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  • Cable Team Returning to France’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    10 February 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Louis Dreyfus TravOcean (LDTVO) plans to start the second inter-array cable installation campaign at the Saint-Nazaire offshore France in mid-March. Back in September 2018, a consortium of LDTVO and Prysmian officially secured a contract for the supply and installation of inter-array cables at the France offshore wind farm. Under the agreement, Prysmian is responsible for […]

  • Spain’s First Floating Offshore Wind Farm Presses Forward

    2 December 2021
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Spain’s Greenalia has obtained the authorization in terms of aeronautical easements by AESA (State Aviation Safety Agency) for the assembly of four 12.4 MW wind turbines at the Gofio floating wind farm off the Gran Canaria. With this permit, Greenalia has the approval for Gofio floating offshore wind farm in the port of Arinaga and […]

  • Govenment Support Critical for First Arrays in Water, Says RUK

    28 April 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    RenewableUK commented on the release of a new marine energy roadmap from the UK Energy Research Centre and the Energy Technologies Institute. The report, which focusses on cost-cutting, identifies forty technology and deployment issues faced by the wave and tidal energy sector in the UK, and lays out how to tackle these to ensure the […]

  • Western Newfoundland Eyes First Mover Advantage in Offshore Wind

    16 August 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Developers of the Bay St. George demonstration wind project off western Newfoundland, Canada, have met with the Mayors of Corner Brook, Burgeo, Deer Lake, Stephenville and Port Aux Basques to discuss the impact the offshore wind industry could have on the region.

  • RIDG Signs Its First Offshore Wind Seabed Agreement

    13 April 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Renewable Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG), TotalEnergies, and Corio Generation have signed an option agreement with Crown Estate Scotland for their 2 GW offshore wind project, West of Orkney Windfarm, which was selected in the ScotWind leasing round at the beginning of this year. “This is a significant milestone for RIDG as it represents our first […]

  • SMM Hamburg Messe organizes first offshore workshop (Germany)

    17 August 2010
    Training & Education

    At this year’s SMM Hamburg Messe, with the support of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, is organising a two-day SMM Offshore Dialogue. This will take place on 8th and 9th September as part of the side programme at the world’s leading international shipbuilding exhibition at Hamburg Fair site. With its main themes of […]

  • Community First for Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm

    30 September 2015

    As part of its ongoing partnership with the local community, RWE Innogy UK’s Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm has donated five DVD/Blu Ray players to be shared amongst local charitable organisations. The organisations were asked to nominate themselves along with a brief description of how the players would be used. After being inundated with […]

  • Guangdong Province to Build First Offshore Wind Farm (China)

    31 January 2012

    South China’s Guangdong province will construct a 198-megawatt (mw) offshore wind farm this year and connect…   (china) [mappress] Source: china, January 31, 2012

  • USA: First Offshore Renewable Energy Bidding Starts This Week

    29 July 2013
    Authorities

    The bidding for the two federal lease areas offshore Rhode Island and Massachusetts will start this week. Nine companies, including Deepwater Wind, which is planning to develop a wind farm offshore Block Island, will bid for the 164,750 acres for commercial wind energy leasing. The minimum bid for the south area, which covers an area […]

  • Ørsted’s First US-Made CTV Starts Sea Trials

    17 July 2020
    Vessels

    WindServe Marine has floated out crew transfer vessel (CTV) Windserve Odyssey destined for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. Windserve Odyssey is about to start sea trials at Ørsted’s Block Island wind farm, after which it will travel from Rhode Island to Virginia to join the closeout of construction and commissioning of CVOW. “We’re […]

  • ‘World’s First’ E-Methanol-Fuelled SOV Begins Sea Trials

    5 June 2025
    Vessels

    The “world’s first e-methanol-powered service operation vessel (SOV)”, built by Cemre Shipyard for Danish offshore services firm ESVAGT, is undergoing sea trials in Türkiye, the shipyard said in a recent social media post. The NB1094 SOV is equipped with dual-fuel pure methanol engines and batteries. Powered by renewable e-methanol produced from wind energy and biogenic […]

  • First Turbine Up at Zhuhai Jinwan Offshore Wind Farm

    8 May 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The first Ming Yang turbine has been installed at the Zhuhai Jinwan offshore wind project in China. The first of the project’s 55 MySE5.5MW turbines was installed on 6 May at the site located in the southern part of Sanzao Island, Zhuhai City. The 300 MW offshore wind farm is being developed by Guangdong Yudean […]

