All 15 turbines at Vattenfall’s Kentish Flats Extension offshore wind farm are now generating power to the National Grid. The final turbine was put to operation on September 12. The turbines will now go through a series of tests and then be handed over to the Operations and Maintenance team. Matthew
The developer of US first offshore wind farm, Deepwater Wind, is making some safety changes after an independent consultant has identified several health and safety issues. ABS Group, a Houston-based firm listed several concerns during the construction of five foundations at the 30MW Block Island of
UK government has rejected the GBP 3.5bn Navitus Bay wind farm project planned off the south coast of England. The decision to dismiss a planning application for up to 194-turbine project was announced by Energy minister Lord Bourne today. A reduced project version, comprising of up to 105 turbines,
Greatship Manisha vessel is carrying out drilling operations at RWE’s Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm. The activity, including borehole work as part of the geotechnical survey at one of the foundations, will last until the next Tuesday. “During the course of drilling operations the Greatship Manisha
Wind turbine installation vessel, MPI Adventure, installed the final blade of the 80-turbine Amrumbank West Offshore Wind Farm earlier this week. This operation formed part of an ongoing, long-term charter-party agreement with E.On and followed a foundation installation campaign undertaken by anothe
Westermeerwind has reached another milestone with the installation of the first set of wind turbine blades. The wind turbine blades arrived on Tuesday evening from Oude Zeug where they were preassembled via vessel LD27. The installation was completed the following day via ‘De Schelde’ pontoon fitted
Fugro has been awarded a contract for the installation and burial of array cables at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm. The development in the English Channel, 13 kilometres off the Sussex coast, is being built by E.ON alongside partners, the UK Green Investment Bank plc. The engineering and planning w
JDR has been selected as a contractor to supply offshore array cables for the Galloper offshore wind farm. JDR has been sub-contracted by the project’s array cable installation contractor, VBMS (UK) Ltd, in an overall deal worth around £100 million, of which £30 million covers JDR’s contract. JDR wi
Germany’s 400MW Global Tech I offshore wind farm has been inaugurated. The ceremony was attended by Olaf Scholz, First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Dr. Carsten Sieling, Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Bremen, and Olaf Lies, Minister for Economic Affairs of the State of Lower Saxon
One of Europe’s largest municipal utilities, Trianel, has officially cut the ribbon at its 200MW Borkum West 2.1 offshore wind farm. This is the first offshore wind project owned by municipal utilities with 50% of them coming from North Rhine-Westphalia. Johannes Remmel, Minister for Climate Protect
Energinet.dk, the Danish transmission system operator, has decided to postpone Anholt offshore wind farm cable repair. The operation was scheduled for the late September. However, due to an error in NKT’s replacement cables, the work had to be pushed back. A new date will be announced promptly. “The
Van Oord has installed the two Offshore High Voltage Stations (OHVS) and first 77 transition pieces at the Dutch Gemini Wind Park. The realisation of the large offshore wind project construction is proceeding as planned. The OHVS installations were built in Hoboken, Belgium, and transported to Eemsh
Vattenfall’s Kentish Flats Extension offshore wind farm has produced its first electricity. Melanie Rogers, the company’s local communications officer, witnessed the milestone which was achieved on Saturday afternoon. She said: “I have been working on the project for over four years so to witness th
BMO Offshore has won the competitive tender for providing vessel motion monitoring systems for the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm, jointly owned by SSE and RWE. In April 2015, SSE issued a Request for Information for Vessel Motion Monitoring Systems on the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm, whi
