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Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance
SSE has awarded UK-based Stowen a framework agreement to provide inspection services to the Beatrice and Greater Gabbard offshore wind farms in the UK. Following a successful tender process, Stowen was awarded the frameworks requiring inspection services to cover offshore foundations for the 588 MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in Scotland alongside Greater Gabbard onshore […]
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Jan De Nul has selected BOW Terminal’s marshalling yard in Eemshaven, the Netherlands for the Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind projects. The 242 MW Gode Wind 3 and 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 wind farms are owned and developed by Danish renewable energy giant Ørsted Wind Power A/S. Both wind farms […]
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Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Research & Development
TDI-Brooks has been awarded a geophysical, geotechnical, and benthic sampling survey campaigns to study seabed conditions within the project lease area and potential export cable routes off the US East Coast. The data collected will help determine safe and responsible project design and engineering along with identifying potential geohazards and benthic habitats, said TDI-Brooks. The […]
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Environment, Vessels, Vessels
DNV has partnered with ScottishPower Renewables, RWE, Vattenfall, Orsted, and installation/operation companies, Jan De Nul Group, DEME, Ziton, Cadeler, Van Oord, and Fred. Olsen Windcarrier on a joint industry project (JIP) to establish a monitoring and reporting framework for assessing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the offshore wind installation sector. Offshore wind generation will be […]
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R&D, Vessels, Wind Farm Update
N-Sea Group has finished a series of benthic and geophysical surveys for Llŷr 1 and Llŷr 2 floating offshore wind projects in the Celtic Sea. N-Sea conducted the offshore surveys using its N-Sea Spirit vessel, establishing a baseline ground model which will be developed as the project matures, Floventis Energy said, the developer of the […]
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The geophysical and environmental survey works for the Salamander floating offshore wind project in Scotland have been completed, marking a significant milestone for the 100 MW project that is planned to be progressed through of the Scottish Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round. The survey activities commenced on 7 August and were […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders
Norway-headquartered Aker Solutions and the construction company Balfour Beatty have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deliver end-to-end design and construction services to the UK offshore wind industry. Under the MoU, the partners will focus on concrete floating and gravity-based offshore wind projects. The partnership will see the companies’ complementary skills, resources, and experience […]
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SSE Renewables, Marubeni Corporation, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have identified an increase in the potential overall project capacity for their Ossian floating wind project in Scotland from 2.6 GW to up to 3.6 GW. Geophysical and benthic surveys completed at Ossian development area Two Eolos floating LiDARs, Partrac’s metocean equipment deployed According to a […]
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RWE is performing a benthic survey off the northeast coast of the UK, where the company plans to build its 3 GW Dogger Bank South (DBS) Offshore Wind Farm. According to a Notice to Mariners from the project, the developer has contracted Ocean Ecology to carry out a seabed habitat survey at the offshore wind […]
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Operations & Maintenance, R&D
Community Offshore Wind, a joint venture between RWE Renewables and National Grid, has started its geophysical survey campaign in the New York Bight. The survey campaign, managed by Fugro, will study seabed conditions and potential export cable corridors within the project lease area. The data collected will help inform safe and responsible project design and […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Grid Connection, Infrastructure
Luna Innovations (Luna) has been awarded a contract to provide monitoring services for the largest offshore wind project in the United States, Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. Luna’s EN.SURE long-range power cable sensing system will be used to monitor the wind farms’ export cable system, which will transport electricity to shore. The […]
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GE Renewable Energy has received a full type certificate from DNV for its Haliade-X offshore wind turbine for operations up to 14.7 MW. This type certification follows an earlier certification that the Haliade-X could operate at up to 13.6 MW and makes the Haliade-X the most powerful turbine with a full type certification, according to […]
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Huisman has completed a Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) for its first Jacking Gearbox, which will be part of the Jacking System that is specifically designed for wind turbine installation jack-up vessels. The Jacking System is available in two gear versions – L and XL versions – suitable for vessel designs of various independent design companies. […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Vessels
