A pre-installation survey at the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site is scheduled to begin in early January 2025, following subsea boulder clearance and scour protection work that was carried out in November 2024 and marked the start of offshore construction work. The survey, which will be per
Equinor and its partners on the extension projects that are planned to be built next to the operational Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind farms in Norfolk, UK, have agreed to bring the two projects under a joint ownership structure in one legal entity. The Dudgeon Extension Project is owned
RWE and the Whitby Lobster Hatchery have released 2,500 juvenile lobsters at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK in what the wind farm developer says is an industry-first project, through which more than 15,000 lobsters are planned to be released at Triton Knoll. The first batch of 2,500 j
ScottishPower Renewables, part of the Iberdrola Group, has awarded an export cable contract for East Anglia Two (EA2), a 960 MW offshore wind farm in the UK, to Nexans. Under the contract, Nexans will supply and install approximately 100 kilometres of 275 kV high-voltage subsea export cables and 55
Archer Wind has started the fabrication of the foundation which will be installed as part of the Culzean floating offshore wind pilot project. This single-turbine, 3 MW pilot project, owned and developed by TotalEnergies, will provide power to the Culzean gas platform in the UK North Sea. According
The 60th and final turbine has been installed at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm in the Moray Firth, located in northern Scotland. The Moray West offshore wind farm is nearing the end of the construction phase and will become fully operational during 2025, in line with the originally projec
Poseidon Cables, a UK-based company specialised in subsea cable installation, termination and testing, has secured a contract with Norwegian subsea services provider NCT Offshore for work on Ørsted’s 920 MW Greater Changhua 2b & 4 offshore wind farms in Taiwan. Last year, NCT Offshore was awarded th
Ocean Winds has completed the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Caledonia offshore wind farm and has started the process of submitting applications for its 2 GW Scottish project. The project’s first consent application is for the onshore transmission works (substation and underground cab
Northumberland County Council has granted outline planning permission for the Berwick Bank offshore wind project’s onshore transmission infrastructure and grid connection. The decision by Northumberland County Council approves the onshore export cables, converter station, and associated grid connect
Production of the last transition piece (TP) for the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the world’s largest offshore wind farm under construction, is underway at Smulders facility in Hoboken, Belgium. The consortium comprising Sif and Smulders was awarded contracts for the manufacture of all monopiles an
The UK Planning Inspectorate has submitted its recommendation report on Rampion 2, the proposed 1.2 GW extension to the existing 400 MW Rampion offshore wind farm in Sussex, to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, who now has three months to issue a decision. The inspectorate clo
Van Oord, using its jack-up vessel Aeolus, has installed 34 of the total 100 monopiles at the Sofia offshore wind farm site in the UK, according to a Notice to Mariners issued on 29 October. Aeolus installed the first monopile at the Sofia project site, located on Dogger Bank in the central North Se
Global investment firm Brookfield has bought minority stakes in four UK offshore wind farms owned and operated by Ørsted for around GBP 1.75 billion (approximately EUR 2.1 billion). The buy-in, which Brookfield is pursuing through Brookfield Infrastructure Fund V, will see the investment firm acquir
Van Oord’s new, next-generation cable-laying vessel (CLV) Calypso has begun installing cables at its first offshore wind project, marking its official debut. Calypso’s first project is RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm, being constructed on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, 195 kilometres from the
