The Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a third Important Project of Common European Interest (‘IPCEI') to support hydrogen infrastructure. This IPCEI is expected to boost the supply of renewable hydrogen, thereby reducing dependency on natural gas and helping to achieve the objectives of the European Green Deal and the REPowerEU Plan. The [...]
LIGUM Offshore will participate in the realisation of the first Polish offshore wind farm Baltic Power in the Baltic Sea. A success of the Polish supply chain. Baltic Power is currently the most advanced offshore wind farm project in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea. In the Baltic Power farm's area of approximately 130 [...]
Subsidiary of Port of Tallinn, TS Shipping OÜ has announced the competition „Wind farm commissioning service operations vessel technical documentation“ for the construction of a new CSOV vessel. According to TS Shipping OÜ CEO Vahur Ausmees, the decision to actually build the ship has not yet been made, but the new CSOV would be used [...]
The Danish Energy Agency has concluded the Power-to-X Tender and six projects will win the State Aid. Four different companies are behind the six winning projects and can now start building up the production of green hydrogen in Denmark. The Danish Energy Agency can now reveal the winners of the first Danish Power-to-X (PtX) tender [...]
Seaway7, part of the Subsea7 Group, today confirmed the award of a substantial* contract by Equinor and Polenergia c bottom-fixed offshore wind projects, in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea. Seaway7’s scope of work covers the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of 100 66kV inter-array cables, measuring approximately 200 kilometres in length. The two [...]
Respect Energy Holding announces its plans to build an offshore floating wind farm off the coast of Estonia. The project includes also a pilot deployment of foundation technology with hydrogen and ammonia production at floating wind turbines. The projected investment with total capacity of up to 820 MW will be established in the Wind Energy [...]
Vulcan Training & Consultancy (VTC), the largest training center in Central and Eastern Europe providing training for Oil & Gas and Wind Energy employees, is proud to announce the opening of Poland's first commercial fire training ground with a helicopter landing pad. The inauguration ceremony took place at Vulcan Training & Consultancy's 5th Anniversary Gala, [...]
Leuna, September 20, 2023. The production of green hydrogen at sea researched in the H2Mare Flagship Project can now be experienced in the form of a browser game. In »Offshore - the H2Mare Game«, players can build their own offshore wind park, produce green hydrogen and test the future technologies researched in the project on [...]
Blades Europe 2023, a premier event in the wind energy sector, is set to unfold in Amsterdam on the 28th and 29th of November. This year, the event is in partnership with Sensoria by MISTRAS, a recognized name in the industry, promising a convergence of thought leaders and technical experts who will share valuable insights [...]
Polenergia announced in a press release that the project companies OWF Bałtyk II sp. z o.o. and OWF Bałtyk III sp. z o.o., in which Polenergia and Equinor each hold a 50% stake, signed on September 29, 2023 with SIF Netherlands B.V. - a supplier of annexes for monopal foundations. "The object of the annexes [...]
RWE and FRS Windcat Polska presented the Hydrocat 55, one of the world's first dual-fuel crew transport vessels (CTV), in the port of Ustka. It is a dual-fuel, MDO-fueled unit that can also run on hydrogen, significantly reducing CO2 emissions. In the presence of Jacek Maniszewski, Mayor of the City of Ustka, representatives of local [...]
The strong Danish-German cooperation within wind and hydrogen was thoroughly discussed at the German Danish Business Forum in Hamburg on 6 September. With the decision to establish the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link, a new business forum saw the light of day in 2014 - the Hamburg-Copenhagen Business Forum. Now it has gained national reach and has [...]
Sensoria, an innovative solution for blade integrity monitoring, presents a compelling case study in transforming offshore wind maintenance practices. Employing the reliability of acoustic emission technology, Sensoria sets new industry standards, offering real-time monitoring capabilities to optimize operations and reduce costs. To illustrate its effectiveness, the company shares impactful case studies that demonstrate Sensoria's capabilities, [...]
Equinor and Polenergia have completed more than a year's worth of wind and wave intensity studies for the most advanced project of the so called "second phase" - the offshore wind farm Bałtyk I. Ocean and meteorological data, collected by the device christened "Anna", will allow to determine the expected energy production of the wind [...]
For nearly eight months, 10 specialized research vessels and hundreds of specialists surveyed the bottom of the Baltic Sea, where the Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III wind farms are planned to be installed. The completed geotechnical and geophysical work is another milestone in the realization of Equinor's and Polenergia's offshore wind investments in Poland. Based [...]