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RWE Innogy and ABB have signed a delivery contract for 63 km underwater cable for OWF "North Sea East". Planned start of construction work at sea is autumn 2011. By mid-2012, first of a total of 48 wind turbines of REpower Systems 6 MW class are expected to produce electricity. The full development of the OWF is planned for 2013.
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The federal minister for environment Norbert Röttgen visited Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven to see the economic development of the costal states. The prime minister of lower Saxony David McAllister sees excellent opportunities in the development of the offshore wind energy to generate new jobs.
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The offshore wind sector grows steadily and therefore needs more skilled personnel. The wind energy agency Bremerhaven/Bremen started a survey to find out the exact amount of qualified employees needed.
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The companies Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München (SWM) plan a joint venture for the construction of the offshore wind farm DanTysk. Vattenfall will take 51 % stakes and SWM 49 %. The finale decision is planned for fall 2010.
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The transmission system operator transpower has commissioned an assignment for the grid connection of two more offshore wind farms. The contract for the offshore park HelWin 1 was awarded to a consortium consisting of Siemens Energy and Prysmian Powerlink. The contract of the offshore farm DolWin 1was awarded to ABB.
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The SüdWestStrom GmbH buys 70 % of the BARD Offshore 1 shares which the company BARD Engineering designs since March 2011.
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The Schleswig-Holstein economic minister Jost de Jager announces the new offshore strategy of his federal state. An analysis of the development potential points out that the offshore wind industry contains good chances for new jobs in the sectors of service and maintenance, production and shipment.
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The shipyard Nordic Yards was commissioned by Siemens Energy to build the converter station BorWin beta. It is supposed to transmit the produced electricity by the offshore wind farms Global Tech 1 and Veja Mate to the mainland. The production work will start in spring 2011.
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The construction work at the offshore wind farm BARD Offshore 1 is progressing well. To fasten it two vessels are in use, the own vessel WindLift 1 to place the foundations and the vessel Thor to install the turbines. In August 2010 the first electricity is to be transmitted.
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Two wind turbines have been paused due to up warming gears. The condition monitoring program has worked well therefore worse damages have been prevented.
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The turbines of the offshore wind farm Nordsee Ost will be build on Jacket foundations by the company Aker Verdal. The companies RWE Innogy and Aker Verdal signed a contract for the supply of the foundations starting in 2011. The contract volume is approximately 115 million Euros.
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80 wind turbines from the type SWT-3,6-120 by the company Siemens will be installed in the offshore wind farm Baltic 2. It is run by EnBW Erneuerbare Energien GmbH.
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The Federal Network Agency approved an investment budget for the joint connection of some offshore wind farms off the island of Sylt. The grid connection to the onshore grid is located close to Brunsbüttel in Schleswig-Holstein.
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The joint venture of RWE Innogy, Stadtwerke München and Siemens plan to build one of the biggest offshore wind farms located off the North Wales coast. The wind farm “Gwynt y Môr” will have an installed capacity of 576 MW and will supply 400.000 households with electricity. The construction will start in 2011.
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The first pile-drive for the expansion of the offshore harbor Cuxhaven has been actuated by the environment minister of Lower Saxony Hans-Heinrich Sander the. The new construction of the port will be 610 meters long and will be divided in three new deep-water berths, which will be able to carry a fully assembled offshore wind turbine.
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RWE Innogy has signed a contract to use a 17 hectare area at the container port in Bremerhaven. From this basis port the company will push the construction of its offshore wind farm Nordsee Ost 1 which they want to complete by 2013.
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Nordex SE has bought 40 % of the offshore wind farm Arcadis Ost. The wind farm is located within the 12 nm-zone in the Baltic Sea with a water depth of about 40 meter.
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The offshore wind park alpha ventus was inaugurated by the minister of the environment Norbert Röttgen. Following a successful building phase analysis about efficiency, cost minimization and environmental impact will start now.
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The REpower Systems AG announced that it plans to widen the production for their 5M and 6M wind turbines. Currently they can produce up to 100 turbines a year at their plant In Bremerhaven. The productivity shall be doubled or tripled.
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Siemens Energy launched new direct driven wind turbine for sale. Due to fewer components it will require less maintenance.
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The first foundation of the offshore wind park BARD Offshore I has been installed. Therefore the construction of the first offshore wind farm after the test field alpha ventus has started. BARD Offshore I will contain 80 offshore wind turbines with 5 MW each.
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The Beluga Hochtief Offshore GmbH & Co. KG will bring another jack-up platform into service by 2012. That jack-up platform will be the first one out of four. The whole fleet will be capable of installing 160 offshore wind turbines a year.
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The Siemens AG has been assigned by the EWE AG to deliver 30 offshore wind turbines with 3.6 MW each. These shall be installed at the offshore wind farm Riffgat, northwest of Borkum, by the end of 2012.
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The STRABAG Offshore Wind GmbH will start producing gravity foundations at the Cuxhaven harbor. Furthermore they’ll try out a new concept for a complete onshore set up of offshore wind turbines. Therefore the offshore installation will be less dependent on the weather.
