German energy company RWE has been awarded a contract for services and maintenance of the 140 Siemens 3.6 MW wind turbines at the 504 MW Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm in the UK. The 10-year agreement will commence in early 2023, taking the project through to the planned end of life. Greater Gab
SSE Renewables and its ScotWind partners, Marubeni Corporation and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), have selected RPS to carry out Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Habitats Regulation Assessment (HRA) for the up to 2.6 GW floating wind project offshore Scotland. RPS teams based in
Rovco has commenced year three of its survey campaign on the operational Beatrice offshore wind farm located in the Outer Moray Firth in Scotland. Rovco’s UK-based team will deliver survey work on all inter-array cable and subsea jacket locations across the 588 MW wind farm, with activities commenci
The Sif-Smulders joint venture will manufacture 64 transition pieces (TPs) for EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany. According to Raf Iemants, Managing Director of Smulders, the production of TPs will start in March 2023 at the company’s yard in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, with the last load
Seaway 7 ASA, part of the Subsea 7 Group, has signed a letter of exclusivity, and is finalising a preferred bidder supply chain agreement with ScottishPower Renewables for the East Anglia THREE offshore wind project in the UK. East Anglia THREE is located approximately 70 kilometres from shore in th
Seaway Strashnov will be deployed on Dogger Bank Wind Farm for a full 2023 campaign as the company’s new vessel Seaway Alfa Lift, which suffered a crane incident in 2021, is now scheduled to be delivered in the second half of 2023. As reported last year, the vessel had an incident with the A-frame o
Belfast-headquartered Ridgeway has secured a contract to supply Rockbags, also known as Kyowa Filter Units, for cable protection for the 480 MW Saint Nazaire wind farm offshore France. Saint Nazaire – an offshore wind farm being developed in the Loire-Atlantique region of France and owned by EDF Ren
Seagreen 1 Limited has selected Seaway 7, the Renewables & Heavy Lifting business unit of Subsea 7, as a preferred supplier for the Seagreen 1A wind project offshore Scotland, with the final contract expected to be valued between USD 500 million and USD 750 million. Seagreen 1A lies adjacent to the
Based on current targets and tendering activities for floating wind in several European countries, WindEurope expects the continent to have more than 10 GW of installed floating wind capacity by 2030. “Floating wind energy is about to take off big time in Europe. Over 100 MW is already in operation.
Blue Gem Wind, a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Simply Blue Energy, has redeployed an EOLOS FLS200 floating LiDAR system at the proposed Valorous floating wind project site to continue an offshore metocean campaign in the Celtic Sea. The company said it will share wave data with local surfe
Siemens Gamesa is currently producing the first recyclable blades to be installed on an offshore wind farm at its factory in Hull, the UK. The wind turbine manufacturer described the RecycleBlade as the world’s first wind turbine blade ready for commercial use offshore that can be recycled at the en
The UAE-based offshore construction and fabrication specialist Lamprell has selected OES Group to supply the monopile foundations of the Moray West offshore wind farm with the Impressed Current Cathodic Protection (ICCP) system. Remotely controlled and monitored through the OES’s SCADA system, the I
The UK Planning Inspectorate has accepted for consideration proposals for the development of the Awel y Môr offshore wind farm, RWE Renewables said. Awel y Môr offshore wind farm includes up to 50 turbines with a maximum tip height of 332 metres and is a sister project to the existing Gwynt y Môr of
The world’s first offshore charging points for electric vessels will be installed on the Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farms off the UK around late summer, according to the UK’s Department for Transport. The project to develop an offshore wind on-turbine electrical vessel charging system is led by MJR
