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Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) has won a tender to provide support on the geotechnical detailed design investigation for the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm (BAL02), located in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea. The contract was awarded by Elektrownia Wiatrowa Baltica 2 sp z o.o. OWC will act as supervisors to provide […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna and Ørsted have chosen Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy as the supplier of wind turbines for its Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in Poland. The agreement covers the design, manufacture, delivery, transport, installation, commissioning, and service of 107 14 MW wind turbines with a total capacity of 1,498 MW for the Baltica […]
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Leading offshore wind developer Ørsted has issued a call for competition for the transport and installation of foundations and offshore substations for the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in Poland. Ørsted plans to use the Achilles Utilities NCE qualification system for procurement and expects to commence the tender in May/June 2023. Suppliers may […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
PGE and Ørsted were granted decisions by the President of the Energy Regulatory Office (ERO) on individual prices in contracts for difference (CfD) for both stages of the 2.5 GW Baltica offshore wind farm, namely Baltica 2 and Baltica 3. The individual price in the CfD for both stages of the Baltica offshore wind farm […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Elektrownia Wiatrowa Baltica 1, a subsidiary of PGE Baltica from the PGE Group, has scored the most points in the procedure regarding the location permit for the offshore wind farms for area 60.E.3 in the Baltic Sea off the Polish coast. EDF Renewable Offshore Polska I, Cordeneos (owned by RWE), and POW – Polish Offshore […]
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Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Research & Development
PGA Baltica’s subsidiaries, Elektrownia Wiatrowa Baltica 5 and Elektrownia Wiatrowa Baltica 9, have received the most points regarding the location permits for offshore wind farms for two areas in the Baltic Sea offshore Poland. Elektrownia Wiatrowa Baltica 5 secured the most points regarding the permit for area 60.E.43 which is located 85 kilometres from Poland’s […]
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Authorities, Contracts & Tenders
PGE Baltica 4 has received the most points in the procedure regarding the location permit for the offshore wind farms for area 43.E.1 in the Baltic Sea off the Polish coast. Other applicants who also qualified for the Phase 2 site auction included EDF Renewable Offshore Polska I, who were the runners-up, followed by Cormano […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection
Hellenic Cables has signed a contract with Asso.subsea for the transportation, installation, and protection of the 220 kV submarine export cable that will connect 50Hertz’s own transformer platform at the Windanker wind farm in the Baltic Sea to the national grid as part of the Ostwind 3 grid connection system. The overall system will consist […]
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Industry, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update
The Sweden-based company OX2 and the Bank of Åland, who are jointly developing two multi-gigawatt-scale offshore wind farms in Finland, have initiated a feasibility study on Mega Grön Hamn (Mega Green Port), a project involving large-scale production and distribution of hydrogen and e-fuel in Åland. The companies plan to establish the Mega Green Port at […]
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Authorities, Contracts & Tenders
Norway-headquartered DNV has been authorised by the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure to issue certificates for offshore wind farms and assembly of power output equipment in Poland. The certification will be executed according to Polish law requirements, reflected in DNV’s Service Specification “Project certification of wind power plants”. “Bringing a technology to a new market with […]
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Vessels, Wind Farm Update
Heerema Marine Contractors’ semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Thialf has returned from the Baltic Sea and has been deployed on the Dogger Bank A & B offshore wind farms, where the vessel is currently installing jacket foundations for the project’s two offshore substations. According to AIS data available online and a recently issued Notice to Mariners […]
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Van Oord’s heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen has installed the first of 50 monopiles for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany, owned by the Spanish energy company Iberdrola. The installation strategy for the foundations is based on the feeder concept, which involves floating the foundations to the Svanen at the offshore installation site. The […]
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Business development, Contracts & Tenders, R&D
Equinor and EnBW have announced that they will jointly pursue offshore wind opportunities in Germany. “In a tough international field, we are delighted to be working together with a strong partner like Equinor and combining the individual strengths of the two companies to develop German offshore wind…In partnership with Equinor, a global offshore wind major, […]
