Ørsted and the Danish institutional investor ATP are bringing in Aarsleff, Bouygues, and Van Oord to support Ørsted and ATP’s bid for the North Sea energy island in Denmark. Constructing the world’s first artificial energy island will require collaboration between highly specialised companies with p
Estonia and Latvia’s joint 1 GW offshore wind project, which will supply clean electricity to both countries, could lead to the development of a major Baltic Sea electricity network. This is according to Estonia’s transmission system operator (TSO) Elering AS which, together with its Latvian counter
The OYSTER consortium of ITM Power, Ørsted, Siemens Gamesa, and Element Energy has selected Grimsby as the location for a “marinised” electrolyser project for renewable hydrogen production. The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) funded OYSTER project will develop and demonstrate an e
The consortium of Prysmian Group and Asso.subsea has signed a contract with RTE, Réseau de Transport d’Électricité, for the development of an export submarine power cable system for the Gruissan floating offshore wind farm located in Southern France. Under the contract worth some EUR 30 million, Pry
The UK’s Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) has launched a GBP 3 million (around EUR 3.5 million) funding programme available for UK offshore wind supply chain companies with a focus on projects in the offshore wind consenting and site development process. Innovation grants of between GBP 25,00
Japan Renewable Energy Corporation (JRE) and wpd AG group have agreed that wpd will invest and co-develop the Saikai Enoshima offshore wind project being developed by JRE. The project aims to construct and operate offshore wind farms with a maximum output capacity of 299.5 MW offshore Enoshima, Saik
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has invited potential bidders in the country’s yet-to-be-launched tender for an artificial energy island in the North Sea to participate in an orientation meeting related to the procurement process. The meeting, which will be held on 15 September, is part of the second
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Blue Tern has seven more Vestas 9.5 MW units to install at the 100-turbine Moray East offshore wind farm in Scotland. The first wind turbines were installed at the project site some 22 kilometres off Aberdeenshire in January by the installation vessel Bold Te
Taiwan Power Company (TPC; Taipower) has started trial operation of its 109.2 MW Changhua Phase 1 offshore wind farm, after the project’s 21 wind turbines were cable-connected. The developer is currently conducting tests to make any necessary adjustments, following which the company will apply for a
Bladt Industries and Steelwind Nordenham have signed monopile foundation supply contracts with Ørsted for the Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms in Germany. In addition to the contracts for the two projects, Ørsted has also secured call-off rights with the two manufacturers for f
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Denmark, together with Danish Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, Simon Kollerup, has inaugurated Vattenfall’s 604 MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm. With 72 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW wind turbines and a capacity corresponding to the annual ene
Global Marine Group companies Global Offshore, CWind, and OceanIQ will install the inter-array cables at the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in Germany, under a turnkey contract signed with Parkwind. Global Offshore will install and bury the inter-array cables by using the Normand Clipper and Globa
Ørsted is set to officially open the Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm today (6 September), after postponing the project’s inauguration a number of times due to COVID-19. The developer of the 752 MW offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, which has been operational since the fourth quarter of 2020, w
Norway-based energy data and intelligence provider, TGS, has expanded its coverage of numerical weather prediction (NWP) model data to include areas in the New York Bight, and will add the NWP model into a comprehensive atlas of public and proprietary wind data resources. The wind energy model, prod
