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  • Hollandse Kust Noord Topside Ready for Sail-Out

    15 September 2022
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Equans has loaded out the topside for the offshore substation of the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm that is being built in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The company, which is delivering the platform in partnership with Smulders, loaded out the topside on 12 September on the Scheldt along the quay of […]

  • Ampelmann Supplies Electric Gangway for Olympic Orion

    16 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Dutch offshore access provider Ampelmann has sold the first W-type gangway to offshore shipping company Olympic Subsea ASA. The new motion compensation system will be permanently fixed on Olympic Orion in 2023 when the vessel is expected to be converted from a multi-purpose support vessel (MPSV) into a commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV). The W-type […]

  • Arup, ODE Win Work on South Korea’s 220 MW Offshore Wind Farm

    15 June 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Hyundai Engineering Corporation has awarded Arup and Offshore Design Engineering (ODE) with an Owner’s Engineer contract for a 220 MW offshore wind project in South Korea. Arup–ODE team will assess the local conditions to determine the most appropriate foundation system, turbine technology and site layout for the chosen site in order to facilitate the early […]

  • ESB Issues Call for Offshore Wind Consultancy Services

    23 April 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has issued a tender seeking foundation and geotechnical consultancy services for offshore wind projects in the UK and Ireland. The tender is divided into three lots, with the first focusing on fixed-foundations engineering consultancy services and the second on floating foundations engineering consultancy services. In the third lot, ESB is […]

  • Tekmar’s Cable Protection for Gode Wind 3 Grid Connection

    23 April 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Tekmar Energy has secured a contract by cable manufacturer ZTT to supply its cable protection system (CPS) for the Gode Wind 3 high-voltage grid connection in Germany. The 16 km long submarine cable is scheduled for installation in 2023 and will connect the 242 MW Gode Wind 3 offshore wind farm to TenneT’s extra-high-voltage grid […]

  • GE Inaugurates Saint-Nazaire Logistics Hub

    30 August 2021
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    GE Renewable Energy has inaugurated the logistics hub dedicated to the construction of France’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm – the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire. The logistics hub in the Nantes-Saint-Nazaire Port was officially inaugurated by the French Prime Minister Jean Castex, Barbara Pompili, France’s Minister of the Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, a Delegate Minister of […]

  • Vestas Secures Conditional Turbine Order for Gigawatt-Scale Offshore Wind Project

    13 June 2024
    Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has signed a conditional agreement for the supply of turbines for an offshore wind power project in two phases in Northern Europe. The capacity of the project is above Vestas’ current disclosure threshold of 1 GW. If and when the agreement translates into firm and unconditional orders, Vestas said it […]

  • LOC Nets Another Offshore Wind Contract in Far East

    2 July 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    A couple of days after securing a marine warranty job on a Vietnamese project, and on top of the recently won contracts for offshore wind farms in China and Taiwan, LOC Group informed it was also awarded a contract for the Zhanjiang Wailuo II and X offshore wind farms in China. Under the contract, which […]

  • DEME Picks Hornsea Two Foundations Base Port

    11 March 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The Buss Terminal Eemshaven, in the Netherlands, has secured a contract to serve as a base port for installing the foundations of the Hornsea Two offshore wind project. Under the deal secured with DEME Offshore, the Buss Terminal is responsible for the handling, storage and terminal logistics of the 165 monopiles and transition pieces at […]

  • All Moray East OTMs In Position

    14 September 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The third and final offshore transformer module (OTM) has been installed at the Moray East wind farm offshore Scotland. The wind farm’s first OTM was installed on 10 August, and the second unit followed shortly. Siemens Energy secured the contract to connect the wind farm to the grid in 2018. The company is also in charge […]

  • ESB Launches Geophysical Surveys Qualification System

    4 September 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has invited applications for its Offshore Geophysical Surveys Qualification System. Through this procedure, ESB plans to procure the scope of services pertaining to the offshore geophysical surveys for the development of its offshore wind farm projects in Ireland and the UK. The scope of the services is intended to provide […]

  • Siemens Awards Triton Knoll OTM Contracts

    9 November 2018
    Contracts & Tenders

    Siemens Transmission & Distribution Ltd. has awarded the Smulders-ENGIE Fabricom consortium with a contract to manufacture two Offshore Transformer Modules (OTMs) for the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK.

