JDR has been awarded a subcontract by Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH to supply submarine composite power cables and related accessories as well as termination and testing services for the Veja Mate offshore wind farm. The 67 Siemens 6 MW wind turbines will be inter-connected by an inner array grid o
Northland Power has installed the first monopile at the 600MW Gemini wind farm offshore Dutch coast. The job was completed by Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel, Aeolus, which is install a total of 150 foundations together with Pacific Osprey of Swire Blue Ocean. Located 85 kilometers off the c
A joint venture between Volker Stevin International and Boskalis, which was recently contracted for the design, procurement, fabrication, supply, transportation, installation and testing of 67 foundations for the Veja Mate offshore wind farm, has chosen Bladt Industries and EEW Special Pipe Construc
Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: A2SEA preparing for Gode Wind 1 and 2 work at Port of Esbjerg. Today, A2SEA’s SEA CHALLENGER started mobilization for the installation of Dong Energy’s offshore wind farms Gode Wind 1 and 2 in the German part of the North Sea. The mobilisation comprises sea fastenin
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V and VolkerWessels (Volker Stevin International) have been awarded a contract by Veja Mate Offshore Project GmbH for the Veja Mate offshore wind farm in the German section of the North Sea. Both companies have a 50% share in the contract worth approximately EUR 500 mill
A consortium including Highland Group Holdings Ltd., Siemens Financial Services and Copenhagen Infrastructure II, a fund managed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, announced today that it arranged the successful financing of the 400 MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm project, for a total project in
Susie S has mobilised to Cuxhaven to start a new role providing 24hr support for Alstom. The vessel will be supporting a team of Alstom engineers who are working on the Meerwind Ost/Sud Substation. The offshore wind farms Meerwind Süd and Meerwind Ost are a 288 MW project located in the German Bight
Vattenfall has started foreshore cabling work for Kentish Flats Extension yesterday which will be carried out through today. As a result of this work, the foreshore area immediately to the East of Hampton Pier will be restricted to the general public for up to 48 hours, said the company. Access to t
The Gemini offshore wind farm has agreed a contract to become the first commercial users of Windnova, a new project management software, designed specifically for the offshore wind sector. The web-based software, developed by Windnova S.L, monitors and controls activities associated with the develop
DONG Energy has awarded a contract to supply subsea power cables for the Race Bank offshore wind farm to UK-based company JDR. Additionally, both companies have collaborated on a comprehensive frame agreement for offshore wind farm cable and accessory supply. For this contract, JDR will design and m
On Saturday, DONG Energy completed the installation of both substation platforms at Gode Wind 1 and 2 sites. Trine Borum Bojsen, Managing Director of DONG Energy in Germany, who is responsible for the Offshore Wind segment said: “At all our previous wind farms, we have always only had one substation
On Friday 19 June, the 2nd load out of the 55 transition pieces (TP) for the Gode Wind 1 project was completed from Bladt Industries’ quayside in Aalborg. The load out was carried out by Bladt and after leaving Aalborg, the 500 tonnes heavy transition pieces were sailed to Eemshaven in the Netherlan
Royal HaskoningDHV has been contracted by Vattenfall Wind Power Ltd (VWPL) to continue into the next phase of the Kentish Flats Extension Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Kent in South East England. Construction has now commenced on the project, which extends the existing capacity from 90MW to 14
E.ON has selected the Port of Sassnitz in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as a logistics base for its Arkona Becken Südost, a wind farm it plans to build in the German Baltic Sea. The port would serve the wind farm during construction and then become its operations center. With Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s Energ
