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  • A new standard for offshore wind. Creating a climate of investor confidence.

    18 April 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development, Transition, Vessels

    Milad Sheikhi, Head of Sales and Business Development – Offshore Wind at Jumbo Offshore discusses the way forward for standardisation in offshore wind. Is regulatory restriction the way forward for offshore wind – or will a free market approach yield more rapid returns? With increasingly ambitious targets in the coming years, the pressure is on […]

  • AquaVentus: Imminent Start of North Sea Auction is Essential for Hydrogen Ramp-Up

    22 January 2024
    Outlook & Strategy

    Jörg Singer, chairman of German offshore wind-to-hydrogen initiative AquaVentus has called for a timely tender for the expansion of offshore electrolysis, saying that the imminent start of the auction for the Noth Sea region SEN-1, a 100 km2 area in the North Sea designated for hydrogen production, is a central prerequisite for the ramp-up of […]

  • Ilmatar Secures Survey Permits for Multi-Gigawatt Wind Farm Sites Offshore Finland

    20 October 2023
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates

    The Finnish Government has granted survey permits for Ilmatar Offshore’s two new project areas, Bothnia and Bothnia West, in the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone. Ilmatar Offshore has identified two new areas suitable for offshore wind in the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone. The project areas are called Bothnia and Bothnia West and are located in the […]

  • Van Oord Awarded Two New Offshore Wind Contracts Worth More than Half a Billion Euros in Total

    8 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Grid Connection, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has been awarded contracts for Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland and Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan valued at more than EUR 500 million. For the Baltic Power offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea, Van Oord will transport and install 78 foundations, including 76 monopile […]

  • RWE Continues Taking Part in Wake Effect Research Projects in Anticipation of Increasingly Densely Built Offshore Wind Farms

    14 March 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, R&D, Research & Development

    In its annual results for 2023, RWE reported on last year’s financial performance and many of its offshore wind developments, but also on research projects related to the wake effect at offshore wind farms. Last year, RWE, together with various project partners, completed two wake-effect studies and embarked on a new research project in the […]

  • Windcatcher Developer Contracts Axess for Concept Engineering Study of Built-In O&M System

    18 March 2024
    Business development, Floating Wind, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Supply Chain, Technology, Wind Turbines

    Norwegian floating wind technology developer Wind Catching Systems (WCS) has contracted its compatriot Axess Technologies for a concept engineering study of the turbine handling system, an integrated feature of the Windcatcher multi-turbine floater that enables wind turbine repairs and component exchange without the need to tow the floater to a port. “Securing the project was […]

  • DolWin Epsilon Converter Platform Sets Sail from Singapore to Europe

    16 October 2023

    The 900 MW DolWin Epsilon offshore converter platform has left Seatrium’s shipyard in Singapore and is heading towards Aibel’s yard in Haugesund, Norway, where it is expected to arrive in the second half of December. After three years of construction and with more than ten million manhours, the heavy transport vessel Mighty Servant 1 has […]

  • Triconti Opens Door to New Partner for 1.5 GW Wind Projects Offshore Philippines

    16 October 2023
    Business development, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    Liechtenstein-based Sea Wind has entered into a strategic partnership with Triconti Windkraft Group for the development of two offshore wind projects in the Philippines. Sea Wind joins the consortium to fast-track the development of two offshore wind projects, namely Frontera, located outside Manila Bay bordering the provinces of Cavite and Bataan, and Guimaras Strait, positioned […]

  • Lithuania Postpones Launch of Second Offshore Wind Tender to January 2024

    11 October 2023
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Industry, Planning & Permitting, Supply Chain

    The Lithuanian government plans to open the country’s second offshore wind tender in January 2024 instead of this autumn, with the exact date to be announced in due course. According to a press release from Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy, the decision to push back opening the auction came after a consultation held on Tuesday, 10 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Vestas and EnBW Make He Dreiht Offshore Wind Turbine Order Official

    2 October 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Vestas has secured a firm order to deliver 64 V236-15.0 MW wind turbines for the 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Vestas will also deliver a five-year Active Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000) service agreement followed by a long-term Operational Support Agreement. ”We are delighted to announce this firm […]

  • Financial Close Reached for Taiwanese Offshore Wind Farm

    28 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The 1 GW Hai Long offshore wind project in Taiwan, being developed jointly by Northland Power and Mitsui & Co., has reached financial close for its 20-year TWD 117 billion (about EUR 3.4 billion) non-recourse green financing. According to Northland Power, the TWD 117 billion debt amount at closing changed from the TWD 118 billion […]

  • First Power Flows from World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    10 October 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The world’s largest offshore wind farm under construction, Dogger Bank, has started producing electricity for the first time for British homes and businesses. The 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm is being constructed in UK waters some 130 kilometres off the coast of Yorkshire and in three 1.2 GW phases known as Dogger Bank A, […]

  • 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 […]

  • Offshore Wind Supply Chain Could Boost UK Economy by GBP 92 Billion Before 2040

