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  • US Company Granted Offshore Wind Survey Licence in Vietnam

    16 April 2026
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    US-based Pacifico Energy has received a site survey licence for a 500 MW offshore wind project in Ba Ria–Vung Tau, offshore Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The licence, granted by Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (MAE), allows the company to carry out site survey assessment activities at the proposed project site. According to Pacifico […]

  • New Name for Oxan Energy’s 900 MW Offshore Wind Project in Estonia

    29 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Oxan Energy, together with its partners Ocean Connect Energy and SNOW, has renamed the Saare 1 offshore wind project to Avara, which the companies plan to build 60 kilometres off the Estonian coast. Covering an area of 88 square kilometres and designed to deliver up to 900 MW capacity, the name Avara draws inspiration from […]

  • Foundation Installation at New French Offshore Wind Farm Reaches Halfway Mark

    1 April 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Half of the 62 jacket foundations have been installed at the Dieppe-Le-Tréport offshore wind project site in France. The first wind turbine foundation was installed at the project site, located 15 kilometres off the city of Le Tréport and 17 kilometres off the city of Dieppe, by DEME’s installation vessel Innovation in September 2025. By February […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Orders Baltica 2 Wind Turbine Towers from Polish Manufacturer

    20 March 2026
    Contracts & Tenders, Manufacturing, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Polish offshore wind tower manufacturer Baltic Towers has signed a cooperation agreement with Siemens Gamesa for the supply of the largest batch of wind turbine towers for the Baltica 2 offshore wind project in Poland, jointly developed by PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna and Ørsted.  Baltic Towers was established in 2023 as a joint venture between […]

  • Chinese Shipyard Starts Building Asso.subsea’s New Cable-Laying Vessel

    5 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Cables, Grid Connection, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    The China Merchants Heavy Industry shipyard has begun the construction of a DP 2 cable-laying vessel (CLV) ordered by Greece’s Asso.subsea for the offshore wind market. The steel-cutting ceremony for Althea was held today, 5 November, at the CMHI shipyard on Mazhou Island, Shenzhen, China. “The first steel cut for Althea marks the true beginning of an exciting […]

  • National Grid Updates Plan for UK-Netherlands Interconnection via Nederwiek 3 Offshore Wind Farm

    9 January 2026
    Cables, Grid Connection, Project Updates

    National Grid Ventures (NGV) has published updated proposals for the LionLink interconnector, which will connect the future Nederwiek 3 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands to the UK and Dutch grids. NGV, responsible for building and operating the UK side of LionLink, has now opened an eight-week public consultation for the revised plan that, among […]

  • Maersk’s WTIV Delivered, Ready for Empire Wind

    27 February 2026
    Business & Finance, Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seatrium handed over the Maersk wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) to its owner on 26 February, the Singapore-based shipbuilder said. The new WTIV is scheduled to sail for its first assignment at the Empire Wind project offshore New York in March 2026. The WTIV recently completed sea trials in the South China Sea and final […]

  • LD Armateurs Expands Fleet with Multipurpose Support Vessel

    16 April 2026
    Business & Finance, Business development, Vessels

    LD TravOcean, a subsidiary of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LD Armateurs), has acquired the DP2 multipurpose support vessel SIDDIS Mariner, which will be renamed TVO Mariner and support the company’s operations across several sectors, including offshore wind. The vessel is already familiar to LD TravOcean teams, having previously been used by the company during an offshore […]

  • Dutch Start Building Enshore’s Specialist Shallow Draft Cable Lay Barge

    16 March 2026
    Business & Finance, Cables, Grid Connection, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    Holland Shipyards Group is constructing a specialist shallow draft cable lay barge, purpose-built to support nearshore and inshore cable installation and marine support operations, for Enshore Subsea, with delivery expected this summer. Enshore Advantage is being built at Holland Shipyards Group’s yard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, and will, once delivered, mobilise for its first project supporting Nexans in the […]

  • Fugro Wins Work on Irish Offshore Wind Project

    9 March 2026
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Oriel Windfarm Ltd, a joint venture between ESB and JERA Nex BP, has awarded a contract to Fugro for a detailed geotechnical site investigation for the Oriel offshore wind project in Ireland. The work will inform the design and installation of foundations for 25 offshore wind turbines that will make up the 375 MW offshore […]

  • Q Energy Joins Another French Floating Wind Project

    18 March 2026
    Business & Finance, Floating Wind

    Q Energy has acquired a stake in the capital of Pennavel, a project company established by a consortium composed of Elicio and BayWa r.e., which is developing a floating wind project in France. Q Energy, a subsidiary of the South Korean industrial group Hanwha, joins the existing shareholders in developing the floating wind farm off […]

  • Cadeler’s New M-Class Vessel Takes Over Turbine Installation in Poland as Wind Osprey Moves to UK’s East Anglia Three

    14 April 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Cadeler’s second M-class vessel, Wind Mover, which was delivered by the South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean to Cadeler in November 2025, has been deployed on its first project, the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland. The new vessel, designed to install the next generation of offshore wind farm components, has taken over […]

  • Amazon Signs Power Purchase Agreement for Nordseecluster B Offshore Wind Farm

    3 February 2026
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Amazon has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for 110 MW from Nordseecluster B offshore wind farm, the second phase of the Nordseecluster project in Germany, owned by RWE and Norges Bank Investment Management. The PPAbuilds on the Strategic Framework Agreement that RWE and Amazon signed in June 2025, under which RWE supports Amazon’s carbon-free […]

