Finnish wind energy service provider Arenso and Utilitas Wind have signed an agreement for cooperation on the 1.2 GW Saare-Liivi offshore wind project in Estonia. Arenso was assigned to prepare a basic design for the offshore wind project. The work was launched in February and is planned to be compl
The Colombian government has received nominations for 69 sites from the companies that pre-qualified last year to participate in the country’s first offshore wind tender. The area nomination procedure, whose deadline was 31 January, allowed the pre-qualified companies to propose sites to be evaluate
Construction activities on the Scottish Inch Cape offshore wind farm are scheduled to start this April with construction work within the project’s export cable corridor. According to a Notice to Mariners from the project team, the work will commence with operations at the export cable landfall site
Jan De Nul will deploy its heavy-lift vessel Les Alizés for the monopile installation at the Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland. The company was announced as one of the project suppliers at the beginning of this year as ESB and Red Rock Renewables reached financial close on the 1,080 MW Inch C
Australian company Wind With Purpose (WWP) is proposing to build a 2.5 GW offshore wind project, called Catalpa Offshore Wind Farm, southwest of Garden Island, Western Australia (WA). The developer, which recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with an Australian joint venture for low-ca
Ofgem is inviting tenders to own and operate electricity transmission links worth GBP 4 billion (about EUR 4.8 billion), connecting the Sofia offshore wind farm to Great Britain’s mainland energy network. Ofgem has opened the Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO) regime Tender Round 12, which invites i
Cochin Shipyard has started building a hybrid-electric service operations vessel (SOV) for North Star, which will operate at the He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany under a long-term charter North Star signed with EnBW last year. North Star and Cochin Shipyard cut the first steel for the new SOV
Geophysical survey operations and a static fishing gear survey are taking place within the Inch Cape offshore wind farm site and its associated export cable corridor from 19 February until the end of April. On behalf of Inch Cape Offshore Limited, a joint venture between ESB and Red Rock Renewables,
RWE, through a joint venture with the Irish renewable energy company Saorgus Energy, has submitted a planning application to Ireland’s An Bord Pleanála for the Dublin Array offshore wind farm. The planning documents were filed today, 26 February, by Bray Offshore Wind Limited and Kish Offshore Wind
Danish Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), on behalf of its fund Copenhagen Infrastructure V (CI V), has signed a transaction to take full ownership of the Morecambe offshore wind farm from Cobra Group and Flotation Energy, owned by TEPCO Renewable Power. The financial terms of the transaction
EDF Renewables has booked a EUR 934 million impairment in connection with the Atlantic Shores offshore wind project(s) in the United States, for which EDF’s joint venture partner Shell also recently included impairment charges in its full-year 2024 financial report and said it was pausing its involv
Taylor Hopkinson has been awarded a quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) surveillance contract for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland. Taylor Hopkinson will support the fabrication and construction of Scotland’s 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm, being jointly developed by Red Rock
The House of Representatives of the US State of New Hampshire has passed a new bill that removes the offshore wind scope from the state Office of Offshore Wind Industry Development and Energy Innovation, and amends several other state-level efforts established to support offshore wind by either with
The UK’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has launched a consultation on proposed reforms to the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme for Allocation Round 7 (AR7). One of the proposed reforms is relaxing eligibility criteria for fixed-bottom offshore wind farms so projects that h
