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Monopile foundations to be removed from long-delayed Taiwanese offshore wind farm

A specialist vessel will be deployed to remove two monopile foundations at the long-delayed Yunlin w...

Ocean Winds trials AI technology at floating pilot to boost offshore wind safety

Ocean Winds has installed artificial intelligence (AI) software at a flagship floating wind pilot pr...

Floating wind will continue to be risky to insure without standardisation

Floating offshore wind offers fantastic advantages such as increased possibilities to access deep-wa...

World’s first floating offshore wind farm to be shut down for ‘heavy maintenance’

Norwegian energy major Equinor will tow the five Siemens Gamesa turbines at the world’s first floati...

Vestas blade snaps at RWE offshore wind farm in UK North Sea

A 20-metre section of a blade has broken off a Vestas turbine at an RWE wind farm in the UK North Se...

Siemens Gamesa paid £2 million to engineer after arm ‘guillotined’ by offshore wind turbine

Siemens Gamesa has paid £2 million (€2.3 million) to an engineer who lost his arm while checking one...

Engineer sues Siemens Gamesa after arm 'guillotined' in offshore wind accident

The High Court in London ruled that Siemens Gamesa’s breaches of duty led to an engineer losing his ...

US boom and large offshore wind projects supercharge Vestas' Q3 turbine orders

Vestas announced its highest quarterly order intake for two years in Q3 2023, with its order book sw...

Video: Vestas turbine catches fire at RWE offshore wind farm in UK waters

A Vestas turbine caught fire at one of the UK’s earliest commercial offshore wind farms this morning...

Vestas' 15MW wind turbine breaks 24-hour power generation record

Danish turbine manufacturer Vestas claims that a prototype of its flagship 15MW offshore wind turbin...

Is safety in offshore wind a hostage to profitability?

Global offshore wind deployment is happening in greater volumes, at an increasingly frenetic pace bu...

Opinion: Which is safer, oil and gas or offshore wind? It’s complicated

The safety records of the offshore wind sector and the oil and gas industry are often compared, but ...

Ex-MHI Vestas boss Kavafyan to take top role at offshore wind service company

London-based offshore wind services company Venterra has appointed industry veteran Philippe Kavafya...

Offshore wind injuries decline but near-misses rise in busiest year yet – report

Offshore wind companies reported a declining rate of construction, or maintenance-related injuries i...

Ørsted launches probe as cargo ship crashes into North Sea wind farm

Danish developer Ørsted has launched an investigation after a cargo ship captain allegedly put the v...

Microsoft joins 5G test at UK offshore wind farm

A consortium of wind and digital technology companies aims to accelerate the technological solutions...

RWE partners with US utility to scope Gulf of Mexico’s offshore wind potential

Germany’s RWE and US utility Entergy are teaming up to analyse the Gulf of Mexico offshore wind mark...

Recyclable blade trial as RWE offshore wind farm begins regular operations

RWE’s Kaskasi offshore wind farm, featuring a trial of recyclable blades, has moved into regular ope...

Updated: North Sea countries on alert after Russian ‘spy ship’ scouts wind farms

A Russian vessel attempting to map out energy infrastructure for possible sabotage was escorted away...

US researchers: Offshore wind growth ‘accelerates’ cybersecurity concerns

Offshore wind playing a greater role in countries’ power plans “accelerates” cybersecurity challenge...

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