Celtic Sea Power has awarded the Aberdeen-based engineering consultants, Apollo, with the pre-FEED contract for the 400 MW Pembrokeshire Demonstration Zone Multi-connection Offshore Substation (PDZ MOS) and 2x 1 GW MOSs targeting The Crown Estate Refined Area of Search (RAoS) A offshore Wales. Locat
Dutch supplier of maritime technology, Royal IHC, has reached an agreement to sell its subsidiary, IQIP Holding, to HAL Investments. IQIP is active in the foundations and installations segments in the offshore wind market. The sale involves the transfer of 100 per cent of the shares of IQIP Holding
NOTE: The article was updated on 28 March with information about the deployment of a floating LiDAR at the Muir Mhòr offshore site. The UK-headquartered company EGS Survey will carry out a survey campaign at the Muir Mhòr floating wind project site in Scotland, being developed by Fred. Olsen Seawind
EnBW has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 50 MW of power from the 900 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm with the Stuttgart-based technology and services company, Robert Bosch GmbH (Bosch). The output is equivalent to around 200 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year. The power purchase agre
Norwegian renewable energy developers Vårgrønn and Å Energi, together with UK-based Corio Generation have entered into a partnership dedicated to developing sustainable offshore wind in Norway. The consortium will operate under the Brigg Vind brand, which was launched in the lead-up to the first Nor
France-based green hydrogen specialist Lhyfe has acquired a 49 per cent stake in Flexens, a Finnish renewable hydrogen and Power-to-X project developer. According to Lhyfe, the two companies will combine their expertise and commercial pipelines to accelerate current projects and identify new opportu
The Japan Marine United (JMU) shipyard delivered the GustoMSC designed and equipped offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) to Shimizu Corporation at the end of January. Shimizu unveiled plans to build a wind farm installation vessel back in 2019. The vessel, which is of GustoMSC SC-14000XL
Offshore wind service vessel company Edda Wind has signed contracts with the Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas for its commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs) in 2024 and 2025. According to Edda Wind, the contracts total a minimum of 750 days of firm work with options for extension of
Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has acquired ST3 Offshore in the sixth tendering round since the Polish offshore steel foundations manufacturer declared bankruptcy. ”On March 20, in the court Sąd Rejonowy Szczecin-Centrum XII Wydział Gospodarczy w Szczecinie an auction for the purchase of ST
The Dutch government has designated an area for what will become the world’s largest offshore hydrogen production project. That area is Ten noorden van de Waddeneilanden (the North of the Wadden Islands), identified earlier for offshore wind development and deemed most suitable for providing 500 MW
Jan De Nul has picked Royal Wagenborg to transport monopile foundations for the Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms in Germany. The first batch of the TP-less foundations for the Gode Wind 3 project was shipped from Steelwind’s manufacturing site in Nordenham, Germany, to the Port
Denmark’s A.P. Møller Holding (A.P. Moller Holding) has entered into an agreement to acquire Maersk Supply Service from A.P Møller – Mærsk. The ambition is to establish a leading offshore marine company servicing the offshore wind industry by building on the solid and extensive capabilities and asse
The Danish Energy Agency has resumed the assessment of the Jammerland Bugt, Lillebælt South, Omø South, and Nordre Flint offshore wind farms which are part of the recently paused open-door tendering scheme. In February, the Danish Energy Agency suspended the processing of 33 open-door offshore wind
On 13 March, Ørsted and Eversource announced that they had submitted a proposal for an 884 MW offshore wind farm in Rhode Island’s offshore wind solicitation. At the end of last week, Rhode Island Energy confirmed this was the sole response to its request for proposals (RFP). “Although we had hoped
