Fugro has won two geotechnical site investigation contracts with Energinet for Denmark’s proposed Energy Island project in the North Sea. The company will perform the preliminary geotechnical site investigation for the Energy Island and the adjacent offshore wind farm zone to obtain geo-data, which
Taylor Hopkinson has been awarded a contract to supply freelance on-site commissioning services at the Fécamp offshore wind farm in France. The company will supply electrical safety personnel throughout the commissioning phase including, but not limited to, SAPs, Control Engineers, SCADA Supervisors
US energy company Dominion Energy has selected the consortium of DEME Group and Prysmian as the Balance of Plant (BoP) contractors for the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project.
Rostock-based EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH has won a contract to manufacture 176 monopiles for Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. EEW SPC had already delivered two monopiles for the 12 MW CVOW pilot project in April 2020, which were the first monopiles to
US energy company Dominion Energy is filing plans with the Virginia State Corporation Commission for approval to construct the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) commercial project. The filing keeps the project on schedule and builds on recent economic development announcements, such as th
Siemens Gamesa has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China Energy United Power Technology Co. to license its 11 MW Direct Drive offshore technology for the Chinese market. The SG 11.0-200 DD is the most recent generation of Siemens Gamesa’s offshore wind turbine portfolio to enter seri
Spanish energy company Iberdrola has exercised its step-in right to the pre-developed site O-1.3 in the German Baltic Sea where it will develop the 300 Windanker offshore wind farm. Iberdrola secured the step-in right for the EUR 800 million Windanker in the 2018 auction when the project did not mak
Aker Offshore Wind, Ocean Winds, and Statkraft have signed a collaboration agreement to bid for, develop, construct, and operate a floating offshore wind farm and associated infrastructure for the Utsira Nord license area in Norway. The equal partnership will submit an application to the Norwegian a
The Marine Management Organisation has given consent for the Associated British Ports’ GBP 25 million development of the Lowestoft Eastern Energy Facility (LEEF) for offshore wind at the Port of Lowestoft, UK. Following East Suffolk Council’s approval for the land-side elements, ABP has the necessar
ESB’s offshore wind project partner in Ireland, Equinor, has decided not to continue with offshore wind development in the country, the Irish utility company and renewable energy developer confirmed to offshoreWIND.biz following this morning’s (4 November) news in the Irish Examiner. Equinor’s decis
Aker Offshore Wind and Aker Clean Hydrogen, together with DNV, have used the COP26 conference to unveil a project utilising 10 GW of floating offshore wind capacity to power multiple floating installations which will produce green hydrogen for onwards transmission to a net-zero hydrogen refinery on
BW Ideol’s planned offshore floating wind pilot-project in California has progressed to the environmental assessment stage. This represents the next milestone in the permitting process for what may become one of the first wind farms off the coast of California, the floating wind specialist said. The
Danish wind farm installation vessel owner and operator Cadeler A/S has secured a preferred supplier agreement (PSA) with an undisclosed client for the transport and installation of next-generation wind turbines. The contract has a final value above EUR 45 million and the installation project will b
Blue Gem Wind has hired Offshore Wind Consultants Ltd (OWC) to provide engineering services for an offshore wind development project on the UK Continental Shelf. The contract is for a term of approximately three years, and the scope of work includes Owners Engineering and Project Development Support
