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  • Welsh Government Greenlights Erebus Floating Offshore Wind Farm

    13 March 2023
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The Welsh Government has granted consent for the country’s first floating offshore wind farm located 40 kilometres off the coast of Pembrokeshire. Project Erebus will feature seven next-generation 14 MW turbines on floating platforms, providing enough renewable energy to power 93,000 homes. Erebus is part of a first phase of a 4 GW renewable energy […]

  • Denmark: DONG on Track to Double 2009 EBITDA by 2015

    11 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Board of Directors of DONG Energy has today approved the interim financial report for the first quarter of 2012 with the following outlook and financial highlights compared with the first quarter of 2011: — EBITDA was DKK 3.6 billion in the first quarter of 2012 compared with DKK 4.8 billion in the first quarter […]

  • Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Starts Delivering Power

    3 July 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm has delivered first power from the first series of wind turbines and exported to Scotland’s National Electricity Transmission System (NETS), Ocean Winds said. The wind farm is nearing the end of the construction phase and will become fully operational in 2025 in line with the originally projected […]

  • Lhyfe Buys Into Finnish Power-to-X Developer, Eyes Large Offshore Projects in Northern Europe

    21 March 2023
    Business & Finance

    France-based green hydrogen specialist Lhyfe has acquired a 49 per cent stake in Flexens, a Finnish renewable hydrogen and Power-to-X project developer. According to Lhyfe, the two companies will combine their expertise and commercial pipelines to accelerate current projects and identify new opportunities in Northern Europe, in particular large offshore projects. Lhyfe says that the […]

  • Vattenfall Connects Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm to National Grid (UK)

    26 April 2011

    Vattenfall, currently installing a thirty-turbine wind farm off Barrow-in-Furness, finished three months of cable engineering works yesterday by completing the connection from the Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm to the National Grid. The 42km export cable, which will take power from the wind farm to the mainland National Grid was simultaneously laid and buried in one […]

  • Ørsted Tests Second Greater Changhua Offshore Substation

    5 January 2022
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The commissioning team working at Ørsted’s 900 MW Greater Changhua 1 and 2a wind farms off Taiwan has completed power-on tests on the project’s second offshore substation (OSS). According to the developer’s social media update, the testing was completed on 1 January, following the same work done on the first offshore substation in mid-December 2021. During […]

  • Seaway Alfa Lift Moves Onto Dogger Bank C Transition Piece Installation

    27 May 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Heavy lift vessel (HLV) Seaway Alfa Lift, which recently completed the installation of transition pieces (TPs) at Dogger Bank B, has started the same work at the Dogger Bank C offshore wind site in the UK. According to the latest Notice of Operations for Dogger Bank C from Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the vessel has […]

  • Fugro Lays Final Rampion Inter-Array Cable

    4 July 2017
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Fugro has laid the final inter-array cable at the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm off Sussex, UK.

  • Alfa Lift to Feature Red Rock Crane

    8 April 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Red Rock Marine has won a contract to deliver a 30T compact telescopic offshore crane for OHT’s semi-submersible offshore wind foundation installation vessel Alfa Lift. The 30T compact telescopic offshore crane will assist Alfa Lift’s main crane, supplied by Liebherr, during monopile installation. Red Rock plans to deliver the crane to a European yard within the first quarter of […]

  • Second Batch of Hornsea One Turbines Going for Installation

    26 February 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Bold Tern has departed from Hull, the UK, carrying the second batch of turbines for the Hornsea Project One offshore wind project. The vessel installed the first Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbine at the site some 120km off the Yorkshire coast in early February. Bold Tern is in charge of transporting and installing half […]

  • Dogger Bank Owners Close Largest Ever Offshore Wind Project Financing

    26 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Equinor and SSE have reached financial close on the first two phases of the Dogger Bank wind farm project, representing in aggregate the largest offshore wind project financing to date globally. The 3.6 GW Dogger Bank offshore wind project is divided into three 1.2 GW phases, Dogger Bank A, Dogger Bank B, and Dogger Bank C. The […]

  • Highlights of the Month – June 2020

    1 July 2020

    We bring you the ten most-read articles on OffshoreWIND.biz for the month of June 2020. Aegir Suffers Dropfall Incident Offshore Taiwan Heerema Marine Contractors’ (HMC) heavy lift vessel Aegir experienced a dropfall incident off the coast of Taiwan on 15 June at 16:42 local time. Siemens Gamesa 14 MW Turbine to Make European Debut Offshore […]

  • USA: MassCEC Bids for New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal

    28 December 2012

    Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) CEO Alicia Barton McDevitt announced the release of the construction bid for the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal. The announcement closely follows the project’s environmental approval on Nov. 19 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Once constructed, the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal will be the first facility in the […]

