Two transformers for the 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm have completed their overland and sea journey from Zagreb, Croatia. The transformers traveled via Rotterdam, Netherlands, before arriving at the Smulders yard in Wallsend, the UK. The 545 MVA transformers were manufactured by Koncar Power
RWE has kicked off geophysical and geotechnical site investigations at the Norfolk Boreas, Norfolk Vanguard East, and Norfolk Vanguard West offshore wind project sites in the UK, rights to which the German company acquired from Vattenfall earlier this year. The survey vessel Braveheart Spirit is con
The 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm has delivered first power from the first series of wind turbines and exported to Scotland’s National Electricity Transmission System (NETS), Ocean Winds said. The wind farm is nearing the end of the construction phase and will become fully operational in 2025
Hughes Subsea, a subsidiary of OEG Renewables, will start disposing of unexploded ordnance (UXO) at the UK 1.4 GW East Anglia Three (EA3) offshore wind farm site on 4 July, according to the latest Notice to Mariners issued by the EA3 project team. The UXO identification, investigation and clearance
NOTE: Updated on 12 July with information on the expected timeframe within which the developers could submit a DCO application. SSE and Equinor, co-owners/developers of the Dogger Bank D offshore wind project, have submitted a Scoping Report for the 2 GW project to the UK’s Planning Inspectorate. Th
Navantia Seanergies has manufactured the first monopile foundation for Iberdrola’s UK offshore wind project East Anglia Three at Navantia-Windar’s monopile factory in Fene shipyard, in A Coruña, Spain. The Navantia-Windar consortium will deliver 45 monopiles for the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore
Belgium’s Smulders has completed the load out of the transition pieces (TPs) for EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm at its yard in Newcastle, UK. The company completed the load out of the last TPs two weeks ago. Each unit has nearly a diameter of 9 metres and weighs 660 tonnes. All TPs were transpo
A consortium made up of investment funds belonging to Australia-headquartered Macquarie Asset Management and Spring Infrastructure Capital has reached an agreement to divest a 37.5 per cent stake in the 573 MW Race Bank offshore wind farm in the UK to Norges Bank Investment Management. The stake was
Ørsted has taken a final investment decision (FID) on battery energy storage for its 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK, where the developer will use a Tesla system with a capacity of 600 MWh and a power rating of 300 MW. The battery energy storage system (BESS) will be installed in [&hel
Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL), the operator of an 85-turbine wind farm off northeast Scotland, has agreed to make a payment of GBP 33.14 million (approximately EUR 39 million) after admitting it breached energy market rules. BOWL, the operator of the 588 MW Beatrice offshore wind farm, a
North Star has secured a contract with Siemens Gamesa to build a hybrid service operations vessel (SOV) bound for long-term charter at the 1.4 GW East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm, located off the Suffolk coast, England. The construction project for the SOV of VARD 4 19 design has been awarded by
Rovco has been selected for site characterisation work on the 1.5 GW Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind project in the UK. With the project scheduled to start imminently, the UK-based company will be responsible for carrying out a full geophysical investigation of several key sites at Outer Dowsing Offshor
UK-based Wood Thilsted has been appointed as the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) wind turbine foundation designer for the 1.5 GW Outer Dowsing offshore wind farm in the UK. Wood Thilsted has completed the first phase of work and will now carry out the second phase of the FEED work. The contracte
Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel, Aeolus, has installed the first of 100 monopile foundations at the 1.4 GW Sofia project in the UK, RWE’s largest offshore wind farm to date. The Sofia offshore wind farm is located on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, 195 kilometres from the North East co
