Oil and gas company Neptune Energy and offshore wind developer Ørsted have partnered up to explore powering new integrated energy hubs in the UK North Sea with offshore wind-generated electricity. The two parties and Goal7 have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to examine the potential to s
Swedish energy company Vattenfall conducted large-scale seabed surveys with uncrewed surface vessels at several of its offshore wind farms in Denmark, Sweden, and the UK earlier this year. In the late summer and early autumn of 2022, uncrewed vessels were used for seabed surveys across Horns Rev 1,
German transmission system operator 50Hertz Transmission GmbH has issued a contract notice for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of 525 kV cables covering seven onshore and offshore grid connection projects currently under development, as well as future projects. The
Danish and Belgian transmission system operators (TSOs) Energinet and Elia have issued a contract notice seeking environmental engineering consultancy services for the development of the subsea cable route for a new interconnector project in the North Sea. Elia and Energinet are developing the Trito
Fugro Netherlands Marine has won a contract to carry out an unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey and identification campaign at the 900 MW EnBW he Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The He Dreiht offshore wind farm will be built some 90 kilometres northwest of the island of Borkum and ab
DEME Offshore has picked Tekmar Group to supply Cable Protection Systems (CPS) for the third phase of Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK. Under the contract signed with DEME Offshore, Tekmar will design, manufacture, and supply 172 CPS for Dogger Bank C. The first systems for the project’s third phase
An Italian company specialising in producing green hydrogen using renewable energy sources has applied for a maritime concession to build a 675 MW floating offshore wind farm in the Strait of Sicily.
Energy company Vattenfall has issued contract notices seeking vessels to transport and install wind turbine foundations and wind turbines at two offshore wind farms. The calls to tender were issued by Vattenfall Atlantis 1 und Global Tech 2 Offshore Wind GmbH for the N-7.2 and N-6.6 projects in the
Twentsche Kabelfabriek (TKF) has started the construction of a new cable factory at the Beatrixhaven site in Eemshaven, the Netherlands. According to Groningen Seaports, TKF will use the new factory to produce subsea cables to connect wind turbines from offshore wind farms to power stations. The new
The requirements for the Dutch Hollandse Kust West (HKW) tender could serve as an impetus to other countries to prioritise ecology in offshore wind tenders and to developers to voluntarily add ecological measures in their future offers, according to speakers from RWE Renewables and TotalEnergies at
Surveys of the area that the Lithuanian Government selected for the country’s first offshore wind farm have shown that the seabed in the Baltic Sea is suitable for the development of this type of project. The Lithuanian Energy Agency selected Geobaltic and Garant Diving to carry out the geophysical
The Crown Estate has announced the awarding of the first contracts for its first major investment in surveys to help with the construction of floating offshore wind farms in the Celtic Sea. The awarding of the first contracts marks an important step in what is anticipated to be a multi-million pound
Governments need to move from talking about policies to implementation, the offshore wind industry needs to employ standardisation, and clear rules and regulations need to be set for green hydrogen in order to move faster with large-scale deployment and achieve meaningful progress in limiting global
A Milan-based company has requested a concession for a site off the Italian coast in the central Adriatic Sea with plans to build a 1.8 GW floating offshore wind farm and use 800 MW of that capacity for a green hydrogen production plant at an industrial area in a nearby municipality.
