Norway’s energy company Equinor has awarded Proserv with a contract for the deployment of cable monitoring technology at the 402 MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm in the UK. Proserv’s ECG Business Unit will deploy its advanced monitoring technology to provide continuous visibility of cable and terminati
Encomara’s Squid connection system for floating offshore wind has reached Technology Readiness Level 7/8 following inshore trials at Ardersier Port in Scotland, with the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) recognising the technology as ready for commercial manufacture at scale. The Aberdeen-based comp
NextOcean has secured a contract to equip Esvagt’s service operation vessel (SOV) Esvagt Njord with its WavePredictor vessel-motion prediction technology. The system will be used to support offshore operations at the Dudgeon offshore wind farm in the UK, where Esvagt Njord has been deployed for oper
NKT’s new subsea trencher, deemed the world’s most powerful, is approaching final assembly and entering the first round of testing, the Danish power cable manufacturer and installation firm reported. NKT announced the investment in the NKT T-3600 trencher in June 2025, as part of its ongoing investm
Aberdeen-based floating wind and subsea engineering company Encomara has begun preparations to trial its first Squid connection system for floating wind turbines at the Ardersier Energy Transition Facility in Scotland. The 40-tonne system, which has been under development for more than five years, i
Encomara’s floating wind installation technology, Squid, has received Product Design Assessment (PDA) certification from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). The PDA follows an Approval in Principle (AiP) granted by ABS in November 2025 and moves the system a step closer to commercial deployment,
Digital Catapult, in partnership with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and Ørsted, has selected two UK companies to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-driven solutions aimed at improving offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M). The companies, AIM Group and Entopy, were chosen th
The Welsh government has invested GBP 8 million (approximately EUR 9.4 million) in Marine Power Systems (MPS) to support the commercialisation of its floating offshore wind technology. According to the company, the funding will accelerate the deployment of its PelaFlex platform, a floating wind solu
US-based floating wind foundation developer Aikido Technologies has announced two developments linking its floating wind platform with artificial intelligence (AI), including the launch of an AI-focused offshore data centre platform and its selection for an AI startup programme run by NVIDIA. The co
