The first section of the second export cable which will connect the Beatrice offshore wind farm to the Scottish grid arrived in Peterhead on Monday, 29 January, Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL) said.
Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has announced the terms of the second competitive tender for grid connection and offshore wind farm compensation.
STX France has moved the offshore substation topside for the Arkona wind farm from the Forme B dock in Saint-Nazaire to the Forme 1 dock belonging to the Port Authorities.
KCI The Engineers is supporting Tractebel at the Dieppe et Le Tréport and Iles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier offshore wind farms in France by providing the structural know-how to the engineering team for the offshore substations. KCI’s scope will be to assist by setting up the engineering packages for the
The 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm is expected to produce first electricity in July this year, SSE, one of the owners of the wind farm, said.
Dutch specialist in subsea cable logistics WIND has won a contract for the storage of 2 x 25km export cables for a wind farm in the Baltic Sea.
The topside of the offshore substation for the Rentel offshore wind farm has been installed in the Belgian North Sea, Rentel NV, the owner and developer of the 309MW wind farm said.
The state government of Schleswig-Holstein has called for an additional expansion of Germany’s 2030 and 2035 offshore wind capacity targets.
The installation of the offshore transformer substation topside for the 309MW Rentel offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea has been postponed, DEME Group told Offshore WIND.
Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has cleared 5,000+ boulders from a 30km area in the German Baltic Sea, creating the pathway for an export cable to connect an offshore wind farm to the shore landing site.
HSM Offshore, the EPC contractor for the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore substation, installed the two transformers that make the topside structure on 13 January. The topside left the construction hall for the installation of the transformers and was brought back into the covered construction area after
The consortium behind the Maine Aqua Ventus demonstration project has reportedly decided to stop investigating the Port Clyde route as one of the preferred for the transmission link to the mainland. According to the local media, Maine Aqua Ventus has given up on this route due to concerns raised by
The jacket foundation for a Siemens Offshore Transformer Module (OTM) has been loaded onto a barge destined for the Beatrice offshore wind farm, after undergoing final preparations at BiFab’s yard in Fife, Scotland.
Abu Dhabi-based Masdar and Norway’s Statoil have signed a collaborative agreement to analyse data from the Batwind battery system designed to store energy generated by the Hywind Scotland floating wind farm.
