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  • Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Buys Into Large-Scale German, Danish Offshore Wind Projects

    31 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages the international investments of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund and Norges Bank’s foreign exchange reserves, is acquiring ownership in RWE’s Nordseecluster and Thor offshore wind farms, a 49 per cent stake in each. RWE said on 31 March that it had signed an agreement with NBIM for an agreed […]

  • ScottishPower Renewables Taps Local Companies for Work on 1.4 GW Offshore Wind Farm in UK

    21 April 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Iberdrola’s ScottishPower Renewables has signed charter agreements with Caister-based NR Marine Services and Great Yarmouth-based OEG to provide vessels to support the construction of the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm in the UK. The deals are worth more than GBP 16 million (approximately EUR 18.6 million), and all vessels will operate out […]

  • GE Vernova to Pay Nantucket USD 10.5 Million for Losses Caused by Blade Debris

    14 July 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The Town and County of Nantucket in Massachusetts and GE Vernova have reached a settlement agreement worth USD 10.5 million (approximately EUR 9 million), which the wind turbine OEM will pay to compensate the Town and local businesses for losses resulting from the failure of a turbine blade on the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind […]

  • Extending Construction Window for Offshore Wind Farms Will Cut Cost and Risk, Vattenfall’s Ireen Geerbex Says

    5 February 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Business development, Collaboration, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Industry, Infrastructure, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting, Supply Chain, Technology, Transition

    Innovation in wind energy has been one of the main pillars driving the upscale of the sector, enabling better components, larger and stronger turbines, faster and more cost-effective logistics, but what about its integration into tenders? Innovative approaches in tender designs can have a major impact on facilitating a successful rollout of the sector. According […]

  • 1.1 GW Inch Cape Wind Farm Entering Offshore Construction Phase

    27 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    ESB and Red Rock Renewables have reached a financial close on the 1,080 MW Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland, and the project will now progress into its offshore construction phase. The Scottish offshore wind project has reached a financial close, securing a GBP 3.5 billion financing package from shareholders and lenders, comprising 22 […]

  • 50Hertz Opens Tenders for Jack-Up Barge, Helicopter Emergency Services in German Baltic Sea

    10 January 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain, Vessels

    German transmission system operator (TSO) has issued a call for tenders for a jack-up barge that would connect to an offshore substation and (separately) for air rescue services, both for offshore wind farm assets in the German Baltic Sea. The jack-up barge will be connected to an offshore substation (OSS) by two independent gangways and […]

  • ‘Chilling Signal to Investors in US Market’ | Backlash from Industry, NY State Agencies After US Gov’t Suspends Empire Wind 1 Mid-Construction

    18 April 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Industry, Planning & Permitting

    US renewable energy industry organisations and New York state agencies, as well as the Governor, have responded with criticism to the decision of the US Department of the Interior (DOI) to halt construction on Empire Wind 1. The move has been called a “chilling signal” to investors in the US market by the CEOs of […]

  • AFRY Bags Offshore Wind Farm Design Contract in Estonia

    7 January 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    AFRY Netherlands has won a contract worth over EUR 3 million for offshore wind farm design in Estonia at a tender launched by Enefit Green for its Liivi project in the Gulf of Riga. The contract, signed on 6 January, according to a public tender award notice, involves preparing a Contract for Difference (CfD) Front […]

  • Atlantic Shores Requests to Terminate 1.5 GW OREC Contract with New Jersey | ‘Presidential Wind Memorandum, Subsequent Actions Directly Impacted Project Feasibility’

    10 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind has submitted a request to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU), seeking that the existing offshore renewable energy credit (OREC) order, issued by the NJBPU in 2021 for 1,509.6 MW of generation capacity at Atlantic Shores Project 1, be terminated. The developer, which planned to take the final investment […]

  • Delaware, US Wind Sign USD 128 Million Worth of Agreements

    7 January 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    Delaware Governor John Carney and officials from the state’s Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) have signed three agreements valued at more than USD 128 million (approximately EUR 123 million) with US Wind, which recently received federal approval for its Maryland offshore wind development that will power the Delmarva Peninsula. The Delaware state […]

  • Editors’ Picks | Offshore Wind News in 2024: ‘The First, The Largest, The Record’

    2 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Energy Islands, Environment, Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Foundations, Green Hydrogen, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Innovation, Manufacturing, Off-Grid, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting, Ports & Logistics, Power-to-X, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Technology, Transition, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Some news are important for the offshore wind industry at large, some are significant for parts of the supply chain or in certain regions, and some are just good to know. With 366 days and thousands of news in 2024 behind us, the task of choosing only a few stories was not an easy one […]

  • Former Fish Auction Building in Port of Den Helder to Become OranjeWind O&M Base

    17 December 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    RWE and TotalEnergies, through a joint venture that will soon start building the OranjeWind project off the Dutch coast, have signed a lease agreement with the co-operative association Blue Port Centre, the owner of the former fish auction building at the port of Den Helder, to use the facility as the operations and maintenance (O&M) base […]

  • Pre-Construction Work Underway at East Anglia Three Offshore Wind Farm Site

    26 December 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    A pre-installation survey at the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site is scheduled to begin in early January 2025, following subsea boulder clearance and scour protection work that was carried out in November 2024 and marked the start of offshore construction work. The survey, which will be performed by Seaway7 and Beam using the […]

  • Ten Most Read News on OffshoreWIND.biz in 2024

    1 January 2025
    Business development, Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Operations & Maintenance, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    New wind turbine models, vessels and equipment, and project updates were the most read topics on offshoreWIND.biz in 2024. In this overview, we are bringing the ten most popular news in 2024. In January 2024, Siemens Gamesa received a EUR 30 million grant from the EU for a project called Highly Innovative Prototype of the […]

  • Will Trump Venture to Impose ‘No New (Offshore) Wind Turbines’ Policy and Bring US Industry Supporting 120,000 Jobs to Halt?

