Ocean Winds, a 50-50 joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has contracted DEME for the installation of monopile foundations, inter-array cables, and the export cable at the BC-Wind offshore wind farm in Poland. While the value of the three contracts was not disclosed, DEME noted in a press
The first of the three Vestas V164-10.0 MW wind turbines has left the Port of Port-La Nouvelle to be installed at the EolMed floating offshore wind farm some 20 kilometres off the coast of Port-La Nouvelle and Gruissan, France. Guided by the port tugs to the exit of the port, the wind turbine was th
Energy and marine consultancy ABL has been appointed to provide marine warranty survey (MWS) services to support Ocean Winds with the construction of Poland’s BC-Wind offshore wind farm. The BC-Wind offshore wind farm is to be constructed over an area of approximately 90 square kilometres, located w
Seaway7, part of the Subsea7 Group, has won what the group has described as ”a sizeable contract” by Ocean Winds for the BC-Wind offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea. Located some 23 kilometres off the Polish coast, the 390 MW BC-Wind offshore wind farm will comprise 26 Siemens Gamesa wind
Van Oord, using its installation vessel Boreas, installed the first monopile at the Ecowende offshore wind farm on 3 December. The project, a joint venture between Shell, Eneco and Chubu Electric Power, is being built off the coast of the Netherlands and is said to become the most ecological offshor
A consortium led by AGL Energy has discontinued feasibility studies for the Gippsland Skies offshore wind project and will surrender its feasibility licence for the proposed 2.5 GW development off Victoria’s Gippsland coast, Australian media reports. The move makes this the third project in the Gipp
The HSI consortium, comprising HSM Offshore Energy, Smulders, and Iv, has sent off the Jasmund offshore substation (OSS), which will connect the Windanker offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea to the German electricity grid. The 4,500-tonne OSS topside, measuring 48 metres in length, 33 metres in wid
Eolos Floating LiDAR Solutions will deploy a LiDAR at the Morecambe offshore wind farm site in the UK in the coming days, according to a recently issued Notice to Mariners. The LiDAR, expected to be positioned within the Morecambe project area on or around 8 December, is planned to stay on site for
RWE and TotalEnergies have signed an agreement with ARC marine for the supply of 66 reef cubes, which will be installed at eleven wind turbine foundations at the OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. Foundation installation at OranjeWind will start in 2026, and once the construction
All 21 monopile foundations at the Windanker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea have been installed, according to a social media update posted by Iberdrola Deutschland. The work was carried out by Van Oord using the heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen, which installed the first monopile i
The UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero has approved the Development Consent Order (DCO) for the Morecambe offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea, owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The seabed lease for the 480 MW project, proposed to be built approximately 30 kilomet
Installation of scour protection on wind turbine foundation locations at the Hornsea Three offshore site in the UK is set to commence in mid-December. The work will be undertaken by DEME using its rock installation vessel Flintstone, equipped with a fallpipe and flexible bucket system. The vessel is
