DEME has installed the first wind turbine at RWE’s Nordseecluster A site, the first phase of the 1.6 GW Nordseecluster offshore wind project in the German North Sea. Installation is being carried out by DEME’s vessel Norse Wind, which is capable of transporting and installing up to five turbine sets
South Korea’s Taihan Cable & Solution has signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with Belgium’s Jan De Nul and the Netherlands’ Boskalis to cooperate on high-voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cable projects. The agreements were signed on 10 June during the Korea-EU Energy Transition Cooperation
All monopile foundations have been installed at the Yeonggwang Nakwol project site in South Korea, where Nakwol Blue Heart (Nakwol Wind) is building a 364.8 MW offshore wind farm. Located off the coast of Nakwol-myeon in Jeollanam-do Province, the offshore wind farm will comprise 64 Vensys wind turb
Orlen Neptun and the Szczecin and Świnoujście Seaports Authority have signed a letter of intent to explore the expansion of the Świnoujście Offshore Terminal, Poland’s first installation terminal dedicated to offshore wind projects. The move comes one year after the facility entered operation and am
Seatrium has ordered six Liebherr RL 2600 offshore cranes for TenneT’s 2 GW offshore grid connection projects in the Netherlands. The cranes will be installed on the IJmuiden Ver Beta, IJmuiden Ver Gamma and Nederwiek Beta offshore converter platforms, with two units allocated to each platform. Acco
Ecowende, the joint venture between Shell, Eneco, and Chubu Electric Power, has taken delivery of the service base for its 760 MW Hollandse Kust West VI offshore wind farm, currently under construction off the Dutch coast near IJmuiden. Located in the Port of IJmuiden, 53 kilometres from the offshor
COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers has completed a floatover installation of the converter platform for the Qingzhou V & VII offshore wind project in China, which features a 2 GW offshore high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system. The Three Gorges Qingzhou V & VII offshore wind project
Twenty wind turbines have been installed at Dogger Bank B, the second phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK, according to a recently issued operations notice. The 1.2 GW Dogger Bank B will comprise 95 GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbines installed on monopile foundations. The installation
Norwegian energy data and intelligence company TGS has secured another contract for offshore wind site characterisation in Europe, for which the company will deploy its seismic vessel Ramform Vanguard. Under the latest contract, announced on 9 June, Ramform Vanguard will begin data acquisition work
The Crown Estate will launch a competitive tender process next month to bring the 1.5 GW Morgan offshore wind project in the Irish Sea back to market, with plans to appoint a new developer by late 2026. The Morgan site was originally awarded through Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4 in 2021, but develop
Acta Marine has taken delivery of the construction service operation vessel (CSOV) Acta Gemini from Tersan Shipyard in Türkiye. The CSOV is the company’s third vessel in a series of four newbuilds and is bound for the Sofia offshore wind farm, currently under construction in the UK. The vessel will
OranjeWind, the joint venture between RWE and TotalEnergies, has signed a five-year charter agreement with Purus for the deployment of the construction service operation vessel (CSOV) Purus Power at the OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. Under the agreement, which includes an extensio
A joint venture between JERA Nex BP and EnBW has submitted Section 36 consent applications for the Morven offshore wind farm to the Scottish government. The developer secured the seabed rights for the Morven offshore wind farm as a single project in the ScotWind Leasing Round in 2022 and split it in
Van Oord has completed the inter-array cable installation campaign at the Windanker offshore wind farm site in the Baltic Sea. According to the project owner and developer, Iberdrola, the campaign involved the installation and burial of 21 inter-array cables with a combined length of 28 kilometres.
