South Korea’s LS Cable & System has secured a preferred bidder status for a KRW 200 billion (around EUR 145 million) contract to provide submarine cables for the Hai Long offshore wind farm in Taiwan. LS Cable & System was selected for the project by CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE), Taiwan’s first
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has issued a contract notice for two metocean campaigns at the IJmuiden Ver Investigation Area in the Dutch North Sea. Both locations will be further specified later on, RVO said. The data obtained from these metocean campaigns will be published by RVO and is
Nexans has won a contract with Parkwind to provide turnkey business continuity services to four of its offshore wind farms in Belgium. The Northwind, Belwind, Nobelwind and Northwester 2 farms are among the biggest in Belgium, with a combined installed capacity of 771 MW. Together, these four wind f
DNV has been contracted to carry out Project Certification for the Codling Wind Park project, one of the largest offshore wind farms planned in Ireland. Codling Wind Park is a proposed offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea, set in an area called Codling Bank, approximately 13-22 kilometres off the Cou
Norway’s Norwind Offshore has ordered two Commissioning Service Operations Vessels, and will convert one Platform Supply Vessel to a Service Operation Vessel (SOV) at the compatriot designer and shipbuilder Vard. Under the contract, Norwind Offshore has options for two additional CSOVs. The contract
TenneT has launched a tender for 2 GW offshore platforms and high voltage direct current (HVDC) systems in the IJmuiden Ver wind area in the Dutch North Sea. The transmission system operator (TSO) expects to award a contract under this tender by the end of 2022. Recently, the engineering for the lan
Siemens Gamesa has received the firm order from Ørsted and Eversource to supply wind turbines for two wind farms offshore the USA with a combined capacity of 847 MW. Siemens Gamesa will supply, deliver and install a total of 77 SG 11.0- 200 DD wind turbines for the Revolution Wind project off Rhode
Germany plans to auction off sites in its North Sea Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) for the purpose of producing green hydrogen offshore, with auctions expected to start as early as 2022. The Ordinance on Auctioning Sites for Alternative Energy Generation in the German Exclusive Economic Zone entered
Italy’s Prysmian Group has received the Notice to Proceed with the approximately EUR 200 million contract to supply a submarine power cable system for Vineyard Wind 1, America’s first large-scale offshore wind project. Vineyard Wind 1 will consist of an array of 62 wind turbines installed offshore M
Great Yarmouth-based marine and engineering specialist Alicat has won a multi-million-pound contract with North Star Renewables to build a hybrid-powered daughter craft fleet to be used on the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm. Following a competitive tender involving multiple UK shipyards, Alicat has
Hai Long Offshore Wind Project and TECO Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd. have signed a preferred supplier agreement for an onshore substation with an installed capacity of 1,044 MW. This is the only onshore substation built for offshore wind farms in Taiwan that exceeds 1GW, and this collaboration mar
A new Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council (SOWEC) report has been launched to help Scottish companies understand and gain a foothold into the burgeoning global offshore wind market. Produced for SOWEC by Scotia Supply Chain, this guide aims to appraise current and prospective Scottish exporters of
A consortium of TotalEnergies, Macquarie’s Green Investment Group and RIDG has submitted a bid for an offshore wind project in an area west of the Orkney Islands as part of the ScotWind leasing round. The two-gigawatt proposal, named the West of Orkney Windfarm, has the potential to power more than
Ramboll has been awarded a contract by Saipem, through its subsidiary Saipem SA, to perform the primary steel design of the monopile foundations for the Calvados offshore wind farm in France. The 448 MW Calvados offshore wind farm is owned by a consortium consisting of EDF Renewables, EIH S.à.r.l, a
