The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) has selected Vineyard Wind to advance to contract negotiations for its 804MW Park City Wind project as part of the state’s Request for Proposals (RFP). The Park City Wind project will now enter into contract negotiations with t
Siemens Gamesa has reached a milestone with the installation of its 1,000th offshore Direct Drive wind turbine. The milestone unit is the 51st turbine that Siemens Gamesa recently installed on the 714MW East Anglia One offshore wind project in the UK. Siemens Gamesa said that a further 1,000 Direct
K2 Management has advised the Irish electricity company ESB in acquiring a 50% stake in the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind project in Scotland. K2 Management undertook a full scale technical due diligence of the project, including analysis of the project’s design, construction contracts and me
Equinor has signed an agreement with the Prysmian Group for the supply of inter-array cables for the Empire Wind offshore wind project in New York. Prysmian revealed that it is responsible for the design, supply and storage of approximately 150km of 66kV XLPE-insulated inter-array cables, which will
Global Wind Service (GWS) has secured a contract to support MHI Vestas on the Northwester 2 offshore wind project by providing technicians for the installation of turbines. The deal includes GWS offshore installation technicians supporting the installation of 23 MHI Vestas 164-9.5MW turbines at the
The Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) offshore wind project has reached the halfway turbine installation point as 16 out of 32 units have been erected. Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Taillevent installed the 16 Senvion 6.2M152 turbines in the northeastern part of the project site offshore Germany, wit
Dropsafe has signed a distribution deal with the Dutch fire and blast protection specialist Van Dam for dropped objects prevention solutions for the European offshore wind market. According to Dropsafe, the offshore wind sector is subject to significant dropped object risks, with personnel transferr
Rotech Subsea Ltd. has completed a major sand-wave clearance scope at the Norther offshore wind project in Belgium. The UK-based company deployed its non-contact TRS2 Controlled Flow Excavation tool to carry out the work for Van Oord. According to Rotech, the result was that instead of the two campa
Recruitment specialist ersg has won a tender to be the sole supplier of fabrication management personnel to two undisclosed offshore wind farms in Asia. Additionally, ersg has also agreed terms with a company building floating wind foundations to supply contractors for the entire project lifecycle,
Energy Ministers from ten North Sea countries met today, 4 December, in Brussels and agreed on their 2020 Work Programme on offshore wind deployment. The 2020 Work Programme elaborates what Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK intend to d
China’s Zhongtian Technology [ZTT] has completed work on the grid connection between the EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm and the BorWin3 DC grid connection system in the North Sea. In March 2017, TenneT tapped ZTT to carry out the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the 155kV HVAC co
Covestro has signed a ten-year corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) with Ørsted to buy the output of 100MW from the Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind project in Germany. With the ten-year indexed fixed-price agreement, Germany-based Covestro will offtake 100MW of the project’s 900MW total capacit
Companies planning to operate US-flagged offshore energy support vessels must invest early in well-established practices and proven vessel designs to meet customer demands and ensure the successful development of a domestic OESV market, according to Seacat Services. The UK-based OESV operator has hi
The Danish government has allocated DKK 14 billion (circa EUR 1.87 billion) to the Export Credit Agency (EKF) to finance exports of Danish climate technology, including offshore wind. The awarded amount is part of the DKK 25 billion allocated in the budget to Denmark’s Green Future Fund. According t
