The UK’s state-owned railway owner and operator, Network Rail, has signed a five-year corporate power purchase agreement (CPPA) with RWE for 300 GWh of electricity annually to be supplied from RWE’s Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm. “We are delighted to have concluded the first public sector PPA under
A Russian naval vessel was recently observed “loitering” near UK offshore wind farms in the English Channel, according to a NATO source cited by iPaper. iPaper reports that the vessel was seen at the eastern entrance of the English Channel, around 50 kilometres off the coast of Colchester, and that
Eighty wind turbines have been installed at the Sofia offshore wind farm site, located on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, where 100 units of the Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD model will be installed for a total capacity of 1.4 GW. The vessel deployed for the work, Cadeler’s Wind Peak, installed
Evolve Energy, a UK-based energy supplier offering solutions for direct access to renewable energy for industrial and commercial businesses, has entered into a nine-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Shell for electricity generated by the Race Bank offshore wind farm, with which Shell has an o
Cadeler’s second M-class vessel, Wind Mover, which was delivered by the South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean to Cadeler in November 2025, has been deployed on its first project, the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland. The new vessel, designed to install the next generation of offshore
Geoquip Marine Operations and GEO Denmark are set to start a geotechnical investigation campaign at the Bowdun offshore wind farm site in Scotland, developed by Thistle Wind Partners. Two vessels, Geoquip Seehorn and Geo Connector, will be used to perform the surveys, with the work expected to comme
Transmission system operators (TSOs) TenneT and National Grid Ventures (NGV) have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to advance LionLink, a hybrid interconnector linking the UK and the Netherlands via a future offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The agreement sets out how the two part
Jan De Nul has contracted CRP Subsea to supply protection systems for inter-array cables at Vattenfall’s Nordlicht I offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. CRP Subsea will deliver 141 NjordGuard cable protection systems (CPS), with three NjordGuard CPS designs to be engineered to meet the speci
The installation of wind turbine foundations at Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK is scheduled to start in April, with Cadeler’s vessels Wind Ally and Wind Orca, and the service operation vessel (SOV) Esvagt Froude set to mobilise for the work from Dutch and UK ports. Wind Ally will mo
The Crown Estate has unveiled plans for the UK’s Offshore Wind Leasing Round 6 to be held in the first half of 2027, targeting the development of at least 6 GW of new capacity. The upcoming leasing process will focus on areas primarily located in the northeast of England. The sites are expected to b
Smulders HSM, a subsidiary of Eiffage Métal, has commenced the construction of the East Anglia Two offshore substation topside and jacket foundation. ScottishPower Renewables, part of Iberdrola, awarded an engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning (EPCIC) contract to HS
The first export cable for the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm has been laid and pulled into shore, according to an update from Ørsted on 26 March. NKT, the project’s export cable supplier, began manufacturing the cables three years ago and will complete them this summer, while Jan de Nul will transpor
