Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners has completed the construction of the 600 MW Changfang-Xidao project in Taiwan, the company’s first offshore wind farms in the Asia Pacific. Located 11 kilometres off the west coast of Taiwan, the Changfang-Xidao offshore wind project is majority-owned by CIP’s Fla
Corio Generation and Bord Gáis Energy have joined forces to explore offshore wind opportunities in Ireland. The agreement represents Bord Gáis Energy’s entry into the offshore wind market while Corio Generation is already involved in the sector and is currently developing the 450 MW Sceirde Rocks wi
UK-based Wood Thilsted has been appointed as the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) wind turbine foundation designer for the 1.5 GW Outer Dowsing offshore wind farm in the UK. Wood Thilsted has completed the first phase of work and will now carry out the second phase of the FEED work. The contracte
The first of two export cables for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust (west Beta) offshore grid connection has been pulled underneath the dunes at Velsen, the Netherlands. In the coming days, the consortium between Boskalis and Orient Cable will bury this 220 kV AC cable into the seabed. Boskalis’ cable-laying
Iberdrola’s third offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, Windanker, will comprise 21 Siemens Gamesa wind turbines, each with a generation capacity of 15 MW. The turbines will be installed by Havfram, with the work scheduled to start in the summer of 2026. Havfram said on 21 May that it signed a contr
Venterra Group company, Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG), and India’s ABAN Power have entered into a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the development and implementation of offshore wind projects, marine and offshore structures, and related initiatives in India and the Asia-Pacific regio
Haventus, the owner of the Ardersier Port in the Moray Firth, Scotland, has taken a final investment decision and kicked off construction work on redeveloping the port to serve both fixed-bottom and floating offshore wind projects. The revamped port is expected to open in the second half of 2025. Th
Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel, Aeolus, has installed the first of 100 monopile foundations at the 1.4 GW Sofia project in the UK, RWE’s largest offshore wind farm to date. The Sofia offshore wind farm is located on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, 195 kilometres from the North East co
The Japanese MODEC and Toyo Construction have jointly obtained approval in principle (AiP) from Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) for a floating structure and tether system and tether pile foundation for tension leg platform (TLP) type floating offshore wind turbine. In 2020, MODEC obtained AiP for the
Several areas offshore Sweden where Ørsted is planning to build wind farms have been designated as energy areas by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management in the review version of the country’s new marine plans for the Baltic Sea. Ørsted has identified several locations in Sweden for the
The jacket foundation for the Hollandse Kust West Beta substation has left the Smulders yard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, and is now being transported to the offshore wind farm site, approximately 53 kilometres off the coast of Egmond aan Zee. On 16 May, the 49-metres-high jacket left the yard in
The first offshore substation (OSS) topside has been installed at the Hai Long offshore wind farm by CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering’s (CDWE) Green Jade vessel in Taiwan. The 1,022 MW Hai Long comprises two offshore wind farms, the 532 MW Hai Long 2 and the 512 MW Hai Long 3 and is being developed in thr
Iberdrola and Avangrid have signed an agreement under which the Spanish company will acquire the stake which it previously did not own in its US subsidiary for USD 2.55 billion (approximately EUR 2.35 billion). Iberdrola, which owns around 81.6 per cent of Avangrid, launched an offer to acquire the
Vestas has signed a conditional agreement for the supply of wind turbines for a large-scale offshore wind project in Europe. The company did not disclose the name of the client or the project. In an update on 17 May, the Danish wind turbine manufacturer said that the offshore wind project was locate
