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Authorities, Wind Farm Update
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ (CIP) new offshore wind project in Taiwan, called Taichung Fengmiao, has obtained the recommendation of approval by Taiwan’s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) review committee. This is according to an update shared on social media by a Senior Director at Copenhagen Offshore Partners, a company that executes CIP’s offshore wind projects. As reported […]
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Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update
Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has, together with its partner Tien Li Offshore Wind Technology, produced the first V174- 9.5MW™ blade at its facilities in Taiwan. The blade will be installed in 2022 at Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ Changfang offshore wind project and is the result of close collaboration with local suppliers and investments in local capabilities, […]
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Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s newly upgraded vessel Bold Tern has arrived in Taiwan after being fitted with a brand new crane with a bigger lifting capacity. The new 1,600-tonne Huisman leg encircling crane on board Bold Tern was commissioned earlier this month at Keppel FELS yard in Singapore, where the vessel underwent upgrades, including additional improvements to the deck […]
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Vessels, Wind Farm Update
Boskalis’s new crane vessel Bokalift 2 has set sail from Singapore to its first assignment on the Changfang and Xidao offshore wind farm project in Taiwan, where it will transport and install jacket foundations and the accompanying pin piles. The vessel was converted from a drillship (previously known as YAN) into a DP2 crane vessel […]
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CTCI Machinery Corporation (CTCI MAC) has completed the manufacture and acceptance of the second and final batch of pin piles that the company produced for the jacket foundations that will be installed at the Changfang & Xidao offshore wind farm off central coast of Taiwan. The company completed the production of 69 pin piles in […]
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Environment, Ports & Logistics, Technology, Vessels
Boskalis will convert a number of vessels within its Offshore Energy division, including the crane ships Bokalift 1 and Bokalift 2, into hybrid vessels through the retrofitting of energy storage systems, or ‘power packs’. The modifications will be completed over the next two years and will also be carried out on two construction support vessels […]
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German-based HeliService International GmbH has signed a contract with Leonardo S.p.A for the delivery of two additional AW169 light intermediate twin-engine helicopters to support the offshore wind farm operations in Taiwan. The contract brings the total number of AW169s ordered by HeliService to five since its first purchase back in 2015 and marks the entrance […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update
Vestas has received orders to supply wind turbines for three offshore wind projects, two fixed-bottom wind farms in Taiwan, and one floating wind project in France. The turbine maker has secured a 295 MW order for the Zhong Neng offshore wind project, located off the coast of Changhua County, Taiwan. The project is being jointly […]
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Vessels, Wind Farm Update
The conversion of Boskalis’ Bokalift 2 crane vessel is expected to be completed in the coming months, after which its new crane will be installed, allowing the vessel to enter service on Taiwan’s Changfang & Xidao offshore wind project in early 2022, according to an update in the company’s half-year report. In October 2019, the […]
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Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
The 298 MW Zhong Neng offshore wind project in Taiwan, a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and China Steel Corporation (CSC), has reached financial close. The financial close for the wind farm follows the recent signing of a project financing agreement with 20 banks. Zhong Neng is located next to CIP’s Changfang and Xidao offshore […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
The Zhong Neng offshore wind project, a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and China Steel Corporation (CSC), has signed a project financing agreement with 20 banks and is expected to reach financial close shortly, CIP said. The 298 MW project is located next to CIP’s Changfang and Xidao offshore wind farm which is […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders
Boskalis has been awarded an approximately EUR 450 million contract for transportation and installation of monopile foundations and substations for an offshore wind project. The company informed about the new contract on 15 November without disclosing any specific details about its client or the offshore wind project, other than information that engineering and pre-construction work […]
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Vestas will consolidate its two business regions in Asia, China (CHI) and Asia Pacific (ASP), into a single Asia Pacific (APAC) business region. The company said that creating one business region for Greater Asia was the next step in its organisational alignment and offshore expansion. According to the wind turbine manufacturer, the consolidation is aimed […]
