Renewable energy platform Ripple has joined the NextGen consortium which is pursuing seabed development rights within the Crown Estate Scotland ScotWind leasing round. The partnership will help bring community ownership to the offshore wind sector for the first time in the UK, the consortium said. T
Mott MacDonald has been appointed by Hai Long offshore wind farm project in Taiwan as one of its owner’s engineers. The Hai Long project, currently in the development phase, is a 1 GW wind farm located 50-70 kilometres from Taiwan’s shore. Hai Long has three separate grid allocations, where phase 2a
AqualisBraemar LOC (ABL) has been appointed as Marine Warranty Surveyor (MWS) for the construction of Codling Wind Park – Ireland’s largest Phase One offshore wind project. Appointed to the project by Codling Wind Park Ltd., ABL will provide MWS for the marine transportation and installation of wind
Siemens Gamesa has extended the original contract term for servicing the 714 MW East Anglia ONE wind farm off the UK from five to 15 years with ScottishPower Renewables and Bilbao Offshore Holdings Limited. The deal, among the biggest in Siemens Gamesa’s Service business unit’s history, comes just o
Mayflower Wind, a 50/50 joint venture between Shell New Energies US LLC and Ocean Winds, has filed proposals as part of Massachusetts’ 83C III offshore wind energy procurement. Mayflower submitted multiple bids, each with an accompanying economic development package. Under the largest scenario, whic
Aberdeen-based Swire Energy Services (SES) has signed a contract with Ørsted for the provision of helideck services and helicopter refuelling system services for the Hornsea One wind farm in the UK Southern North Sea. According to Swire Energy Services, the two-year contract, with the option of two
Ørsted Wind Power A/S has awarded Pulse Structural Monitoring Ltd. with a contract to provide structural measurement campaigns for Gode Wind 03 and Borkum Riffgrund 03 offshore wind farms. Pulse will be in charge of the load, corrosion, and inclination measurement campaigns for Borkum Riffgrund 03 w
GE Renewable Energy and Acta Marine have signed a charter contract for the Acta Auriga Service Operations Vessel (SOV), which will support the commissioning of 80 Haliade 6 MW turbines at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. Operating out of the Port of Saint-Nazaire, the vessel will assi
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie; BSH) has opened a tender for geological modleling and reporting for two offshore wind areas that are undergoing preliminary geological exploration. The work will be performed for the areas N-9.1 and N-9
Cobra and Flotation Energy plc, the team behind the world’s largest operating floating wind project, has announced it is bidding for up to 7 GW across several sites in Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind Leasing Round. The bids have been submitted through Offshore Wind Ltd, their joint venture company
Rise Light & Power has submitted a proposal to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) and PJM Interconnection, which involves redeveloping the site of a former coal-fired power station in South Amboy, New Jersey, and turning it into a renewable energy hub serving as a central interconnection
Anbaric Development Partners has submitted a portfolio of 19 offshore wind power transmission projects in New Jersey, called the Boardwalk Power Link projects, to PJM Interconnection in the solicitation the regional electricity grid operator is conducting on behalf of the New Jersey Board of Public
Vattenfall has issued a tender for inter-array cable repairs and jointing work in Sweden and Germany, expected to start in the summer of 2022. The developer is looking to award five-year framework agreements to a maximum of five contractors per lot, with one lot being dedicated to the work to be per
TenneT has issued a call for tenders for Structural Health Monitoring systems (SHM systems) and their installation on twelve offshore HVDC platforms, including both existing and platforms yet to be installed offshore. Under a five-year, EUR 3.25 million contract, the tender winner will develop and i
