EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG has decided to build an Operations & Maintenance (O&M) base on an airfield in Emden, Germany, for the company’s offshore wind farms in the North Sea.
The Carbon Trust has selected Windar Photonics to supply LiDARs for a new project launched as part of the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme.
Manor Renewable Energy (MRE) has won a contract to supply temporary power, personnel and a multi-purpose vessel to GE Renewable Energy for the Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
Vattenfall has selected Fred. Olsen Windcarrier to supply a crew transfer vessel (CTV) to service the 110MW Lillgrund offshore wind farm in Sweden.
Ørsted has hired Semco Maritime as Electrical Engineering Consultant (EEC) to develop electrical and mechanical basic engineering design of the 1.4GW offshore substation and the reactive compensation station for Hornsea Project Two.
Naval Energies, formerly known as DCNS Energies, is cutting 100 out of 260 jobs with 30 employees being transferred to its parent company Naval Group (former DCNS Group) and 70 people losing their jobs completely, according to French media.
Ørsted has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Woen Jinn Harbour Engineering to make the Taiwanese company the preferred offshore cable installation partner for the Greater Changhua offshore wind projects.
Fugro has won contracts by Ørsted to undertake geotechnical investigations at Bay State Wind and Ocean Wind offshore wind farms in the United States.
MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has awarded Vroon’s VOS Start with a contract to support the commissioning phase of the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm from spring 2018.
Four Scottish Offshore Wind Projects Cleared for Takeoff The Supreme Court in London has rejected RSPB Scotland’s application for leave to appeal the decision by the Inner House of the Court of Session on its Firths of Forth and Tay offshore wind farm judicial review. BiFab Safe Until April Seaway H
Norway’s Ocean Yield ASA has entered into a time charter contract for the vessel Lewek Connector which will conduct cable lay operations for Ørsted’s Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm project in the UK.
MacArtney has won a contract for the supply of two 150 kN and 200 kN electrical cable pulling winches for operation on the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm.
Mainstream Renewable Power has begun the selection process to bring on board a majority equity partner to help take its 450MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind project into construction and commercial operation.
The first steel structure which will support one of Kriegers Flak offshore substations was placed onto the concrete section of the gravity based foundation (GBF) at the port of Ostend, Belgium, Jan De Nul said.
