The full commissioning of the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) wind farm offshore Scotland has been postponed until 2024 due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic both in Europe and in the Far East, the developers of the 450 MW project said. NnG, jointly owned by EDF Renewables and ESB and under constructio
Iberdrola will invest more than USD 10 billion in the development of three offshore wind complexes in Massachusetts, the Spanish energy company’s CEO, Ignacio Galán, told the Governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker. During the meeting, Galán also explained the company’s growth plan in the United St
The first of the 71 gravity-based foundations for the Fécamp offshore wind farm has been completed at the Grand Port Maritime of Le Havre, France. The consortium of Bouygues Construction, Saipem, and Boskalis is in charge of supplying and installing the foundations for the 500 MW wind farm located b
SeAH Wind Ltd will build a GBP 200-300 million UK XXL monopile manufacturing facility at Teesworks and not at Able UK’s Able Marine Energy Park (AMEP) on the South Bank of the Humber as initially planned. SeAH Wind Ltd, a subsidiary of South Korea’s pipe manufacturer SeAH Steel Holdings, has not spe
As of 9 February, the high-speed offshore service craft of up to 500 GT will be able to carry up to 60 workers to and from wind farms offshore the UK while still meeting safety standards under new rules proposed by the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency. Vessels which transported workers to offshore
Heerema Marine Contractors is modifying the giant semi-submersible crane vessel Thialf to be able to access and work on projects in the Baltic Sea such as the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm scheduled to start later this year. Thialf is currently moored at the Calandkanaal, Port of Rotterdam, where
Inch Cape Offshore Limited, a joint venture between the Edinburgh-based Red Rock Power Limited and Ireland’s energy company Electricity Supply Board (ESB), has selected Montrose Port as the future operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm. Should the Inch Cape projec
Following the recent completion of the first offshore test, Heerema Marine Contractors has issued a video showing a novel method of assembling and installing XXL wind turbines onboard a floating, dynamically positioned (DP) vessel. The method was tested in the Dutch North Sea onboard the largest sem
Dutch heavy lifting company Mammoet said it has started investigating what the company describes as ”the possible violation of its intellectual property rights by Huisman and BMS Heavy Cranes.” The investigation concerns the recently announced series of land cranes, including a 3000-ton ring crane,
Van Oord’s jack-up MPI Resolution has started installing wind turbines at the 30 MW Taranto wind farm offshore Italy, the first wind farm to be built in the Mediterranean Sea. In the photos provided by Renexia SpA, the developer of the wind farm, MPI Resolution is seen installing the first of the te
Edda Wind has ordered three more Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOV) in addition to the six vessels the company has under construction. The vessels are specially designed for service operations during the commissioning and operation of offshore wind farms. The three CSOVs will be prepared
The jack-up vessel Seajacks Scylla has arrived in the Port of Taichung in Taiwan in preparation for the turbine installation work on the 900 MW Changhua 1 and 2a offshore wind farms. The installation work is expected to start as soon as a favourable window opens. Seajacks Scylla will transport and i
DEME Offshore has selected the Port of Roenne on Denmark’s Bornholm Island as the storage and marshaling hub for the 257 MW Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. DEME is the EPCI contractor for the project’s 27 wind turbine foundations and one offshore substation foundation. ”We
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has granted Approval in Principle (AIP) to a coordinated design for a wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) in conjunction with the BargeRack feeder barge system by Friede and Goldman (F&G). The design is said to enable the Jones Act-compliant barge in a lifting s
