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  • Cutting Inspection Costs and Risk: How the AXIST Offshore Rover Redefines Monopile Flange Measurement

    9 December 2025
    Equipment, Foundations, Innovation, R&D, Supply Chain, Technology

    Prometeo, the Offshore Rover by AXIST: A Breakthrough That Reinvents Mono-Pile Flange Measurement In the world of offshore wind, precision is non-negotiable. Even the smallest deviation can lead to deformation, reduced performance, and costly corrective interventions. Measuring the flange of a mono-pile immediately after piling is one of the most critical moments in the entire […]

  • Rock Solid Challenges: How Jack-Ups Are Adapting to Tougher Seabeds

    21 November 2025
    Innovation, Technology, Vessels

    As offshore wind expands into new frontiers, jack-up vessels face increasingly difficult working environments. Beyond the sandy soils of the North Sea, projects are now being built on dense tills, coral limestone, and even exposed bedrock. These hard seabeds are testing the limits of conventional jack-up design and installation practices — and calling for new […]

  • Ten Most Read News on offshoreWIND.biz in 2025

    1 January 2026
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Foundations, Grid Connection, Industry, Infrastructure, Jobs & Recruitment, Manufacturing, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting, Ports & Logistics, Project Updates, R&D, Supply Chain, Technology, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    OffshoreWIND.biz has millions of views per year and hundreds of thousands per month. In 2025, some stories received significantly bigger attention than others, and in this overview, we are bringing the ten most popular news in the now-past year. In August, only days after Ørsted reported that Revolution Wind was at 80 per cent of […]

  • Damen In Charge of Forging Subsea Crane-Endowed Multi-Purpose Vessel with Five More on the Cards

    26 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Damen Shipyards Group, a Dutch shipbuilding giant, has been tasked with bringing to life a new multi-purpose accommodation support vessel (MP-ASV) for Windcat, a part of CMB.TECH, said to be one of the world’s largest listed, diversified, and future-proof maritime groups, with a fleet of about 250 vessels. An option to build five additional ships […]

  • Mooreast Eyes Up to 500 MW Floating Renewables Opportunity in Southeast Asia

    12 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Floating Wind, Research & Development

    Singapore-based Mooreast has started feasibility studies to develop up to 500 MW of floating renewable energy projects in Timor-Leste in Southeast Asia. The feasibility studies have been confirmed to progress after Mooreast entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Secretario de Estado de Electricidade Agua e Saneamento (SEEAS), the secretariat for Electricity, Water and […]

  • Bałtyk 2 & 3 Offshore Substations to Sport Palfinger’s Fully Electric Jib Cranes

    11 November 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Palfinger has been contracted by Iemants, a subsidiary of Smulders, to deliver two fully electric jib cranes for the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind farms in Poland, where the cranes will be installed on the projects’ two offshore substations. According to Palfinger, this the first time that its fully electric DKJ500e offshore cranes […]

  • PGE’s Baltica 1 Offshore Wind Project Ready for 2025 Polish Auction

    4 November 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) has obtained environmental approval for its 900 MW Baltica 1 offshore wind project, clearing the way for its participation in Poland’s upcoming offshore wind auction on 17 December 2025. The approval was issued by the Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Gdańsk. “This is a clear signal to the market […]

  • Drilling Contractor Secures Jack-Up Contract for UK Offshore Wind Farm

    28 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain, Transition, Vessels

    [CORRECTION NOTE: The article initially implied that the jack-up rig would be deployed on Dogger Bank Wind Farm for GE Vernova. The updated article notes two projects in the UK North Sea in which GE Vernova is currently engaged: Sofia and Dogger Bank Wind Farm.] Valaris has been awarded a contract for one of its […]

  • UK Economy to Reap GBP 6.1 Billion from 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm

    6 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Industry, Jobs & Recruitment, Supply Chain

    The 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm once fully operational, will boost the UK economy by GBP 6.1 billion (approximately EUR 6.9 billion) during its lifetime and support thousands of UK jobs over the next decade, according to a report written by BVG Associates. The economic […]

  • ABL Companies Supporting Geoscience Work at Two Offshore Wind Areas in Portugal

    27 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) has appointed the UK-based renewable energy consultancy OWC, part of ABL Group, to support the geophysical and geotechnical surveys at two offshore wind farm areas in Portugal. ABL Group’s Portugal-based water and environmental consultancy, Hidromod, is also engaged in the project. IPMA is currently leading a geophysical […]

  • Wescott Successfully Completes Coating Repair Campaign at East Anglia One (EA1) Offshore Wind Farm

    31 October 2025

    Over a two-year period, Wescott Industrial Services – specialists in integrated industrial solutions such as access and protective coatings – successfully delivered a major coating repair campaign on all 102 Main Access Platform (MAP) cranes on the East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm. The campaign was carried out on behalf of ScottishPower Renewables, ensuring safe […]

  • AFRY Nets Technical Consultancy Framework Agreement with Vattenfall

    24 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain

    AFRY has secured a new framework agreement with Vattenfall, under which the engineering consultancy company will be delivering technical consultancy services to the renewable energy developer. The agreement entails AFRY providing services across multiple competence areas and regions within Vattenfall’s operations. According to the consultancy services provider, the deal gives Vattenfall access to AFRY’s expertise […]

