DEME Group is about to begin offshore substation foundation works at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. According to the project’s Notice to Mariners, the activities related to the jacket foundation will begin today, 24 August. In June last year, a consortium of Atlantique Offshore E
Elia and 50Hertz have issued a call for tenders for the delivery of offshore power transformers, shunt reactors, and auxiliary and earthing transformers for their offshore substations in Belgium and Germany. The transmission system operators (TSOs) are looking for the design, manufacturing, factory
Equinor has submitted an application to the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) for an environmental impact assessment needed to further look into the possibility of developing an offshore wind project in Brazil. A spokesperson from Equinor told Offshore WIND t
A consortium comprising GE Renewable Energy, LM Wind Power and TNO is building a test facility for wind turbine rotors, which will be largest of its kind once built at LM Wind Power’s WMC Technology Center in Wieringerwerf, the Netherlands. The test rig, being constructed under the three-year STRETC
A geotechnical borehole survey campaign is set to begin at the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind project on 1 September. Geotechnical drilling vessel Ocean Vantage is expected to survey 32 of the planned wind turbine and one of the offshore substation locations. The survey works are expected to l
SPT Offshore has installed the first suction pile jacket foundation at the 300 MW CTGNE Yangxi Shaba Phase I offshore wind farm in China. Earlier this year, Guangzhou Salvage Bureau appointed SPT Offshore to perform the suction installation services for what is the first such foundation in the South
DTU Wind Energy has issued a tender for the lease of test stands at the Høvsøre test center for large wind turbines. The deadline for submitting applications is 30 September by 16:00 local Danish time. In June 2018, the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) approved the expansion of the Høvsøre and Østeri
Duke Energy, a North Carolina-headquartered electric power holding company, does not see offshore wind as having big enough potential until the end of the next decade, according to information from the company’s recent earnings call. Responding to a question asked by a Goldman Sachs analyst Michael
Bladt Industries has loaded out the final transition piece for the Kriegers Flak offshore wind project in Denmark. According to the company, transition piece number 72 has been loaded onto the barge in Aalborg and is ready for sail-away towards the 605 MW wind farm. In total, 432 cans have been roll
The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved the use of GE Haliade-X 12 MW offshore wind turbine at Ørsted’s Skipjack offshore wind farm, to be built at a site some 30 kilometres off the Maryland-Delaware coast. Ørsted selected GE Renewable Energy as the preferred turbine supplier for t
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has signed lease agreements with Vineyard Wind and Mayflower Wind to use the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal as the primary staging and deployment base for the construction and installation of their offshore wind projects. The lease agreements commit the facili
The First Senate of Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has ruled on constitutional complaints filed against the country’s existing Offshore Energy Act (WindSeeG). On the matter of the Act not providing for any compensation for the planning and site investigation expenses incurred by developers w
Bosch Rexroth and Barge Master have introduced a new autonomous landing system for motion compensated gangways. The system is said to automatically attach the landing to the required site without the need for manual input through a combination of radar technology, cameras and sensors. Once connected
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and Advance Northumberland have established a partnership to develop a new facility for testing the next generation of offshore wind turbines. The Energy Central Offshore Wind Demonstrator will be designed to host one large prototype turbine for testing and w
