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Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Jan De Nul Group has completed the first part of the cable installation works to connect the wind farms Hollandse Kust (noord) and (west Alpha) to the Dutch mainland. The 220-kV high-voltage tests of both sea and land cables for Hollandse Kust (noord) were successfully completed as well, from the onshore substation to the substation […]
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Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Jan De Nul and LS Cable & System have completed the installation of the first sea cable for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust West Alpha substation in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. In recent weeks, the cable-laying vessel Connector and the remote-controlled cable-laying vehicle UTV1200 laid more than 60 kilometres of cables between Heemskerk beach […]
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Marco Polo Marine, the Singapore-based marine logistics company, has awarded SMST a contract for the delivery of their mission equipment for the “first-ever” Asian Commissioning Service Operations Vessel (CSOV). SMST’s mission equipment consists of an Access & Cargo Tower with a motion-compensated gangway, the so-called Telescopic Access Bridge L-Series, and a 5-tonne 3D motion-compensated crane […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Vessels
Marco Polo Marine’s Taiwan-based subsidiary, PKR Offshore, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Vestas Taiwan for the deployment of Marco Polo’s new commissioning service operations vessel (CSOV) on offshore wind projects in the Asia Pacific region. The new CSOV will be deployed across offshore wind farms in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, over […]
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Singapore-based renewable energy developer, Vena Energy, has unveiled plans for a 2 GW offshore wind project in Australia. The offshore wind farm, named Blue Marlin, is planned to be built off the Victorian Coast in the Gippsland Basin. The wind farm would be built across four 500 MW phases, each comprising up to 35 wind […]
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Business development, Industry
In 2022, 9.4 GW of offshore wind capacity was installed worldwide and China alone installed 6.8 GW of this. The country’s top position in adding new offshore wind capacity will likely be preserved in 2023, as well, as China is also leading in projects currently under construction, according to a new report from World Forum […]
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Abu Dhabi-based Masdar has plans for the development of 10 GW of offshore wind capacity in the German parts of the North and Baltic Seas, and has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with German developer RWE to explore collaboration on offshore wind projects both in and outside Germany. The company announced its 10 […]
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Contribution, Environment, R&D
The global pipeline of floating offshore wind projects has more than doubled in the past year from 91 GW to 185 GW, according to a report published by RenewableUK. The number of projects has increased globally during that time from 130 to 230, RenewableUK said. The pipeline includes projects at any stage: operational, under construction, […]
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A new report, published by 4C Offshore, has revealed that many countries are falling behind their 2030 floating offshore wind targets, but there could be still a chance to meet them. According to the latest 4C Offshore’s Global Floating Wind report, targets for 2030 wind production from floating, rather than fixed, wind farms are set […]
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Mainstream Renewable Power and Maple Power are jointly exploring the upcoming Celtic Sea Floating Offshore Wind Tender in the UK, which will be launched in 2023. The Crown Estate is advancing the Celtic Sea seabed leasing tender for floating wind, which is anticipated to deliver a total of 4 GW of renewable energy by 2035. […]
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Industry, Ports & Logistics, R&D
“We are looking at a market today that is immense. It is new and unprecedented when you look at the numbers. Floating wind is expected to be, in 2050, bigger than fixed offshore wind. But we got some catching up to do, and catching up to be done is really in the supply chain”, GustoMSC’s […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
TotalEnergies and Corio Generation have signed a joint venture partnership to develop the Formosa 3 offshore wind farms in Taiwan. Under this agreement, Corio will remain the majority shareholder and lead developer with 50 per cent plus ten shares overall in the project. The announcement comes after Taiwan’s Bureau of Energy confirmed in late December […]
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Mainstream Renewable Power, Ocean Winds, and Statkraft have signed a memorandum of understanding with Aker Solutions, in Norway to collaborate on floating offshore wind at Utsira Nord. Mainstream, majority-owned by Aker Horizons, Ocean Winds, and Statkraft are in a consortium to pursue an application to develop floating wind power at the Utsira Nord license area […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders
