Ørsted is developing a new offshore wind project with a potential capacity of up to 2 GW in Taiwan, with the development now entering the environmental assessment process. Named Dadu II, the project would cover approximately 234.6 square kilometres of sea area off Changhua County, with the nearest p
China Three Gorges’ (CTG) 800 MW Jiangsu Rudong offshore wind project has generated and delivered more than 10 TWh of electricity since reaching full operation in 2021. The milestone was reached on 11 August, according to information shared by CTG. The project, located in the Yellow Sea off Rudong C
Arenko has been selected by Ørsted to deploy its Nimbus optimisation, asset management and trading platform at the 300 MW/600 MWh Iceni battery energy storage system (BESS) that will be part of the 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. The BESS project is scheduled to enter operations in th
The Revolution Wind offshore wind farm in the US is more than 95 per cent complete, with 61 of the 65 turbines installed, according to information Ørsted shared in its half-year results on 13 August. At the company’s Sunrise Wind project site in the US, 20 wind turbines have been installed. Revoluti
Siemens Energy marked the first deployment of its lightweight integrated offshore substation at an offshore wind project, as the company’s new High-Voltage TranSwitch Unit (HV-TSU) has been installed at the Yuetuo Island Offshore Wind Farm in China. According to Siemens Energy, the substation integr
Foundation installation has been completed at the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm in the UK. The owners of the GBP 4 billion (around EUR 4.7 billion) project, ScottishPower Renewables and Masdar, said on 17 August that all 95 monopiles and their transition pieces were in place, with the
International industrial services provider Bilfinger has been selected to deliver technical advisory services during the execution phase of an offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea for Ocean Winds. The BC-Wind project involves the installation of 26 wind turbines with a total planned capaci
Up to 180 new jobs are being created in the Scottish Highlands to support delivery of the world’s largest offshore wind farm under construction, the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the North Sea. The highly skilled roles will be based at Maraen Port of Nigg near Inverness, which has been selected as
All wind turbines have now been installed at EnBW’s 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, marking the completion of the project’s turbine installation campaign. The first of the 64 Vestas V236-15.0 MW wind turbines was installed by Cadeler’s installation vessel Wind Orca in Ap
EnBW expects to soon complete the installation of all wind turbines at the 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm, according to information the company provided in its half-year results. As reported in July, a section of a damaged rotor blade from one of the wind turbines at He Dreiht offshore wind far
Installation of all 54 transition pieces for the monopile foundations at the 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland has been completed. Seaway7’s heavy lift crane vessel Seaway Alfa Lift transported the transition pieces from the marshalling yard at Forth Port’s Leith facility and installed
China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has started operating its 16 MW Haiyou Anlan floating wind platform in the South China Sea, with the unit now supplying electricity to the Lufeng oilfield grid, according to Chinese media. CNOOC had previously reported that Haiyou Anlan was under devel
Sumitomo Corporation has joined the Gwynt Glas floating offshore wind project in the Celtic Sea as an equal partner alongside EDF power solutions UK and Ireland and ESB, with each company now holding a 33.33 per cent stake. DP Energy will continue to support the project’s development, including earl
RWE and the US Department of the Interior (DOI) have reached a settlement agreement under which RWE will relinquish its offshore wind leases in the New York Bight and off the coasts of California and Louisiana in exchange for USD 1.22 billion (around EUR 1.06 billion) in settlement funds. The agreem
