Part of the operative management of Arenso Oy has acquired the company’s offshore wind business, including its brand, bringing a new reshuffle following the 2024 demerger of Suomen Hyötytuuli Oy. Under the transaction, Arenso’s offshore wind team, along with its foundation technology and bird radar
Spanish energy major Iberdrola is set to increase its ownership in Neoenergia to 98 per cent after a strong shareholder response to its takeover bid, marking one of the largest delisting transactions in Brazil to date, the company said on 9 April. Following the auction related to the offer launched
South Korea has completed the financial close structure for the 390 MW Shinan Ui offshore wind project, with funding set to begin flowing into construction from the second quarter of 2026. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) announced on 9 April that a project financing agreement has been signed
Boskalis’s new subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel, described by the company as the largest in the industry, has arrived in the Netherlands for final outfitting and commissioning ahead of its first assignment later this year. Windpiper, whose purchase Boskalis announced in January 2025, was develo
Fugro will conduct a UXO survey at the Morecambe Bay area this month, ahead of a geotechnical site investigation for the Morecambe offshore wind project that is planned to start in May 2026. The UXO work will be undertaken by the survey vessel Fugro Frontier and is planned to commence around 10 Apri
Waters off Denmark’s west coast are now home to what RWE says is the world’s first offshore wind turbine featuring a CO2‑reduced steel tower and recyclable rotor blades. The 1.1 GW Thor offshore wind farm, currently under construction some 22 kilometres off the west coast of Jutland, will comprise 7
DEME recently held a naming ceremony for its new offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Norse Wind, at the Port of Oslo, Norway. The new vessel was ordered from CIMC Raffles Shipyard in China by Norwegian offshore wind contractor Havfram, which DEME acquired in April 2025, and was deliver
Chantiers de l’Atlantique, EDF power solutions, Heerema Marine Contractors, Menck, RTE, Sealence and Smulders have formed the Searénité consortium to develop a dedicated solution designed to limit underwater noise generated during offshore construction, particularly for floating wind and substation
The hull of NKT’s new cable-laying vessel (CLV) NKT Eleonora has been launched into the water at Vard’s shipyard in Tulcea, Romania. The official keel laying for the vessel took place in January 2025, some two months after the first steel was cut. NKT Eleonora will be able to run on both methanol an
Three organisations for nature conservation and restoration have launched a new collaborative project to accelerate the large-scale development of native oyster reefs at offshore wind farms in the North Sea. The initiative, called TOPPING (The Oystrification Program for Practical Integrated Nature G
A 504 MW offshore wind farm developed by China Huaneng Group (CHNG) was fully commissioned on 7 April. The Shandong Peninsula North wind farm has been built at a site located some 70 kilometres off the coast of Shandong Province, where water depth ranges between 52 and 56 metres, making this China’s
Jan De Nul has launched William Thomson, the second of two identical subsea cable‑laying vessels currently under construction. Both vessels have a cargo capacity of 28,000 tonnes and a length of 215 metres. This makes them the largest of their kind, Jan De Nul said. Jan De Nul’s two new cable-laying
Orlen Neptun has selected a consortium of Ramboll, Projmors ASE Group, and Enprom to advance the technical planning and permitting for its 900 MW Baltic East offshore wind farm in Poland. Ramboll’s Polska team will oversee the overall management of the project, perform FEED design of the offshore co
The Netherlands will introduce a new offshore electricity bidding zone for wind farms that will be linked to the planned 1.8 GW LionLink hybrid interconnector, which will connect the Dutch and UK grids. The LionLink project was launched in April 2023 and is led by the countries’ transmission system
