An offshore subsea construction vessel (OSCV) that Norwegian shipbuilder Vard is building for Taiwan-based Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) has been launched in Romania and will now go to Norway for final outfitting. The 121.3-metre-long vessel of Vard 3 39 design is said to be a highly versatile platform d
The Windanker offshore wind farm has started feeding electricity into the German grid, according to the transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz, which built the Ostwind 3 grid connection that links Iberdrola’s Baltic Sea offshore wind farm to the grid. 50Hertz said on 31 August that in coordinati
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission (CEC) are suing the Trump administration and Golden State Wind LLC over what the plaintiffs say was an unlawful buyout of Golden State Wind’s offshore wind energy lease. The lawsuit, filed on 28 August, is challenging a part
TenneT Netherlands has selected compatriot survey company Deep to perform annual offshore cable integrity surveys between 2026 and 2029. Deep announced today, 31 August, that it would use hydrographic and geophysical techniques to determine the level of seabed cover above the cables, identify object
Twenty-two wind turbines are in place at the Nordseecluster A offshore wind farm site, around 50 kilometres north of the German island of Juist, where 44 Vestas V236-15.0 MW turbines are being installed by DEME’s vessel Norse Wind. The wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), which is capable of tra
Acta Marine’s new construction service operation vessel (CSOV), Acta Gemini, has started operating at the Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK after the vessel completed its shakedown and mobilisation period. Under a long-term charter agreement with RWE, Acta Gemini will provide offshore accommodation
Heerema Fabrication Group has completed the first structural element for the jacket foundation for TenneT’s 2 GW IJmuiden Ver Beta transformer platform at its yard in Vlissingen. During the first so-called roll-up, the 1,700-tonne steel element was lifted from a horizontal position into a controlled
Borkum Riffgrund 3, a 913 MW offshore wind farm in Germany owned by Ørsted and Nuveen Infrastructure, has been commissioned and is now in commercial operation. Located about 72 kilometres off the coast in the German North Sea, Borkum Riffgrund 3 comprises 83 Siemens Gamesa 11 MW turbines, whose inst
Seaway7 is set to begin installing the pin piles for the jacket foundations at the 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland, according to a Notice to Mariners issued by Inch Cape Offshore Limited. Meanwhile, the project’s wind turbine components have been arriving at the Port of Dundee ahead
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
Trianel Windpark Borkum I (TWB I) has prequalified around 70 MW of capacity for Germany’s balancing energy market and began supplying negative secondary control reserve in July 2026. The marketing of the balancing capacity started on 22 July, allowing the offshore wind farm to provide an additional
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
