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  • Installed OW Capacity Hits Record High in H1 2015

    30 July 2015

    In the first six months of 2015, the European offshore wind industry installed more new capacity than in any other year on record as several projects reached completion and deployment of larger turbines increased. Installations in the first half of 2015 touched 2,342.9MW – tripling the grid-connected capacity for the same period last year. As […]

  • Dong Hits 3,000MW Offshore Wind Mark

    22 May 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Today, with the installation of turbine number 76, at the Borkum Riffgrund 1 Offshore Wind Farm in Germany, DONG Energy reaches a total of 3,000MW of installed offshore wind capacity. The total capacity of 3,000MW – of which approximately half is installed in the UK – can supply enough electricity to cover the consumption of […]

  • Ellis Launches ‘Triton’ HV Cable Guide and Clamp

    2 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology

    A UK-based cable cleat manufacturer, Ellis has launched Triton –the world’s first two-in-one cable guide and clamp, which has been designed specifically to assist in the installation and subsequent restraint of high voltage (HV) cables.  Named after a Greek God, who was proclaimed a messenger of the sea, Triton was aptly designed for an offshore project […]

  • 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 […]

  • New Jersey BPU to Discuss Offshore Wind Transmission

    1 November 2019
    Authorities, Grid Connection

    The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) will hold a public stakeholder meeting on November 12 to discuss how New Jersey should plan its transmission system to accommodate the scenario where offshore wind plays a major role in the State’s energy future. The public meeting will have a conference format and will have a […]

  • Statoil: Dudgeon Comes In On Time and Under Budget, All Turbines Now Producing

    7 September 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    All 67 Siemens 6MW turbines on the 402MW Dudgeon wind farm off Norfolk are now producing electricity, according to Statoil, the operator and part owner of the offshore wind farm.

  • Ørsted Breezes Past 3GW Operational Offshore Wind Mark in UK

    12 June 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Following the official opening of the Race Bank, Ørsted will own and partly own 10 operational offshore wind farms in the UK with a combined capacity of over 3,000MW.

  • Germany: Global Tech I Construction About to Start

    2 August 2012

    The construction of the offshore wind farm Global Tech I will start soon. After an intensive two-year planning period, the project company Global Tech I Offshore Wind GmbH will start the construction of the foundations and substation in the coming weeks. The substation will be shipped directly from the shipyard in Rotterdam to the construction […]

  • Carbon Trust to Run Scottish GBP 18 Million Marine Energy Scheme

    24 May 2012
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Carbon Trust will help run a new multi-million pound fund to help develop Scotland’s first commercial wave and tidal power arrays. Addressing the AllEnergy conference in Aberdeen, First Minister Alex Salmond launched Scotland’s Marine Renewables Commercialisation Fund (MRCF). The First Minister said: “Europe’s greatest wind, wave and tidal resources are heavily concentrated in the waters around […]

  • Moray Contracts Gaoh Energy to Install Meteorogical Mast in Outer Moray Firth (UK)

    27 July 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd. , the joint venture company owned by EDP Renewables and Repsol, today awarded a historic contract to Gaoh Energy Ltd to install the first permanent offshore infrastructure to enable the development of offshore wind energy in the outer Moray Firth. Suffolk-based Gaoh Energy Ltd are to install an offshore meteorological mast […]

  • Danish Energy Agency Running Market Dialogue Ahead of 3 GW CfD-Based Offshore Wind Tender

    2 June 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Industry, Planning & Permitting

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has invited potential bidders in Denmark’s relaunch of the 3 GW offshore wind tender to participate in the market dialogue on procurement procedures. The draft procurement material for the upcoming tender is largely based on the material of the procurement procedures of the 6 GW tender the Danish government opened […]

  • ‘Largest US Subsea Cable Factory’ Breaks Ground

    29 April 2025
    Cables, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Onshore Infrastructure

    Construction work on LS Cable & System’s manufacturing facility for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cables in Virginia, the US, has started. LS Cable & System announced that its US subsidiary, LS GreenLink, had held a groundbreaking ceremony for what the company says will be the largest factory of this kind in the United States. […]

  • Largest Privately Led Offshore Wind Farm in South Korea Enters Commercial Operation

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

    The 96 MW Jeonnam 1 offshore wind project, owned by a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and SK Innovation E&S, has officially commenced commercial operation in South Korea. Copenhagen Offshore Partners, exclusive offshore wind development partner to CIP, has co-led project development activities for Jeonnam 1 on behalf of the project’s owners. Jeonnam […]

