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  • First Cable Laid at Gode Wind

    9 June 2015
    Grid Connection, Vessels

    CT Offshore installed the first inter-array cable at Dong Energy’s Gode Wind 1 + 2 offshore sites yesterday. Crew on board cable laying vessel (CLV) SIA had been prepared since Thursday, waiting for good weather conditions to install the J01-I02 cable. The company is using its new trencher ROV, the CTO 107-1100, which has an operating depth of 100 […]

  • First Foundation In Place at Hornsea Two

    9 October 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The first out of the total of 165 monopile foundations has been installed at the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm site in the UK, according to social media updates from Ørsted. The milestone comes around a week after the jacket foundation for the wind farm’s offshore substation was installed. DEME’s jack-up vessel Innovation has been […]

  • AgileTek Makes Its First Buy

    28 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    AgileTek Engineering has completed the acquisition of Ryder Geotechnical Ltd, a provider of geotechnical design and consulting services in the offshore wind and subsea oil & gas sectors. Ryder Geotechnical will be run as a subsidiary and will remain a separate legal entity continuing to trade under the same name from its headquarters in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. […]

  • Ørsted’s ‘First’ Hybrid CTV Inaugurated

    2 June 2023
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    EMS Maritime Offshore (EMO) has inaugurated WINDEA One as the “first” hybrid crew transfer vessel (CTV) that will be deployed on Ørsted’s wind farms offshore Germany. Ørsted will use the CTV for the maintenance of its own wind farms, Borkum Riffgrund 1 and 2 and Gode Wind 1 and 2 in the North Sea. The […]

  • Race Bank Produces First Power

    18 May 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Electricity has been generated for the first time at DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm located off the North Norfolk coast.

  • First Hohe See Turbine Up

    8 April 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Brave Tern has installed the first turbine at the 497MW EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm in Germany. According to EnBW, the first Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbine was put in place on Friday, 5 April, at the offshore site some 95km north of Borkum and 100km northwest of Helgoland. The 132m long vessel […]

  • Walney Extension Produces First Power

    4 September 2017
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Electricity has been generated for the first time at DONG Energy’s Walney Extension offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Cumbria, UK.

  • Westermost Rough Exports First Power

    8 September 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    Westermost Rough offshore wind farm produced its first electricity last week, according to Grimsby Telegraph. The wind farm, located eight kilometers off the Yorkshire Coast, is the first to feature Siemens’ 6 MW turbines in the UK. With a total capacity of 210MW it will be able to provide enough electricity to power around 200,000 […]

  • First Flight Wind Project Canceled

    2 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The developers of the First Flight Wind offshore project, Dong Energy, RES and B9, have given up on the project that could have comprised 100 wind turbines off the coast of Northern Ireland.  The companies behind the project cited new regulatory requirements as the reason the project became nonviable. “The company has made significant progress in […]

  • Vattenfall Issues First Green Bond

    14 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall has issued a EUR 500 million senior unsecured green bond with a tenor of seven years. The bond is the company’s first and the first international issuance under an EMTN program under Swedish governing law, listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. The proceeds from the issue are earmarked for projects defined in Vattenfall’s green bond framework, which […]

  • First Foundations Installed at Wikinger OWF

    28 April 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The first wind turbine foundations have been installed at the 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm, Iberdrola, the owner and developer of the wind farm located in the German part of the Baltic Sea, said. The milestone was announced in the Spanish utility’s financial report for the first quarter of 2016. Iberdrola awarded the EUR 135 million contract […]

  • Orion Gets First LNG Supply

    23 January 2020
    Vessels

    DEME Group’s DP3 offshore installation vessel Orion has undergone the first liquid natural gas (LNG) bunkering. The world’s largest LNG bunker vessel Kairos, operated by Nauticor, supplied Orion with LNG at the Port of Rostock in Germany. According to DEME, this marks only the second ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation to take place in Germany and […]

  • Atlantic Pioneer Gets First Assignments

    22 April 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The Atlantic Pioneer, the first US-flagged offshore wind farm crew transfer vessel (CTV), is getting ready to embark on the first phase of a 20-year charter to support the construction and operation of the 30 MW Block Island offshore wind farm, following an official christening ceremony at Quonset Point today. The Block Island site, currently under construction by developer […]

