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  • Marine Renewables Canada Releases State of the Sector Report

    28 November 2013

    Marine Renewables Canada has released its first “State of the Sector” report which provides an overview of the current status of Canada’s marine renewable energy sector in context with global activity. It details Canada’s perceived strengths and weaknesses in contrast to challenges and opportunities presented by the advancement of the global sector. Analysis presented in […]

  • Dalby Swale Goes to Work

    7 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance

    Dalby Swale has helft Alicat Workboats in Great Yarmouth and is now heading for Lowestoft, where she will begin her first job on the Greater Gabbard Wind Farm. Dalby Swale, the new 23m vessel built by Alicat, was delivered to Dalby Offshore at the Seawork Exhibition last month. The 500MW wind farm is located 23 kilometres […]

  • Two Companies Eye Polish Energy Partners

    13 August 2012

    Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) expressed its interest in acquiring the Polish Energy Partners (PEP), writes Power Engineering news site. PGE plans to install a total of 1,000 MW of onshore wind capacity by 2015. The company also received three permits to construct the first Polish offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea. By acquiring PEP, […]

  • CIP Signs PPA for 500 MW Taiwanese Offshore Wind Project

    29 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom

    Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its Flagship Fund Copenhagen Infrastructure V (CI V), has signed a corporate power purchase agreement (CPPA) with Sino-American Silicon Products and its renewable energy subsidiary, Sustainable Energy Solution (SES) for the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind project in Taiwan. CIP was awarded capacity for Fengmiao 1 in the first round of Taiwan’s […]

  • Ignitis Looks to Partner for Lithuania’s Upcoming Offshore Wind Tender

    15 October 2024
    Business & Finance

    Ignitis Group has decided to participate in Lithuania’s second tender for the rights to develop around 700 MW of offshore wind capacity in the Baltic Sea and will launch a partner selection process for up to 49 per cent ownership. The tender is planned to be launched on 18 November 2024. The winner is expected […]

  • Danish Energy Agency Adopts North Sea I Offshore Wind Area Plan

    1 October 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The Danish Energy Agency has adopted a plan for the North Sea I offshore wind area following an environmental assessment of the plan and the consultation responses. The area comprises two subareas, the first of which has been already put out to tender with three offshore wind sites offered. The plan, which describes the framework […]

  • Hornsea One Chopper Squad Takes to the Air

    25 January 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    CHC’s first flight for the initial phase of Ørsted’s Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm left the Humberside Airport, UK, on 24 January.

  • Vattenfall Wins Dutch Zero Subsidy Offshore Wind Tender

    19 March 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy has selected Vattenfall as the winning bidder in the country’s first non-subsidized offshore wind tender – the 700MW to 750MW Hollandse Kust Zuid I & II.

  • Vattenfall Taps Hellenic Cables for 4.2 GW Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone

    26 April 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Hellenic Cables has signed an agreement with the Swedish energy company Vattenfall to supply inter-array cables for the Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone in the UK. Under the agreement, the Greek cable manufacturer will provide approximately 850 kilometres of aluminium cables which will be used to connect the wind turbines to the offshore substation. “The Norfolk […]

  • Australia Soon to Move Forward with Two More Offshore Wind Zones

    30 August 2023
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting

    The Australian government will soon launch consultations for two more proposed offshore wind zones, namely the Bass Strait region off Northern Tasmania and the Indian Ocean region off Perth/Bunbury. The government, which has earlier identified six zones, is carrying out consultations as part of the process to officially declare each identified area an offshore wind […]

  • Third Jacket Installation Campaign to Begin at Neart na Gaoithe

    9 August 2023

    The third phase of the installation of wind turbine jacket foundations at the Neart Na Gaoithe offshore wind farm in Scotland is scheduled to start on or around 11 August, with the heavy lift vessel Thialf set to install eleven jackets within this campaign. The jackets will be brought directly to the site from the […]

  • Vattenfall Adds COWI to Norfolk Boreas Roster

    10 January 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    COWI has been awarded a contract by Vattenfall for the oversight of the detailed design phase of the onshore cable installation for the 1.4 GW Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farm in the UK. Under the contract, COWI will review the plans – devised by J. Murphy & Sons – to install 60 kilometres of cables […]

  • Estonian Offshore Wind Project Moves Forward

    6 January 2023
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The Consumer Protection and Technical Supervision Agency (CPTRA) has approved the environmental impact assessment (EIA) programme of the Saare-Liivi offshore wind farm in Estonia. Usually, the environmental studies begin after the programme is approved, but in this case, the surveys started already during the compilation of the programme and therefore the first year’s studies have […]

  • RTE Wins Work on Danish Bornholm Energy Island

    5 January 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    RTE international (RTEi) has been entrusted with the modelling and simulation requirements and the specifications to de-risk the multi-vendor multi-terminal high voltage direct current (HVDC) functionalities for the Bornholm Energy Island (BEI) project in Denmark. Planned by the Danish and the German TSOs, Energinet and 50Hertz, BEI will be set up in the Baltic Sea by […]

