Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), on behalf of its fund Copenhagen Infrastructure IV K/S (CI IV), and the Japanese real estate developer, Tokyu Land Corporation (TLC), have formed a joint partnership to develop the Aomori South offshore wind project located in northern Japan. TLC and CI IV h
The three floating foundations for the Provence Grand Large wind farm in France are taking shape at Eiffage Métal’s site in Fos-sur-Mer, where the assembly of the structures is being carried out by the French company and Smulders, its Belgium-based subsidiary. The project, which will be the first pi
Maersk Supply Service has signed a Preferred Supplier Agreement (PSA) with the joint venture of Equinor and BP to install the wind turbines at the Beacon Wind offshore wind farm in the United States. Located 60 miles east of Montauk Point and 20 miles south of Nantucket, the Beacon Wind offshore win
TenneT has connected RWE’s Kaskasi II offshore wind farm to the HelWin Beta platfrom, the heart of the HelWin2 high-voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore grid connection in the German North Sea. Kaskasi II, located 35 kilometres north of the island of Heligoland, is currently under construction wit
Ørsted has awarded the Norwegian offshore service company Aibel, in partnership with Hitachi Energy, with an EPCI contract for two platforms for the Hornsea 3 project in the UK sector of the North Sea. Under the contract, Aibel will be responsible for engineering, procurement, construction, and inst
Nordsee Two, a German offshore wind project owned by RWE (51 per cent) and Northland Power (49 per cent), is planned to include an electrolyser to demonstrate the technical and commercial feasibility of producing hydrogen at sea. RWE unveiled the plan as the company announced on 13 July that the pro
Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has loaded out the jacket foundation for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust West Alpha offshore substation in the Port of Vlissingen and the structure is now ready for transport to its final location in the Dutch North Sea. The jacket, weighing more than 2,300 tonnes, was loaded
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will conduct a regional environmental review of six lease areas offshore New York and New Jersey, in an area known as the New York Bight. Leases for these six areas were awarded through BOEM’s February 2022 auction that brought in over USD 4.3 billion,
The 11-turbine Hywind Tampen, the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm under construction, will be completed in 2023 and not by the end of 2022 as initially planned, Equinor said. The first seven Siemens Gamesa 8.6 MW wind turbines will come on stream this year as planned. The final four will
Seaway 7 has contracted CRP Subsea to provide 140 NjordGuard cable protection systems and bellmouths for the Changfang and Xidao (CFXD) offshore wind farms in Taiwan. These will protect the inter-array and export power cables for 62 wind turbines and horizontal directional drilling (HDD) conduit cab
France’s transmission system operator (TSO) Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) has issued a tender seeking a contractor to carry out offshore geophysical studies on submarine cable routes of offshore wind farms. RTE is looking to conduct geophysical surveys along the submarine cables, approxima
Forth Ports has signed a reservation and collaboration agreement with BP and EnBW under which the Port of Leith will serve as the marshalling port for the Morven wind project offshore Scotland. Located some 60 kilometres off the coast of Aberdeen, the Morven offshore wind farm is being developed by
Cadeler has signed a Vessel Reservation Agreement with ScottishPower Renewables for the transportation and installation of 95 wind turbines for the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm. In February 2021, ScottishPower Renewables selected Siemens Gamesa as the preferred bidder to supply and in
The first of the total of 62 Vestas V174-9.5 MW wind turbines has been installed at the Changfang & Xidao offshore wind project in Taiwan, according to an update shared on social media by Dennis Sanou, CEO of the Changfang & Xidao Projects at Copenhagen Offshore Partners. The installation vessel Bol
