Jack-up vessels Wind Osprey and Wind Pace will start installing wind turbines at the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site in the UK around 18 March. Both vessels will mobilise at the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark, with first load-out for Wind Osprey expected on 15 March, while the first load-out for
The Philippines’ Department of Energy (DOE) has opened a registration period for potential bidders to qualify for the Fifth Auction Round of the Green Energy Auction Program (GEA-5), officially starting activities for the country’s first offshore wind auction. The registration for pre-qualification
Dajin Offshore has signed a PLN 47 million (approximately EUR 11 million) contract with Szczecin Shipyard “Wulkan” that will see the Polish state-owned shipyard manufacture components for one of the biggest offshore wind projects in Germany. The Chinese manufacturer, which has been contracted by RWE
On 25 February, the President of the Polish Energy Regulatory Office (URE) published a formal update stating that the regulator has granted a “promise of concession” for the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm, which is jointly developed by Polish utility PGE and Danish energy company Ørsted. This is the s
A consortium of Boskalis and TKF has signed a contract with Skyborn Renewables for the supply and installation of inter-array cables for the Gennaker offshore wind farm in Germany. Under the contract, the consortium will deliver the complete inter-array cable system connecting the 63 Gennaker wind t
Grid connection agreements have been secured for three offshore wind projects in the Philippines with a combined planned capacity of 1,650 MW. The projects are the 450 MW Frontera Bay, the 600 MW Guimaras Strait, and the 600 MW Guimaras Strait II, all owned by the same consortium, comprising Seawind
The installation of the first wind turbine at Ørsted’s Sunrise Wind project site in the US is expected to start soon, as Cadeler’s vessel Wind Scylla, which was installing Revolution Wind turbines and is now in port, is planned to deploy to Sunrise Wind next. According to a Notice to Mariners issued
The 95th and final wind turbine has been installed at the 1.2 GW Dogger Bank A offshore wind farm, the first phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK. The wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Voltaire, which carried out the installation on Dogger Bank A, is now on its way to […]
UK-registered Novastar Energy Holdings, a wholly-owned subsidiary of UAE-based HEA Energy, which bought three Seajacks vessels from Eneti in 2023, has secured a contract for Baltica 2, a 1.5 GW offshore wind farm being built by PGE and Ørsted in Poland. According to a contract award notice published
RWE has placed a firm order with Vestas for its 1,380 MW Norfolk Vanguard West offshore wind project in the UK, after the developer secured a Contract for Difference (CfD) for the project in Allocation Round 7 (AR7) in January and announced that the global investment firm KKR would become its partne
Boskalis has completed the preparation of 150 kilometres of inter-array cable routes at the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm site in Poland. In 2023, Boskalis was awarded a contract for the transportation and installation of export and inter-array cables for the Polish offshore wind farm, owned b
India and the UK have launched a taskforce that is said to provide strategic leadership and coordination for India’s offshore wind ecosystem. The country has also reportedly started working with the World Bank and KPMG on aspects of offshore wind project planning and financing. Kicked off on 18 Febr
ELWIND has signed a contract with Haskoning for the design phase of the joint Estonian-Latvian state-run offshore wind project in the Baltic Sea. Haskoning’s work will include layout optimisation, transmission grid studies and integration of site investigations and environmental assessment. The Dutc
Seventy wind turbines have been installed at RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK, according to a Notice to Mariners recently issued by the project team. The first of the project’s 100 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD wind turbines was installed in March 2025, and the work reached the halfway mark in
