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  • Inter-array cabling preps completed at Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm

    16 December 2021
    Project & Tenders

    Preparations for the installation of inter-array cables at the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm site, located some 15 kilometers off the Fife coast in Scotland, have been completed while several other offshore activities are ongoing, including the pile installation for the jacket foundations being performed by the Saipem 3000 crane vessel. Helix Robotics Solutions, […]

  • California allocates $45m to kick-start offshore wind in $2bn clean energy budget

    11 January 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Transition

    California’s Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a state budget proposal for the 2022-2023 fiscal year on 10 January, following the revision issued in May 2021 which dedicated $20 million for offshore wind activities. The budget proposed now raises this to $45 million. The $2 billion budget for the Clean Energy Investment Plan is meant to spur additional […]

  • Van Oord to install monopiles, inter-array cables at Sofia offshore wind farm

    10 December 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    RWE has selected Van Oord as the preferred supplier for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of monopile foundations and array cables for the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind project in the UK. Van Oord will deploy its offshore installation vessel Aeolus to install the 100 TP-less monopile foundations and the cable-laying vessel Nexus […]

  • Amazon and Ørsted Sign Largest Offshore Wind Corporate Power Purchase Agreement in Europe

    10 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Amazon has signed a ten-year corporate power purchase agreement with Ørsted to offtake the output of 250 MW from Ørsted’s planned 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany. This CPPA will contribute to Amazon’s target of being 100 per cent renewable by 2030 as part of the company’s goal to reach net-zero […]

  • LD Tide inks new CTV contract for Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm

    12 January 2021
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Louis Dreyfus Armateurs and Tidal Transit, through a joint venture named LD Tide, have signed a crew transfer vessel (CTV) contract with the developer of the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, Eolien Maritime France. The CTV is the third such vessel to be operated by LD Tide on the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, following an order […]

  • N-O-S to provide seven CTVs for Ørsted’s UK offshore wind farms

    7 January 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Northern Offshore Services (N-O-S) has signed a contract with Ørsted for seven crew transfer vessels (CTVs) which will support offshore wind farm operations from the developer’s UK West Coast Hub. Under the three-year agreement, the CTVs will operate on Walney, Walney Extension, West of Duddon Sands, Barrow, Burbo Bank and Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind […]

  • Siemens Gamesa’s flagship turbine to spin on all Hai Long offshore wind farms

    5 May 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Following the Preferred Supplier Agreement (PSA) for Hai Long 2A in 2019, Hai Long Offshore Wind Project has now signed a new PSA with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy that covers the Hai Long 2B and Hai Long 3 projects. The agreement from 2019 was signed for 300 MW at Hai Long 2A, and with Hai […]

  • Equinor, SSE order 13 MW turbines for world’s largest offshore wind farm

    22 September 2020
    Business Developments & Projects

    Dogger Bank Wind Farm, a 50:50 joint venture between SSE Renewables and Equinor, has signed a contract with GE Renewable Energy for 190 wind turbines for the Dogger Bank A & B offshore wind project. Dogger Bank A & B will be the world’s first offshore wind farm to use GE’s Haliade-X 13 MW turbines, […]

  • Siemens Gamesa, Vinci VR developing virtual reality training for US offshore wind

    9 October 2020
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa and Boston-based startup Vinci VR have secured funding from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to develop Virtual Reality (VR) training simulations for the offshore wind sector in Massachusetts and the U.S. East Coast. The USD 124,670 grant will be used to create the first Global Wind Organizations (GWO) certified VR training tools, starting with the Basic […]

  • Transition piece manufacturer(s) wanted for large-scale offshore wind farm in Germany

    20 August 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    A Germany-headquartered offshore wind developer has launched a tender seeking transition piece supplier(s) for its large-scale wind farm offshore Germany.

  • US: Offshore wind could bring $ 166 billion in investments, 80,000 jobs by 2035

    5 August 2020
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. economy could see offshore wind investments reaching $ 17 billion by 2025, $ 108 billion by 2030 and $ 166 billion by 2035, supporting 80,000 jobs annually by 2035. This is according to a new study from Wood Mackenzie, which also found that 28 GW of offshore wind areas could be leased and […]

  • GBP 2 million funding pool available for UK offshore (wind) supply chain

    22 July 2020
    Business & Finance

    The Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) has launched a package of funding and business support activities worth GBP 2.1 million, aimed at boosting the UK offshore wind supply chain. The package includes two new funding calls and support activities for business transformation. For the funding calls, OWGP earmarked a total of GBP 600,000, while business […]

  • Export cables installed at CTGNE Yangjiang Shapa Phase 1 offshore wind project

    17 July 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Ningbo Orient Cable (NBO) has completed the installation of the export cable at the China Three Gorges New Energy (CTGNE) Yangjiang Shapa Phase 1 offshore wind project. According to NBO, the installation of two 220kV export cables was finished after 14 months and now the offshore engineering team is installing the 35kV inter-array cables. Seven circuits […]

