Moray West, an offshore wind farm in the outer Moray Firth, Scotland, has selected Siemens Gamesa as the preferred bidder for the supply of offshore wind turbines. Subject to the award of a Contract for Difference in 2022 and Financial Close, the wind farm would feature Siemens Gamesa’s latest offsh
Malaysian utility Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) has acquired a 49 per cent stake in the existing Blyth Offshore Demonstrator wind farm and a yet-to-be-built floating wind farm in northeast England from EDF Renewables UK. TNB acquired the stake in the Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Limited (BODL) through
Ørsted has submitted a Development Consent Order (DCO) application for its Hornsea Four offshore wind project to the UK Planning Inspectorate. The developer informed on 14 October that it had filed the DCO application on 29 September, after completing pre-application consultation. Ørsted started int
Wood Thilsted has won the contract to supply the design of foundations for the East Anglia Hub offshore wind farm off England’s east coast. The GBP 6.5 billion East Anglia Hub is made up of the East Anglia ONE North, TWO, and THREE offshore wind farms and will produce a total of 3.1GW, making it [&h
DEME Offshore has installed 100 turbines on the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm, with 65 more of Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW units left to be put into place. The jack-up vessel Sea Challenger installed the first wind turbine at the end of May and in less than three months later the project had 50 wind turb
RWE has completed all the major onshore electrical system construction works for the 857 MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm project in Lincolnshire, the UK. The works, which commenced in September 2018, involved laying 57 kilometres of 220 kV underground cable from the project’s landfall location ne
BlueFloat Energy and Falck Renewables, which have already partnered to develop floating offshore wind projects in Scotland and Italy, are now also exploring opportunities for building floating wind farms in the Celtic Sea off the coast of Cornwall and Wales. “The Celtic Sea offers great potential fo
Remedial work on the cable protection system (CPS) on inter-array cables at an offshore wind farm in the UK, owned by RWE, is set to start in the next couple of days, following the discovery of a defect CPS at several locations within the wind farm site earlier this year. This is an excerpt from [&h
Equinor has decided to extend the preapplication period for its Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind farm extensions, off the Norfolk coast, and now plans to apply for the Development Consent Order (DCO) for the projects by early summer 2022, instead of this year. The developer said extending
Seaway 7 has selected the Port of Blyth as the location for the storage and mobilisation of the inter-array cables for the 1,075 MW Seagreen 1 wind farm offshore Scotland. The Northumberland-based port has already started to receive cable into quayside storage tanks, designed and built by their in-h
Blue Gem Wind, a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Simply Blue Energy, is preparing to deploy a floating LiDAR at the Valorous floating wind project site to inform the engineering designs and the Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) for the proposed project. The EOLOS FLS200 floating LiDAR s
Siemens Gamesa has extended the original contract term for servicing the 714 MW East Anglia ONE wind farm off the UK from five to 15 years with ScottishPower Renewables and Bilbao Offshore Holdings Limited. The deal, among the biggest in Siemens Gamesa’s Service business unit’s history, comes just o
Sembcorp Marine and RWE have marked the start of the fabrication of the offshore converter platform for the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm with an official steel-cutting ceremony at Sembcorp Marine’s yard in Batam, Indonesia. “The offshore converter station sitting at the heart of the wind farm wil
Aberdeen-based Swire Energy Services (SES) has signed a contract with Ørsted for the provision of helideck services and helicopter refuelling system services for the Hornsea One wind farm in the UK Southern North Sea. According to Swire Energy Services, the two-year contract, with the option of two
