Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy have said that they are looking at early delivery of their two floating wind projects in the Celtic Sea, called Llywelyn and Petroc, which have grid connections secured and almost a year’s worth of bird surveys already completed. “As our joint venture has alread
DEME Offshore’s jack-up Sea Installer has left the Port of Hull loaded with the last batch of turbine components to be installed at the 1.32 GW Hornsea Two – soon to be the world’s largest offshore wind farm in operation. Sea Installer and Sea Challenger have been transporting the wind farm’s 165 Si
Flotation Energy Plc and CNOOC Petroleum Europe Ltd have submitted an Offshore Scoping Report for a floating wind farm offshore Scotland with a capacity of up to 480 MW and scheduled to be operational by 2026. The Green Volt offshore wind farm would feature up to 30 wind turbines with a rated capaci
EDF Renewables has received the marine licence variation consent for the Blyth floating wind project offshore the UK. Phase two of the Blyth Offshore Demonstrator wind farm will have floating foundations and four or five turbines with individual capacities of up to 14 MW, EDF Renewables said. Locate
Vattenfall has awarded Denmark’s HARCO Heavy Lifting with the contract to provide main component exchange services across five offshore wind farms in the United Kingdom from 2022 to 2025. The five offshore wind farms are Kentish Flats, Kentish Flats Extension, Thanet, Ormonde, and Aberdeen Bay (Euro
Steel manufactured in Wales and processed in Corby and Hartlepool is set to play a role in the foundations that will support the world’s largest offshore wind farm – the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank. Sif and Smulders were awarded contracts to provide the monopiles and transition pieces for the first two phase
Blue Gem Wind, the joint venture between TotalEnergies and Simply Blue Group, has submitted consent applications for its 100 MW Erebus floating wind project offshore Wales, the UK. According to Blue Gem Wind, these are the first-ever consent applications to be submitted for floating offshore wind in
Hornsea Two, soon to be the world’s largest offshore wind farm in operation, has generated its first power, Ørsted, the owner and developer of the project, said. When fully operational, Hornsea 2’s 165 8 MW Siemens Gamesa wind turbines will be capable of generating 1.32 GW of clean electricity – tak
DEME Offshore has selected Tekmar Energy Limited to supply Cable Protection Systems (CPS) for the Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK. Tekmar Energy has signed a contract with EPCI contractor DEME Offshore to design, manufacture, and supply Generation 10 TekTube CPS to protect subsea inter-array cables
First power from the 1,386 MW Hornsea Two, soon to be the world’s largest offshore wind farm, is expected before the end of the year, a spokesperson for Ørsted told offshore WIND. 139 of the wind farm’s 165 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW wind turbines have now been installed, and all of the wind farms inter-
DEME Offshore has won the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for the inter-array cables at the Dogger Bank C offshore wind farm in the UK.
Siemens Energy has won the contract to provide an onshore substation for the 860 MW Moray West offshore wind project in Scotland. Subject to the award of a Contract for Difference in 2022 and Financial Close, the onshore substation for the wind farm will feature Siemens High Voltage Alternating Curr
A geophysical survey at a site where TotalEnergies and GIG plan to build their 1.5 GW UK offshore wind project is nearing the finish line after almost five months of investigations. The developers contracted Enviros Survey & Consultancy to carry out the work after being awarded a Contract for Differ
The biggest ever round of the UK government’s renewable energy support scheme opened on Monday, 13 December, with GBP 200 million a year allocated for fixed-bottom and GBP 24 million for floating offshore wind projects. Renewable energy projects across Great Britain can now bid for funding in the fo
