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Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering, a joint venture between DEME Group and CSBC Corporation, has signed a contract with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) to transport and install wind turbines for two offshore wind projects in Taiwan, according to local media reports. The contract was reportedly signed for the Changfang and the Xidao wind farms offshore Changhua. The two […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
CWind Taiwan has been awarded a contract to provide Balance of Plant (BoP) operations and maintenance (O&M) services for the Changfang & Xidao (CFXD) and Zhong Neng (ZN) offshore wind farms. Under the six-year contract, CWind Taiwan’s scope of work will include topside and subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) of jacket foundations, subsea cable […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has contracted Century Wind Power to manufacture jacket foundations for two offshore wind farms in Taiwan.
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Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Brave Tern has started her journey to Taiwan to begin working on the Yunlin offshore wind project. Brave Tern departed the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark on Monday, 20 April, Fred. Olsen Windcarrier said. The jack-up is heading to Taiwan to start the installation job on the 640 MW wind farm. […]
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CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) has secured a contract for the transportation and installation of foundations at the Zhong Neng offshore wind project in Taiwan. The joint venture has also signed a Preferred Bidder Agreement (PBA) for the transportation and installation of wind turbines at the project. In order to implement the localization policy required by […]
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MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has secured a purchase agreement with Hitachi ABB Power Grids which will bring offshore wind transformer technology to Taiwan. Hitachi ABB Power Grids, in collaboration with Taiwan’s Shihlin Electric & Engineering Corporation (SEEC), will supply MHI Vestas with transformer technology which converts electricity to a higher, 66 kV voltage for long-range […]
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Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has teamed up with two Taiwanese companies to build an offshore wind farm operations and maintenance base in Changhua County, Taiwan. CIP has partnered with CECI Engineering Consultants, Inc. and Reiju Construction to build the O&M base. The project is currently in its design stage and is expected to be issued […]
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Bakker Sliedrecht has secured a contract to renew, modify, extend and integrate all electrotechnical installations of Boskalis’ new crane vessel Bokalift 2. Bakker Sliedrecht is responsible for the engineering, production, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of all electrical systems and installations during the conversion. The high voltage installations and the drive systems for the main […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Boskalis and Hwa Chi Construction Co have established a joint venture to transport and install offshore foundations at two wind farms in Taiwan developed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The Changfang and the Xidao offshore wind farms have a combined capacity of 600MW and are expected to be completed by 2023. Marcel van Bergen, Director Offshore […]
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We bring you the ten most-read articles on OffshoreWIND.biz for the month of March 2020. Siemens Gamesa 11MW Turbine Prototype Goes Full Tilt Siemens Gamesa’s prototype SG 11.0-193 DD Flex wind turbine has produced 11MW of power, the turbine maker said. ABB Tech for Japanese Wind Turbine Installation Vessel ABB has won a contract to […]
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Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s wind farm installation vessel Brave Tern has arrived in the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark to start mobilising for the 640MW Yunlin offshore wind project in Taiwan. Brave Tern arrived in Esbjerg after completing a charter with Prysmian Group, the company said. In March 2019, Siemens Gamesa awarded Fred. Olsen Windcarrier with […]
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MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has reached agreements with Taiwan’s Boltun Corporation and Walsin Lihwa Corporation for the delivery of fasteners and cables, respectively. These agreements will see Boltun and Walsin Lihwa Corporation supply MHI Vestas for CIP-developed wind projects – Changfang Phase 2 and Xidao – to be delivered off the coast of Taiwan beginning […]
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MHI Vestas has concluded a purchase agreement with the Fassmer Atech Composites Taiwan (FACT) joint venture for the local supply of spinner and nacelle covers for the upcoming offshore wind projects in Taiwan. These components will be used for the MHI Vestas turbines at the Changfang Phase 2 and Xidao, as well as the Zhong […]