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Ten European companies joined a network to advice the legislators of the European countries in planning an offshore grid in the North Sea. Two of the ten companies are from Germany.
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The TÜV Nord Group was officially nominated as a certifier for “constructive building of offshore wind turbines” by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency. The TÜV Nord Group certifies off- and onshore wind turbines since 15 years.
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The company Evonik starts building a 1 MW lithium-ionic battery. It will be possible to enlarge it up to 10 MW. Thereby the fluctuating wind energy can be stored on a grand scale.
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To build the approved offshore wind park “Deutsche Bucht” wind turbines with a power of 6.5 MW will be used. These will be 30 percent more effective than 5 MW turbines.
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The EWEA and CESA claim that 2.4 billion Euros should be invested in building new ships for the construction of offshore wind turbines. The EU commission and the European Investment Bank, to whom the call was addressed, should try to develop economic incentives and support the risks related to the investments.
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The REpower Systems AG will provide the offshore wind farm „Nordsee Ost“ with 48 wind turbines. The turbines will be of the type 6M.
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A new transfer point for the offshore-industry is planned for 2014. It will be situated at Bremerhaven. Currently the Bremer senate is working on the preparations for the plan approval procedure.
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Nine European countries want to build a jointly grid for their green electricity produced. 30 million euro are estimated for this project.
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The regulation about the spatial planning fort he Baltic Sea was enacted by the federal cabinet. Therefore it defines the legal planning basis for the various usages and functions of the German Exclusive Economic Zone in the Baltic Sea.
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The company RWE Innogy placed an order to build a specialized vessel for offshore-wind parks. The ordered vessel will be capable of shipping all needed components of the 5 and 6 MW class. Therefore it will be 100 meter long and 40 meter wide.
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The installation of the offshore cable “BorWin 1” has been completed on November 24th. The cable is designed as high-voltage direct-current transmission cable and 200 kilometers long. It will connect the offshore wind farm “BARD Offshore 1” to the German grid.
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On November 16th 2009 the construction of the first German offshore wind farm has been completed. In addition to the six Multibrid M5000 wind turbines the last of six REpower 5M turbines has been erected.
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RWE Innogy can start building the offshore-wind farm Tromp in 2013/2014. The recent permission allows building 59 wind turbines each 150 meter high. Additionally they can build 500 to 1,000 meters southwest of Tromp a mast to gain information about wind speed and weather conditions.
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The european investment bank provides 320 Million Euro to support six transmission projects, which connect 1.6 GW of offshore-wind to the electricity grid.
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The competition between German ports increases with the rise of offshore wind farms. Additional to the already existing offshore terminal in Cuxhaven Bremerhaven will put up another one.
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The five North German Federal States call for a special security program for offshore parks. Since current support programs don’t seem to fit and the banks hesitate to grant a loan, they asked the new Federal Government for help.
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The German Federal Network Agency has published on its website a position paper about the connection of offshore wind farms with the German grid. In coordination with the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety the paper specifies details concerning the obligation of the grid connection.
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The REpower AG erected the first of six REpower 5M wind turbines in the German test field alpha-ventus. The turbine is supposed to feed power into the German grid this year.
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The wind farm Horns Rev2 has been put into operation. The 91 wind turbines with 2.3 MW each will produce more than 800 GWh of electricity yearly. Horns Rev2 is the world’s biggest wind farm at the moment.
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The federal cabinet has agreed to the legal order of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs about the spatial planning in the German EEZ. The announcement of the spatial planning of the German EEZ in the Baltic Sea is planned in autumn.
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At the European offshore-wind energy conference Siemens introduced its new offshore wind turbine SWT-3.6-120. The SWT-3.6-120 is supposed to have an increased electricity generation by about ten percent compared to the former model SWT-3.6-107.
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The joint venture of Prokon Nord GmbH, FC Holding GmbH and Norderland GmbH has received the approval for the wind farm MEG Offshore I. Start of construction is planned for 2012. MEG Offshore I will contain 80 wind turbines, each with a power of 5MW.
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The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany in Hamburg has approved to build the offshore wind farms “Veja Mate” (BARD, 400 MW), „Delta Nordsee 2“ (Enova, 160 MW) and „MEG Offshore 1“ (PROKON Nord, 400 MW).
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According to the report „International Offshore Wind Markets to 2020“ by the energy consulting company ODS-Petrodata the world wide installed capacity of offshore wind farms will be 55GW in 2020.
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The wind farm developer PNE WIND AG and the Danish wind energy plant manufacturer Vestas Offshore A/S agreed on the support for the implementation of the Gode Wind II offshore wind-farm. This arrangement entails the joint technical development for the installation of 80 Vestas wind energy plants in the "Gode Wind II" offshore project, which has already been approved.