  • Offshore wind project costs decrease with bespoke vessels and lower oil & gas activity

    10 September 2020
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    The rising number of purpose-built offshore wind vessels has a direct impact on the costs of offshore wind projects, as the sector is getting more room to use its own fleet instead of deploying vessels from the oil & gas industry, which can be costly if high oil price is driving increased oil & gas […]

  • Thai company takes 50% stake in Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind project

    7 July 2020
    Business & Finance

    The Thailand-based Gulf Energy Development Public Company has acquired a 50% interest in the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in Germany. The company acquired 100% shares of Borkum Riffgrund 2 Investor Holding (BKR2) through its subsidiary Gulf International Holding (GIH) which entered into a share purchasing agreement with Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). The contract […]

  • Germany: Fugro Completes Geotechnical Survey for Offshore Wind Farm ‘Arkona-Becken Südost’

    2 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    E. ON contracted Fugro Consult GmbH to run a geotechnical exploration for offshore wind farm “Arkona-Becken Südost”, which E.ON is planning in the Baltic Sea. Work which took place in the summer and early fall of this year , has now been completed in water depths of approximately 22 to 37 m. Fugro used the […]

  • LDD Inks Drilling Contract for Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

    21 July 2011
    Operations & Maintenance

    LDD, an Acteon company, has won a multimillion-pound contract with RWE npower renewables to provide specialist drilling services to help install 160 wind turbine foundations at the Gwynt y Môr wind farm 18 km off the North Wales coast. LDD will commission what is believed to be the world’s largest and most-powerful reverse-circulation drill, and […]

  • Denmark: DONG Energy Continues Relocation of Seabed Stones at Anholt Offshore Wind Farm

    2 November 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      The relocation of the approx 5,000 stones at the surface of the seabed, which may cause problems to the wind turbine and cable installation, is well underway. However, a number of planned wind turbine positions are presently being screened with advanced sonar equipment to unveil any critical stones in the seabed. At a number […]

  • Germany: Holyhead, Opus Announce Start-up of Joint Venture in Offshore Wind Market

    7 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Holyhead Towing Company Ltd. from Holyhead/Wales and OPUS MARINE GmbH (Opus) from Hamburg/Germany have announced the start-up of a joint venture company to further address the German offshore wind market. The new company will have its headquarters in Hamburg and trade under the already established name “WindFarmBase”. With this step, Opus and WindFarmBase will significantly […]

  • Remedial work on cable protection system to start on RWE’s UK offshore wind farm

    6 October 2021
    Operations & Maintenance

    Remedial work on the cable protection system (CPS) on inter-array cables at an offshore wind farm in the UK, owned by RWE, is set to start in the next couple of days, following the discovery of a defect CPS at several locations within the wind farm site earlier this year. The work, scheduled to commence […]

  • Van Oord orders mega jack-up for 20 MW offshore wind turbines

    1 October 2021
    Vessels

    Van Oord has ordered a new self-elevating offshore installation vessel that will be able to operate on methanol and install wind turbines with a capacity of up to 20 MW. The vessel is being built by the Yantai CIMC Raffles Shipyard in China. The design is by Knud E Hansen. The jack-up is expected to […]

  • IEA calls for 70+ GW of offshore wind to be added each year until 2050

    18 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Almost 90 per cent of global electricity generation in 2050 could come from renewable energy sources, with solar PV and wind together accounting for nearly 70 per cent, according to International Energy Agency’s new Net Zero 2050 roadmap. The roadmap, published on 18 May, calls for scaling up solar and wind energy rapidly this decade […]

  • UK: 60 per cent more offshore wind projects under construction in 2020

    22 April 2021
    Authorities & Government, Transition

    Project capacity under construction in the UK increased by over 60 per cent from 4.4 GW in 2019 to 7.2 GW in 2020, the latter being almost 70 per cent of the existing operational fleet, according to the Crown Estate’s 2020 Offshore Wind Operational Report. The offshore wind capacity under construction signals an extremely busy […]

  • ABB to Supply Submarine AC Power Cable for Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm in UK

    11 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around $55 million to supply a submarine AC (alternating current) power cable system for a new wind farm, located off the coast of Norfolk. The underwater cables will feed the electricity generated by the 400-megawatt (MW) Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm into the […]

  • Germany: SOC to Supply Inner Array Cables for Amrumbank West Offshore Wind Farm

    29 March 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Siem Offshore Inc., announced that SOC has been awarded the contract for the installation of the inner array grid cables as well as associated services for the Amrumbank West Offshore Wind Farm project by Amrumbank West GmbH, a subsidiary of E.ON Climate & Renewables Central Europe […]