Stillstrom and Port of Roenne have teamed up on a study looking into integrating offshore wind energy with maritime electrification. Maersk’s offshore power and charging solutions developer and the Danish port have initiated a joint white paper to explore how Energy Island Bornholm could serve as a
Irish transmission system operator (TSO) EirGrid has completed the first phase of marine and coastal surveys along Ireland’s south coast, which includes cable route corridor options from Maritime Area A, or Tonn Nua, offshore wind area of the Irish Government’s South Coast Designated Maritime Area P
The foundations for the two offshore substations have been installed at the Nordseecluster offshore wind farm site in the German North Sea. According to the CEO of RWE Offshore Wind, Sven Utermöhlen, a jacket foundation, including four piles and one transition piece, was installed at the end of last
NKT has completed a turnkey repair of one of the 220 kV high-voltage AC subsea export cables connecting the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Scottish Moray Firth to the Aberdeenshire coast. In April 2025, an unplanned transmission outage occurred on one of two of Beatrice’s Transmission Capital Pa
Both the topside and the jacket foundation of the 300 MW Jasmund offshore substation have been loaded out and are ready to set sail to the Baltic Sea for offshore installation. The topside, constructed at HSM Offshore Energy’s Stormpolder yard in the Netherlands, measures 48 metres long, 33 metres w
Palfinger has been contracted by Iemants, a subsidiary of Smulders, to deliver two fully electric jib cranes for the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind farms in Poland, where the cranes will be installed on the projects’ two offshore substations. According to Palfinger, this the first time that its
Air Liquide, CentraleSupélec, ITP Interpipe, Nexans, and RTE have joined forces to develop a project that connects distant offshore wind farms to shore via a High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) superconducting transmission system. The SupraMarine demonstrator project will study the electrical co
The China Merchants Heavy Industry shipyard has begun the construction of a DP 2 cable-laying vessel (CLV) ordered by Greece’s Asso.subsea for the offshore wind market. The steel-cutting ceremony for Althea was held today, 5 November, at the CMHI shipyard on Mazhou Island, Shenzhen, China. “The firs
TechWorks Marine has started a year-long metocean survey in Maritime Area A – Tonn Nua on Ireland’s South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan (SC-DMAP) to support EirGrid’s Powering Up Offshore South Coast project. The company was commissioned by Fugro, EirGrid’s appointed marine survey supplier, to
India-headquartered Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has been contracted to deliver high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter stations for Dutch-German grid operator TenneT’s offshore wind transmission programme. Collaborating with Hitachi Energy, L&T has been nominated by TenneT to deliver HVDC converter s
Fulan Offshore Engineering’s cable-laying barge (CLB) Ai Lan Yi Hao (AL-1) has completed the installation of the first circuit of the 500 kV export cable for the Yangjiang Fanshi 1 offshore wind farm in Guangdong, China. The 1,176 MW offshore wind project, developed by CGN Wind Energy, includes two
Both offshore substations, the first ever in Polish waters of the Baltic Sea, have been installed at the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm, developed by a joint venture between ORLEN Group and Northland Power. OSS West and OSS East are located approximately 20 kilometres from the shore of Chocz
Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has completed its 700 MW offshore grid connection programme with the grid readiness certification now in place for the Hollandse Kust West Beta connection, the company said on 28 October. The certification marks the completion of the last three 700 MW
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, in partnership with the North East Combined Authority, is investing GBP 2.1 million (around EUR 2.4 million) in a new offshore wind cable testing rig at its facilities in Blyth in North East England. Funded by the North East Combined Authority, the inves
