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  • Borssele 1 & 2 Generates First Power

    29 April 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted’s Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm has delivered first power to the Dutch grid. According to the Danish company, the first Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbine began producing electricity on 28 April. “This is a big milestone for Borssele 1 & 2. Ørsted is doing its utmost to allow the construction of the […]

  • Carbon Trust Issues Four Floating Wind Study Calls

    14 February 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    The Carbon Trust has launched four tenders for floating offshore wind scoping studies as part of its Floating Wind Joint Industry Partnership (JIP).

  • Siemens’ Hull Jobs Attract 14,500 People

    19 April 2016
    Jobs & Recruitment

    Some 14,500 people have applied for 420 job positions advertised so far for Siemens’ Hull wind turbine facilities.  While six new job vacancies for crane operators will be announced this week, the company had already accepted 309 offers, 90% of which are from and around Hull. “There is lots of excitement surrounding Siemens and everywhere you go, people want […]

  • Photo of the Day: Seajacks Scylla Puts Huisman Crane to Use at Veja Mate

    6 February 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Huisman Equipment has shared a photo of the jack-up vessel Seajacks Scylla installing one of the 67 Siemens 6MW turbines at the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm using a 1,500mt Huisman Leg Encircling Crane. Seajacks Scylla and Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Bold Tern started loading the first batch of turbine components from the Port of […]

  • DOF Subsea Sends Skandi Constructor to Galloper Offshore Wind Farm

    15 August 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DOF Subsea, a subsidiary of DOF ASA, has won the contract for Skandi Constructor for Siemens on the Galloper offshore wind farm project in the North Sea.

  • Galloper Offshore Substation On the Move

    12 May 2017
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The offshore substation for the 336MW Galloper wind farm, built at Heerema Fabrication Group’s Hartlepool yard, has sailed away to the installation site in the outer Thames Estuary, some 27 kilometres off the Suffolk coast.

  • Bladt Pieces Together First Beatrice Jacket

    21 June 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Bladt Industries has completed the stacking of the upper 3D structure to the lower 3D structure on the first of 30 jacket foundations built for the 588MW Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL) project.

  • Doosan Heavy Enters Vietnamese Offshore Wind Venture

    23 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. and Vietnam’s state-run utility Vietnam Electricity have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop a pilot offshore wind project off Vietnam.

  • Taylor Hopkinson Wins East Anglia ONE Contract

    14 March 2018
    Contracts & Tenders

    Taylor Hopkinson has won the on-site Quality Services tender to supply personnel for the 714MW East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm in the UK North Sea.

  • ACE Winches Reels In Beatrice Cable Work

    17 January 2018
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    ACE Winches is currently working on the Beatrice offshore wind farm project located in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland.

  • WIND Stows Rampion Export Cable Backup

    12 September 2018
    Grid Connection

    The Netherlands-based WIND has provided long-term storage to a spare export cable for the Rampion offshore wind farm.

  • Planning Inspectorate Sets Dates for Thanet Extension Meets

    8 February 2019
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The UK Planning Inspectorate is hosting issue-specific hearings on the Thanet Extension offshore wind project this month as part of Vattenfall’s application for an order granting development consent. The hearings will take place between 19 and 21 February at the Discovery Park in Sandwich, Kent, with the Accompanied Site Inspection (ASI) scheduled for 18 February. The […]

  • EnBW Opens Heli Services Tender for German Offshore Wind Pair

    3 October 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    EnBW has issued a tender for a rescue helicopter to service the Hohe See and Albatros offshore wind projects in Germany. EnBW is looking for a helicopter including aeronautical and medical crew which will be used for rescuing injured personnel at the offshore wind farms. The contract will start on 1 March 2020 and will take […]

  • Moray East Pin Piles Pass Halfway Mark

    10 September 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    DEME Group’s jack-up vessel Apollo has installed 156 out of 309 pin piles at the Moray East offshore wind project in the UK, marking the halfway milestone. According to DEME, a pile installation template is being used, where three pin piles are stabbed into the seabed through the piling temple and then driven to target depth […]

  • DEME Launches Orion

    21 November 2018
    Vessels

    DEME Group’s 216.5-metre DP3 offshore installation vessel Orion was launched at the COSCO Qidong shipyard in China on Wednesday, 21 November 21.

