German offshore wind farms in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea generated 12.09 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in 2016, a 45.7 percent jump compared to 8.3 TWh generated by wind farms off Germany in 2015, TenneT reports.
Dutch transmission system operator TenneT has invited tenders for provision and installation of high voltage alternating current (HVAC) cables that will connect the three offshore substations at the 1.4GW Hollandse Kust (zuid) and the 700MW Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind farm zones to the main
The European Commission has found support to be granted to the 600MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in Danish territorial waters to be in line with EU state aid rules.
Fugro’s multi-purpose offshore vessel Fugro Symphony will return to the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm next week to install the remaining inter-array cables at the site located some 13 kilometres off the Sussex coast.
The governments of Flanders and the Netherlands have reached an agreement on the Borssele subsea cables that will run through the Western Scheldt (Westerscheld), the estuary of the Scheldt river and an important shipping route for the Belgian Port of Antwerp.
The cable laying vessel Stemat Spirit is being loaded with the first batch of inter-array cables for the Galloper offshore wind farm at JDR Cables’ facility in Hartlepool.
Lincolnshire design consultancy Land Drainage Services Ltd (LDS) has been awarded a contract extension by Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm to provide a long-term liaison service between the project and its local landowners.
Ecology specialists from Royal Haskoning DHV will for the next two weeks survey vegetation and wildlife habitats at parts of the onshore export cable corridor for the 900MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm.
Representatives of Dutch, Danish and German transmission system operators will sign an agreement to develop the North Sea Wind Power Hub during the first meeting of the North Seas Energy Forum held in Brussels today.
Heerema Fabrication Group has moved the substation topside for the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm out of the fabrication hall at the company’s Hartlepool yard.
Japanese offshore wind-power resources have been largely overlooked but have tremendous potential, and can viably contribute to baseload power demand in the country’s post-nuclear era, according to a report released by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).
Geoscience and engineering service provider Next Geosolutions has been awarded two survey contracts for the 1.4GW North Sea Link (NSL) project, the world’s longest subsea interconnector and the first electricity link between UK and Norway.
Danish subsea services provider JD-Contractor has signed a framework agreement with compatriot Energinet.dk for contingency repairs of the transmission system operator’s subsea cables.
Good Energy Group has signed an agreement with DONG Energy which will see the Chippenham-based renewable electricity supplier and generator source offshore wind power for its customers for the first time.
