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  • Humber LEP Chair Asks UK Government to Back Local Offshore Wind Industry

    12 August 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Lord Haskins, Chair of the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership, has urged the UK government to show its commitment to development of offshore wind industry in the Humber estuary in response to DONG Energy’s decision not to build a GBP 450 million offshore wind hub at the Able Marine Energy Park (AMEP). Lord Haskins asked the government ”to significantly increase its commitment to offshore […]

  • Monitor JIP Consortium Creating Structural Health Monitoring System for Offshore Wind Farms

    16 June 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Monitor JIP, a consortium consisting of Gemini Windfarm, Van Oord, Keppel Verolme, Mecal, ECN and TNO, is working on developing a solution which would allow monitoring the health of offshore wind support structures.  Many offshore wind stakeholders acknowledge the relevance of monitoring offshore wind support structures, the consortium said. However, a dedicated standard for the design and installation of a […]

  • Chinese to Invest EUR 140 Million in 300MW Puti Island Offshore Wind Farm

    28 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    Three Chinese companies have signed an agreement to invest in a 300MW wind farm off the coast of Chinese province Hebei.  China Suntien Green Energy Corporation Limited, HECIC and JEI will invest in Laoting Wind Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Suntien Green Energy which is developing the Puti Island Offshore Wind Power Farm project. The offshore wind farm […]

  • Eneco Seeks EUR 450 Million EIB Loan for Norther Offshore Wind Project

    25 May 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Eneco Holding N.V. has applied for a EUR 450 million loan at the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the construction of the 370MW Norther offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea. The application is currently under appraisal EIB said, without specifying when the final decision will be made. The Norther wind farm is being developed […]

  • Pre-construction work underway at East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site

    26 December 2024
    Business Developments & Projects

    A pre-installation survey at the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site is scheduled to begin in early January 2025, following subsea boulder clearance and scour protection work that was carried out in November 2024 and marked the start of offshore construction work. The survey, which will be performed by Seaway7 and Beam using the […]

  • Nexans lands export cable contract for East Anglia Two offshore wind farm

    4 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    ScottishPower Renewables, part of the Iberdrola Group, has awarded an export cable contract for East Anglia Two (EA2), a 960 MW offshore wind farm in the UK, to Nexans. Under the contract, Nexans will supply and install approximately 100 kilometers of 275 kV high-voltage subsea export cables and 55 kilometers of onshore cables, which the […]

  • DEME starts installing export cable for 2.6 GW US offshore wind project

    12 September 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    DEME Group has laid the first export cable for Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, while also reaching a milestone by installing the 70th monopile foundation at the site off Virginia Beach in the U.S. As previously reported, Dominion Energy selected the consortium of DEME Group and Prysmian as the Balance of Plant […]

  • VARD starts building hybrid cable lay & construction vessel for Japanese offshore wind

    3 July 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels, Vision

    Norwegian VARD has held the steel cutting ceremony for the highly customized hybrid power cable lay and construction vessel it is building for the Japanese offshore wind market. The steel-cutting ceremony for NB 980 was held on July 1 in Vard Shipyards Romania – Braila, marking a milestone in the construction of the cable laying […]

  • South Koreans aim for global supply with opening of new offshore wind cable plant

    4 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Vision

    South Korean Taihan Cable & Solution has opened the first phase of its submarine cable plant that will supply the offshore wind industry. The submarine cable plant, covering around 44,800 m2 behind Godae Pier at Pyeongtaek’s Dangjin Port, is being constructed in two phases. The first phase, which focuses on producing inter-array cables, was finalized […]

  • North Seas Energy Cooperation calls for EU-level enabling framework for offshore wind

    8 July 2020
    Authorities & Government, Regulation & Policy

    The member countries of the North Seas Energy Cooperation (NSEC) and the European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson have called for an enabling framework for offshore wind energy at an EU level. Ministers from the NSEC countries and the European Commission signed a joint statement at a meeting on 6 July, agreeing that the current […]

  • CSBC-DEME reaches FID for first Taiwan-built offshore wind installation vessel

    25 June 2020
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) has reached the final investment decision (FID) for the construction of Green Jade, the first Taiwan-built floating heavy-lift offshore wind installation vessel. CDWE, a joint venture of DEME Offshore and Taiwanese shipbuilder CSBC, informed in April that it had initiated the contract for early works and ordering of critical packages. The […]

  • Six years without fatalities in offshore wind, lost workday injuries rise in 2019

    16 July 2020
    Safety

    G+, an organisation dedicated to health and safety performance in offshore wind, has released the 2019 statistics for the sector which show there were no accidents with fatal outcome last year, as well as the five years before that. However, lost workday injuries have risen in 2019, compared to the previous years and, especially, compared […]

  • Following retrofit, 2000-built vessel arrives in US to perform offshore wind work

