RWE has placed a firm wind turbine order with Vestas for its 1,380 MW Vanguard East offshore wind project in the UK, shortly after confirming a firm order for Vanguard West, which will have the same installed capacity. For Vanguard East, Vestas will supply, deliver, and commission 92 of its V236-15.
The power purchase agreement (PPA) that Munich Airport awarded to RWE through a recently closed tender is for the German developer’s new offshore wind farm Nordseecluster A, according to a press release RWE issued on 10 March. As reported in January, RWE came out as the winner in a tender that Munic
Jan De Nul is expanding its fleet with the addition of two trenching support vessels, with the first being a newbuild and the other to be converted from a water injection dredger. The new trenching support vessel, of an Ulstein design and to be built at the China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) ship
UK-based Venterra Group announced two new business developments within its group of companies over the past few days, as INSPIRE Environmental expanded into Scotland and GeoForce Technical Services launched an advanced geotechnical soil testing capability. INSPIRE Environmental has opened a permanen
Interocean Marine Services has signed a master services agreement with JERA Nex BP to provide marine consultancy and assurance services in support of offshore wind operations in the North Sea and globally. Under the agreement, Interocean will deliver a range of marine services from its base in Aberd
The following article is a contribution by Bruno Geschier, the Chairman of WFO’s Floating Offshore Wind Committee and the Chairman of FOWT’s Scientific and Technical Committee. Floating offshore wind stands at a pivotal juncture in its evolution. In just over a decade, it has progressed from an intr
Lamprell, a UK manufacturer of offshore wind foundations with facilities in the Middle East, and RTE International, a subsidiary of RTE France specialising in electricity transmission engineering, have signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which the two companies plan to team up
Oriel Windfarm Ltd, a joint venture between ESB and JERA Nex BP, has awarded a contract to Fugro for a detailed geotechnical site investigation for the Oriel offshore wind project in Ireland. The work will inform the design and installation of foundations for 25 offshore wind turbines that will make
This article was updated to add information about Mitsui O.S.K.’s (MOL) acquisition of a stake in Deutsche Offshore Schifffahrt and shares in the company’s C-CSOVs. The first steel has been cut for the first of Deutsche Offshore Schifffahrt’s (DO) four construction commissioning service operation ve
Singapore-based shipbuilder Strategic Marine has delivered the first two Supa Swath vessels to UK operator Mainprize Offshore, marking the initial handover under a multi-vessel programme agreed between the companies in 2024. The delivery represents the first milestone in a contract covering six vess
Quoceant has been awarded a contract by Ocean Winds to provide engineering support to the 390 MW BC-Wind offshore wind farm in Poland. Quoceant’s scope of work covers review of documentation, development of calculations and tools to support the Ocean Winds engineering team decisions, as well as the
Palfinger has secured a contract to supply PF 200 fully electric offshore cranes for the Formosa 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. As part of the contract for Synera Renewables Taiwan (SRE), Palfinger will supply 35 units of PF 200 fully electric offshore cranes, each with a 7-meter outreach. They wil
Greece’s Asso.subsea has signed the shipbuilding contract with China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) for the construction of a second next-generation trenching support vessel (TSV), sister to the one announced in September 2025. The TSV Andromeda will be built at CMHI’s Shenzhen Shipyard, where the
Norwegian Offshore Wind and the German-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce have established a joint German–Norwegian offshore wind working group that will serve as a platform for dialogue between industry, policymakers and market actors in both countries. The new working group, which builds on the German-
