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  • Cerulean Selects Deployment Port for Scottish Floating Offshore Wind Farms

    22 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    Cerulean Winds, a floating wind company with 3 GW under development in the Central North Sea, has selected Haventus, owner of the under-construction Ardersier Energy Transition Facility, as its chosen deployment port. The Cerulean alliance’s first project will be the Aspen development, a 1 GW floating offshore wind farm located in the central North Sea […]

  • UK, Netherlands to Connect Grids via Nederwiek 3 Offshore Wind Farm

    6 January 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Planning & Permitting

    Dutch Climate and Green Growth Minister Sophie Hermans has included LionLink, said to be the first direct-current hybrid interconnector, in the country’s latest Offshore Wind Energy Development Framework. LionLink will use the offshore grid connection of the Nederwiek 3 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands to connect to both the Dutch and the UK onshore […]

  • Ireland Joins Forces with EIB for Offshore Wind Port Upgrades

    13 September 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Planning & Permitting, Ports & Logistics

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Irish Department of Transport have established an advisory cooperation to assess capacity, demand and financing strategies for the development of port infrastructure for offshore wind projects in Irish waters. Signed by the Irish Minister for the Environment, Climate, Communications and Transport, Eamon Ryan, and EIB Vice President Ioannis Tsakiris, […]

  • Shanghai Plans to Install 29 GW of Offshore Wind Capacity

    22 July 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    China’s largest city, Shanghai, plans to have 29.3 GW of offshore wind capacity installed and feeding into its grid. The plan, formulated by the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission, aims to have offshore wind generating around 100 TWh of green electricity annually. The news was first reported internationally by Bloomberg, citing a report by […]

  • EIB Grants EUR 1.2 Billion Loan to RWE for 1 GW Danish Offshore Wind Farm

    25 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) has committed to providing a EUR 1.2 billion loan to support RWE’s development of the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark. According to EIB, the loan will help finance monopile foundations, turbines, inter-array cabling, an offshore converter station, export cables, a section of onshore cables, and an onshore […]

  • Ørsted Opens Apprenticeship Applications in UK

    15 March 2022
    Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance, Training & Education

    Leading offshore wind developer Ørsted has opened applications for its wind turbine technician apprenticeships in the UK for the sixth year running. The programme spans three and a half years and sees apprentices studying locally for their first year before taking up placements across the company and also getting hands-on experience working offshore at one […]

  • Neptune Energy, RWE Unveil Offshore Wind-to-Hydrogen Project in the Netherlands

    15 February 2022
    Contracts & Tenders

    Neptune Energy and RWE have signed a Joint Development Agreement to develop a green hydrogen project which will use offshore wind energy for the production of hydrogen in the Dutch sector of the North Sea and an existing pipeline to transport the hydrogen to land. The project, called H2opZee and supported by the Dutch government […]

  • Welsh Offshore Wind Project Powers Ahead

    1 September 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The Awel y Môr wind farm team has published the Preliminary Environmental Information Report (PEIR) for the project offshore North Wales, the UK. The PEIR contains detailed maps, plans and information on the project’s expected impacts and how they will be avoided, minimised and mitigated where possible. The developers have now invited local residents to […]

  • Fugro to Survey Danish Energy Island Site

    12 April 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Denmark’s Energinet has awarded Fugro a marine site characterisation contract for the Energy Island project in the North Sea. The contract is part of Energinet’s preliminary studies to build the world’s first ”hub and spoke” energy scheme: an energy island 80 kilometres off the Danish coast that will act as a transmission centre for hundreds […]

  • Bladt Industries Begins Expansion Work of Danish Manufacturing Facility

    18 September 2023
    Ports & Logistics

    Bladt Industries has started work on its new manufacturing facility in Denmark to cater offshore wind substation projects in the pipeline. The Danish company said that major excavation work is underway at its site in Aalborg, Denmark. Together with the Port of Aalborg, Bladt Industries is piloting the foundations that will eventually lay the foundation […]

  • Jan De Nul Consortium Bags BalWin4 and LanWin1 Cable Contracts

    6 December 2023
    Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    Jan De Nul Group, together with its consortium partners LS Cable & System and Denys, has signed contracts for two 525 HVDC cable systems serving the two grid connection systems for BalWin4 and LanWin1. These mark the first two contracts signed under the long-term framework agreement that TenneT and Jan De Nul inked earlier this […]

  • Seaway7 Completes EPCI Cables Scope on Scotland’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    11 July 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Seaway7 has completed the full engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) cables scope on the Seagreen wind farm offshore Scotland, a joint venture project between SSE Renewables and TotalEnergies. The inter-array cable team completed the termination and testing last weekend and the trenching was completed yesterday, said Seaway7. This follows less than six weeks after […]

  • North Star Takes Delivery of Second SOV for Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm