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German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck, and Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities, Lars Aagaard, have signed an agreement for the Bornholm Energy Island in the Baltic Sea. This is the first legally binding cooperation agreement in Europe on a joint offshore energy project under the EU Renewable Energy Directive. The new […]
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Contracts & Tenders, R&D, Wind Farm Update
Surveys of the area that the Lithuanian Government selected for the country’s first offshore wind farm have shown that the seabed in the Baltic Sea is suitable for the development of this type of project. The Lithuanian Energy Agency selected Geobaltic and Garant Diving to carry out the geophysical and seismic surveys through an international […]
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Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Research & Development
The Lithuanian Ministry of Energy has signed a contract with UAB Ardynas and the Coastal Research and Planning Institute to prepare the engineering infrastructure development plan and carry out the strategic environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the country’s first offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. Under the contract worth EUR 1 million, the companies […]
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Heerema Marine Contractors’ semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Thialf has installed the offshore substation jacket for the Dogger Bank B offshore wind farm in the UK. After returning from the Baltic Sea, the vessel Thialf was deployed on the Dogger Bank A & B offshore wind farms to install the jacket foundations for the project’s two offshore substations. […]
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Authorities, Business development, Research & Development
Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet has awarded Fugro a contract to deploy multiple floating LiDARs at the new offshore wind farm sites in Denmark. There are four new sites the Danish government has designated for offshore wind farms, which could add as much as 7.2 GW of new capacity: North Sea I (Nordsø I), […]
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Business & Finance, Business development, Industry, Infrastructure, Jobs & Recruitment
Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has acquired ST3 Offshore in the sixth tendering round since the Polish offshore steel foundations manufacturer declared bankruptcy. ”On March 20, in the court Sąd Rejonowy Szczecin-Centrum XII Wydział Gospodarczy w Szczecinie an auction for the purchase of ST3 Offshore was held. The highest price offered was PLN 170,500,002, so […]
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The transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has transmitted around 29 TWh from the Dutch and German North Sea in 2022, which is an increase compared to the previous year. TenneT transmitted approximately 21.13 TWh of wind energy from the German North Sea to land in 2022, whereas in the Netherlands, 7.91 TWh was fed into […]
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The Official Receiver of the insolvent Polish manufacturer of offshore wind foundations, ST3 Offshore, is putting the company up for sale once again. This is most likely the last time buyers are invited to take over ST3 Offshore as a complete entity, following several earlier attempts to sell the company over the past few years. The […]
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Vessels, Wind Farm Update
The heavy lift vessel Seaway Strashnov has returned to the Dogger Bank A offshore wind farm site to resume the installation of monopile foundations. Meanwhile, the crane vessel Thialf has installed the jacket foundation for the Dogger Bank A offshore substation and will soon move on to the installation of the topside. The foundation installation on […]
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The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has opened a public consultation period to gather ideas for the environmental assessments of the plans for the country’s new offshore wind farms in the North and Baltic Seas. DEA is working on planning for the areas that were last year identified as suitable for the establishment of offshore wind […]
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Fugro, Ocean Infinity, and GEO.xyz have been awarded contracts by Energinet to provide geological and geophysical consultancy services for the potential development of offshore wind farms in the Danish North Sea, Danish Kattegat, and Danish Baltic Sea. The total value of the procurement, excluding VAT, is approximately EUR 49 million. The tender concerning the performance […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Iberdrola has signed an agreement with Windar Renovables for the construction of 95 transition pieces for the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm in UK waters. This is the largest order of this type of foundation to date for Windar Renovables and the production will be carried out mainly at the Asturian company’s facilities located […]
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Business development, Technology
Last week, three months after it was installed at the National Test Center for large wind turbines in Østerild, Denmark, Vestas’s V236-15.0 MW prototype wind turbine reached its nominal power rating of 15 MW. The company’s new flagship wind turbine produced its first electricity shortly after being installed in December 2022 and has started operating at […]
