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  • Thor Feeds First Power into Danish Grid

    17 March 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm under construction, Thor, delivered electricity into the national grid, operated by Energinet, for the first time on 16 March. “Reaching this milestone so soon after installing the first turbine demonstrates the exceptional performance of our project teams and partners, and how effectively they collaborate. Thor is progressing exactly as planned”, […]

  • RWE Opens O&M Base for Thor Offshore Wind Farm

    25 March 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    RWE has officially opened the new operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the 1.1 GW Danish Thor offshore wind farm at Thorsminde Port. “The port of Thorsminde provides the quickest sea and air access to Thor offshore wind farm, making it the perfect location for our new service hub. Our first team members are already […]

  • First Turbine Installed at 1.1 GW Thor Offshore Wind Farm

    4 March 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The first wind turbine is now in place at the 1.1 GW Thor offshore wind farm site in Denmark. Thor will comprise 72 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-236 DD wind turbines, of which 40 will feature recyclable rotor blades, with 36 turbine towers to be manufactured with a significantly lower carbon footprint than usual, according to the project […]

  • Denmark’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Granted 30-Year Electricity Production Licence

    26 January 2026
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has approved a 30-year electricity production licence to the Thor offshore wind farm, under construction at a site located approximately 22 kilometres off the west coast of Jutland. With a total installed capacity of 1.1 GW, Thor will become Denmark’s largest offshore wind project once fully operational in 2027, generating […]

  • ‘World’s First’ Wind Turbine with CO2-Reduced Steel Tower and Recyclable Blades Installed Offshore Denmark

    9 April 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Waters off Denmark’s west coast are now home to what RWE says is the world’s first offshore wind turbine featuring a CO2‑reduced steel tower and recyclable rotor blades. The 1.1 GW Thor offshore wind farm, currently under construction some 22 kilometres off the west coast of Jutland, will comprise 72 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-236 DD […]

  • All Thor Foundations In and Fully Equipped, Wind Turbine Installation Starting in Spring 2026

    11 November 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    All 72 wind turbine foundations at the Danish Thor offshore wind site, developed by RWE, are now equipped with secondary steel and ready for the wind turbine installation, which is expected to start in the spring of 2026. The installation of the secondary steel structures, including boat landings, main access platforms, and internal cassettes, was […]

  • Siemens Gamesa, Fred. Olsen Windcarrier Enter 10-Year O&M Agreement

    16 March 2026
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier and Siemens Gamesa have signed a long-term agreement, under which Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s vessels will be deployed for operations and maintenance (O&M) work on offshore wind farms featuring Siemens Gamesa turbines. The agreement, which has a firm duration of ten years with additional optional periods, covers the provision of offshore wind O&M […]

  • Utermöhlen Leaving RWE, Current CTO to Take Offshore Wind Helm

    6 May 2026
    Business & Finance, Industry

    RWE has announced changes to the management board of its offshore wind business, with CEO Sven Utermöhlen set to leave the company on 30 September 2026. Utermöhlen will not renew his contract and will step down at his own request, after which he will continue to advise RWE’s offshore wind division for a period of […]

  • Hexicon Books Impairment Related to TwinHub, Seeks to Divest Floating Wind Project

    2 February 2026
    Business & Finance, Floating Wind

    Swedish floating wind technology developer has reported a SEK 115 million (nearly EUR 11 million) impairment related to its TwinHub floating wind project in the UK. Hexicon’s project secured a Contract for Difference (CfD) in the UK government’s fourth allocation round (AR4) in 2022 at a strike price of GBP 87.30/MWh. The same year, the […]

  • All Recyclable Blades Installed at RWE’s 1.4 GW UK Offshore Wind Farm

    10 November 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    All 150 recyclable blades have been installed at the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm, with more than half of the wind turbines now in place at the UK construction site. All 150 recyclable blades are now installed, 50 sets of three blades, one set per turbine, marking the UK’s first large-scale use of this […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Shelves Esbjerg Offshore Wind Turbine Nacelle Factory

    27 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    The Spanish-German engineering company Siemens Gamesa has decided to shelve plans for an offshore wind turbine nacelle factory at the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark. Siemens Gamesa told offshoreWIND.biz that the Port of Esbjerg remains a key hub for its offshore wind activities and that the company continues to assess potential investment options there. “Siemens […]

  • Dajin Launches Its First Heavy Deck Carrier for Offshore Wind, Plans 20-Strong Fleet

    14 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Vessels

    Dajin Heavy Industry has launched its first self-built heavy deck carrier designed to transport XXL components and equipment for the offshore wind, oil, and gas industries. The vessel is the first of four of the same type that the company is currently building, and could be the first in a fleet of 20 heavy deck carriers […]

