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  • NKT Completes Beatrice Export Cable Repair, 588 MW Offshore Wind Farm Returns to Full Capacity

    18 November 2025
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    NKT has completed a turnkey repair of one of the 220 kV high-voltage AC subsea export cables connecting the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Scottish Moray Firth to the Aberdeenshire coast. In April 2025, an unplanned transmission outage occurred on one of two of Beatrice’s Transmission Capital Partner (TCP) -owned export cables, bringing renewable […]

  • Thor Offshore Substation En Route to Denmark

    17 July 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Manufacturing, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    The offshore substation for the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm has left HSM Offshore Energy’s Schiedam yard in the Netherlands and is on its way to the project site in the Danish North Sea. “[The] sail-away of the fully assembled substation for THOR is an important step for us in the project team”, said […]

  • Benthic Survey Wraps Up for Scottish Floating Wind Farm

    3 July 2025
    Business development, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    Specialist contractors have completed a benthic survey along a 420-kilometre stretch of seabed for the proposed Ossian floating offshore wind farm in Scotland. The month-long benthic campaign gathered information at 122 different sites along the route that will be used to export renewable energy from the Ossian floating offshore wind farm off the east coast […]

  • Jasmund Offshore Substation Jacket Takes Final Shape

    9 July 2025
    Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms

    The cable deck has been installed at the Jasmund offshore substation jacket, marking the completion of the jacket’s final structural shape. The structure has a total load-out weight of around 4,500 metric tonnes and a top steel height of 72 metres. The cable deck, weighing 842 tonnes, was manufactured in two parts at Smulders’ Hoboken […]

  • Lord Dunlop Visits Beatrice Construction Hub

    18 August 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland Lord Andrew Dunlop visited  Nigg Energy Park this week to hear how Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL) will help boost the local and national economy to the tune of GBP 680 million, SSE reports. The UK minister was welcomed by representatives from BOWL and Global Energy Group, the owners […]

  • Beatrice Sells Offshore Transmission Assets

    2 August 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm Limited has signed an agreement to sell the offshore transmission assets (OFTO) of the 588 MW Beatrice offshore wind farm to Transmission Capital Partners. The sale agreement follows the selection in December 2019 by Ofgem of Transmission Capital Partners, a consortium comprising International Public Partnerships Limited, Amber Infrastructure Group, and Transmission […]

  • Moray Beatrice Local Fund Open for Applications

    13 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The developers of the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm have launched the next round of applications for the Moray Beatrice Local Fund.

  • NHV Adds to Beatrice Tally

    10 July 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The NHV Group has secured a contract with Siemens Gamesa to provide helicopter services in support of the construction of the Beatrice offshore wind farm in Scotland.

  • Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm Starts Delivering Power

    20 July 2018
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm, the 588MW Beatrice, has started generating power for the first time.

  • Royal Opening for Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm

    29 July 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    HRH Prince Charles of Wales officially opened the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Moray Firth, Scotland, on Monday, 29 July. Located 13 kilometres off the coast of Caithness in the North Sea, the 84-turbine Beatrice – the fourth largest offshore wind farm in the world – was completed in June 2019, following ten years of development and […]

  • Beatrice Reaches Full Power

    15 May 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    The last of 84 offshore wind turbines was commissioned at the 588MW Beatrice, Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm, on Wednesday, 15 May. This marks the end of offshore construction on the project in the Outer Moray Firth which has been completed on time and under budget after three years of construction, SSE said. The final […]

  • SSE Awards Inspection Framework Agreement for Beatrice and Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farms

    23 February 2023
    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 […]

  • Highland Communities Eligible for 2nd Round of Beatrice Funds

    4 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    SSE has invited local Highland communities to apply for the second round of the Beatrice partnership fund.

