Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has selected Ramboll to assist with the offshore geotechnical soil investigations for future offshore wind farm areas. The investigations will take place in five future offshore wind farm areas covering 86 locations in the GermanExclusive Econ
Wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa and Poland’s Grupa Przemysłowa Baltic have signed a Letter of Intent to work together to further the Polish offshore wind power industry. The recently enacted Offshore Wind Act calls for the development of 5.9 GW of offshore wind capacity in the Polish Baltic
TotalEnergies has teamed up with the consortium between Green Investment Group (GIG) and Renewable Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG) to bid in the ScotWind offshore wind leasing round. GIG and TotalEnergies have been partners in the offshore wind sector for a while now. In February, they secur
Poland’s Energy Regulatory Office has awarded a contract for difference (CfD) to the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind project. Baltic Power is owned and developed by Poland’s PKN Orlen and Canada’s Northland Power. Under the 25-year contract, the project will receive payments covering any negative
Parkwind has reached financial close on the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm, its first project in Germany, which now officially enters construction phase. Belgian offshore wind developer said the project raised about EUR 570 million of debt from a group of nine lenders. The lenders are KBC Bank, Be
WindEurope has called for a Europe-wide landfill ban on decommissioned wind turbine blades by 2025. Europe’s wind industry actively commits to re-use, recycle, or recover 100 per cent of decommissioned blades, WindEurope said. This comes after several industry-leading companies announced plans for b
The registration for Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2021 is now live! The event, to be held on 26th & 27th October in Amsterdam RAI, the Netherlands, will attract thousands of offshore professionals and hundreds of exhibiting companies. Go to registration.offshore-energy.biz to register. Of
The recently established NorthWind research centre in Norway launched its activities on 16 June with its first General Assembly. The update comes some six months after the Norwegian government announced it would invest NOK 120 million (EUR 11.3 million) in a new wind power research centre, one of wh
Export cable burial works are set to soon commence at the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind project in the UK. The burial of the first export cable is due to begin in the week commencing 21 June, with burial of the second cable planned to begin week commencing 19 July 2, at the earliest. [&hellip
SSE Renewables and Hi Def Aerial Surveying have completed a 24-month aerial survey programme as part of the proposed Berwick Bank and Marr Bank wind farms offshore Scotland. The survey, consisting of 300 hours of flight time, across 5,000 square kilometres, seven times the size of East Lothian, is b
Equinor has selected Vissim for the provision of digital support of the marine operations at the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK. Under a long-term framework agreement, the Norway-based company will provide digital marine optimisation solutions to the operator’s offshore wind projects, includ
One more developer has joined the battle with inter-array cable issues that continues across the offshore wind industry, as RWE and its consortium partners behind an offshore wind farm in the UK have discovered a defect in the cable protection system on multiple locations along several inter-array c
Van Oord’s installation vessel Aeolus has stopped installing the foundation pin piles at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm after experiencing technical issues with the drilling equipment. Van Oord is responsible for the transport and installation of 62 jacket foundations for the wind turbines, thr
Ørsted is developing a solution that could potentially save the company from spending as much as EUR 403 million to repair damaged inter-array cables across up to ten of its offshore wind farms. As previously reported, Ørsted discovered an issue with Cable Protection Systems (CPSs) on the Race Bank
