ScottishPower Renewables has selected Nexans as the supplier of 66 kV accessories for the East Anglia Three offshore wind project in the UK. Under the contract, Nexans will deliver T-connectors, bushings, junction boxes and cable lugs, and pre-terminated power cables, which the company says are all
The UK government has launched a consultation on proposed refinements to the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme ahead of Allocation Round 8 (AR8) and future rounds, including targeted changes to the terms concerning offshore wind and floating wind projects. The consultation, published by the Depa
Star of the South, said to be Australia’s “most advanced offshore wind project”, has submitted its Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for approval, the primary environmental approval required for the project to proceed. According to the developer, this comes off the back of a few other milestones
Denmark’s Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has secured the site for which it placed a bid in Colombia’s first offshore wind tender, according to the latest document issued by the country’s National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH). ANH released a final eligibility list on 16 December, naming CIP’s
Ireland’s Ministry for the Climate, Energy and the Environment (DCEE) has issued a request for tender for a metocean survey campaign at the Lí Ban offshore wind area within the South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan (SC-DMAP). According to a notice published on a European tender website, the cont
Dajin Heavy Industry has cut the first steel for the monopiles for the BC-Wind project, a 390 MW offshore wind farm that Ocean Winds is set to build in Poland. The company has been contracted to manufacture and deliver 27 monopiles and 27 transition pieces, with the delivery scheduled for 2026. For
China’s CNOOD-Wenchong Heavy Industries (CWHI) has shipped the final eight XXL monopiles for the Scottish Inch Cape offshore wind farm, completing the delivery of all 32 monopiles it was contracted to produce for the project. The last batch has departed CWHI’s Qinzhou yard aboard the COSCO Shipping
The Three Gorges Jiangsu Dafeng project, China’s farthest offshore wind farm, is now operating at full capacity, Chinese media reported on 15 December. The 800 MW offshore wind farm has been built in the northeastern sea area of Dafeng District, Yancheng City, and consists of four sites, with the fa
Jan De Nul has installed three HVAC subsea cables, delivered by Hellenic Cables, between TenneT’s offshore converter station DolWin kappa and Nordseecluster 1 and 2 sites in the German North Sea. The two locations make up the 660 MW Nordseecluster A offshore wind farm, which itself is part of a bigg
The Netherlands-based exploration and production player ONE-Dyas, together with its partners EBN and Tenaz Energy, has tucked a new decarbonisation milestone under its belt by breathing life into the first natural gas production platform in the Dutch and German sectors of the North Sea to run on off
The GE Vernova-Seatrium consortium has been awarded a contract to deliver the offshore converter platform for TenneT’s 2.2 GW BalWin5 offshore grid connection in the German North Sea. The contract is the fourth one awarded under the five-year framework agreement that GE Vernova and Seatrium signed w
The Blue Mackerel offshore wind project, being developed by JERA Nex BP (a 50:50 joint venture between JERA Co. and BP), has been awarded Major Project Status (MPS) by the Australian federal government. With the MPS recognition, the proposed 1 GW project secures dedicated support from the Federal Ma
Ocean Winds, a 50-50 joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has contracted DEME for the installation of monopile foundations, inter-array cables, and the export cable at the BC-Wind offshore wind farm in Poland. While the value of the three contracts was not disclosed, DEME noted in a press
Davi has reached another milestone in the project it’s carrying on with Titan Wind Energy, completing the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) for four heavy-duty plate rolls designed for offshore wind tower and monopile manufacturing. The FAT took place in Week 46 at Davi’s headquarters in Cesena, Italy,