    9 October 2023
    Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Supply Chain

    Growing the UK’s supply chain for offshore wind represents a GBP 92 billion (approximately EUR 106 billion) opportunity to boost the UK’s economy by 2040, according to a report by the Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) and the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP).  The report, titled “Supply Chain Capability Analysis”, outlines key measures that industry […]

  • Iberdrola Bags Long-Term PPA with TMD for 300 MW German Offshore Wind Farm

    4 October 2023
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Iberdrola and TMD Friction Services have signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) to offtake energy from the Windanker offshore wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea. The 15-year agreement covers a supply of approximately 50 GWh of generated green electricity per year and will cover more than 50 per cent of […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Testing 115-Metre-Long Wind Turbine Blade on Blaest’s New Test Rig

    29 September 2023
    Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, R&D, Supply Chain, Technology, Wind Turbines

    The wind turbine blade test centre Blaest in Aalborg, Denmark, inaugurated a new test rig on 26 September, in which the centre decided to invest after entering an agreement with Siemens Gamesa to test the company’s current range of offshore blades. The first blade is already being put through paces on the new test rig […]

  • TenneT’s 900 MW DolWin6 Goes Into Operation

    26 September 2023
    Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms

    The Dutch-German transmission system operator (TSO), TenneT, has commissioned the 900 MW DolWin6 offshore grid connection, bringing the transmission capacity in the German North Sea to 8,032 MW. DolWin6, TenneT’s 13th German offshore grid connection, has now been officially handed over to the TSO for regular operation after several weeks of trial operation by Siemens Energy. […]

  • NSEC Countries ‘Unlikely’ to Meet 2030 Offshore Wind Target Without Immediate Action on Port Development, Study Says

    20 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Ports & Logistics

    A new report from the North Seas Energy Cooperation (NSEC) calls for “immediate action” on developing new port infrastructure and upgrading existing port facilities as the study behind the report found the joint offshore wind target of the nine NSEC countries for 2030 is unlikely to be met otherwise. In this article: The North Seas […]

  • Dutch King Inaugurates 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid Offshore Wind Farm

    29 September 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Dutch King Willem-Alexander and board members of Vattenfall, BASF, and Allianz officially inaugurated the offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust Zuid 1-4 on 29 September. Having 139 wind turbines and an installed capacity of 1.5 GW, Hollandse Kust Zuid is one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world. The subsidy-free 1.5 GW wind farm, […]

  • US Issues Roadmap to Accelerate Atlantic Offshore Wind Transmission

    20 September 2023
    Collaboration, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Training & Education

    On 19 September, the Biden-Harris administration released a roadmap that outlines immediate actions needed to connect the first generation of Atlantic offshore wind projects to the electric grids and longer-term efforts to support needed transmission over the next several decades. The roadmap, called Action Plan for Offshore Wind Transmission Development in the U.S. Atlantic Region, […]

  • Shell and Eneco Partner with Largest Dutch Ecological Consultancy for Hollandse Kust West VI Offshore Wind Farm

    26 September 2023
    Business development, Collaboration, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Innovation, Project Updates

    Ecowende, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, has partnered with Waardenburg Ecology, the largest ecological consultancy firm in the Netherlands, to develop a comprehensive ecological programme for the offshore wind farm the joint venture will build at the Hollandse Kust (west) Wind Farm Site VI. The developer and the consultancy are developing the programme […]

  • California County Offshore Wind Supply Chain and Worker Programme Gets State Backing

    20 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Supply Chain, Training & Education

    California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) has awarded more than USD 648,000 for the Supply Chain and Worker Readiness Program (the Program), an integral part of Humboldt County’s offshore wind energy project. The Program is designed to facilitate workforce development efforts over the entire offshore wind project lifecycle and will utilise funds for research community preparation, […]

  • Wind Turbine Installation Campaign Commences at Vineyard Wind 1

    13 September 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The wind turbine installation campaign for the 806 MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project has begun some 15 miles (approximately 24 kilometres) off the coast of Massachusetts, the US. The installation campaign follows the successful transportation earlier this week of the first GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbine from the New Bedford Marine Commerce […]

  • Ørsted Extends Its Offshore Wind Collaboration with Hitachi Energy

    7 September 2023
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Hitachi Energy and the Danish renewable energy developer, Ørsted, have extended their long-standing collaboration for offshore wind farms for three more years. Under the extended framework agreement, Hitachi Energy will continue to support Ørsted’s global offshore wind farms. At a visit to Hitachi Energy’s factory in Ludvika in Sweden, Ørsted’s country head of Sweden, Sebastian […]

  • First GE Haliade-X 13 MW Wind Turbine Heads Offshore for Vineyard Wind 1 Site

    7 September 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between AVANGRID and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), has shipped the first GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbine from the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal to its location more than 30 miles (about 49 kilometres) off the coast of Cape Cod in the US. The GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbine […]