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  • World’s First Floating Wind Farm to Undergo First Major Maintenance Campaign, Turbines to Be Towed to Norwegian Port

    15 January 2024
    Floating Wind, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    The world’s first commercial-scale floating wind farm, the 30 MW Hywind Scotland, officially entered the operations and maintenance (O&M) phase in October 2017. After a little over six years of operation, the wind farm’s Siemens Gamesa wind turbines are now due for some major maintenance work. While offshore wind farms undergo turbine maintenance work more than […]

  • South Korea’s First Offshore Wind Installation Vessel Installs Its First Turbines at Jeju Project Site

    15 September 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Hyundai Engineering & Steel Industries’ offshore wind installation vessel, named Hyundai Frontier and said to be the country’s first vessel of this kind, has completed its first wind turbine installation task at a wind farm offshore the Jeju island. This is according to a social media post by Kongsberg Maritime, with whose technology the vessel has […]

  • Brazil Grants First Preliminary Licence for Offshore Wind Project

    24 June 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Brazil’s Institute for the Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA) is set to award the country’s first preliminary investigation licence for an offshore wind project today, 24 June. The first project – of the total of 104 that IBAMA is currently processing – to receive the licence is the pilot offshore wind farm developed by the […]

  • Half of Turbines Up at Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier Offshore Wind Farm

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

    Half of the total of 61 wind turbines that the French offshore wind farm Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier will comprise are now in place, according to Ocean Winds, which is building the 488 MW project in a joint venture with Banque des Territoires, Sumitomo, and Vendée Energie.   Located in the French Atlantic Ocean waters, 11.7 […]

  • US Transportation Dept Cancels Funding for 12 Offshore Wind Port Projects to ‘Invest in Real Infrastructure’

    1 September 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has withdrawn or terminated funding for twelve offshore wind-related port projects, totalling USD 679 million (approximately EUR 580 million). These funds will be used, where possible, “to invest in real infrastructure, restoring American maritime dominance,” according to a press release issued by USDOT on 29 August. In this article: […]

  • First graduate in Minor Offshore Wind in the Netherlands

    22 August 2013

    Offshore WIND was present when in February this year graduate Bram Zijlstra received his degree in Mechanical Engineering specialising in offshore wind. This was the first specific offshore wind graduation on higher education level. Bram Zijlstra (22) studied mechanical engineering at the NHL Hogeschool in Leeuwarden, in the North of the Netherlands. By 2012, after […]

  • Update: First Block Island Nacelle Installed

    4 August 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Brave Tern has installed the first of five Haliade nacelles on the 30MW Block Island offshore wind farm, the first wind farm of its kind in US waters, located some three miles south-east of Block Island, Rhode Island. The installation of the blades, delivered to the site by lift boats L/B Caitlin, and L/B Paul, […]

  • Borssele 1 & 2 Generates First Power

    29 April 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted’s Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm has delivered first power to the Dutch grid. According to the Danish company, the first Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbine began producing electricity on 28 April. “This is a big milestone for Borssele 1 & 2. Ørsted is doing its utmost to allow the construction of the […]

  • First Galloper Blades Reach Great Yarmouth

    11 April 2017
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The first consignment of Siemens wind turbine blades for the Galloper offshore wind farm have arrived at Peel Ports Great Yarmouth, the turbine maker’s assembly and installation base for the 336MW project.

  • Horns Rev 3 Delivers First Power

    24 December 2018
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall’s 406.7MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm has started delivering power to the Danish grid.

  • China’s First Service Operation Vessels Launched

    18 September 2023
    Vessels

    Shanghai Electric’s two Ulstein-designed service operation vessels (SOVs), the first SOVs for wind farms in China, were launched at the ZMPC yard on 16 September. The launch ceremony was attended by China offshore wind farm developers like the State Power Investment Corporation, Three Gorges Corporation, and China Nuclear Power. The two vessels are of the […]

  • First Hywind Turbine Arrives in Scottish Waters

    24 July 2017
    Vessels

    The first floating wind turbine for the Hywind Scotland project has arrived off Aberdeenshire, after setting sail from the project’s assembly base in Stord, Norway, last week.

  • Nexans Installs First Beatrice Export Cable

    8 December 2017
    Grid Connection, Ports & Logistics, R&D, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Nexans’ cable laying vessel Nexans Skagerrak has completed the laying and burial of the first 70-kilometer 220kV export cable which will connect the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm to the Scottish grid.

