Iberdrola and Navantia have held the delivery ceremony for the first four jacket foundations built for the 714MW East Anglia One wind farm in the Navantia shipyard in Fene, Spain.
TenneT has named Manon van Beek as the new Chair of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective 1 September 2018.
Semco Maritime and Moffatt & Nichol have signed an agreement to offer common engineering services to the offshore wind industry in the United States.
Jan De Nul’s wind turbine installation vessel Vole au vent has left the port of Eemshaven loaded with the first set of monopiles and transition pieces to be installed on the 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 wind farm in the German North Sea.
EDS HV Group has completed cable termination and testing works at the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm located off Sussex, UK.
Germany’s Federal Council (Bundesrat) has removed from the agenda a motion for a capacity increase in the country’s 2030 and 2035 offshore wind capacity targets.
Top News of the Week, 26 February – 04 March 2018
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) signed a licensing agreement with Shanghai Electric today, 2 March, under which the Chinese company will manufacture, sell, and install Siemens Gamesa’s 8MW Direct Drive turbine for the offshore wind power projects in mainland China’s territorial waters.
Bladt Industries started the delivery of Hornsea Project One transition pieces (TPs) and anode cages last week by loading the first six TPs and anode cages onto SAL Heavy Lift’s vessel at Bladt’s facilities in Aalborg, Denmark.
The barges and coasters carrying jacket foundations and suction buckets to be installed on Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 2 wind farm in the German North Sea have started arriving at the port of Cuxhaven.
A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Installer has installed the first of the 174 transition pieces on Ørsted’s 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm.
Oceaneering has secured a three-year frame agreement with Van Oord Offshore Wind B.V. for the provision of Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) and trenching support services.
BiMEP and Tecnalia have signed a collaboration agreement for the provision of advanced solutions to accelerate the deployment of offshore renewable energy and to position the Basque Country, Spain, as a development hub for these technologies.
One of the world’s longest offshore wind turbine blades has arrived at the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult’s testing facilities in Blyth, Northumberland.
