The US Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have approved the 2.8 GW Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind South Project in the federal waters off New Jersey, developed by a joint venture between Shell and EDF Renewables. BOEM issued a Record of Decision (ROD) fo
Hughes Subsea, a subsidiary of OEG Renewables, will start disposing of unexploded ordnance (UXO) at the UK 1.4 GW East Anglia Three (EA3) offshore wind farm site on 4 July, according to the latest Notice to Mariners issued by the EA3 project team. The UXO identification, investigation and clearance
Iberdrola has contracted DNV for power curve verification at the recently commissioned 496 MW Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France so the developer could align actual energy production with initial projections and improve the accuracy of economic models for the wind farm. DNV will perform the w
Avangrid, a US renewable energy company majority-owned by Spanish Iberdrola, has received the authorisation to build and operate its New England Wind offshore wind farms from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). This is the final approval needed from BOEM for the two projects offshore Massa
Equinor and Polenergia have signed reservation agreements with the consortium of Sif and Smulders for the manufacturing of 100 transition pieces (TPs) for the Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III offshore wind projects in Poland. The developers, through two of their joint venture companies (each for one project
NOTE: Updated on 12 July with information on the expected timeframe within which the developers could submit a DCO application. SSE and Equinor, co-owners/developers of the Dogger Bank D offshore wind project, have submitted a Scoping Report for the 2 GW project to the UK’s Planning Inspectorate. Th
DEME’s installation vessel Apollo is now at the site of the French offshore wind farm Dieppe Le Tréport, ready to start installing pin piles for the project’s 62 jacket foundations. According to an update DEME posted on social media on 28 June, Apollo arrived at the offshore wind farm site this week
Navantia Seanergies has manufactured the first monopile foundation for Iberdrola’s UK offshore wind project East Anglia Three at Navantia-Windar’s monopile factory in Fene shipyard, in A Coruña, Spain. The Navantia-Windar consortium will deliver 45 monopiles for the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore
Iberdrola has taken the final investment decision (FID) for its Windanker offshore wind farm in Germany, which has now advanced to the delivery phase. Windanker is the third offshore wind project for Iberdrola in the German Baltic Sea. The company already operates the 350 MW Wikinger and is developi
Skyborn Renewables has started site investigations in Finland, at a location where the company plans to build the 2.5 GW Pooki offshore wind farm, an extension of the former Suurhiekka project which was also being developed by Skyborn (wpd at the time). The work started with bird and subsea acoustic
The Vineyard Wind 1 project is now delivering more than 136 MW to the electric grid in Massachusetts, making it the largest operating offshore wind project in the US. Vineyard Wind 1, the first large-scale offshore wind project in the US, now has ten turbines in operation totalling approximately 136
The Zhong Neng offshore wind farm in Taiwan, jointly developed by Taiwan-based China Steel Corporation (CSC) and Danish fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), has produced first power. A third of the project’s wind turbines are now in place, CIP said in a press release on 26 June. Of
A consortium of Boskalis and Orient Cable (NBOS) has completed the pull-in and burial of the second export cable for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust West Beta offshore grid connection at the landfall location in Velsen-Noord, the Netherlands. The 700 MW grid connection will link the offshore wind farm that
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has issued the planning approvals for Nordseecluster A, the first phase of RWE’s Nordseecluster offshore wind project. The Nordseecluster offshore wind project is being built around 46 kilometres north of the German island of Borkum and appro
