The examination period for the proposed electrical infrastructure for the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm closed on 3 March, the UK Planning Inspectorate (PINS) reported, and the proposal is now in a decision stage. There will now be a period of 3 months for the Examining Authority to consider and m
The Netherlands-based Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire offshore activities from compatriot VolkerWessels. Under the intended transaction, Boskalis will acquire maritime and offshore wind energy related activities of VolkerWessels, which include VBMS, Stemat an
Petrofac has awarded Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) with a contract to deliver an offshore substation platform for the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm. Heerema Hartlepool will be in charge of fabricating the unmanned offshore substation, with project engineering and procurement being undertaken b
The heaviest monopile ever produced for an offshore wind project left the production site of EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH in Rostock on 2 March, and will be ready to be installed at the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm within the next few months. This monopile weighs a total of 1,302.5 tons
Denmark’s Energinet.dk has re-issued a tender for the detailed engineering, procurement, construction and offshore installation of 2 gravity based substructures for the Kriegers Flak wind farm project in the Danish waters of the Baltic Sea. The first tender invitation, issued in January 2016, was ca
Siemens AG has awarded Fred. Olsen Windcarrier with the contract to transport and install Siemens 7MW turbines at the 497MW EnBW Hohe See wind farm, with the first turbine expected to go up in the first half of 2019. EnBW Hohe See is located 90km from shore in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ
Siemens has installed the last of the 48 turbines at the 144MW Westermeerwind Wind Farm, the largest near-shore wind farm in the Netherlands. The Westermeerwind will be commissioned following a test phase, and it will provide enough power to meet the demand of around 160,000 Dutch households. Anne d
Pharos Offshore’s hydraulic cable grab and offshore personnel have successfully supported and completed the recovery of a faulty cable section at the 367.2 MW Walney offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea. The cable grab had been built to client specification for this project and was delivered to Liver
The construction of the 600MW Gemini offshore wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands has reached an important milestone after the farm’s first wind turbines started producing electricity and feeding it into the grid. Following the construction of the electric infrastructure last year and the ins
Siemens to Deliver EnBW Hohe See Turbines & Foundations EnBW has signed a contract with Siemens AG for the supply and installation of 71 wind turbines and foundations for the EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm. Man Injured at Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Farm One of the workers on board the Wind Pione
CT Offshore today installed the last inter-array cable on DONG Energy’s Gode Wind 1+2 Offshore Wind Farm in the German part of the North Sea. “Gode Wind is the largest project to date for CT Offshore and it is a great achievement that our project team and offshore crew have now completed the install
Repsol will sell its offshore wind power business in the United Kingdom to China’s SDIC Power for EUR 238 million, the company reported this morning. The sale includes the Inch Cape project (100%) and Repsol’s share in the Beatrice project (25%), both of which are located on the east coast of Scotla
DEME Group’s offshore marine engineering division GeoSea and Siemens have concluded an EPCI foundation contract for the 497MW Hohe See offshore wind farm, currently the biggest planned offshore wind project in Germany. GeoSea’s EPCI contract includes the design, engineering, procurement, fabrication
DONG Energy held a special supply chain event held in Barrow-in-Furness today to help local businesses get involved in the delivery of the 660MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm, to be built off the Cumbrian Coast. DONG Energy’s Walney Extension project team and key suppliers to the project prese
