Türkiye will hold its first offshore wind Renewable Energy Resource Area (YEKA) tender in the first quarter of 2027. Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said the tender will be announced in September, ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference COP31, which is scheduled to take p
The Revolution Wind offshore wind farm in the US is more than 95 per cent complete, with 61 of the 65 turbines installed, according to information Ørsted shared in its half-year results on 13 August. At the company’s Sunrise Wind project site in the US, 20 wind turbines have been installed. Revoluti
Siemens Energy marked the first deployment of its lightweight integrated offshore substation at an offshore wind project, as the company’s new High-Voltage TranSwitch Unit (HV-TSU) has been installed at the Yuetuo Island Offshore Wind Farm in China. According to Siemens Energy, the substation integr
Stillstrom by Maersk has completed a trial of an automated cable control system for its offshore charging technology using a vessel operating on dynamic positioning (DP). According to the company, this removes a key operational barrier to charging hybrid and electric support vessels at offshore wind
Foundation installation has been completed at the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm in the UK. The owners of the GBP 4 billion (around EUR 4.7 billion) project, ScottishPower Renewables and Masdar, said on 17 August that all 95 monopiles and their transition pieces were in place, with the
Tekmar Group has been awarded a contract valued at around EUR 1 million to deliver concrete protection solutions for an offshore wind project. The company did not disclose the name of the project or its client, but it said that its contract was with an existing customer, which is “a leading submarin
HEA Energy has acquired jack-up vessels, Thor and Wind Lift 1, from Semco Maritime, marking the foundation of a long-term partnership between the two companies. The acquisition, combined with a long-term charter agreement securing continued vessel availability for Semco Maritime, creates a powerful
International industrial services provider Bilfinger has been selected to deliver technical advisory services during the execution phase of an offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea for Ocean Winds. The BC-Wind project involves the installation of 26 wind turbines with a total planned capaci
Up to 180 new jobs are being created in the Scottish Highlands to support delivery of the world’s largest offshore wind farm under construction, the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the North Sea. The highly skilled roles will be based at Maraen Port of Nigg near Inverness, which has been selected as
South Korea’s Taihan Cable & Solution has held a safe operation ceremony for the cable-laying vessel (CLV) it recently purchased from DOF Group, ahead of full-scale deployment for offshore wind projects. Taihan reported in May that it had acquired the 2016-built Skandi Connector from DOF, representi
The offshore sector faces unprecedented demands for scale, volume, and structural integrity. As monopiles, transition pieces, and jacket foundations grow larger (requiring steel plates exceeding 100 mm (3.93 in) in thickness and up to 4.5 m (14.76 ft) in width) fabrication yards must resolve bottlen
CAPE Holland and GBM Works have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop and commercialise Vibrojet, a technology for installing offshore wind monopile foundations that combines vibratory driving with controlled water jetting. The companies aim to make Vibrojet commercially avai
All wind turbines have now been installed at EnBW’s 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, marking the completion of the project’s turbine installation campaign. The first of the 64 Vestas V236-15.0 MW wind turbines was installed by Cadeler’s installation vessel Wind Orca in Ap
Azerbaijan’s Cabinet of Ministers has formally designated a 711.4-square-kilometre water area in the country’s sector of the Caspian Sea for offshore wind development. The designation was made through Cabinet Decision No. 251, signed by Prime Minister Ali Asadov on 31 July 2026. The decision identif
