoil have awarded Isleburn with a contract for the provision of the suction anchors to the world’s first floating wind farm: The Hywind pilot park offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire. Isleburn Ltd...
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