Siemens Gamesa has signed a preferred supplier agreement with innogy to deliver 100 of its new SG 14-222 DD turbines for the Sofia offshore wind project in the UK. The Sofia project will, therefore, be the first European project to install the 14 MW model that will be market-ready by 2024, on time f
The construction of the operations and maintenance base for the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm has been completed. UK-based contractor Tolent handed over the base at Grimsby’s Royal Dock this week, innogy said. Once fully fitted out, the O&M facility will accommodate a team of technicians and suppo
South Korean cable manufacturer LS Cable & System has shipped off the first batch of submarine power cables for the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan. This is also the company’s first shipment of submarine cables for an offshore wind project in Taiwan. Last year, LS C&S won the right to supply all
SSE Renewables has issued a contract notice seeking providers of geotechnical and geophysical services offshore the UK and Ireland. The offshore wind developer intends to sign a number of framework agreements that cover a range of geotechnical and geophysical services. The overall value of the frame
Ramboll will provide geological modelling and reporting for N-3 and O-1 offshore wind areas in the German sectors of the North and Baltic Seas, respectively. The total value of the contracts for the two areas is around EUR 514,000. The work will be done as part of the geological preliminary investi
Denmark has given a go-ahead for the development of the energy islands, and the second of the three 1 GW offshore wind farms proposed in the Energy Agreement 2018. The 1 GW offshore wind project will be developed at the Hesselø zone in the Baltic Sea and is expected to be commissioned by 2027. The [
Japanese utility JERA, French state-owned investment company ADEME Investissement, and Ideol have teamed up to develop commercial-scale floating offshore wind projects. The parties agreed on the key terms for the establishment of an investment vehicle dedicated to the financing of the development ph
DEME Offshore has installed the first wind turbine at the SeaMade offshore wind farm in Belgium, using its jack-up installation vessel Apollo. The vessel will install 57 wind turbines more at the site located 35-50 kilometres off Oostende, where the 487 MW offshore wind farm is scheduled to be fully
The consortium of Boskalis and NKT is set to work through the summer to install the offshore export cables at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK. As reported, an initial 25km stretch of export cable has already been installed from the landfall north of Anderby Creek in Lincolnshire, estab
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) has awarded GEOxyz BVBA with the contract to carry out geophysical surveys at the IJmuiden Ver offshore wind zone. Under the contract, GEOxyz will conduct geophysical investigations required to obtain the soil information at a part of the Ijmuiden Ver zone
Jan De Nul has completed the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) project in the German North Sea, with all of the wind farm’s turbines now installed and mechanically completed. Jan De Nul’s jack-up Taillevent started the turbine installation works in the summer of 2019 but had to leave mid-February 2
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Jill has left the Port of Esbjerg to begin the preliminary geotechnical investigations for the Thor offshore wind project in the Danish North Sea. In mid-April, Fred. Olsen Windcarrier secured a contract by Denmark’s Geo to supply a vessel for the geotechnica
The Angus Council has approved two applications relating to the underground cable route of the Seagreen offshore wind project in Scotland. The decisions, made at the council’s Development Standards Committee meeting, will allow for works to begin along the consented cable route from landfall at Carn
Securing community acceptance is a business-critical task, according to a new report on potential costly effects that public opposition to building offshore wind infrastructure could have on projects, looking at the experiences from other renewable energy industries in the United States. And while s