Cadeler has signed a Letter of Intent with an undisclosed party described by the Danish wind farm installation vessel owner and operator as ”a blue chip client in the industry” to explore the possibility of long-term use of one of Cadeler’s two O-class vessels. The LoI covers offshore wind farm assignments taking place in the […]
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RWE has signed a letter of intent with WindSpider, a Norwegian-based company that is developing a new modular self-erecting crane system for the offshore wind market. To improve operability and scalability for turbine installation as well as major component replacements, the WindSpider solution uses the tower of the wind turbine as part of the crane. […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Vessels, Wind Farm Update
SSE Renewables, Marubeni Corporation, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), the consortium behind Ossian floating offshore wind farm in Scotland, have awarded the contract for geotechnical investigations to Fugro and Ocean Infinity. The Netherlands-based Fugro will focus on downhole geotechnical sampling and in-situ cone penetration testing, while Ocean Infinity will focus on the seabed scope which […]
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R&D, Vessels, Wind Farm Update
The developers of the West of Orkney Windfarm have completed its 2022 offshore and nearshore surveys for the project area, located around 25 kilometres off the Sutherland coast in Scotland. This milestone achievement covered geophysical and benthic surveys of the seabed across the 675 km2 offshore option agreement area, with the objective of establishing the […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
RPS has announced that it will be working together with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and the New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super Fund) on the first phase of a potential offshore wind farm development off the coast of New Zealand. CIP and NZ Super Fund joined forces at the beginning of this year to bring […]
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Norway’s Entrion Wind and Techano AS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) through which Techano AS will join the ongoing development and test project planned to take place in Kristiansand, Norway for the patent-pending fully restrained platform (FRP) offshore wind foundation technology said to extend the operating depth of the monopile technology to up […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance
German and Belgium transmission system operators (TSOs), 50Hertz and Elia, have issued a tender for offshore unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey, identification, and clearance campaign in the cable installation corridor(s) in the Baltic and North Seas. Since this joint procurement involves different countries, the state applicable national procurement law is that of Germany. The objective of the UXO […]
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Heerema Marine Contractors’ crane vessel Thialf has crossed the Storebaelt Bridge and entered the Baltic Sea as the vessel is being deployed to install the offshore substation at the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm and wind turbines at at the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm, both in Germany. Thialf‘s passage under the Storebaelt Bridge, […]
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Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Vessels
The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä and the US equity capital provider, EnCap Investments, will assist the Texas-based Bleutec Industries on the project to develop a new method of installing offshore wind turbines, the Binary Marine Installation Solution (BMIS). The BMIS will be built around a Piling Installation Vessel (PIV), a Wind Turbine Installation Vessel Light […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Industry, Jobs & Recruitment, Wind Farm Update
Vineyard Offshore, the project team behind the first commercial-scale offshore wind project in the USA, has submitted a proposal to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to develop the Excelsior Wind and Liberty Wind projects. With a total capacity of over 2.6 GW, these projects have the potential to power over […]
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Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
NKT is set to produce the HVDC power cables for the Dogger Bank C offshore wind project using low-carbon copper, representing the world’s first. The initiative is expected to reduce the carbon footprint of the cables by more than 35 per cent. The low-carbon copper cathodes are sourced from the Boliden Aitik mine in Northern […]
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Authorities, Wind Farm Update
The UK will speed up planning and development consent processes for projects from the recently completed, currently ongoing, and upcoming (floating) offshore wind leasing rounds to bring new energy capacity online faster and facilitate economic growth and job creation. In this article: Will the UK Now Need to Set New Offshore Wind Target? Pre-Brexit Era […]
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SSE Renewables submitted the application for the 4.1 GW Berwick Bank offshore wind project to Marine Scotland on 9 December, kicking off the consent process with the Scottish Ministers. According to the developer, the project’s site in the Firth of Forth is the only remaining fixed-bottom site in Scotland that could bring forward this kind […]
