3182 results found for 'scotwind'

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  • GHD Wins FEED Deal for 2 GW Caledonia Offshore Wind Farm

    4 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain

    GHD has been selected to provide the electrical front-end engineering design (FEED) for Ocean Winds’ Caledonia offshore wind farm in Scotland. GHD’s involvement includes evaluating two turbine designs and developing the FEED for key electrical components such as inter-array cables, the offshore high-voltage alternating current (HVAC) substation, power-system configuration, export cables, landfall and transition bays, […]

  • First ScotWind Floating Project Submits Both Onshore and Offshore Consent Applications

    10 December 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The Muir Mhòr Offshore Wind Farm, a joint venture between Vattenfall and Fred. Olsen Seawind, has submitted applications for both offshore and onshore consents to the Scottish authorities for review. The project is the first fully floating offshore wind farm from the 2022 ScotWind leasing process to reach the point of submitting both offshore and […]

  • Cerulean Selects Deployment Port for Scottish Floating Offshore Wind Farms

    22 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    Cerulean Winds, a floating wind company with 3 GW under development in the Central North Sea, has selected Haventus, owner of the under-construction Ardersier Energy Transition Facility, as its chosen deployment port. The Cerulean alliance’s first project will be the Aspen development, a 1 GW floating offshore wind farm located in the central North Sea […]

  • Qair, Etermar Forge Iberian Floating Offshore Wind Alliance

    17 December 2024
    Business development, Collaboration, Floating Wind, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    Etermar Energia and French independent renewable energy company, Qair, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at future offshore wind projects in the Iberian Peninsula. The document was signed during a visit by Etermar Energia to EolMed, Qair’s 30 MW floating offshore wind project currently under construction in Port-La Nouvelle, France. The agreement reflects […]

  • ORE Catapult, Offshore Wind Developers Launch Supply Chain Programme for Scottish Island Businesses

    15 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Industry, Innovation

    Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, in partnership with several offshore wind developers, has created Fit for Offshore Renewables (F4OR) Island programme, a dedicated industry supply chain programme for businesses based across Scotland’s island and coastal communities which opens this week. The developers who helped create the programme are progressing four Scottish offshore wind projects: MachairWind […]

  • UK’s NOC Develops Roadmap for Offshore Wind Environmental Monitoring

    27 February 2025
    Environment, R&D

    The UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has delivered a roadmap to improve ocean observation and enhance understanding of the potential impacts of expanding offshore wind developments on the marine environment. The Scoping an Offshore Wind Sustained Observation Programme report was commissioned by the Scottish Government’s Scottish Marine Energy Research (ScotMER) programme, to help inform the […]

  • 2 GW Caledonia Offshore Wind Farm Could be Delivered in Two Phases as Project Advances

    20 November 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    Ocean Winds has completed three years of development work and submitted applications for offshore planning consent to the Scottish Government’s Marine Directorate for the 2 GW Caledonia offshore wind farm in Scotland. Caledonia, located in the outer Moray Firth, was awarded the site in 2022 as part of the Scottish government’s ScotWind process. The offshore […]

  • Global Underwater Hub, Scottish Enterprise Team Up to Support Floating Wind Supply Chain

    19 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Floating Wind, Industry, Supply Chain

    Global Underwater Hub (GUH) and Scottish Enterprise have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on establishing a subsea supply chain ecosystem as a global centre of excellence for floating wind. The partners said on 18 February that the floating wind market was estimated to be worth GBP 1 trillion (approximately EUR 1.2 trillion) […]

  • Entrion Secures US Patent for Monopile that Can Be Installed in Water Depths of Up to 100 Metres

    8 November 2024
    Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Innovation, Supply Chain, Technology

    Norwegian company Entrion Wind has been issued a US patent for its Fully Restrained Platform (FRP) monopile, which combines fixed and floating platform technologies. The technology can extend the water depths for monopile foundations to up to 100 metres, according to the company. Entrion Wind plans to commercially roll out the FRP monopile in 2027. […]

  • Ocean Winds Hires Føn Energy Services in Scotland

    11 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance

    Ocean Winds, a 50/50 joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has contracted Føn Energy Services to provide a fully integrated Balance of Plant (BoP) operations and maintenance (O&M) service programme for the Moray East and Moray West offshore wind farms in Scotland. The contract is valid for three years, with an option to extend […]

  • OSG Signs Seabed Deal with Crown Estate Scotland for Floating Anchorage Site

    22 April 2025
    Business development, Floating Wind, Research & Development

    UK-based Offshore Solutions Group (OSG) has signed a two-year Exclusivity Agreement with Crown Estate Scotland for areas in the Moray Firth to develop its FLOW-Park. The Moray FLOW-Park aims to provide temporary safe anchorage (wet storage) for floating offshore wind foundations, optimising risk management and logistics during assembly, wind turbine integration, and deployment, said OSG. […]

  • Moray West Officially at Full Power

    24 April 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The UK Secretary of State for Scotland, Ian Murray, switched on full power at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm, built by Ocean Winds some 20 kilometres off the coast of Buckie. Moray West comprises 60 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD wind turbines, each of which can generate up to 14.7 MW with […]

  • UK Company to Deliver Davit Cranes for Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm

