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  • French Developer Inks CTV Deals for Two Offshore Wind Farms

    19 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Les Éoliennes en Mer Services, a consortium of Ocean Winds, Sumitomo Corporation, and Caisse des Dépôts, has signed contracts with TSM Windcat for the deployment of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) on two offshore wind farms. Two of TSM Windcat’s hydrogen-ready MK3.5 CTV models are going to be deployed at the Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier and Dieppe […]

  • GE Vernova to Build Up to 18 MW Offshore Wind Test Turbine in Norway

    4 July 2025
    Business development, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) has granted GE Vernova’s subsidiary Georgine Wind permission to build and operate an 18 MW test turbine in Gulen municipality. The project, which is part of a test programme to advance offshore wind technology, will feature an up to 18 MW turbine, with a maximum tip height […]

  • First Subsea Nets WindFloat Atlantic Contract

    14 September 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    The UK-based First Subsea has secured a contract to provide Platform Mooring Connectors (PMCs) for the 25MW WindFloat Atlantic floating wind project in Portugal. The company will supply nine PMCs, each with a 5500kN minimum breaking load, to the project’s three MHI Vestas V164-8.4MW wind turbines to be installed 20km offshore Viana do Castelo. The PMCs will be used to connect […]

  • MARIN Floats First Monobase Foundation Prototype

    17 November 2014
    R&D

    MARIN has built the first ever (model) Monobase. The prototype will be tested in the coming two weeks in the MARIN facilities in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The model will be used to test all the main characteristics of the tow, installation and the inplace condition. According to the MonoBase Wind website, the first floating tests on the […]

  • First Batch of Saint-Brieuc Jackets Installed

    19 July 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    The installation of the first four jacket foundations has been completed at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France. The installation of the foundations started at the beginning of this month, with the first jacket installed on 4 July by Van Oord using Subsea 7’s Seven Borealis vessel. The jackets have been installed on drilled […]

  • France Receives First Offshore Wind Power

    19 September 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Floating offshore wind turbine Floatgen, the first offshore wind turbine installed off the French coast, has started delivering electricity to the grid.

  • First Foundation Up at Borssele 1&2

    13 January 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    DEME Group has installed the first foundations at Ørsted’s Borssele 1&2 offshore wind project in the Netherlands. DEME’s jack-up vessel Innovation loaded the first set of monopiles at Sif’s facility on Maasvlakte 2 earlier this month and transported them to the wind farm. “The first monopile installed was also the heaviest and tallest on the wind farm, […]

  • Bladt Lifts First Beatrice External Platform

    3 May 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Denmark’s Bladt Industries has completed the first lifting operation of the external platform onto the upper jacket 3D structure for the first out of 30 jacket foundations for the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL) project.

  • USA: Studies First, Wind Turbines Later

    18 July 2012

    Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Tommy Beaudreau said at the last night’s meeting that the leases for the offshore wind development in the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf area off Rhode Island and Massachusetts could be awarded by December, writes South Coast Today news portal. Even though the leases will be awarded soon, […]

  • First Offshore Wind Turbine in Mediterranean Stands

    11 February 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord’s jack-up MPI Resolution has installed the first wind turbine at the Beleolico wind farm offshore Italy. This is the first wind turbine to be installed on a commercial offshore wind farm anywhere in the Mediterranean sea. The 30 MW Beleolico, also known as the Taranto offshore wind farm, will comprise 10 MySE 3.0-135 […]

  • First Nissum Bredning Turbine Stands Complete

    5 December 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Nissum Brednings Vindmøllelaug has completed the installation of the first Siemens 7MW direct drive wind turbine at the Nissum Bredning demonstration site in Denmark.

  • GRS Wraps Up First Taiwanese Job

    4 January 2017
    Vessels

    Global Renewables Shipbrokers (GRS) today informed it had completed its first assignment in Taiwan by providing brokerage services on turnkey solution basis for a geotechnical soil investigation campaign in Taiwanese waters.  GRS said it supported a European wind farm developer during the entire purchasing procedure for a one-stop-shop contractor and eventually partnered them up with an […]

  • Bladt Loads Out First Sandbank Foundations

    10 June 2015

    Monday afternoon, Bladt Industries started the loadout of the first four finished transition pieces for the Sandbank offshore wind farm project in cooperation with Bilfinger. During Monday night, the first two of the transition pieces were lifted from the harbour to the awaiting barge, and Tuesday morning the last two transition pieces were lifted onto […]

  • China Establishes First Renewable Energy Center

    27 February 2012
    Authorities

    Upon pursuing efforts to cope with climate change and carbon emissions, China has established its first renewable energy related center to conduct research and development programs and policies. The China National Renewable Energy Center, established by the National Energy Administration with the support of the National Development and Reform Commission, was launched on Thursday and […]

  • First Tahkoluoto OWF Blades Arrive to Finland

    10 April 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The first wind turbine blades for the 40MW Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm in Finland arrived to Mäntyluoto port in Pori.

