Elektrownia Wiatrowa Baltica – 2, the project company developing the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm, has awarded contracts for two walk-to-work (W2W) accommodation vessels that will support construction and offshore operations at the project in the Polish Baltic Sea. The contracts were awarded
Haizea Wind Group has delivered what it says are the largest monopiles ever manufactured in Southern Europe for the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. Produced at the company’s facility at the Port of Bilbao, the monopiles measure over 105 metres in length, have a diameter of 11 metres, and wei
Two offshore construction milestones have been completed at the 495 MW Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan, with Jan De Nul finalising the export cable connection to the offshore substation and CDWE completing the installation of the offshore substation and its foundation. Jan De Nul said on 5 A
Steelwind Nordenham has completed the delivery of all monopiles under its contract for the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea, with the final two foundations shipped from the company’s port facility. Under its scope, Steelwind manufactured and delivered 34 monopiles for the
Dajin Heavy Industry has started fabrication of 63 transition pieces (TPs) for the 976.5 MW Gennaker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea, following a first steel cutting ceremony held at the company’s Penglai manufacturing base in China on 30 July. The transition pieces are being manufacture
Following the installation of the first monopile at the beginning of July, the first transition piece (TP) has now also been installed at Vattenfall’s Nordlicht I offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. DEME is handling the transport and installation of the monopiles and TPs under a contract awa
Cierco Energy has signed an Agreement for Lease with the Crown Estate for its two test and demonstration projects off Wales, named Llŷr 1 and Llŷr 2, which are expected to use two different types of floating wind technology. The Llŷr projects were selected for development in 2021 in the Crown Estate
Decommissioning work has started on the TetraSpar Demonstrator floating wind project at the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre) site off Karmøy, Norway, with the dynamic export cable disconnected and placed in wet storage, clearing the site for the next demonstrator project. The decommissioning ca
Dominion Energy has revised the completion timeline for its 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, with the installation of the 176th and final wind turbine now expected by the end of 2027. The company had previously targeted full project completion in early 2027. According to Dominio
The Culzean floating wind turbine, which will supply electricity to the Culzean gas platform in the North Sea, off the coast of Scotland, will soon be towed to its offshore location as the integration of the wind turbine with the floating foundation has been completed. Archer, the engineering, procu
Boskalis’s new subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel Windpiper has departed the Port of Rotterdam to pick up its first load and sail to an offshore wind farm site in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea. In an update posted on social media, Boskalis said the SRI vessel will load 45,500 tonnes of rock
CS Wind Offshore has sent off the first batch of transition pieces (TPs) for Vattenfall’s Nordlicht I offshore wind farm from its site at the Port of Aalborg to Germany. Weighing around 362 tonnes each, the transition pieces will be transported and installed at the project site in the German North S
PTSC Mechanical & Construction (PTSC M&C) has completed the construction and loadout of the offshore substation structures for the Fengmiao offshore wind project in Taiwan, comprising a 3,400-tonne topside and an 8,000-tonne jacket and the accompanying piles. “Delivered on schedule with more than 2.
German Federal Police has recovered a detached wind turbine rotor blade that was drifting in the North Sea between the operational Hohe See offshore wind farm and the He Dreiht project, which is currently under construction. According to the Federal Police Inspectorate in Cuxhaven, authorities were
