Author: Anela Dokso

CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE), an offshore wind EPCI contractor, has taken a Final Investment Decision (FID) for the construction of ‘Green Jade’, the first floating DP3 heavy lift and installation vessel to be built in Taiwan. Green Jade will feature a combination of high transport and load capacity, lifting heights and green technology. The new vessel will be built at CSBC in Kaohsiung and is set to be delivered in 2022. CDWE was established at the end of 2018 by CSBC, the largest shipbuilder in Taiwan, and DEME Offshore. Green Jade highlights CDWE’s ambitions to further support development of the offshore wind industry in…

CS Energy has completed a 4.5 MWdc solar project installed with a 3.8 MWh lithium-ion storage solution on a landfill cap site located in Amesbury, Massachusetts. The largest solar plus storage system to be completed to date is part of a partnership between the City of Amesbury and Kearsarge Energy. The project was one of the first solar plus energy storage projects to participate in the Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) Program. “CS Energy has a significant market share in the solar-plus-storage business. We are strategically scaling up our energy storage division and growing our register of successfully completed projects.…

Triton Knoll offshore wind farm’s operations and maintenance base on Grimsby’s Royal Dock has been handed over to Innogy’s Triton Knoll team by the contractor Tolent. Once fully fitted out, the operations and maintenance facility will become the long term regional home for a team of technicians and support staff, responsible for maintaining the offshore wind farm for the next 25 years. Built across almost four acres of quayside, it features an open plan office space, complete with a control room, meeting rooms, canteen and gym, with associated showers and locker rooms, as well as a new warehouse facility that…

Rigmar Group has delivered a two-year contract to carry out inspection and maintenance for the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm. The project, delivered in 2019 and 2020, is the largest inspection and maintenance contract awarded at the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm by Vattenfall, which owns the 11-turbine facility off the coast of the city. Valued at six figures per annum, the project was delivered by teams comprising a total of sixteen Rigmar personnel and included underwater surveys and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) inspections, data processing and chart production, rope access inspection and maintenance. The contract covered the offshore balance of plant…

Lloyd’s Register (LR) has secured a contract for Human-Machine Interface (HMI) engineering services, part of an integrated scope awarded to Wood by Equinor, to support Hywind Tampen floating wind farm to power offshore oil and gas platforms. This project forms part of Equinor’s climate ambitions to reduce the absolute greenhouse gas emissions from its operated offshore fields and onshore plants in Norway by 70% by 2040 and to near zero by 2050. By 2030 this implies annual cuts of more than 5 million tonnes, which constitutes around 10% of the country’s total CO2 emissions. As part of the project, LR…

Risen Energy (Australia) has signed its largest distribution agreement with One Stop Warehouse, Australia’s largest solar distributor. Pursuant to this agreement, One Stop Warehouse will have exclusive rights to sell Risen’s 370W 132-Cell MONO PERC Half Cut Jaegar module to the Australian distribution market, and will subsequently have first rights to sell Risen’s Titan 210mm cell series module for rooftop application. This is an upgrade from last year’s 100MW deal between the two companies and will be valid from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021. Risen Energy (AU), represented by its general manager, Eric Lee and One Stop Warehouse,…

EnterSolar has completed a 2 MW rooftop solar installation at Simon & Schuster’s Riverside Distribution facility in Delran, New Jersey. The solar system will generate 2.2 million kilowatts of clean energy annually, equivalent to matching one-third of the facility’s onsite energy use. The environmental benefits of the solar system are equivalent to saving 900 acres of forest according to estimates provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “We are proud to have brought this project to completion and thrilled for the opportunity to generate ecofriendly, renewable energy that will significantly reduce our impact on the environment and contribute to a…

UXOcontrol, the Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) risk mitigation solutions expert, has completed UXO identification campaign for the Kincardine offshore wind farm. Kincardine offshore wind farm, with a nominal capacity of 50 MW, is located approximately 15 kilometres off the south-east coast of Aberdeen. The wind farm comprises offshore floating wind turbine structures, an offshore export cable, a landfall and an onshore export cable.  UXOcontrol’s first UK contract as the rebranded joint venture of N-Sea and BODAC, was awarded by Cobra Wind International, a subsidiary of Spanish developer and construction company Grupo Cobra, which has been contracted to undertake the engineering, design, supply, construction and commissioning of the…

Gore Street has entered into an agreement to acquire a 100% interest in Ferrymuir Energy Storage, a 50MW energy storage project in Scotland. The project, which has been acquired from a group of investors comprising Abbey Properties, Yoogen and Intelligent Land Investments, consists of a 50MW energy storage system in Fife, Scotland, for which all land rights, grid connections and planning consents have already been secured. The company will arrange and manage construction of the project, which is scheduled to become operational in 2022. “We are extremely pleased to announce the acquisition of Ferrymuir which adds a significant asset to…

GF Corporation, Kyocera Corporation, Kyudenko Corporation, and Tokyo Century Corporation joint venture, Kanoya Osaki Solar Hills, has started operating ‘Kanoya Osaki Solar Hills Solar Power Plant’ in Kyushu, with peak generating capacity of approximately 100 megawatts (MW). Project planning began in January 2014, as the local community expressed interest in re-purposing land designated for a golf course more than 30 years ago that was subsequently abandoned. The site uses 356,928 Kyocera solar modules and is expected to generate approximately 117,000MWh — enough electricity to power roughly 39,300 typical households, offsetting about 62,420 tons of CO2 emissions per year. Under the…