The Fugro Quest vessel, operated by Fugro, is en route to the northeast coast of England to begin geotechnical survey work on the site of the proposed Dogger Bank South (DBS) West, one of two proposed DBS offshore wind farms. Fugro Quest, launched in 2022, left Falmouth on 23 July 2024 to initiate g
RWE and TotalEnergies have entered into an agreement under which TotalEnergies will acquire a 50% stake in RWE’s OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. TotalEnergies said it would use its share of the electricity from the 795 MW OranjeWind to produce green hydrogen. The new partners have
Delivery partners have completed the installation of over 328 kilometers of 66 kV inter-array cables for Dogger Bank A, the first phase of the UK’s Dogger Bank Wind Farm, marking the completion of all inter-array cable work for this phase.
A sea trials campaign for monitoring dynamic subsea power cables was conducted from 1 to 6 July in the Bay of Douarnenez, France. The trials are part of the HT-20MW project that aims to design, test, and certify a high-voltage rotating mechanical and electrical connection for a 20 MW floating wind t
Community Offshore Wind, a joint venture between RWE and National Grid Ventures, has selected Fugro to perform a geotechnical investigation of their lease area in the New York Bight. With 3 GW of offshore wind energy potential, the developed lease area could power more than one million homes in the
Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München have awarded Dutch company Bluestream Offshore, an OEG Renewables business, a contract for a remedial campaign on the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. Bluestream will provide specialist subsea and topside services for the remedial ca
Irish transmission system operator (TSO) EirGrid has awarded a multi-party framework agreement for surveys that the TSO will perform at the offshore wind area(s) the Irish government will put up for tender next. The companies that secured long-term contracts, valued at €300 million in total, are Fug
Vattenfall and Metsähallitus have awarded GEOxyz and Arctia contracts to provide geophysical surveys for the Korsnäs offshore wind farm in Finland. Vattenfall became a Metsähallitus project partner for the Korsnäs offshore wind farm in December 2022. The surveys involve mapping a 280 square-kilomete
South Korea-based offshore wind cable manufacturer, LS Cable & System, has decided to build a manufacturing facility for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cables in Virginia, which the company says will be the largest factory of this kind in the United States. The factory will be built on a
Scotland-headquartered Sulmara has completed a site characterization survey for the Formosa 4 offshore wind project in Taiwan, developed by Synera Renewable Energy (SRE). To overcome challenging environmental site conditions, Sulmara said it employed an industry-first, multi-platform approach runnin
Enefit Green, a renewable energy developer based in Estonia, has issued a call for tenders for geotechnical surveys at the project site of its Liivi offshore wind farm, located ten kilometers off the island of Kihnu in the Estonian part of the Gulf of Riga. The call was published on July 8 with the
RWE has kicked off geophysical and geotechnical site investigations at the Norfolk Boreas, Norfolk Vanguard East, and Norfolk Vanguard West offshore wind project sites in the UK, rights to which the German company acquired from Vattenfall earlier this year. The survey vessel Braveheart Spirit is con
Ocean services provider DeepOcean has been awarded a contract for RWE’s Nordseecluster A offshore wind project in Germany, covering trenching, transport, and installation of inter-array cables. RWE has recently made the final investment decision for its entire Nordseecluster, involving offshore wind
Hughes Subsea, a subsidiary of OEG Renewables, will start disposing of unexploded ordnance (UXO) at the UK 1.4 GW East Anglia Three (EA3) offshore wind farm site on 4 July, according to the latest Notice to Mariners issued by the EA3 project team. The UXO identification, investigation and clearance
