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  • RWE, North Star Sign Multi-Million-Pound Offshore Wind Vessels Deal

    5 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    German renewable energy developer RWE has entered into a long-term partnership with the UK’s shipowner-operator North Star for the charter of two commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs). The two companies have also signed reservation agreements for two newbuild SOVs delivered by the Norwegian Vard Group. The Grampian Eagle CSOV is chartered for at least twelve years. […]

  • Aircraft Detection Lighting System Now Active on All Installed Vineyard Wind Turbines

    5 August 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The developers of the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm in the US have completed the integration of all installed GE Haliade-X 13 MW turbines into its Aircraft Detection Lighting System (ADLS). The system activates the FAA-required lighting only when planes are within a specified distance of wind turbines. Vineyard Wind is the first offshore […]

  • Inter-Array Cable Installation Starting at Dogger Bank C

    3 September 2025
    Cables, Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DEME’s cable-laying vessel (CLV) Viking Neptun is scheduled to start installing the first inter-array cables at the Dogger Bank C offshore wind farm site in the UK on or around 7 September. The vessel will lay the inter-array cable onto the seabed, where the cable will remain exposed until trenching is performed, which is scheduled […]

  • Nexans, Crowley Wind Services Partner on US Cable Lay Barge

    1 August 2025
    Business development, Collaboration, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Technology, Vessels

    France’s cable systems designer and manufacturer, Nexans, has partnered with Crowley Wind Services to develop and operate a Jones Act-compliant cable lay barge, aiming to support subsea transmission work for offshore wind and other industries across the US. The 300-foot barge, flagged and crewed in the US, is being built in Louisiana and tested in […]

  • WindEurope: EUR 6.4 Billion Needed for Ports and Vessels to Meet Offshore Wind Goals

    4 August 2025
    Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Europe needs to invest an extra EUR 6.4 billion in port facilities and new vessels to reach its offshore wind energy goals, according to WindEurope. Currently, Europe can install and maintain about 10 GW of offshore wind annually, enough to meet its 2030 energy security targets, but after 2030, this capacity must rise to at […]

  • Substation Installed at Denmark’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    28 July 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The jacket foundation and the substation topside have been installed at the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm site in Denmark. Following the jacket and topside’s sail-away from HSM Offshore Energy’s Schiedam yard in the Netherlands, the installation of the 2,600-tonne topside was executed offshore, with the heavy-lift vessel Gulliver of Scaldis SMC placing the […]

  • Danish Energy Agency Re-Rejects Applications for Feasibility Study Permits Under ‘Open-Door’ Scheme

    1 September 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has revised the applications for feasibility study permits under the open-door scheme, for which the process was suspended in 2023 and reactivated last year. The DEA has now made new decisions in the cases and maintains the rejection of all 37 applications. The DEA put the processing of cases under […]

  • CWHI Sends Off First Inch Cape Monopiles

    3 September 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    China’s CNOOD-Wenchong Heavy Industries (CWHI) has sent off the first 8 XXL monopiles for the 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm off the east coast of Scotland. Manufactured at CWHI’s Qinzhou yard, the monopiles were shipped on 31 August aboard the COSCO vessel XIAN TAI KOU. The shipment is en route to Forth Ports […]

  • Danish Export Credit Agency Backs Iberdrola’s UK Offshore Wind Farm with GBP 500M Guarantee

    7 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO) is providing a GBP 500 million (approximately EUR 576 million) finance guarantee to support the development of ScottishPower Renewables’ East Anglia Three offshore wind farm in the UK. EIFO was invited exclusively by Iberdrola to participate in the offshore wind farm’s GBP 3.6 billion non-recourse project financing, […]

  • Full Production Ramp-Up at Sif’s New Monopile Mega-Factory Delayed Until First Half of 2026

    2 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    Dutch offshore wind foundation manufacturer, Sif Group, is facing a delay in the ramp-up of production at its new monopile production facility at Maasvlakte 2 in Rotterdam and expects to achieve this in the first half of 2026, instead of this year. Also in this article: In its half-year results for 2025, the company reported a […]

  • 153-Metre Wind Turbine Blades Head to Testing After Leaving China’s Yantai Port

    5 August 2025
    Business development, R&D, Research & Development, Supply Chain, Technology, Wind Turbines

    The ultra-long blades for what will be the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine have been shipped from Yantai Port in China’s northeastern Shandong province and are en route to a test base. Three blades, each measuring 153 metres long and weighing 83.5 tonnes, were loaded at the Port of Yantai on 1 August. The […]

  • 2.5 MW Electrolyser Delivered for Energy Hub at Hollandse Kust Noord Offshore Wind Farm

    5 August 2025
    Equipment, Green Hydrogen, Infrastructure, Power-to-X, Technology

    Elogen has delivered a proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer for the Baseload Power Hub (BLPH) at the Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN) offshore wind farm.