  • Brazilian Gov’t Forms Offshore Wind Working Group

    6 October 2025
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    The Brazilian government has taken the next step towards realising its plan to establish a regulatory framework that will facilitate planning and permitting offshore wind projects, as the country’s National Energy Policy Council (CNPE) approved a resolution to form an Offshore Wind Working Group (GT-EO). The Offshore Wind Working Group, to be coordinated by the […]

  • Canada Opens Pre-Qualification for First Offshore Wind Auction

    17 October 2025
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Planning & Permitting

    The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Energy Regulator (CNSOER) has issued a Call for Information and opened a pre-qualification window for the first offshore wind auction to be launched in the country. Announced on 16 October, the invitations to the industry follow the CNSOER receiving a joint strategic direction from the governments of Canada and Nova Scotia […]

  • German TSO Opens EUR 11.7 Million Tender for Marine Warranty Surveyor Services

    13 October 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Supply Chain

    50Hertz has launched an EUR 11.7 million call for tenders for marine warranty surveyor (MWS) services for offshore wind energy projects in both the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. The German TSO is looking to award a framework agreement(s) for MWS services through four lots, with the contract for each lot worth a little […]

  • UK Delays Permit Decision for CIP’s Morecambe Offshore Wind Farm

    14 October 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The UK government has delayed a consent decision on the 480 MW Morecambe offshore wind farm, being developed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The statutory deadline for the decision on the Morecambe offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea was 23 October. According to Labour Minister for Energy Consumers Martin McCluskey, speaking for Energy Secretary […]

  • Vattenfall Blasts WWII Sea Mines at German Offshore Wind Project Sites

    15 October 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Swedish energy company Vattenfall has removed three unexploded sea mines dating from World War II in the area where it will build its Nordlicht offshore wind cluster in the German North Sea. The mines, each with an explosive force comparable to 200-300 kilogrammes of TNT, were first located as anomalies during prior geophysical surveys of […]

  • RWE Unleashes Autonomous, Heavy Payload Drones at German Offshore Wind Farms

    15 October 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    RWE said on 15 October it had completed more than 80 successful cargo drone flights to offshore wind turbines in Germany, marking what it described as a milestone for the offshore wind industry. The company said the tests demonstrated the technical feasibility of using drones to deliver tools and spare parts directly to wind turbines […]

  • Greenpeace Threatens Legal Action Against Crown Estate for ‘Profiteering’ from Offshore Wind Auctions

    14 October 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    Greenpeace UK has said it plans to take legal action against the Crown Estate, accusing the public body of “monopoly profiteering” from the auctioning of seabed rights for offshore wind projects, a system Greenpeace claims is pushing up energy costs and slowing Britain’s transition to clean power. The environmental group argues that the Crown Estate, […]

  • FinalRAVE for First German Offshore Wind Farm as Vattenfall Starts Preparing Decommissioning Tender

    10 October 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall is preparing an invitation to tender for the decommissioning of Alpha Ventus, according to early information that emerged on a European tender website. Meanwhile, the participants of the RAVE (Research at Alpha VEntus) initiative have kicked off finalRAVE, a sub-project with a focus on the offshore wind farm’s final phase and dismantling. According to […]

  • Piriou Secures Order for Wind Farm Support Vessel

    4 March 2015
    Vessels

    Piriou has secured a new order for a wind farm support vessel, the WFSV 26w “Ocean Wind 8 of Hartlepool”. Built by PIRIOU in Vietnam, “Ocean Wind 8 of Hartlepool” will be delivered to AIS (Marine) 2 Limited at the end of March 2015 in Europe to be operated in the North Sea. The vessel […]

  • France: Piriou Enters Offshore Wind Market

    15 April 2013

    Thanks to experience gained in the building of 100 aluminium crew boats ranging in length from 18 to 53 metres delivered in the last 25 years to the offshore oil and gas sector, Piriou is now moving into the offshore wind farm support ship market. So as to respond rapidly to the growing needs of […]

  • Wind Energy Marine Orders Two Wind Farm Support Vessels at Piriou

    7 June 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    UK-based Wind Energy Marine has placed an order for two wind farm support vessels (WFSVs) with the French shipbuilder Piriou.

  • No Bids Submitted for 1 GW Oléron Offshore Wind Site in France

    24 September 2025
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Plans to develop a 1 GW offshore wind farm off Île d’Oléron have hit a setback, as the tender process closed without receiving any bids. According to the French government, the AO7 tender was not the subject of any offer at the end of the application period. The tender was launched in October 2022. The […]

  • France: PIRIOU Moves into Offshore Wind Industry

    4 August 2013

    Due to experience gained in the building of 100 aluminium crew boats ranging in length from 18 to 53 metres delivered in the last 25 years to the offshore oil and gas sector, the French shipbuilding and ship repair group PIRIOU is now moving into the offshore wind farm support ship market. Pascal PIRIOU declares […]

  • PIRIOU to Showcase Its Offshore Wind Portfolio at EWEA’s Event

    6 November 2013

    French shipbuilding company PIRIOU has announced its participation in the EWEA Offshore event in Frankfurt. The company is a specialist in the fields of shipbuilding and ship repairing for medium sized vessels. The company is a specialist in the fields of shipbuilding and ship repairing for medium sized vessels. This year, Piriou moved into the […]