Meteorological and oceanographic (metocean) surveys are set to start at a site off Ireland, where a large scale offshore wind farm is proposed to be built. Over the coming days, a floating LiDAR and two wave buoys will be deployed at the project site located some 10 kilometres off the Irish coast to
Norway will open up new areas for the development of offshore wind projects, the country’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tina Bru said. The move is a response to the demands from the local industry which last year recorded an NOK 11 billion (around EUR 1.1 billion) international turnover in goods
DEME Offshore’s jack-up Sea Installer has arrived at the Port of Hull in the UK to load the first set of turbine components to be installed on the 1,386 MW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. Sea Installer is joining her sister vessel Sea Challenger on the project which has already installed the first b
Cemre Shipyard has delivered Groenewind, DEME’s first-ever service operations vessel (SOV), to its owner. “DEME’s first dedicated and world’s first SWATH type service operation vessel Groenewind that will serve 3 different windfarm sites is delivered to her client”, the Turkish shipbuilder said via
Deutsche WindGuard Offshore reported on 8 June that it had been appointed by Nordsee Two GmbH to provide comprehensive support in preparing its bid for the N-3.8 offshore wind site being auctioned in the German North Sea. For the 433 MW Nordsee Two project, the German consultancy provided an optimis
London-based consultancy AqualisBraemar LOC has secured a contract to provide marine warranty services for the export cable installation of the DolWin5 offshore grid connection project in Germany. The scope of work covers all marine transportation and installation operations relating to the laying o
Energinet has selected Intertek to undertake constraints analysis, consenting advice, and cable route and landfall assessments for the North Sea Energy Island offshore Denmark. The project will include 3 GW of offshore wind farm assets, an energy hub on an artificial island 80 kilometres offshore to
The first of the two shunt reactors for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm has been transported under police escort from Scotland’s Port of Leith to the NnG onshore substation site near Innerwick, East Lothian. The second shunt reactor is due for delivery in the coming days, according to
The first turbine nacelles for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm have arrived by sea at the Nantes-Saint-Nazaire Port. The first GE Haliade 150-6MW nacelles made a short trip from GE Renewable Energy’s nacelle assembly plant in Montoir-de-Bretagne to the Nantes-Saint-Nazaire Port earlier this we
Developers of the Seagreen offshore wind farm have appointed Northern Marine Services (Scotland) Ltd (NMS) to support the delivery and installation of the project’s offshore wind turbine foundations out of Port of Nigg in Scotland’s Cromarty Firth. The awarding of the contract follows the announceme
A new floating wind system using multiple 1 MW turbines has been unveiled by a Norwegian company which said this floating wind technology could produce electricity at fixed-bottom prices. Wind Catching Systems, majority owned by Ferd and North Energy, has entered into cooperation with Aibel as the m
Major offshore wind projects in Taiwan have entered or are about to enter offshore construction and the vessels involved have started mobilising and departing for this increasingly active offshore wind market. As one of these projects is reaching this stage, one of the contractors seems to have had
Ørsted and Eversource have decided to reduce the number of wind turbines at the South Fork offshore wind farm from 15 to 12. The 130 MW project, which was planned to comprise up to 15 wind turbines with a capacity of between 6 MW and 12 MW, will now most likely opt for 11 MW […]
The final of the 72 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW wind turbines was installed at Kriegers Flak, Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm, on Saturday, 5 June. The next steps will be to finalise testing and certification of the 604 MW wind farm so that it can be inaugurated after the summer, Vattenfall, the wind
