German offshore wind developer wpd has selected Van Oord as preferred contractor for the 640MW Yunlin offshore wind project in Taiwan.
Work on the jacket foundation for the 700MW Borssele Alpha offshore transformer station is in full swing at HSM Offshore’s yard in Schiedam, the Netherlands, as this photo shared by Ørsted shows.
Smulders sent off the jacket foundation for the EnBW Hohe See offshore substation (OSS) from its yard in Vlissingen on 29 May and the structure is now travelling to the German project site in the North Sea, where it will be installed on 31 May or 1 June.
On 15 May, the Scottish government approved the variation application submitted by Kincardine Offshore Windfarm Limited (KOWL) in November 2017 for the floating wind project to be built some 15 kilometres south-east of Aberdeen.
Maria Caulfield MP for Lewes has officially opened Rampion’s Operations and Maintenance base located at Newhaven Port’s East Quay within the Newhaven Enterprise Zone.
Vineyard Wind has started environmental surveys along proposed export cable corridors and in the Vineyard Wind lease area offshore Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Ørsted and its Race Bank project partners, Macquarie and Sumitomo, will hold an inauguration ceremony for the 573MW offshore wind farm in Grimsby, UK, on 13 June.
On 4 June, Norwegian Parliament (Storting) will discuss a new proposal asking the government to draft detailed regulation for opening concession areas and granting concessions rights for offshore wind projects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
EWE Netz GmbH has commissioned the ShoreCONNECT power supply system in Cuxhaven which will mainly be used by vessels transporting Siemens Gamesa’s wind turbine parts.
Offshore wind showed strong signs of progress with 23% generation growth in 2017, but it needs to accelerate even faster to be in line with SDS target, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The jacket foundation for the 900MW BorWin3 offshore grid platform has been installed in the North Sea, nearly 130 kilometres off the German coast, Petrofac said.
The EC1 export cable and the OTM1 offshore transmission module at the Beatrice site will come under the control of the SSE Operational Safety Rules on 30 May, after which they will be energised, most likely on 1 June, according to the latest updates from the project’s Notice to Mariners.
HSM Offshore has started the load-out of the offshore substation topside built for the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm at its yard in Schiedam, the Netherlands.
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