    8 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Following a retrofit campaign, TDI-Brooks’ new research vessel has arrived on the U.S. East Coast where it will perform offshore wind work. The RV Nautilus, formerly known as Nautical Geo, reached the shores of the East Coast on March 3 after undergoing a six-month retrofit in Las Palmas. The 75-meter-long, 2000-built DP2 vessel will provide support […]

  • VIDEO: nkt Cables Delivers Biggest Submarine Cable for Anholt Offshore Wind Project

    21 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    nkt cables has delivered the biggest submarine cable in the world to the Anholt offshore Wind Farm in Denmark. In June 2012, the cable-laying vessels started laying the array cables on the seabed between the substation and the 111 foundations. By 12 September – three weeks ahead of schedule – all cables were in place. […]

  • Explosion leaves two injured on board vessel working on Fécamp offshore wind farm

    22 November 2022
    Vessels

    During the night on 17 November, an explosion occurred on board the DP3 trenching support vessel (TSV) Athena, injuring two crew members. The vessel, which was in port in Le Havre at the time of the accident, is supporting the construction of the Fécamp offshore wind farm, according to French media. Ouest-France reports that the […]

  • Danes open €5.5 million tender for environmental studies of new offshore wind areas

    15 November 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet has opened a tender for consultancy services for a number of marine environmental studies for the new areas in the North and Baltic Seas, planned to house up to 7.2 GW of new offshore wind capacity in Denmark.

  • RVO opens €45.5 million tender for geotechnical surveys at Nederwiek offshore wind zone

    30 March 2023
    Project & Tenders

    The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has issued a tender for offshore geotechnical investigations at the Nederwiek Wind Farm Zone. The contracts to be awarded under the tender, which is divided into two lots, are valued at €45.5 million in total. Through the first lot, RVO will award a contract worth €11 million for a seabed cone penetration […]

  • RWE conducting seabed habitat survey for 3 GW offshore wind farm in UK

    15 March 2023
    Business Developments & Projects

    RWE is performing a benthic survey off the northeast coast of the UK, where the company plans to build its 3 GW Dogger Bank South (DBS) Offshore Wind Farm. According to a Notice to Mariners from the project, the developer has contracted Ocean Ecology to carry out the seabed habitat survey at the offshore wind […]

  • US firm orders subsea-tracked trenching vehicle to back offshore wind work

    13 October 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    U.S. cable installation contractor Caldwell Marine International (CMI) has placed an order with Royal IHC Offshore Energy for a subsea-tracked trenching vehicle, expected to support its future work in the U.S. offshore wind sector. The scope of the contract award includes the new Amphibious Hi-Traq Jetter vehicle with an eductor system, combined power and control […]

  • Survey activities ramping up on Equinor and BP’s New York offshore wind site

    19 June 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development

    Two survey activities are planned to start this month at the Empire Wind offshore wind farm site located about 20 miles south of Long Island. The first is a short-term underwater sediment survey campaign, planned to begin in late June. The sediment survey experts will sample the seabed along the proposed Empire Wind 1 and […]

  • Prysmian to deliver inter-array cables for Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm

    3 July 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Prysmian Group has been awarded a contract by Ørsted Wind Power A/S to supply inter-array submarine cables for the 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. Under the contract, subject to Ørsted taking a Final Investment Decision on Hornsea 3, Prysmian Group will be responsible for the design, manufacture, supply, termination, and […]

  • Danes talk 62 MW offshore wind turbines for North Sea Energy Island

    23 August 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Infrastructure, Technology

    While we are keeping a close eye on the progress of the 15 MW and 16 MW wind turbines that are now in the prototype stage, the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) is considering the possibility that four times more powerful models could be available during the construction of offshore wind farms around the country’s energy island in the North Sea.

  • Offshore wind-to-hydrogen brings high profile investors to Dutch TCP pipeline supplier

    12 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Storage

    HydrogenOne Capital Growth has signed definitive agreements for an investment of EUR 10 million in Strohm, the Dutch manufacturer of hydrogen pipelines who already saw Shell Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, and Evonik Venture Capital joining in as investors. HydrogenOne, the first LSE-listed investment fund dedicated to clean hydrogen, invested the EUR 10 million in the […]

  • Nexans signs export cable contract for BP and Equinor’s US offshore wind project

    6 October 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Nexans has landed a significant contract for phase one of the Empire Wind offshore wind project developed by a 50/50 partnership between BP and Equinor. This contract follows the preferred supplier agreement signed in March 2021 and covers the design and manufacturing, as well as the laying and protection of export cables for the project. […]

  • iXblue, NOAA test SeapiX 3D volume sonar at U.S. offshore wind pioneer

    24 March 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Regulation & Policy, Technology

    iXblue’s solid-state 3D multibeam sonar SeapiX 3D has been tested in the Block Island offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island to observe and monitor the pelagic ecosystem.