A decision on selecting specific areas for further development within the Elwind offshore project could be adopted in early 2022, according to the Ministry of Economic of Latvia, which announced on 8 September that Hendrikson & KO and Pondera Consult were awarded a contract for a pre-feasibility stu
Iv-Offshore & Energy b.v. has signed the main contract with Sembcorp Marine Integrated Yard Pte Ltd (SMIY) to supply engineering and procurement services for the high voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore converter platform of RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm. Sofia offshore wind farm, located off th
Invenergy and floating production specialist BW Offshore have formed a joint venture to develop up to 5.4 gigawatts of offshore wind as part of the first ScotWind leasing round in Scotland. The joint venture will focus on developing both floating and fixed foundation offshore wind projects off the N
TenneT has issued a tender for production monitoring and quality assurance of the cable manufacturing process for its BorWin5 offshore grid connection in Germany. The cables will be produced by NKT, which was awarded a contract for the project in August last year. The company to be contracted under
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has selected Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) to analyse and assess wind conditions for two future German offshore wind tendering sites. OWC a subsidiary of AqualisBraemar LOC, has selected a team including Fraunhofer IWES and ProPlanEn, to ass
Ørsted and the Danish institutional investor ATP are bringing in Aarsleff, Bouygues, and Van Oord to support Ørsted and ATP’s bid for the North Sea energy island in Denmark. Constructing the world’s first artificial energy island will require collaboration between highly specialised companies with p
The consortium of Prysmian Group and Asso.subsea has signed a contract with RTE, Réseau de Transport d’Électricité, for the development of an export submarine power cable system for the Gruissan floating offshore wind farm located in Southern France. Under the contract worth some EUR 30 million, Pry
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has invited potential bidders in the country’s yet-to-be-launched tender for an artificial energy island in the North Sea to participate in an orientation meeting related to the procurement process. The meeting, which will be held on 15 September, is part of the second
Bladt Industries and Steelwind Nordenham have signed monopile foundation supply contracts with Ørsted for the Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms in Germany. In addition to the contracts for the two projects, Ørsted has also secured call-off rights with the two manufacturers for f
Global Marine Group companies Global Offshore, CWind, and OceanIQ will install the inter-array cables at the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in Germany, under a turnkey contract signed with Parkwind. Global Offshore will install and bury the inter-array cables by using the Normand Clipper and Globa
Swiss energy company H2 Energy Europe has bought an 11-hectare site near Esbjerg in Denmark for a 1 GW offshore wind-to-hydrogen project that could be up running in 2024. The location where the electrolyser plant will be built enables H2 Energy Europe to access the electricity produced by offshore w
Crown Estate Scotland, which is currently reviewing the ScotWind Leasing Round applications, will open a new leasing process early next year, dedicated specifically to offshore wind projects which support the decarbonisation of the oil and gas sector, and to small-scale innovation projects of less t
Hellenic Cables has secured its first contract with Vattenfall under which it will deliver the inter-array cables for the Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd offshore wind farms in Denmark. The Greek company will design, manufacture, test, and supply approximately 70 kilometers of 66kV XLPE insulated i
Iberdrola will submit a bid for the construction of a new offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea in the ongoing offshore wind auction in Germany, the company said on 30 August. The Spain-headquartered offshore wind developer said it would file its proposal for the Windanker project on 1 September as p
