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  • Tidal Transit Limited to Show off its Fiberglass Catamaran at Seaworks 2011 (UK)

    14 June 2011

      Tidal Transit Limited will be showing off a model of is 20m fibre glass catamaran, the first of which is due in UK waters in Q4 2011, to the visitors of Seaworks in Southampton next week. The boat has been designed by Adam Wright, of Thornham (Norfolk) to meet the specific needs of the […]

  • 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 […]

  • German TSO Opens EUR 11.7 Million Tender for Marine Warranty Surveyor Services

    13 October 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Supply Chain

    50Hertz has launched an EUR 11.7 million call for tenders for marine warranty surveyor (MWS) services for offshore wind energy projects in both the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. The German TSO is looking to award a framework agreement(s) for MWS services through four lots, with the contract for each lot worth a little […]

  • NKT Wins EUR 650 Million Power Cable Contract for Bornholm Energy Island

    4 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Cables, Energy Islands, Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure

    NKT has signed a contract with the Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet to deliver a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power cable system for the offshore interconnector linking the Bornholm Energy Island to the power grid on Zealand in Denmark. NKT’s scope of work includes the delivery of a 525 kV HVDC onshore and offshore […]

  • 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.

  • Danish Company to Supply TP Covers for Vattenfall’s Nordlicht 1 Offshore Wind Farm

    29 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain

    The Danish company, Dansk Polyglas, has been awarded a contract by CS Wind Offshore to supply transition piece (TP) covers for Vattenfall’s Nordlicht 1 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Under the contract, Dansk Polyglas will deliver TP covers for all 68 transition pieces, manufactured by CS Wind Offshore for Nordlicht 1. This […]

  • NKT Installs Power Cables at TenneT’s BorWin5 Offshore Grid Connection

    28 August 2025
    Cables, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms

    Denmark’s NKT has finalised the installation of a 320 kV high-voltage DC (HVDC) power cable system at the 900 MW BorWin5 offshore grid connection in Germany. The pull-in work to the offshore platform was carried out by the company’s NKT Victoria vessel. NKT was responsible for the delivery and installation of 230 kilometres of 320 […]

  • Vattenfall Secures Eemshaven O&M Site for New German Offshore Wind Farms

    29 August 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has signed a contract with EMS Maritime Offshore (EMO), under which EMO will build and lease an operations and maintenance (O&M) base in Eemshaven, the Netherlands, to Vattenfall for its Nordlicht offshore wind farms in Germany. According to the offshore wind developer, an advantage of the future O&M base is the existing infrastructure, which […]

  • 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 […]

  • Mingyang Confirms Its Tech No Longer Planned for Waterkant Project

    26 August 2025
    Business & Finance

    Mingyang Smart Energy has confirmed it is no longer involved in the 300 MW Waterkant offshore wind farm, developed by Luxcara, which just signed an agreement with Siemens Gamesa for a 1.5 GW project and said it was considering the same technology for Waterkant.  Luxacra entered into a preferred supplier agreement with Mingyang for the […]

  • 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 […]

  • First Offshore Platform for German Offshore Wind Farm Exits Smulders Hall

    6 October 2025
    Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The first of two platforms for the 976.5 MW Gennaker offshore wind farm, developed by Skyborn Renewables, has been moved out of the construction hall at the Smulders yard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. OSS Darß, which was transported out of the construction hall in September, currently weighs 3,800 tonnes. The unit is 48 metres long, […]

  • 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 […]

  • Luxcara Reserves Siemens Gamesa Turbines for 1.5 GW Waterekke, Eyes Switch from Mingyang’s for Neighbouring Project

    25 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    Luxcara has signed a capacity reservation agreement with Siemens Gamesa for the delivery of 97 15 MW turbines for its Waterekke offshore wind project in Germany. The Hamburg-based company is also examining the use of the same Siemens Gamesa turbines for the 300 MW Waterkant offshore wind farm. The approval documents for the 1.5 GW […]

  • 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 […]

  • TenneT Picks Asso.subsea for 2 GW Cable Installation Work in Germany

    29 July 2025
    Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain

    Asso.subsea has been awarded a nearshore cable installation contract for three projects under TenneT’s 2 GW programme in Germany. The projects are BalWin4, LanWin1, and LanWin5, located off the northwestern coast of Baltrum Island, in northern Germany. The contract marks the beginning of a new collaboration with Jan De Nul, acting as the main contractor, […]

  • Germany’s 2.5 GW Offshore Wind Tender Fails to Attract Bids

    6 August 2025
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Germany’s latest 2.5 GW offshore wind auction failed to attract any bids, leading the German Offshore Wind Energy Association (BWO) to call for a fundamental overhaul of the auction design. The auction, which ended on 1 August without an award, covered two sites, N-10.1 and N-10.2. A total capacity of 2.5 GW was planned to […]

  • TenneT to Soon Decide Whether to Launch IPO or Private Share Placement for German TSO; German Gov’t Still Considering Buy-In

    25 July 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    TenneT Holding is exploring two options to meet TenneT Germany’s equity requirements: a private placement of shares and an initial public offering (IPO), and expects to decide on which option to proceed with in September. The German government has not yet excluded the possibility of buying into the German transmission system operator (TSO). On 15 […]

  • 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.

  • Windward Offshore Takes Delivery of Its First Commissioning Service Operation Vessel

    1 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Vard has delivered the first commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) to Windward Offshore, Windward Athens, which marks the German company’s entry into the offshore wind operations & maintenance (O&M) market. Windward Offshore has three more CSOVs under construction at Vard. Built by Vard in Norway and delivered on schedule at Vard Brattvaag, the vessel is […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]