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  • Navantia Starts Building East Anglia ONE Substation

    21 March 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Navantia marked the start of construction of the East Anglia ONE offshore substation by cutting the first steel at the Puerto Real shipyard at 11:00 a.m. on 21 March.

  • European Commission Nods to Boskalis Buying VolkerWessels

    17 June 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Technology, Vessels

    The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of VolkerWessels Offshore by Boskalis. The EC concluded that the proposed acquisition would raise no competition concerns, because it would not significantly change the market structure. The operation was examined under the simplified merger review procedure. VolkerWessels Offshore comprises three businesses, namely Stemat Holding […]

  • ScottishPower Renewables Awards Offshore Wind Contracts to Seajacks and Gardline

    3 August 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    ScottishPower Renewables has awarded major contracts to two Great Yarmouth based companies, Seajacks and Gardline, for work on their global pipeline of offshore wind farms.

  • Port of Sassnitz – Heart of Baltic Sea Offshore Wind

    17 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    During the 3rd Offshore Summit in the Port of Sassnitz, the Sassnitz-Mukran site was celebrated for being a focal point of offshore wind farm projects in the Baltic Sea. Major players in the energy industry, representatives from politics, industry and associations exchanged views on projects and potential of offshore wind, as well as the latest political developments and the […]

  • Eurogrid’s Debut Green Bond to Finance German Offshore Wind Connections

    7 May 2020
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Eurogrid GmbH, the parent company of 50Hertz, has issued its debut green bond in the amount of EUR 750 million, which will finance the Ostwind 1 and 2 grid connections in Germany. The corporate bond with a term of 12 years and an interest rate of 1.113% was issued on the regulated market with the […]

  • East Anglia ONE Passes CfD Milestone

    26 February 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The East Anglia ONE wind farm project has complied with all the Operational Conditions Precedent (OCPs) to begin receiving payments under the Contracts for Difference scheme in the United Kingdom, Iberdrola said. The added capacity at East Anglia ONE has increased Iberdrola’s installed offshore wind capacity by 77.1% year-on-year, from 544MW at the end of […]

  • Top News of the Week May 2 – 8, 2016

    8 May 2016

    Construction Starts at Nordergründe Offshore Wind Site Offshore construction of the Nordergründe wind farm is kicking off this week, with the MPI Enterprise vessel already loading monopiles and transition pieces in Cuxhaven, according to German media. Liebherr Installs Custom-Made Offshore Crane on Giant 7 Liebherr’s offshore crane division installed a board offshore crane, type BOS […]

  • Liebherr Installs Custom-Made Offshore Crane on Giant 7

    2 May 2016
    Vessels

    Liebherr’s offshore crane division installed a board offshore crane, type BOS 35000, on the Giant 7 heavy lift barge, which installed the first foundations at the Wikinger offshore wind farm at the end of the last month.  The crane was specially developed for the use on Giant 7, and the entire project, from design through manufacturing to […]

  • ROMEO Testing O&M Information Management Systems

    30 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The partners of the Iberdrola-led ROMEO project have created Work Package 7, designed to test concepts/tools integrated into O&M information management systems in a real operational environment of the Teesside, Wikinger and East Anglia ONE offshore wind farms. The WP7 will include all the necessary testing to verify the diverse functionality associated with the data […]

  • Taylor Hopkinson Wins East Anglia ONE Contract

    14 March 2018
    Contracts & Tenders

    Taylor Hopkinson has won the on-site Quality Services tender to supply personnel for the 714MW East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm in the UK North Sea.

  • 50Hertz Searching for Ostwind 3 Cable Supplier

    4 June 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    German offshore transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz has issued a tender seeking a provider of the 220 kV submarine and onshore cable system for the Ostwind 3 grid connection. The selected party will be in charge of the design, engineering, construction, installation, handling and commissioning of the cable system that will connect the onshore substation […]

  • Boskalis Starts Prepping Finesse for Offshore Wind Work

    29 June 2017
    Vessels

    Singapore-based Keppel Shipyard has secured a contract from Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V for the conversion of a semi-submersible heavy lift vessel, Finesse, to a crane vessel.