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StormGeo has been selected as the provider of weather forecasting services for the Changfang & Xidao offshore wind farms in Taiwan. The company will be providing metocean forecasting and typhoon warning for the two-year installation phase and the first three years of operations. StormGeo began delivering its services for the projects in January, in support […]
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Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update
MHI Vestas has leased a site at the Taichung Port in Taiwan for assembly activities for Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ (CIP) Changfang & Xidao offshore wind project. The 5000m2 site, leased from Fortune Electric, is located in the port’s zone 1, adjacent to the preassembly quayside for the Changfang & Xidao offshore wind project. Turbine hub […]
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Taylor Hopkinson has secured a contract to provide client representatives for the Changfang and Xidao offshore wind projects in Taiwan. Taylor Hopkinson will provide client representatives across all packages – foundations, turbines and cables, including onshore HDD works. The agreement with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) began in January and will run until 2023. “With Taylor […]
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Onshore works for the Changfang & Xidao offshore wind farms in Taiwan started on 23 July, according to a press release from the general contractor TECO Electric & Machinery. The onshore construction officially commenced by breaking ground in Lugang township of Changhua County, where the offshore wind farms’ onshore electric infrastructure will be built. The […]
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CTCI MAC, a subsidiary of Taiwanese engineering services provider CTCI, has secured a contract with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) to supply pin piles for the Changfang and Xidao offshore wind farm. So far, this is the largest number of pin piles a single contractor in Taiwan will manufacture, according to CTCI. Production will start by […]
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Boskalis has reported a 10 per cent increase in the order book of its Offshore Energy division in the first quarter of the year (compared to the end of 2020), with around 50 per cent of new orders coming from the offshore wind sector. The first quarter at the company’s Offshore Energy division proceeded in […]
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Specialist Marine Consultants (SMC) has secured a contract to deliver marine coordination services at the Changfang and Xidao offshore wind farms in Taiwan. SMC will deliver a turnkey marine coordination package for the construction of the two wind farms, including the provision of both marine coordination specialists and local Taiwanese personnel. The delivery of marine coordination […]
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CTCI Machinery Corporation (CTCI MAC) has completed the production of all 48 pin piles for the jacket foundations that will be installed on the first phase of the Changfang & Xidao offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The company, a subsidiary of Taiwanese engineering services provider CTCI, said that all the 48 pin piles were manufactured […]
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Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has reached financial close and the start of construction on the 589MW Changfang and Xidao wind project off the coast of Changhua County, Taiwan. The Changfang and Xidao wind farm will feature 62 MHI Vestas 9.5MW wind turbines scheduled to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2024. The wind farm […]
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The first pin pile installation campaign at the 589 MW Changfang and Xidao wind farm offshore Taiwan has been completed, Boskalis said. During the first installation campaign which started in early July, the crane vessel Bokalift 1 installed 48 pin piles at the site 15 kilometres off the coast of Changhua County. The next step […]
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Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Bold Tern has arrived in Singapore, where it will be upgraded with a new 1600-tonne crane to enable the installation of next-generation wind turbines and foundations weighing up to 1,500 tonnes. The vessel will be fitted with Huisman’s 1600t LEC 65500 leg encircling crane and will also undergo additional improvements […]
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Offshore wind financings in the first six months of 2020 totaled USD 35 billion, up by a record 319% year-on-year, according to BloombergNEF (BNEF). The BNEF data shows that offshore wind had by far its busiest half-year ever for final investment decisions, well above 2019’s record full-year figure, a revised USD 31.9 billion. The first […]
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Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
Thai energy company Global Power Synergy Public Company Limited (GPSC) has agreed to acquire a 25 per cent stake in the 589 MW Changfang and Xidao wind farm offshore Taiwan. Global Renewable Power Company Limited (GRSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of GPSC, entered into an agreement with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) to acquire the stake in […]