  • Babcock to Build Beatrice Offshore Transformer Modules

    12 September 2016

    Babcock, a UK engineering company, has won a contract from Siemens to build two Offshore Transformer Modules (OTMs) for the Beatrice offshore wind farm.  This follows the award of a contract from DONG Energy in May, when Babcock has been hired to build the world’s first offshore reactive compensation station for the 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind […]

  • Stanislav Yudin In Charge of Beatrice Jacket Installation

    3 April 2018
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Stanislav Yudin has been deployed on the jacket installation at the Beatrice offshore wind farm as the heavy lift vessel Oleg Strashnov left the site to handle the substation installation at the Arkona offshore wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea.

  • BiFab Starts Working on Beatrice Foundations

    30 November 2016

    BiFab’s Arnish facility began work on the transition pieces and piles for the Beatrice offshore wind farm in mid-October, increasing the workforce at the site by 71 people, according to SSE. Burntisland Fabrications (BiFab), a Fife based company with facilities at Burntisland, Methil and Arnish, won two multi-million pound contracts with Beatrice Offshore Wind Ltd’s […]

  • Smulders Kicks Off Beatrice Works

    12 December 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Smulders has completed the first jacket foundation section for the Beatrice offshore wind farm, for which the company is building a total of 28 jackets. according to Beatrice project’s social media pages.  Smulders Projects was awarded the contract for 28 Beatrice jacket foundations by Seaway Heavy Lifting, which is in charge of the engineering, procurement, construction, transport and […]

  • Final Five Turbines Embark for Beatrice

    8 May 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Swire Blue Ocean’s jack-up vessel Pacific Orca has loaded the last five Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines destined for the Beatrice offshore wind farm. Pacific Orca has been picking up the turbines in sets of five at the Nigg port, Siemens Gamesa’s pre-assembly base, and installing them at the site 13km off the Caithness coast in the UK. According […]

  • APEM to Survey Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm

    7 July 2015
    Environment

    APEM will carry out detailed marine benthic surveys for the Beatrice offshore wind farm and export cable route in the Moray Firth after being awarded a contract by developer Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL). The surveys comprise an array of field work, sample analysis and technical reporting. The company recently began gathering seafloor grab samples […]

  • Top News of the Week, 22 – 28 May 2017

    28 May 2017

    Offshore WIND’s most read news from 22 to 28 May 2017.

  • Siemens Working on Commissioning Beatrice OTM 1

    21 March 2018
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Transmission and Distribution is carrying out commissioning works on the recently installed Offshore Transformer Module (OTM) at the Beatrice offshore wind farm in preparation for the energisation of the system.

  • Subsea Surveys to Soon Start at Beatrice OWF

    24 September 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    Subsea surveys are set to start on 5 October at the Beatrice offshore wind farm, located some 13 kilometres off the coast of Caithness in Scotland. For the work, the DP2 vessel Glomar Wave and crew transfer vessel Iceni Spirit will be deployed at the site. Surveys will be carried out on selected wind turbine foundations, […]

  • Nexans Goes Full Steam Ahead with Beatrice Works

    5 March 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Nexans has completed the installation of its 400kV Outdoor Sealing Ends at Blackhillock, where the onshore substation for the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm is being built.

  • Beatrice Impact Measured in Billions – Report

    24 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    The development, construction and 25-year lifetime operation of Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm, Beatrice, is expected to generate GBP 2.4 billion of value for the UK economy, a new analysis has found. The 84 turbine, 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm – the fourth largest offshore wind farm in the world – was completed last month, […]

  • SSE Calculates Socio-Economic Impact of Beatrice Project

    21 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    New research into the benefits of the Beatrice offshore wind farm shows the social and economic impact the project is expected to deliver.

  • EIB Backs Beatrice with Its Largest Ever Offshore Wind Investment

    24 May 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to provide GBP 525 million for construction of the 588MW Beatrice wind farm off Scotland, representing the single largest support ever for investment in an offshore wind project by the bank.  The 19-year, long-term loan will support more than GBP 2.7 billion of overall investment. Part of the […]