Oriel Windfarm Ltd, a joint venture between ESB and JERA Nex BP, has awarded a contract to Fugro for a detailed geotechnical site investigation for the Oriel offshore wind project in Ireland. The work will inform the design and installation of foundations for 25 offshore wind turbines that will make
Palfinger has secured a contract to supply PF 200 fully electric offshore cranes for the Formosa 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. As part of the contract for Synera Renewables Taiwan (SRE), Palfinger will supply 35 units of PF 200 fully electric offshore cranes, each with a 7-meter outreach. They wil
The first wind turbine is now in place at the 1.1 GW Thor offshore wind farm site in Denmark. Thor will comprise 72 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-236 DD wind turbines, of which 40 will feature recyclable rotor blades, with 36 turbine towers to be manufactured with a significantly lower carbon footprint than
The 220 MW Kitakyushu Hibikinada, Japan’s largest offshore wind farm, commenced commercial operation on 2 March. Located in the Hibikinada Sea, off the coast of Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, the offshore wind farm comprises 25 Vestas V174-9.6 MW turbines, the last of which was installed in au
Ocean Winds has entered into an agreement for lease with the Crown Estate for a 1.5 GW floating offshore wind project, for which the developer secured a site in the Round 5 seabed auction last year. Offshore Wind Leasing Round 5, the UK’s first dedicated floating wind seabed leasing round, was launc
Jack-up vessels Wind Osprey and Wind Pace will start installing wind turbines at the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site in the UK around 18 March. Both vessels will mobilise at the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark, with first load-out for Wind Osprey expected on 15 March, while the first load-out for
Seatrium handed over the Maersk wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) to its owner on 26 February, the Singapore-based shipbuilder said. The new WTIV is scheduled to sail for its first assignment at the Empire Wind project offshore New York in March 2026. The WTIV recently completed sea trials in
Renexia has deployed an AXYS FLiDAR WindSentinel in the Strait of Sicily, at the site of its proposed Med Wind floating wind farm, for a twelve-month measurement campaign. The metocean data will support the layout design of Med Wind and provide essential inputs for engineering structures, moorings,
The installation of the first wind turbine at Ørsted’s Sunrise Wind project site in the US is expected to start soon, as Cadeler’s vessel Wind Scylla, which was installing Revolution Wind turbines and is now in port, is planned to deploy to Sunrise Wind next. According to a Notice to Mariners issued
The 95th and final wind turbine has been installed at the 1.2 GW Dogger Bank A offshore wind farm, the first phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK. The wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Voltaire, which carried out the installation on Dogger Bank A, is now on its way to […]
RWE has placed a firm order with Vestas for its 1,380 MW Norfolk Vanguard West offshore wind project in the UK, after the developer secured a Contract for Difference (CfD) for the project in Allocation Round 7 (AR7) in January and announced that the global investment firm KKR would become its partne
Boskalis has completed the preparation of 150 kilometres of inter-array cable routes at the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm site in Poland. In 2023, Boskalis was awarded a contract for the transportation and installation of export and inter-array cables for the Polish offshore wind farm, owned b
