The floating wind industry could create up to 50,000 direct and indirect jobs in Spain and Portugal over the next two decades, according to a study launched by EIT InnoEnergy. The study, entitled “Iberia as a hub for technology development and industrial leadership in the field of floating wind offs
French telecommunications corporation Orange has ordered a cable vessel specially designed for the maintenance of submarine cables, including the inter-array cables used on offshore wind farms. Ordered by Orange Marine, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orange, the new vessel will replace C/S Raymond Cro
VINCI Energies has acquired offshore wind specialist EWE Offshore Service & Solutions GmbH from EWE. EWE OSS specializes in the operations management and maintenance services of offshore wind farms in the North Sea with an own control centre and 24/7 standby teams, and providing services for their p
SkySpecs an TEPCO Ventures have signed a partnership agreement to deliver SkySpecs’ solutions to the Japanese offshore wind market. Under the agreement, TEPCO will deliver the robotics solutions provider’s autonomous drone inspections, blade asset management software, and predictive maintenance plan
The multi-purpose offshore vessel Olympic Commander has been contracted by JDR Cables to support a maintenance campaign at the Sandbank offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Equipped with a 28-metre Safeway Seagull walk-to-work gangway system, the vessel has been deployed to carry out the tran
Damen Shipyards Group has delivered a Fast Crew Supplier 1204 to Total Offshore B.V. Total Offshore will use the crew transfer vessel (CTV), named Swift, to transport offshore personnel to wind farms in the North Sea. Damen and Total Offshore signed the contract in early October. The FCS 1204 was re
Sunrise Wind has purchased a facility in Suffolk County, New York, that will serve as the regional Operations and Maintenance (O&M) hub the offshore wind joint venture between Ørsted and Eversource. Located in East Setauket, the Town of Brookhaven, the Research Way O&M facility will also be used to
NKT has been awarded five-year agreements by Elia, 50Hertz, and Nemo Link for service works on their offshore assets, following competitive tendering procedures. The agreements cover several export cables connecting offshore wind parks to the onshore grid, and the interconnector Nemo Link connecting
Construction has started on the operations and maintenance base for the Fécamp offshore wind farm in France, EDF Renouvelables said. Located in Fécamp in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region, the facility will first serve as the construction base for the 500 MW project, with the offs
Tethys Energy Services (Tethys) and Aerones have won a competition to demonstrate a novel remote blade maintenance technique for offshore wind farms to GE Renewable Energy. The two companies have won a blade robotics innovation competition launched by GE Renewable Energy, the Offshore Renewable Ener
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has invited the offshore wind sector to sign up to a world-first data collection platform that aims to vastly reduce subsea cable failures. ELECTRODE will track cable failure trends and service downtime, as well as the effectiveness of current methods of
Cemre Shipyard has launched the third of the three service operation vessels (SOVs) ordered by Esvagt and under long-term charters with MHI Vestas Offshore Wind. The Turkish shipbuilder launched the hull of the first SOV in April and the second one in September. The 70-5 metre SOVs were ordered at N
In the last two weeks, Wiking Helikopter Service has signed a multi-year contract with TenneT and a contract extension with Deutsche Windtechnik, both of which will see the company providing offshore helicopter services for projects in the German part of the North Sea. With the transmission system o
MHI Vestas has awarded Dutch provider of ships agency and offshore helicopter services, DHSS, with a contract for the support of maintenance operations at the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm in Germany. Under the multi-year contract, DHSS will be responsible for helicopter hoist operations for tec