  • First Monopile Installed at Denmark’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    30 April 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul’s heavy-lift vessel Les Alizés has installed the first of 72 monopiles at RWE’s 1.1 GW Thor offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea. The monopiles were shipped from the heavy-lift terminal in Eemshaven, the Netherlands, to the Thor construction site located approximately 22 kilometres off the west coast of Jutland. In 2023, […]

  • First Offers for Kriegers Flak Filed, Final Bidding in November

    5 April 2016
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Deadline for submitting the first indicative offers for the construction of Danish Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm has closed today, in preparation for the final tenders to be submitted by 8 November.  The first indicative offers include a tender price, input to negotiations, letter of intent from a recognized financial institution, insurance company, or similar organisation, […]

  • Mingyang Delivers First Turbine for Guangdong Offshore Wind Project

    31 October 2018
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    China’s Mingyang Wind Power has delivered the first MySE5.5/7.0MW semi-direct drive wind turbine platform to be installed on a commercial offshore wind project in Guangdong Province.

  • Breaking: First US Offshore Wind Turbine Stands Tall

    4 August 2016

    Deepwater Wind’s CEO Jeffrey Grybowski has shared images of the the jack-up installation vessel Brave Tern as it attaches the final blade and completes the installation of the first offshore wind turbine in US waters, and the first of five wind turbines to be installed on the 30MW Block Island wind farm.  Brave Tern, accompanied by lift boats L/B […]

  • First Nacelles for Moray West En Route to Port of Nigg

    4 April 2024
    Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The first 14 MW turbine nacelles have been loaded onto the roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) vessel, Rotra Vente, at Siemens Gamesa’s Cuxhaven plant in Germany. They are destined for the Moray West offshore wind farm and are heading toward the Port of Nigg, Scotland, according to AIS data available online. The vessel left Cuxhaven on 3 April […]

  • First US Offshore Wind Farm Scoops Safety Accolade

    16 April 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) has presented Deepwater Wind with the 2018 Safety-in-Seas (SIS) award for its safety practices during and after the construction of the 30MW Block Island, the first offshore wind farm in the United States.

  • UK: First Turbine Installed at Teesside Offshore Wind Farm

    15 January 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    The Teesside offshore wind farm has reached an important milestone with the installation of the project’s first turbine. Operator EDF Energy Renewables has now completed the installation of the tower, nacelle and rotor blades of the first of the 27, 2.3MW wind turbine generators to be erected on the 62MW scheme. Commissioning tests on the […]

  • First Turbines Up at World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm

    11 September 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The first two wind turbines have been installed at Dogger Bank A, the first of the three phases of the UK’s 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the world’s biggest offshore wind farm under construction. According to a Notice of Operations from the project, the first wind turbine was installed on the 29th of August […]

  • VIDEO: Foundation Construction for the First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm

    19 June 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Deepwater Wind, the developer of the first offshore wind farm in the United States, has published another video of the progress that has been made to install the first wind turbines at the Block Island wind farm site.  The video shows work on the steel foundations that will be installed at the site. Steel jacket structures for […]

  • First RWE’ Offshore Wind Installation Vessel Launched (Germany)

    17 March 2011
    Technology

    At the beginning of March, the first of two offshore installation vessels owned by RWE was officially launched after only seven months of construction. The works are thus already a month ahead of the original time schedule. The final large-scale components, the main crane and the jack-up legs, will be installed over the next few […]

  • NKT Victoria Lays First Subsea Cables in Moray Firth

    14 June 2017
    Grid Connection, Vessels

    The NKT Victoria cable-laying vessel has successfully laid the first HVDC cables in the Moray Firth as part of Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks’ GBP 1.1 billion Caithness-Moray transmission project.

  • Sif Produces First Empire Wind 1 Monopile in Netherlands

    29 November 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    The first of 54 monopiles for Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm in the US has been manufactured at Sif’s Maasvlakte 2 site in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. On 28 November, the first monopile for Empire Wind was completed on the new production line of the expanded production facilities at Maasvlakte 2 Rotterdam. In February […]

  • First Subsea Gets GBP 130K from GROW:Offshore Wind

    22 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    Subsea connector specialist, First Subsea, has been awarded £130,000 of Process Technology Innovation Funding under the Government’s GROW:Offshore Wind programme. The award is for development of a monopile interface connector and hang off cable connector for offshore wind farms; and top tension mooring connector for floating wind turbines. These developments will place the UK at […]

  • Ampelmann and Seaway7 Partner on Their First US Offshore Wind Project

    6 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain

    Dutch offshore access provider, Ampelmann, has received an order from Seaway7 to supply an E5000 gangway, which will support the construction of a major US coast offshore wind project. The order not only marks the first collaboration of Seaway7 and Ampelmann in the Americas but will also see the first tour of duty of the […]