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  • Croatian oil & gas company eyeing offshore wind in the Adriatic Sea

    27 January 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Croatian oil and gas company INA-INDUSTRIJA NAFTE, d.d. (INA) plans to diversify into renewable energy and is specifically considering offshore wind and solar energy developments in the country. At an energy conference held on 26 January, INA’s Director of Strategic Operations and Public Affairs, Hrvoje Glavaš, said that INA would first start with solar energy […]

  • RWE secures grid connection agreement for Polish offshore wind farm

    7 January 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    German energy company RWE has signed the Grid Connection Agreement with Poland’s transmission system operator PSE for the 350 MW FEW Baltic II offshore wind farm. The project is being developed in the Polish part of the Baltic sea and is planned to be one of the first to start construction off Poland, RWE Renewables […]

  • Belgian offshore wind farms generate 6.7 TWh of electricity in 2020

    4 January 2021
    Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance

    Belgian offshore wind farms generated 6.7 TWh of electricity in 2020, which represented 8.4 per cent of total electricity consumption in Belgium, or the electricity consumption of around 1.9 million families. Eight offshore wind farms are currently operational in the Belgian North Sea, with a total installed capacity of almost 2.3 GW. This includes Northwester […]

  • Mott MacDonald joins largest European offshore wind to hydrogen project

    21 January 2021
    Project & Tenders

    Mott MacDonald has secured a technical integration and optimization contract for NortH2, the largest green hydrogen project in Europe. As lead technical integration consultant, Mott MacDonald will collate, evaluate and develop the potential technical solutions required to realize the project. The company will also provide cost, scheduling and risk management services associated with the technical […]

  • Royal HaskoningDHV to work on Europe’s largest offshore wind-to-hydrogen project

    15 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Transition

    Royal HaskoningDHV has been awarded a contract for environmental consultancy services for NortH2, a large offshore wind-to-hydrogen project being developed by a consortium comprising Shell, Gasunie, Equinor, and RWE, and supported by Groningen Seaports and Province of Groningen. “We are thrilled to be part of the ground-breaking NortH2 development. Green hydrogen has an important role […]

  • Le Havre port embarks on € 12 million offshore wind upgrade

    11 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Ports & Logistics

    HAROPA – Port of Le Havre has awarded a EUR 12 million contract to the NGE group for the construction works related to Siemens Gamesa’s offshore wind turbine plant in the Port of Le Havre, France. NGE’s subsidiaries NGE Genie Civil, Guintoli, NGE Fondations, and Maia Sonnier will build a roll-on, roll-off (RORO) platform and reinforce […]

  • ALL NRG inks service agreement for Vattenfall’s offshore wind trio

    5 February 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Vattenfall has awarded ALL NRG with a yearly maintenance framework agreement for three of its offshore wind farms in the UK. ALL NRG will work at the Ramsgate Cluster which comprises the Thanet, Kentish Flats and Kentish Flats Extension offshore wind projects, with a total of 145 Vestas V90 and V112 turbines. The scope of […]

  • Offshore wind FIDs to increase 57 per cent by 2022 – Westwood

    27 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    Offshore wind energy projects final investment decisions (FIDs) will grow 57 per cent in the next 18 months, compared to the 2019-20 period, according to a new analysis from Westwood Global Energy Group. The global analysis, excluding mainland China, states that the FIDs growth represents an additional 20.4 GW of new capacity with just under […]

  • Poland approves PGE and PKN Orlen’s offshore wind joint ventures

    12 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    The Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) has approved the construction of offshore wind farms through joint ventures between foreign companies and Poland’s Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) and PKN Orlen. The authority issued two decisions on 12 March, one for each of the two Polish companies, approving this type of investment that includes […]

  • Ørsted picks temporary staff supplier for German offshore wind farms

    17 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Human Capital, Project & Tenders

    Ørsted has awarded ERSG with a contract to supply temporary staff for its offshore wind farms in Germany, following a tender issued in September 2020. The scope of work includes staff for offshore operations and logistics, commissioning, project management roles, QHSE, and engineering, separately for turbines and foundations. It also includes temporary staff for O&M […]

  • Germany puts three new offshore wind sites out to tender

    26 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) opened tenders for three new offshore wind sites on 26 February. Two of the sites are located in the North Sea and one is situated in the German part of the Baltic Sea. The tenders are open until 1 September, with the maximum value of bids limited to 7.3 eurocents […]

  • Apollo and Vekta Group join forces for offshore wind, oil & gas

    1 March 2021
    Business & Finance

    Apollo and Vekta Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to together provide services across the offshore wind and oil & gas sectors. The combined service offering brings commercial, project management, yield modelling, power, electrical, mechanical, structural and marine experience. The two focus areas are technical advisory services for offshore wind developers, as well […]