  • Final WindFloat Atlantic Turbine Ready to Go Home

    19 May 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The last of the three floating wind turbines for the WindFloat Atlantic project will soon set sail from Spain to its designated location off Portugal. Tractebel Engie reported on 17 May that it fully assembled the third WindFloat Atlantic platform in the port of Ferrol.  The turbine should start its journey to the site off […]

  • UK: Developer Announces Dates for Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon Consultation

    27 March 2013

    Community members and residents are invited to attend the first in a series of informal consultation events, providing the chance to find out more about the proposed Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon. The first three informal consultation events will start on Thursday 11 April at Swansea Civic Centre Library. The event will run from 10am to […]

  • £1.9 Billion Tender Round for Transmission Links to Offshore Windfarms Launched by OFGEM (UK)

    18 November 2010
    Contracts & Tenders

    Transmission links to 2.8 GW of offshore windfarms to be put out to competitive tender Winning tenders for the first links will be announced in summer 2011 First tender round for £1.1 billion of links attracted almost £4 billion of investment appetite and delivered savings of around £350 million Ofgem today launched the second tender […]

  • CS WIND Offshore Rolls Out Last Borkum Riffgrund 3 Monopile

    11 October 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Manufacturing, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    CS WIND Offshore has completed the fabrication of the last monopile foundation for the Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany and has marked the milestone with its loadout. CS WIND Offshore, which acquired Denmark’s Bladt Industries in 2023, has manufactured 40 XXL wind turbine foundations for the 913 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3, which will become […]

  • Weaker Winds Deflate RWE’s Numbers

    12 May 2021
    Business & Finance

    German energy company reported an adjusted EBITDA of EUR 297 million in the Offshore Wind segment in the first quarter of 2021, a 31 per cent drop compared to EUR 431 million reported for the same period in 2020. A key factor here were wind volumes in Northern and Central Europe, which were well below […]

  • Scotland and New Jersey Form Offshore Wind Bond

    7 February 2019

    Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy have signed a joint agreement to tackle climate change, with a specific focus on offshore wind. Scotland and New Jersey have set ambitious climate and clean energy targets, recognising the importance of decarbonising the energy sector and in particular the role of offshore […]

  • RenewableUK Welcomes MeyGen Funding

    22 August 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    RenewableUK is today hailing the announcement that funding has been secured to build the first phase of the world’s largest tidal energy array in the Pentland Firth region in North Scotland. The MeyGen project has a capacity of up to 398MW and will provide clean electricity for 175,000 homes and 100 jobs in the area […]

  • Recruitment Begins for Dudgeon OWF O&M Base

    21 April 2015
    Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The first seven employment opportunities for managers and engineers to be based from the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm O&M base in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk have been posted on the Statoil website, Statoil being the operator for both the construction and operational phases of this 402MW offshore power plant. To date, the O&M team has consisted […]

  • France: DCNS and Nass&Wind Present Floating Wind Turbine

    12 April 2013

    Partners DCNS and Nass&Wind presented their floating wind turbine development programme and shared ambitions for second-generation offshore windfarms at the Thetis Marine Renewable Energy show in Brest on 10–11 April 2013. 2012 was a big year for the DCNS/Nass&Wind floating wind turbine development programme as it saw the completion of the Winflo demonstrator design phase […]

  • Gemini Starts Producing

    29 February 2016
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The construction of the 600MW Gemini offshore wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands has reached an important milestone after the farm’s first wind turbines started producing electricity and feeding it into the grid. Following the construction of the electric infrastructure last year and the installation of the turbine foundations, contractors Siemens and Van Oord installed […]

  • Equinor Charters Stril Server for Hywind Tampen

    2 July 2021
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Equinor has awarded Simon Møkster Shipping with a contract for service operations vessel (SOV) services for the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm project in Norway. Under the contract, Simon Møkster Shipping will provide its vessel Stril Server for Hywind Tampen, starting in the second quarter of 2022. The vessel will be deployed on the project […]

  • German TSOs Release Updated Offshore Network Expansion Plans

    4 May 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection, R&D

    Four German transmission system operators (TSOs) have presented the second version of the Offshore-Network Developement Plan 2030 (Offshore-Netzentwicklungsplan – O-NEP).

  • Kraanverhuur Transport Friesland Bags Windpark Fryslân Contract

    5 August 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics

    Harlingen-based Kraanverhuur Transport Friesland (KTF) has been awarded a contract for the storage and transshipment of 89 concrete platforms for the Windpark Fryslân wind turbines. The platforms, manufactured by Per Aarsleff in Poland, will be delivered to and stored in Harlingen, from where they will then be loaded onto inland pontoons and transported to IJsselmeer. […]