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  • Aker Solutions to Deliver Foundation for Germany’s BalWin2 Offshore Grid Connection

    2 June 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain

    Aker Solutions has signed a contract with Dragados Offshore to deliver the steel substructure for the 2 GW high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter station for the BalWin2 offshore wind grid connection in Germany. The contract is worth between NOK 1.5 billion (approximately EUR 130 million) and NOK 2.5 billion (about EUR 216 million), as per […]

  • 40 years wind in the Netherlands: To be continued…

    14 February 2013

    It was 40 years ago, in the time of the international oil crisis, that some of the first initiatives were undertaken by, what the Dutch now would call, ‘goat-hair wool sock men’ taking a look at wind as a source for generating energy. Reason enough for one of these ‘pioneers’, Chris Westra, to organise a day where the […]

  • A Hub in the Netherlands

    22 June 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    This year Offshore WIND Magazine will be looking at the offshore wind hub ports. These are ports that have either become newly established as offshore wind ports or existing ports already serving the industry that grown beyond most people’s expectations in the past seven years. These hubs can be either a single port or a group of neighbouring ports able to provide the complete base support for range of services from project pre-construction surveys to wind farm operation and maintenance.

  • RWE Signs O&M Deals with Clarkson Port Services for 1.6 GW Nordseecluster Project

    10 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain

    RWE Offshore Wind has awarded two long-term agreements with Clarkson Port Services (CPS) to support the operations and maintenance (O&M) activities at its 1.6 GW Nordseecluster offshore wind project in Germany. The Dutch division of Clarkson Port Services will build a new warehouse facility in the port of Eemshaven, the Netherlands. The 1,700-square-metre building will […]

  • Making Full Use of Deck Space

    5 February 2017

    The free deck area on board a wind farm installation vessel is, of course, a finite space which is defined by the length and beam of the vessel when it was built. The area that is accessible to the vessel’s cranes installed in the shipyard is also finite, defined by the position of the crane […]

  • Research Project Proves Large-Scale Oyster Reef Restoration at Offshore Wind Farms Feasible

    22 July 2025
    Business development, Environment, Research & Development

    A research project carried out by The Oyster Restoration Company (TORC) and supported by RWE has established that large-scale native oyster reef restoration at offshore wind farms in the North Sea is feasible. “Flat oysters are an important species because they can create reefs that provide food and breeding grounds for many other species. Due […]

  • Deutsche Windtechnik Wins Long-Term Contract on Ten-Year-Old German Offshore Wind Farm

    5 June 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain

    Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum has awarded a ten-year contract to Deutsche Windtechnik for maintenance and service of the Trianel Windpark Borkum I offshore wind farm that has been in operation since 2015. Deutsche Windtechnik says it secured the contract, signed on 19 May, through a tender in which the company participated with a plan for optimised maintenance […]

  • Geoquip Marine Wraps Up Survey Work for Two Offshore Wind Projects in Germany

    20 May 2025
    Business development, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    Geoquip Marine has completed a preliminary geotechnical site investigation for two 4 GW offshore wind projects in the German North Sea. Under the contract, the UK-based company drilled 28 boreholes across the project sites to analyse the subsea terrain for wind turbine foundations. Geoquip underwent thorough soil sampling and seismic site monitoring to inform the […]

  • New Research Project Aims to Create More Accurate Wake Modelling for Offshore Wind

    26 May 2025
    Research & Development

    A new research project – which gathers industry and academia partners from Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark – is said to enable a more accurate modelling of offshore wind energy wake effects in the North Sea. The joint research project, named EuroWindWakes, launched in late 2024 with the aim of significantly increasing the accuracy of […]

  • Alpha Ventus Consortium Decides to Decommission Germany’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    22 May 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The consortium behind Germany’s first offshore wind farm has decided to decommission the 60 MW Alpha Ventus and is currently developing a concept for an environmentally friendly dismantling of the 15-year-old wind farm with relevant authorities. The news about the Alpha Ventus consortium (EWE, RWE and Vattenfall) considering the next steps for the offshore wind farm, […]

  • SIEMENS WIND POWER: A Bird’s Eye View on the Scale of Offshore Wind Power

    25 May 2015

    Events such as the EWEA OFFSHORE that took place in March, are providing excellent opportunities to hear all about the latest developments and challenges to overcome in the vibrant industry that is offshore wind. But reading and hearing is one thing… Experiencing the real thing is another. To give Offshore WIND and the articles we write as […]

  • ACCOMMODATION VESSELS: THE PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE

    5 October 2015

    The concept of using vessels as hotels, or floatels, accommodation vessels, or recently, SOVs, or whatever name you give them, has been available in the market for a while. With some of the current and more future projects being built further at sea in harsher sea states this concept is now gaining ‘ground’. Not only […]

  • EnBW Kicks Off Consultation for 114-Turbine Wind Farm Project Offshore Sweden

    13 May 2025
    Business development, Research & Development

    Germany’s Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) has initiated public consultation for its Mimer offshore wind farm, which is being developed in Sweden and could feature up to 114 turbines. EnBW is inviting authorities, organisations, and the public to submit comments at an early stage to collect views and information that may influence the content of the upcoming […]

