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  • Ocean Winds, Eneco, and Otary to Jointly Bid in Belgian Offshore Wind Tender

    12 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Collaboration, Energy Islands, Grid Connection, Outlook & Strategy

    Ocean Winds, a joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, Eneco, and Otary have entered into a strategic partnership to jointly compete in the tender for the offshore wind Princess Elisabeth concessions in Belgium. The consortium was formed to compete in the upcoming tenders for the Princess Elisabeth Zone, with the first one expected in […]

  • All Inter-Array Cables In Place at First Dogger Bank Wind Farm Phase

    24 July 2024
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Delivery partners have completed the installation of over 328 kilometres of 66 kV inter-array cables for Dogger Bank A, the first phase of the UK’s Dogger Bank Wind Farm, marking the completion of all inter-array cable work for this phase. The 66 kV XLPE-insulated inter-array cables were manufactured by Hellenic Cables under a contract with […]

  • Ireland Charts Course for 37 GW Offshore Wind Development

    3 May 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    Irish Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, has launched the Future Framework for Offshore Renewable Energy, which provides a roadmap for Ireland to deliver 37 GW of offshore wind by 2050. The framework sets out the pathway Ireland will take to deliver 20 GW of offshore wind by 2040 and at least 37 […]

  • New York Gives Final Go-Ahead for Empire Wind 1 Construction to Commence

    17 May 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Norway’s Equinor has received final approval from the New York State Public Service Commission to begin construction on its 810 MW Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm, Governor Kathy Hochul announced on 16 May. The Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) issued on 16 May authorized the construction and operation of transmission facilities for […]

  • LS Cable & System to Build ‘Largest US Subsea Cable Factory’ in Virginia

    10 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Cables, Grid Connection, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    South Korea-based offshore wind cable manufacturer, LS Cable & System, has decided to build a manufacturing facility for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cables in Virginia, which the company says will be the largest factory of this kind in the United States. The factory will be built on a brownfield site in Chesapeake that spans some […]

  • Bibby Marine Orders ‘World’s First’ eCSOV

    30 April 2024
    Vessels

    Bibby Marine has signed a shipbuilding contract with Gondan to build what the company says is the world’s first truly zero-emission, electric Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (eCSOV). The eCSOV will be built in Gondan’s Asturias shipyard in Spain and is scheduled to be delivered in 2026. After a thorough tendering process involving a variety of […]

  • European Offshore Wind Substations to Require USD 20 Billion Investment by 2030, Rystad Energy Says

    19 June 2024
    Grid Connection, Industry, Market Outlooks, Offshore Platforms, Outlook & Strategy

    According to a recent report from Rystad Energy, continental Europe will see the installation of 137 offshore substations over the coming decade, with an estimated total investment of USD 20 billion (approximately EUR 18.6 billion). According to the report, over 120 substations will be installed between 2024 and 2030 at a cost of around USD […]

  • Dogger Bank B Offshore Substation Installed

    17 April 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Saipem, using its vessel Saipem 7000, has completed the installation of the offshore substation (OSS) at Dogger Bank B, the second phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK, which is set to become the world’s largest offshore wind farm once in operation. Saipem 7000 arrived this month at the Dogger Bank […]

  • Van Oord Installs First Monopile at RWE’s Sofia Offshore Wind Farm

    21 May 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel, Aeolus, has installed the first of 100 monopile foundations at the 1.4 GW Sofia project in the UK, RWE’s largest offshore wind farm to date. The Sofia offshore wind farm is located on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, 195 kilometres from the North East coast of the UK. […]

  • Masdar Secures Financing for Baltic Eagle Offshore Wind Farm Stake

    18 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Fixed-Bottom

    Abu Dhabi-based Masdar has achieved close on the financing of its 49 per cent shareholding in the 476 MW Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. According to Masdar, the total lending package amounted to EUR 488 million, with participation from ABN AMRO, Credit Agricole CIB, ING, Santander, and Siemens Bank. The Baltic Eagle offshore wind […]

  • US NREL: Offshore Wind Turbines Offer Path for Clean Hydrogen Production

    12 July 2024
    Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology, Wind Turbines

    Researchers at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have found that using electricity generated by offshore wind turbines to split water to produce clean hydrogen may make economic sense.

  • World’s First Energy Island Starts Taking Shape – Video

    23 April 2024
    Energy Islands, Grid Connection, Power-to-X

    The first of the 23 caissons being built for Princess Elisabeth Island in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, is almost finished and will be immersed in the North Sea this summer. The artificial Belgian energy island is a world first. A Belgian consortium comprising DEME and Jan De Nul (TM Edison) is building the foundations of the […]

  • Offshore Wind Accounts for 45 Pct of NKT’s High-Voltage Order Backlog

    21 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Cables, Grid Connection, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    Subsea power cable manufacturer NKT has reported a record-high order backlog for high-voltage cables for 2023, with 45 per cent of orders coming from offshore wind. At the end of last year, NKT’s order backlog was at EUR 10.8 billion, more than double the company saw at the end of 2022. In its full-year 2023 […]