  • Safeway gangway to back Van Oord at Taiwanese offshore wind project

    19 February 2021
    Vessels

    Safeway has secured a contract with Van Oord to supply its motion-compensated gangway for subsea construction vessel Topaz Tangaroa during offshore wind work in Taiwan. The Safeway Seagull gangway system will be installed on the vessel in Rotterdam and will be deployed to transfer personnel and cargo during Van Oord’s work on the Greater Changhua […]

  • Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind inks MoU with New Jersey unions

    18 February 2021
    Business & Finance

    Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with six unions operating in New Jersey to help develop and employ the local offshore wind workforce. The agreement outlines how the parties will work together to create training and apprenticeship programs for New Jersey workers to support not just the Atlantic Shores offshore […]

  • PKN Orlen and Northland Power finalize Polish offshore wind deal

    25 March 2021
    Business & Finance

    Northland Power and PKN Orlen have finalized their strategic partnership under which Northland Power is acquiring a 49% stake in the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind project in Poland. After fulfillment of the conditions precedent, including merger clearance, stipulated in the joint venture agreement signed in January, NP Baltic Wind B.V., a subsidiary of […]

  • First nacelle for France’s first offshore wind farm rolls out

    15 September 2020
    Business Developments & Projects

    GE Renewable Energy has produced the first turbine nacelle for the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire – France’s first offshore wind farm. This nacelle, which contains the generator, is the first in a series of 80 Haliade 150-6 MW wind turbines produced for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm to be assembled by GE Renewable Energy at the […]

  • Cloudberry gets all clear to buy Swedish offshore wind farm

    11 September 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Norwegian renewable energy company Cloudberry Clean Energy AS has received a 100 per cent acceptance for its offer to the shareholders in Scanvind2 AS. Scanvind2 AS is the holding company of the Rewind Vänern offshore wind project. The settlement of the shares in Scanvind2 AS will be a combination of reversal of the ScanVind2’s sales […]

  • Huisman’s new muscle performs first offshore wind lift (Video)

    4 September 2020
    Heavy lifting, Ports & Logistics

    Huisman’s 2,600mt Skyhook crane has performed its first lift of offshore wind monopiles at a facility in China. Skyhook was dedicatedly designed for load-outs of heavy equipment, like the 10,000mt tub mounted cranes for Heerema’s Sleipnir and the 3,000mt offshore mast crane for Boskalis, Huisman said. The crane is located at its own facility near […]

  • Siemens Gamesa produces 500th offshore wind turbine nacelle in Cuxhaven

    4 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Siemens Gamesa has produced the 500th nacelle for an offshore wind turbine at its manufacturing plant in Cuxhaven, Germany. The milestone was reached with a nacelle for the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm in the UK. The offshore nacelle manufacturing plant in Cuxhaven was opened in 2017 and regular operation started with the first months […]

  • Trelleborg cable protection for 1.5 GW Dutch offshore wind farm

    28 October 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Trelleborg has secured a contract by Seaway 7 to provide its NjordGuard cable protection for Vattenfall’s Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind project in the Netherlands. The company will provide 281 NjordGuard cable protection systems for the inter-array power cables for 140 turbines, as well as the array cables at the points where the turbines meet […]

  • Scotland to launch offshore wind tender dedicated to oil & gas decarbonisation

    1 September 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Crown Estate Scotland, which is currently reviewing the ScotWind Leasing Round applications, will open a new leasing process early next year, dedicated specifically to offshore wind projects which support the decarbonisation of the oil and gas sector, and to small-scale innovation projects of less than 100 MW. Scotland’s seabed manager announced the new leasing round […]

  • Offshore wind O&M calls in Germany flood tender platforms

    24 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Several tenders for services in the offshore wind sector have been published over the last few days in Germany, including those from two offshore wind farm operators looking for maintenance work on four of their projects. The contract notices from the two German operators – seeking annual wind turbine maintenance and maintenance work on offshore […]

  • Taiwanese project cleared to use 14 MW offshore wind turbines

    12 August 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Agency has accepted an amendment to an Environmental Impact Assessment of a gigawatt-scale offshore wind project which will allow the deployment of 14 MW wind turbines.

  • Canada’s Ocean Supercluster reveals GeoScan project to support offshore wind

    12 August 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has introduced a $3.4 million GeoScan project to support the offshore wind sector.

  • Ørsted and Deutsche WindGuard join hands for offshore wind technician training

    10 June 2020
    Business & Finance

    Deutsche WindGuard and Ørsted have kicked off their cooperation to together provide GWO training for offshore wind technicians. The training starts this week at the safety training center in Norddeich, north Germany. For Deutsche WindGuard this is the second training center in addition to the one in Elsfleth, Wesermarsch.  According to the company, the site is ideal […]