  • Construction Advancing on US First OW Workboat

    12 August 2015

    Atlantic Wind Transfers, the commercial wind support services arm of Rhode Island Fast Ferry, today joins local boat builder Blount Boats and offshore wind developer Deepwater Wind for an official Ribbon Cutting ceremony and to tour the first offshore wind farm crew transfer vessel in the US currently under construction. The event at the Blount […]

  • First East Anglia ONE Turbine Stands

    25 June 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    The first of the 102 Siemens Gamesa 7MW wind turbines was installed on the 714MW East Anglia ONE wind farm offshore Suffolk on 22 June. The installation of the first turbine marks the start of the final phase of the construction process following ten years of work and development, ScottishPower Renewables, the developer of the […]

  • Bladt Sends Off First Wikinger Jackets

    14 July 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    The first jacket foundations built by Bladt Industries for the Wikinger offshore wind project have left the company’s facilities at Lindø Industripark on a barge early this morning, with Sassnitz in Germany as the next stop. The jacket foundations weigh approximately 650 tonnes and have a footprint of 23 x 23 metres each. They will be installed […]

  • Brave Tern Ready for First Transatlantic Voyage

    18 July 2016
    Vessels

    Brave Tern has completed loading all of the 5 GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade 150-6MW nacelles in France and is about to embark on a journey to the construction site of the first American offshore wind farm. “Brave Tern is now ready for her first transatlantic voyage,” said Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s Vessel Master Tony Cato. “We will […]

  • Malta Launches First Offshore Wind Tender

    6 December 2024
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The Maltese government has launched the country’s first public call for offshore wind development, seeking to pre-qualify potential developers who will then be invited to participate in the next stage(s) of the tender. The developer selected through the procurement process will build Malta’s first floating wind farm which will have an installed capacity of between […]

  • MMO Launches England’s First Marine Plans

    16 July 2013
    Authorities

    The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has today launched England’s first draft marine plans for the seas from Flamborough Head in the north to Felixstowe in the south. The public consultation was announced this morning to Parliament in a written ministerial statement from Natural Environment Minister Richard Benyon. These are the first two of 11 marine […]

  • First Monopile Installed at Borkum Riffgrund 1

    22 January 2014

    The first of 77 foundations has been installed at Borkum Riffgrund 1 in Germany representing 277 MW when complete. With the beginning of the year 2014 the construction work continued at the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 1 in the German North Sea, after installation of the offshore substation in the summer 2013. Around 37 […]

  • Borkum Riffgrund 2 Delivers First Power

    6 August 2018
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted’s 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm fed electricity into the German national grid for the first time on Saturday, 4 August.

  • First Moray East OTM Touches Down

    10 August 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The first of the three Offshore Transformer Modules (OTMs), ME OSP 3, has been installed at the 950 MW Moray East wind farm offshore Scotland. Siemens Energy shipped out the wind farm’s first OTM, ME OSP 2, for offshore installation on 30 June. This OTM will be installed later this week, a spokesperson for DEME […]

  • First Triton Knoll Offshore Substation In Place

    15 April 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The first Triton Knoll offshore substation platform (OSP) is now standing at its designated location at the project site.

  • First ScotWind Project Files for Offshore Consent

    4 October 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The consortium behind the West of Orkney Windfarm, comprising Corio Generation, TotalEnergies and Renewable Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG), has submitted offshore consent applications to Scottish Ministers for the 2 GW offshore wind farm, making this the first ScotWind project to apply for consent. The documentation includes applications under the Electricity Act 1989 and marine licence […]

  • VBMS First to Install 66kV Cables at Blyth

    7 June 2016
    Grid Connection, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    VBMS has been awarded a contract by EDF Energy Renewables to provide the subsea connection between the offshore turbines and the onshore grid for the Blyth offshore wind farm. The scope of work for VBMS includes the supply and installation of a total of approximately 14 kilometres of export and inter-array cable, the landfall pull […]

  • Bladt Upends First Gode Wind TPs

    19 December 2014

    The first transition pieces (TPs) for DONG Energy’s Gode Wind offshore wind farm are now lining up at the harbour at Bladt Industries’ facilities in Aalborg. Thirteen of the 97 transition pieces are being upended this week by Bladt’s team. The transition pieces, with a diameter of six meters and a height of approximately 30 […]