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  • Half of Galloper Turbines Up

    10 October 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Swire Blue Ocean’s wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Pacific Orca has installed 28 out of 56 turbines at the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm, innogy reported via social media.

  • Wiking Helikopter Nets Galloper Contract

    28 September 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Gamesa has awarded Wiking Helikopter Service with a long-term contract for helicopter hoist operations at the Galloper offshore wind farm in the UK, the Germany-based helicopter services provider informed.

  • Galloper OSS Topside Rolled Onto Barge

    11 April 2017
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The substation topside built by Heerema Fabrication Group for the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm has been loaded onto a barge at the fabricator’s Hartlepool yard.

  • Harwich International Port Tipped For Galloper O&M Base

    4 November 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Galloper Wind Farm Limited (GWFL) has agreed a lease in principle with Harwich International Port for an Operations & Maintenance (O&M) base for the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm. GWFL is currently pursuing planning permission in relation to this, Toby Edmonds, Project Director, Galloper Wind Farm, said. “Following the redesign of the project in 2015 we considered […]

  • RWE in Talks over Galloper Wind Farm

    25 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Plans are still underway to build the 68-turbine offshore East Anglian windfarm, Galloper – estimated to be worth £20million and 850 jobs to the local economy. RWE Innogy said it hoped to make an announcement in the spring on the future of the 340MW windfarm, despite announcing two months ago it would not continue with […]

  • UK: Galloper Offshore Wind Farm Given Development Consent

    24 May 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    Today, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change granted development consent for Galloper Wind Farm; an offshore wind farm off the Suffolk coast with an installed capacity of up to 504 megawatts. The development consent would allow the joint venture partners, RWE npower renewables and SSE renewables, to build the offshore wind farm […]

  • Pacific Orca Assumes Position on Galloper

    15 May 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Pacific Orca arrived some 27 kilometres off Suffolk in the afternoon hours of Sunday, 14 May to kick off the installation of the 56 Siemens 6MW turbines on the 336MW Galloper offshore wind.

  • Heerema Rolls Out Galloper Substation Topside

    23 March 2017
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Heerema Fabrication Group has moved the substation topside for the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm out of the fabrication hall at the company’s Hartlepool yard.

  • Turner Iceni Starts CTV Ops at Galloper Offshore Wind Farm

    3 March 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Turner Iceni has been awarded a crew transfer vessel (CTV) contract for the Galloper offshore wind farm. The company started operations on 1 March. Under the initial two-year contract with Galloper Wind Farm, Turner Iceni is providing 24/7 support in the form of vessels and crew, which led to the creation of three new full-time […]

  • Ørsted Awards Hornsea Three Cable Landing Contract

    24 August 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    UK-based AMS Trenchless has been awarded the cable landing works contract on Ørsted’s Hornsea Three offshore wind farm. AMS Trenchless will undertake specialist works at the landfall site at Weybourne, North Norfolk, where the offshore cables meet the onshore cables. Using Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD), the North Lincolnshire company will install underground cable ducts that […]

  • Last Turbine Added to Galloper Array

    22 December 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The 56th and final Siemens Gamesa 6MW wind turbine was installed at the Galloper offshore wind farm today. The 353MW offshore wind farm is expected to be commissioned in Spring 2018.

  • European Commission Nods to Galloper OFTO Ownership Change

    28 August 2019
    Authorities, Grid Connection

    The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the acquisition of joint control over Diamond Transmission Partners Galloper (Holding) Limited by Diamond Transmission Corporation Limited (DTC) and InfraRed Capital Partners Limited (IRCP), all of the UK. Diamond Transmission Partners Galloper is the holding company of the offshore transmission owner (OFTO) for the Galloper […]

  • Port of Lowestoft Gets Down to Galloper OWF Work

    13 May 2016
    Ports & Logistics

    Work has started at ABP’s Port of Lowestoft for the Galloper offshore wind project, as the port is housing offshore construction coordination. Over the next two years, 40 personnel from the Galloper Windfarm Ltd (GWFL) and their contractors will be based at the port while the construction phase of the project is underway. ABP Short Sea […]

  • VBMS, JDR to Provide Galloper OWF Array Cabling

    7 September 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    JDR has been selected as a contractor to supply offshore array cables for the Galloper offshore wind farm. JDR has been sub-contracted by the project’s array cable installation contractor, VBMS (UK) Ltd, in an overall deal worth around £100 million, of which £30 million covers JDR’s contract. JDR will produce 56 subsea inter-array cables for the Galloper […]