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Minister of Environment Gabriel officially opened the first control room for offshore wind turbines, which is operated by BARD Service GmbH. A maximum of 400 wind turbines with up to 2000 MW power can be monitored and controlled with this facility.
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The energy company AREVA takes over 100 % of the shares of the PN Roter GmbH from PROKON Nord Energiesysteme GmbH.
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The offshore wind farm alpha ventus supplies power for the first time for the German power grid: The DOTI (Deutsche Offshore-Testfeld und Infrastruktur GmbH) has started up the first three of twelve offshore wind turbines. The operation of all twelve test field turbines is planned by the end of the year.
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The power provider Vattenfall has tendered the grid connection with on- and offshore cables to the planed offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak.
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The energy company Areva and the Norwegian company SWAY A/S announce their corporation on floating wind turbines. This partnership will permit the installation of offshore wind turbines in deep water.
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The company PNE WIND AG has received the approval for the wind farm “Gode Wind II” by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany. The wind farm will contain 80 wind turbines around 33 kilometers northern of the island Norderney. The start of the construction is planned to be in 2011/2012.
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The consortium of EWE, E.ON and Vattenfall, DOTI (Deutsche Offshore- Testfeld und Infrastruktur GmbH), has successfully completed construction of the first of a total of 12 wind turbines for the alpha ventus offshore wind farm in the North Sea.
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The first wind turbine of the wind farm Rhyl Flats off shore the coast of Welsh has begun with the production of electricity. The electric current from the wind farm is transported on shore with an underwater cable.
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The construction of the grid connection to the first German wind farm in the Baltic sea has officially begun and was attended by the secretary of state of the federal ministry of economics and technology, Jochen Homann. Baltic 1 is situated 15 km northern of the peninsula Fischland-Darß-Zingst and is planned to have a total power of 53 MW. The wind farm is planned to start production in 2010.
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The touring exhibition „Fascination Offshore“ by the Stiftung Offshore-Windenergie has several stops at the German North sea and Island ports between June and September 2009. The exhibition is shown on board the exhibition ship “Greundiek”.
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The research platform Fino 3 has been finished. Having assembled consecutively the Transition Piece, the platform, the platform deck and the mast in June, Fino 3 can now work self-sufficient.
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RWE Innogy received permission from the Dutch Ministry of Transport and Hydraulic Engineering (Rijkswaterstaat) to build the offshore wind farm Tromp Binnen. The wind farm is dimensioned for a capacity of 300 megawatts and is planned to be built around 75 kilometres off the coast at Callantsoog in northern Holland.
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The first offshore wind farm Thornton Bank was officially inaugurated by the Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy. After the first development stage, the wind farm currently has six turbines in the 5-megawatt class. Another three sections are to be added by 2013, bringing the total up to 300 megawatts.
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StatoilHydro and Siemens installed the world’s first large-scale floating wind turbine. The turbine (2,3 MW) is located approximately 12 km south east of Karmøy in Norway at a water depth of about 220 meters.
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The erection of the research platform FINO 3 has been continued with the successful installation of the transition piece.
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Bremen’s Senator of economy and harbors Ralf Nagel and the major of Bremerhaven Jörg Schulz inaugurated new heavy lift quays named “Offshore Wind Port Bremerhaven”. They enable the manufactures to ship the more than 100 tons heavy components directly in the neighborhood of the production halls.
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The Belgian company Geosea starts driving the 24 piles that secure of the six foundations for the REpower 5M wind turbines of the wind farm “alpha ventus”.
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The wind energy company Bard opens in cooperation with two partner companies a training center “Offshore Wind Academy Emden” at Jarßumer seaport, where employees will be trained for work on offshore wind farms.
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The administrative court Oldenburg has dismissed the case of fishermen against offshore wind farms in the North Sea. In particular the interference of offshore wind farms will not threaten the fishing business.
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The Multibrid GmbH finished the installation of the six foundations for the wind turbines Multibrid M5000 of the offshore wind farm “alpha ventus”. The construction of the M5000 wind turbines will be continued with the erection the turbine towers.
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The Norwegian company Master Marine ASA has been given the order to install the wind turbines for the British offshore wind farm “Sheringham Shoal”. Altogether it is planned to install 88 wind turbines and two offshore substations. The beginning of the installation works is scheduled for spring 2011.
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The start of the construction of the offshore wind farm Gode Wind I in the North Sea might be delayed. The reason is a possible insolvency of Econcern, which held a 90% stake of the project.
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The German Offshore Testfeld- and Infrastruktur GmbH (DOTI) and the AG Reederei Norden-Frisia conclude a contract for 3 years about the seaward supply of “alpha ventus” with employees and material.
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Airtricity signed a letter contract with Siemens for the delivery of 80 wind turbines for the German offshore wind farm Butendiek situated in the North Sea. The wind farm will have a total power of 288 MW and is planned to start production in 2012.
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The project company Plambeck Neue Energien AG has completed the wind farm Altenbruch II, which is conceived as an offshore reference field near Cuxhaven. Nine wind turbines with a capacity of 25.8 MW has been built, among them are offshore turbines by the producers Vestas and Siemens.
