European wind energy industry organisation, WindEurope, has warned that the negative bidding approach will lead to the bid costs falling onto the supply chain and/or electricity consumers after Germany and the Netherlands closed their latest offshore wind tenders, securing nearly EUR 4 billion in to
Iberdrola has taken the final investment decision (FID) for its Windanker offshore wind farm in Germany, which has now advanced to the delivery phase. Windanker is the third offshore wind project for Iberdrola in the German Baltic Sea. The company already operates the 350 MW Wikinger and is developi
Skyborn Renewables has started site investigations in Finland, at a location where the company plans to build the 2.5 GW Pooki offshore wind farm, an extension of the former Suurhiekka project which was also being developed by Skyborn (wpd at the time). The work started with bird and subsea acoustic
Denmark’s Floating Power Plant has purchased a wind turbine from Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy for its flagship demonstrator project located off the coast of Gran Canaria. According to the company, the selected wind turbine, a 4.3 MW SWT-DD-120 from Siemens Gamesa, fits Floating Power Plant’s requ
TGS, a global provider of energy data and intelligence, will conduct a new campaign for offshore wind and metocean measurement in Morro Bay, off the US West Coast. The deployment is supported by funding from the offshore wind industry and is expected to be launched in the third quarter of 2024. The
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind (Atlantic Shores), a joint venture between Shell New Energies US and EDF-RE Offshore Development, has picked Riggs Distler to lead the Cardiff substation expansion programme for Atlantic Shores Project 1. The contract scope includes the engineering, procurement, constru
The Vineyard Wind 1 project is now delivering more than 136 MW to the electric grid in Massachusetts, making it the largest operating offshore wind project in the US. Vineyard Wind 1, the first large-scale offshore wind project in the US, now has ten turbines in operation totalling approximately 136
The Zhong Neng offshore wind farm in Taiwan, jointly developed by Taiwan-based China Steel Corporation (CSC) and Danish fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), has produced first power. A third of the project’s wind turbines are now in place, CIP said in a press release on 26 June. Of
UK-headquartered 2H has been awarded a four-year integrity management (IM) contract for the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland. The contract’s scope covers IM for all balance of plant (BoP) equipment, including the wind turbine’s monopile foundations and tower structures, inter-array a
Amid the global energy transition, offshore survey and inspection companies are working on decarbonising – but the industry is also going through a transition of its own. Bureau Veritas, Terradepth and Sulmara are among a number of offshore survey companies that are increasingly using autonomous or
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has committed to providing a EUR 1.2 billion loan to support RWE’s development of the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark. According to EIB, the loan will help finance monopile foundations, turbines, inter-array cabling, an offshore converter station, export ca
A consortium of Boskalis and Orient Cable (NBOS) has completed the pull-in and burial of the second export cable for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust West Beta offshore grid connection at the landfall location in Velsen-Noord, the Netherlands. The 700 MW grid connection will link the offshore wind farm that
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has issued the planning approvals for Nordseecluster A, the first phase of RWE’s Nordseecluster offshore wind project. The Nordseecluster offshore wind project is being built around 46 kilometres north of the German island of Borkum and appro
Florida-based St. Johns Ship Building has delivered Windea Enterprise, the second of three Jones Act-compliant crew transporter vessels (CTVs) ordered by Windea CTV, a partnership of Hornblower Wind and MidOcean Wind. This marks the third CTV delivery by St. Johns within six months. At the beginning
