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  • Siemens Gamesa Taps North Star for East Anglia THREE SOV

    24 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain, Vessels

    North Star has secured a contract with Siemens Gamesa to build a hybrid service operations vessel (SOV) bound for long-term charter at the 1.4 GW East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm, located off the Suffolk coast, England. The construction project for the SOV of VARD 4 19 design has been awarded by North Star to […]

  • North Star Charts Course for 40 Hybrid SOVs by 2040 with GBP 425 Million Investment

    6 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    UK-headquartered North Star has secured debt investment of up to GBP 425 million (approximately EUR 500 million) to accelerate its ambition to add 40 hybrid service operation vessels (SOV) to its fleet by 2040. The committed financial package of GBP 225 million includes term facilities from existing lenders, IFM investors, and committed capex and working […]

  • New Partnership to Develop Next-Gen SOV for Floating Offshore Wind Projects

    9 October 2024
    Business development, Floating Wind, R&D, Research & Development, Vessels

    North Star, a service operations vessel (SOV) operator in the UK’s renewable industry, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with MO4, Principle Power, SMST, Vard, and Voith Group to form a working group aimed at developing a new SOV concept for floating offshore wind. The six organisations have committed to developing a detailed, high-performance […]

  • Pondera Consult and ENMARO Eye Wind Opportunities Offshore Poland

    6 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    The Netherlands’ Pondera Consult and ENMARO (Energy Market Observer sp. z o.o.) have signed an agreement to jointly source, define, and target potential offshore wind project opportunities in Poland, leveraging their combined products and services as a consortium. The agreement was signed in Świnoujście, Poland, during the Polish Wind Energy Association (PWEA) Conference by Andrzej […]

  • OO-STAR Floating Wind Foundation Gets Nod from ABS

    25 September 2024
    Floating Wind, Foundations, R&D, Supply Chain

    The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has issued Approval in Principle (AiP) to the OO-STAR concrete semi-submersible floater from Bouygues Travaux Publics, a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction. The foundation can support wind turbines of more than 20 MW in harsh offshore environments, Bouygues Construction said. This achievement is said to be the first step in […]

  • First Steel Cut for Nordseecluster A Foundations

    30 May 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    China’s Dajin Heavy Industry has started the manufacturing of the foundations for RWE’s Nordseecluster A, the first phase of the 1.6 GW Nordseecluster project being built in the German North Sea. The project, featuring a TP-Less structure, has entered the production stage after its initial cutting ceremony held at the Dajin Penglai facility on 28 […]

  • Installation of Sofia Offshore Substation Coming Up

    7 August 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Heerema Marine Contractors’ semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Sleipnir is expected to sail to the Sofia offshore wind farm site in the UK in a few days to install the project’s HVDC offshore converter platform. According to a recent Notice to Mariners from the project, Sleipnir will start the work on or around 10 August and […]

  • RWE, Luxcara Winners of German 5.5 GW Offshore Wind Tender

    12 August 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    RWE and Luxcara have been selected as winners of the latest German tender, offering a total of 5.5 GW of capacity across three sites, N-9.1, N-9.2, and N-9.3, all located in the German North Sea. RWE has secured the sites N-9.1 and N-9.2, where the company plans to build two offshore wind farms with an […]

  • First Phase of RWE’s 1.6 GW Nordseecluster Offshore Wind Project Approved

    25 June 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has issued the planning approvals for Nordseecluster A, the first phase of RWE’s Nordseecluster offshore wind project. The Nordseecluster offshore wind project is being built around 46 kilometres north of the German island of Borkum and approximately 50 kilometres north of the German island of Juist. The […]

  • Denmark Greenlights Hesselø Offshore Wind Farm Plan

    19 July 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has approved the plan for the Hesselø offshore wind farm, taking into account the environmental plan and the feedback from the consultation process. According to the DEA, the offshore wind farm, which will have a total capacity between 800 MW and 1,200 MW, must consist of wind turbines, cables, and […]

  • TenneT Launches Initiative for Shared Offshore O&M Services in Dutch North Sea

    8 October 2024
    Collaboration, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy

    The Dutch-German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has started an initiative to partner with offshore wind farm operators and oil and gas sector operators in the Dutch North Sea for sharing operation and maintenance (O&M) services. With an estimated value (excluding VAT) of EUR 1 million, the initiative aims to reduce costs, secure scarce resources, […]

  • EnBW Opens Helicopter Transport Tender for German Offshore Wind Farms

    20 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    EnBW has launched a tender for helicopter transport services for its offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. The offshore wind owner/developer is looking for a helicopter service for the offshore-onshore transport of personnel including personnel luggage in the contract period. In individual cases, and after consultation with the provider, cargo, including dangerous goods, […]

  • Vestas Adds 795 MW OranjeWind to Firm Orders

    30 July 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    Vestas has received a firm order for the OranjeWind offshore wind project, previously named Hollandse Kust West VII, situated off the coast of the Netherlands in the North Sea. Vestas will provide 53 V236-15.0 MW wind turbines and is responsible for the supply, delivery, and commissioning of the units. Wind turbine installation at the project […]