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DONG Energy, E.ON and Masdar have announced to invest €2.2bn in building the first 630MWof the London Array offshore wind farm (total power of 1 GW) in the Thames Estuary. The wind farm is planned to be online in 2012.
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The grid connection for the German test field „alpha ventus“ has been finished by transpower. The submarine cable for “alpha ventus” has been laid in autumn 2008 in the North Sea and now has been taken from the sea bed and has been connected to the distribution station.
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The test field „alpha ventus“ started in the Offshore Season 2009 by installing the wind turbines 45 kilometers in the north of Borkum. At the moment the work for the foundations (tripod) for the first wind turbine of the type M5000 has started. Further Tripods will soon be delivered to the test field and analogical anchored.
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Siemens Energy and the EnBW Energie Baden-Würtemberg AG have signed a delivery contract of 21 wind turbines of the typ SWT 2.3-93 for the first german commercial offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea: Baltic 1. The wind farm is located 16 kilometers in the north of the peninsula Darß/Zingst and is planned to have a total power of 48.3 MW. The construction will start in spring 2010, the commission date is planned to be during the fourth quarter of 2010.
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Siemens Energy has received a delivery order for 88 wind turbines of the typ SWT-3.6-107 from Statoilhydro and Statkraft for the wind farm Sheringham Shoal located off shore the coast of Eastern England. The wind farm will have a total power of 315 MW and is planned to start production in 2011.
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The energy company AREVA sells 80 wind turbines of the typ Multibrid M5000 to the project company Wetfeet Offshore Windenergy GmbH for the wind farm Global Tech I. The turbines are planned to be delivered and installed in 2011 and 2012. The commisioning of the wind farm shall follow in 2013.
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The REpower Systems AG completed the three wind turbines REpower 6M with 6 megawatt rated power situated in the civil wind farm Westre. The turbines have a hub height of 100 meters and a rotor diameter of 126 meters.
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The minister of economic affairs of Lower Saxony Philipp Rösler opened the offshore port in Cuxhaven built by NPorts (port association of Lower Saxony).
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The british-dutch energy company Blue H Group is building off the coast of Tricase, Italy the first pilot project of floating wind turbines. In this years spring the first part of the wind farm will be commissioned. The whole wind farm with a total capacity of 90 WM is scheduled to be installed until 2012.
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Ecoreporter.de reports in an interview with the chief executive officer of the Plambeck Neue Energien AG Martin Billhardt, that the construction of the offshore wind farms Borkum Riffgrund 1 and Godewind 1 will begin in 2011 and that they will start operating in 2012/13. Projects in Great Britain and Hungary will start operating in 2011.
The juwi Service & Technik GmbH and µ-Sen have conclude a contract about delivering Condition Monitoring Systems for equipment condition monitoring of the main mechanical components of the power train (bearings and transmission) of on- and offshore wind turbines.
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The 130 turbine offshore wind farm Cape Wind (US) has been granted a golden pass that covers all state and local permits related to the electric cables by the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board.
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DONG Energy placed a major order to Siemens for 500 3.6MW wind turbines.
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The wpd offshore GmbH submitted a bit together with the wind turbine manufacturer Clipper Windpower in the UK offshore Round 3 tender for a 1,350MW offshore wind farm in the “Hastings”-zone.
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RWE Innogy has aligned with the company Airtricity as well as with the Norwegian companies Statkraft and StatoilHydro to a consortium of bidders to win the exclusive rights on wind farms, which are put out to tender by the Crown Estate in its Round 3.
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Scottish Burntisland Fabrications has won a GBP 50m (USD 71.7m) contract with Vattenfall to supply 30 steel foundations to its 150MW Ormonde offshore wind farm.
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Airtricity has received the green light from the Dutch government for its 350MW Breeveertien II offshore farm.
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The state office for water economy, nature and coastal conversation (NLWKN) of Lower Saxony has approved the offshore basis harbor in Cuxhaven.
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The Swedish company SWECO has been awarded to build Sweden’s largest offshore wind farm Blekinge.
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At their preparatory meeting of the EU-foreign ministers for the EU-crisis summit could not agree on a 5 billion investment program for the development for the energy and broadband grids.
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Principle Power Inc. has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Energias de Portugal (EDP) for the phased development of a deep-water offshore wind power project sited of the coast of Portugal using the WindFloat - a pending floating foundation for offshore wind turbines.
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REpower and RWE Innogy agree on a major framework agreement for the offshore wind industry over the delivery of up to 250 REpower 5M/6M offshore turbines. The turbines are to be used at the Innogy Nordsee 1 wind farm, in the UK and the Netherlands.
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The Crown Estate has announced awards for 10 offshore wind farms within Scottish territorial waters to nine companies and consortia. The sites have the potential to generate more than 6 GW of offshore wind power.
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The planning of the wind farm “Borkum West II” is put on hold due to missing credit approvals. The project was meant to go on line in the coming year.
