Swedish floating wind technology developer has reported a SEK 115 million (nearly EUR 11 million) impairment related to its TwinHub floating wind project in the UK. Hexicon’s project secured a Contract for Difference (CfD) in the UK government’s fourth allocation round (AR4) in 2022 at a strike pric
Smulders has contracted KCI Offshore Engineering, a subsidiary of Sif Group, for the design of the jacket foundation that will support the offshore substation (OSS) for the 600 MW Dunkerque offshore wind farm in France. Under the contract, KCI will perform the basic and detailed design, including fa
Century Wind Power has produced the first jacket foundations for the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan, owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The production is ramping up ahead of the foundation installation that is scheduled to start this year, according to a recent social media
The HSI Joint Venture, comprising HSM Offshore Energy, Smulders, and Iv, has rolled out the topside of the second offshore substation (OSS) for the German offshore wind farm Gennaker at HSM Offshore Energy’s yard in Schiedam, the Netherlands. The joint venture will now work toward the upcoming load-
The first wind turbine is now in place at the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) site in the US. The 2.6 GW offshore wind farm, owned by Dominion Energy, will comprise 176 Siemens Gamesa 14 MW wind turbines and will be able to generate enough electricity to power over 900,000 homes once fully ope
Skyborn Renewables has awarded Seaway7 a contract for the transportation and installation (T&I) of the 63 monopiles and transition pieces (TPs) at the Gennaker offshore wind farm in Germany. Offshore activities are expected to commence in 2027, according to Seaway7’s parent company Subsea7, which qu
The US government’s offshore wind construction pause left a dent in GE Vernova’s numbers for the fourth quarter of 2025, which might get deeper if wind turbine works at the Vineyard Wind 1 site offshore Massachusetts are not completed according to the project’s current schedule. The US wind turbine
The Scottish government, through Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), has approved a GBP 1.8 million (around EUR 2 million) investment in the early development of a new expansion project proposed by Stornoway Port, located on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. The funding will support the i
The German government has decided to postpone the tenders for the N-10.1 and N-10.2 offshore wind sites, which were planned to be put up for auction this year after not receiving any bids in 2025. The sites are now planned to be tendered out in 2027, with the exact date to be determined by the Feder
Jan De Nul has constructed and floated the remaining concrete structures for the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Energy Island at the Vlissingen site in the Netherlands. The concrete caissons are now at the Scaldia terminal, where they will undergo final works before being installed offshore this spring.
The 1.5 GW Mona offshore wind farm, owned by JERA Nex BP, and the 480 MW Morecambe, owned by Copehnagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), have entered into lease with the Crown Estate. The developers secured the project sites in the Irish Sea in the Crown Estate’s UK Round 4 leasing at the beginning of
DeepOcean has upgraded a multifunctional subsea support and construction vessel it chartered from Olympic Subsea with dedicated cable-lay and installation capacity for offshore wind. The two Norwegian companies entered into a two-year time charter agreement for Olympic Ares in March 2023, with an op
The consortium between Semco Maritime and PTSC Mechanical & Construction has cut the first steel for the Formosa 4 offshore substation (OSS) at PTSC M&C’s fabrication yard in Vung Tau, Vietnam. Under a contract awarded in late August 2025, the consortium is responsible for the design, procurement, c
Denmark and Germany reached an agreement on Bornholm Energy Island in the Baltic Sea, including the allocation of costs related to offshore wind, at the North Sea Summit in Hamburg on 26 January. The two countries signed an agreement for the Bornholm Energy Island in 2023, which was the first legall
