The offshore wind farms that won the Contracts for Difference (CfDs) in the latest UK CfD round will most likely be the first to operate with “negative subsidies”, even before the zero-subsidy projects awarded in auctions in the Netherlands and Germany. According to an analysis by an international t
The boulder picking operations have begun at the export cable route of the Moray East offshore wind project in Scotland. The boulder picking work started on 24 July using Olympic Triton, while the export cable laying and trenching operations are set to begin circa 28 July. NKT Victoria will be layin
Fugro has began the geophysical survey phase of a multidisciplinary site investigation contract worth around GBP 55 million for ScottishPower Renewables’ (SPR’s) East Anglia Hub project. The phased site investigations are scheduled to finish at the end of 2021 and support the development of wind far
Following the release of G+ Offshore Wind Health and Safety Association’s 2019 statistics, Dropsafe has called for a more systematic approach to tackling dropped object incidents (drops) throughout the supply chain. According to the G+ report, there was a 44 per cent increase compared to 2018, howev
The 714 MW East Anglia One offshore wind farm has completed the final commissioning, with all 102 Siemens Gamesa 7 MW turbines now operational. Around 20% of the turbine installation and around half the turbine connection work was completed during the lockdown, ScottishPower Renewables said. Accordi
German offshore wind farms produced 13.73 terawatt hours (TWh) in the first half of 2020, almost 18 per cent more than in the same period last year (11.64 TWh). Of this, TenneT transmitted 11.51 TWh of offshore wind energy from the North Sea to the onshore grid, marking a 21.1 per cent increase comp
Iv-Offshore & Energy has signed the early works contract with Sembcorp Marine for the engineering of the Sofia high voltage direct current (HVDC) platform. As previously reported, GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and Sembcorp Marine will provide the electrical transmission system for RWE’s 1.4 G
Swedish energy company Vattenfall has issued a call for the supply of all required work to manufacture up to 50 monopile foundations for two nearshore wind projects in the Danish North Sea. The tender is divided into two lots. Lot 1 covers the civil engineering manufacturing of up to 50 transition p
The 25 MW WindFloat Atlantic floating offshore wind farm is now fully operational and supplying electricity to Portugal’s electrical grid. The WindFloat Atlantic project features three MHI Vestas 8.4 MW turbines mounted on Principle Power’s semi-submersible floating foundations. Following the connec
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy will reveal the results of the tender to develop the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind farm site on Wednesday, 29 July. The results of the subsidy-free round will be revealed after the closing of the Dutch stock exchanges, Ruud de Bruijne,
ScottishPower Renewables has applied for a non-material change to the East Anglia THREE Offshore Wind Farm Order 2017 which would allow the project to take advantage of advancing technologies and deliver a reduction in levelised energy costs. The application, submitted by East Anglia Three Limited,
Ørsted has joined a GBP 400,000 sea state forecasting project, launched by UK’s national Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Centre of Excellence, a collaboration between the University of Hull and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult. The project’s goal is to deliver a significant reduction in m
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) is preparing to issue a call for tenders for geotechnical soil investigations at the IJmuiden Ver offshore wind farm zone. The tender, expected to be open on 31 August, will be divided into two lots. The first lot will entail seabed Core Penetration Testing (C
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) is seeking an entity to certify site studies carried out for the 4 GW IJmuiden Ver offshore wind zone in the Dutch North Sea. RVO has been requested to prepare and collect all site data required for commercial developers to prepare competitive bids. As part of
