# Offshore Wind Farms
**URL:** https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665
**Category:** Professional Mariner Forum
**Created:** [September 17, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665 "2016-09-17T03:27:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 11
### Author:  [@Tellarian](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Tellarian)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/202 "2018-07-17T06:39:40Z")
OHT looking to take a slice, this will make the enablers almost an entirely Eurocentric operation
[https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/07/16/oht-orders-owf-foundation-installation-vessel-from-cmhi/?uid=49915](https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/07/16/oht-orders-owf-foundation-installation-vessel-from-cmhi/?uid=49915)
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/203 "2018-08-15T14:08:17Z")
Work has started at the proposed offshore wind farm project Vineyard Wind off Martha’s Vineyard.
The geotechnical vessel Dina Polaris has just completed work there:
> **[Geotechnical drilling vessel at work for Vineyard Wind - The Martha's Vineyard...](https://www.mvtimes.com/2018/07/03/geotechnical-drilling-vessel-work-vineyard-wind/)**
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> Vineyard Wind, the company with Island roots that beat out two competitors for permission to build an 800-megawatt wind farm off the southern shore of Martha’s Vineyard, has started preliminary work. A large vessel mistakenly thought by some...
(She left from NYC 09.Aug and is now in Nassau, Bahamas)
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/204 "2018-08-28T14:51:55Z")
Floating wind farm to supply power to two oil and gas fields in Norway:
> **[Miljøbevegelsen applauderer planer om flytende havvindpark](https://sysla.no/offshore/miljobevegelsen-applauderer-planer-om-flytende-havvindpark/?utm_campaign=2018_Sysla_Nyhetsbrev_Daglig_Tirdag_Uke35&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&referer=eDM_2018_Sysla_Nyhetsbrev_Daglig_Tirdag_Uke35&xtor=EPR-40-%5B2018_Sysla_Nyhetsbrev_Daglig_Tirdag_Uke35%5D&utm_emailid=10714)**
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> Samtidig varsler olje- og energiminster, Terje Søviknes (Frp), at han snart vil foreslå hvilke havområder som skal reserveres for utvikling av flytende vindmøller.
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### Author:  [@KPChief](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/KPChief)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/205 "2018-08-29T14:47:38Z")
Not offshore but …
> **[Distributed Wind Power on the Rise](https://www.machinedesign.com/community/distributed-wind-power-rise?NL=MACD-001&Issue=MACD-001_20180829_MACD-001_912&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_1_b&utm_rid=CPG05000002169311&utm_campaign=19528&utm_medium=email&elq2=91966b0834b1449fa5b672702e17ab50)**
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> PNNL’s annual report tracks rapid growth.
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/206 "2018-08-30T10:02:54Z")
Is Offshore Wind the salvation for the work boat industry in the US?:
> **[Can Offshore Wind Save the Workboat Industry?](https://www.maritime-executive.com/magazine/can-offshore-wind-save-the-workboat-industry)**
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> In March, the U.S. workboat company Harvey Gulf filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the latest in a lon...
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### Author:  [@flakker](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/flakker)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/207 "2018-09-05T21:12:56Z")
I am 100% pro-offshore and onshore wind power but this article is really sloppy. There are no offshore wind farms currently under construction around India, which has the most progressive energy police of the subcontinent countries. I certainly wouldn’t describe SE Asia as booming, Vietnam has one. Taiwan, if you want to call that SE Asia, has one and is building ambitiously. China has a bunch of nearshore ones and is building their first real far offshore farms now. “Zentech” is from what I can tell a completely fraudulent operation that has made the same pathetic announcement of having “the first Jones Act-compliant offshore wind construction vessel” which is just yet another tug and barge- a repurposed barge at that- “ready by the end of this year”, a claim they’ve made for like three years straight now.
The only state that has approached this with any kind of coherent leadership is Massachusetts. New Jersey was sabotaged by Christie and is way behind, Maryland is plagued by Ocean City NIMBYs, Connecticut doesn’t have offshore ocean access, Rhode Island is small and broke, ditto Delaware, and New York has such a corrupt and sclerotic government and land use regime, based on random hand-outs to “green” projects, that you can bet that this South Fork farm will be the last one that gets built for a while. Meanwhile these states are all gleefully signing deals for Pennsylvania natural gas that is seriously damaging the economics of offshore wind electricity.
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/208 "2018-09-21T19:59:54Z")
Another specialised tool used in the wind farm industry:
> **[Norther wires poised for landfall](https://renews.biz/47981/norther-wires-poised-for-landfall/)**
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> Van Oord to start work on last stretch of export cable for 369.6MW project
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2018, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/209 "2018-09-23T11:18:14Z")
Offshore Wind Farms can produce more than just electric power:
> **[Belgians Start Growing Mussels on Offshore Wind Farms](https://www.offshorewind.biz/2017/06/02/belgians-start-growing-mussels-on-offshore-wind-farms/)**
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> A Belgian consortium of research institutions and companies has started a project to investigate if mussels could be grown on offshore wind farms.
