The Tersan Shipyard in Türkiye has laid the keel for the cable-laying vessel (CLV) it is constructing for South Korean subsea cable installation company LS Marine Solution. LS Marine Solution and the shipyard signed a contract for the construction of the vessel in June 2025, followed by the start of
TenneT Netherlands has selected compatriot survey company Deep to perform annual offshore cable integrity surveys between 2026 and 2029. Deep announced today, 31 August, that it would use hydrographic and geophysical techniques to determine the level of seabed cover above the cables, identify object
Heerema Fabrication Group has completed the first structural element for the jacket foundation for TenneT’s 2 GW IJmuiden Ver Beta transformer platform at its yard in Vlissingen. During the first so-called roll-up, the 1,700-tonne steel element was lifted from a horizontal position into a controlled
Trianel Windpark Borkum I (TWB I) has prequalified around 70 MW of capacity for Germany’s balancing energy market and began supplying negative secondary control reserve in July 2026. The marketing of the balancing capacity started on 22 July, allowing the offshore wind farm to provide an additional
The Norwegian Ministry of Energy has granted Ventyr, a consortium of JERA Nex BP and Ingka Investments, a twelve-month extension of the deadline for submitting a license application for the Sørlige Nordsjø II (Southern North Sea II) project, Norway’s first commercial offshore wind farm. Ventyr submi
Jan De Nul has installed all 23 foundation elements for the Princess Elisabeth Island, the world’s first artificial energy island, being built 45 kilometres off the Belgian coast. The project is now entering the next phase of construction, according to the company. Developed by Belgium grid operator
South Korea’s Taihan Cable & Solution and Panstar Robotics, established by the Korea Institute of Robotics & Technology Convergence (KIRO), have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly develop remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) that would be deployed domestically, in an effort to reduce
Siemens Energy marked the first deployment of its lightweight integrated offshore substation at an offshore wind project, as the company’s new High-Voltage TranSwitch Unit (HV-TSU) has been installed at the Yuetuo Island Offshore Wind Farm in China. According to Siemens Energy, the substation integr
South Korea’s Taihan Cable & Solution has held a safe operation ceremony for the cable-laying vessel (CLV) it recently purchased from DOF Group, ahead of full-scale deployment for offshore wind projects. Taihan reported in May that it had acquired the 2016-built Skandi Connector from DOF, representi
