Cadeler has signed a firm contract with Ocean Winds for the transportation and installation of turbines at the 390 MW BC-Wind offshore wind farm in Poland. The installation is planned to commence in 2028 and to continue for approximately four months. Cadeler will deploy one of its O-class wind turbi
Installation of all 25 Vestas V174-9.6 MW turbines at Japan’s Kitakyushu-Hibikanada offshore wind farm has been completed. Back in February 2017, the government of Kitakyushu City selected the consortium of Kyuden Mirai Energy, Kyuden Corporation, Hokutaku Renewable Energy Service, J-Power, and Saib
Synera Renewable Energy (SRE) has partnered with Siemens Gamesa for the third time, selecting the company to supply 35 14 MW turbines for the Formosa 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The turbines will be provided by Siemens Gamesa’s industrial nacelle factory in Taichung, Taiwan. The wind turbine fou
Two consortia have applied for offshore sites in the Norwegian area designated for floating wind projects, Utsira Nord. The bidders are Harald Hårfagre, a joint venture between Deep Wind Offshore and EDF Renewables, and a consortium of Equinor and Vårgrønn. Norway’s Ministry of Energy will now begin
[NOTE: Article updated on 16 September with a statement from US Wind and to specify project capacity as 1.7 GW.] The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has filed a motion in the US District Court in Maryland to remand and/or vacate its approval of the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for US W
The developers behind the 1.5 GW Navigator North offshore wind farm in Australia have announced that they do not plan to participate in the state’s first round auction. The Navigator North offshore wind farm is being developed by a joint venture between Origin Energy and Renewable Energy Systems (RE
Seaway7’s Seaway Strashnov has installed the final monopile at Dogger Bank C, the third phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the world’s biggest offshore wind farm under construction, in the UK. This marks the completion of 277 monopile foundations installed by Seaway7 across Dogger Bank A, B,
The first wind turbine foundation has been installed at the 496 MW Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm in France, developed by Eoliennes en Mer Dieppe Le Tréport (EMDT), a joint venture between Ocean Winds, Sumitomo Corporation, and Banque des Territoires. The foundations are steel jackets fabricat
ZTT Submarine Cable & System (ZTTSC) has delivered the first batch of 500 kV three-core AC submarine cables for the Yangjiang Fanshi II Offshore Wind Farm in China. According to the company, the production process integrated smart manufacturing lines, industrial robots, smart warehousing, and AI-bas
Van Oord has completed the installation of 109 inter-array cables, which marks the conclusion of its full scope of work on the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK. Approximately 360 kilometres of inter-array cables have been installed and tested, connecting the wind farms’ 100 14 MW turbines t
Dajin Heavy Industry has sent away the first batch of six monopiles that will be installed at the 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland. The first six monopiles have set sail from Dajin Heavy Industry’s Penglai facility, according to the latest social media post by the Chinese company. Daj
Cerulean Winds has submitted offshore consent applications to the Scottish Government for its 1 GW Aspen project, one of three floating offshore wind farms the company is developing in the Central North Sea. Lodged with the Scottish government’s Marine Directorate Licensing Operations Team, the appl
Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 2b offshore wind project in Taiwan will be commissioned in the third quarter of 2026 instead of later this year due to a damaged export cable. The 300 MW offshore wind farm is part of the 920 MW Greater Changhua 2b and 4 project, currently under construction 35-60 kilometre
In a matter of months, the US offshore wind industry went from a growing investor and employer to an industry that is now undergoing what Oceantic Network called a “targeted attack” after reports emerged that the US Department of the Interior (DOI) plans to revoke federal permits for two more projec