  • First Power Flows through COBRAcable

    10 July 2019
    Grid Connection

    Transmission system operators Energinet and TenneT have sent the first green electricity from Denmark to the Netherlands through the COBRAcable interconnector. The first electricity was sent as part of the tests prior to the commissioning of the interconnector scheduled for 7 September, Energinet said. The 700MW HVDC cable connection consists of two parallel, approximately 300km […]

  • First WindFloat Atlantic Turbine In Place

    22 October 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    The first WindFloat Atlantic turbine has arrived at its final destination off the coast of Viana do Castelo in Portugal. The fully-assembled platform and its 8.4MW MHI Vestas turbine set off from the Spanish Port of Ferrol towards its final destination 20km off the coast of Viana do Castelo yesterday, 21 October. “We’re breaking new […]

  • First Steel Cut for Nordseecluster A Foundations

    30 May 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    China’s Dajin Heavy Industry has started the manufacturing of the foundations for RWE’s Nordseecluster A, the first phase of the 1.6 GW Nordseecluster project being built in the German North Sea. The project, featuring a TP-Less structure, has entered the production stage after its initial cutting ceremony held at the Dajin Penglai facility on 28 […]

  • First BlueTec Tidal Platform to Be Named

    9 March 2015
    Technology

    Naming ceremony for the first BlueTec tidal platform will be held on April 9 in Den Helder, the Netherlands. Shortly after the event, the tidal turbine will be installed offshore the isle of Texel and will start generating power for a Texel-based facility. BlueTec is a joint project of 12 Dutch high-tech companies sharing their knowledge in order […]

  • Vard to Build Taiwan’s First SOV

    17 April 2020
    Vessels

    Vard has signed a contract with Ta San Shang Marine for the design and construction of the first Service Operation Vessel (SOV) in Taiwan.

  • Equinor Pulls Out of 2 GW Australian Floating Wind Farm; Project Rejects Feasibility Licence

    22 August 2025
    Floating Wind, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The developers behind the Novocastrian floating wind farm have decided not to accept the feasibility licence offered by the Australian government for their up to 2 GW project in the Hunter offshore wind zone. The floating offshore wind farm was being developed by Norway’s energy company Equinor and Oceanex. The plans for the project were […]

  • West of Orkney Windfarm First ScotWind Project to Gain Full Consent

    30 June 2025
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The West of Orkney Windfarm, a joint venture between TotalEnergies, Corio Generation, and Renewables Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG), has been granted offshore consent by the Scottish government. The decision makes the 2 GW West of Orkney Windfarm the first ScotWind project to secure both offshore and onshore planning permissions. The wind farm will be built […]

  • First Offshore Wind-Focused Auction Launched in Philippines

    12 June 2025
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    The Philippines’ Department of Energy (DOE) has launched its Fifth Green Energy Auction (GEA-5), the first to focus exclusively on offshore wind, offering 3,300 MW of fixed-bottom offshore wind capacity. Energy delivery from the auctioned offshore wind projects is planned to start from 2028 through 2030. GEA-5 forms part of the DOE’s broader strategy to […]

  • Half of Siemens Gamesa Recyclable Blades Installed at 1.4 GW Sofia Wind Project

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

    Siemens Gamesa has installed 50 per cent of the recyclable blades at RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK, with the turbine manufacturer continuing installation throughout the rest of the year. According to RWE, the company and Siemens Gamesa have achieved the first-ever large-scale installation of recyclable blades at a UK offshore wind farm. […]

  • First Turbine Up at Northwester 2

    18 December 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Vole au vent has installed the first turbine at the Northwester 2 offshore wind project in Belgium. Northwester 2 will comprise 23 MHI Vestas V164-9.5MW turbines, making it the first wind farm to feature this turbine model. According to MHI Vestas, all major turbine components have been assembled and pre-commissioned […]

  • First Subsea Hires Jee Manager

    4 June 2015

    First Subsea has hired Gary Howland to drive Renewables Connectors Business. Prior to joining Jee, Mr Howland was Vice President – Renewables at Trelleborg Offshore developing business in the global renewable energy sector, in particular offshore wind. Drawing on his recent experience in subsea cable engineering consultancy Gary Howland, commented, ”Cable installation is an area where there […]

  • First Turbine Stands at Nordsee One

    7 March 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    MPI Offshore’s wind turbine installation vessel MPI Enterprise has installed the first Senvion 6.2M-126 turbine at the 332MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Nordsee One Delivers First Power

    31 March 2017
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    The 332MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm has started delivering power to the German grid, Nordsee One GmbH, the owner and developer of the project, reports.