The Seattle-based offshore wind developer, Trident Winds Inc., has submitted an unsolicited lease request to the US Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) for a commercial lease to pursue the permitting, development, construction, operation, and maintenance of the first floating offshore wind
Offshore wind developer Vattenfall and De Rijke Noordzee (The Rich North Sea) are jointly investigating the effect of water replenishment holes in wind turbine foundations on the surrounding sea life. The research is being carried out on Vattenfall’s 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm, the world’s
CDWE, a joint venture between the Taiwanese shipbuilder CSBC and DEME Offshore, has launched Green Jade, the first floating, DP3 heavy lift and installation vessel to be built in Taiwan. The launching ceremony was held at CSBC’s shipyard in Kaohsiung, where the vessel was also built. CSBC now expect
Kongsberg Maritime (KM) has won two contracts, one with Integrated Wind Solutions (IWS) to supply two Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs) with integrated equipment solution, and the other with Sembcorp Marine to supply the Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV) with comprehensive techno
Classification society ClassNK has issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) for the design of a floating offshore hydrogen production plant developed by Japan Offshore Design & Engineering Platform Technology & Engineering Research Association (J-DeEP). The amount of power generated by offshore wind tu
Innosea has announced that its engineering and consulting scope of work on the FLOTANT project has been completed. The project, funded by the European Horizon 2020 Research programme, aims to develop optimised mooring, anchoring, and subsea interconnection arrangement for floating offshore wind turb
German-based HeliService International GmbH has signed a contract with Leonardo S.p.A for the delivery of two additional AW169 light intermediate twin-engine helicopters to support the offshore wind farm operations in Taiwan. The contract brings the total number of AW169s ordered by HeliService to f
Sembcorp Marine will build the next-generation wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) ordered by Maersk Supply Service to ABS Class, American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) said. Two new feeder barges and two diesel-electric hybrid tugboat units will also be built to ABS Class by Kirby Offshore Wind (KOW
Equinor South Korea Co Ltd has selected the engineering and technology company, Technip Energies, to carry out a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for the 800 MW Firefly floating wind project offshore South Korea. The FEED contract covers the engineering of the floating wind turbine substructures
Irish investment company Greencoat Renewables PLC has signed an agreement to acquire 50 per cent of the 312 MW Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm in Germany. Greencoat Renewables will acquire the stake from Kirkbi A/S (31.5 per cent) and William Demant Invest A/S (18.5 per cent) for a total cash
Siemens Gamesa has started the production of the first B115 blades at its facility in Aalborg, Denmark. The first 115-metre blades produced in Aalborg will be tested on the SG 14-236 DD prototype offshore wind turbine that will be installed at the Østerild test center for large turbines later this y
On 31 March, the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) approved a package of laws for the development of offshore wind energy in the Baltic Sea and gave the green light to the country’s first offshore wind farm. The bill now adopted by the Seimas are amendments to the Laws on Renewable Energy and Electrici
The UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng, has granted development consent to ScottishPower Renewables’ East Anglia One North and East Anglia Two offshore wind farms. East Anglia One North, located 36 kilometres from its nearest point to the Port of Lowes
The first of the 111 Siemens Gamesa SG 8.0-167DD wind turbines has been installed at the 900 MW Greater Changhua 1 & 2a wind farm project offshore Taiwan. The first batch of turbine components was transported from the Port of Taichung, and the first turbine was installed at the site by Seajack Scyll