  • Galloper Developers and Sizewell B Launch Community Fund

    20 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Galloper Wind Farm Limited (GWFL), the developers of the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm, have teamed up with EDF Energy’s Sizewell B nuclear power station to launch a new community fund in Suffolk. The Leiston and Sizewell Community Fund will be distributed over a seven year period. Over GBP 85,000 will be made available for community projects in […]

  • Galloper Wind Farm Fund Up For Grabs

    22 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Galloper Wind Farm Ltd, the developer of the 336 MW Galloper Offshore Wind Farm, has invited applications for the Galloper Wind Farm Fund (GWFF). The fund aims to contribute to the appearance, setting, conservation, amenity, accessibility and enjoyment of the Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB and the area defined as within a 5km radius of Sizewell, […]

  • Sumitomo Gallops Towards Co-Owning UK 336MW OWF

    9 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    The deal on Sumitomo Corporation’s indirect acquisition of 12.5% share of the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm is closing this month, according to SgurrEnergy, who provided independent technical advisory services to Sumitomo Corporation. The services provided by SgurrEnergy included an assessment of the project’s permitting situation, contracting status and structure, construction timescales, capital and operating cost estimates […]

  • Galloper O&M Base Open for Business

    16 January 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    The operations and maintenance base for the Galloper offshore wind farm has officially opened in Harwich, the UK. Located at the Harwich International Port in Essex, the GBP 10 million facility will be used for O&M of the Galloper project for the next twenty years. The base includes offices, a 24/7 wind farm control room, […]

  • Galloper Recognised for Finance Deal

    3 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    Galloper Wind Farm Ltd, a joint partnership between RWE Innogy, UK Green Investment Bank (GIB), Siemens Financial Services and Macquarie Capital, has received double recognition from industry analysts following the high profile project partnership and finance deals closed late in 2015.   Galloper has been named as European Power Deal of the Year in Project Finance […]

  • Galloper Offshore Substation On the Move

    12 May 2017
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The offshore substation for the 336MW Galloper wind farm, built at Heerema Fabrication Group’s Hartlepool yard, has sailed away to the installation site in the outer Thames Estuary, some 27 kilometres off the Suffolk coast.

  • Sumitomo Invests in Galloper Offshore Wind Farm

    29 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Tokyo-headquartered Sumitomo Corporation has signed a contract to invest alongside Macquarie Capital in the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm. Sumitomo will indirectly take a 12.5% stake in the project with the transaction due to complete in the coming months. The equity sponsors of Galloper, RWE Innogy UK, Siemens Financial Services, UK Green Investment Bank plc […]

  • Fugro to Survey Galloper Offshore Wind Extension

    16 July 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Fugro has secured a contract to conduct geophysical and environmental site investigations at the Five Estuaries project, the extension of the operational Galloper offshore wind farm. Fugro Mercator has been appointed to carry out the geophysical survey at the UK project, which will start on 5 August and have a duration of approximately 14 weeks. […]

  • GeoSea Installs All Galloper Foundations Two Months Early

    29 March 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    GeoSea’s jack-up vessel Innovation has installed all 56 turbine foundations at the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm two months ahead of schedule, Galloper Wind Farm Ltd. reports.

  • Californian County Partners with Floating Wind Lease Holders to Identify Economic and Workforce Benefits

    24 August 2023
    Collaboration, Floating Wind, Industry, Jobs & Recruitment

    The County of Humboldt in California and the two developers that secured floating wind leases in the waters of the county’s coast, RWE and Vineyard Offshore (Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners), signed a Memorandum of Agreement on 22 August, under which they will jointly identify benefits of the floating wind industry to the economy and employment in […]

  • Oleg Strashnov Installs Galloper Offshore Substation

    16 May 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting’s crane vessel Oleg Strashnov has installed the offshore substation on the 336MW Galloper wind farm situated in the outer Thames Estuary, some 27 kilometres off the Suffolk coast.

  • VolkerInfra to Take Care of Galloper’s Onshore Connection

    23 March 2016
    Grid Connection

    GE’s Grid Solutions, a division of GE Energy Connections, has appointed VolkerInfra as the provider of substation interconnectors and onshore export cables for the Galloper Offshore Wind Farm. The contract, worth in excess of £5 million, will see VolerInfra design, supply, install and pre-commission two 132kV onshore export cables, six No 132kV cable circuits in the Galloper substation, […]