Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has contracted the Dutch offshore construction company Van Oord and the joint venture between Belgian offshore construction specialist DEME and Taiwan’s largest shipbuilder CSBC for installation work at the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Van Oord’s
Tahkoluoto Offshore Oy, the developer of the Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm extension project in Finland, has scrapped plans for a demonstration project that involved the installation of two 15 MW wind turbines. The purpose of the demo phase was to pilot large-scale offshore wind turbines, foundation
Vårgrønn, a joint venture between Plenitude and Norway’s HitecVision, has acquired 100 per cent of PGGM Infrastructure Fund’s shares in the 288 MW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm in Germany. The German energy company EnBW owns 50.1 per cent and Vårgrønn holds 27.4 per cent of the Baltic 2 offshore wind
AFRY Netherlands has won a contract worth over EUR 3 million for offshore wind farm design in Estonia at a tender launched by Enefit Green for its Liivi project in the Gulf of Riga. The contract, signed on 6 January, according to a public tender award notice, involves preparing a Contract for Differ
Korea South-East Power (KOEN), a subsidiary of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), is withdrawing from the Shinan Ui (Sinan Ui) offshore wind project after the proposed wind farm did not pass the government’s feasibility assessment. According to Seoul Economic Daily, in August 2024, the prelim
The offshore installation vessel Seaway Strashnov has installed all but two monopile foundations at the Dogger Bank B offshore wind site in the UK and will return in the second quarter of 2025 to complete the installation. Five more transition pieces (TPs) are also left to be installed, according to
Equinor has secured a project financing package of over USD 3 billion (approximately EUR 2.9 billion) and reached financial close on Empire Wind 1, the first offshore wind farm to connect to New York City’s grid, which is already under construction after Equinor made a final investment decision (FID
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New wind turbine models, vessels and equipment, and project updates were the most read topics on offshoreWIND.biz in 2024. In this overview, we are bringing the ten most popular news in 2024. In January 2024, Siemens Gamesa received a EUR 30 million grant from the EU for a project called Highly Inno
Vineyard Offshore, the US offshore wind development company owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), has withdrawn the 800 MW of offshore wind capacity selected earlier this year in Massachusetts as the 400 MW part of the 1.2 GW Vineyard Wind 2 project was not selected in Connecticut. As r
A pre-installation survey at the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site is scheduled to begin in early January 2025, following subsea boulder clearance and scour protection work that was carried out in November 2024 and marked the start of offshore construction work. The survey, which will be per
A 300 MW expansion to the existing 600 MW Xuwen offshore wind farm in Zhanjiang, China, developed by State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC), has started commercial operation. The 600 MW Xuwen offshore wind farm was built in two phases consisting of a total of 94 wind turbines. The first of 47 Min
The last components for Eolink’s 5 MW floating offshore wind turbine have arrived at the Port of Brest in France. The first components for the floating offshore wind turbine, which will be installed at the French SEM-REV test site off the coast of Le Croisic, arrived at the port in February this yea
The construction of the Xuwen Dongsan Offshore Wind Power Demonstration Project, developed by a joint venture between Mingyang Smart Energy and Germany’s BASF, has commenced in Zhanjiang, China. This is the first offshore wind power project in China to be approved as a Sino-German cooperation, accor
