HEA Energy has secured a new offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M) contract in Europe, the company said via social media on 29 April, leaving the project and the client unnamed. The campaign, to be carried out at an offshore wind farm in the North Sea, is scheduled to begin in the summer of
RWE has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with UK construction materials supplier Breedon Group, under which part of the electricity supply will be provided by the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm. The agreement includes RWE delivering around 70 GWh of electricity per year to Breedon unt
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has awarded Fugro a geotechnical site investigation contract for the Fengmiao 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Under the contract, Fugro will deliver a full suite of geotechnical investigation services to support the design and development of the wind farm, wi
The final wind turbine has been installed at the Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier (EMYN) offshore wind farm in France, owned by Ocean Winds, the 50-50 joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE. This marks the completion of the construction of the 488 MW offshore wind farm, located 11.7 kilometres fro
EnBW has awarded framework agreements for subsea inspection services across its offshore wind fleet in the Baltic Sea and North Sea, with RS Diving Contractor selected for both of the two lots covering the company’s assets in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. The contracts, signed on 7 April, cover
EnergyPathways has launched Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for its compressed air energy storage (CAES) project in the East Irish Sea, part of the wider MESH energy development, with the facility designed to store surplus electricity from offshore wind farms and the UK grid. The CAES projec
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has reached agreements with Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind developers to voluntarily terminate their offshore wind leases in exchange for a total of USD 885 million (around EUR 756 million) that they paid in lease fees, which the US will return to the de
Jan De Nul has completed the installation of two export cables for the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm, being built by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) 35 kilometres off the coast of Taichung, Taiwan. The two high-voltage subsea cables, measuring 45 kilometres and 44 kilometres, have been inst
Fugro is set to begin a geotechnical survey campaign at the Caledonia offshore wind project site in May, following earlier geophysical investigations. According to a Notice to Mariners, the first survey vessel is expected on site no earlier than 9 May, with a second vessel scheduled to arrive from 1
Norway-headquartered TGS has marked the two-year milestone of what it describes as the world’s most extensive multi-client floating LiDAR and metocean measurement campaign. The campaign, located in the German Bight, has seen two floating LiDAR buoys deliver more than 96 per cent data availability si
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved financing of up to EUR 700 million for the Gennaker offshore wind farm in Germany, developed by Skyborn Renewables. According to information released by EIB, the project’s total cost is around EUR 3.1 billion. The Gennaker offshore wind farm will be bu
Stillstrom, part of A.P. Moller – Maersk, has introduced two new standalone offshore charging solutions aimed at supporting vessel electrification in offshore wind operations. The new systems, Power Hub and Power Tower, are designed as monopile-based structures that can be deployed independently of
“The European offshore wind industry is gearing up to deliver”, WindEurope said on 23 April as energy ministers from the North Sea countries, together with the industry, transmission system operators (TSOs), and NATO, met in Madrid to discuss the next steps on implementing the Hamburg Declaration, s
Nauticus Robotics, an ocean robotics developer based in Texas, has been awarded a contract to carry out an offshore archaeological investigation along the US East Coast for an offshore wind project. The company said on 23 April that mobilisation was scheduled for early May, with offshore operations
