Ørsted has shared an update on construction activities at the site of the 752 MW Borssele 1&2 wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. DEME’s jack-up tandem of Sea Installer and Sea Challenger has now installed two-thirds of the wind farm’s 94 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbines. The inter-array cables have
Vietnam’s BIDV Insurance Corporation (BIC) and Ben Tre Renewable Energy Joint Stock company (BTRE) have signed an insurance contract for the 110 MW Ben Tre V1-3 intertidal wind project. BIC, part of the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV), will provide insurance during the installa
France’s National Commission for Public Debate (CNDP) has launched a public consultation on future floating wind projects offshore southern Brittany. The country’s Multiannual Energy Programme (Programmation pluriannuelle de l’énergie (PPE)) calls for 8.75 GW of offshore wind capacity to be put out
Vestas has secured a 50 MW order with the Vietnamese EPC construction company, Bac Phuong JSC, for the second phase of the Dong Hai 1 intertidal wind project. This project win comes after Vestas was awarded the first phase of the project in December 2019. With this second phase in place, the 100 MW
Partrac, MetOceanWorks and Cooper Marine Advisors are carrying out a detailed assessment of the geomorphology of SSE Renewables’ Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 offshore wind project. The consortium partners are currently in the second stage of their project, following the completion of the first roun
Swire Blue Ocean (SBO) has secured a contract with MHI Vestas for the transportation and installation of turbines at the Seagreen offshore wind project in Scotland. Seagreen will comprise 114 MHI Vestas V164-10 MW turbines located some 27 kilometers off the Angus coast. SBO expects to commence the i
Fugro’s DP2 geotechnical drill ship Fugro Scout has commenced a site characterisation campaign at Vattenfall’s Norfolk Vanguard and Norfolk Boreas offshore wind sites. The data from the four-month geotechnical investigations will be used for ground modelling for the two offshore wind farms, located
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has issued a tender for the development of an integrated ground model for the 4 GW IJmuiden Ver wind farm zone. The objective of this tender is to conclude an agreement with a tenderer who is able to develop an Integrated Ground Model (IGM) and a Geotechnical
Jan De Nul and Hitachi have issued a notice on the commencement of wind turbine installation works off the Taiwanese coast. The work will be carried out by Jan De Nul’s vessel Taillevent, which was reported earlier this year as having left the turbine installation at the German Trianel Windpark Bork
The jacket foundation for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Alpha offshore platform has left the Eversendai Offshore shipyard in Ras al Khaimah, the United Arab Emirates. The Hua Xing Long vessel is transporting the jacket foundation to the Dutch North Sea and is expected to arrive at its destination mi
Ningbo Orient Cable (NBO) has completed the installation of the export cable at the China Three Gorges New Energy (CTGNE) Yangjiang Shapa Phase 1 offshore wind project. According to NBO, the installation of two 220kV export cables was finished after 14 months and now the offshore engineering team is
Swedish energy company Vattenfall, the developer of the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm in the Dutch North Sea, is joining Amsterdam IJmuiden Offshore Ports (AYOP). By joining this public-private association which gathers more than 85 companies and organizations active in the offshore energy se
CTCI Machinery Corporation (CTCI MAC) has signed a contract with China Steel Power Corporation to supply nearly a hundred pin piles for the Zhong Neng offshore wind project in Taiwan. Four production lines will be set up at CTCI MAC’s Ta-Lin Shop in Kaohsiung’s Nansing Free Trade Zone. The pin piles
MingYang Smart Energy will install the first floating wind turbine off the coast of Yangjiang City in Guangdong Province, China, in 2021. The turbine will have a rated output of 5.5 MW. MingYang has completed the integrated load simulation calculation, and is currently carrying out R&D work on the p
