Wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Wind Peak has installed 91 turbines at the Sofia offshore wind farm, under construction approximately 195 kilometres off the UK north-east coast. The first of the project’s 100 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD wind turbines was installed in March 2025, and the work
Fabrication of transition pieces (TPs) for two Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind projects in the UK is underway at Lamprell’s yard in the UAE. The company cut the first steel for the Norfolk Vanguard West TPs in December 2025, with manufacturing now underway and the first load-out of completed TPs expe
Global Port Services Shipping (GPSS) is providing marine logistics and vessel support services to Seaway7 for work on the Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland, GPSS said on 20 May. The Port of Cromarty Firth in Invergordon is serving as an intermediate port for Seaway7’s heavy lift vessel Seaway
Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Mingyang Smart Energy is considering locations in Europe, including Spain, for a new manufacturing facility after the UK government blocked support for the company’s planned Scottish factory on national security grounds, Reuters reported. The company paused plans fo
DEME’s new jack-up offshore installation vessel Norse Energi is preparing to begin work on offshore wind projects in the Baltic Sea and North Sea, with its first assignments lined up for Iberdrola’s Windanker offshore wind farm in Germany and Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 in the UK. The vessel, officially name
The Crown Estate has launched the third funding round of its Supply Chain Accelerator programme, making GBP 15 million (approximately EUR 17 million) available to support early-stage offshore wind supply chain projects across the UK. Under the new round, businesses can apply for match funding coveri
Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables have shipped the final monopiles for East Anglia Three directly to the offshore project site in the UK. The monopiles for the 95-turbine offshore wind farm are being supplied by Haizea Wind Group and the Navantia-Windar consortium, with Windar also deliverin
Fugro has started geotechnical survey work for the Berwick Bank offshore wind project under a contract the company was awarded by SSE Renewables. The contract covers geotechnical investigations for Berwick Bank B, the second phase of the wider 4.1 GW offshore wind development in Scotland, planned to
Cadeler has completed mobilisation of its vessels Wind Ally and Wind Orca for foundation transport and installation work at the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm. The company said on 29 April that the recently delivered Wind Ally completed mobilisation in the Port of Rotterdam and has arrived at Teeswork
The first wind turbine has been installed at the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site in the UK, the owners of the GBP 4 billion (around EUR 4.6 billion) project, ScottishPower Renewables and Masdar, said on 21 April. The 1.4 GW East Anglia Three, being built 69 kilometres off the coast of Suff
Eighty wind turbines have been installed at the Sofia offshore wind farm site, located on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, where 100 units of the Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD model will be installed for a total capacity of 1.4 GW. The vessel deployed for the work, Cadeler’s Wind Peak, installed
Cadeler’s second M-class vessel, Wind Mover, which was delivered by the South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean to Cadeler in November 2025, has been deployed on its first project, the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland. The new vessel, designed to install the next generation of offshore