  • Jan De Nul Installs All Monopiles at 1.1 GW Thor Offshore Wind Farm

    25 September 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    All 72 monopile foundations have been installed at RWE’s Thor offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea. The monopiles are around 100 metres in length and weigh up to 1,500 tonnes each. The units were shipped from the heavy-lift terminal in Eemshaven, in the Netherlands, to the Thor construction site in the Danish North […]

  • Danish Energy Agency Re-Rejects Applications for Feasibility Study Permits Under ‘Open-Door’ Scheme

    1 September 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has revised the applications for feasibility study permits under the open-door scheme, for which the process was suspended in 2023 and reactivated last year. The DEA has now made new decisions in the cases and maintains the rejection of all 37 applications. The DEA put the processing of cases under […]

  • Dajin Delivers All TP-Less Monopiles for Nordseecluster A Offshore Wind Farm

    21 August 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Manufacturing, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    China’s Dajin Heavy Industry has completed the delivery of all 45 TP-less monopiles for the first phase of the 1.6 GW Nordseecluster development in the German North Sea. Dajin started manufacturing the monopiles at its Penglai facility in China in November 2024. The units are around 85 metres long on average and weigh approximately 1,500 […]

  • Substation Installed at Denmark’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    28 July 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The jacket foundation and the substation topside have been installed at the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm site in Denmark. Following the jacket and topside’s sail-away from HSM Offshore Energy’s Schiedam yard in the Netherlands, the installation of the 2,600-tonne topside was executed offshore, with the heavy-lift vessel Gulliver of Scaldis SMC placing the […]

  • 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 […]

  • Half of Monopile Foundations In Place at Thor Offshore Wind Farm

    16 July 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Half of the monopile foundations are now in place at the Thor offshore wind farm site, as Jan De Nul’s heavy-lift vessel Les Alizés installed the 36th of the project’s total 72 monopiles on 15 July. “With Thor we are constructing Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm to date. Reaching halfway in the safe installation of […]

  • HSM Offshore Energy Loads Out Thor Offshore Substation

    4 July 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The fully assembled offshore substation for the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm has been loaded out at HSM Offshore Energy’s Schiedam yard in the Netherlands. Both the jacket and the topside are now on the barges, and the structures are being prepared for sail-away to their destination off the Danish coast. In 2022, RWE, […]

  • Jan De Nul Completes Thor Export Cable Pull-In

    30 June 2025
    Cables, Grid Connection, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul has pulled two export cables for the 1,080 MW Thor offshore wind farm, currently under construction in Denmark. The export cables will transport clean, renewable electricity from the offshore site 22 kilometres out in the North Sea to the Danish mainland. In 2023, Jan De Nul, together with Hellenic Cables, won a […]

  • Thor O&M Base Almost Completed

    13 June 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the 1 GW Danish offshore wind farm Thor is nearing completion. On 12 June, RWE and Danish construction company Østermark Entreprenørforretning held a topping-out ceremony for the new building located at Thorsminde port. The O&M base is expected to be completed by the end of this year and […]

  • Norwegian Sovereign Fund Completes EUR 1.4 Billion Thor, Nordseecluster Buy-In

    4 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    RWE and Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) have closed a transaction worth approximately EUR 1.4 billion, through which NBIM has acquired a 49 per cent equity stake in RWE’s Thor and Nordseecluster offshore wind projects in Denmark and Germany, respectively. The developer and NBIM, which manages the international investments of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, […]

  • Danish TSO Finishes Grid Connection for Thor Offshore Wind Farm

    18 June 2025
    Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet has completed the construction work related to the connection of the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm to the national grid. The construction work began in January 2023 and has been completed on time, said Energinet. The scope of work included moving 95,000 cubic metres of soil and laying […]

  • Thor OWF Wind and Metocean Campaign Completed

    10 September 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Akrocean has completed a one-year wind and meteorological and oceanographic (metocean) campaign for the Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark. The company retrieved its floating LiDAR from the project site in the Danish part of the North Sea earlier this summer and delivered wind and metocean data to the Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet. Energinet, […]

  • More Work for Fugro at RWE’s Thor Offshore Wind Project

    19 October 2023
    Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Research & Development, Supply Chain

    Dutch geo-data specialist company, Fugro, has been appointed by RWE to complete a geophysical survey off the Danish coast, where RWE will build the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm. Up to three survey vessels will be deployed to carry out a detailed pre-construction survey including a search for unexploded ordnance (UXO) up to approximately 34 kilometres […]

  • Six Answer Call to Build Thor Offshore Wind Farm

    14 January 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The Danish Energy Agency has pre-qualified a total of six consortia and companies to participate in the tender for the Thor offshore wind farm. The applicants include Ørsted, Vattenfall, a consortium of Total and Iberdrola, as well as Thor Wind Farm I/S, owned by RWE Wind Holding A/S and RWE Offshore Wind A/S. Other pre-qualified […]