Van Oord, using its jack-up vessel Aeolus, has installed 34 of the total 100 monopiles at the Sofia offshore wind farm site in the UK, according to a Notice to Mariners issued on 29 October. Aeolus installed the first monopile at the Sofia project site, located on Dogger Bank in the central North Se
A floating wind foundation developed by Fred. Olsen 1848 has secured DNV Basic Design Certification after completing its basic design phase in accordance with DNV’s recently updated certification scheme for floating wind, DNV-SE-0422. According to the company, the foundation, dubbed BRUNEL, is one o
ScottishPower Renewables has awarded Sif and Smulders a contract to supply 64 monopile foundation and transition pieces (TPs) for the 960 MW East Anglia Two offshore wind farm in the UK. ScottishPower Renewables, Iberdrola’s UK arm, signed the contracts with Sif Netherlands for supplying 64 monopile
The DP3 installation vessel Orion, owned and operated by the Belgian offshore construction specialist DEME, is scheduled to begin installing the remaining monopile foundations at the Vineyard Wind 1 site in the US on or around 28 October, as disclosed in the project’s recent offshore wind mariner up
The first batch of eight monopiles for RWE’s Thor offshore wind project, being built in the Danish North Sea, have been offloaded and stored at the base Port of Eemshaven in the Netherlands. Buss Terminal Eemshaven, part of the Hamburg-based terminal operator Buss Ports, provides storage space, heav
Japanese energy company J-Power and the University of Tokyo have jointly developed and patented a new foundation for fixed-bottom offshore wind turbines specifically designed for Japan’s topography, dubbed “flexible tripile”. J-Power says the design provides seismic isolation from the ground, improv
The first set of monopiles for Poland’s 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind project has been shipped from Steelwind Nordenham’s manufacturing plant in Germany. The first monopiles have been shipped from Steelwind’s facility in Nordenham and are on their way to the installation terminal. The Baltic Pow
CS WIND Offshore has completed the fabrication of the last monopile foundation for the Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany and has marked the milestone with its loadout. CS WIND Offshore, which acquired Denmark’s Bladt Industries in 2023, has manufactured 40 XXL wind turbine foundations
Haizea Wind Group has manufactured the first monopile foundation for Iberdrola’s East Anglia Three offshore wind project at its facility in Bilbao, Spain. Haizea Bilbao will deliver 50 monopiles for the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm under a contract with ScottishPower Renewables, Iberd
RWE has signed a capacity reservation agreement with the German company Steelwind Nordenham, for the production of up to 300 monopile foundations for its future offshore wind projects in Europe. Under the agreement, Steelwind will reserve capacity at its German monopile production facility in Norden
Saitec Offshore Technologies, in collaboration with RWE and Kansai Electric Power, has been awarded the final prototype certification for the DemoSATH floating wind project by Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV). The final prototype certification of DemoSATH2MU by BV confirms that a comprehensive
Equinor has awarded Stowen Group with a contract to perform modifications to the transition pieces on the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm located off the coast of Norfolk, the UK. The Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm is operated by Equinor on behalf of its shareholders. Following a competitiv
RWE has awarded two contracts to Lamprell Energy Limited for the future supply of transition pieces to its two east coast UK offshore wind projects currently under development, Norfolk Vanguard West and Norfolk Vanguard East. RWE and Lamprell marked the signing of the contract with a small event at
The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has issued Approval in Principle (AiP) to the OO-STAR concrete semi-submersible floater from Bouygues Travaux Publics, a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction. The foundation can support wind turbines of more than 20 MW in harsh offshore environments, Bouygues Con
