Nadara, the developer of the Bellrock floating wind farm in Scotland, has confirmed the project’s landfall location and submitted a Scoping Report and Habitats Regulations Appraisal (HRA) Screening Report for the project’s offshore transmission infrastructure to the Marine Directorate, with a plan t
Acta Marine’s new construction service operation vessel (CSOV), Acta Gemini, has started operating at the Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK after the vessel completed its shakedown and mobilisation period. Under a long-term charter agreement with RWE, Acta Gemini will provide offshore accommodation
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
TotalEnergies Gas & Power Limited has entered into a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) for electricity produced by the Walney 1 & 2 offshore wind farms in the UK. The company signed the PPA with Offshore Partners Walney (OPW), which holds a 24.8 per cent ownership stake in Walney 1 & 2, major
Ørsted expects three of its offshore wind farms currently under construction to reach full commissioning in the second half of 2026, with Borkum Riffgrund 3 in Germany, Greater Changhua 2b and 4 in Taiwan, and Revolution Wind in the US all approaching completion. The updates were provided by Ørsted
Arenko has been selected by Ørsted to deploy its Nimbus optimisation, asset management and trading platform at the 300 MW/600 MWh Iceni battery energy storage system (BESS) that will be part of the 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. The BESS project is scheduled to enter operations in th
Installation of all 54 transition pieces for the monopile foundations at the 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland has been completed. Seaway7’s heavy lift crane vessel Seaway Alfa Lift transported the transition pieces from the marshalling yard at Forth Port’s Leith facility and installed
The Welsh government has granted Section 36 consent to the Llŷr Wind Farm, a floating wind test and demonstration project being developed by Cierco Energy in the Celtic Sea off Pembrokeshire. Llŷr was one of two projects selected in the Crown Estate’s 2021 leasing opportunity for early commercial-sc
Haizea Wind Group has delivered what it says are the largest monopiles ever manufactured in Southern Europe for the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. Produced at the company’s facility at the Port of Bilbao, the monopiles measure over 105 metres in length, have a diameter of 11 metres, and wei
Cierco Energy has signed an Agreement for Lease with the Crown Estate for its two test and demonstration projects off Wales, named Llŷr 1 and Llŷr 2, which are expected to use two different types of floating wind technology. The Llŷr projects were selected for development in 2021 in the Crown Estate
The Culzean floating wind turbine, which will supply electricity to the Culzean gas platform in the North Sea, off the coast of Scotland, will soon be towed to its offshore location as the integration of the wind turbine with the floating foundation has been completed. Archer, the engineering, procu