Corio Generation and TotalEnergies have joined forces with SK Ecoplant to develop the 2 GW BadaEnergy offshore wind portfolio in South Korea. SK Ecoplant, which will join the partners in taking the projects from early planning through licensing and construction to operation, will also acquire a stake in the portfolio, subject to the completion of […]
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Doosan Enerbility has obtained a type certification for its 8 MW offshore wind turbine, DS205-8MW, from DEWI-OCC, the Germany-based international certification body. While DS205-8MW is not among the top world’s largest turbines, either size- or capacity-wise, it is the largest capacity model in Korea to date. The DS205-8MW offshore wind turbine was designed for the […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has deemed 43 companies eligible to bid in the upcoming offshore wind lease sale in California, with the majority on the list being Europe-headquartered energy companies and floating wind technology developers, either as standalone entities or as part of joint ventures. Acciona, Hexicon and BW Ideol eyeing Californian […]
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POSCO has received approval from DNV for its Gwangyang Works plant, which produces eco-friendly ‘Greenable’ steel plates and has certified the company’s standard plate product EN-S355 as steel for renewable energy. The certification process in March, after POSCO and DNV signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the certification of steel products applied in the […]
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Business & Finance, Industry
6,759 MW of offshore wind capacity went into operation during the first six months of 2022 compared to 1,627 MW during the same period a year earlier, World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO) said in its Global Offshore Wind Report HY1 2022. This growth was mainly driven by China which installed 5.1 GW of new offshore […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update
Vattenfall has selected Peel Ports as the preferred bidder, and its port at Great Yarmouth as the location for the operations and maintenance base of the Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone in the UK. When completed, Vattenfall’s Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone will be able to power around 4.6 million homes making it one of the largest […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Corio Generation and TotalEnergies have selected a consortium comprising Technip Energies, Subsea 7, and Samkang M&T to perform Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for their 504 MW floating wind project in South Korea. The contract covers engineering for the floating foundation, mooring, and inter-array cable in collaboration with a wind turbine supplier. The design of the […]
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The transaction to integrate Aker Offshore Wind into Mainstream Renewable Power has closed, creating a renewable energy company with a 27 GW portfolio including solar, and onshore and offshore wind projects. The closing of the transaction follows the announcement from 12 July, when Aker Horizons said it had entered into an agreement with Aker Mainstream […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Hai Long Offshore Wind Project has signed the pin piles fabrication contract with EEW Korea Heavy Pipe Construction (EEW KHPC) after naming the company a preferred supplier back in October 2021. EEW KHPC will provide pin piles for the Hai Long 2B and 3 offshore wind projects in Taiwan, for an installed capacity of 744 […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Hai Long Offshore Wind Project and Samkang M&T have held a ceremonial first cut of steel for jacket foundations fabrication for the Hai Long offshore wind farms. In August 2022, Hai Long and Samkang M&T signed a foundations fabrication contract, by which the latter will supply a total of 52 jackets by December 2024. The […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Sweden-based Hexicon has decided to increase its direct ownership to 20 per cent in the MunmuBaram floating wind project off the southeast coast of South Korea. Hexicon Korea, a joint venture between Hexicon and Korean company Coens & Co where Hexicon holds 49 per cent, owned 20 per cent of the MunmuBaram Co., Ltd. which […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders
The Netherlands-based offshore foundations manufacturer Sif Group has postponed the final investment decision (FID), initially scheduled for this month, for the expansion of its offshore wind foundations manufacturing facility near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. As reported earlier, Sif has been in negotiations with clients for a total of 400kt of launching capacity for the new […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Offshore wind developer Ocean Winds has awarded the partnership between Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables with a contract to manufacture and deliver 14 monopiles for the Moray West wind farm in Scotland. This contract will be the first order executed in the new XXL monopile factory that Navantia and Windar are building in the Fene […]
