Edda Wind has entered into agreements for the potential sale of its fleet of service operation vessels (SOVs) and commissioning SOVs (CSOVs), including newbuilds, with two buyers amongst which the fleet will be split: North Star and an affiliate of Navigare Capital Partners. The vessel operator said
The first wind turbine is now in place at the 1.1 GW Thor offshore wind farm site in Denmark. Thor will comprise 72 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-236 DD wind turbines, of which 40 will feature recyclable rotor blades, with 36 turbine towers to be manufactured with a significantly lower carbon footprint than
The 220 MW Kitakyushu Hibikinada, Japan’s largest offshore wind farm, commenced commercial operation on 2 March. Located in the Hibikinada Sea, off the coast of Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, the offshore wind farm comprises 25 Vestas V174-9.6 MW turbines, the last of which was installed in au
Aventus Energy, a specialist inspection, repair and maintenance provider to the offshore energy industry, has secured a contract for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm, with the year-long scope covering foundation acceptance at the Port of Leith. The Scotland-based company, which says this is its larg
The first of the 95 GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbines has been installed at Dogger Bank B, the second phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK. This is according to the information in a Notice to Mariners issued by the project on 2 March, which states the wind turbine installation [&hellip
Ocean Winds has entered into an agreement for lease with the Crown Estate for a 1.5 GW floating offshore wind project, for which the developer secured a site in the Round 5 seabed auction last year. Offshore Wind Leasing Round 5, the UK’s first dedicated floating wind seabed leasing round, was launc
Jack-up vessels Wind Osprey and Wind Pace will start installing wind turbines at the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site in the UK around 18 March. Both vessels will mobilise at the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark, with first load-out for Wind Osprey expected on 15 March, while the first load-out for
The Philippines’ Department of Energy (DOE) has opened a registration period for potential bidders to qualify for the Fifth Auction Round of the Green Energy Auction Program (GEA-5), officially starting activities for the country’s first offshore wind auction. The registration for pre-qualification
OEG has taken the delivery of a multi-purpose crew transfer vessel (CTV), named Fulmar, which recently completed sea trials and will soon be deployed on the Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland. Fulmar will be supporting the offshore construction of the 1.1 GW offshore wind farm under a contract
Dajin Heavy Industry has shipped first Hornsea 3 monopiles to the UK onboard its new ultra-large, heavy-cargo deck carrier, King One. The Chinese foundation manufacturer recently announced that it named the new vessel and sent off King One on its maiden voyage, not revealing the project the deck car
Steelwind Nordenham has used a Sherwin-Williams coating solution for monopiles the German foundation manufacturer produced for EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm. The coating selected for the project is Sherwin-Williams’ Dura-Plate SW-501 system, described as a solvent-free epoxy designed to form a
Dajin Offshore has signed a PLN 47 million (approximately EUR 11 million) contract with Szczecin Shipyard “Wulkan” that will see the Polish state-owned shipyard manufacture components for one of the biggest offshore wind projects in Germany. The Chinese manufacturer, which has been contracted by RWE
Heerema Marine Contractors has put its semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Thialf, the second-largest SSCV in the world, through a lifetime extension programme, with the vessel currently undergoing the first stage of the work in Rotterdam, ahead of its mobilisation for a Polish offshore wind projec
On 25 February, the President of the Polish Energy Regulatory Office (URE) published a formal update stating that the regulator has granted a “promise of concession” for the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm, which is jointly developed by Polish utility PGE and Danish energy company Ørsted. This is the s
