Ørsted’s first green hydrogen project, the 2 MW H2RES offshore wind-to-hydrogen demonstrator in Denmark, is expected to go into operation in the first half of 2022, the company said in its 2021 annual report. H2RES, which will produce renewable hydrogen for road transport, is being built on Ørsted’s
Dutch maritime contractor Van Oord has deployed iXblue’s Long Baseline (LBL) subsea positioning solution to conduct the installation of 190 offshore wind farm piles in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc, France.
A joint venture company established by two Spanish renewable energy businesses has submitted initial plans for a gigawatt-scale floating offshore wind farm to the Spanish government, informing the authorities of its intention to explore and assess the implementation of the project.
A rudderless cargo ship is drifting around the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea following a collision with an oil and chemicals tanker in heavy seas in the anchorage area near IJmuiden on Monday, 31 January, the Dutch Coastguard said. In one of its most recent updates on
The Denmark-headquartered engineering company COWI will turn down all fossil fuel projects from now on as it aims to transform its business and reach 100 per cent revenue within sustainability-related projects in three to five years’ time. In a press release issued on 25 January, the CEO of COWI Gro
SSE Renewables is set to soon kick off further geotechnical survey work at the Berwick Bank Wind Farm located off the east coast of Scotland. The first phase which will include a borehole survey is planned to mobilize between 29 January and 1 February, with the completion expected by 22 February. Th
Ørsted and Germany-based steel producer Salzgitter AG have entered into a strategic partnership which will see the two companies working on establishing closed value chains in their business relationships, revolving around offshore wind and steel production. The companies have signed a memorandum of
The UAE-based offshore construction and fabrication specialist Lamprell has entered into exclusive negotiations as a preferred supplier with an international client in the offshore wind industry for what the company describes as ”a very large contract.” Lamprell said it will now work with the client
Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has launched its qualification system for offshore geotechnical surveys and is now inviting applications. With this procedure, ESB intends to establish a qualification system to procure the scope of services pertaining to offshore geotechnical surveys for the
The following is a guest post by Westwood Global Energy Group’s Senior Analysts Michelle Gomez, Bahzad Ayoub and Ruth Chen. The offshore wind sector had another record-breaking year in 2021. Some 18.6 GW of capacity was put into operation – the industry’s highest level of annual capacity additions.
DEME Offshore has awarded Greece’s Hellenic Cables with the contract to supply inter-array cables for the third and final phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger bank offshore wind farm – the Dogger Bank C. With this contract, Hellenic Cables has become the sole supplier of inter-array cables for the world’s lar
Nexans is about to begin the installation of the first of three export cables at the Seagreen offshore wind project in Scotland. According to the latest AIS data, cable laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Aurora arrived at the project site on 18 January. Operations will commence at the Carnoustie landfall si
Crown Estate Scotland has selected 17 offshore wind projects in its ScotWind seabed leasing round, which aimed to procure at least 10 GW of offshore wind but resulted in the chosen proposals having a total capacity of 24,826 MW. Ten projects are using floating wind technology, six are fixed-bottom,
PetroGreen Energy Corporation, a renewable energy arm of the Philippines’ oil and gas company PetroEnergy – which unveiled last year that it was in collaboration with a foreign partner to expand its footprint into offshore wind – is proposing to build three gigawatt-scale offshore wind projects in t