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Irish energy infrastructure company, Imera, plans a pan-European offshore electricity network connecting key markets and offshore wind farms.
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The new Fraunhofer-Institut for development of wind energy and energy systems engineering (IWES) was opened by the federal minister of the environment Sigmar Gabriel and the president of the Fraunhofer professor Hans-Jörg Bullinger.
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EU recovery plan: Commission proposes 3,5 bn € new investment energy infrastracture, davon 500 m € are assigned to offshore wind energy projects.
RWE has submitted a permit application and environmental impact assessment for its “Tromp Binnen” offshore wind farm to the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. “Tromp Binnen” is initially composed of 59 wind turbines with a total capacity of approximately 300 MW and situated 75 kilometers off the shore.
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According to Spiegel-Online the offshore wind industry is negatively influenced by the finance crisis. As a result of the offshore summit of the Federal Environment Ministry the development of offshore wind energy shall be part of the German economic recovery plan II.
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The German Federal Association of wind energy brought forward its concept for the development of wind energy in Germany until 2020. Thus, the generation of electricity by wind turbines in Germany increases to 112 TWh on shore and 37 TWh off shore.
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The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) was founded at its first conference in Bonn on January 26 2009.
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The Final Environmental Impact Statement on Massachusetts offshore wind farm Cape Wind was released. Cape Wind is expected to complete the permitting process by March, 2009 and would be the first offshore wind farm of the US.
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Airtricity has obtained consent from the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management for construction of the offshore wind farm “West-Rijn”. The wind farm will be located in the Dutch sector of the North Sea 40 kilometers off the shore and will consist of up to 72 wind turbines (total capacity: 260MW).
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The company Züblin wants to build a new facility for the production of concrete foundations for offshore turbines in Cuxhaven. A letter of intent has been signed by representatives of Züblin AG and the mayor of Cuxhaven, Arno Stabbert.
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The reports of a two-year investigation on harbour porpoises and bird migration at the Danish offshore wind farms Nysted and Horns Rev can now be downloaded from the website of Bioconsult-SH.
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The state of Rhode Island has completed and signed a joint development agreement with Deepwater Wind to build an offshore wind farm in Rhode Island’s coastal waters. The agreement states that Deepwater is responsible for the construction of a 100-turbine wind farm capable of generating 1.3 million megawatt-hours of electricity per year. The installation of the wind farm is planned to begin in late 2010.
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Renewable energy consultancy firm SgurrEnergy 21 KB has been appointed by the EU-China Energy and Environment Programme 94 KB (EEP) 94 KB to advise on China’s offshore wind resource development potential. EEP is based upon an agreement between the European Community and the Government of the People's Republic of China signed on April 3rd, 2002.
A study carried out by Senergy 
, Econnect and National Grid for the Crown Estate , analyzes details for offshore grid connections for the planned 25 GW of Round 3 offshore wind farms by 2020 in Great Britain. The recommendations focus on environmental, planning, and supply chain constraints, transfer capacity of the HVAC and HVDC technologies, management of Round 3 grid connection applications and onshore grid reinforcement.
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Suzlon increased its share of REpower Systems AG to 73,71 percent. The company’s ultimate goal is to hold 91% of the shares of REpower (a gross payment of 270 million euro).
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The REpower Systems AG has finished the installation of its first three Repower 6M turbines. The design of the new offshore wind turbine technology is based on the 5M-class and can be installed in all projects with this type of turbine. At the beginning of 2009 the 6 MW test turbines are going to be built in the public park in Westre near the German-Danish border.
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RWE Innogy is taking over ENOVA Energieanlagen GmbH, thus acquiring the rights to the offshore wind project North Sea Windpower 3 (prospectivly Innogy Nordsee 1). The wind farm is to be located approximately 40 km northern of the Island Juist, in a water depth ranging from 26 to 34 meters. The completed wind farm should provide 960 MW of power generation capacity.
According to RWE Innogy nagotiations about a basic contract with REpower for 2505 and 6 MW wind turbines have progressed considerably. The signing of the contract is anticipated to take place at the beginning of next year.
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Federal Minister of the Environment, Sigmar Gabriel, warned of the negative effects of the financial crisis on the development of alternative energies in Germany. Capital-intensive projects for offshore wind energy in particular are put at risk. Therefore, the conditions for grants for the development of alternative energies should be improved and the line of credit for companies of the federal KfW-Bankgroup should be increased.
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The city Borkum and the island community Wangerooge submitted a claim against the owners of the wind farms Nordergründe and Riffgat in the North Sea. The administrative court Oldenburg has dismissed the claim as inadmissable.
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According to the press office of the German Bundestag, the parliamentary party FDP has submitted a petition (16/11214) demanding that the development aims of offshore wind energy should not be put at undo risk. Thus, the development plan of the German exclusive economic zone should be changed to favor offshore wind turbines. Moreover, the development of offshore wind energy should be set at 25,000 MW.
