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  • Vissim to deliver marine management kit for Japanese offshore wind project

    17 June 2020
    Technology

    Vissim AS has secured a contract to provide the marine communication and management system for the Akita Noshiro offshore wind project in Japan. Vissim will deliver the licensing, radar, AIS, radio communication systems, as well as integrated marine management software. “Vissim has experience of delivering systems across the world, and we are excited to build […]

  • Wpd awards bird survey contract for Yunlin offshore wind project

    9 June 2020
    Environment, Project & Tenders

    Wpd Taiwan and WeatherRisk Explore Inc. have signed a turnkey bird survey contract for the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan. This March, wpd appointed WeatherRisk Explore to be responsible for the long-term and continuous bird surveys to understand the relationship between the wind farm’s operations and the surrounding bird ecology. According to the companies, […]

  • EIB enters French offshore wind market with €450 million loan

    9 June 2020
    Business & Finance

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted a €450 million credit line for co-financing the construction of the Fécamp offshore wind project in France. According to EIB, this is the first such operation it is financing in France, reinforcing the objectives set by its shareholders to make it the EU climate bank. The financing will be […]

  • Estonia and Latvia to jointly develop 1 GW offshore wind farm

    31 July 2020

    The governments of Estonia and Latvia have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop an offshore wind farm in the Gulf of Riga, the Baltic Sea. The capacity of the proposed offshore wind farm is up to 1,000 MW and the project is expected to be commissioned by 2030. The wind farm would produce […]

  • Huisman to deliver cranes for Taiwan’s first offshore wind installation vessel

    2 July 2020
    Vessels

    Huisman has secured a contract by CSBC Corporation to deliver a 4,000mt Offshore Mast Crane (OMC) for Green Jade, the first Taiwan-built floating heavy-lift offshore wind installation vessel. The crane will be built at Huisman’s production facility in China and is scheduled for delivery in 2022 when the CSBC-DEME Wind Energy (CDWE) joint venture will […]

  • Orion’s replacement for Moray East offshore wind farm arrives in Nigg

    25 June 2020
    Vessels

    The Seajacks Scylla jack-up vessel will start installing jacket foundations at the Moray East offshore wind farm in July, according to a document listing vessels involved in the construction on Moray East project’s website, updated on 18 June. The vessel’s AIS data shows that Seajacks Scylla arrived at the Port of Nigg early in the […]

  • Taiwan plans to auction off 5 GW of offshore wind by 2023

    26 June 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs plans to hold three offshore wind auctions for a combined capacity of 5 GW by 2023. The ministry expects to hold what would be Taiwan’s third auction round in the second quarter of 2021, offering 1 GW capacity in the process. The country’s fourth and fifth auction rounds will be […]

  • MGL to back Seaway 7’s offshore wind cable ops

    22 October 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    MGL Cable Services has secured a three-year framework agreement to support Seaway 7 with its cable scopes for offshore wind projects. The framework allows Seaway 7 to place call-off orders for the provision of personnel and/or equipment for high voltage and fiber optic termination and testing services, together with other potential activities available through specific […]

  • UXO surveys underway at Dutch 759 MW offshore wind project

    13 October 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Fugro is carrying out an unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey campaign at the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project in the Netherlands.

  • RVO Masterclass: Dutch know-how for bright offshore wind future

    15 December 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    The Government of the Netherlands has held a high-level masterclass session dedicated to offshore wind sector, where it showcased how many different elements – from policy, across tendering process, and all the way to project delivery – tie into a successful energy transition story when they are designed in accordance with the industry requirements.

  • Rotech completes cable work at first French offshore wind farm

    29 November 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Rotech Subsea has completed export cable de-burial and re-burial work at the Saint-Nazaire project, which is to become the first commercial offshore wind farm in France.

  • Van Oord joins Seaway 7 on Seagreen offshore wind project

    26 November 2021
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Seaway 7, the main Seagreen contractor, has contracted Van Oord to install scour protection around the 114 wind turbine foundations at the Seagreen wind farm offshore Scotland. The wind turbines for this 1.1 GW offshore wind farm located 27 kilometres off the coast of Angus will be installed on three-legged jacket foundations. After the installation […]

  • Ridgeway to provide cable protection for France’s first offshore wind farm

    9 June 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Belfast-headquartered Ridgeway has secured a contract to supply Rockbags, also known as Kyowa Filter Units, for cable protection for the 480 MW Saint Nazaire wind farm offshore France. Saint Nazaire – an offshore wind farm being developed in the Loire-Atlantique region of France and owned by EDF Renewables and EIH S.à r.l. (a joint venture […]

