Havfram has been awarded a contract by Vattenfall and BASF for their Nordlicht offshore wind farm cluster in the German North Sea. The Nordlicht wind farm zone, located 85 kilometres north of the island of Borkum, consists of two separate sites: Nordlicht I, with an expected capacity of 980 MW, and
International chemical company LyondellBasell has agreed to purchase a portion of electricity generated by the Ecowende wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. LyondellBasell signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Eneco, the energy company building the wind farm in the coming years together
The 600 MW Gemini wind farm offshore the Netherlands is once again fully operational after experiencing a failure in one of the export cables between the wind farm and the shore. A group of cable and energy specialists, including a repair team from NKT, helped Gemini with a fast repair during the su
A generator on a turbine at the Kincardine floating wind farm off the coast of Scotland has been replaced, in what is being claimed as the “world’s first” in-situ major component exchange at a floating offshore wind farm. The work on the Vestas V164-9.5 MW wind turbine was carried out using an offsh
On 19 September, Iberdrola inaugurated the 496 MW Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project in France, the second largest in the country and the first in Brittany. The offshore wind farm is located 16 kilometres off the northwest coast of France in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc in the English Channel. The projec
More than half of the advanced foundation components for the 924 MW Sunrise Wind offshore wind farm have already been built, as the project gears up for offshore construction in 2025. Ørsted selected Riggs Distler & Company, a union construction solutions firm with offices in Mt. Vernon and Saugerti
Danish Minister of Environment Magnus Heunicke, Vattenfall’s Head of Wind Helene Biström, and Country Manager for Vattenfall Denmark Anne Mette Traberg officially inaugurated the two offshore wind farms Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd on 12 September. The Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd offshore w
Archer Wind has ordered TP-Products’ bolted connections for the floating wind foundation which will be installed as part of the Culzean pilot project. The one-turbine, 3 MW pilot is owned and developed by TotalEnergies and will power the Culzean gas platform in the UK North Sea. TotalEnergies has co
DEME Group has laid the first export cable for Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, while also reaching a milestone by installing the 70th monopile foundation at the site off Virginia Beach in the US. As previously reported, Dominion Energy selected the consortium
Van Oord’s new, next-generation cable-laying vessel (CLV) is getting ready for its first project with the pick up of inter-array cables destined for RWE’s largest offshore wind farm to date. Calypso, Van Oord’s second CLV which will mostly be used for installing inter-array and export cables for off
Two people who remained hospitalised after the first person was pronounced dead following the CO2 leak at the Hai Long onshore substation in Taiwan have also passed away, a Hai Long Offshore Wind spokesperson confirmed to offshoreWIND.biz. On 20 August, several on-site workers at the Hai Long Changh
Vestas has received an order for 54 of its 15 MW turbines from Equinor for the 810 MW Empire Wind 1 offshore wind project in New York. This is Vestas’s first order for an offshore platform and its V236-15.0 MW turbine in the US, the Denmark-based company says. The firm contract with Equinor follows
RWE has started building an ultra-fast battery storage system with an installed capacity of 7.5 MW and a storage capacity of 11 MWh on the site of its power plant in Moerdijk, the Netherlands, as part of the OranjeWind offshore wind project that involves system integration solutions. Owned by RWE an
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