The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has awarded a combined 2,658 MW of offshore wind capacity to two projects, one developed by a joint venture between EDF and Shell and one by Ørsted. In an announcement on 30 June, NJBPU said that, in a unanimous vote, the Board awarded 1,510 MW of cap
An operator of two offshore wind farms in Germany has opened a tender looking for a service operation vessel(s) to support operations and maintenance (O&M) campaigns on the two projects over the coming years. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our sister site Offshore Energy. You
RWE Renewables, through its Polish subsidiary Baltic Trade & Invest Sp. z o.o., has signed Letters of Intent (LoI) with three Polish companies from the maritime sector, which will support the construction of the FEW Baltic II 350 MW offshore wind project in Poland. RWE has entered into cooperation w
Chinese submarine cable manufacturer Hengtong has delivered the 35 kV cables and accessories for the Hiep Thanh and Tra Vinh V1-2 nearshore wind farms in Vietnam. According to the company’s update on social media, Hengtong delivered the subsea cables on 29 June, when they sailed out of China on boar
Vestas and Iberdrola have finalised the wind turbine supply contract for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. The final contract follows the selection of MHI Vestas as the preferred supplier for the project in 2019 and the agreement Vestas signed this May following the takeover of MHI Ves
Cerulean Winds, a company that recently unveiled a project for the production of green hydrogen and electrification of offshore oil & gas assets with 200 floating wind turbines off Scotland, has named the first of its delivery partners. The company has selected NOV as the exclusive provider of float
Eager.one has produced a Jacket Lifting Tool (JLT) specially made for the installation of jacket foundations that will be carried out by Boskalis on a Taiwanese project. While Eager.one left the project unnamed, the company did say its tool will be used during loading, unloading and installation of
Akselos has been commissioned by the partners behind the TetraSpar floating foundation demonstration project in Norway to provide its structural simulation software, Integra®, to model the floater. The software is said to help accelerate the demonstration of the industrialised TetraSpar floating off
Fred. Olsen Renewables and Vattenfall have entered into a partnership on a 50/50 basis in order to bid in the upcoming leasing round for offshore wind in Scotland. Scotland’s upcoming offshore wind leasing round – ScotWind – will include up to 15 areas amounting to 10 GW in capacity. Bids for lease
The Danish Energy Agency has paused the tendering procedure for the Hesselø offshore wind farm to allow more time for the analysis of the results of preliminary seabed studies. The tender was paused after the analysis of Energinet’s preliminary seabed surveys identified soft clay bottoms in large pa
A series of showcases about contracting opportunities for the Sofia offshore wind project in the UK is taking place in July. Van Oord, the EPCI contractor for the project’s foundations and inter-array cables, will hold its webinar on 6 July. The Dutch company will cover concrete structures, secondar
The Danish Energy Agency has published the final tender conditions for Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm – Thor. With the publication, all the basic elements of the tender are in place, and the bidders now have four months to prepare their final bids for the offshore wind farm. The deadline for s
Following the financial close on the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm, Vestas has secured a firm order for Parkwind’s first project in Germany, which will also be the first to use a new floating installation method to erect the wind turbines. Under the contract with Parkwind, Vestas will deliver 27
Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) has been appointed to assist carry out various research projects relating to offshore wind foundations for a company in China, which the Irish engineering consultancy left unnamed. The research projects on offshore wind foundations, with particular reference to the
