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  • Van Oord and Hellenic Cables Land Hollandse Kust South Cable Deal

    7 September 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore grid operator TenneT has selected the Van Oord-Hellenic Cables consortium to connect the Hollandse Kust (South) Alpha and Beta offshore platforms to the Dutch onshore grid.

  • UK: Energy Minister Announces GBP 7 Million for Offshore Renewable Energy

    30 October 2013
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Businesses developing innovative solutions for wave, tidal and offshore wind technologies are to get extra help from the UK’s innovation agency, it was announced today. Speaking at the European Ocean Energy Conference in Edinburgh, Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker revealed that up to £7m of support will be available through the Technology Strategy […]

  • TenneT Cleared to Start Building Borssele Offshore Grid

    27 March 2017
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The governments of Flanders and the Netherlands have reached an agreement on the Borssele subsea cables that will run through the Western Scheldt (Westerscheld), the estuary of the Scheldt river and an important shipping route for the Belgian Port of Antwerp.

  • Energinet Selects A2SEA for Anholt Wind Farm (Denmark)

    22 April 2011

    Energinet, Danish national transmission system operator for electricity and natural gas company, has recently signed contract with A2SEA  regarding offshore transformers installation. As part of establishing the Anholt offshore wind farm, Energinet  must supply an offshore transformer platform to collect electrical energy from the offshore wind farm, transform it to another voltage level and bring […]

  • DNV Inks Contract to Certify DolWin Beta Transformer Station (Germany)

    29 November 2011

    DolWin beta is a transformer station operated by TenneT, one of Europe’s largest grid operators. DolWin beta will be built as part of a large offshore wind farm cluster in the German sector, approximately 45 km off the German coast in the North Sea. It will receive alternating current from wind farms and convert it […]

  • Spain: Gamesa Reports Loss in Q1 2012

    10 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    The complex economic environment, volatility in many of the main wind markets, the new product launches and the industry’s seasonality had a temporary impact on Gamesa’s profitability and debt. Nevertheless, the company’s market and business diversification and the synergies between the wind turbine and farm activities enabled it to increase sales in the period, with […]

  • Global Tech I Transformer Station Successfully Installed (Germany)

    9 May 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    Yesterday, the transformer station for the offshore wind farm Global Tech I was successfully installed. The offshore platform is a core element of the North Sea wind farm: The power from its 80 wind turbines is gathered here and transformed from 30 to 155 kilovolts. The transmission grid operator will subsequently draw power from the […]

  • Aquaterra, Seawind Working on 1 GW Offshore Floating Wind-to-Hydrogen Project

    26 September 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, R&D

    Aquaterra Energy and Seawind Ocean Technology have signed an agreement for the development of what the companies say will be the world’s largest floating offshore wind and green hydrogen production project in Italy. The project, named HyMed, is currently in its first phase of permitting, with the grid connection and the environmental impact assessments well […]

  • USA: MAKE Predicts Wind Energy Uncertainty after 2016

    13 April 2015

    MAKE expects more than 55GW of wind power capacity to be commissioned in North America from 2015 to 2024. Policy-driven growth in the near term will subside and LCOE and economic drivers will become increasingly important. In the US, the expired federal PTC underpins 13.4GW of growth in 2015 and 2016, preceding policy uncertainty and […]

  • ScottishPower, HSM Offshore Energy Sign East Anglia Two Substation Contract

    8 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Manufacturing, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain

    ScottishPower Renewables, part of Iberdrola, has awarded an engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning (EPCIC) contract to the Dutch company HSM Offshore Energy for the offshore substation and jacket foundation for the East Anglia Two offshore wind farm in the UK. HSM Offshore Energy will deliver the 5,100-tonne offshore high-voltage substation and its 3,700-tonne jacket […]

  • Ørsted Extends Its Offshore Wind Collaboration with Hitachi Energy

    7 September 2023
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Hitachi Energy and the Danish renewable energy developer, Ørsted, have extended their long-standing collaboration for offshore wind farms for three more years. Under the extended framework agreement, Hitachi Energy will continue to support Ørsted’s global offshore wind farms. At a visit to Hitachi Energy’s factory in Ludvika in Sweden, Ørsted’s country head of Sweden, Sebastian […]

  • 50Hertz Selects ZTT for Gennaker East Export Cable Connection

    25 August 2023
    Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Zhongtian Technology Submarine Cable (ZTTSC) has secured an EPCI contract with 50Hertz for the eastern part of the grid connection for the Gennaker offshore wind farm in the German sector of the Baltic Sea. The grid connection for the 927 MW offshore wind farm (OST-6-1), being developed by Skyborn Renewables (formerly wpd offshore), consists of […]