  • SeaMade in Full Array

    1 December 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The wind turbine installation at the SeaMade offshore wind farm was completed on 30 November, with the 58th and final unit erected at the project site located 50 kilometres off the Belgian coast in the North Sea. DEME, the EPCI contractor for the project, started installing the foundations in September 2019, using its jack-up vessel […]

  • StormGeo on Weather Forecasting Duty Offshore Japan

    3 February 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Kajima Corporation has contracted StormGeo for the provision of weather forecasting services for the first multi-turbine offshore wind farm in Japan. Acting on behalf of the project owner, the Akita Offshore Wind Corporation, Kajima Corporation tasked StormGeo with providing the Akita and Noshiro wind farm with weather, wave, and typhoon forecasting in support of the […]

  • Aker Solutions, Principle Power Win FEED Deal for 1 GW South Korean Floater

    15 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Foundations, Supply Chain

    Haewoori Offshore Wind 2 and 3, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partner’s (CIP) floating offshore wind projects in South Korea, have awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to Aker Solutions and Principle Power for the floating foundations. Haewoori 2 and 3 are planned to have a capacity of 500 MW each. The floating offshore wind projects […]

  • Prysmian Completes Inter-Array Cable System Offshore France

    27 December 2023
    Cables, Grid Connection, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Prysmian has commissioned the inter-array cable system for the Fécamp offshore wind farm located in the English Channel, some 24 kilometres off the French coast, in Normandy. The Fécamp offshore wind farm is comprised of 71 Siemens Gamesa SWT-7.0-154 wind turbines with a total capacity of nearly 500 MW, generating clean electricity equivalent to the […]

  • Scotland Targets Up to 10GW of New Offshore Wind Capacity

    24 December 2019
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Scotland is considering plans to add up to 10GW of new offshore wind capacity, according to the recently released Draft Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy (2019). This draft plan identifies 17 areas, so-called Draft Plan Options (DPOs), split across five regions. The DPOs cover an area of 14,646 km2, including deepwater sites, and […]

  • Prysmian to Start Installing Saint-Brieuc Inter-Array Cables Next Month

    26 January 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Prysmian will begin working on the installation of inter-array cables at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm at the beginning of next month, shortly after the vessels to be deployed for this operation arrive at the project site in France at the end of this month or in the first days of February. Prysmian was awarded […]

  • Two US Companies Join Vineyard Wind 1 Team

    1 September 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Vineyard Wind has signed contracts with Maine-based Ironhouse and Houston-based EverLine to support the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project at various construction and operation stages. EverLine, a provider of energy compliance, technical, and security solutions, will deliver complete Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) integration for the 62 wind turbines, a system that will […]

  • PGE Seeks Partners to Build Wind Farms in Polish Baltic Sea

    6 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Polish state-owned power company Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) is launching a search for a strategic partner to prepare, build and operate offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea with a total capacity of up to 2,545MW.

  • EnBW Cuts Ribbon in Boston

    13 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    EnBW North America has opened an office in Boston, Massachusetts, to pursue offshore wind opportunities in the Northeast US. In New England, EnBW North America participated in last December’s auction for offshore lease areas off the Massachusetts coast, competing through the last round of bidding on the three sites. The company also became the first […]

  • Five Beefed Up MHI Vestas Giants Heading to Blyth

    7 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has received an order from EDF Energy Renewables for five V164-8.0 MW turbines to be installed at the 41.5 MW Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Project. The V164-8.0 MW turbines – rated with a capacity of 8MW – have been optimised for the project, utilising a power mode to be able to deliver […]

  • Japan: Marubeni and INCJ Complete Acquisition of Seajacks

    25 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni) and Innovation Network of Japan (INCJ) have jointly completed a deal after closing the financing for the acquisition of Seajacks International Ltd. (Seajacks), whose purchase had been agreed upon with Riverstone Holdings LLC. The finance was provided through a syndication consisting of six banks, the Development Bank of Japan, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking […]

  • UK: Forewind Invites Local Community to Discuss Dogger Bank Teesside

    25 April 2013

    Forewind invites Teesside residents and members of the public interested to learn more about the Dogger Bank Teesside offshore wind development to a series of one-to-one discussions (Friday 17 and Saturday 18, May). Dogger Bank Teesside will comprise four offshore wind farms, each with a maximum installed capacity of 1.2 gigwatts (GW) and located more than […]

  • LOGIC INSTRUMENT Pioneers on High Sea (Germany)

    4 June 2013
    Technology

    LOGIC INSTRUMENT, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of rugged mobile computers, pioneers on the high sea. Around the first offshore wind power plant in Germany, important environmental compatibility data are collected – with the rugged mobile computers from LOGIC INSTRUMENT the researchers can capture their data even under the worst environmental conditions. Since April […]