  • UK Industry Bodies Release Offshore Wind Industrial Growth Plan

    19 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Industry, Infrastructure, Jobs & Recruitment, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, R&D, Supply Chain, Transition

    RenewableUK, the Offshore Wind Industry Council, The Crown Estate and Crown Estate Scotland have published an Industrial Growth Plan, setting out how to triple offshore wind manufacturing capacity over the next ten years in the UK. The UK offshore wind industry already employs 32,000 people and each new large offshore wind farm adds GBP 2-3 […]

  • Iberdrola Moves to Acquire Full Ownership of US Avangrid

    8 March 2024
    Business & Finance

    Spanish renewable energy giant Iberdrola, which owns around 81.6 per cent of its US subsidiary Avangrid, has launched an offer to acquire the remaining 18.4 per cent in the Connecticut-headquartered company for USD 2.48 billion (EUR 2.28 billion). Iberdrola says it wants to increase exposure to the networks business in the US and grow in markets […]

  • O2 Telefónica to Buy Electricity from Iberdrola’s German Offshore Wind Farm

    26 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Iberdrola Deutschland and O2 Telefónica have signed a long-term power purchase agreement to supply renewable power from the 476 MW Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. Under the 15-year agreement, Iberdrola will supply 3,000 GWh of renewable energy to O2 Telefónica from the Baltic Eagle offshore wind project, starting in 2025. […]

  • Ørsted Completes Exec Team Overhaul

    27 February 2024
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted’s Group Executive Team will see Trond Westlie and Patrick Harnett joining on 1 April following Ørsted’s Board of Directors appointing Westlie as the next Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the Executive Board, and Harnett as the Chief Operational Officer (COO) on 27 February. The appointments follow a decision from November last […]

  • Seatrium to Build Third Offshore Wind Project in Netherlands for TenneT

    19 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain

    A consortium led by Seatrium and GE Vernova will be constructing its third offshore wind project in the Netherlands for Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT, with the construction work commencing on 1 June 2024. In March 2023, Seatrium was awarded a five-year framework cooperation agreement with GE Vernova by TenneT for the supply three […]

  • PASSER Eyeing Floating Wind

    27 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Cables, Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Foundations, Green Hydrogen, Grid Connection, Industry, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Vessels

    The work on the vertical lay-up machine (VLM) for JDR’s new cable factory in the UK is now well underway in Klaipeda, Lithuania, where Norway-headquartered PASSER Group recently opened a new fabrication facility. The Group has revealed that, besides expanding its production capacity, it is also looking into areas for future business expansion, with floating […]

  • DEA Kicks Off Hesselø Offshore Wind Farm Public Consultation

    5 February 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has opened an eight-week public consultation on the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of the plan for the revised southern location of the Hesselø offshore wind farm. The public consultation of the revised SEA of the plan for the offshore wind project is planned to run from 5 February to 5 […]

  • Vestas: ‘We Returned to Profitability’

    7 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    Vestas has posted a revenue of EUR 15.4 billion and an increase in profit by 105 per cent for 2023 compared to the previous year, and says the company saw a record order intake of 18.4 GW last year “driven by strong growth in both Offshore and Onshore, especially in the USA.“ The Danish wind […]

  • APT Delivers Sea Fastening Systems for One of Biggest Offshore Wind Installation Vessels

    7 December 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Dubai-based vessel equipment and service provider, APT Global Marine and Offshore Engineering UAE, has fitted Jan De Nul’s installation vessel Voltaire with sea fastening systems under one of its latest contracts in the offshore wind industry, which now account for the majority of the revenue for the UAE company that previously did most of its […]

  • Belgian Meshed Grid to the Rescue as Rentel Export Cable Gets Damaged

    29 January 2024
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms

    The export cable of the Rentel offshore wind farm is reported to have been damaged. However, the offshore wind farm keeps feeding electricity into the Belgian grid as the offshore power hub, Modular Offshore Grid (MOG), has taken over. Elia, the operator of Belgium’s MOG, says that the cable from the Rentel platform to the […]

  • Polish Offshore Wind Farms Power Ahead

    1 February 2024
    Authorities, Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The Regional Director of Environmental Protection in Gdansk has issued a decision on the environmental conditions for the connection infrastructure of the Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III offshore wind projects in Poland. This allows the project’s investors, Polenergia and Equinor, to continue the project and start working on the building permits. “With his decision, the Regional Director […]

  • PGE, Ørsted Pick Baltica 2 Onshore Infrastructure Supplier

    19 January 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure, Supply Chain

    PGE Group and Ørsted have signed an agreement with GE Vernova, represented in Poland by GE Power Sp. z o.o. and Polimex Mostostal consortium, to construct the onshore infrastructure necessary for exporting power from the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea. The onshore connection infrastructure for Baltica 2 will […]

  • H2SEA Studies Monopile-Based Structures for Hydrogen Offshore Wind Turbines

    19 January 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Green Hydrogen, Power-to-X, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    Dutch engineering company H2SEA, in cooperation with the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), has performed an assessment of monopile-based support structures for hydrogen-producing offshore wind turbines. H2SEA says that one of the main questions was if decentral hydrogen production on a monopile-based support structure of an offshore wind turbine would be structurally feasible. The […]