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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update
Ørsted and Balfour Beatty have broken ground on the onshore substation for the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm. Balfour Beatty is in charge of enabling works for the wind farm’s onshore substation to ensure the site preparation is underway in good time, avoiding future schedule pressures, a spokesperson from Ørsted told OffshoreWIND. The main contract for […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Ørsted and Prysmian Group have signed a contract to supply submarine inter–array cables for the world’s biggest offshore wind farm, the 1,386MW Hornsea Project Two.
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Vessels, Wind Farm Update
Turkey’s Cemre Shipyard has bid farewell to the service operations vessel (SOV) Wind of Hope. Ordered by Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA), Wind of Hope’s first assignment will be on Ørsted’s 1.4 GW Hornsea Two off the UK, which will be the world’s largest wind farm once completed. The vessel will operate from Ørsted’s operations and […]
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Authorities, Wind Farm Update
Registration to become an interested party on the application for the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm, developed by SMart Wind, will close tomorrow, April 22. During this pre-examination stage at the Planning Inspectorate, all those who registered can have their say on the proposal and comment on the views that other people have provided. Also, they […]
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Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Heerema Marine Contractors’ semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir has installed the jacket foundation for the reactive compensation station (RCS) at the Hornsea Two offshore wind project. Sleipnir installed the jacket foundation for the project’s offshore substation at the beginning of October. After the OSS foundation installation, the vessel moved to the shallow water to install the 1,500 metric […]
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Bladt Industries has completed the load out of the first transition pieces (TPs) for the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm at its facilities in Aalborg. In mid-September, the company carried out the load-out of the first six anode cages built for the 1.4 GW offshore wind project, saying the first six transition pieces would soon […]
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World’s leading offshore wind developer Ørsted has installed its 1,000th offshore wind turbine in UK waters. The company’s 1,000th turbine was a Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW unit installed at the 1,386 MW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm, the 16th wind turbine to be erected at the wind farm. Ørsted currently has 12 operational offshore wind […]
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Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
Ørsted will sell 50 per cent of its Hornsea Two offshore wind farm in the UK and expects to close the 1.3 GW project farm-down this year, the company said in its 2021 annual results. Putting the project in full operation will be slightly delayed due to the impact of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 on […]
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Ørsted has held a supply chain event for the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm allowing UK companies to find out how they can get involved in the project.
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C-bed has signed a contract with Ørsted for the deployment of its Service Operation Vessel (SOV) Wind Innovation on the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm in the UK. The vessel, which has also been hired for Ørsted’s Hornsea One offshore wind farm and is currently in full operation there, will start working at the Hornsea […]
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Ørsted has signed a contract with Trelleborg for the provision of four integrated cable protection systems for the 1.4GW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm.
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Contracts & Tenders, Vessels
Solstad Offshore has been awarded a contract by Ørsted to deploy its offshore support vessel (OSV) Normand Jarstein on the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm in the UK. The contract has been signed for a period of four months, starting in the third quarter of 2021, when the vessel will support operations at the 1.4 […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection
Boskalis has won a contract for the offshore export cable installation at Ørsted’s Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm in the UK. Under the contract worth more than EUR 100 million, Boskalis will install three export cable circuits with a total length of approximately 380km. The project scope includes the preparation of the offshore export cable route, […]
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MHO-Co and AFAI Southern Shipyard have held a keel-laying ceremony for the two hybrid crew transfer vessels (CTVs) that will service the Hornsea Two offshore wind project. MHO-Co signed a contract with the Chinese shipyard in mid-June for the construction of the two CTVs. The 35m vessels will have hybrid propulsion packages designed to be adapted […]
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Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has shared a video showing the construction of its service operations vessel (SOV) Wind of Hope. LDA placed an order with Salt Ship Design last year for the new wind farm SOV, which is being built at Turkey’s Cemre Shipyard. Wind of Hope will feature ABB technology, including the power distribution system […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Vessels
Danish company MHO-Co has signed a contract with Afai Southern Shipyard in China for the construction of two crew transfer vessels with hybrid propulsion for the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm. The two vessels are scheduled for delivery in the summer of 2021, after which they will start working under a contract with Ørsted, […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Ørsted and Siemens Gamesa have signed a contract for the supply and service of 165 Siemens Gamesa 8MW wind turbines for Hornsea Project Two, world’s largest offshore wind project and the largest wind project in Siemens Gamesa’s history.
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Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update
Louis Dreyfus Armateurs’ (LDA) new service operations vessel (SOV) will service Ørsted’s Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm once delivered in 2021.
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
French cable maker Nexans has won a contract to provide a subsea export cable system for the nearshore section of Ørsted’s 1.4GW Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm in the UK. The contract is worth over EUR 150 million and will see Nexans supplying 200 kilometres of the 245 kV high voltage alternating current (HVAC) subsea export […]
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Environment, Wind Farm Update
Seiche Ltd. has mobilized onboard two vessels at the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm to support marine mammal safety during project construction. The Seiche team is in charge of ensuring compliance with procedures that seek to minimize the effects of construction noise on the local marine population. Key species known to occur in the project […]
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Ørsted has awarded CHC Helicopter with a contract for aerial transportation during the construction and operations phases of the Hornsea Two offshore wind project in the UK. Leonardo AW139 and AW169 helicopters based at Humberside Airport in Lincolnshire will be used for crew transfers and cargo flights to the offshore accommodation jack-up barge and installation […]
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The first of the total 165 wind turbines has been installed on the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm in the UK, where the wind turbine installation phase began this week, as reported in our Premium news on 27 May. DEME’s installation vessel Sea Challenger, loaded with the first set of turbine components, arrived at the […]
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Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Ørsted has awarded the South Korean LS Cable & System with a contract to supply the onshore cable for the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm.
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Bladt Industries has loaded out the first six out of the 135 anode cages built for the 1.4 GW Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm. The first six transition pieces will soon follow, Bladt Industries said. The Danish company is in charge of manufacturing and delivering 135 transition pieces for the project. The units are […]
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UK-based wireless telecommunications provider Vilicom has been appointed to provide a mobile network during the construction, development and deployment of Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind project in the UK. Vilicom’s communication infrastructure will be built and tested in the UK prior to installation on the 1.4 GW wind farm. According to the company, the fully […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
The Buss Terminal Eemshaven, in the Netherlands, has secured a contract to serve as a base port for installing the foundations of the Hornsea Two offshore wind project. Under the deal secured with DEME Offshore, the Buss Terminal is responsible for the handling, storage and terminal logistics of the 165 monopiles and transition pieces at […]