  • Huisman Secures Another Major Crane Deal as Havfram Orders LEC for Its Mega Jack-Up

    15 December 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Huisman has been awarded a contract with Havfram for the delivery of a 3,000mt+ Leg Encircling Crane (LEC) to be installed on Havfram’s first wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV). With this contract, Huisman secured its thirteenth LEC order since the start of 2021, the company said only a few days after it announced a contract […]

  • Aeolus Completes 2022 Saint-Brieuc Campaign

    1 December 2022
    Vessels

    Van Oord’s vessel Aeolus, responsible for drilling and pin pile installation operations for the jacket foundations on the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm, has completed its 2022 campaign. 40 positions of the Saint-Brieuc farm’s jacket foundations that will support 62 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbines have been drilled and fitted with pin piles. After completing […]

  • Energinet Launches Offshore Wind Assessment Tender for North Sea Energy Island

    22 November 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, R&D

    The Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet has opened a tender for a consultancy service to do a wind site assessment regarding metocean conditions for the North Sea Energy Island. Under this tender, the consultant will assess the normal and extreme metocean conditions within the site that will form part of the larger site conditions […]

  • Dutch-Belgian Joint Venture to Deliver Ostwind 3 Offshore Substation

    31 October 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    German offshore transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz has selected the Dutch-Belgian joint venture (JV) comprising HSM Offshore Energy, Smulders, and Iv-Offshore & Energy to deliver the Ostwind 3 offshore high voltage substation in the Baltic Sea. The joint venture will be responsible for the engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning (EPCIC) of the jacket foundation […]

  • Reach Subsea Bolsters Fleet After Securing Offshore Wind Service Contract

    7 February 2023
    Vessels

    Norway-headquartered Reach Subsea has chartered a multipurpose supply vessel (MPSV) from compatriot Olympic Subsea to deliver offshore wind-related services to an undisclosed renewable energy client. Reach Subsea won a contract from a major renewable energy company to provide wind-related services for six months with options to extend the deal. The Norwegian company selected the MPSV […]

  • ORE Catapult and Vattenfall Extend Test Facility Agreement in Scotland

    2 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and Vattenfall have signed a three-year extension on their testing and demonstration collaboration at the 96.8 MW Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm, also known as the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in Scotland. The partnership at the 96.8MW offshore wind test and demonstration facility first began in 2019. Since then, technologies that […]

  • Ørsted Picks Smulders for Gode Wind 3 & Borkum Rifgrund 3 Secondary Steel

    17 May 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has selected Belgium-based Smulders to manufacture the secondary steel components for the TP-less foundations of the Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms in Germany. Smulders will manufacture and supply the secondary steel elements for the 23 TP-less foundations and one offshore substation for Gode Wind 3 and the 83 units […]

  • EDF and Maple Power Submit Bids to Build Floating Wind Farms Offshore France

    25 May 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    EDF Renouvelables, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French utility EDF Group, has submitted bids to build two floating offshore wind farms in the French Mediterranean Sea. The projects are named Mediterranean Grand Large and Occitanie Grand Large, EDF Renouvelables announced in a social media post. The company has submitted the bids jointly with Maple […]

  • Dogger Bank Debut for Proserv Cable Guard

    15 February 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    DEME Offshore has contracted Proserv Controls for the delivery of the monitoring system for inter-array cables for the first two phases of the Dogger Bank offshore wind project. Proserv will supply its Electro Cable Guard (ECG) cable monitoring system (CMS) for Dogger Bank A and B, integrating applicable sensor interrogator technology. The company’s Great Yarmouth […]

  • Windar Signs EUR 50 Million Sustainable Financing to Deliver Baltic Eagle Project

    17 August 2021
    Business & Finance

    Windar Renovables has signed a EUR 50 million sustainable factoring line with BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) to finance the contract the company was recently awarded for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind project. The contract financing, which will support Windar’s manufacturing and delivery of 50 transition pieces (TPs) for Iberdrola’s 476 MW project in Germany, has […]

  • Correll to Back ZTT on German Offshore Wind Farms

    1 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    China’s Zhongtian Technology Submarine Cable (ZTT) has awarded Correll Services with contracts related to subsea cables at the Kaskasi II and Gode Wind 3 offshore wind projects in Germany. Correll Services will provide platform cable routing, termination and testing of 155kV subsea cables for the AC grid connection systems on the two wind farms. To […]

  • EUR 2.5 Million to Put PivotBuoy Floater Development on Fast Track

    22 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Technology

    X1 Wind has won a EUR 2.5 million grant through the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme, which the company will use to speed up the detailed design and certification process of its first commercial large-scale floating wind platform. “The cash injection will be specifically used to fast-track the detailed design and certification of our […]