Swedish energy group Vattenfall has won the most recent subsidy-free offshore wind tender in the Netherlands, being awarded this week the right to build the 760 megawatt (MW) Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) 3 & 4 offshore wind farm.
A new outlook has concluded that the top 5 wind turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) will account for over two-thirds of the market share by 2020, a market consolidation which will also be reflected in the home-bound Chinese market.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and Aalborg University in Denmark announced a partnership last month to lead the new i4Offshore research and development project, which will focus on significantly reducing the cost of offshore wind power through demonstrating and testing new technologies.
