Ørsted and Korea Southern Power (KOSPO), Korea’s state-owned utility provider, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly develop an 800 MW offshore wind project in Ongjin county, Incheon. The 800 MW offshore wind project is part of the 1.6 GW Incheon projects. In addition, the total
The first steel has been cut for the first Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (CSOV) ordered by IWS Fleet, a fully owned subsidiary of the Norwegian company Integrated Wind Solutions, at the China Merchants Heavy Industry facility in Jiangsu, China. The vessel, to be named IWS Skywalker, will c
Huisman has signed a contract with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) for the delivery of another 2,600mt Leg Encircling Crane (LEC). The crane will be installed on the second wind turbine installation vessel ordered by Eneti and constructed by DSME. The crane for Eneti’s first jack-u
Kongsberg Maritime will deliver propulsion systems for two Commissioning Service Operations Vessels (CSOVs) to be built by Vard for Norwind Offshore, a ship-owning company established last year in Norway. The propulsion technology for each of the CSOVs will include new permanent magnet (PM) PMAZ 260
Transmission system operators 50Hertz and TenneT are planning to jointly transport 4 GW of wind power from the North Sea into the German power grid. The two companies have signed a cooperation agreement to realise a multi-terminal hub in the area of Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, and an extra-high volta
Eversource and Ørsted have selected Long Island-based contractor Haugland Energy Group to install the underground duct bank system for the onshore transmission line for their 132 MW South Fork offshore wind farm and to lead the construction of the project’s onshore interconnection facility located i
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The first serially-manufactured SG 11.0-200 DD nacelle left the Siemens Gamesa factory hall in Cuxhaven on Friday, 14 January. The factory has been converted and upgraded for the new product generation over several months since the summer. Now serial production has started and the first turbine has
We are excited to announce that from now on it is possible to book your stand at the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) 2022. The 15th edition of OEEC will take place on the 29th and 30th of November 2022 at RAI Amsterdam. OEEC is the place where different sectors of the energy sector [
PetroGreen Energy Corporation, a renewable energy arm of the Philippines’ oil and gas company PetroEnergy – which unveiled last year that it was in collaboration with a foreign partner to expand its footprint into offshore wind – is proposing to build three gigawatt-scale offshore wind projects in t
Hellenic Cables has completed the cable manufacturing and loading for shipment of inter-array cables for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW), executing the contract awarded by Dominion Energy for the partial supply of array cables for the 2.6 GW project. Hellenic Cables was responsible for the
The Twin Hub floating demonstrator project in the Celtic Sea has now been awarded a marine licence for a renewable energy test site in Cornwall, South West England. The marine licence is the latest consent for the project which was awarded a Section 36 consent in 2020. Hexicon AB completed the acqui
KEPCO KPS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with TÜV SÜD Korea and Shinan-gun, a county on the southwest coast of South Korea, to cooperate in the establishment of an industrial Operation & Maintenance ecosystem for the 8.2 GW Shinan offshore wind farm. The Shinan wind farm will be the world’
Leading offshore wind developer Ørsted plans to issue a contract notice in the coming weeks seeking wind turbine installation vessels for the Baltica 3 and Baltica 2 offshore wind projects in Poland. Ørsted will use the Achilles Utilities Nordics and Central Europe (UNCE) qualification system for pr
