MHI Vestas Offshore Wind and Vattenfall have signed a contract for the supply V164-8.0 MW turbines to Denmark’s 400 MW Horns Rev 3 project, which is set to produce the world’s cheapest offshore wind power, the turbine maker said. The contract was signed following Vattenfall’s announcement of the fin
Engie Fabricom and Iemants completed the load-out of the topside for the 258MW Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm at the ENGIE Fabricom’s Hoboken yard on 30 May. The 1180-tonne topside was placed next to the 985-tonne offshore substation jacket on the pontoon. The jacket was loaded onto the pon
Bibby Offshore has purchased a power cable lay carousel from Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS), which will enable Bibby Offshore to lay offshore wind power cables from its vessels. The two companies have also reported that they entered into strategic alliance, joining Bibby Offshore’s subsea project manag
Swedish state-owned energy company Vattenfall is about to start the construction of the 400MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm off the west coast of Denmark, which once commissioned in 2018 will be the largest offshore wind farm in Danish waters. The total investment into the project will be just over
Representatives from the Nantes – Saint-Nazaire Port have used the International Week of Transport and Logistics to provide an update on the expansion project which is expected to turn the port into a link between factories in the region and future offshore wind farms. At this event, Jean-Pierre Cha
Sif Holding N.V. has announced that ABN AMRO and HSBC, acting as joint global coordinators, have partially exercised an over-allotment option included in the company’s initial public offering (IPO) on Euronext Amsterdam, which increased a free float to around 33% of the company’s shares. ABN AMRO an
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier appointed Casper Toft as its new Managing Director this week. Toft comes from the position of Sales Director for MHI Vestas Offshore. He was working for seven years in business development, sales and marketing at Vestas Offshore. Toft was also involved in the commercial launc
The construction of the first wind turbine to be installed off the French coast – Floatgen – was officially launched today. The 2MW offshore wind turbine, set to be put into operation for the first time in 2017, will feature the first full-scale demonstrator of the ring-shaped floating foundation de
German public seaports operator Niedersachsen Ports has awarded a contract for the reconstruction of a harbour area in Cuxhaven to a German consortium which includes Bilfinger Marine & Offshore Systems GmbH, Tiefbau GmbH Unterweser, Nordsee Nassbagger, and Tiefbau GmbH. The Erweiterung Europakai Cux
The Big Max cable laying barge will start installing the 20-mile submarine cable which will export the electricity produced by the the first US offshore wind farm, the 30MW Block Island, to the mainland later this week. The National Grid (Sea2Shore) subsea cable will connect Block Island, to Naragan
Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN), a French engineering school and research institution, has selected an international consortium led by Le Béon Manufacturing to supply the material needed for anchoring Floatgen, a floating wind turbine demonstrator developed by the French company Ideol. The concept is
CWind will be exhibiting the third of its aluminium catamarans, the Typhoon TOW, at Seawork this month, together with Aluminium Marine Consultants (AMC), the vessel’s manufacturer. The Typhoon TOW has started its contract off the coast of Kent since joining the fleet in mid-May. This is the third al
E.ON has chosen SGS, a Hamburg-based inspection, verification, testing and certification company, to carry out periodic service inspections at the 302MW Amrumbank West offshore wind farm located some 35 kilometers north of the Heligoland in the North Sea. Under the contract, SGS will perform periodi
A 1,500-tonne steel jacket which will support an offshore substation at the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm has been installed in the seabed some 32 kilometres off Cromer, Norfolk. The jacket structure, built by Sembmarine SLP Ltd, was sunk into the seabed using suction bucket technology for the fi
