The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has approved a 30-year electricity production licence to the Thor offshore wind farm, under construction at a site located approximately 22 kilometres off the west coast of Jutland. With a total installed capacity of 1.1 GW, Thor will become Denmark’s largest offshore
Government officials from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK are set to sign a declaration confirming the ambition to build 300 GW of offshore wind in the North Seas by 2050, and an investment pact with the offshore wind industry and transmissi
Australia’s Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) has offered final feasibility licences to three offshore wind projects in the Bunbury zone off the coast of Western Australia, the federal government said on 23 January. Also on 23 January, the government invited ap
Seatrium’s wholly owned subsidiary, Seatrium New Energy, and its consortium partner Aibel have filed for arbitration proceedings in connection with DolWin epsilon, the offshore converter platform of TenneT’s DolWin5 grid connection. The arbitration was initiated under the consortium agreement and fi
Ampelmann Operations, in collaboration with Siemens Gamesa, tested a cargo drone at the Hollandse Kust Nord offshore wind farm in the Netherlands this winter, with the drone successfully moving materials from a service operations vessel (SOV) to offshore wind turbines and back again. According to Am
Ocean services provider DeepOcean has completed trenching and survey operations at a US offshore wind project under a contract awarded by what it says is a global provider of engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI). DeepOcean’s scope of work included trenching and surveying of
RWE and Nordic renewable energy player Aneo have signed an agreement under which Aneo will acquire RWE’s Swedish wind energy activities, including the Karehamn offshore wind farm. Aneo, headquartered in Norway, is also acquiring RWE’s onshore wind development pipeline of 1.8 GW, its onshore wind far
Wind turbine installation on Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) has started with the first of the project’s 176 Siemens Gamesa 14 MW wind turbines currently being erected. Virginia-based broadcaster WAVY reported on 21 January that a wind turbine tower was being installed
EEW SPC has loaded out the first batch of monopiles for the Baltica 2 offshore wind project, being built in Poland by Ørsted and PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna. “Our operations at Rostock harbor provide a key logistical benefit to the project’s supply chain. As a non-tidal port, it allows us to execu
Wind turbine installation at EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany has reached the halfway mark with 32 of the total of 64 Vestas 15 MW turbines now in place, the developer said on 22 January. Cadeler’s installation vessel Wind Orca installed the first V236-15.0 MW wind turbine at the He Dr
The global fleet of offshore wind installation vessels could support achieving up to 400 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030, provided that additional vessels are ordered and deployed, alongside supportive market conditions, according to a scenario study by the Kuehne Climate Center. The study also
The Yunlin offshore wind farm has been awarded a DNV Project Certificate DNV-SE-0190, becoming the first offshore wind project in Taiwan to achieve this standard, according to the wind farm owner. The third-party assessment was applied to the entire project, including foundations, wind turbines, and
The Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm in Scotland is launching what the project owner says is the country’s largest seabird monitoring study, aimed at gathering detailed data on bird behaviour around offshore wind turbines. The 450 MW wind farm, located around 15.5 kilometres off the Fife co
Vard has delivered a new vessel built for Norwind Offshore, Norwind Maestro, which will be deployed on a German offshore wind farm. The new commissioning service operations vessel (CSOV) is built to the VARD 4 19 design and constructed at Vard Shipyards Romania, with final outfitting, commissioning,
