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  • Thor Offshore Wind Farm Homeports in Thyborøn

    8 November 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Ports & Logistics, Supply Chain

    RWE has selected Thyborøn Port as the offshore construction base for its 1.1 GW Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark. Thyborøn will be the home port for the project’s service vessels and the control centre for managing marine logistics and traffic throughout the offshore construction phase. In addition, secondary steel structures will be handled from […]

  • Equinor Exits Vietnamese Offshore Wind Market

    26 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom

    Equinor has decided to leave the offshore wind market in Vietnam and close its office in Hanoi, following a review of its renewable energy portfolio and with the industry “facing significant headwinds”, a company spokesperson told Reuters. The Norwegian state-owned energy company established an office in Hanoi in May 2022 to pursue opportunities within offshore […]

  • Installation of Sofia Offshore Substation Coming Up

    7 August 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Heerema Marine Contractors’ semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Sleipnir is expected to sail to the Sofia offshore wind farm site in the UK in a few days to install the project’s HVDC offshore converter platform. According to a recent Notice to Mariners from the project, Sleipnir will start the work on or around 10 August and […]

  • Azerbaijan Starts Measuring Offshore Wind Resource

    6 August 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Azerbaijan will soon start wind measurement campaigns to assess offshore wind resources at two locations, according to a recent update from the Azerbaijan Renewable Energy Agency (AREA), part of the country’s Ministry of Energy. In a press release on 2 August, AREA said that work on starting measurements was about to be completed, with two […]

  • DORIS to Support BP’s Offshore Wind Developments

    6 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain

    DORIS has been awarded a framework agreement by BP for the provision of engineering services to the company’s offshore wind projects. Across the five-year agreement, DORIS will provide engineering for scopes such as concept development, pre-FEED, FEED, and detailed design. The support provided by DORIS and its strategic partner Turner & Townsend will enable the […]

  • Fugro on Floating LiDAR Duty Offshore Denmark

    15 May 2023
    Authorities, Business development, Research & Development

    Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet has awarded Fugro a contract to deploy multiple floating LiDARs at the new offshore wind farm sites in Denmark. There are four new sites the Danish government has designated for offshore wind farms, which could add as much as 7.2 GW of new capacity: North Sea I (Nordsø I), […]

  • Fécamp Offshore Substation Completed and Ready to Go

    27 June 2022
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Atlantique Offshore Energy has completed the construction of the offshore substation for the 500 MW Fécamp wind farm offshore France. According to the company, a marine energy business unit of Chantiers de l’Atlantique, the offshore substation will soon be installed at the project’s site located more than 13 kilometres off the Normandy coast. “We are happy to […]

  • Estonian Port Making Room for Offshore Wind

    21 June 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    Port of Tallinn (Tallinna Sadam) has decided to invest up to EUR 53 million to build a new 310-metre quay with a 10-hectare area beyond the quay in Paldiski South Harbour, Estonia, to support the construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea region. The investment is co-financed by European Commission in […]

  • UK and NSEC Strengthen Offshore Renewables Ties

    19 December 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Members of the North Seas Energy Cooperation (NSEC), the UK, and the European Commission have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen their cooperation for the development of offshore renewable energy. The countries involved include Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and the European Commission. The MoU sets out the […]

  • Jacket Piles In at Ishikari Offshore Wind Farm

    8 December 2022
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    CAPE Holland has announced that 56 jacket foundation pin piles were installed at the Ishikari offshore wind farm in Japan. From May to August 2022, the CAPE VLT-320 was used for the installation of 56 pin piles with lengths of 60 metres and a diameter of 2.5 metres for the Japanese offshore wind project. The […]

  • VIDEO: Opportunities in Offshore Wind Conference at OEEC2022

    30 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Industry, Technology

    Can developers, offshore construction companies, and shipbuilders map a road for the offshore wind sector to reach massive capacity targets while avoiding bottlenecks due to vessel shortages and port over-capacitation? But also, are some of these challenges in the industry providing opportunities for the supply chain? Questions that are discussed in the conference session ‘Opportunities […]

  • Novel Wedge Connection Passes Offshore Test

    7 November 2022
    R&D, Technology

    Heerema Marine Contractors and C1 Connections have tested the C1 Wedge Connection offshore that can be used for offshore wind turbines. The partners said that the conventional bolted L-flange connections are reaching their capacity limits and are complex to design, install, and maintain and this is where their technology is supposed to make a difference. […]

  • Ørsted Joins Global Offshore Wind Alliance

    6 March 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Collaboration, Industry, Outlook & Strategy

    Ørsted has become the first energy company to join the Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA) to support a faster deployment of offshore wind and create a global community of action. GOWA is a new global organisation that brings together governments, the private sector, international organisations, and other stakeholders to accelerate the deployment of offshore wind […]