    6 July 2023
    Vessels

    Vard has delivered the Grampian Derwent service operation vessel (SOV) to North Star, the second of four SOVs designed and being built by Vard that have been chartered to support operations and maintenance (O&M) work at the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank offshore wind farm in the UK. The delivery of Grampian Derwent comes shortly after […]

  • NOW Launches Accelerator to Springboard Innovation in Offshore Wind Industry

    7 June 2023
    Business development, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    Norwegian Offshore Wind (NOW) has launched today the NOW Accelerator, designed to foster the growth of startups and scaleups in the offshore wind industry. Starting in August, the programme is the first of its kind, said Norwegian Offshore Wind. The accelerator will run in close collaboration between industry players and Norwegian Offshore Wind, Norway’s largest […]

  • Thialf Deployed for Jacket Installation at Neart na Gaoithe as Foundation Work Resumes

    1 June 2023
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The installation of wind turbine jacket foundations at the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm will resume over the coming few days with the vessel Thialf set to carry out the work. Twelve foundations were installed at the Scottish project’s site last year, two of which are supporting the wind farm’s substations. The upcoming […]

  • China Connects Deepwater Floating Wind Platform to Wenchang Oilfield

    22 May 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has grid-connected its Haiyou Guanlan deepwater floating wind turbine and integrated it into the power grid of the Wenchang oilfield. Earlier this month, CNOOC announced the 5-kilometre dynamic subsea cable was installed, which set up the transmission link between the offshore oil and gas platforms of the Wenchang oilfield […]

  • UK Sets GBP 205 Million CfD Round 5 Budget, Offshore Wind Projects to Compete for Support from Established Technologies’ Pot

    16 March 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The UK government has confirmed the budget of GBP 205 million (around EUR 233 million) for this year’s Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme. Most of this budget in CfD Round 5, set to open for applications on 30 March, will be available for established technologies which, for the first time, include offshore wind. In the CfD […]

  • Vesterhav Syd Offshore Wind Farm Connected to Danish Grid

    9 January 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has commissioned all wind turbines at the offshore wind farm Vesterhav Syd in Denmark, which is now fully operational and feeding power into the Danish grid. Vesterhav Syd (South) is part of Vattenfall’s 344 MW Vesterhav duo, whose Vesterhav Nord (North) wind farm the company expects to connect to the grid during the first […]

  • Floating Substation Installed at French Pilot Project Site

    9 January 2024
    Floating Wind, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Bourbon Subsea Services installed a floating electrical hub (FEH) at the EolMed pilot floating wind farm site in France in Autumn 2023, the company revealed on 9 January. The FEH will be connected to the project’s three floating wind turbines on one side and to the export cable on the other to enable the electricity […]

  • Offshore Wind Could Power Coastal China – Study

    26 February 2020
    Business & Finance, R&D

    The researchers estimated that if electricity prices are high, offshore wind could provide more than 1,000 terawatt-hours, or about 36 percent of all coastal energy demand. If electricity prices are low, it could provide more than 6,000 terawatt-hours, or 200 percent of total energy demand.

  • DeepOcean Puts Echoscope to Work at Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm

    24 October 2017
    Grid Connection, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    DeepOcean has deployed Coda Octopus’ Echoscope real-time 3D sonar system on DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm project in the UK.

  • Game Not Over for Seawind

    22 January 2018
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Following reports in Norwegian media about wind energy technology developer Seawind filing for bankruptcy, Offshore WIND spoke with the company’s director for the Netherlands, Kees van de Kerk, who pointed out that only the company in Norway is affected by this and that Seawind is now working on resolving the situation to enable moving forward with the demonstration project. 

  • DTU Developing Underwater Offshore Wind Robot

    21 June 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    The Technical University of Denmark DTU has inaugurated a laboratory where researchers will complete a modular underwater robot for use on offshore wind farms.

  • US Wind Starts Export Cable Route Survey off Maryland

    29 August 2016
    Grid Connection, R&D, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    US Wind, Inc., has announced the start of an export cable route survey to prepare the final layout design for an 80,000 acre wind power project off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland. US Wind contracted with Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc. and their vessel R/V Shearwater to conduct data collection along the 35-mile cable […]

  • Maersk Training Offers Opportunities in Newcastle

    19 June 2015
    Training & Education

    Maersk Training in Newcastle has spaces available on its Level 1 Certificate in Safe Working Practice in the Wind Turbine Industry (QCF) course starting on either Monday 22 June or Monday 29 June 2015, with further start dates later in the year, the company has announced. Stuart Cameron, Managing Director at Maersk Training said: “Tough […]

  • Taiwan’s NCKU Launches Floating LiDAR to Assess Offshore Wind

    28 May 2013
    R&D, Technology

    National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, launched its floating LiDAR, an offshore wind resource assessment buoy, May 24, at Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory. “It is the Asia No. 1 and World No.4 of Floating LiDAR applications in wind profiler measurement at sea,” said NCKU President Hwung-Hweng Hwung at the launching ceremony. He added, “This will […]