  • First turbines assembled for Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm

    23 May 2022
    Ports & Logistics

    The first wind turbines have been assembled for the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm offshore Norway, Siemens Gamesa said. The 94.6 MW Hywind Tampen will feature a total of 11 Siemens Gamesa 8.6 MW wind turbines installed on concrete SPAR-type floating foundations some 140 kilometres off the Norwegian coast, in water depths of between 260 […]

  • Aker presents massive offshore wind-to-hydrogen project in Scotland at COP26

    4 November 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Transition

    Aker Offshore Wind and Aker Clean Hydrogen, together with DNV, have used the COP26 conference to unveil a project utilising 10 GW of floating offshore wind capacity to power multiple floating installations which will produce green hydrogen for onwards transmission to a net-zero hydrogen refinery on Shetland. The refinery will produce a range of zero […]

  • NjordIC to provide UXO services for He Dreiht offshore wind farm

    3 November 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The Dutch UXO consultancy NjordIC has been contracted by EnBW to provide UXO services for the He Dreiht offshore wind project in Germany. Under the contract, which will start in the first quarter of 2022 and run until the third quarter of the year, NjordIC will provide a UXO desk study consisting of historical research […]

  • Construction of Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm about to kick off

    21 April 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Construction works on the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France will begin on 3 May, Iberdrola announced on 21 April. The works, starting with pile installation for the project’s jacket foundations, are planned to take place from May to October in five zones located in the northern part of the wind farm to avoid interfering […]

  • First subsidy-free offshore wind farm starts taking shape

    14 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Project & Tenders

    A truly pioneering offshore wind project, the first to be built without government subsidies, has reached a major milestone with the start of offshore construction work. The offshore work started earlier this month with the installation of the scour protection at the first of the 140 monopile foundation locations at the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust […]

  • Export cable in place at Changle Area C offshore wind site

    19 May 2021
    Project & Tenders

    SB Submarine Systems’ (SBSS) cable installation barge Fu Yong 6 has completed the installation of the export cable at the Changle Area C offshore wind site in China. Fu Yong 6 carried out the installation of 38.9 kilometers of cable with burial of three meters at the site located off the coast of the Fujian […]

  • Fugro targets more offshore wind after red numbers in 2020

    19 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Market Outlooks

    Dutch subsea and survey specialist Fugro has seen its loss almost doubled in 2020 with revenues down some 12 per cent due to the impact of Covid-19 and the downturn in oil and gas. The company recognised net loss of €74 million in 2020, against net loss of €39.6 million in 2019. Revenue declined in […]

  • Anbaric preparing bid for New Jersey’s offshore wind transmission system

    18 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The U.S. electric transmission project developer Anbaric Development Partners will participate in an upcoming competitive solicitation process for an offshore wind transmission solution in New Jersey. The company has teamed up with DNV GL to prepare a bid for the solicitation announced in November 2020 by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities’ (BPU) and […]

  • DNV GL to operate German FINO2 offshore wind research platform

    3 February 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    DNV GL has won a contract for the operation of the FINO2 research platform in the German sector of the Baltic Sea, which will acquire data for the development of offshore wind energy projects. The contract award comes after Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) re-issued the call for tenders in July 2020 […]

  • Endiprev completes installation test for first French offshore wind farm

    15 March 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development

    Endiprev has carried out the installation test for the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire project, set to be the first commercial-scale wind farm installed in French waters. Endiprev France concluded the installation test in the Antwerp Port, during which the team investigated if the T1 and the transition piece fit perfectly. Over three weeks, the company said […]

  • Ørsted sells half of Greater Changhua 1 offshore wind farm

    29 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    A consortium comprising Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and Taiwanese private equity fund Cathay PE are acquiring a 50 per cent ownership share in Ørsted’s 605 MW Greater Changhua 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan for approximately TWD 75 billion (around EUR 2.2 billion). Under the agreements Ørsted signed with the consortium […]

  • US Congress passes five-year offshore wind tax credit

    23 December 2020
    Authorities & Government

    The U.S. Congress has passed a year-end spending package which includes a provision that would extend the Tax Credit (ITC) for offshore wind facilities at 30% through 2025. The provision is part of the Offshore Wind Incentives for New Development (WIND) Act, introduced by Senator of Massachusetts Edward J. Markey, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Jim Langevin last […]