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Offshore wind turbine manufacturer MHI Vestas recorded EUR 30 million net profit in the third quarter of 2020. The company’s revenue stood at EUR 508 million for the period, an increase of EUR 109 million compared to the same quarter last year. The revenue in the third quarter was driven by the delivery of 42 […]
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The Borssele Beta offshore substation topside has been installed at the project site in the Dutch North Sea. The topside sailed out from HSM Offshore’s yard in Schiedam at the end of March to the site but was awaiting favorable weather conditions to be installed. Borssele Beta will connect the 731.5 MW Borssele III and […]
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Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update
DONG Energy Winner of Dutch Borssele I & II Tender DONG Energy will build Dutch offshore wind farms Borssele I and II. Borssele 1&2 World’s Cheapest Offshore Wind Farm The cost of building and operating the 700MW Borssele 1 and 2 offshore wind farm is expected to be EUR 2.7 billion cheaper than previously estimated. […]
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Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
The Netherlands will start the tendering procedure for the Borssele I and II offshore wind farms on 10 April, following the last month’s adoption of the amendment to the Electricity Act 1998 which allowed further development of offshore wind energy projects in the country. The window for submitting bids will remain open until 12 May, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) said. RVO.nl also […]
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Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
INPEX Corporation has agreed to enter a stock transfer agreement with Diamond Generating Europe B.V. (DGE-NL), a Dutch-registered, wholly-owned second generation subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation, and acquire a 50 per cent stake in the Luchterduinen offshore wind farm and a 15 per cent stake in the Borssele III/IV offshore wind farm operating off the coast […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Vessels
Palfinger Marine has won a contract to supply complete winch packages for two of Esvagt’s offshore wind service operation vessels (SOVs).
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Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance
Deltares and HSM Offshore have updated the scour protection design for the Borssele Alpha and Beta offshore high-voltage substation (OHVS) platforms that connect offshore wind farms in the Borssele Wind Farm Zone, the Netherlands, to the grid.
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Business & Finance, Vessels
Danish offshore support specialist Esvagt has contributed to an economic rescue package for the Havyard shipyard, the builder of the company’s next three Service Operation Vessels (SOVs), and has accepted a delay in delivery. The delay in the delivery was caused by the Norwegian shipbuilder experiencing ”financial whirlwinds” , Esvagt said. Offshore WIND reached out […]
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Ports & Logistics, Vessels
Poland’s Energomontaż-Północ Gdynia (EPG), a subsidiary of MARS Shipyards & Offshore Group, has manufactured and loaded out four spud cans to be installed on a wind farm installation vessel.
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Following the announcement of the Borssele III and IV tender result, Dutch energy research institute ECN said that R&D and innovation play an important role in current trend towards lower cost of offshore wind power. After the price achieved at the previous tender earlier this year, won by DONG Energy, the winner at the latest Borssele tender, a […]
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Operations & Maintenance, Vessels
Turkey’s Cemre Shipyard has launched the second of the three service operation vessels (SOVs) being built for MHI Vestas and Esvagt. The vessels are of the Havyard 831 L SOV design and will service the Borssele III and IV offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, the Triton Knoll wind farm offshore England, and the Moray East wind farm off […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Vessels
MHI Vestas and Esvagt have signed a contract for a Service Operations Vessel (SOV) that will be deployed on the Moray East offshore wind farm from 2021. Subsequently, Esvagt placed an order with Havyard, which will design and build the new vessel.
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Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment, Vessels
Van Oord has signed an agreement with Vroon Group to acquire MPI Offshore, a specialist offshore wind installation contractor.
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Vattenfall to Build Two Nearshore Wind Farms in Denmark Vattenfall has won the Danish nearshore wind tender after submitting the final bid for Vesterhav Syd and Vesterhav Nord sites on 1 September and offering the lowest bid of 0,475 kr/kWh. Borssele Story Not Over for Shell? Royal Dutch Shell is considering bidding at the upcoming […]
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Royal Dirkzwager has begun remote monitoring of the 730 MW Borselle III and IV construction site from their operations centre in Maassluis, the Netherlands. Vissim technologies support a centralised multi-tenant monitoring system that enables service companies to provide marine coordination services for multiple clients. In addition to dedicated marine coordination services projects, applications can include […]
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Dutch energy major Shell has joined the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) as a board level member.
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Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Grid Connection, R&D, Technology
Oil and gas major Royal Dutch Shell has called on the government in the Netherlands to increase its target for installed offshore wind capacity by 2030 to 20 gigawatts, Reuters reports.
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Havyard Group’s subsidiary, New Havyard Ship Technology, has handed over the first of the three new wind farm service operations vessels (SOV) ordered by Esvagt. The SOV that was handed over on 18 December is the fourth such vessel to be delivered to Esvagt and the first in a new series of SOVs built by […]
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Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Dutch transmission systems operator TenneT has awarded a consortium of VBMS and NKT Cables with a contract to supply and install two export cables that will connect the Borssele I & II offshore wind farms to TenneT’s onshore grid in the Netherlands. The contract value of VBMS’ share is approximately EUR 70 million. Separately, the option has […]
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Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update
Oil & Gas Giant to Build Dutch Borssele III & IV Offshore Wind Farms The Dutch government announced that a consortium of Shell, Van Oord, Eneco and Mitsubishi / DGE won the second Borssele tender. Following the announcement, the consortium revealed that the preferred supplier for the wind turbines is MHI Vestas Offshore Wind. Shell […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection
Fugro has been awarded a joint contract with Boskalis for survey and identification of unexploded ordnance (UXO) at the Borssele Wind Farm Zone in the Netherlands.
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Authorities, Business & Finance, Technology, Wind Farm Update
The Dutch government could spend up to EUR 2 billion less than planned on subsidies for energy generated by offshore wind as the costs to build and operate offshore wind farms have fallen sharply in recent years, according to the Financieele Dagblad (FD). The country’s Energy Agreement from 2013 stipulated that up to EUR 18 billion of state aid […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders
Dutch energy company Eneco Holding NV is dividing its business operations between two separate, independent companies. As of 1 February 2017, Eneco Holding NV will be unbundled into the sustainable energy company Eneco Group, and the network company Stedin Group, each with its own supervisory board and management board. The new appointments to the boards will become final […]
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Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, R&D, Wind Farm Update
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl), part of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, issued a call for tenders for geophysical soil investigations at the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm zone on 5 April.
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Business & Finance, Vessels
Construction companies are building offshore wind farms two to three times faster than in the past and are helping offshore wind developers bring down the amount of subsidies needed for the projects to materialize, Pieter van Oord, Chief Executive Officer of Van Oord, said on the sidelines of the Offshore WIND Conference in Amsterdam.
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Van Oord’s offshore wind business unit posted record revenue of EUR 706 million in 2018, a 75.2% increase compared to the revenue of EUR 403 million reported in 2017. The increase was attributed to a simultaneous start of four major offshore wind projects: Deutsche Bucht in Germany, Norther in Belgium, East Anglia ONE in the UK, […]