Community Offshore Wind, a joint venture between RWE and National Grid Ventures, has selected Fugro to perform a geotechnical investigation of their lease area in the New York Bight. With 3 GW of offshore wind energy potential, the developed lease area could power more than one million homes in the
Following a blade damage incident that took place on 13 July at its 800 MW offshore wind project in Massachusetts, Vineyard Wind has revealed that it is mobilising debris recovery teams on Nantucket. Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Iberdrola’s US subsidiary Avangrid and Denmark’s Copenhagen I
The consortium of Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables has been awarded a contract to deliver 21 monopiles for Iberdrola’s Windanker offshore wind farm in Germany. The transition pieces (TPs) for the Windanker foundations will be delivered by Windar under a contract the Spanish manufacturer sig
Two Dutch companies operating in the food and agro industries, Plukon and De Heus, have decided to buy electricity from Ecowende, a joint venture of Shell, Eneco, and Chubu, that owns the offshore wind farm which will be built at Hollandse Kust West (HKW) Site VI in the Netherlands. Rabobank’s new g
The Port of Gdańsk Authority has selected a company in charge of building and operating the offshore wind terminal that the Port and the Polish government announced in 2022. The company, called Istrana, is expected to soon complete its own tenders for engineering consultancy and terminal constructio
Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München have awarded Dutch company Bluestream Offshore, an OEG Renewables business, a contract for a remedial campaign on the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. Bluestream will provide specialist subsea and topside services for the remedial ca
Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet has awarded EMD International and C2Wind with contracts for the assessment of wind conditions at the five new offshore wind areas for which the Danish government launched an auction in April. The offshore wind sites are North Sea I, Hesselø South,
Irish transmission system operator (TSO) EirGrid has awarded a multi-party framework agreement for surveys that the TSO will perform at the offshore wind area(s) the Irish government will put up for tender next. The companies that secured long-term contracts, valued at EUR 300 million in total, are
On 12 July, Ørsted revealed the company achieved a significant noise reduction using a new monopile installation method at the Gode Wind 3 offshore wind farm in Germany. Tested during the installation of three of the wind farm’s monopiles, the new method had reduced noise levels by over 99 per cent,
SSE and Equinor, the co-developers of the 2 GW Dogger Bank D project (DBD), and The Crown Estate have established commercial terms of a proposed variation of the existing Dogger Bank C seabed lease, within which the two partners plan to build the fourth phase of Dogger Bank Wind Farm. The fourth pha
The first monopile for the Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark has been completed at Dajin Offshore Heavy Industry’s Penglai facility in China. In April last year, RWE selected Dajin Offshore and EEW SPC to deliver 36 monopiles each, together with secondary structures, for the Thor offshore wind farm
All 80 monopiles have been placed at the Yunlin offshore wind farm site in Taiwan. Additionally, 55 wind turbines have been installed by the installation teams, with more than half of the units already connected to the grid. The monopile installation was initially performed by Sapura Energy Berhad,
The Bałtyk II offshore wind farm, developed by a joint venture between Equinor and Polenergia, has received a building permit from the Polish Government. In addition, the Bałtyk III wind project has been given a building permit for offshore export cables in the Polish Baltic Sea. On 3 July, the Pome
Vattenfall and Metsähallitus have awarded GEOxyz and Arctia contracts to provide geophysical surveys for the Korsnäs offshore wind farm in Finland. Vattenfall became a Metsähallitus project partner for the Korsnäs offshore wind farm in December 2022. The surveys involve mapping a 280 square-kilometr
