Industrial digitalisation could enable significant opportunities for export growth in the UK offshore wind sector, according to the latest UK Made Smarter Review – previously known as the Industrial Digitalisation review.
Swire Seabed has signed a contract with Siem Offshore for up to three years bareboat charter of Siem’s Light Construction Vessel (LCV) Siem Stingray, which will be re-named Seabed Stingray and used in the renewables, IMR, and construction support sectors.
Vattenfall has issued a preliminary environmental information report revealing project details related to the 1.8GW Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind farm.
DONG Energy has issued a call for tenders looking for certification bodies for the assessment of the site conditions at its Borssele 1 & 2 sites. The contracted party will evaluate whether a site conditions assessment has been carried out and documented adequately.
On 25 October, French Council of State rejected the motion put in place by three organisations against the authorisation of construction of the 480MW Parc du Banc de Guérande wind project under the French Water Act.
Vineyard Wind, an offshore wind energy developer vying to build the first utility-scale project off the coast of Massachusetts, has named Lars Thaaning Pedersen as its new CEO and Iain Henderson as CFO.
The developers of the commercial offshore wind farms in the Dutch Borssele Zone (which also comprises a demonstration site) are looking to sell electricity to corporations, according to Reuters.
The second campaign of the installation of two export cables in the export corridors and construction site of the Beatrice offshore wind farm will start around 2 November, according to the project’s Notice to Mariners.
Minister of Energy, Utilities and Climate Lars Christian Lilleholt gave an approval to the Viking Link project, almost 760km long 1,400MW HVDC interconnector that will link the British and Danish transmission systems.
The last four towers for MHI Vestas 8.25MW wind turbines for the Walney Extension West have set sail from the Belfast Harbour, the project’s pre-assembly port, according to the port’s social media pages.
DONG Energy will start trading under the ticker symbol Orsted as of 31 October, after the shareholders approved the plan to change the company’s name to Ørsted.
Moray Offshore Windfarm East (Ltd) plans to install one hundred 9.5MW wind turbines for its 950MW offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth and has now selected MHI Vestas as the preferred turbine supplier.
DeepOcean’s Board of Directors has announced that COO Ottar Mæland will take over the responsibilities as the company’s acting CEO.
SPT Offshore has launched a new wind turbine suction pile foundation concept, which combines mono tubulars with suction pile foundations. The company is now detailing the design and working towards a demonstration in the next 12 months.
