SSE Renewables has selected Montrose Port as the preferred location for the O&M base for its Seagreen offshore wind farm in Scotland. To remind, SSE’s 454MW Seagreen Phase 1 project was recently selected in the UK’s Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 3 with a strike price of GBP 41.61/M
Seacat Services has secured a contract with Equinor to provide offshore energy support vessels (OESVs) for the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm in the UK. Under the long-term contract, Seacat Services is providing three OESVs to support the ongoing O&M work at the 316.8MW offshore wind farm some
Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum has issued a tender seeking corrective maintenance work for the Trianel Windpark Borkum offshore wind farm in Germany. The contractor will be in charge of the corrective maintenance and optional repair/refurbishment of major components such as gearboxes, generators, blad
Renewable Oil Services (ROS) has carried out hydraulic oil exchange on the turbines of the Rhyl Flats offshore wind farm. Under a contract with innogy, ROS performed the hydraulic oil exchange, including hydraulic system flushing, on 25 Siemens 3.6MW turbines at the site north of the Port of Mostyn
Ideol’s concrete hulls for commercial-scale floating wind farms could be built and launched in at least five construction sites in California, with two being immediately suitable without any upgrades, the French company said. In addition, four sites were identified as suitable for wind turbine assem
GE has approved ExxonMobil’s Mobil SHCTM Gear 320 WT advanced turbine gear oil for use in all of its wind turbines worldwide. This approval applies to all of the more than 50,000 GE wind turbines in operation today, ExxonMobil said. GE’s lubricant approval process includes more than 300 itemized tes
Ørsted has officially opened its expanded East Coast Hub at the Port of Grimsby, the UK. Guest of honor, Melanie Onn MP for Great Grimsby unveiled a plaque at the site, as part of the official opening ceremony. Constructed by local firm Hobson and Porter, the site is now the world’s largest offshore
A consortium of partners led by Principle Power has been awarded a USD 3.6 million grant from the U.S Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop, validate and operate DIGIFLOAT, the world’s first digital twin software tailored to floating offshore wind applic
Fugro is set to replace the meteorological mast at the Arklow Bank offshore wind project in Ireland with a LiDAR as part of maintenance work. Fugro will use the jack-up barge Aran 250 to conduct the work on the northern end of the project between 23 and 30 September, subject to weather conditions. O
Great Yarmouth-based Stowen has won a contract to deliver a complete cathodic protection system to Equinor’s two Sheringham Shoal offshore subtations. The work will take place in the fourth quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020. The installation of the system will ensure the life expectancy
C-bed’s accommodation vessel Wind Innovation is servicing the installation and commissioning phases of the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) project in Germany. The DP2 walk-to-work vessel began its deployment at the project site some 45km off the coast of the Borkum island at the end of July. C-be
Rotos 360 and Siemens Gamesa have completed an internal blade repair campaign at the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm in the UK. Rotos 360 provided the wind farm with a full turnkey solution, which included labor and vessel supply, full inspection and repairs, as well as a follow-up analysis. The
Ørsted has awarded the Aarhus-based Systematic A/S with a contract to provide a global offshore management system (OMS) dedicated to its offshore wind farms. The system will enable Ørsted to coordinate, monitor, and supervise offshore activities across multiple wind farms and make logistics data ava
Austrian-based Aero Enterprise has performed its first offshore wind turbine inspection using the in-house developed helicopter drone AERO-SensorCopter. Back in July, Aero Enterprise carried out inspection flights around the offshore wind turbines some 70 kilometers from the German/Dutch coastline o