  • Tekmar to Protect Formosa 1 Phase 2 Cables

    14 August 2019
    Grid Connection

    Tekmar Energy has secured a contract with JDR Cables to provide its cable protection system (CPS) for the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Tekmar will supply approximately 60 of its TekLink Mechanical Latch CPS for all of the project’s inter-array and export cables, as well as 60 hang off clamps which hold the […]

  • Aussie-Dutch Partnership Targets Time-Saving Blade Installation

    21 June 2019
    Technology

    Van Oord and Mammoet are joining forces with Australian technology company Verton to develop a new lifting method for installing wind turbine blades. The partnership is aiming to develop a way to shorten the installation cycle times and make installation safer for operators by sharing knowledge and expertise, Van Oord said. Verton has developed a remote […]

  • Thor Throws Hammer in Danish North Sea

    1 March 2019
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The first of the three 800MW offshore wind farms to be constructed in Danish waters will be built off Nissum Fjord in the North Sea, the country’s Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate said. The Thor offshore wind site, to be located at least 20 kilometres offshore, was selected over the second proposed option at the […]

  • COP21 Starts

    30 November 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment

    The UN Climate Change Conference in Paris was officially opened at 10 am local time today, and will kick off with a Leaders Event where an estimated 150 presidents, prime ministers and heads of states will deliver their  speeches.  This is the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the eleventh session […]

  • DNV GL Confirms IEC Compliance of ZephIR 300 Lidar

    19 November 2015

    DNV GL and ZephIR Lidar have signed a framework agreement which allows customers to request a ‘DNV GL Independent Quality Report’ in addition to the standard Performance Verification provided with all new systems. Ian Locker, MD at ZephIR Lidar, said: “This framework agreement gives the industry further confidence, if required, that ZephIR 300 can be trusted to […]

  • Sabella D10 Feeding Power to French Grid

    11 November 2015
    Grid Connection, Technology

    Sabella’s D10 tidal turbine, deployed in June 2015 in the Passage du Fromveur, has started delivering its first kilowatt hours following the connection to the electricity grid at Ouessant Island on 5 November. Since its connection to the island in late September, a 2km long submarine cable has been transmitting the electricity from the tidal turbine to the coast. The power was then […]

  • Natural Power Supports Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay

    14 July 2015

    Natural Power has been working alongside Tidal Lagoon Power on the Swansea Bay project – the world’s first tidal lagoon – which was granted planning permission last month. Delivering a range of services predominantly from its Welsh office, Natural Power most recently completed pre-construction coastal bird surveys, and has been commissioned to deliver a desk-based […]

  • Eneco Teaches School Kids about Wind Energy

    13 May 2015
    Training & Education

    On May 12, Eneco’s WindLab has been opened near a wind turbine in the western area of the Port of Amsterdam. This is the second location of the interactive wind laboratory. Earlier, it was located at a wind park in Etten-Leur. There, almost 4,000 pupils from 160 groups from the Netherlands have learned about wind energy over eighteen months. Part […]

  • OHT Enters Offshore Wind with Hywind Scotland Contract

    5 September 2016
    Vessels

    Technip has hired Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) for the provision of transportation services for the 30MW Hywind Scotland Pilot Park. Torgeir Ramstad, CEO of OHT, said: “This marks our entry into the offshore wind business, a market with enormous needs for logistical and transportation services. OHT has a long track record of providing a timely, predictable […]

  • Cleveland Public Power to Negotiate ‘Icebreaker’ with Fred. Olsen Renewables

    25 March 2016
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Cleveland Public Power (CPP) has been authorised by Cleveland City Council to negotiate contracts with the US spin-off of Fred. Olsen Renewables, which will most likely build LEEDCo’s Icebreaker project, local media writes. Namely, CPP’s Lake Road Substation should provide the main connection point for Icebreaker to feed the project’s power into the electrical grid, and the […]

  • EnBW Reveals Albatros Team

    9 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Following the announcement that EnBW reached the final investment decision for the 112MW Albatros offshore wind farm, the German energy company said that the supply contracts for all main infrastructure work for the project are now concluded.

  • Moray Offshore Renewables Met Mast to Undergo Repairs

    29 July 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd is getting ready to deploy a jack-up vessel to carry out repair works on the company’s meteorological mast structure in Moray Firth, Scotland, Kis-Orca reports. The works will use the jack up vessel to install a ‘collar’ around the existing monopile structure directly above the gravity base caisson. The majority of the […]

  • Acta Marine’s New CSV Shaping Up in Polish Shipyard

    27 July 2017
    Vessels

    Hull construction on Acta Marine’s new wind farm construction support vessel (CSV) passed the halfway mark this week at Crist shipyard in Poland, Acta Marine informed, adding that the work is progressing well and on schedule.

  • Merkur Offshore Wind Farm to Change Hands

    10 December 2019
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited (TRIG) and the Dutch pension investor APG have signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Merkur Offshore GmbH, the owner and operator of the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The two investors signed the agreement with a consortium comprising of funds managed and/or advised by […]