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The British government granted approval to RWE Innogy for the construction of the offshore wind farm, Gwynt y Môr. The wind farm is located 13 kilometers to the North of Wales. RWE Innogy has planned the construction of 200 wind turbines (total power of 750 MW) in a water depth ranging from 12 to 34 meters.
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The company WeserWind has begun construction on a new factory producing offshore foundations in Bremerhaven. Steel foundations for offshore wind turbines (tripods, jackets and monopoles) will to be build starting next year. WeserWind plans to build 80 foundations annually.
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Vestas has received an order for wind turbines for the Thanet Offshore Wind Farm (UK) with a total capacity of 300 MW by Vattenfall Wind Power. The wind farm will consist of 100 V90-3.0 MW wind turbines. The delivery of the turbines is expected to take place during 2009 and 2010, and installation of the wind power plant is scheduled to begin in 2010.
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Repower Systems AG and the German Offshore-Testfeld- und Infrastrukturgesellschaft GmbH & Co KG (DOTI), signed a contract concerning the delivery and installation of six REpower 5M wind turbines in Hamburg. The installation of the Repower-turbines is expected to start in mid-July, 2009 as part of the first German offshore wind farm Alpha Ventus, which is located 45 kilometers north of the Island Borkum.
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Bard-Group contracted a widespread insurance package for its wind farm “BARD Offshore 1“. A collective insurance group of leading German insurers for industry was establishd. The wind farm, which consists of 80 wind turbines, is intended to be built 100km northwest of Borkum in Spring, 2009.
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Npower Renewables, a subsidiary of the German utility RWE, snapped up a 50% stake in the 500MW Greater Gabbard project from Scottish & Southern Energy for USD 488m.
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Vattenfall of Sweden confirms to have bought the Thanet offshore wind project off the coast of Kent, United Kingdom for GBP 35m (USD 55m). Vattenfall aims to have the turbines in operation by 2010.
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The Oldenburg energy company EWE and the business group ENOVA founded the company, Offshore Windpark RIFFGAT GmbH & Co. KG, for building the offshore wind farm ”Riffgat“ in the North Sea.
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Energiekontor AG has obtained approval for the construction and operation of the offshore wind farm Nordergründe. By 2010, 18 Repower 5M turbines with the total power of 60MW should be built along the cost of Lower Saxony.
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Federal Minister for the Environment, Sigmar Gabriel, dedicated a 5MW nearshore wind turbine built by the company BARD in Hooksiel. The turbine is positioned 500m offshore on a tripod fundament. A new sea cable system was successfully deployed.
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Political, scientific, and economic experts ,as well as environmental and nature conversation organizations, discussed research results concerning noise pollution during the installation of fundaments related to the platform for research FINO 3.
E.ON comissioned Siemens Energy as the supplier of 90, 2.3 MW-Class wind energy turbines for the Danish offshore wind park Rødsand II. The construction of the wind park is planned for 2010.
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The British Crown Estate set forth an ‘Invitation to Negotiate’ to registered developers for Round 3 of the offshore wind farm leasing program. Aims of the program include development of British wind resources of up to 25GW of new offshore wind by 2020.
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Energiekontor AG commissioned Ed. Züblin AG with the transportation and the construction of 19 foundations for 18 offshore wind energy installations and an electric power substation in the offshore wind park Nordergründe.
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The Land Policy Institute published a report, which estimates that Michigan's offshore wind power potential in water 30m depth is 55GW.
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Bilfinger Berger AG, HOCHTIEF Construction AG und WeserWind GmbH complete construction works of the offshroe substation for the test field alpha ventus.
Press release 219 KB
Picture I sub station 90 KB 
, Picture II sub station 145 KB , Picture III sub station 84 KB
The EU Coordinator for Offshore Wind Projects in Northern Europe, George Wilhelm Adamowitsch, has published his first annual report concerning offshore wind power connections in Northern Europe (Northern Sea – Baltic Sea). The report demonstrates how up to 100GW of offshore wind energy could be tapped.
Report 7.3 MB
REpower Systems AG errects sixth turbine in the belgian offshore wind park Thornton Bank and completes pilot phase.
Press release 35 KB
Project developer DOTI of the offshore test field alpha ventus in the North Sea starts contruction works of the substation foundation.
Press release 192 KB
Picture of construction works I 35 KB , Picture of construction works 2 26 KB
Stiftung Offshore-Windenergie, Offshore Forum Windenergie, and further organisations consider the draft for special planning for the German Exclusive Economic Zone as contradictory to the Federal Governments´ energy policy.
Joint opinion 712 KB and analysis of the draft by Prof. Buchholz 184 KB [German]
Start of the project “POWER cluster - Developing the North Sea Offshore Wind POWER Cluster”: For a course of three years, the project will push the further development of offshore wind energy, especially in the participating North Sea regions.
POWER cluster web pages and POWER cluster project flyer 298 KB
BWE presents final report of HIWUS study stating that the emissions of markings and light at wind energy plants can be reduced by the use of new technologies.