  • 50Hertz Pushes Ahead with Ostwind 3 Project

    29 June 2022
    Authorities, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    German offshore transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz has submitted application documents to construct and operate a submarine cable that will connect 50Hertz’s own transformer platform at the Windanker wind farm in the Baltic Sea to the national grid as part of the Ostwind 3 grid connection system. The application documents for the approximately 24-kilometre submarine […]

  • Chancellor Merkel Opens Arkona

    16 April 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and Norwegian Petroleum and Energy Minister Kjell-Børge Freiberg have officially opened the Arkona wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. The commissioning comes after transmission system operator 50Hertz connected the Arkona and Wikinger offshore wind farms to its transmission grid. The projects were connected via the Ostwind 1 grid connection. “I […]

  • VIDEO: Iberdrola Commits to Offshore Wind

    14 February 2013

    Iberdrola has identified offshore wind power as one of its key areas for future growth and it aims to lead the development of this technology going forward with the necessary caution for investments of this nature. In order to achieve this objective, the Company has created an Offshore Business Department with offices in Glasgow, London, […]

  • Navantia Rolls Out East Anglia ONE Offshore Substation

    4 July 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Navantia has completed the construction of the East Anglia ONE offshore substation (topside), which is scheduled to set sail from the shipyard at Puerto Real in Spain in early August and arrive at the UK construction site in early September. 

  • Germany to Kick Off Geotechnical Surveys in North, Baltic Seas

    7 January 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has issued early information about tender calls for geotechnical investigations and monitoring services for offshore wind farm areas in the North and Baltic Seas.  According to BSH’s prior notices from the end of December 2018, the tender calls for the provision of the works should be launched this […]

  • Prysmian Picks Tekmar Cable Protection Systems for Rentel

    16 January 2017
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Cable protection systems (CPS) supplier Tekmar Energy has won a contract to supply Prysmian PowerLink with 84 of its TekLink CPS units for the 3o9MW Rentel offshore wind farm project in Belgium. The supply for the contract will be executed in Tekmar’s production facility in the North East of England and manufacturing is expected to be completed […]

  • Viking Neptun Joins DEME Fleet

    1 February 2023
    Vessels

    DEME group has announced that the DP3 offshore installation vessel Viking Neptun arrived at its base in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, for the first time. Viking Neptun will join the installation vessel Living Stone and reinforce the company’s cable installation capacity, DEME said. Featuring the famous DEME green, the vessel has a turntable capable of handling […]

  • Boskalis’ Revamped Vessel Coming Up in 2018 (VIDEO)

    16 January 2017
    Vessels

    As of 2018, Boskalis will add a new self-propelled DP-2 crane vessel to its fleet, as the company has put one of its semi-submersible heavy lift vessels up for a conversion this year.

  • UK Wind Conditions Affect Iberdrola’s 2016 Results

    23 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    Even though Iberdrola’s overall gross operating profit (EBITDA) improved by 5.5% in 2016 compared to the year before, the company yesterday reported an 8.9% decrease in its renewables business EBITDA, driven by weaker performance in the UK due to foreign exchange and lower wind resource throughout the year.

  • Dialog Increases Acceptance of Wind Energy

    2 September 2015

    As part of 3rd Offshore Summit, an exhibition on the subject of offshore wind was held. Well-known companies from the energy sector presented their work and current projects. “The exhibition is the ideal platform for citizens to ask all their questions to the experts of participating companies. Interest is high and the dialogue increases noticeably […]

  • Prysmian to Supply Belwind 2 Inter-Array Cables

    5 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Prysmian Group has been awarded contracts by Nobelwind NV, an offshore wind farm developer, to supply wind turbine inter-array cables for the Bligh Bank 2 (Belwind 2) offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Zeebrugge in Belgium. Prysmian is responsible for the design, manufacture and supply of the 33 kV submarine cables with various […]

  • Iberdrola Starts Engineering Phase of EUR 1.6 Billion Wikinger Offshore Windfarm in Germany

    13 June 2012

    IBERDROLA has announced it is commencing the detailed engineering phase of Wikinger, the company’s first offshore windfarm in Germany, with a view at starting operations on the €1.6billon project by 2016. UK based engineers, project managers and technicians from IBERDROLA’s Offshore Business Division, based in Glasgow and London will have a crucial role in the […]

  • WIND FARM UPDATE

    20 July 2015

    Borkum Riffgrund 1 Turbine installation work is ongoing at the 312MW Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm, located 54km off the German coast and around 37km from the island Borkum. The installation, performed by A2SEA’s SEA INSTALLER, reached half way in mid-March. The first of the 78 Siemens SWT-4.0-130 turbines was installed back in August 2014 and the first electricity was already produced mid-February. […]

  • Germany Invites Geotechnical Inspectors

    20 February 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Das Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH)) has issued a call for the provision of geotechnical investigations in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The tender is divided into two lots, the North Sea lot and the Baltic Sea lot. The geotechnical exploration works include drilling, core sampling and […]