Suomen Hyötytuuli has launched Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for turbine foundations for the Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm extension project in Finland. Suomen Hyötytuuli is developing an extension to Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm on the west coast of Finland. The foundations of the first turb
Equinor Wind US has hired Ocean Infinity for survey work on one of the first-ever floating offshore wind farms on the US West Coast. Under the terms of this contract, Ocean Infinity will undertake a comprehensive site investigation survey using multiple AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) simultan
The DemoSATH floating offshore wind project has started generating electricity and feeding it to Spain’s national grid, introducing this type of renewable generation technology to Spain’s energy mix for the first time. Led by the Spanish engineering firm Saitec Offshore Technologies, in collaboratio
A floating Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) buoy has been launched at the Stromar floating wind farm site offshore Scotland. The E38 EOLOS LiDAR was deployed at the Stromar site off the coast of Caithness, approximately 50 kilometres from the Port of Wick on 8 September. Equipped with fully indep
Hyundai Engineering & Steel Industries’ offshore wind installation vessel, named Hyundai Frontier and said to be the country’s first vessel of this kind, has completed its first wind turbine installation task at a wind farm offshore the Jeju island. This is according to a social media post by Kongsb
Vattenfall today (14 September) informed the German Federal Network Agency (BSH) that it is invoking its right of entry for the N-6.6 offshore wind site that BSH provisionally awarded to RWE last month. Vattenfall, which holds a step-in right for the site following changes to the German offshore win
Vattenfall, Norwegian AI technology start-up Spoor, and British Trust for Ornithology have teamed up on a project that will test AI technology in tracking 3D flight paths of seabirds flying near the wind turbine blades at the Aberdeen Bay Offshore Wind Farm in Scotland. The project has already start
All inter-array cables have been laid at the 589 MW Changfang and Xidao offshore wind farms in Taiwan, according to Dennis Sanou, CEO of Changfang Xidao Offshore Wind Farms at Copenhagen Offshore Partners. The installation of approximately 73 kilometres of 66kV inter-array cables that are used to co
Last month, RWE and its project partners submitted an application for the development consent order (DCO) for the Rampion 2 offshore wind farm in the UK. The Planning Inspectorate accepted the application for examination on 7 September and will start the examination process within three months. Also
The first floating wind turbine for the Provence Grand Large offshore wind project set sail to its site on Monday, located more than 17 kilometres off the coast of Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône in France. The floating wind farm will comprise three Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbines installed on tensioned
The wind turbine installation campaign for the 806 MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project has begun some 15 miles (approximately 24 kilometres) off the coast of Massachusetts, the US. The installation campaign follows the successful transportation earlier this week of the first GE Haliade-X 13 MW
RWE and transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT have signed offshore grid connection agreements for OranjeWind, a wind farm to be built 53 kilometres off the Dutch coast. The Connection & Transmission Agreement (CTA) and Realisation Agreement (REA) cover the realisation of the grid connection and
Van Oord’s installation vessel Svanen has installed all monopiles at the 476 MW Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. All of the 50 monopiles were manufactured by the Rostock-based company EEW Special Pipe Constructions (EEW SPC). After completing the manufacturing, the units were transported
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed the environmental review of the Empire Wind 1 & 2 offshore wind farms, proposed to be built offshore New York by a joint venture of BP and Equinor, and plans to issue a Record of Decision (ROD) on whether to approve the project this autum