  • Seaway 7 Strikes Again Offshore Taiwan

    21 February 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway7 has been awarded a contract for the transport and installation of cables on the Hai Long offshore wind farms in Taiwan. Under the contract, Seaway7 will be responsible for the transport and installation of inter-array cables, the respective cable protection systems, and four export cables. The export cables will connect the offshore substation to […]

  • Equinor and EnBW Join Forces Offshore Germany

    17 February 2023
    Business development, Contracts & Tenders, R&D

    Equinor and EnBW have announced that they will jointly pursue offshore wind opportunities in Germany. “In a tough international field, we are delighted to be working together with a strong partner like Equinor and combining the individual strengths of the two companies to develop German offshore wind…In partnership with Equinor, a global offshore wind major, […]

  • Offshore Wind Tower Factory to Be Built in Poland

    23 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Industry, Jobs & Recruitment

    Spain’s GRI Renewable Industries and the Polish Industrial Development Agency (IDA JSC or ARP) have created a joint venture for the construction of a new offshore wind tower factory in the city of Gdansk, Poland. The estimated value of this investment is more than EUR 200 million, and production is expected to start in 2025 […]

  • Metocean Measurement Campaign Starts Offshore Lithuania

    21 July 2022
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Two buoys with specialised equipment have been deployed at two predefined locations in the Baltic Sea, as part of a contract signed between Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy and the Spain-based EOLOS Floating LiDAR Solutions. The anchoring of the buoys was carried out by the Lithuanian Garant Diving company, together with the Spanish specialists. For one […]

  • 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 […]

  • Construction on Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm Resumes

    29 April 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Works on the construction of the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan have now resumed, following a winter break, with monopile installation starting up again. As reported earlier this month, National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) will install the remaining monopiles on the offshore wind farm, replacing Sapura Energy which abandoned the project earlier this year, […]

  • No Showstoppers for Estonian-Latvian Offshore Wind Development

    14 March 2022
    R&D

    BLIX Consultancy has found no issues stopping Estonia and Latvia from building offshore wind and related transmission infrastructure in the countries’ sectors of the Baltic Sea. This is according to a four-tier study commissioned by Elering AS and Augstsprieguma tīkls (AST), which consists of an offshore technology catalogue, review of high-level planning, Pre-FEED study and Right-of-way […]

  • RWE Enters India’s Offshore Wind Market

    21 February 2022
    Business & Finance

    RWE Renewables and India’s integrated power company Tata Power have entered into a partnership to explore the potential for a joint development of offshore wind projects in India. The partnership was forged after Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Power, and RWE Renewables GmbH signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Launches Recyclable Offshore Blade

    7 September 2021
    Environment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Gamesa has launched what the company describes as the world’s first wind turbine blade ready for commercial use offshore that can be recycled at the end of its lifecycle – the RecyclableBlade. The first six 81-metre long RecyclableBlades have already been produced at the Siemens Gamesa blade factory in Aalborg, Denmark. ”The time to […]

  • Mediterranean Pioneer Entering Offshore Construction Phase

    1 September 2021
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel MPI Resolution has set sail to Italy to build the first wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea – the 30 MW Taranto offshore wind farm. The Taranto offshore wind farm, also known as Beleolico, is located near the Taranto harbour in Italy and consists of ten MySE 3.0-135 wind turbines […]

  • France’s First Offshore Substation Touches Down

    19 August 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    DEME has installed the first offshore substation (OSS) in France at the Saint-Nazaire wind farm off the Guérande peninsula. Weighing 2,100 tons, the OSS topside was installed at the site on August 18. The substation’s jacket foundation was installed earlier this week. The electrical substation was constructed by a consortium including Atlantique Offshore Energy, the […]

  • Floating Wind Farm Offshore Portugal Overdelivers

    24 September 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The 25 MW Windfloat Atlantic floating wind farm offshore Portugal produced 75 GWh of electricity in its first year of operation, EDP Renewables said. Located 20 kilometers off the coast of Viana do Castelo, the project is the world’s first semi-submersible floating wind farm which became operational in July 2020. The wind farm was developed […]

  • ODE Cracks Irish Offshore Wind Market

    1 June 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Codling Wind Park Ltd has selected the engineering and technical service provider Offshore Design Engineering Ltd (ODE) as Owner’s Engineer for Codling Wind Park offshore Ireland. Executing its first renewables contract in Ireland, ODE will be working closely with Codling Wind Park Ltd, a 50/50 joint venture between Fred. Olsen Renewables and EDF Renewables. Initially […]