Dajin Heavy Industry has delivered King Two, the second vessel in its self-developed King series of heavy deck carriers purpose-built for the transport of offshore wind components. According to the company, the delivery of the second heavy deck carrier marks the start of standardised serial producti
Vattenfall has been selected as the winning bidder to develop the Nordsøen Midt (North Sea I Mid) and Hesselø offshore wind farms in Denmark’s latest tender. The two projects are scheduled to be fully operational by 2032 and will have a combined capacity of at least 1.8 GW, enough to generate electr
Dajin Heavy Industry has started fabrication of 63 transition pieces (TPs) for the 976.5 MW Gennaker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea, following a first steel cutting ceremony held at the company’s Penglai manufacturing base in China on 30 July. The transition pieces are being manufacture
Following the installation of the first monopile at the beginning of July, the first transition piece (TP) has now also been installed at Vattenfall’s Nordlicht I offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. DEME is handling the transport and installation of the monopiles and TPs under a contract awa
Cierco Energy has signed an Agreement for Lease with the Crown Estate for its two test and demonstration projects off Wales, named Llŷr 1 and Llŷr 2, which are expected to use two different types of floating wind technology. The Llŷr projects were selected for development in 2021 in the Crown Estate
Decommissioning work has started on the TetraSpar Demonstrator floating wind project at the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre) site off Karmøy, Norway, with the dynamic export cable disconnected and placed in wet storage, clearing the site for the next demonstrator project. The decommissioning ca
Italian startup Sizable Energy has begun testing an offshore energy storage technology designed to store electricity generated by offshore wind farms and other renewable energy sources at the Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory (NOEL) off the coast of Calabria, Italy. The demonstrator, installed in
Dominion Energy has revised the completion timeline for its 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, with the installation of the 176th and final wind turbine now expected by the end of 2027. The company had previously targeted full project completion in early 2027. According to Dominio
North Star has secured a GBP 275 million (approximately EUR 321 million) debt financing package to support the expansion of its offshore wind fleet. The financing fully covers the company’s existing shipbuilding commitments and provides additional capital for future vessel acquisitions and newbuild
South Korean offshore wind foundation manufacturer SK oceanplant has secured a contract from Seatrium to manufacture and supply the jacket foundation and piles for TenneT’s BalWin5 high-voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore converter platform in the German North Sea. The contract will see SK oceanp
The Culzean floating wind turbine, which will supply electricity to the Culzean gas platform in the North Sea, off the coast of Scotland, will soon be towed to its offshore location as the integration of the wind turbine with the floating foundation has been completed. Archer, the engineering, procu
Japan’s first coastal deck carrier, purpose-built to transport offshore wind turbine foundation components, has been completed, with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), MOL Drybulk and MOL Coastal Shipping holding a naming and completion ceremony for the vessel, named Wind Whale, on 29 July in Nagasaki. Wind
The French government has selected five ports to receive nearly EUR 260 million in funding under the France 2030 investment programme to upgrade infrastructure supporting the country’s floating offshore wind industry. The selected ports are Cherbourg, Brest, Nantes-Saint Nazaire, Port-la-Nouvelle, a