  • RWE Greenlights 1.6 GW German Offshore Wind Farms

    27 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    RWE has made the investment decision for its Nordseecluster, involving offshore wind projects with a total capacity of 1.6 GW to be built in the German North Sea. The Nordseecluster is being implemented in two phases, Nordseecluster A and Nordseecluster B, each comprising two offshore wind farms. Nordseecluster A has a total capacity of 660 […]

  • Van Oord Installs First Monopile at RWE’s Sofia Offshore Wind Farm

    21 May 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel, Aeolus, has installed the first of 100 monopile foundations at the 1.4 GW Sofia project in the UK, RWE’s largest offshore wind farm to date. The Sofia offshore wind farm is located on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, 195 kilometres from the North East coast of the UK. […]

  • Ørsted’s Gode Wind 3 Offshore Wind Farm Delivers First Power

    8 May 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The first Siemens Gamesa’s SG 11.0-200 DD wind turbine has been installed at the Gode Wind 3 offshore wind farm in Germany. In addition, the 253 MW project has started producing electricity for the first time and delivering it to the transmission network. On 23 April, the first of 23 Siemens Gamesa turbines was installed […]

  • Heerema Installs Sofia Offshore Substation

    29 August 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The high-voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore converter platform (OCP) has been installed at the Sofia offshore wind farm site in the UK. The installation was carried out by Heerema Marine Contractors, using its Sleipnir heavy-lift vessel as a subcontractor to the GE Vernova/Seatrium consortium responsible for the OCP. The platform, equivalent in height to an […]

  • Geotechnical Survey Coming Up at West of Orkney Windfarm Site

    15 August 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Geotechnical survey work is set to start this month at the West of Orkney Windfarm site offshore Scotland. The survey to ascertain sub-seabed characteristics at the project site will be carried out by Geo using the survey vessel Connector, starting on or around 30 August. The campaign will take approximately eleven days, subject to weather […]

  • New Heavy Lift Quay Supporting SeAH’s UK Monopile Factory to Go Into Operation This Summer

    12 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    A new quay in the UK’s Tees Valley that will support SeAH Wind’s new XXL monopile manufacturing facility is set to be operational in early summer 2024. Construction work on the first 450-metre phase of the South Bank Heavy Lift Quay, which started in 2021, is now complete, according to Teesworks Ltd, a private-public partnership […]

  • LyondellBasell Buys Power from Ecowende Offshore Wind Farm

    24 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Environment, Outlook & Strategy, Project Updates, Transition, Wind Farm Update

    International chemical company LyondellBasell has agreed to purchase a portion of electricity generated by the Ecowende wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. LyondellBasell signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Eneco, the energy company building the wind farm in the coming years together with its partners 53 kilometres off the coast of IJmuiden […]

  • DeepOcean Taps CRP Subsea for Offshore Wind Cable Protection Systems

    18 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain, Technology

    UK-headquartered CRP Subsea has secured a contract from Norway-based ocean services provider, DeepOcean, to supply cable protection systems for RWE’s Nordseecluster A offshore wind project in the German part of the North Sea. Under this contract, CRP Subsea will supply 96 NjordGuard cable protection systems (CPS) for the project’s wind turbines. The CPS will safeguard […]

  • World’s First Energy Island Starts Taking Shape – Video

    23 April 2024
    Energy Islands, Grid Connection, Power-to-X

    The first of the 23 caissons being built for Princess Elisabeth Island in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, is almost finished and will be immersed in the North Sea this summer. The artificial Belgian energy island is a world first. A Belgian consortium comprising DEME and Jan De Nul (TM Edison) is building the foundations of the […]

  • Haizea Manufactures First Monopile for 1.4 GW East Anglia Three Offshore Wind Farm

    4 October 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Manufacturing, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Haizea Wind Group has manufactured the first monopile foundation for Iberdrola’s East Anglia Three offshore wind project at its facility in Bilbao, Spain. Haizea Bilbao will deliver 50 monopiles for the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm under a contract with ScottishPower Renewables, Iberdrola’s UK arm, signed in March 2023. Under the contract, […]

  • GE Vernova-Seatrium Consortium Cuts Steel for TenneT’s IJmuiden Ver Beta Offshore Platform

    12 September 2024
    Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms

    A consortium of GE Vernova and Seatrium has held a steel-cutting ceremony to mark the start of construction work on TenneT’s IJmuiden Ver Beta offshore converter platform, one of the first Dutch 2 GW grid connection projects. The first steel was cut at Seatrium’s Tuas Boulevard shipyard in Singapore. The high voltage direct current (HVDC) […]

  • Dominion Buying Iberdrola’s US Offshore Wind Lease Area North of CVOW Project Site

    9 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Iberdrola, through its US subsidiary Avangrid, and Virginia Electric and Power Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dominion Energy, have signed an agreement under which Dominion will acquire the Kitty Hawk North Wind offshore wind lease area. The site, located some 40 kilometres north of the under-construction Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, would be renamed CVOW-South, […]

  • Service Ship Hits Wind Turbine at Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm

    23 September 2024
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    The service operation vessel (SOV) Wind of Hope has allided with a wind turbine of the Hornsea One wind farm in the UK. According to a statement issued by Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA), the 26 crew members and 46 specialist personnel on board at the time of the accident suffered no injuries. There was also […]