The 12 MW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) pilot project has completed reliability testing and is now ready to enter commercial service. The next significant regulatory step for the two-turbine project is to submit the final documentation to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) which wi
Thirty-nine out of 58 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW turbines have been installed at the SeaMade offshore wind project in Belgium. According to Aspiravi, one of the project owners, 36 of the Siemens Gamesa units are operational. DEME Group’s jack-up vessel Apollo installed the first turbine at the project si
Spain-based Nervión Industries has completed the manufacturing and assembly of all the 20 upper jackets for the Moray East offshore wind farm, which Navantia is delivering from its Puerto Real shipyard to Smulders. The company said that within a turnkey contract, it had carried out the complete manu
Windar has sent off the last wind turbine tower sections for the SeaMade offshore wind project in Belgium. Special purpose vessel Rotra Ventre set sail with the last six tower sections from Windar’s facilities in the port of Avilés, Spain, to the Port of Ostend, where the REBO sites are serving as s
The first batch of jacket foundation pin piles has been completed for Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind project in Taiwan. The first 112 pin piles, around one third of the total needed for the 900 MW project, were made by Taiwanese suppliers Century Wind Power (CWP) and Formosa Heavy In
All three export cables for the Moray East offshore wind farm have been laid and pulled in, with the cable laying vessel NKT Victoria now demobilised after finishing the project. The vessel Havila Phoenix is currently burying the three subsea power cables below the seabed by using remotely operated
Ireland-headquartered Mainstream Renewable Power, in a joint venture with the Phu Cuong Group, has submitted an application for a 1 GW offshore wind project in Vietnam, adding to the 400 MW already in development within the same project. The joint venture applied for a site survey license on 7 July,
Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) was awarded a wind turbine supply agreement by Fujian Energy Group on 16 September, following a tendering procedure for the Changle Waihai Area C offshore wind project in China. According to the company, it placed the winning bid for the second batch of wind turbi
Vestas has received an order to supply the turbines for the 29 MW Soc Trang 7 intertidal wind project in Vietnam. Soc Trang 7 will feature seven V150-4.2 MW turbines with customized towers placed on reinforced onshore foundations located in Soc Trang, a province in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietn
ProCon Wind Energy has won a contract to provide the electrical outfitting of the transition pieces for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. Under the deal with Eiffage Métal, ProCon is providing the installation and commissioning of the electrical scope for the transition pieces. The
Boskalis’ semi-submersible heavy transport vessel Fjord has set sail from Spain to the Netherlands carrying the first floating foundation for the Kincardine offshore wind project in Scotland. Fjord began its journey from Navantia’s yard in Fene on 7 October towards Rotterdam, where the turbine will
The first out of the total of 165 monopile foundations has been installed at the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm site in the UK, according to social media updates from Ørsted. The milestone comes around a week after the jacket foundation for the wind farm’s offshore substation was installed. DEME’s j
The Ohio Power Siting Board has removed a requirement for the Icebreaker Wind project in Lake Erie to shut down its wind turbines during nighttime hours from March through November. Back in May, the Board approved the construction of the Icebreaker Wind project with 33 conditions, one of which was t
Correll Services (CS) has won a contract to provide the termination and testing of the individual submarine composite cables at the Yunlin wind farm offshore Taiwan. CS was selected for the work by Seaway 7, the renewables business unit of Subsea 7. Seaway 7 is in charge of the supply and installati
