Sunly and Valorem Group have signed an agreement with Deep Wind Offshore which will see the three partners jointly developing the Tuul Energy offshore wind project in Estonia. The project is a large-scale offshore wind farm planned to be built west of Saaremaa Island, Estonia, where Deep Wind Offsho
Euroports Group and the partners behind the Noatun offshore wind project, OX2 and Ålandsbanken Fondbolag, have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to establish Koverhar Harbour in Hanko, Finland, as a logistics hub for the construction of the Noatun North offshore wind farm, with an option to use the hu
The first suction bucket jacket (SBJ) foundation has been installed at the Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farm site in Taiwan, where wind turbine installation is also set to begin soon. The foundations are being installed by Heerema Marine Contractors’ heavy lift vessel Aegir, which was als
Gazelle Wind Power has received authorisation to use a site off the coast of Aguçadoura, Portugal, for its 2 MW Nau Azul floating wind demonstrator project. The project site previously hosted WindFloat 1, one of Europe’s earliest floating wind pilot projects. The Dublin-based floating wind technolog
RWE, in collaboration with Hydrotechnik Offshore, a Germany-based bubble curtain developer, has deployed the underwater noise abatement technology during monopile installation at the Sofia offshore wind farm, marking the first time the technology has been used in the UK. Currently under construction
Aker Solutions has presented three floating wind foundation designs that can support wind turbines with a capacity of 15 MW and beyond. The floaters, named YFloat, CONFloat-Omega, and CONFloat-7C, all have passive ballast systems, with two being concrete foundations and one steel design. YFloat is t
The European wind industry has proposed a New Offshore Wind Deal for Europe that calls on the governments to auction at least 10 GW of new offshore wind capacity per year, in total, from 2031 to 2040, while the industry has committed to reducing the levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) by 30 per cen
Navantia Seanergies and Semco Maritime have signed an agreement to partner on building offshore substations and offering lifecycle support. Under the agreement, the two companies will combine their experience and capabilities – that of an industrial-scale manufacturer in offshore wind and an HVAC of
The Norwegian Ministry of Energy has notified the European Free Trade Association’s (EFTA) Surveillance Authority (ESA) of the support model for a floating wind project in the Utsira Nord area and expects to open the tender for the area as soon as ESA has approved the model. The tender will be carri
ZTT Submarine Cable & System (ZTTSC) has been awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for the Yangjiang Fanshi II offshore wind project in China. As part of this initiative, ZTTSC will deploy a 500 kV three-core AC submarine cable system, stretching 92 kilometres to tran
Fugro and Spoor have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop a new AI bird-monitoring solution for offshore wind projects. The solution uses video cameras installed on Fugro’s SEAWATCH wind LiDAR and other metocean buoys to record bird activity at offshore wind farm locations. Spoor’s
Luxcara has signed an inter-array cable contract with Twentsche Kabelfabriek BV (TKF) for the Waterkant offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Under this contract, TKF will be responsible for the 66 kV inter-array aluminum core cables and accessories, totalling 130 kilometres. The supply scope
Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has received an Approval in Principle (AiP) from Bureau Veritas for its full liquid hydrogen-based service operation vessel (SOV). The liquid-hydrogen SOV is said to be able to operate 95 per cent of the time with zero carbon emissions, with the vessel only releasing wa
DEME has signed an agreement to acquire Havfram, an international offshore wind contractor based in Norway. Havfram is primarily owned by Sandbrook Capital, a private investment firm focused on climate infrastructure, and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), one of Canada’s
