TotalEnergies has acquired a majority stake in Jammerland Bay and Lillebælt South offshore wind farms in Denmark from European Energy and SONFOR. Under the deal, TotalEnergies acquired 85 per cent of the share capital in the 240 MW Jammerland Bay and 72.2 per cent of the share capital in the 165 MW
The final wind turbine has been installed at the Jeonnam 1 offshore wind farm in South Korea, the project’s wind turbine supplier Siemens Gamesa said via social media on 18 December. Jeonnam 1, which has a nominal installed capacity of 96 MW, features Siemens Gamesa SG 10.0-193 DD wind turbines and
Equinor and its partners on the extension projects that are planned to be built next to the operational Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind farms in Norfolk, UK, have agreed to bring the two projects under a joint ownership structure in one legal entity. The Dudgeon Extension Project is owned
RWE and TotalEnergies, through a joint venture that will soon start building the OranjeWind project off the Dutch coast, have signed a lease agreement with the co-operative association Blue Port Centre, the owner of the former fish auction building at the port of Den Helder, to use the facility as t
Japan’s Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (Kansai) has signed a share purchase agreement with Iberdrola to participate in the 315 MW Windanker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. The operation values 100 per cent of the offshore wind farm at EUR 1.28 billion, which implies a multiple of EUR 4
Invenergy has responded to the Request for Competitive Interest (RFCI) that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) launched this summer for two wind energy areas (WEAs) in the Gulf of Mexico for which the federal agency had received an unsolicited lease request from Hecate Energy. Hecate Energ
Spain’s Windar Renovables has completed the fabrication of the first of 90 offshore towers included in an order from Siemens Gamesa for Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project in the US. The first shipments for the 2.6 GW offshore wind farm are scheduled for the summer of 202
Mingyang Smart Energy’s OceanX, which the company says is the world’s largest single-capacity floating wind power platform, has started operating at the Qingzhou IV offshore wind farm in Yangjiang, China, where it was installed this summer. The dual-turbine, V-shaped floater operates autonomously, s
Enefit Green’s Liivi Bay offshore wind farm has undergone an environmental impact assessment (EIA), showing no significant negative effects on the environment and boosting labour market activity and municipal revenues with proper mitigation measures, according to an expert group from Skepast and Puh
Ørsted has sold a 50 per cent ownership share in the Greater Changhua 4 offshore wind farm to Taiwanese insurance company Cathay Life Insurance, and its affiliate Cathay Wind Power Holdings, for approximately DKK 11.6 billion (around EUR 1.55 billion). The 583 MW Greater Changhua 4 is part of the 92
The first blades for the Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbines, which will be installed at the Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farm, have arrived at the port of Saint-Nazaire in France. The roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) vessel Rotra Mare docked in Saint-Nazaire on 5 December, carrying the first turbine b
The OranjeWind joint venture between RWE and TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with Buss Terminal Eemshaven to use the Port of Eemshaven as the base for wind turbine assembly and construction work for the 795 MW offshore wind project in the Dutch North Sea. Buss Terminal Eemshaven will facilitat
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) programme has been approved for the Estonian part of the ELWIND Estonian-Latvian cross-border offshore wind project. The programme outlines the entire process of assessing environmental impacts, including the scope and methodology of studies to be conducted
The 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany will be commissioned in the first quarter of 2026 instead of the initially planned fourth quarter of 2025 due to a delay in the grid connection construction. The cause of the grid connection delay can be traced back to 2020/2021 and the cha