Press release 16 KB and HIWUS study 10.6 MB [German]
ForWind, Siemens and ILF present first results of a study that investigates the grid connection of offshore wind parks with gas isulated transmission lines (GIL) The presentation was given at the wind fair HUSUM WindEnergy.
Wind energy fair HUSUM WindEnergy takes place from 9. to 13. September 2008. The biannual international fair of the wind energy industry expects about 20,000 visitors.
IWR press release 10 KB [German]
The Korean company POSCO signs a MOU for a 600-megawatt offshore wind farm with an investment sum of about 2,5 trillion Won (about 1,7 billion USD) with the province Cheollanomdo. Operation is planned to start by 2015.
press release 512 KB
momac GmbH & Co. KG presents rotor-based offshore transfer system "MOTS". MOTS enables the accessibility to offshore wind parks even at waves of 3 m height.
IWR press release 52 KB [German]
Offshore test field alpha ventus: Offshore construction works delay due to rough weather. Hence, the erection of the first turbines may be postponed until spring 2009.
Press release 36 KB [German]
Greenpeace publishes study "A North Sea Electricity Grid [R]evolution" stating that 71 million households in the North Sea region could be supplied with energy from North Sea offshore wind parks.
Press release 33 KB
Greenpeace study "north sea electricity grid [r]evolution" 10.1 MB
Scottland plans to build the world's longest electricity transmission line to Norway in order to reach its renewable energy goals. The project volume is about 2 billion £.
Press release 57 KB
The Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke (NSW) celebrates the opening of a new factory for producing marine tramission cables in Nordenham on Wesermündung. From the new production center NSW can manufacture sea cables for wiring offshore windparks to land transmission connections.
Press release 72 KB [German]
REpower Systems AG has successfully installed the first of six 5M wind energy turbines for the offshore wind farm Thornton Bank. Thornton Bank is the first Belgian offshore wind farm and is to be erected with a total capacity of 30 MW at about 30 km off the coast.
Press release 58 KB
The firm DOTI, GmbH, the project developer of the first German offshore wind farm, alpha ventus, commissioned the Northern Frisia shipping company for the preparations regarding the safety patrolling of the first building phase after August 1st. The company has also been commissioned to provide a shuttle service between the northern embankment and the building site.
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The Dutch company Blue H plans to install a swimming wind energy turbine prototype 12 sm off the Italien coast by the end of July 2008. The Norwegian companies Statoil and Statkraft also develop swimming offshore wind energy turbines.
Press release 46 KB
IEA publishes report for the Hokkaido G8 Summit: Empowering Variable Renewables - Options for Flexible Electricity Systems
IEA: Empowering Variable Renewables 3.6 MB , and detailed information
The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency issued an official building license for the offshore-test field alpha ventus.
Press release 24 KB
Blackstone to invest one bln euro on wind farm "Meerwind" to be built 23 km north west of Helgoland. To this purpose, Blackstone Group LP will form a partnership with Windland Energieerzeugungs GmbH.
Press release 28 KB [German]
Federal Minister of Transport, Building, and Urban Affairs, Wolfgang Tiefensee, presented a draft for special planning for the German Exclusive Economic Zone. The plan will establish a basis for the installation of 11 GW offshore wind energy.
Detailed information [German]
Ordinance for Raumordnung in der deutschen Ausschließlichen Wirtschaftszone (AWZ ROV) - draft - 2.5 MB [German]
AWZ ROV - draft -: map of the North Sea 1.6 MB [German]
AWZ ROV - draft -: map of the Baltic Sea 1.0 MB [German]
Environmental report North Sea 14.0 MB [German]
Environmental report Baltic Sea 12.3 MB [German]
At the request of Bard Engineering, the Lithuanian Western Shipyard in Klaipeda began constructing a transforming substation for the offshore wind park Bard Offshore I. The substation is scheduled to begin operating in July 2009.
Press release 20 KB [German]
E.ON Netz lays first cable for the electric connection of offshore windpark "alpha ventus". The 1,5 km section via Norderney is part of a cable that covers the distance from the wind park to transformer station Hagermarsch. The cable line will be of a total length of about 70 km.
Press release 18 KB [German]
Multibrid GmbH finished erecting two additional M5000 offshore wind turbines in Bremerhaven. The facilities are scheduled to go online by the end of June.
Press release 156 KB
Econcern und Eneco opened the offshore wind park Princess Amalia (formerly known as Q7). The wind park consists of 60 turbines, each with a capacity of 2 MW. The park is located 23 km off the Dutch coast at depths of 19 to 24 m.
Press release 16 KB
UCTE published their first Transmission Development Plan. The Plan is a survey of the investments that UCTE TSOs have either approved or are considering.
