GeoSea has been awarded a €340m contract to design, fabricate and install 56 steel monopile foundations at RWE’s Galloper offshore wind farm. The monopiles will be the heaviest that GeoSea has ever installed, weighing more than 1,100 tons. The installation at the offshore site is scheduled for the e
The Scottish Government has granted a marine licence to Statoil for the construction of Hywind Scotland project, the world’s largest floating offshore wind development. The pilot park will comprise five floating 6MW turbines installed approximately 25km off the coast of Peterhead, with a generating
RWE will start building the Galloper offshore wind farm next month, after the final investment decision was made with three new partners on board for the project. UK Green Investment Bank (GIB), Siemens Financial Services and Macquarie Capital have joined RWE Innogy in becoming 25% joint equity part
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has prequalified a total of seven companies and consortia to participate in the tender of Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm, the 600MW Kriegers Flak in the Baltic Sea. Of the eight applications, the DEA received before the deadline October 1, the Agency has prequali
As the tendering procedure for Borssele I and II offshore wind sites is due to be launched in December, at least ten consortia and companies have already shown interest in building offshore wind farms at the first two offered lots, the Dutch media reported. The parties interested in bidding for Bors
Modus Seabed Intervention has been contracted by DONG Energy to conduct pre-installation works on the Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm. The workscope has been divided into two packages – an initial investigation survey of known ferromagnetic unexploded ordnance (UXO) targets to identify any e
Following the financial close for the Nobelwind offshore wind farm, MHI Vestas received the order for the supply of 50 V112-3.3 MW turbines for the 165 MW Nobelwind project off the Belgian coast, including a a 15-year full-scope service agreement. This is the third project between the two companies,
HiDef Aerial Surveying Limited (HiDef) has been selected by DONG Energy to undertake ultra high resolution digital video aerial surveys at a new offshore wind farm site in the Irish Sea, known as the Isle of Man project. The Isle of Man project, as a proposed development in the Isle of Man’s territo
Rentel NV has chosen Siemens NV as its preferred bidder for the supply and installation of 42 offshore wind turbines, along with a 15-year maintenance agreement. The final negotiations with Siemens include the supply and installation of the SWT 7.0-154 turbines. Rentel said it will finalize negotiat
Belgian Nobelwind offshore wind project has reached financial close, securing approximately EUR 655 million from investors and financial institutions, the project company Nobelwind SA confirmed to Offshore WIND this morning. The company, comprising Belgian offshore wind developer Parkwind NV, Japane
VolkerInfra has been appointed to complete onshore horizontal directional drillings (HDDs) for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm, which is being built 13km off the Sussex coast by E.ON in partnership with the UK Green Investment Bank plc. The works comprise of onshore HDDs under the A27, a railway cros
TenneT has signed a contract with the engineering consultancy Witteveen + Bos in consortium with Mott MacDonald, and Altenburg & Wymenga and IMARES Wageningen UR as subcontractors, for the preparation of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the connection of wind farms planned off the south
All 80 turbines at Amrumbank West offshore wind farm are connected to the network. With its full installed capacity of 288 megawatts now operational, Amrumbank West can produce enough climate-friendly power to meet the needs of 300,000 households. Amrumbank West, fully owned by E.ON, is located in t
CCCC Third Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. has recently won the bid for Phase 2 of the Shanghai Lingang offshore wind project with a contract value of some 478 million yuan (approx. EUR 67 million) and a construction period of 430 days. Located in the eastern waters of the Nanhui beach in Shanghai, the
