At the East of England Energy Group (EEEGR) Westminster reception, East Anglia ONE Project Director Charlie Jordan has announced that the £2bn project was too big for just one port. The work would be spread between more than one of the main east coast ports, he told EEEGR’s 200 guests, including mem
Assembly works of the 7MW oil pressure drive-type wind turbine on the three-column semi-sub floater at Onahama port has been completed and delivery of the floater to testing area is going to start shortly as part of the second phase of the Fukushima Experimental Offshore Floating Wind Farm Project.
Vattenfall today completed the installation of the first of 15 MHI Vestas V112 3.3MW wind turbines at its extension to Kentish Flats offshore wind farm, 7km off Whitstable and Herne Bay off the Kent Coast. Matthew Green, Vattenfall’s Project Director for the construction of the 49.5MW scheme said: “
Deepwater Wind, the developer of the first offshore wind farm in the United States, has published another video of the progress that has been made to install the first wind turbines at the Block Island wind farm site. The video shows work on the steel foundations that will be installed at the site.
EDF Energy Renewables will be carrying out site investigations within the area of its planned Blyth Offshore Demonstration Project during June. There are two key areas of work planned, geophysical, by EGS (International), Ltd, which looks at the seabed and geotechnical, by GEO (Denmark), which will
JDR has been awarded a contract by E.ON, alongside partners the UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB), to supply its subsea cabling technology and services for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm. The contract, which commenced in May 2015 and is expected to last for 17 months, will see JDR design and manufa
Dutch pension fund manager PGGM is taking part in the new German offshore wind farm Baltic 2. PGGM will invest in the project alongside Macquarie Capital, who agreed to acquire a 49.89 percent stake in the project earlier this year. This investment is in line with the ambition of PGGM’s clients to
Construction at Kentish Flats Extension offshore wind farm is well underway. The first batch of towers, blades and nacelles was loaded onto Neptune at MHI Vestas factory this weekend and began their journey on Monday, said Vattenfall. The vessel is due to arrive on site today with the commencement o
Dong Energy has announced on its social media pages that the inauguration of its Westermost Rough offshore wind farm will be held on July 1st. The last of the 35 turbines was lifted into position in March and the full power output has been achieved at the end of May. Westermost Rough, located off th
Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) has hired the Esvagt Connector and Esvagt Don to tow a floating barge that carries both an accommodation module and jacket from the port of Vlissingen in the Netherlands to the Gode Wind 1 and 2 offshore wind farm site in the German sector of the North Sea. Work star
RWE will officially open its Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm on Thursday, June 18, the company has announced on its social media pages. The 576MW project is the second largest operating offshore wind farm in the world, comprising 160 Siemens 3.6MW turbines which can power 400,000 homes. The O&M work
HiDef Aerial Surveying Limited (HiDef) has secured a contract with SSE to provide services to the Beatrice offshore wind farm. Speaking on the award, HiDef’s Commercial Director, Kit Hawkins said: “Beatrice is a hugely important project for the UK’s offshore wind industry, being one of the first to
Con4Mare will provide marine warranty survey services for RWE’s Nordsee One offshore wind farm. Nordsee One consists of 54 turbines with a capacity of 6.15 MW each. It will be built 40 kilometres north of the island Juist off Germany’s coast. In-water construction at the project site is anticipated
After one of our readers reported that the final turbine at the Butendiek offshore wind farm was installed last night, wpd confirmed the information to Offshore WIND this morning. The Butendiek offshore wind farm features 80 Siemens SWT-3.6-120 wind turbines, which will generate a total capacity of