  • First Power Flows from 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord Offshore Wind Farm

    20 June 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    The 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm has produced its first green power and delivered it via TenneT’s offshore grid to the Dutch mainland. “We often talk about milestones along a project’s journey, and CrossWind has had a number to date, but to have the wind turbines generating green electricity safely and successfully […]

  • 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 […]

  • Hollandse Kust Zuid Beta Topside Sails Out of Dubai

    21 February 2022
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The second offshore transformer station topside for the grid connection of the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind project has set sail from the Drydocks World Dubai’s fabrication facility in the United Arab Emirates. In charge of the weighing, transport and load-out of the 700 MW, 3,950-tonne Hollandse Kust Zuid Beta topside is the […]

  • 498MW French OWF Faces Appeal

    18 August 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    An appeal has been filed against the development of the 498MW Eoliennes Offshore des Hautes Falaises wind farm project off the coast of Fecamp, France. Seven environmentalist organisations, including la Fédération Environnement Durable, Belle Normandie Environnement, Vent de Colère, La Société pour la Protection des Paysages et de l’Esthétique de la France, Robin des Bois et Cap […]

  • Mammoet Cuts Nissum Bredning Costs by Avoiding Dredging

    16 March 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Mammoet today (16 March) released details about the installation of four offshore wind turbines at Nissum Bredning, saying the turbines had been erected efficiently and cost-effectively by excluding dredging, which would have been imperative at this shallow-water site if a conventional approach had been employed.

  • Elia Reveals Main MOG Contract Winners

    16 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Belgian transmission system operator Elia is on track to complete the Modular Offshore Grid by September 2019 after awarding all the main contracts for the project.

  • YASKAWA to Bring The Switch’s Drive Trains to Japan

    18 March 2014
    Technology

    YASKAWA Electric Corporation, a global manufacturer of servomotors, controllers, inverters, and industrial robots, has announced that it will be the sole supplier of The Switch megawatt-class permanent magnet generator (PMG) and full-power converter (PMG) advanced drive train packages for wind power and other renewable energy applications to the Japanese market. The Switch products will be […]

  • The Netherlands: HFG to Construct HelWin2 Offshore HVDC Platform

    13 June 2012
    Grid Connection

    On 4 June 2012 Heerema Fabrication Group in the Netherlands secured a contract for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) of an HVDC offshore platform for Siemens in Germany on behalf of grid operator TenneT. The contract consists of an offshore platform which will be equipped with Siemens’ High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology […]

  • Siemens Installs Third HVDC Platform

    11 July 2014
    Grid Connection

    Siemens has completed installation of the offshore platform for the direct-current connection HelWin2. Working under contract from the German-Dutch grid operator TenneT, Siemens has thus achieved a decisive milestone of the German grid connection projects. “We have now installed three high-tech platforms for TenneT in the North Sea. The HelWin2 project is now in the […]

  • JDR Wins Inter-Array Cable Work on Largest US Offshore Wind Farm

    3 December 2024
    Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    DEME Offshore has contracted JDR Cable Systems, part of the TFKable Group, for cable installation and commissioning work on the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. The 2.6 GW CVOW, developed by Dominion Energy, is the largest offshore wind farm under construction in the United States. Under the contract, JDR will carry out pull-in, termination, […]

  • Jan De Nul Consortium Bags BalWin4 and LanWin1 Cable Contracts

    6 December 2023
    Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    Jan De Nul Group, together with its consortium partners LS Cable & System and Denys, has signed contracts for two 525 HVDC cable systems serving the two grid connection systems for BalWin4 and LanWin1. These mark the first two contracts signed under the long-term framework agreement that TenneT and Jan De Nul inked earlier this […]

  • Ørsted Awards Onshore Substation Contract for Greater Changhua 2b & 4

    27 April 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has awarded Taiwan Cogeneration Corporation (TCC) a contract to build the onshore substation for the 920 MW Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farms. The contract award follows Ørsted’s final investment decision on the offshore wind farms last month. Under the contract, Star Energy Corporation (SEC), 100 per cent owned by TCC, will […]

  • Novel Subsea Cable Monitoring System Passes EMEC Test

    31 August 2018
    R&D, Technology

    A new system for monitoring subsea cables in the offshore renewables sector has completed tests at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, aimed at demonstrating technical and commercial viability of the technology.

  • Nexans Nets EA1 Export Cable Contract, Hires DeepOcean for Installation

    18 January 2017
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Nexans has won a contract worth more that EUR 180 million for supply submarine cables that will carry the electricity from the 714MW East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm to the mainland.