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  • Wind Turbine Installation on Dogger Bank A to Resume in May, Voltaire Undergoing Scheduled Maintenance in Netherlands

    27 March 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The jack-up vessel Voltaire has installed twelve wind turbines at the Dogger Bank A offshore wind farm in the UK so far and is currently in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, where it will undergo scheduled maintenance and return to the UK project in May. This is according to a Notice of Operations from the project issued […]

  • 27 GE Haliade-X Wind Turbines Installed at Dogger Bank A

    26 July 2024
    Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    More than a quarter of wind turbines at Dogger Bank A, the first phase of the UK’s 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, have been installed. So far, 27 of the 95 GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbines that Dogger Bank A will comprise are in place, according to information in Equinor’s results for the […]

  • Jan De Nul Orders Twin to XL Cable-Layer Fleeming Jenkin

    17 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Cables, Environment, Grid Connection, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Jan De Nul has ordered a new XL cable-laying vessel (CLV), identical to the Fleeming Jenkin ordered at a Chinese shipyard last year. With a cable-carrying capacity of 28,000 tonnes, the vessels are said to be the largest capacity CLVs in the world. Like Fleeming Jenkin, the new vessel will be 215 metres long and […]

  • Saipem 7000, Seaway Strashnov to Begin Dogger Bank B Offshore Construction Work

    9 April 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The installation of the offshore substation topside and monopile foundations is about to commence at Dogger Bank B offshore wind farm, the second of the three 1.2 GW phases of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK. Installation vessels Saipem 7000 and Seaway Strashnov are expected to arrive at the project site […]

  • TotalEnergies Buys Into RWE’s Dutch Offshore Wind Farm to Produce Green Hydrogen; Contracts Signed with Main Suppliers

    24 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Green Hydrogen, Manufacturing, Power-to-X, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    RWE and TotalEnergies have entered into an agreement under which TotalEnergies will acquire a 50 per cent stake in RWE’s OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. TotalEnergies said it would use its share of the electricity from the 795 MW OranjeWind to produce green hydrogen. The new partners have now also taken the final […]

  • Offshore Wind Accounts for 45 Pct of NKT’s High-Voltage Order Backlog

    21 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Cables, Grid Connection, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    Subsea power cable manufacturer NKT has reported a record-high order backlog for high-voltage cables for 2023, with 45 per cent of orders coming from offshore wind. At the end of last year, NKT’s order backlog was at EUR 10.8 billion, more than double the company saw at the end of 2022. In its full-year 2023 […]

  • Two UK Firms Forge Ties to Drive Innovation in Offshore Wind Cables

    17 June 2024
    Business development, Cables, Collaboration, Grid Connection, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    UK companies 2H Offshore and Vekta Group have established a strategic partnership aimed at driving innovation in high-voltage cables for offshore wind developments. London-headquartered 2H provides structural, hydrodynamic, geotechnical engineering and related digital and integrity services for fixed and floating wind, while Edinburgh-headquartered Vekta focuses on electrical engineering of high voltage cables for offshore renewables […]

  • 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 […]

  • Jan De Nul Selected for Export Cable Installation on Taiwanese Offshore Wind Project

    1 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain

    Jan De Nul Group has signed a preferred supplier agreement with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) for the installation of high-voltage export cables that will bring renewable energy generated at the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm ashore. Jan De Nul will connect the offshore substation of the Fengmiao 1 to the Taiwanese onshore grid via two […]

  • APT Delivers Sea Fastening Systems for One of Biggest Offshore Wind Installation Vessels

    7 December 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Dubai-based vessel equipment and service provider, APT Global Marine and Offshore Engineering UAE, has fitted Jan De Nul’s installation vessel Voltaire with sea fastening systems under one of its latest contracts in the offshore wind industry, which now account for the majority of the revenue for the UAE company that previously did most of its […]

  • James Fisher Secures Zhong Neng Commissioning Contract Offshore Taiwan

    30 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain

    James Fisher and Sons plc (James Fisher) has been awarded a contract for the provision of high voltage (HV) specialist personnel and HV safety management services at the 298 MW Zhong Neng offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Under the contract, worth over GBP 1 million (approximately EUR 1.17 million), James Fisher’s renewables team will securely […]

  • SSE Renewables Picks Ventus for Seagreen Maintenance Work

    27 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain

    UK-based Ventus Energy has been awarded a contract by SSE Renewables to provide maintenance work on transmission assets for the Seagreen offshore wind farm in Scotland. Throughout the duration of the contract, the company will operate across primary and secondary equipment at the wind farm’s offshore and onshore substations. In addition to substation asset maintenance, […]

  • DEA Kicks Off Hesselø Offshore Wind Farm Public Consultation

    5 February 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has opened an eight-week public consultation on the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of the plan for the revised southern location of the Hesselø offshore wind farm. The public consultation of the revised SEA of the plan for the offshore wind project is planned to run from 5 February to 5 […]

  • 50Hertz Awards LanWin3 Converter Contract

    19 July 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Onshore Infrastructure, Supply Chain

    The transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz has awarded the consortium comprising Dragados Offshore, a subsidiary of Cobra IS, and Siemens Energy a EUR 2.9 billion contract to design, build, and install two electrical conversion stations. The consortium’s scope of work consists of supplying an offshore converter for the LanWin3 grid connection project in the North […]