Press release 38 KB [Englisch]
German utility EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG buys Eos Offshore AG and Offshore Ostsee Wind AG, subsidiaries of wpd offshore GmbH. Eos Offshore and Offshore Ostsee Wind are owner of the project rights in the offshore wind projects "Hochseewindpark Nordsee" and "He dreiht" in the North Sea and "Kriegers Flak 1" and "Baltic 1" in the Baltic Sea respectively. Further, wpd and EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG agreed upon a long-term cooperation agreement assigning wpd for the project management of the further development and construction of these projects.<//span>
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Michael Müller, State Secretary of the German Federal Environment Ministry, gives starting signal for the research program at alpha ventus (RAVE). In the offshore test field alpha ventus in the North Sea offshore wind energy technology will be tested and developed further. The Federal Ministry for the Environment grants 50 Mio Euro for accompanying research.
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RWE Innogy lays foundations for Rhyl Flats, one of the largest offshore wind farms in Europe off the Welsh coast. Rhyl Flats with 25 turbines of the 3.6-megawatt category is scheduled for grid connection in 2009. RWE Innogy is investing 280 million euros in the installation of this wind farm.
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REpower Systems AG and Neuer Hafen Kiel-Canal GmbH signed the first heritable building rights contracts for the commercial premises adjoining the harbours being built in Osterrönfeld. REpower initially obtains around 85,000 sq. m and secured an option lasting three years for an additional 19,000 sq. m.
Press release 24 KB
E.ON wins tender to build the Danish offshore wind project Rödsand II in the Baltic Sea. The total investment will be about 400 m€. The 200 MW wind farm is scheduled to go online in 2010.
Press release 32 KB
A spot about wind energy by the German Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) is awarded Gold two times by the Art Directors Club für Deutschland (ADC). "The power of wind" has already been awarded a Gold Lion at last year´s Cannes Lions Festival.
BMU-Spot
Besides 80 offshore turbines (Multibrid M5000) the energy company Areva will also supply the electric power transformation substation for the offshore wind park „Borkum West II" (400 MW) in the North Sea.
Press release 17 KB [German]
REpower Systems AG contracts Energiekontor for the delivery of 18 offshore wind energy plants of type Repower 5M for the offshore wind park „Nordergründe“. The total power output of the plants will be 90 MW.
Press release 23 KB [German]
The Bundestag amends the rules and regulation for maritime traffic upon approval of the Bundesrat.
Download law 85 KB [German]
BARD lays keel to special lifting platform, a so-called jack-up barge, for the erection of offshore wind energy plants.
Press release 149 KB [German]
The capacity of German power plants will not meet the peak load of anticipated electricity demand in 2020. This is the result of a dena report 841 KB [German].
Evelop announces appointment with Vestas Offshore A/S for the supply of the 330 MW offshore Belwind project in Belgium. The offshore wind farm consists of 110 units of the V90/ 3 MW turbine.
Press release 13 KB
Offshore wind park Belwind 46km off the Zeebrügge coast in Belgium has now been licensed. With this wind park Evelop International has expanded its portfolio which already includes OWP West, Albatros and Gode Wind I in Germany.
Press release 22 KB [German]
Niedersächsischer Landesbetrieb für Wasserwirtschaft, Küsten- und Naturschutz (NLWKN) approves start of construction for the expansion of the port of Cuxhaven ahead of schedule. In Cuxhaven offshore components, particularly foundations for plants of category of 5MW, will be shipped. The total investment is 48 million euro.
Press release 54 KB [German]
wpd think energy commissions Ballast Nedam to deliver the turbine foundations for offshore wind park Baltic I and A2SEA to erect the park.
Press release 15 KB [German]
Prokon Nord Energiesysteme GmbH instructs Nexans Deutschland Industries GmbH to deliver the submarine cables for France´s first offshore wind park „Côte d’Albâtre”. The cables with a length of 42 km will be delivered from September this year. Work is to be finalised in the sumer of 2009.
Press release 72 KB [German]
The Oldenburg Approval Authority grants advance notice to Enova Offshore-Windpark Riffgat. Oldenburgs energy supplier EWE participates in the project and intends to further expand its offshore business.
Press release 23 KB [German]
Europe promotes the use of energy from renewable sources.
Directive on the promotion of energy from
renewable sources – Citizens' summary 60 KB
Proposal for a directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources 330 KB
The support of electricity from renewable energy sources
Commission staff working document 376 KB
Trianel European Energy Trading GmbH broadens its portfolio with offshore wind power. For this reason, Trianel Group plans to invest in the Borkum West II offshore wind park in collaboration with about 40 public utility companies.
Press release 24 KB [German]
Ireland´s Ministry of Energy publishes report on renewable energy and the electricity grid. The study examines a range of generation portfolios for Ireland, the ability of the power system to handle various amounts of electricity from renewable sources, the investment levels required, and the climate change and security of supply benefits that would accrue.
All-Island Grid Study - Study Overview 826 KB
All-Island Grid Study - Analysis of Impacts and Benefits 912 KB
Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH to manufacture the sea cable for the infield infrastructure of the offshore windpark Bard Offshore 1 (400 MW).
Press release 19 KB
