The Iberdrola-led international consortium has launched the FLAGSHIP project to develop and fabricate the first 10+ MW floating offshore wind turbine. The turbine will be supported by a floating semi‐submersible concrete structure based on Olav Olsen’s OO-Star Wind Floater concept. The prototype is
Siemens Gamesa has begun the construction of its offshore wind turbine plant in the Port of Le Havre, France. The company revealed earlier this summer that the consortium led by GTM Normandie-Centre is in charge of the turbine plan construction. As part of the consortium, ENGIE Solutions is responsi
Dogger Bank Wind Farm has confirmed Able Seaton Port in Hartlepool, UK, as the marshalling base for the wind turbine installation activities for the Dogger Bank A & B offshore wind project. As part of the agreements for the supply and service of 190 of GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X 13 MW wind turb
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,
A recent analysis from Rystad Energy has shown that using 14 MW wind turbines can reduce overall costs of large-scale offshore wind farms, even though these wind turbines themselves are more expensive. Rystad Energy looked at using next-generation turbines of various sizes for a 1 GW offshore wind f
Around three-quarters of wind turbines have been installed at the 731.5 MW Borssele III and IV wind farm off the Netherlands, MHI Vestas said. The first of the wind farm’s 77 MHI Vestas 9.5 MW turbines was installed at the site some 55 kilometres off Vlissingen at the end of May. Van Oord’s installa
GE Renewable Energy has produced the first turbine nacelle for the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire – France’s first offshore wind farm. This nacelle, which contains the generator, is the first in a series of 80 Haliade 150-6 MW wind turbines produced for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm to be assembled by
Annual maintenance of the wind turbines at the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm in Germany, which was planned to take eight weeks, has been completed two weeks earlier. A total of 75 wind turbine technicians have finished the inspection and repair campaign on all 48 Senvion 6 MW units, installed some
Tech giant Apple will invest in the construction of two MHI Vestas 8.4 MW offshore wind turbines which will be installed onshore near the town of Esbjerg in Denmark. The 200-metre-tall turbines are expected to produce 62 gigawatt-hours of electricity each year. The power produced at Esbjerg will sup
Ayrshire-based Windhoist Limited has won a contract to provide local technicians to assist with pre-assembly works for Moray East offshore wind farm in Scotland. 20 locally-based technicians have been recruited for the project which commences this month and is expected to reach completion in Septemb
DEME Offshore has completed the installation of the 94 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbines at the Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. DEME’s jack-up tandem Sea Installer and Sea Challenger were in charge of the installation at the site located 22km off the coast of the province of Zeeland
Vattenfall has issued a tender for installation works on two wind farms in the Danish North Sea – Vesterhav Syd and Vesterhav Nord. The tender is divided into three lots and covers the installation of the foundations, the cables, and the wind turbines. The contracts are scheduled to run from July 20
Denmark’s Wind Power LAB has developed a drone-based internal blade inspection concept for offshore wind turbines. A set of trials was recently executed on both a factory site and on an operational 3.6 MW turbine in collaboration with Ørsted. According to Wind Power LAB, by applying a drone for the
At its virtual Capital Markets Day held on 27 August, Siemens Gamesa presented “a refreshed” corporate strategy which revolves around tapping into growth opportunities for its offshore wind and services businesses, and driving a turnaround in the onshore market. With strong growth expected in partic
