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Siemens Financial Services Sells Its Stake in Veja Mate Offshore Wind Farm

Equinor Teams Up with UK Integrated Smart Energy Lab to Bolster Offshore Wind Industry

Equinor has partnered with Integrated Smart Energy Laboratory (ISEL), a sub-group of the North East Energy Catalyst, through which the developer will work with the UK research institutions to support research and development activities targeted at key offshore wind industry challenges. ISEL combines

Moray West OWF Set for Geophysical and Geotechnical Site Surveys

Offshore geophysical and geotechnical site investigations will soon begin at the Moray West offshore wind project in Scotland. The investigation will be carried out on the site located on the Smith Bank in the Outer Moray Firth, approximately 22.5 kilometres from the Caithness coastline, covering an

Tekmar Gets Offshore Wind Order from Japan

Tekmar has secured a contract to deliver an integrated engineering solution, including cable protection systems (CPS) and cable hang-off clamps, for an offshore wind project in Japan. Tekmar said that the contract is set to be delivered next year. The UK-based company did not reveal any other detail

Vos Prodect Wins Contract for Baltic Eagle Offshore Wind Project

Vos Prodect has secured a contract by TKF to deliver the cable hang-off systems for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind project in the German Baltic Sea. A tailored load test program has been created specifically for the project that will be executed at Vos Prodect’s bespoke test facility in Klazienaveen

Dutch Company to Build Prototype Crane for 20 MW Offshore Wind Turbines

The Netherlands-based Tetrahedron, together with its consortium members Jack-Up Barge BV, TNO, Shell, and GE, has unveiled plans to construct a 130-metre tall prototype crane for next-generation offshore wind turbines. This comes after the consortium received a grant from the Dutch Government, a loa

Sunly Homeports Its Offshore Wind Plans at Port of Tallinn

Estonian renewable energy developer, Sunly, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Port of Tallinn on realising its offshore wind projects in the Baltic States by using Port of Tallinn-owned harbours to build and maintain its planned wind farms offshore Estonia, as well as Latvia and Lith

Geophysical Surveys Coming Up for Shell’s Floating Wind Project in Ireland

Green Rebel Marine will undertake a geophysical site survey campaign at the site of the Emerald floating offshore wind project in the North Celtic Sea, off the south coast of Ireland. The surveys will be conducted by the vessel Roman Rebel, using multibeam echosounders and ultra-high-resolution surv

Construction Starts on Mammoth Offshore Wind Monopile Factory in UK

Construction works on the new offshore wind foundation factory in the UK, which will produce XXL monopiles, started on 7 July. The new facility, located at Redcar’s Teesworks, is being built by SeAH, a subsidiary of South Korea’s pipe manufacturer SeAH Steel Holdings, and will produce between 100 an

Lithuanian Oil & LNG Company Joins PKN Orlen in Offshore Wind Market

Lithuanian operator of oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, KN (Klaipėdos Nafta AB), has signed a letter of intent with two companies in the Polish Orlen group, Orlen Neptun I and Energa Wytwarzanie, on cooperation in providing operation and maintenance (O&M) services for offshore wind far

Saipem Installs Saint-Brieuc OSS, Delivers Formosa 2 Jacket Foundations

Saipem has reported that the company reached two important milestones in offshore wind this month following the installation of the offshore substation at the Saint-Brieuc wind farm site in France and the delivery of the final of its batch of jacket foundations for the Formosa 2 offshore wind farm i

Equinor’s UK Offshore Wind Farm Extensions Identified as ‘Pathfinder’ Projects

Equinor’s Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm Extension Projects (SEP and DEP) in the UK have been identified as ‘Pathfinder’ projects under the Offshore Transmission Network Review (OTNR). These projects are deemed as having the potential to deliver benefits on better coordinated offsho

Survey Starting at Scottish Floating Offshore Wind Project

A geophysical and environmental survey is set to soon commence at the Salamander floating offshore wind project off the coast of Scotland in the North Sea. The geophysical survey and benthic drop-down video and grab survey activities are expected to commence on 26 July at the earliest and run until

Norwegian Duo to Soon Reach FID for Swedish Offshore Wind Farm

Norway-based Cloudberry Clean Energy has partnered with its compatriot Hafslund to develop the Stenkalles Grund shallow-water wind project in the lake Vänern in Sweden. The companies will form a 50/50 joint venture by Hafslund acquiring 50 per cent of the shares in Cloudberry Offshore Wind which ind