The Polish government has identified the Port of Gdynia as an optimal location for the construction of an installation terminal for future offshore wind farms. On 30 July, the Polish Council of Ministers adopted a resolution on the installation terminal for offshore wind farms submitted by the Minis
CLP Power Hong Kong Ltd. (CLP Power) has selected Ramboll as the owner’s technical engineer and advisor for the pre-development phase of their Hong Kong offshore wind farm off the coast of Sai Kung, Hong Kong. CLP Power has started the preliminary engineering studies, collection of environmental dat
Taylor Hopkinson has been awarded a contract to supply freelance personnel to the Codling Wind Park offshore wind project in Ireland. With a potential capacity of up to 1,500 MW Codling Wind Park is set to be one of the largest offshore wind projects in Ireland and is located in the Irish Sea, appro
The world’s largest offshore converter station has been installed at the Jiangsu Rudong offshore wind farm in China’s Yellow Sea. The Three Gorges Rudong converter station is the first offshore ±400 kV wind power flexible DC transmission project in China. The station will be used to collect 1,100 MW
Siemens Gamesa will expand its offshore blade factory in Hull, England by 41,600 square metres, more than doubling the size of the manufacturing facilities. The expansion represents an investment of GBP 186 million and is planned to be completed in 2023. A portion of the investment will be funded th
Prysmian has taken delivery of its new 170-metres-long cable-laying vessel (CLV) Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci’s first deployment will be the installation of the Viking Link submarine cable connection between the UK and Denmark. The vessel has just arrived at Prysmian’s Arco Felice production
GRI Renewable Industries will build an offshore wind turbine tower factory at Able Marine Energy Park, Hull, the UK. The Madrid-headquartered tower manufacturer will invest GBP 78 million in the new factory which is expected to create up to 260 direct jobs. GRI Renewable Industries plans to supply i
Ørsted’s new service operations vessel (SOV) Wind of Hope has arrived in the Port of Grimsby in the UK to prepare for working out at sea on the world’s largest offshore wind farms. Up to 60 of Ørsted’s wind turbine technicians will call the 84-metre vessel home for two weeks at a time, whilst they [
76 out of the 100 Vestas V164-9.5 MW wind turbines have been installed at the 950 MW Moray East wind farm offshore Scotland. The wind turbine installation is being carried out by Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Blue Tern which recently replaced Bold Tern on the project. The first turbines w
The Rostock-based EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH has loaded out the last five monopiles for Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. The final five monopiles were loaded out at EEW SPC’s quay on 30 July. In the past eleven months, a total of 165 monopiles was loaded for the project by two self-
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust plc has invested EUR 7.5 million into Simply Blue Holdings Limited, the parent company of the Simply Blue Group. Simply Blue Group has developed a pipeline of over 9 GW of floating offshore wind projects to-date, primarily in the waters of the UK and Ireland.
Jan De Nul Group has sold the jack-up installation vessel Taillevent to an undisclosed buyer. The sale includes the vessel only, with the crew deployed to other Jan De Nul vessels. The decision to sell is a result of the rapid change in future offshore wind component sizes, requiring larger and cust
China Three Gorges (CTG) started construction of two wind farm installation vessels in July. On 6 July, construction started on the 3,000-ton Wudongde at China Merchants Industry’s shipyard in Haimen. Wudongde is about 182 metres in length, 46 metres in width, and 15 meters in depth, CTG said. It is
The topsides for the Hornsea Two offshore substation and the reactive compensation station have been loaded onto Guangzhou Salvage’s vessel Hua Hai Long at Sembawang, Singapore. The topsides will soon be ready to start their journey to the UK, Guangzhou Salvage said. The topsides were manufactured b
