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  • 29 July 2019
    Grid Connection

    Drydocks World has signed a contract with Petrofac and end-client TenneT to construct the topside for the Alpha platform at the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm zone. Drydocks will provide production engineering, construction, mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, commissioning assistance, load-out, sea fastening and HVAC (EPC) for the 700MW topside. This is the first time such a […]

  • 18 October 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs has published the Ministerial Order for permitting offshore wind energy for the Hollandse Kust (zuid) sites I and II, stating that the application period will start on 15 December and close on 21 December 2017.

  • 1 April 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The Dutch government is opening the tender to develop the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind farm on Thursday, 2 April. The tender will remain open until 30 April. The Dutch government has expressed confidence that, similarly to the Hollandse Kust (zuid) 1 and 2, and the Hollandse Kust (zuid) 3 and 4, this wind farm […]

  • 4 April 2022
    Environment, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore wind developer Vattenfall and De Rijke Noordzee (The Rich North Sea) are jointly investigating the effect of water replenishment holes in wind turbine foundations on the surrounding sea life. The research is being carried out on Vattenfall’s 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm, the world’s first subsidy-free offshore wind farm. Hollandse Kust Zuid […]

  • 24 December 2019

    DryDocks World has awarded Mech-Tool Engineering (MTE) with a contract to deliver fire and blast solutions to the Hollandse Kust Zuid Alpha project. MTE will design, engineer, fabricate, and supply its A0 fire-rated and Non-Rated (NR) external and internal profiled wall panels for the offshore platform. MTE has recently started the fabrication of the walls […]

  • 22 April 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Environment, R&D, Technology

    Vattenfall will participate in the offshore wind farm tender for Hollandse Kust West Sites VI and VII in the Dutch North Sea, partnering with the chemicals producer BASF for Site VI. The Hollandse Kust West wind farm zone is located approximately 53 kilometers off the west coast of the Netherlands. The full area is auctioned […]

  • 17 December 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    Oleg Strashnov to Stay on Beatrice Until New Year Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Oleg Strashnov – which left the Beatrice site after installing the 24th jacket foundation in late September and returned to the job in November – has put the 25th jacket in place and thus officially resumed the works after more than […]

  • 12 October 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    TenneT has awarded the Oldenburg-based LMR Drilling GmbH with a contract to carry out the horizontal directional drilling (HDD) sea defense work for the Hollandse Kust (zuid) offshore grid.

  • 22 November 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    Following the article about Ørsted’s participation in the upcoming Hollandse Kust I & II tender, Offshore WIND spoke with Jasper Vis, the company’s country manager for the Netherlands who said that the final decision on whether to bid at the tender has not yet been made.

  • 8 November 2016
    Grid Connection

    TenneT has signed framework agreements with Royal Smit Transformers and Siemens for the delivery of components for the Dutch offshore grid in the North Sea. Under the contracts, Royal Smit Transformers will supply reactive current compensation coils for the transformer station on land and Siemens will deliver reactive current compensation coils for the offshore transformer station as well […]

  • 5 June 2023
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend; RVO) has invited tenders for integrated ground models (IGMs) and geotechnical interpretative reports for the Nederwiek Noord and Hollandse Kust West VIII offshore wind farm zones. The work will help inform the preliminary foundation design and the deliverables will be made available to bidders in the project development tenders. […]

  • 28 March 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Dutch transmission system operator TenneT has invited tenders for provision and installation of high voltage alternating current (HVAC) cables that will connect the three offshore substations at the 1.4GW Hollandse Kust (zuid) and the 700MW Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind farm zones to the mainland grid.

