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  • Arkona Stays Ahead of the Curve with All Transition Pieces In Place

    17 January 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    All 60 transition pieces (TPs) have been installed on the Arkona offshore wind farm ahead of schedule, E.ON, the owner and developer of the 385MW project in the German Baltic Sea.

  • Top News of the Week, 25 Sep – 1 Oct 2017

    1 October 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    DEME Tries to Take Possession of Unfinished Living Stone from LaNaval Shipyard Belgium’s DEME Group has attempted to take possession of the advanced cable lay vessel Living Stone, currently under construction at the financially troubled LaNaval shipyard in Bilbao, Spain, and tow the vessel to another location where the delayed construction could be completed. Wiking […]

  • Stanislav Yudin In Charge of Beatrice Jacket Installation

    3 April 2018
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Stanislav Yudin has been deployed on the jacket installation at the Beatrice offshore wind farm as the heavy lift vessel Oleg Strashnov left the site to handle the substation installation at the Arkona offshore wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea.

  • Top News of the Week, 28 Nov – 04 Dec 2016

    4 December 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Germany Confirms Offshore Grid Development Plan by 2025 German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has confirmed a plan for the offshore grid development by 2025 (Offshore-Netzentwicklungsplan 2025), which regulates the connections of wind farms in the North and Baltic Seas to the German transmission network. Portugal Okays 25MW WindFloat Atlantic The Council of Ministers in Portugal […]

  • 50Hertz Pulls In Ostwind 2 Land Cables

    29 June 2021
    Grid Connection

    German transmission system operator for the Baltic Sea, 50Hertz, has pulled in the land cables for the Ostwind 2 offshore grid connection. The Ostwind 2 land cables have now been installed underground over a distance of three kilometres from the landing point, where the sea cables meet the mainland, to the Lubmin transformer station. Using […]

  • Arkona OWF Site Now UXO-Free

    5 December 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    E.ON informed today that the unexploded ordnance (UXO) removal at the Arkona offshore wind farm construction site in the German Baltic Sea has been completed. The site, with an area of 39 square kilometers halfway between the island of Rügen and the Danish island of Bornholm, is now completely free of remains from the time of the […]

  • Arkona Offshore Substation Stands Tall

    9 April 2018
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting’s crane vessel Oleg Strashnow has installed the offshore substation topside on the 385MW Arkona offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea.

  • Top News of the Week, 21 – 27 August 2017

    27 August 2017

    Expertise Hub VIDEO: Concrete Floating Foundations More Durable and Cost-Effective (Ideol) Building a floating foundation in concrete has shown to be a cheaper solution, not only construction-wise but with O&M taken into account as well, since the material is much more durable at sea – as learned from the offshore oil & gas industry – […]

  • First Ostwind 2 Cable Section In Place

    12 March 2021
    Grid Connection

    The first cable section for the Ostwind 2 offshore grid connection was installed in the German part of the Baltic Sea in recent weeks, the transmission system operator 50Hertz said. In the coming months, further cables will be laid in individual sections along the 90-kilometre-long route. The work is being carried out by a consortium […]

  • 50Hertz Looking For UXO Team for Ostwind 3

    14 April 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    German offshore transmission system operator (TSO) in charge of the Baltic Sea infrastructure, 50Hertz, has opened a tender for unexploded ordnance (UXO) operations on the cable route of the Ostwind 3 project. The work scope encompasses provision and operation of all assets necessary for the UXO campaign works, including reporting and interfacing with the employer […]

  • E.ON Picks Port of Sassnitz for Arkona Becken OWF

    22 June 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    E.ON has selected the Port of Sassnitz in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as a logistics base for its Arkona Becken Südost, a wind farm it plans to build in the German Baltic Sea.  The port would serve the wind farm during construction and then become its operations center. With Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s Energy Minister Christian Pegel in attendance, E.ON Project Director […]

  • Cathie Associates Helps Make Arkona Works Less Noisy

    8 March 2018

    Cathie Associates have performed a study which enabled the reduction of noise in the water column created by monopile driving at the Arkona offshore wind farm site in Germany, the company informed after all the 60 foundations were installed.

