If approved, the surveys would start in the summer of 2020 with a geophysical survey and run until 2024 when the final geotechnical campaigns and the final engineering is completed.
The Department of Energy Resources (DOER) has subsequently submitted a filing letter requesting that DPU approve the 20-year contracts with Eversource, National Grid, and Unitil.
This is the first wind farm in the world to use drilled XL-monopile foundations, DEME said.
According to the new timeline, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) plans to issue final permits for the project by mid-march 2021.
The EDF Group has acquired a 50% interest in the 1GW Codling offshore wind farm project in Ireland from Hazel Shore. Its subsidiary EDF Renewables, dedicated to wind and solar energy across the globe, will now partner with Fred Olsen Renewables Ltd, which already owns 50% to develop and build the pr
As a sub-contractor to Bladt Industries, ISC will perform the engineering design works together with Semco Maritime and the US partner WSP.
French floating LiDAR specialist Akrocean has won a contract to supply wind data for twelve months at the Thor offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea. The company did not reveal any further details on the contract, except that it was awarded by the Danish transmission system operator Energinet.
The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has won a contract to develop an integrated ground model as part of a tender for geotechnical soil investigations at the Ten Noorden van de Waddeneilanden wind farm zone in the Dutch North Sea. The contract is valued at around EUR 300,000. As previously rep
Dutch subsea survey specialist Deep BV is carrying out unexploded ordnance (UXO) geophysical survey at the Formosa 2 wind farm offshore Taiwan. The survey is being carried out at the potential locations of the wind turbines, the company said. Deep BV did similar work on the 128MW Formosa 1, Taiwan’s
Inch Cape Offshore Limited (ICOL) has submitted a request to increase the maximum capacity of the Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland from around 700MW to up to 1,000MW. The developer said that the increase in capacity could be achieved without the need to change the parameters already approved
The duration of the PPA will be from 1 October 2020 to 30 June 2036.
The UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has set a new deadline of 1 June 2020 to decide on the development consent order applications for the Hornsea Project Three, the Norfolk Vanguard, and the Thanet Extension offshore wind farms. The DCO applications were mad
Site investigations have kicked off at innogy’s Sofia offshore wind project in the UK with export cable route surveys.
Ørsted has applied for a loan with the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the 752MW Borssele 1 + 2 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. The project will finance the construction and the operation of the wind farm. The proposed EIB financing is about EUR 500 million, and the estimated value of the
