The second SeaMade offshore substation topside has been installed in the Seastar concession area in the Belgian North Sea. The wind farm’s first substation was installed in the Mermaid concession area at the beginning of March. Each with a weight of 1,200 tonnes, the substations transform the wind e
US energy company Dominion Energy has selected Ramboll to support the development and engineering aspects of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project off Virginia. The 2.6GW offshore wind farm is expected to enter service by the end of 2026. The Denmark-based Ramboll will, as the Owner’s En
30 monopile foundations and 14 inter-array cables have so far been installed on the 752MW Borssele 1 + 2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea, Ørsted said. Located some 23 kilometres off the coast of Zeeland, Borssele 1 + 2 will comprise 94 Siemens Gamesa 8MW wind turbines scheduled to be opera
Canada’s Northland Power has elected to permanently forego the installation of the Deutsche Bucht Mono Bucket Foundations Demonstrator Project. As reported earlier, the installation of the two turbines utilizing mono bucket foundations at the wind farm in the German North Sea was paused in the fourt
Ørsted and Good Energy Group have signed a renewal of an agreement under which the UK company will source power from the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm for its customers for a further three years. The agreement continues to secure 12% of the output of the 210MW wind farm located 8km off the Yor
Bladt Industries A/S has loaded out the last six transition pieces and anode cages for the Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm project in the Netherlands. Bladt Industries’ scope covered the manufacture of 59 transition pieces, each one weighing approximately 390 tonnes, with a diameter of up to 6 met
The European Commission has approved the acquisition of Merkur Offshore GmbH by APG Asset Management N.V. and InfraRed Capital Partners Limited. The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would raise no competition concerns, given the companies’ moderate combined market positions resulti
Scaldis Salvage & Marine Contractors is currently preparing for the installation of the second offshore substation at the SeaMade wind farm in Belgium. The 487MW SeaMade wind farm is a combination of the 235MW Mermaid and the 252MW Seastar offshore wind projects. This second topside, which recently
Danish transmission system operator Energinet and the Danish Energy Agency have decided that the export cables from the Thor offshore wind farm will have their landfall at Tuskær, north of Nissum Fjord. Accordingly, the possibility for a landfall south of Nissum Fjord has been cancelled. This decisi
Tekmar Energy Limited has won a contract from French cable installation specialist Louis Dreyfus TravOcean to supply TekLink® cable protection systems (CPS) for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. Saint-Nazaire is a 480MW offshore wind farm set for construction off France’s Atlantic Coas
Dutch nearshore wind farm Westermeerwind generated 74GWh of electricity in February, achieving a new production record. This means that the wind farm produced more than 4GWh more than the previous production record of 69.7GWh from October 2017. According to the project developer, February was an exc
Floatgen, the first offshore wind turbine installed off the French coast, produced 923.2MWh of electricity in February, setting a new monthly record. The 2MW Floatgen turbine achieved a capacity factor of 66.3% for the power production of 923.2MWh last month, Ideol said. With a February time availab
The EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) has approved Norway’s state aid to the 88MW Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind project in the Norwegian North Sea. Norway, through the state enterprise Enova, has decided to grant NOK 2.3 billion (around EUR 212 million) to Equinor and its partners OMV, Petoro
The Buss Terminal Eemshaven, in the Netherlands, has secured a contract to serve as a base port for installing the foundations of the Hornsea Two offshore wind project. Under the deal secured with DEME Offshore, the Buss Terminal is responsible for the handling, storage and terminal logistics of the