    8 January 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    During his presidential campaign in 2024, Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order to stop offshore wind farms from being built in the US “on day one”. On 7 January, the US president-elect reiterated the plan which now seems to apply to wind energy on land too, saying he would look into implementing […]

  • Hitachi Energy Wins HVDC Contracts Worth Over EUR 2 Billion from Amprion

    20 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain

    Hitachi Energy has signed contracts, totalling over EUR 2 billion, with German transmission system operator (TSO) Amprion to deliver four converter stations for two high-voltage direct current (HVDC) links that will support Germany’s clean energy transition. The orders follow the capacity reservation agreement signed in September 2023, under which Hitachi Energy was picked as the […]

  • Seaway7 Lands Inch Cape Transportation and Installation Job

    17 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain

    Seaway7, part of the Subsea7 Group, has been awarded a contract by Inch Cape Offshore Limited (ICOL), a joint venture between ESB and Red Rock Renewables, for the transport and installation of pin-pile jacket foundations and transition pieces (TPs) for the 1.1 GW offshore wind project. The deal is worth between USD 150 million and […]

  • Vestas Taps NHV for North Sea Offshore Wind Ops

    16 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    NHV Group has been awarded a multi-year contract by Vestas to provide offshore wind operations in the North Sea with the super medium helicopter, the Airbus H175. Under the contract, Belgium’s NHV will provide dedicated crew changes and hoisting operations for the offshore wind industry, starting in April 2025. According to the company, this contract […]

  • RWE, TotalEnergies to Build OranjeWind Offshore Wind Farm from Eemshaven

    10 December 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Ports & Logistics, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The OranjeWind joint venture between RWE and TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with Buss Terminal Eemshaven to use the Port of Eemshaven as the base for wind turbine assembly and construction work for the 795 MW offshore wind project in the Dutch North Sea. Buss Terminal Eemshaven will facilitate the offloading, storage, handling and pre-assembly […]

  • Philippines to Launch Offshore Wind Auction in Q3 2025

    16 December 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    The Department of Energy of the Republic of the Philippines (DOE) has revealed that the fifth round of the Green Energy Auction (GEA-5), exclusively dedicated to offshore wind projects, will commence in the third quarter of 2025. According to DOE, the GEA-5 will provide offshore wind developers with secure market access, ensuring long-term demand for […]

  • EnBW Awards North Star Its First CSOV Contract

    15 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    EnBW has awarded North Star a contract for a commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) to be deployed at the 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany. The award, which is the first for a North Star CSOV, for the newbuild Grampian Kestrel will precede the decade-long minimum charter contract that the company signed […]

  • Thousands of Lobsters Settle at Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm

    4 December 2024
    Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    RWE and the Whitby Lobster Hatchery have released 2,500 juvenile lobsters at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK in what the wind farm developer says is an industry-first project, through which more than 15,000 lobsters are planned to be released at Triton Knoll. The first batch of 2,500 juvenile lobsters was settled […]

  • Seaway7 Takes on More Work at Dogger Bank Wind Farm

    12 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    Dogger Bank Wind Farm, a joint venture between SSE Renewables, Equinor, and Vårgrønn, has signed a vessel reservation agreement with Seaway7 to charter a second turbine installation vessel to support the ongoing delivery of the offshore wind farm off the coast of England. Starting in 2026, the Seaway Ventus jack-up installation vessel is planned to […]

  • UPDATED: COD for 900 MW German Offshore Wind Farm Pushed Back from End-2025 to Early 2026

    6 December 2024
    Grid Connection, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany will be commissioned in the first quarter of 2026 instead of the initially planned fourth quarter of 2025 due to a delay in the grid connection construction. The cause of the grid connection delay can be traced back to 2020/2021 and the challenges in […]

  • New Partnership to Develop Next-Gen SOV for Floating Offshore Wind Projects

    9 October 2024
    Business development, Floating Wind, R&D, Research & Development, Vessels

    North Star, a service operations vessel (SOV) operator in the UK’s renewable industry, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with MO4, Principle Power, SMST, Vard, and Voith Group to form a working group aimed at developing a new SOV concept for floating offshore wind. The six organisations have committed to developing a detailed, high-performance […]

  • Vestas 15 MW Turbines to Spin on RWE’s Nordseecluster Offshore Wind Project

    28 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    Vestas has received a firm order from RWE for the second phase of its 1.6 GW Nordseecluster offshore wind development in Germany. The order comprises 60 V236-15.0 MW wind turbines, and Vestas is responsible for the supply, delivery, and commissioning of the units. Upon completion, the Denmark-based wind turbine OEM will also service the asset […]