ABS and Japan Blue Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on strategic studies for a floating wind pilot in Brazil.
Twenty-two wind turbines are in place at the Nordseecluster A offshore wind farm site, around 50 kilometres north of the German island of Juist, where 44 Vestas V236-15.0 MW turbines are being installed by DEME’s vessel Norse Wind. The wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), which is capable of tra
Seaway7 is set to begin installing the pin piles for the jacket foundations at the 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland, according to a Notice to Mariners issued by Inch Cape Offshore Limited. Meanwhile, the project’s wind turbine components have been arriving at the Port of Dundee ahead
BW Ideol’s 2 MW Floatgen floating wind turbine has been in operation for eight years at the SEM-REV offshore test site off Le Croisic, France, with cumulative electricity production now exceeding 40 GWh. The turbine, installed on BW Ideol’s concrete Damping Pool floating foundation, entered operatio
A fire was reported on a wind turbine at Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan on 8 August after the turbine’s system detected an abnormal condition and automatically stopped its operation. Ørsted said the wind farm team observed the fire shortly after the automatic trip and ext
EnBW expects to soon complete the installation of all wind turbines at the 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm, according to information the company provided in its half-year results. As reported in July, a section of a damaged rotor blade from one of the wind turbines at He Dreiht offshore wind far
China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has started operating its 16 MW Haiyou Anlan floating wind platform in the South China Sea, with the unit now supplying electricity to the Lufeng oilfield grid, according to Chinese media. CNOOC had previously reported that Haiyou Anlan was under devel
Decommissioning work has started on the TetraSpar Demonstrator floating wind project at the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre) site off Karmøy, Norway, with the dynamic export cable disconnected and placed in wet storage, clearing the site for the next demonstrator project. The decommissioning ca
German Federal Police has recovered a detached wind turbine rotor blade that was drifting in the North Sea between the operational Hohe See offshore wind farm and the He Dreiht project, which is currently under construction. According to the Federal Police Inspectorate in Cuxhaven, authorities were
Siemens Energy has announced plans to transition to a new corporate brand, Omterra, as the company prepares to move away from the Siemens name following its 2020 spin-off from Siemens AG and the expiry of its time-limited brand licensing agreement. The rebranding process is scheduled to begin later
Orient Cable (NBO) has installed the subsea cable for China Three Gorges (CTG) Corporation’s 16 MW floating wind demonstration platform, said to be the world’s largest single-unit floating wind turbine. NBO says this is the first 66 kV dynamic cable for floating wind installed in China. The company’
The first wind turbine has been installed at the Dieppe-Le Tréport offshore wind farm, located 15 kilometres off the city of Le Tréport and 17 kilometres off the city of Dieppe in France. Ocean Winds, the project’s majority shareholder, said on 15 June that the wind farm, whose offshore substation w
A hundred V236-15.0 MW wind turbines are now installed at sea, a milestone the Danish OEM Vestas reached as construction work advances on the Baltic Power project in Poland. Cadeler’s jack-up vessel Wind Osprey installed the first of 76 Vestas 15 MW turbines at the Polish offshore wind farm site in
Siemens Gamesa and Cadeler have completed the installation of wind turbines at RWE’s 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm, located approximately 195 kilometres off the UK north-east coast. Cadeler’s wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Wind Peak, operated by Siemens Gamesa, installed the 100th SG-14 2
