The Gothenburg Port Authority has announced that it intends to buy a minority stake in Eolus Vind’s Västvind offshore wind power project located in the Swedish economic zone. Under the agreement, the Gothenburg Port Authority will acquire 5 per cent of the shares in the project company that owns Väs
Ørsted has awarded Taiwan Cogeneration Corporation (TCC) a contract to build the onshore substation for the 920 MW Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farms. The contract award follows Ørsted’s final investment decision on the offshore wind farms last month. Under the contract, Star Energy Corpo
Ocean Winds, Sumimoto Corporation, and Banque des Territoires, shareholders of the company Eoliennes en Mer Dieppe Le Tréport (EMDT), have made a final investment decision (FID) for the Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm in France. The Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm represents an investment
TotalEnergies, BW Ideol, and Qair, the developers behind the EolMed project, have started the construction of three floating wind turbines for the 30 MW wind farm offshore France. The arrival of the first steel blocks that will make up the three floating substructures marked the beginning of the con
Van Oord has been selected as the preferred supplier for the transport and installation of foundations for RWE and Northland Power’s 1.6 GW Nordseecluster offshore wind project in Germany. For this work, Van Oord will deploy its brand-new offshore installation vessel Boreas which is currently being
Hellenic Cables has signed an agreement with the Swedish energy company Vattenfall to supply inter-array cables for the Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone in the UK. Under the agreement, the Greek cable manufacturer will provide approximately 850 kilometres of aluminium cables which will be used to connect
Cadeler and Ørsted signed two contracts for the 2.9 GW Hornsea Three offshore wind farm in the UK today, 25 April, at the WindEurope Exhibition in Bella Centre, Copenhagen: one for the installation of monopile foundations and one for the installation of around half of the project’s wind turbines. In
Bladt Industries has sent off the last transition piece (TP) for the Vesterhav Nord offshore wind farm from its facility in Aalborg, Denmark. The company has thus delivered all TPs for Vattenfall’s Vesterhav Nord & Syd offshore wind project, 21 for Vesterhav Nord and 20 for Vesterhav Syd. Vattenfall
Vestas has won a 238 MW order from Hibiki Wind Energy for the supply of wind turbines for the Kitakyushu-Hibikinada offshore wind project, located off Japan’s Fukuoka prefecture. The order includes the supply and installation of 25 V174-9.5 MW wind turbines as well as long-term Active Output Managem
Van Oord’s heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen has installed the first of 50 monopiles for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany, owned by the Spanish energy company Iberdrola. The installation strategy for the foundations is based on the feeder concept, which involves floating the founda
RWE has selected the preferred suppliers for all the main components of its 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark, with agreements now in place for wind turbines, foundations, export and inter-array cables, and for the onshore and offshore substations. At the beginning of this year, the developer
Construction activities on the two offshore substations for the Hornsea Three offshore wind farm in the UK have kicked off at Aibel’s yard in Thailand. Ørsted, the developer of Hornsea Three, signed an EPCI contract with partners Aibel and Hitachi Energy for the two platforms in 2022. Under the cont
RWE and Northland Power have selected the Greek cable manufacturer Hellenic Cables as the preferred supplier of the inter-array cables for their up to 1.6 GW Nordseecluster development in the German North Sea, a cluster consisting of four offshore wind farm sites. Hellenic Cables will supply approxi
Sif and the joint venture between Equinor and Polenergia have entered into a capacity reservation agreement to supply 90 monopile foundations for the MFW Bałtyk II and MFW Bałtyk III offshore wind farms in the Polish Baltic Sea. Once finalised, this will be the first contract under the terms of the
