The newbuild vessel that Cadeler acquired from Shanghai Boqiang Heavy Industry Group last year is ready to start supporting wind turbine installation at EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany, after having completed a technical and visual upgrade. The Danish vessel owner announced in May 202
ELWIND has signed a contract with Haskoning for the design phase of the joint Estonian-Latvian state-run offshore wind project in the Baltic Sea. Haskoning’s work will include layout optimisation, transmission grid studies and integration of site investigations and environmental assessment. The Dutc
Seventy wind turbines have been installed at RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK, according to a Notice to Mariners recently issued by the project team. The first of the project’s 100 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD wind turbines was installed in March 2025, and the work reached the halfway mark in
EEW and CS Wind have produced the first monopiles and transition pieces (TPs) for Vattenfall’s Nordlicht 1 offshore wind farm ahead of schedule, the developer said on 19 February. The monopiles are each up to 80.5 metres long and weigh up to 1,290 tonnes, while the transition pieces reach a height o
All monopiles have been installed at the site of the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm, being built by a joint venture between Orlen Group and Northland Power in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea, 23 kilometres off the coast of the Choczewo municipality. The project comprises a total of 78 fo
The vessel Seaway Aimery is laying inter‑array cables between wind turbines and the offshore converter platform at the East Anglia Three offshore wind site in the UK. The cable-laying vessel (CLV), which started the installation work in January, is supported by Seaway Moxie and will be joined by two
DEME has awarded Hellenic Cables with a contract for the supply of inter-array cables for the 390 MW BC-Wind offshore wind project in Poland, developed by Ocean Winds. Under the contract, the Greece-based manufacturer will be responsible for the design, engineering, manufacturing, testing, and suppl
McDermott has cut first steel for the offshore converter platform for TenneT’s LanWin1 offshore grid connection in Germany. The LanWin1 project will include an offshore converter station in the North Sea and an onshore converter station in the region of Wesermarsch. The platform will be delivered un
Offshore construction has begun on the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind projects in Poland, developed by Equinor and Polenergia, which will together have 100 wind turbines and an installed capacity of 1.4 GW. The 2026 offshore construction campaign will see the installation of 100 monopiles, tran
The US government will fight the federal court decisions to grant preliminary injunctions in cases challenging the stop-work orders for offshore wind projects under construction, issued on 22 December 2025. The injunctions allowed the construction to resume while the underlying lawsuits are underway
Korea Midland Power Company (KOMIPO) is investing KRW 96.1 billion (about EUR 56 million) in the 390 MW Shinan-Ui offshore wind project, the company said on 11 February. Financing for the offshore wind farm has been secured, and offshore construction is scheduled to begin in April, according to KOMI
The first monopile foundations for Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm have arrived at Port of Teesworks in the UK from Bilbao, Spain, where Haizea Wind Group is producing the monopiles for Ørsted’s 2.9 GW project. Six XXL monopiles, of the total 197 that Hornsea 3 will comprise, arrived in two batches, wi
Chantiers de l’Atlantique has completed the construction and integration of two offshore electrical substations for the 660 MW Nordseecluster A offshore wind farm, currently under construction off the German coast. Each of the topsides is approximately 40 metres long and 22 metres high, with one wei