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/210 "2018-09-23T11:49:28Z")
GE is really stepping up their effort to be a leader in the European Offshore Wind industry. They are developing the biggest wind mills in the world so far at the production facilities they acquired in France:
> **[G.E. Steps Into Europe’s Offshore Wind Market](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/climate/ge-offshore-wind-turbines.html)**
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> In the heart of Muscadet country, the American giant is developing the next generation of huge offshore wind turbines.
Question is of course if the “bigger is better” mantra prove to be true for ever bigger turbines, which requires stronger support structures and better control system to withstand the forces generated in strong wind.
For this GE has taken over a small Norwegian company that design simple and reliable drive trains and controls for wind mills:
[https://www.reliableplant.com/Read/19994/acquisition-helps-ge-energy-exp-in-offshore-wind-sector](https://www.reliableplant.com/Read/19994/acquisition-helps-ge-energy-exp-in-offshore-wind-sector).
Will they eventually produce any of this in the US??
That depends on development of a local market and cost of production I would think.
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### Author:  [@Hogsnort](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Hogsnort)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/211 "2018-09-23T20:35:20Z")
And the projected lifespan is?
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/212 "2018-09-23T21:37:52Z")
> [@Hogsnort](#):
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> And the projected lifespan is?
Here is one estimate:
> **[Offshore Wind Life Expectancy](https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2017/01/07/offshore-wind-life-expectancy/)**
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> Offshore wind farms are designed for a life expectancy of 20 years. The truth is that nobody really knows how long they can really last as there are no decommissioned offshore projects yet. Chances…
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### Author:  [@tugsailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/tugsailor)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/213 "2018-09-23T22:06:38Z")
They’ll have to produce them in the US in order to get the US taxpayer subsidies and tax breaks that offshore wind requires. We are not going to let offshore wind become another US welfare program for Europe.
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### Author:  [@flakker](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/flakker)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/214 "2018-09-24T15:13:43Z")
interestingly nature has taken advantage of this already. Don’t know if there is comprehensive research yet [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/12/many-jellyfish-sea-blame-wind-farms-gas-platforms/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/12/many-jellyfish-sea-blame-wind-farms-gas-platforms/)
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/215 "2018-09-28T10:47:40Z")
A new heavy lift vessel under construction for OHT will combine the ability to transport and position heavy substructures for offshore wind farms, while also retain the ability to load floating cargo by flo/flo:
> **[Kongsberg Helps OHT with Unique Heavy Lift Capability](https://www.maritime-executive.com/corporate/kongsberg-helps-oht-with-unique-heavy-lift-capability)**
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> Kongsberg Maritime has secured an approximately $13 million contract to equip a new heavy lift crane...
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/216 "2018-10-05T12:30:30Z")
Petrobras and Equinor in partnership for future wind farms offshore Brasil:
> **[Petrobras and Equinor Explore Offshore Wind in Brazil](https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/petrobras-and-equinor-explore-offshore-wind-in-brazil)**
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> Petrobras has signed a MOU with the Norwegian company Equinor to evaluate a joint business developme...
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/217 "2018-10-17T09:35:10Z")
Someone is daring enough to order the first SOV to be Jones Act compliant:
> **[Aeolus Energy with agreement on SOV design to ULSTEIN - first Jones Act...](https://ulstein.com/news/2018/aeolus-energy-awards-sov-design-to-ulstein-first-jones-act-compliant-offshore-wind-vessel)**
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> Florida based Aeolus Energy Inc. awarded Ulstein the design contract to develop the first ever Jones Act compliant offshore wind Service Operations Vessel (SOV). Based on Ulstein’s proven SX195 design, a customized version will be developed meeting...
Will your future workplace look like one of these??:
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2018, 10:26am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/218 "2018-10-17T10:26:18Z")
And the US Congress managed to agree on something; identifying ports with potential to support offshore wind farm development:
> **[US lawmakers carve out scheme for offshore wind port hubs | IHS Fairplay](https://fairplay.ihs.com/ports/article/4307501/us-lawmakers-carve-out-scheme-for-offshore-wind-port-hubs)**
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> The Virginia Port Authority is positioning itself to take advantage of federal and private efforts to develop supply chain hubs for offshore wind farms.
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### Author:  [@dbeierl](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/dbeierl)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/219 "2018-10-17T17:08:34Z")
I have to say that bow looks pretty strange with the bridge aft.
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/220 "2018-10-17T17:15:51Z")
I agree, strange but maybe functional, practical and efficient. You want beauty, buy a yacht. (at least some of those are beautiful)
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/offshore-wind-farms/16665/221 "2018-10-18T10:41:34Z")
Someone is thinking new, not recycling old ideas:
[https://www.offshorewind.biz/2018/10/15/vuyk-floats-offshore-port-concept/](https://www.offshorewind.biz/2018/10/15/vuyk-floats-offshore-port-concept/)
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