  • Cable Production Kicks Off for TenneT’s 2 GW Grid Connection Projects

    31 May 2024
    Cables, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms

    The production of TenneT’s new cables that can transmit up to 2 GW of offshore wind capacity has started at LS Cable in Donghae, South Korea. The new cables with a voltage of 525 kV make it possible to transmit 2 GW of direct current (DC) over long distances with low losses, said the Dutch-German […]

  • Elia Awards HVAC Contracts for World’s First Energy Island

    20 June 2024
    Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Energy Islands, Grid Connection, Manufacturing, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain

    Belgium’s transmission system operator (TSO) Elia has awarded contracts to several companies for high-voltage alternating current (HVAC) components of Princess Elisabeth Island, the world’s first energy island. The artificial energy island will be built some 45 kilometres off the Belgian coast, within the Princess Elisabeth offshore wind farm zone, and span about five hectares above […]

  • Construction of World’s First Energy Island About to Start

    27 March 2024
    Energy Islands, Grid Connection, Project Updates

    Offshore construction work on Princess Elisabeth Island, the world’s first energy island, is expected to start soon in the Belgian sector of the North Sea as cardinal buoys have been deployed to demarcate an exclusion zone within which only vessels working on the energy island will be allowed, according to a Notice to Mariners issued […]

  • Ørsted Hires Correll for Cable Fault-Finding and Repair in UK, US and Taiwan

    4 June 2024
    Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain

    Ørsted has awarded three multi-year framework agreements for fault-finding, diagnostic and dry repair of cables at its offshore wind farms in the UK, the US, and Taiwan to Correll Group. The agreements have been signed for an initial period of three years and Ørsted has also selected the UK-based Correll Group, a subsidiary of the […]

  • Japanese Start Building UK’s First HVDC Cable Factory

    15 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Cables, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Jobs & Recruitment, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Transition

    Japan-headquartered Sumitomo Electric has kicked off the construction of its subsea cable factory in Scotland, set to supply critical elements for the reinforcement of the UK electricity transmission grid and for connecting renewable energy production facilities to the grid. Sumitomo Electric held the groundbreaking ceremony together with its subsidiary Sumitomo Electric UK Power Cables on 14 […]

  • Belgian Meshed Grid to the Rescue as Rentel Export Cable Gets Damaged

    29 January 2024
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms

    The export cable of the Rentel offshore wind farm is reported to have been damaged. However, the offshore wind farm keeps feeding electricity into the Belgian grid as the offshore power hub, Modular Offshore Grid (MOG), has taken over. Elia, the operator of Belgium’s MOG, says that the cable from the Rentel platform to the […]

  • Allseas to Deploy Pioneering Spirit on Gennaker Offshore Wind Farm

    29 April 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Allseas has been contracted for the transport and installation (T&I) of two substations for the Gennaker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea, developed by transmission operator 50Hertz. Located 15 kilometres off the German coast near the Darß peninsula, and with a production capacity of 927 MW, Gennaker will be the largest and most […]

  • Elia Fixes Rentel Offshore Wind Farm Cable

    28 May 2024
    Cables, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Operations & Maintenance, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The repairs on the cable linking the 309 MW Rentel offshore wind farm to mainland Belgium have been completed about four months after it failed. The fault was located just below the Rentel transformer platform, said the Belgian transmission system operator (TSO) Elia. A new section of the cable, approximately 400 metres long, was attached to […]

  • First Turbines Up at 476 MW Baltic Eagle Offshore Wind Farm

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

    First Vestas V174-9.5 MW turbines have been installed by Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Blue Tern at the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. According to the AIS data available online, the vessel Blue Tern is currently in the Port of Rønne, Denmark, for the next loadout of wind turbines which will be installed […]

  • French Project Takes Dynamic Subsea Cable Monitoring Tech to Sea Trials

    19 July 2024
    Business development, Cables, Floating Wind, Grid Connection, Research & Development

    A sea trials campaign for monitoring dynamic subsea power cables was conducted from 1 to 6 July in the Bay of Douarnenez, France. The trials are part of the HT-20MW project that aims to design, test, and certify a high-voltage rotating mechanical and electrical connection for a 20 MW floating wind turbine. The sea trials […]

  • Skyborn’s Gennaker Offshore Wind Farm to Feature Siemens Gamesa’s Biggest Turbines

    20 June 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Skyborn Renewables has signed an updated Master Supply Agreement with Siemens Gamesa for the delivery of 63 SG 14-236 DD wind turbines, with a power boost of 15 MW, for its 945 MW Gennaker offshore wind project in the German Baltic Sea. The agreement strengthens the long-term partnership between the two companies and replaces the […]

  • Ramboll Gets Foundation Design Contract for 945 MW German Offshore Wind Project

    8 July 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Foundations, Supply Chain

    Ramboll has been selected as the foundation designer for the Gennaker offshore wind project in the German Baltic Sea, owned by Skyborn Renewables. Under the contract, Ramboll will be responsible for developing the basic and detailed design of 63 monopile foundations supporting Siemens Gamesa’s SG 14-236 DD wind turbines. In addition, the company’s role extends […]