  • Nordic Renewable Energy Company Acquiring RWE’s Swedish Offshore Wind Farm

    23 January 2026
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    RWE and Nordic renewable energy player Aneo have signed an agreement under which Aneo will acquire RWE’s Swedish wind energy activities, including the Karehamn offshore wind farm. Aneo, headquartered in Norway, is also acquiring RWE’s onshore wind development pipeline of 1.8 GW, its onshore wind farms with a total operational capacity of 124 MW, part […]

  • RWE Sells 350 MW Polish Offshore Wind Project to PGE

    13 March 2026
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Germany’s RWE has completed the sale of the F.E.W. Baltic II offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea to PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), making the Polish utility the sole owner of the 350 MW project. The offshore wind farm is planned to be built around 50 kilometres north of the Polish town of […]

  • Kajima Inks Foundation Contract for 315 MW Japanese Offshore Wind Farm

    24 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Oga Katagami Akita Offshore Green Energy has signed a contract with Kajima Corporation for the manufacturing, procurement, transportation, and installation of turbine foundations for the company’s offshore wind project in Japan. The contract covers the core construction of the wind turbine foundations and marks an important milestone as the project enters its full-scale construction phase, […]

  • Cadeler’s Newly Bought Vessel Revamped and Ready for He Dreiht Offshore Wind Farm

    20 February 2026
    Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The newbuild vessel that Cadeler acquired from Shanghai Boqiang Heavy Industry Group last year is ready to start supporting wind turbine installation at EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany, after having completed a technical and visual upgrade.  The Danish vessel owner announced in May 2025 that it was acquiring the newly constructed jack-up, originally […]

  • RWE Pulls Plug on 2 GW Offshore Wind Project in Victoria

    14 October 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    German renewable energy developer RWE has ceased the development of the Kent offshore wind farm in Victoria, a move that follows the Australian government’s recent decision to push back its first offshore wind tender. After close to a year of feasibility studies, RWE has decided to call off the development of the up to 2 […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Farm Now Equipped with Scour Protection Doubling as Marine Life Habitat

    16 October 2025
    Business development, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Innovation, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    RWE has installed around 75,000 reef cubes developed by the nature-inclusive technology designer ARC marine at the Rampion offshore wind farm in the UK, in what the Rampion owner says is a “global first”. The cubes are a specially eco-engineered scour protection solution for wind turbine foundations, and this represents their first full-scale deployment at […]

  • First Offshore Platform for German Offshore Wind Farm Exits Smulders Hall

    6 October 2025
    Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The first of two platforms for the 976.5 MW Gennaker offshore wind farm, developed by Skyborn Renewables, has been moved out of the construction hall at the Smulders yard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. OSS Darß, which was transported out of the construction hall in September, currently weighs 3,800 tonnes. The unit is 48 metres long, […]

  • EnBW Drops Morgan & Mona Offshore Wind Projects After Not Securing CfDs

    15 January 2026
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    EnBW has decided to withdraw from the Mona and Morgan offshore wind projects in the UK after not securing Contracts for Difference (CfDs) in the UK’s seventh allocation round. The company says that in a challenging investment environment, the two projects are no longer economically viable as per EnBW’s criteria. EnBW has been developing the […]

  • Corio Withdraws Application for Irish Offshore Wind Farm

    5 January 2026
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Fuinneamh Sceirde Teoranta (FST), a company owned by Corio Generation that was developing the 450 MW Sceirde Rocks offshore wind project in Ireland, withdrew the consent application for the wind farm on 17 December 2025, according to a notice issued by Ireland’s national planning body, An Coimiúsin Pleanála (ACP), on 22 December. The developer submitted an […]

  • Vard Delivers Second CSOV to Windward Offshore, Vessel to Soon Start Working for RWE

    4 February 2026
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Windward Offshore has taken delivery of its second commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV), Windward Paris, from Vard, which delivered the new vessel ahead of schedule at its Vard Brattvaag yard, according to the vessel owner. The CSOV follows the delivery of the company’s first vessel of this kind in October 2025, Windward Athens. The new […]

  • Hamburg Declaration: North Sea Countries Target 100 GW of Cross-Border Offshore Wind, Boost to Offshore Hydrogen

    26 January 2026
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Green Hydrogen, Grid Connection, Planning & Permitting, Power-to-X

    Energy ministers from nine North Sea countries signed the ‘Hamburg Declaration’ at the North Sea Summit in Hamburg on 26 January, agreeing to work towards up to 100 GW of cross-border offshore wind capacity in the North Seas by 2050, while also advancing offshore renewable hydrogen as part of a more integrated regional energy system. […]

  • ‘World’s Largest’ Cable Laying Vessel Launches, Sea Trials on Schedule

    22 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Cables, Clean Fuels, Grid Connection, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Jan De Nul has launched its first XL cable-laying vessel (CLV), Fleeming Jenkin, with the final vessel construction phase now starting, including sea trials. Jan De Nul announced in October 2023 that it had placed an order for Fleeming Jenkin at China’s CMHI Haimen shipyard, followed by an order for another identical vessel, named William Thomson, last May, deemed the […]

  • CLV Seaway Aimery Leaves US Revolution Wind Site to Work on UK East Anglia Three

    30 December 2025
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Cable-laying vessel (CLV) Seaway Aimery is en route from the US to Europe for work that the vessel has scheduled on the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm in the UK. According to a Notice to Mariners from the East Anglia Three project, inter-array cable installation is set to commence around 12 January 2026, with […]