BW Ideol’s 2 MW Floatgen floating wind turbine has been in operation for eight years at the SEM-REV offshore test site off Le Croisic, France, with cumulative electricity production now exceeding 40 GWh. The turbine, installed on BW Ideol’s concrete Damping Pool floating foundation, entered operatio
Encomara’s Squid connection system for floating offshore wind has reached Technology Readiness Level 7/8 following inshore trials at Ardersier Port in Scotland, with the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) recognising the technology as ready for commercial manufacture at scale. The Aberdeen-based comp
F.lli Righini S.p.A., a leading engineering and manufacturing company specialized in offshore equipment, has successfully designed, tested and delivered advanced Secondary Structure Installation Tools (SSIT) for Van Oord’s Baltica 2 Offshore Wind Project. The supplied systems were developed to suppo
NextOcean has secured a contract to equip Esvagt’s service operation vessel (SOV) Esvagt Njord with its WavePredictor vessel-motion prediction technology. The system will be used to support offshore operations at the Dudgeon offshore wind farm in the UK, where Esvagt Njord has been deployed for oper
Tokyo-based JFE Engineering Corporation has produced what it says is Japan’s first domestically manufactured monopile for an offshore wind farm. The monopile is destined for the 315 MW Oga–Katagami–Akita project, owned by a consortium consisting of JERA Nex BP, Electric Power Development (J-POWER),
TotalEnergies Gas & Power Limited has entered into a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) for electricity produced by the Walney 1 & 2 offshore wind farms in the UK. The company signed the PPA with Offshore Partners Walney (OPW), which holds a 24.8 per cent ownership stake in Walney 1 & 2, major
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has launched a tender for preliminary geophysical investigation of offshore wind sites in Zones 3 and 4 of the German North Sea exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The contract, covering work in 2027 and 2028, will enable collecting seabed and subs
Taiwan’s Energy Administration is processing the termination of the administrative contract for the 700 MW Youde offshore wind project, developed by Shinfox Energy. According to Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA), the Energy Administration confirmed on 24 August that the developer had not completed
Tokyo Electric Power Company Renewable Power (TEPCO RP) has begun the environmental assessment process for a planned offshore wind farm of up to 420 MW off Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, one of the areas included in Japan’s first fixed-bottom offshore wind auction round, which was originally secured by a
Norwegian company Glamox has secured a contract to supply marine lighting for 35 wind turbine foundations at the Formosa 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The company will provide more than 900 marine luminaires for the transition pieces of the turbines under an agreement with ProCon Taiwan and SK oce
Ørsted, on behalf of the joint venture with PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna, which is building the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea, has selected Northern Helicopter for the provision of medevac services during the project’s construction. The contract, valued at a little ov
MacGregor has received DNV certification for floating-to-floating (F2F) personnel transfers using its Horizon gangway following a sea acceptance test. For F2F operations, the gangway uses a purpose-designed flap at its tip instead of the docking head used for conventional fixed-structure landings. L
