At a North Seas Energy Cooperation (NSEC) Ministerial Meeting held on 24 October in Odense, Denmark, the energy ministers of nine North Sea countries signed a new declaration which, among other things, calls for a digital transparency tool for offshore wind tenders and supply chain capacities. NSEC
DEME has been awarded a contract to carry out the transport and installation of inter-array cables and secondary steel for the 800 MW OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. Scheduled to start in the second half of 2026, DEME will deploy offshore and cable installation vessels, a hopper dr
Van Oord’s new, next-generation cable-laying vessel (CLV) Calypso has begun installing cables at its first offshore wind project, marking its official debut. Calypso’s first project is RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm, being constructed on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, 195 kilometres from the
Dutch offshore transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has opened an application period for a EUR 3 million tender for surveys of cables installed in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. Work will start in 2025 and will be performed on the export cables at the Borssele and the Hollandse Kust offshor
Greece’s Hellenic Cables, the cable segment of Cenergy Holdings, has signed a partnership agreement with Leading Light Wind, one of the largest offshore wind farms in the US, to supply some of the project’s inter-array cables. Under the agreement, Hellenic Cables will supply 65 kilometres of 132 kV
Correll, part of SPIE Group, has been awarded a contract by Jan De Nul to complete the 66 kV inter-array cable (IAC) termination and testing on wind turbines for RWE’s 1 GW Thor offshore wind project in Denmark. The works are planned to commence in July 2025 with the mock-up scheduled for November 2
Seaway7 has finished the full engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning (EPIC) work for the cables at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland. Seaway7 has installed 118 kilometres of 66 kV inter-array cables, linking the wind farm’s 60 turbines to two offshore substation
Axess Technologies has secured a cable installation contract with HSM Offshore Energy for the Thor offshore wind farm located off the Danish west coast. The scope of work includes project management, engineering, pulling, terminating, and testing the internal platform cables into the Thor offshore s
Norwegian ship designer and shipbuilder VARD has held the keel laying ceremony for what is said to be a highly customized hybrid power cable lay and construction vessel that will serve the Japanese offshore wind market. VARD is building the vessel for Toyo Construction, a Japanese general constructi
Polenergia and Equinor have signed a contract with Tele-Fonika Kable S.A. (TFKable) for the supply of onshore cables and accessories for the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind farms in Poland. In addition, the companies selected the Dutch firm Visser & Smit Hanab to perform horizontal drilling in t
Nexans, a French manufacturer of subsea power cables, has unveiled a EUR 90 million investment to build new and upgrade existing facilities to support the growth of offshore wind in Europe. The investment will begin in 2025 and run through 2026 when the work is planned to be completed. The funding w
DEME Group has laid the first export cable for Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, while also reaching a milestone by installing the 70th monopile foundation at the site off Virginia Beach in the US. As previously reported, Dominion Energy selected the consortium
Van Oord’s new, next-generation cable-laying vessel (CLV) is getting ready for its first project with the pick up of inter-array cables destined for RWE’s largest offshore wind farm to date. Calypso, Van Oord’s second CLV which will mostly be used for installing inter-array and export cables for off
Correll Group, a subsidiary of SPIE Global Services Energy, has been awarded two multi-year framework agreements from Vattenfall to carry out cable testing and fault finding for Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms in Europe. The two framework agreements cover Vattenfall’s existing and potential new off