  • Van Oord Lays Deutsche Bucht Cables

    28 May 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has completed the laying of inter-array cables at the 269MW Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea ahead of schedule, Northland Power, the owner and developer of the project, said. The cables were laid by Van Oord’s cable laying vessel Nexus. The cable burial at the site some 95 kilometres northwest of […]

  • Shetland Tidal Array Moving Forward

    28 September 2015
    Technology

    Nova Innovation has reported it made significant progress with the build and deployment of the Shetland Tidal Array, as over two years of work come to fruition in the Bluemull Sound, Shetland. With all the onshore works completed in August, the focus has moved to preparation and deployment of the offshore components of the project. […]

  • EnBW Seeking Foundation Design for Hohe See

    4 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    An electric utilities company EnBW is inviting offers for a job on its EnBW Hohe See wind farm located in the German part of the North Sea. EnBW is looking for a company to design and deliver 80 wind turbine foundations which would feature wind turbines between 3.6 MW and 6 MW. The proposed wind […]

  • Monopile Gripper Frame Fitted on Van Oord’s Jack-Up

    18 July 2014
    Technology

    Temporary Works Design (TWD) completed the design and assisted in the fabrication of a monopile gripper frame for Van Oord. The gripper is designed to keep the monopiles in the correct position and inclination, while counteracting the wave, wind, and current loads on the pile during wind turbine installations. The installation of the monopile gripper […]

  • Windfarm Update: Burbo Bank Extension

    8 December 2014

    At the end of September developer DONG Energy  received development consent from the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change for the Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm for which the company had already been granted the lease agreement by The Crown Estate on 11 May 2010. Burbo Bank Extension will be located west […]

  • Update: Van Oord Installs Last Westermeerwind Foundation

    27 May 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Last Saturday saw the last monopile foundation installed at the Dutch nearshore wind farm Westermeerwind. Working six days a week, ‘De Schelde’ pontoon, fitted with the 11350 Liebherr crane, completed the transport and installation of monopiles on schedule. Project director Peter de Weijs: “We are very pleased with the installation of the foundation. Despite that we […]

  • Dominion Trying to Cut Virginia OWF Cost

    21 July 2015
    Business & Finance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Dominion Resources, the developer of an offshore wind project proposed to be installed off the coast of Virginia, USA, met with industry experts, academics, and others involved in the offshore wind sector to find a way to bring down the cost of its project, Richmond Times-Dispatch news site reported. In April, the company announced that it had […]

  • Onshore Substation for Walney 2 Ready to Operate (UK)

    29 July 2011

    The onshore transformer at Cleveleys near Blackpool has been tested and is now ready for energisation. The perimeter fence around the substation is in place and the substation now meets the High voltage rules with restricted access. Inside the substation the harmonic filter compound has been finished and tested. The site has been sealed with […]

  • RWE Starts Building O&M Base for Thor Offshore Wind Farm

    7 November 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The construction of the operations & maintenance (O&M) base for RWE’s Thor offshore wind farm has officially started with a ground-breaking ceremony at the Port of Thorsminde. The construction works on the new base are scheduled to take around twelve months. A team of 50 to 60 people will work from the new building to […]

  • Fugro to Start Geotechnical Survey Work at Dogger Bank South West Site

    24 July 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, R&D

    The Fugro Quest vessel, operated by Fugro, is en route to the northeast coast of England to begin geotechnical survey work on the site of the proposed Dogger Bank South (DBS) West, one of two proposed DBS offshore wind farms. Fugro Quest, launched in 2022, left Falmouth on 23 July 2024 to initiate geotechnical assessments […]

  • 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 […]