  • Tunisia Takes First Offshore Wind Steps

    16 March 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Tunisian government officials have taken part in an offshore wind training course organized by the Netherlands, representing the country’s first steps towards offshore wind energy. The Dutch Energy Transition Facility (ETF) organized an offshore wind training course for a group of 20 Tunisian government officials in cooperation with the ANME and DOB-Academy. The four-day course […]

  • First SeaMade Offshore Substation Leaves for Installation

    3 March 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The first of two offshore substations for the SeaMade offshore wind farm has left Engie Fabricom’s construction yard in Hoboken and is on its way towards the project site in the Belgian North Sea. The 487MW SeaMade wind farm is a combination of the 235MW Mermaid and the 252MW Seastar offshore wind projects. The 1,200t topside, […]

  • Denmark Opens First EUDP Applications Round

    29 January 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, R&D

    The Danish government has opened the first round of applications for the Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP) in support of the development of new green energy technology in 2018.

  • COWI Designing Foundations for Taiwan’s First OWF

    20 June 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    The engineering consulting group COWI has won a contract to design the foundations for the Formosa I project, Taiwan’s first offshore wind farm. COWI has been tasked with preparing the detailed design of the wind turbine foundations for the Taiwan project which will involve designing the foundations for an offshore wind farm in an earthquake zone. […]

  • First UK Offshore Wind Project Retires

    12 March 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    E.ON is set to decommission the two-turbine Blyth offshore wind project, the first wind farm built in UK waters. The work is expected to begin in April and take place for some four to six weeks off the Northumberland coast, E.ON said. According to the company’s Offshore Technical Specialist, Patrick Rainey, wind farms usually have a lifespan […]

  • Bladt Upends First Veja Mate TP

    23 February 2016

    Bladt Industries upended the first transition piece for the Veja Mate offshore wind farm, weighing 293.5 tonnes. As announced last summer, a joint venture between Bladt industries and EEW SPC won the contract for building foundations for the Veja Mate Offshore Wind Farm. Bladt’s scope in the project is to build 67 transition pieces which […]

  • First Wind Turbine Up at Eneco Luchterduinen

    8 April 2015
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Yesterday, Van Oord’s transportation and installation vessel Aeolus placed the first wind turbine at Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm. In the next few weeks, remaining 42 turbines will be installed and the wind farm is scheduled to be operational in August. Components of the wind turbines (tower, nacelle, rotor blades) have been brought from different manufacturing sites to […]

  • EPG Rolls Out First Borssele Platform

    27 May 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    The first external platform produced by Energomontaż-Północ Gdynia (EPG) for the 731.5MW Borssele 3 & 4 wind farm is ready for final outfitting, the Polish manufacturer said. In total, EPG will manufacture and deliver 76 external platforms for the project in the Dutch North Sea. The Borssele 3 & 4 wind farm is being developed by the Blauwwind […]

  • Lithuania Launches First Offshore Wind Tender

    30 March 2023
    Authorities, Business development, Grid Connection

    After the government approved the resolution on the second location in the Baltic Sea, where an offshore wind farm could be developed, as well as the requirements for the bidders, the National Energy Regulatory Council (VERT) will open the tender for the country’s first offshore wind farm today 30 March. The 137.5-square-kilometre site in the […]

  • First Offshore Wind Probe Starts in Croatia

    30 March 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Croatian oil and gas specialist INA has started wind measurement campaigns on two gas platforms in the North Adriatic to explore the potential for the construction of an offshore wind farm. The wind measurement equipment has been installed on the Izabela Sjever and Ivana A gas platforms located between 50 and 60 kilometres from the […]

  • Jill Departs for First Offshore Wind Work

    21 May 2019
    Vessels

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Jill has departed from the Port of Frederikshavn in Denmark to begin supporting suction bucket installation tests on a project. The work, which will be carried out in cooperation with Universal Foundation, represents the vessel’s first offshore wind assignment. According to Fred-Olsen Windcarrier, the aim of the project is to decrease offshore wind […]