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  • RenewableUK Hails Hornsea Two Decision

    16 August 2016

    RenewableUK has welcomed the news that DONG Energy’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm has gained planning consent from the UK Business and Energy Secretary, Greg Clark.  Wind power is currently delivering over 12% of the UK’s electricity, which is expected to increase to 20% by 2020 with offshore wind alone providing 10%. Offshore wind’s costs have […]

  • Ørsted Completes 50 Pct Divestment of World’s Largest Operational Offshore Wind Farm

    30 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has completed the divestment of 50 per cent of its 1.3 GW Hornsea Two project, the world’s largest offshore wind farm in operation. The developer sold half of the project to a consortium comprising AXA IM Alts, acting on behalf of clients, and Crédit Agricole Assurances. Ørsted announced the Hornsea Two offshore farm-down in […]

  • Semco Maritime Nets Hornsea Two Contract with Ørsted

    4 December 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has hired Semco Maritime as Electrical Engineering Consultant (EEC) to develop electrical and mechanical basic engineering design of the 1.4GW offshore substation and the reactive compensation station for Hornsea Project Two.

  • BEIS Nods to Hornsea Two Onshore Works Site Tweaks

    15 March 2018
    Authorities, Environment, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    UK’s Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has approved an increase in the total works area for the Hornsea Project Two onshore substation site.

  • Norwind’s Newly Delivered SOV Chartered for Hornsea Two

    31 May 2022
    Vessels

    Norway-based Norwind Offshore has taken delivery of Norwind Breeze, a former Platform Suply Vessel (PSV) that was converted into a Service Operation Vessel (SOV) by Vard. The vessel will soon be deployed on the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm under a contract with Ørsted, according to the vessel’s owner and operator. Hornsea Two, which is […]

  • Ørsted Divesting Half of Hornsea Two for EUR 3.6 Billion

    28 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has signed an agreement to divest 50 per cent of its 1.3 GW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm in the UK to a consortium comprising AXA IM Alts and Crédit Agricole Assurances for GBP 3 billion (approximately EUR 3.6 billion). The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2022, once the […]

  • First Turbine Up at World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    28 May 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    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 […]

  • Hornsea Two Onshore Cable Ordered from Korea

    1 October 2018
    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.

  • Bladt Starts Shipping Out Hornsea Two Hardware

    14 September 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    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 […]

  • Ørsted Picks Hornsea Two Mobile Network Provider

    10 July 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    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 […]

  • DEME Picks Hornsea Two Foundations Base Port

    11 March 2020
    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 […]

  • Ofgem Selects Hornsea Two OFTO Preferred Bidder

    5 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Ofgem has selected Diamond Transmission Partners as the preferred bidder for the offshore transmission of the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm in the UK. The company now has to resolve certain matters before being granted the Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO) license for the 1.3 GW project. Diamond Transmission Partners has to establish the necessary arrangements […]

  • Hornsea Two Onshore Substation Gets ABB Shunt Reactors

    30 April 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    ABB has delivered and installed three shunt reactors in the onshore substation of the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm in the UK. In April 2018, Ørsted and Balfour Beatty started the construction of the onshore substation in North Killingholme. The project’s 39km onshore cable route runs from Horseshoe Point, east of Tetney, to the […]

  • Ørsted Sets Date for Hornsea Two Supply Chain Event

    12 September 2018
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted is holding a supply chain event for the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind project in the UK North Sea.

  • Per Aarsleff Crosses Halfway Mark on Hornsea Two Project

    5 August 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Per Aarsleff A/S has produced 89 out of the 165 concrete working platforms (CWPs) for Ørsted’s 1.4 GW Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm. The CWPs are being built at Per Aarsleff’s concrete precast factory in Poland, Aarsleff BIZ, for Bladt Industries and EEW OSB, which are producing 135 and 30 transition pieces for the […]

  • 100 Turbines Up at Hornsea Two Offshore Wind Farm

    8 October 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    DEME Offshore has installed 100 turbines on the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm, with 65 more of Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW units left to be put into place. The jack-up vessel Sea Challenger installed the first wind turbine at the end of May and in less than three months later the project had 50 wind turbines installed […]

  • AMS Trenchless Specialists Scores Hornsea Two Onshore Gig

    2 April 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Ørsted has contracted AMS Trenchless Specialists to conduct part of the onshore cable works for the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm in the UK. AMS Trenchless Specialists will conduct Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) at the landfall site in Horseshoe Point where the offshore cables meet the onshore cables under the more than GBP 1 million worth contract. Using […]

  • EEW OSB Upends First Hornsea Two Transition Piece

    28 February 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    EEW Offshore Structures Britain (EEW OSB) has upended the first transition piece for the Hornsea Two offshore wind project in the UK. In June 2019, Ørsted placed an order with EEW Special Pipe Constructions for 30 transition pieces for the 1.4GW project. The remaining 135 transition pieces will be manufactured and delivered by Denmark’s Bladt Industries. EEW […]

  • Subsea 7 Wins Hornsea Two Cable Installation Contract

    24 July 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Seaway 7, a unit of Subsea 7, has won a contract for the installation of the inter-array grid cable system at the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm in the UK. In addition to the submarine cable installation works, Seaway 7 will undertake a pre-installation submarine cable route survey, perform pre-installation boulder clearance activities and […]

  • Construction of World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Stays On Track

    11 February 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Around 20 per cent of foundations has been installed at the 1.4 GW Hornsea Two, which is soon to become the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Ørsted said. The export cable installation works are on schedule and turbine installation is set to commence in the second half of this year, the project’s owner and developer […]

  • Hornsea Two Offshore Wind Farm Hits Major Construction Milestones

    21 October 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted’s 1,386 MW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm, soon to be the world’s largest, has reached several significant construction milestones, with more to come in the coming days. All of the wind farm’s turbine foundations have now been installed, as well as the project’s offshore substation at the North Sea site 89 kilometres off the […]

  • Hornsea Two Export Cable System All Done

    26 April 2022
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    NKT has commissioned the 220 kV HVAC export cable system connecting the 1.3 GW Hornsea Two offshore wind project to the UK grid. NKT manufactured the power cables for the project at its factory in Karlskrona, Sweden. The installation of the subsea cables was completed by the cable-laying vessel NKT Victoria. “Constructing a project of […]

  • Ørsted to Hold Hornsea Two Onshore Cable Route Meets

    18 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted is holding a series of community information events about the onshore cable route for the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind project in the UK. According to the Danish company, the aim of the events is that local people in North East Lincolnshire and East Lindsey find our more about the onshore cabling works for the […]

  • DEME Jack-Ups Team Up on World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    8 June 2021
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DEME Offshore’s jack-up Sea Installer has arrived at the Port of Hull in the UK to load the first set of turbine components to be installed on the 1,386 MW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. Sea Installer is joining her sister vessel Sea Challenger on the project which has already installed the first batch of […]

  • Wind of Hope Readies For Hornsea Wind Farms

    9 August 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted’s new service operations vessel (SOV) Wind of Hope has arrived in the Port of Grimsby in the UK to prepare for working out at sea on the world’s largest offshore wind farms. Up to 60 of Ørsted’s wind turbine technicians will call the 84-metre vessel home for two weeks at a time, whilst they […]

  • DONG Acquires Hornsea Two & Three OW Projects

    21 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Today, DONG Energy acquired the Hornsea Zone and the project rights to Hornsea Project Two and Three, which have the potential of 3 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind capacity. This follows DONG Energy’s acquisition of Hornsea Project One, a 1,200 megawatt (MW) offshore wind project in the Round 3, which was announced in February 2015. […]