  • Fugro Completes Geotechnical Work for Arkona-Becken Südost (Germany)

    2 December 2011

    The Fugro Consult GmbH was commissioned by E.ON for the geotechnical exploration for “Arkona-Becken Südost” offshore wind farm , which E. ON is planning to build in the Baltic Sea. Work was carried out in the summer and early fall of this year, and now has been completed in water depths of approximately 22 to […]

  • Equinor CEO: Last Few Months a Game-Changer for Our Offshore Wind Business

    24 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    The last few months have been a game-changer for Equinor’s offshore wind business, the Norwegian energy company’s President and CEO Eldar Sætre said while commenting on the company’s results for the third quarter of 2019. ”Together with SSE, we were the winning bidder with three projects at Dogger Bank in the UK, making it the largest […]

  • Highlights of the Month: April 2016

    2 May 2016

    World’s Largest OW Jack-Up Vessel Installs World’s Heaviest Monopile at Veja Mate OWF Offshore construction of the Veja Mate offshore wind farm has started with Seajacks Scylla having installed the heaviest monopile produced so far at the project site, according to DGI Doedijns, which provided hydraulic and software equipment for the pile-gripper used at the […]

  • 50Hertz’s Baltic Sea Offshore Link Approved

    13 July 2015
    Grid Connection

    Minister of Energy of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Christian Pegel, has given 50Hertz a planning approval for a major part of its Ostwind 1 offshore cable project in German part of the Baltic Sea. The approval covers the construction and operation of approximately seventy kilometers long cable route section. Lorenz Müller, Head of Offshore Projects at 50Hertz, said that […]

  • UK: Fugro Shortlisted for International Project of the Year

    30 April 2012

    After a record number of entries Fugro have been shortlisted for ‘International Project of the Year’ in the Ground Engineering Awards to be held on May 4th at Grosvenor House Hotel, London. The nomination is for their geotechnical work on the Arkona-Becken Südost offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. Fugro were awarded the contract […]

  • 50Hertz Completes Baltic Eagle Cable Pull-In

    31 May 2023
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    50Hertz has completed the pull-in of two 220 kV subsea cable systems into Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle platform. The two 220 kV subsea cable systems were previously laid on the seabed in a safe area next to the destination of the substation platform. In February of this year, the substation platform was installed at its intended […]

  • Oleg Strashnov to Install Arkona OSS in April

    27 March 2018
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    At the beginning of April, Seaway Heavy Lifting’s vessel Oleg Strashnov will install the 4,000-tonne Arkona topside onto its jacket foundation.

  • Vroon’s VOS Stone Christened and Ready for Arkona

    11 December 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Vroon has christened its new subsea-support walk-to-work (W2W) vessel VOS Stone at a ceremony held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

  • 50Hertz Expanding Lubmin Onshore Substation

    22 November 2019
    Grid Connection

    50Hertz Offshore is set to expand the operational Lubmin onshore substation in Germany due to offshore wind needs. According to 50Hertz, a need for the further establishment of connections to the Lubmin substation is required because of tendering procedures for offshore wind projects. Three 220kV and two 380/220kV connection panels for offshore transformers are required […]

  • Germany: Arcadis Ost 1 Receives Preliminary Approval

    13 February 2013
    Authorities

    Last week, German regulators awarded the preliminary approval for the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm project. The wind farm will be located on the 30 square kilometers area, approximately 19 kilometers northeast of Cape Arkona. The developer chose Alstom’s 6MW wind turbines for this project. “After Baltic 1 wind farm went into operation in […]

  • E.ON Earmarks EUR 1.3Bn for Renewables in 2016

    11 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    E.ON’s renewables unit recorded a 10 percent lower EBITDA in the first quarter of this year, but its Wind and Solar business’ EBITDA rose by 42 percent, mostly due to the commissioning of Amrumbank West and Humber Gateway offshore wind farms.  The company expects the two offshore wind farms to give a boost to its renewables unit by delivering earnings for this […]

  • GeoSea Finalizes A2SEA Buy

    4 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    GeoSea, part of DEME Group, has completed the acquisition of A2SEA from DONG Energy and Siemens. 

  • Germany Allocates Connection Capacity to Eight Offshore Wind Farms

    28 October 2014
    Authorities, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    In its first allocation of connection capacity process for wind farms at sea, the Federal Network Agency (BNA) has reviewed applications for capacity allocation process.  Eleven applications from operators of wind farms at sea were submitted by October 1, 2014. Eight of them were approved. Three were rejected because the application was not complete or the wind farm is located in […]

  • Medevac Chopper and Crew Wanted for Baltic Wind Farms

    14 April 2017
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    German transmission system operator 50Hertz Transmission GmbH and three offshore wind operators are seeking a helicopter to rescue injured persons working on offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, including aeronautical and medical crew.