  • Haizea Rolls Out First Monopile for Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm

    4 August 2025
    Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Spain’s Haizea Wind Group has rolled out the first monopile for Ørsted’s 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. The monopile will now undergo its surface treatment before being shipped to the offshore wind farm project, located approximately 120 kilometres off the Norfolk Coast in the North Sea. In September 2022, Haizea […]

  • Ørsted Plans Rights Issue to Fund Building US Offshore Wind Farm Alone, Danish State Commits as Majority Subscriber

    11 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted plans to launch a rights issue with pre-emptive rights for existing shareholders to raise DKK 60 billion (around EUR 8 billion) in gross proceeds, most of which will go to funding the construction of the Sunrise Wind offshore wind project in the US, which the company cannot partially divest at this time as per […]

  • Equinor to Participate in Ørsted’s Rights Issue as 10 Pct Shareholder

    1 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom

    Equinor plans to participate in Ørsted’s upcoming rights issue, worth around EUR 8 billion, and maintain its 10 per cent ownership stake in the Danish offshore wind developer. On 1 September, Equinor said that, subject to the final terms of the rights issue, it intends to subscribe for new shares at a consideration of up […]

  • EU Approves EUR 11 Billion French Plan for 1.5 GW Floating Offshore Wind Farms

    6 August 2025
    Authorities, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    The European Commission has approved an EUR 11 billion French scheme to support the construction and operation of three floating offshore wind farms with a total generating capacity of 1.5 GW. The 20-year scheme was approved under the Clean Industrial Deal State Aid Framework (CISAF) and is said to contribute to France meeting its 2030 […]

  • Canada’s First Designated Offshore Wind Zones Located Off Nova Scotia

    30 July 2025
    Authorities, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    The Government of Canada and the Province of Nova Scotia have designated the first four offshore wind areas to be made available for development, with a call for bids expected by the end of the year. Three of the identified areas are situated south of Nova Scotia’s eastern mainland, while the fourth is located to […]

  • Scotland Greenlights SSE’s 4.1 GW Berwick Bank Offshore Wind Farm

    31 July 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The Scottish government has granted a consent order for SSE Renewables’ Berwick Bank in the UK, which, if fully developed, would become the world’s largest offshore wind farm. The Section 36 consent determination by Scottish ministers approves the project’s main offshore wind array in the outer Firth of Forth off the East Lothian coast. The […]

  • Siemens Energy Secures Major Converter Station Contract

    5 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Energy Islands, Grid Connection, Manufacturing, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain

    The transmission system operators (TSOs), Energinet and 50Hertz, have placed a joint order with Siemens Energy for the construction and turnkey delivery of four converter stations and other technical components that will connect the Bornholm Energy Island project to the mainland grids of Denmark and Germany. The major contract covers the design, completion, transport, installation, […]

  • Hornsea 3 Monopile Production Begins at SeAH Wind’s New UK Facility

    30 July 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Manufacturing, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    SeAH Wind has commenced commercial production for its inaugural project, delivering monopile foundations for Ørsted’s 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. The milestone was marked by cutting the first steel plates. This signifies the beginning of operations at SeAH Wind’s facility on Teesside, the first UK purpose-built factory for XXL monopile […]

  • Fugro Completes Surveys for TenneT’s 2 GW Offshore Grid Connection Projects in Germany

    21 October 2025
    Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms

    Fugro completed land and marine investigations for TenneT Germany’s LanWin1 and LanWin2 grid connections, which are part of the transmission system operator’s (TSO) 2 GW programme. The LanWin2 cable route required a range of onshore and nearshore investigation activities to support project development. Fugro’s new GroundIQ service enabled low-impact geophysical surveys, including electrical resistivity profiling and […]

  • DNV and ABS Give Dual Nod to Wison’s Floating Wind Foundation Designs

    29 July 2025
    Business development, Research & Development, Technology

    DNV and American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) have issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) for Wison New Energies’ w.TLP and w.semi floating offshore wind foundation technology. In June, the company’s W.TLP foundation, designed for 12 MW turbines, was granted AiP certification by ABS. Featuring a tension leg platform (TLP) configuration, the design addresses the structural […]

  • Work Starts on Jacket Foundation for BalWin Delta Offshore Platform

    8 September 2025
    Foundations, Grid Connection, Manufacturing, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain

    The first steel has been cut for the jacket foundation that will support the BalWin delta offshore converter platform in the German North Sea. The jacket foundation, which weighs around 13,000 tonnes, will be delivered under a contract GE Vernova and McDermott International signed with the German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT in 2023. Under […]

  • First Monopile Stands at 660 MW Nordseecluster A Offshore Wind Farm in Germany

    28 July 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The first turbine foundation has been installed at Nordseecluster A, the first phase of the 1.6 GW Nordseecluster offshore wind development in Germany. The monopiles were shipped from the heavy-lift terminal in Eemshaven, the Netherlands, to the construction site in the German North Sea by Van Oord’s new offshore installation vessel Boreas. Four monopiles can […]

  • Equinor Books USD 955 Million Empire Wind Impairment

    23 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Ports & Logistics, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Equinor has reported a net operating income of USD 5.72 billion (around EUR 4.88 billion) in the second quarter of 2025, down from USD 7.66 billion (around EUR 6.53 billion) in the same quarter last year, with this quarter’s figures including an impairment of USD 955 million (around EUR 814 million) related to the company’s […]

  • Fred. Olsen Windcarrier to Install Turbines at Skyborn’s German Offshore Wind Farm

    29 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain

    Skyborn Renewables has signed a preferred supply agreement with Fred. Olsen Windcarrier for the transportation and installation of turbines for the Gennaker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. The charter party agreement is expected to be signed later in 2025. Offshore installation of the 63 wind turbines is planned to commence in 2028 […]