Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Bold Tern has arrived in Singapore, where it will be upgraded with a new 1600-tonne crane to enable the installation of next-generation wind turbines and foundations weighing up to 1,500 tonnes. The vessel will be fitted with Huisman’s 1600t LEC 65500 leg enc
Major European companies and project developers have joined forces with leading research institutions to unlock large-scale potential of combined wind, wave and offshore floating solar renewable energy sources in the newly launched EUR 45 million marine energy project ‘European Scalable Offshore Ren
Shell Overseas Investment B.V. and CoensHexicon Co., LTD have established a joint venture to develop and operate a 1.4 GW floating wind project off the south-east coast of South Korea. Shell controls an 80 per cent stake in the MunmuBaram joint venture, and CoensHexicon, a joint venture between Hexi
Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel MPI Resolution has set sail to Italy to build the first wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea – the 30 MW Taranto offshore wind farm. The Taranto offshore wind farm, also known as Beleolico, is located near the Taranto harbour in Italy and consists of ten MySE 3.
Denmark’s Gottlieb Paludan Architects has aided water construction experts from DHI A/S in developing a concept for the construction of energy islands said to have the smallest possible negative impact on the surrounding marine environment. Based on parallel development of construction methods and d
Scotland-headquartered floating wind project developer Flotation Energy and Taiwan’s CSBC Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which the two companies will join forces on developing floating offshore wind energy projects in Taiwan. Flotation Energy, which was recently se
Vestas has installed eight out of twelve V150-4.2 MW turbines at the 48 MW Korea- Tra Vinh (Phase 1) nearshore wind farm in Vietnam. This is according to Waves Group Ltd who is acting as the project’s Marine Warranty Surveyors (MWS) for the installation of the wind farm’s foundations and the wind tu
The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), the Vice-ministry of Energy and Environmental Quality (MINAE) of Ministry of Environment, and Energy and Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) have kicked-off a joint initiative to build knowledge about the local benefits of offshore wind and explore pathways
Crown Estate Scotland, which is currently reviewing the ScotWind Leasing Round applications, will open a new leasing process early next year, dedicated specifically to offshore wind projects which support the decarbonisation of the oil and gas sector, and to small-scale innovation projects of less t
Hellenic Cables has secured its first contract with Vattenfall under which it will deliver the inter-array cables for the Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd offshore wind farms in Denmark. The Greek company will design, manufacture, test, and supply approximately 70 kilometers of 66kV XLPE insulated i
All wind turbines have been installed at the 48 MW Tra Vinh V1-2 nearshore wind farm in Vietnam, which is expected to commence operations by the end of October / beginning of November. The 12th and final wind turbine was installed at the project site a few days ago, according to OffshoreWIND.biz’s s
Written by Javier Lanfranchi – Senior Sales Area Manager at Faccin Wind Energy in the US The US government has announced in March this year its plan to install 30 gigawatts—to power 10 million homes—of offshore wind capacity in US waters by 2030, creating in the process thousands of jobs for manufac
The Awel y Môr wind farm team has published the Preliminary Environmental Information Report (PEIR) for the project offshore North Wales, the UK. The PEIR contains detailed maps, plans and information on the project’s expected impacts and how they will be avoided, minimised and mitigated where possi
Iberdrola will submit a bid for the construction of a new offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea in the ongoing offshore wind auction in Germany, the company said on 30 August. The Spain-headquartered offshore wind developer said it would file its proposal for the Windanker project on 1 September as p