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Huisman has received an order from Boskalis to deliver an offshore mast crane (OMC) for its crane vessel Bokalift 2. With a lifting capacity of 4,000mt at 100m above deck, this crane is capable of lifting jackets for wind turbines off the deck of the vessel, Huisman said. According to the company, a fly jib […]
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Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
Taipower has signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) with China Steel Corp (CSC) and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) for three offshore wind projects, the local media reported. The PPAs were signed for the 300MW Chong Neng project, developed jointly by CIP and CSC, as well as for CIP’s 552MW ChangFang and 48MW Xidao, all located offshore the Changhua County. Under […]
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MHI Vestas has finalized the contract with Swancor to locally source offshore wind turbine blade materials in Taiwan. According to MHI Vestas, the scope of the contract covers a significant percentage of the direct materials value of overall blade manufacturing, including carbon tow, carbon pultrusion, resin, and bonding glue. To remind, the two companies signed […]
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Eager.one has produced a Jacket Lifting Tool (JLT) specially made for the installation of jacket foundations that will be carried out by Boskalis on a Taiwanese project. While Eager.one left the project unnamed, the company did say its tool will be used during loading, unloading and installation of 62 jackets, which points to the 62-turbine […]
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The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has received an order for a thruster solution for Boskalis’ Bokalift 2 crane vessel. According to Wärtsilä, the thruster solution will enable Boskalis to convert an existing hull into the crane vessel Bokalift 2. The order was placed in December 2019. Wärtsilä will supply four retractable steerable thrusters and thruster […]
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Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
The 298 MW Zhong Neng offshore wind project in Taiwan, a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and China Steel Corporation (CSC), has reached financial close. The financial close for the wind farm follows the recent signing of a project financing agreement with 20 banks. Zhong Neng is located next to CIP’s Changfang and Xidao offshore […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders
Boskalis has been awarded an approximately EUR 450 million contract for transportation and installation of monopile foundations and substations for an offshore wind project. The company informed about the new contract on 15 November without disclosing any specific details about its client or the offshore wind project, other than information that engineering and pre-construction work […]
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Century Bladt Foundations’ offshore wind foundation production workshop in Taiwan is shaping up, according to Bladt’s recent post. The 33,000m2 workshop will soon be finished and ready for the installation of cranes and equipment, the Danish company reported. A 4,000m2 administration building, canteens to host 400 employees, 3,000m2 warehouse facilities and 9ha of outdoor storage […]
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German-based HeliService International GmbH has signed a contract with Leonardo S.p.A for the delivery of two additional AW169 light intermediate twin-engine helicopters to support the offshore wind farm operations in Taiwan. The contract brings the total number of AW169s ordered by HeliService to five since its first purchase back in 2015 and marks the entrance […]
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Australian marine services provider MMA Offshore has secured three new contracts in the offshore wind market in Taiwan. These three contracts, with firm periods totalling 270 days, increase MMA Offshore’s contracted revenue by an aggregate total of approximately AUD 7 million (EUR 4.5 million). The contracts also provide for additional option periods totalling 118 days. […]
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Australian marine services provider MMA Offshore has completed the conversion of its anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel MMA Crystal and reflagged it to support the offshore renewable energy market in Taiwan. The AHTS, which already worked on an offshore wind project in Taiwan, having supported a pre-installation noise mitigation survey at Formosa 2 last year, has been […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders
MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has signed a purchase agreement to source wind turbine towers from CS Wind-Chin Fong for its offshore wind turbines in Taiwan. The agreement covers complete tower supply for Taiwanese offshore wind projects which will feature MHI Vestas V174 wind turbine platform. These include the Changfang Phases 1 and 2, Xidao, and […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Master Builders Solutions has won the grout supply contracts for the Formosa 2, the Changfang and Xidao, and the Greater Changhua 1 and 2a offshore wind projects in Taiwan. In total, Master Builders Solutions will be supplying MasterFlow 9500 and MasterFlow 9800 to 222 offshore foundations over the next three years. “2020 has been a […]