    11 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain

    The developer of the Inch Cape offshore wind farm has awarded a contract to UK-based Granada Cranes to provide 72 davit crane units on one of Scotland’s largest offshore wind projects. Granada Cranes has been contracted to design and supply two separate types of davit cranes, each to suit the mixed use of jacket and […]

  • Scottish Floating Wind Project Completes Metocean Campaign

    22 January 2025
    Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    A joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea7 has retrieved floating LiDARs and wave buoy equipment as part of the metocean campaign for the proposed Salamander floating offshore wind farm off the North East of Scotland. The campaign started in October 2023 with the deployment of two floating SEAWATCH Wind Lidar Buoys and […]

  • Scottish Council Greenlights Onshore Plans for Salamander Floating Wind Farm

    27 March 2025
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure, Planning & Permitting

    Salamander Offshore Wind Farm, being developed by a joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group, and Subsea7, has been awarded planning permission in principle for the onshore aspects of its proposed floating project in Scotland. The submission was made to Aberdeenshire Council for the onshore substation and associated infrastructure in August 2024 under the Town […]

  • 1.1 GW Inch Cape Wind Farm Entering Offshore Construction Phase

    27 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    ESB and Red Rock Renewables have reached a financial close on the 1,080 MW Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland, and the project will now progress into its offshore construction phase. The Scottish offshore wind project has reached a financial close, securing a GBP 3.5 billion financing package from shareholders and lenders, comprising 22 […]

  • Briggs Marine to Stay Busy Offshore Scotland with Neart na Gaoithe CTV Contract

    27 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Briggs Marine has secured a contract to provide crew transfer vessel (CTV) services to the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm in Scotland as it progresses from the construction phase into the operations and maintenance (O&M) phase. Under the three-year contract, Briggs Marine will continue to provide its CTV vessel, Forth Engineer, to facilitate […]

  • Buchan Floating Offshore Wind Project Wraps Up Metocean Campaign in Scotland

    3 February 2025
    Business development, Floating Wind, Research & Development

    The metocean and LiDAR surveys have been completed at the Buchan floating offshore wind farm site located off the northeast coast of Scotland. Partrac recently recovered the project LiDAR and seabed instrumentation at the project site some 75 kilometres northeast of Fraserburgh on the Aberdeenshire coast. The two-year metocean and floating LiDAR campaign has seen […]

  • Last Siemens Gamesa Turbine In Place at Moray West Offshore Wind Farm

    18 November 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The 60th and final turbine has been installed at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm in the Moray Firth, located in northern Scotland. The Moray West offshore wind farm is nearing the end of the construction phase and will become fully operational during 2025, in line with the originally projected commercial operations date, […]

  • Taylor Hopkinson Wins Contract for 1.1 GW Scottish Offshore Wind Farm

    25 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain

    Taylor Hopkinson has been awarded a quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) surveillance contract for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland. Taylor Hopkinson will support the fabrication and construction of Scotland’s 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm, being jointly developed by Red Rock Renewables and ESB. The company and Brunel’s global presence spans all […]

  • Seabed Preparation Work Coming Up at Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm Site

    20 March 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Seabed preparation activities are scheduled to begin at the Inch Cape offshore wind farm site in Scotland at the end of March. N-Sea, which has been contracted for the job, will start the work within the array site and the export cable corridor on or around 30 March and continue until November 2025. Seabed preparation […]

  • BlueFloat, Nadara Wrap Up Site Surveys for Scottish Floating Offshore Wind Farms

    14 May 2025
    Floating Wind, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The partnership between BlueFloat Energy and Nadara has completed two-year wind and metocean monitoring campaigns at its Broadshore Hub and Bellrock floating offshore wind farm sites in Scotland. The campaigns involved the deployment of EOLOS’ FLS200 floating LiDAR buoys at the Broadshore Hub site, located 50 kilometres north of Fraserburgh, and the Bellrock site, situated […]

  • Aker, Aibel Win FEED Deals for 560 MW Scottish Floater

    16 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Research & Development, Supply Chain

    Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn, a joint venture between Plenitude (Eni) and HitecVision, have awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the 560 MW Green Volt floating offshore wind project in Scotland to two partnerships. Aker Solutions, in collaboration with ABB, and Aibel, working with Hitachi Energy, will handle the FEED Phase 1 scope […]

  • All Turbines Up at 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm in Scotland

    7 April 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The final Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbine has been installed at the 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm in Scotland. The installation of the 54th wind turbine was completed in the early hours of this morning (7 April) at the site located some 15.5 kilometres off the Fife coast. The work was […]

  • ABL Appointed Marine Warranty Surveyor for 1.1 GW Scottish Offshore Wind Farm

    14 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain

    Energy and marine consultancy company ABL will provide marine warranty survey (MWS) services for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm during the entire construction period of the 1.1 GW project in Scotland. ABL will act as marine warranty surveyor for the transport and installation of the jacket and monopile foundations, offshore substation platform, wind turbines, […]

  • Second Wind Turbine Installation Campaign Starts at Neart na Gaoithe Site Offshore Scotland

    15 January 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The second wind turbine installation campaign is about to start at the 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm site off the coast of Fife, Scotland. According to a notice to mariners from the project, Fred Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Brave Tern is scheduled to commence the work on or around 17 January. The vessel will load […]