  • 14 January 2022
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The first serially-manufactured SG 11.0-200 DD nacelle left the Siemens Gamesa factory hall in Cuxhaven on Friday, 14 January. The factory has been converted and upgraded for the new product generation over several months since the summer. Now serial production has started and the first turbine has been assembled. ”Rolling out the first serially-manufactured SG […]

  • 25 January 2019
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The future operator of the Hollandse Kust (zuid) III and IV wind farms will not be exempt from paying the seabed lease fee for the portions of the wind farms situated within the 12-mile zone of the Dutch territories in the North Sea, according to Eric Wiebes, the country’s Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. […]

  • 3 November 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The Royal Netherlands Navy has disposed of unexploded ordnance (UXO) found at the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) I & II project site, where Vattenfall will build a 750 MW offshore wind farm. The UXO inspection and removal campaign at HKZ I & II, which started in July, has now been completed. UXOcontrol, a joint venture […]

  • 12 July 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has ordered 140 reusable monopile covers for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) offshore wind farm from Theuws Polyester, which will work together with Composite Cover Manufacturing on the project. The first 40 covers are planned to be delivered this year and the remaining 100 in 2022. “The design of these monopile covers is innovative, […]

  • 29 December 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) have invited tenders for geotechnical investigations at the Hollandse Kust Noord Wind Farm Zone (HKNWFZ).

  • 28 July 2020
    Grid Connection

    More than 8,000 tonnes of high voltage cables for the connection of the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Alpha offshore platform to the onshore grid arrived at the Port Rotterdam on 19 July. The cables, which Hellenic Cables sent from Greece at the beginning of July, were transported by Acta Marine’s CC Atlantique barge, chartered by […]

  • 24 December 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    Spain: 5MW Floating Wind Turbine Taking Shape Dutch heavy transportation and lifting company ALE has lifted the second section of a telescopic tower of the first self-installing telescopic offshore wind turbine at the Arinaga port, Gran Canaria. The works are being carried out under the Horizon 2020 Elisa/Elican project, which will result in installing the […]

  • 4 August 2021
    Grid Connection, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord’s underwater robot Deep Dig-It has returned to the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm to connect the HKZ Beta offshore platform to the mainland. TenneT is developing the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore grid for the connection of the 1.5 GW wind farm. Four offshore cables will be buried in the North Sea bed. For […]

  • 22 December 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics

    The Port of Rotterdam has awarded the Dutch construction company Van Hattum & Blankevoort with a contract for work on a quay at Sif’s site at the port. The contract covers quay wall construction, marine construction works, and dredging and pumping operations, which will be carried out at the 20-hectare port area for which Sif […]

  • 19 November 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    BiFab Crisis: Workers Rally at Scottish Parliament as Unions Urge SSE to ‘Rein In’ SHL The trade unions supporting BiFab workers have called on SSE to ‘rein in’ the contractor Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) and save 1,400 jobs in Fife and Lewis. On 16 November, SSE issued a statement saying that, as a 15% shareholder […]

  • 24 December 2021
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    34 out of the 140 monopile foundations were installed at the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm offshore the Netherlands in the first installation campaign, falling short of the target set for 2021, Vattenfall said. The first offshore construction phase at the subsidy-free wind farm started in early July. The monopile foundations without transition […]

  • 26 March 2018
    Contracts & Tenders

    The outcome of the first subsidy-free offshore wind tender set up in the Netherlands gives confidence for future tenders in the country, however, there is no guarantee that these can also be realised without a subsidy, according to Eric Wiebes, the country’s Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate.

  • 5 April 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall plans to start the first offshore construction activities on the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) wind farm in the Dutch North Sea in June. This is when the first ships will sail out to deliver rocks for scour protection to the wind turbine locations. Rocks will be placed to protect the monopiles against […]

  • 3 January 2018
    Contracts & Tenders

    Vattenfall Gives Reasons for Choosing Siemens Gamesa 8MW Turbine Vattenfall has chosen the new 8MW Siemens Gamesa wind turbine for its Danish offshore wind farms because it “was simply the cheapest choice in the market measured by cost per generated megawatt-hour electricity,” Michael Simmelsgaard, Head of Offshore Wind and Country Manager for Vattenfall in Denmark, said. Spain: […]