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Vattenfall Building Giant Wind Farm Warehouse at Port of Esbjerg
Vattenfall is set to begin the construction of a large warehouse for critical main components and spare parts for its wind farms in Northern Europe at the Port of Esbjerg. The work will begin immediately and the construction is expected to be completed around ten months later. Once completed and rea
TenneT Starts Laying DolWin6 Export Cables
Offshore cable-laying work to link the DolWin6 grid connection in the North Sea to the German grid has started, TenneT said. The cable-laying work follows an unexploded ordnance removal campaign where a total of twelve UXOs identified along the sea cable route were removed in May 2021. The 39-kilome
Fred. Olsen Ocean and Shimizu Enter Offshore Wind Partnership
Fred. Olsen Ocean, including its subsidiaries Fred. Olsen Windcarrier and Global Wind Service, has entered into a partnership with Shimizu Corporation. The companies are joining forces to offer offshore wind installation and other services both in Japan and worldwide which involves the deployment of
Federal Permitting Process Starts for 2+ GW Offshore Wind Project in US
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced on 28 June that it would begin conducting an environmental review of a Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for the Vineyard Wind South wind project, which could add up to 2.3 GW of offshore wind capacity to the US. The project has been pro
GE Renewable Energy Names New Offshore Wind CEO
GE Renewable Energy has appointed Jan Kjaersgaard as the new CEO of its Offshore Wind business. Kjaersgaard will succeed John Lavelle who is retiring after a 40-year career and plans to stay on board to assist with a transition over the next several months. Kjaersgaard joins GE from FLSmidth, where
Akselos Digital Twin Software Selected for Norwegian Floater
Akselos has been commissioned by the partners behind the TetraSpar floating foundation demonstration project in Norway to provide its structural simulation software, Integra®, to model the floater. The software is said to help accelerate the demonstration of the industrialised TetraSpar floating off
DEME’s First SOV All Set for Belgian Offshore Wind Farms
After taking the delivery of its first-ever service operations vessel (SOV) earlier this month, DEME has officially named Groenewind, which is now ready to start working at the Rentel and SeaMade offshore wind farms in Belgium. DEME held the naming ceremony on 25 June, with the Belgian Federal Minis
Taiwanese Bulk Cargo Shipping Specialist Enters Offshore Wind
Taiwanese bulk carrier company U‐Ming Marine Transport Corporation has entered into a joint venture agreement with Denmark’s World Marine Offshore to jointly establish U‐Ming Marine Offshore Company Limited (UMO). The two companies will through UMO pursue activities within the offshore wind sector i
24Sea to Provide Structural Health Monitoring Systems for Arcadis Ost 1
Parkwind has selected 24Sea for the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of the structural health monitoring systems on the wind turbine foundations at the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in Germany. The 257 MW offshore wind farm will feature 27 TP-less monopiles, with the tower
Jeju Hanlim OWF Moves Towards Construction
Construction of the 100 MW Jeju Hanlim offshore wind farm in South Korea is expected to start in 2022, as the project has now entered design and construction phase. This is according to Dutch consultancy Pondera, which was appointed to provide owner’s engineering services together with Korean engine
Hollandse Kust Zuid Beta Jacket Foundation Stands
Heerema Marine Contractors’ heavy lift vessel Sleipnir has installed the second offshore substation jacket foundation at the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm offshore the Netherlands. Located 22 kilometres off the Netherlands coast, the 2,852-tonne jacket will support TenneT’s 700 MW Hollandse Kust Zui
Standardisation Crucial for Floating Wind – K2 Management
Standardisation in floating wind, specifically floating wind substructures, is a must if this wind energy technology is to meaningfully contribute to the renewable energy mix in the next decade, according to K2 Management. Although floating wind projects are rolling out worldwide, the technology, an
First Changfang and Xidao Pin-Piles Start Their Final Journey
The loading of the pin-piles for the Changfang and Xidao offshore wind farm has started at the Port of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. The first of the 186 locally-manufactured pin-piles are being loaded onto Boskalis’s Bokalift 1 heavy-lift vessel. Boskalis and Hwa Chi Construction Co, through a joint venture
Fugro Streamlines Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Project with Geo-Data Platform
Fugro has completed the first phase of a two-year contract with Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind to build and manage a centralised, cloud-hosted Geo-data repository for the company’s lease development off the coast of New Jersey in the US. The web-based engagement platform was recently delivered and ut