  • DP Gezina Leaves for Work Offshore Germany

    3 July 2019
    Vessels

    Chevalier Floatels’ walk-to-work (W2W) vessel DP Gezina is commencing new offshore wind work in the German North Sea. According to Chevalier Floatels, the vessel will mainly be transferring crews to and from offshore substations in the German Bight. The duration of the contract is two months, with options for extending. The work is being conducted for […]

  • Maritime Organisations Launch Strategic Cooperation in Offshore Wind

    16 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Industry, Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    The Maritime Cluster Northern Germany (MCN), the Netherlands Business Support Office (NBSO), Innovation Norway, the Dutch development agency NOM, the Province of Groningen, and Danish Maritime have launched a strategic cooperation with a goal of strengthening the cross-border maritime economy in the context of offshore wind expansion. Germany, Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands are pursuing […]

  • Chevalier Floatels Attends Offshore Wind Event in Frankfurt, Germany

    15 November 2013

    Chevalier floatels, the owner of the first two SOV vessels will exhibit at EWEA offshore to showcase it’s products. The two service support vessels DP Gezina and DP Galyna will be the main focus of the exhibition. DP Gezina was commissioned in May 2013 and has worked for the last 6 months in the Dan […]

  • SeaRenergy Opens Dutch Office

    28 September 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Germany-based SeaRenergy B.V. has opened a new office in the Netherlands.

  • Merkur Gets HPC Project Certificate

    6 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Hanseatic Power Cert (HPC) has awarded the Merkur offshore wind farm in Germany with a project certificate. Arjen Schampers, the managing director of Merkur Offshore GmbH, the developer of the project, took over the certificate on 2 September. To remind, GE Renewable Energy completed the handover of the 66 GE Haliade 150-6MW turbines at the Merkur project at the […]

  • Denmark and Germany Agree to Cooperate on Offshore Wind and Energy Hubs

    15 December 2020
    Business & Finance

    Denmark and Germany have entered into an agreement to strengthen their cooperation on offshore wind and innovative energy hubs. The agreement is the starting point for further cooperation to explore the design of possible joint projects, and in this context, cooperation on the energy hubs in the North and Baltic Seas will be discussed. Additionally, […]

  • Semco Maritime Wins Service Contracts for Iberdrola’s Baltic Hub Substations

    3 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain

    Iberdrola has awarded Semco Maritime two offshore service contracts, with options for extension, on the above-water scheduled and unscheduled maintenance of electro-mechanical equipment at two offshore substations in the Baltic Hub. The Baltic Hub currently consists of two offshore wind farms, the 350 MW Wikinger and the 476 MW Baltic Eagle, near the island of […]

  • Northland Power Preparing Bid for German Offshore Wind Sites

    27 April 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Northland Power is preparing to bid in the ongoing offshore wind tender in Germany for the N-3.8, N-3.7, and O-1.3 offshore wind areas. Northland Power holds a step-in right for N-3.8, the former Nordsee 2 offshore wind farm area, which means it has pre-emption rights in the tender. To remind, the Canada-headquartered company is the […]

  • Merkur Switches On

    25 June 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    GE Renewable Energy has completed the handover of the 66 GE Haliade 150-6MW turbines at the Merkur offshore wind farm in Germany. GE is also in charge of carrying out operations and maintenance of the turbines for a period of ten years. To remind, jack-up vessel Seafox 5 installed the last turbine at the project site 45km of the island of […]

  • Ørsted and Covestro Sign Largest-Ever Offshore Wind PPA

    4 December 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Covestro has signed a ten-year corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) with Ørsted to buy the output of 100MW from the Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind project in Germany. With the ten-year indexed fixed-price agreement, Germany-based Covestro will offtake 100MW of the project’s 900MW total capacity, which makes it the world’s largest corporate PPA for offshore […]

  • Acta Centaurus Finishes Deutsche Bucht Work

    28 October 2019
    Vessels

    Acta Marine’s offshore wind service vessel Acta Centaurus has finished its work at the Deutsche Bucht wind farm in Germany, according to DHSS. The walk-to-work vessel, christened in Den Helder in the Netherlands on 22 May, debuted on the Deutsche Bucht wind farm under a contract with MHI Vestas. According to DHSS, whose support base in Eemshaven […]

  • Svanen Ready for Kriegers Flak Foundation Installation

    11 May 2020
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord’s heavy lift vessel Svanen has arrived at the Kriegers Flak offshore wind project in Denmark to begin the installation of monopile foundations. The monopiles, manufactured by EEW Special Pipe Constructions, will be transported floating from Rostock, Germany, to the project site. The transition pieces are produced by Bladt Industries in Aalborg, Denmark. Van […]

  • Danes to Give US a Hand with Offshore Wind

    24 March 2017

    After Danish Government launched its new export strategy on 22 March, the Danish Energy Agency’s (DEA) cooperation with the three largest export markets for energy technology – the US, UK and Germany – has been reinforced, DEA said.