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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
EEW Special Pipe Constructions (EEW SPC) has completed the fabrication of the last monopile for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany, owned by the Spanish energy company Iberdrola. The last monopile in the set of 50 was manufactured at EEW Special Pipe Constructions’ Rostock site. Each monopile has a diameter between 8.75 metres and […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Spanish energy company Iberdrola is finalizing the selection of the main contractors for the Baltic Eagle and Wikinger Süd offshore wind projects in the German Baltic Sea. The 476 MW Baltic Eagle and the 10 MW Wikinger Süd were selected in the second public tender organised by Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) in April 2018. As previously […]
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Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update
Denmark’s Port of Roenne A/S has been selected as an installation port for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. Iberdrola and Vestas have signed a contract to supply 50 units of the V174-9.5 MW offshore wind turbine for the Baltic Eagle project situated in German waters 40 kilometres west of […]
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EEW Special Pipe Constructions (SPC) has completed the fabrication of the first monopile for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany, owned by the Spanish energy company Iberdrola. The monopile, which was completed on 18 February, weighs 1,363 tonnes and has a diameter of 9 metres, and will be followed by 49 more, manufactured […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Iberdrola has selected MHI Vestas Offshore Wind as the preferred wind turbine supplier for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind project in the German Baltic Sea. According to MHI Vestas, the contract includes the supply of up to 52 V174-9.5 MW turbines for the 476MW project, which will be the first offshore wind farm to feature this model. […]
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Authorities, Wind Farm Update
Spanish energy company Iberdrola has completed the planning approval process for the 476 MW Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm and received a positive decision from Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). Following the approval from BSH, Iberdrola is now moving forward with the construction phase of the company’s second wind farm project in the […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Van Oord has awarded TKF with a contract to provide the inter-array cables for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind project in Germany. TKF is in charge of the production and delivery of approximately 79 kilometers of 66 kV inter-array cables and corresponding accessories. Van Oord’s cable-laying vessel Nexus and the trencher Dig-It will be used for the […]
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Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Preliminary agreements to ensure the grid connection for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project in France and the Baltic Eagle and Wikinger Süd projects in Germany have been concluded, Iberdrola said. For Saint-Brieuc, a preliminary agreement has been concluded with grid operator RTE to ensure the grid connection will be available in the second quarter of […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Iberdrola has contracted EEW Special Pipe Constructions (SPC) and Windar for the supply of 50 monopile foundations and accompanying transition pieces for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. The monopiles will be fabricated at EEW’s mega-factory in Rostock, starting in January 2022. The monopiles will have a diameter between 8.75 metres and 9 […]
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Vessels, Wind Farm Update
Vestas has contracted Fred. Olsen Windcarrier for the transportation and installation of 50 of its 9.5 MW wind turbines at Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. This is one of the three new transport and installation contracts announced on 28 May 2021, Fred. Olsen Windcarrier said. The installation works, to be performed by […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Vestas and Iberdrola have finalised the wind turbine supply contract for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. The final contract follows the selection of MHI Vestas as the preferred supplier for the project in 2019 and the agreement Vestas signed this May following the takeover of MHI Vestas at the end of 2020. The wind […]
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Iberdrola and Vestas have signed a contract for the supply of 50 units of Vestas’s V174-9.5 MW wind turbine model for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. The contract follows the selection of Vestas (MHI Vestas) as the preferred supplier for the project in 2019 and is accompanied with a Service and Maintenance […]
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German transmission system operator for the Baltic Sea, 50Hertz, has pulled in the land cables for the Ostwind 2 offshore grid connection. The Ostwind 2 land cables have now been installed underground over a distance of three kilometres from the landing point, where the sea cables meet the mainland, to the Lubmin transformer station. Using […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
EEW Special Pipe Constructions (SPC) has manufactured its heaviest monopile to date for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany, owned by the Spanish energy company Iberdrola. The company broke its record for the heaviest monopile made set size years ago when EEW SPC manufactured the 1,302-tonne monopile for the Veja Mate offshore wind project. […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
EDS HV Group, part of James Fisher Renewables, has won a multimillion-pound contract to provide the high voltage safety management commissioning phase at Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. The contract involves management of all aspects of high voltage safety throughout the construction of the wind farm, including overseeing safety from […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update
Iberdrola has signed a lease agreement with the port of Sassnitz-Mukran for a new operations and maintenance (O&M) building that will serve the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm. The developer, which already has an O&M base there for its Wikinger offshore wind farm, said that the agreement delivered another important milestone in the offshore wind […]
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Spanish energy company Iberdrola has initiated a geotechnical campaign on the 476MW Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea.
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Windar Renovables has signed a EUR 50 million sustainable factoring line with BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) to finance the contract the company was recently awarded for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind project. The contract financing, which will support Windar’s manufacturing and delivery of 50 transition pieces (TPs) for Iberdrola’s 476 MW project in Germany, has […]
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Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Transmission system operator 50Hertz has announced that the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore substation has been connected to the German extra-high voltage grid after the 220 kV submarine cable required for this was pulled into place on the platform over the past few days. Final assembly and commissioning works will now follow. “We are very proud […]
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Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
Iberdrola has launched a green hybrid bond amounting to EUR 2 billion and will use the raised funds to finance and refinance the Saint-Brieuc and Baltic Eagle offshore wind farms in France and Germany, respectively. The company said that this was the largest green hybrid bond issue in its history and that, in just one month, […]
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The first cable section for the Ostwind 2 offshore grid connection was installed in the German part of the Baltic Sea in recent weeks, the transmission system operator 50Hertz said. In the coming months, further cables will be laid in individual sections along the 90-kilometre-long route. The work is being carried out by a consortium […]
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Fraunhofer IWES has conducted a boulder detection and geohazard survey of 50 turbine locations and the associated OSS at the Baltic Eagle offshore wind project for Iberdrola. The three-week measurement campaign took place in October and November 2020 using the novel proprietary Manta Ray G1 system developed by Fraunhofer IWES for data recording. The acquired data is […]
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Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
At the annual press conference on August 21 in Bremerhaven, Windreich, together with the relevant project partners, presented nearly smooth course of the current offshore projects. After the conference, Jean Huby, CEO of AREVA Wind GmbH and Willi Balz, CEO of Windreich GmbH, signed an extensive cooperation contract for future offshore wind projects in the […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection
Hellenic Cables has signed a contract with Asso.subsea for the transportation, installation, and protection of the 220 kV submarine export cable that will connect 50Hertz’s own transformer platform at the Windanker wind farm in the Baltic Sea to the national grid as part of the Ostwind 3 grid connection system. The overall system will consist […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Iberdrola and the German transmission system operator 50Hertz have signed an agreement to cooperate with regard to the construction, installation, and commissioning of the offshore substation for the Baltic Eagle wind farm. The jointly used offshore substation will house the technical equipment collecting the electricity produced by the wind turbines and will connect to the […]
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Twentsche Kabelfabriek (TKF) has started the construction of a new cable factory at the Beatrixhaven site in Eemshaven, the Netherlands. According to Groningen Seaports, TKF will use the new factory to produce subsea cables to connect wind turbines from offshore wind farms to power stations. The new facility will be complementing TKF’s existing production in […]
