UK-headquartered James Fisher and Sons (James Fisher) has secured a multi-million-pound contract at the Triton Knoll offshore transmission (OFTO) project in Lincolnshire, with the offshore platform located 20 miles off the coast in the North Sea. Under the contract, James Fisher will provide complet
The three consortia that Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) selected in the country’s second round of offshore wind auctions will use some of the biggest and most powerful wind turbines on/coming to the market – Vestas V236-15 MW and GE’s 18 MW Haliade-X. RWE, which secured a si
System integration is what is needed for the next leap in offshore wind, however, not all technologies that can integrate with offshore wind farms have the same starting point. Floating solar still has some way to go in becoming more resilient to harsh offshore conditions. On the other hand, hydroge
Vattenfall has signed a contract with SeAH Wind to provide the monopiles for the 2.8 GW Norfolk Vanguard East and Norfolk Vanguard West offshore wind farms in the UK. The monopiles for the Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind farms will weigh up to around 2,200 tonnes and have a length of up to 96 metres.
Three consortia, one led by JERA, one by Sumitomo Corporation, and one by German RWE, have been selected in the latest offshore wind auction in Japan that saw three developers awarded development sites. Japan has also put another, fourth site out to tender in this round, but the winner of this site
Ignitis Renewables, a subsidiary of the Lithuanian Ignitis Group, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have secured the first of the two sites the Estonian government is auctioning off for offshore wind development by placing a EUR 1.7 million bid. The tender for the Liivi 2 area took place
Wood Thilsted (WT) has been appointed by Ocean Winds to complete the preliminary foundation designs for the BC-Wind offshore wind farm in Poland as FEED and detailed design wind turbine foundation designer. Wood Thilsted has previously led the foundations concept design, evolving the project’s under
Norway’s Havfram Wind has signed a contract with RWE for the transportation and installation of wind turbines for the Nordseecluster development, an up to 1.6 GW offshore wind cluster comprising four offshore wind farm sites in the German sector of the North Sea. Under the contract, Havfram Wind wil
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today published a proposed sale notice (PSN) for an offshore wind lease sale in the Central Atlantic for one area offshore Delaware and Maryland, and one area offshore Virginia. BOEM says that the two lease area
The European Commission has given France the green light to support the construction and operation of two floating offshore wind farms in the Gulf of Lion with EUR 4.12 billion, which will be awarded through a tender the French government is expected to launch next year. Developers of the two floati
The Dutch utility company, Eneco, has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Albert Heijn to supply the company with power from the 760 MW Ecowende offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. The 15-year PPA will help the supermarket chain Albert Heijn meet half of its power needs from 20
Dubai-based vessel equipment and service provider, APT Global Marine and Offshore Engineering UAE, has fitted Jan De Nul’s installation vessel Voltaire with sea fastening systems under one of its latest contracts in the offshore wind industry, which now account for the majority of the revenue for th
Jan De Nul Group, together with its consortium partners LS Cable & System and Denys, has signed contracts for two 525 HVDC cable systems serving the two grid connection systems for BalWin4 and LanWin1. These mark the first two contracts signed under the long-term framework agreement that TenneT and
PGE and Ørsted have signed a contract with DNV for certification of components of the Baltica 2, which is the first stage of the Baltica 2 Offshore Wind Farm in Poland. The scope of work for DNV on Baltica 2 includes providing a design compliance certificate confirming the compliance of the technica
