After partnering to develop offshore wind projects in the US and South Korea, Ocean Winds and Aker Offshore Wind have now formed a new partnership to apply for the development of floating wind farms in Scotland’s upcoming seabed leasing round. The two companies will jointly submit the bid to Crown E
Ørsted, Falck Renewables, and BlueFloat Energy have established a consortium to jointly apply for seabed leases in sites suitable for building large-scale floating wind farms in Scotland’s upcoming ScotWind leasing round. The news comes less than a month after Ørsted revealed its strategic decision
Ørsted has submitted a bid to the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) to build a 760 MW wind farm off the state’s coast. The company has filed its proposal for the Skipjack Wind 2 project in response to the Commission’s call for Round 2 offshore wind projects, through which the Commission can a
Ramboll announced today (7 July) that it had secured five new contracts for offshore wind farms in Japan, China, Taiwan and South Korea over the last ten months. The contracts cover site condition assessment, project development and design services for offshore wind farms located in Japan, China, Ta
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has issued an invitation to tender seeking experts to support RVO in managing offshore wind farm site studies for the 4 GW IJmuiden Ver zone. The tender is divided into two lots. Lot 1 will cover expert support on soil investigations, and Lot 2 expert support
Cadeler’s two newbuild wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) will feature Kongsberg Maritime’s WTIV technology. Kongsberg Maritime signed contracts totalling EUR 49 million with the Chinese shipbuilder COSCO Shipping (Qidong) Offshore for the delivery of its WTIV technology. The agreement will s
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has received an order for access and lifting systems for two more Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs) for Edda Wind. The company will deliver two identical equipment packages consisting of one electrical gangway system, one 3D compensated Colibri crane and a
Jan De Nul has selected Imeca for the delivery of an electrical motion-compensated pile gripper for its new floating installation vessel – Les Alizés. The tailor-made gripper, with an integrated X-Laboratory guidance and survey system, will allow safe and efficient installation of next-generation mo
DNV has been contracted to carry out project certification for the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland. The project, located some 23 kilometres off the Polish coastline where geotechnical surveys are about to begin, is being developed by PKN Orlen and the Canadian company Northland Powe
U-Ming Marine Offshore Company Limited (UMO) has placed an order for two Inertia M3 high-speed trimaran crew transfer vessels (CTVs) at Marsun Shipyard in Thailand. UMO is a recently-established joint venture between Taiwan’s bulk shipping company U-Ming Marine Transport Corporation and Denmark’s Wo
Ørsted has released an update on its tender qualification system for the upcoming wind turbine procurement for two offshore wind farms in Poland, developed jointly with PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna. The company said it would use the Achilles Utilities Nordics and Central Europe (UNCE) qualification
Navantia and Windar announced today (2 July) that they will build a factory for XXL monopiles on the grounds of the Fene shipyard in Spain after Iberdrola closed a framework agreement with the partnered companies for future offshore wind farms, valued at EUR 400 million. The framework agreement betw
The Letter of Intent (LoI) for the construction of a Windfarm Development Vessel (WDV) – issued last year by Triumph Subsea Services to InfraStrata plc – has been formally cancelled, Triumph Subsea said after InfraStrata reported the LoI had been set aside as the shipbuilder was not confident the pr
EnBW has issued a call for tenders for Operational All Risk Insurance Policies for two of its offshore wind farms in the German sector of the Baltic Sea. The developer is seeking Combined Property Damage and Business Interruption All Risks Insurance for the operational phases of the offshore wind fa
