Spain’s Council of Ministers, at the proposal of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, has approved the Roadmap for the Development of Offshore Wind and Marine Energy. The Roadmap contains 20 lines of action with the aim of reaching between 1 GW and 3 GW of floati
The biggest ever round of the UK government’s renewable energy support scheme opened on Monday, 13 December. Renewable energy projects across Great Britain can now bid for funding in the fourth round of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, which is aiming to secure 12 GW of electricity capacit
The second of the three 220 kV export cable systems for the Ostwind 2 project in the German Baltic Sea has been laid, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH said. This brings the connection of the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm another step closer, the German transmission system operator said. The third and fin
French cable specialist Nexans has won a contract to supply the onshore and offshore export cables for the 860 MW Moray West wind farm project off Scotland. Subject to the award of a Contract for Difference in 2022 and Financial Close, the wind farm will feature Nexans High Voltage Alternating Curre
A Denmark-based developer has decided to cancel an offshore wind project after not managing to find a turbine model that would fit the project’s original design parameters.
Seaway 7 has confirmed the award of a contract by China Steel Power Corporation for the transport and installation of the submarine cable system for the Zhong Neng offshore wind project in Taiwan.
The Dutch State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, has announced the start of spatial planning procedures for cable routes that would connect more than 10 GW of the country’s planned additional offshore wind capacity to the national grid. In a letter sent th
HOFOR Vind has issued a tender looking for UXO consultancy services for the Aflandshage offshore wind project, set to be located 12 kilometers east of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Vattenfall has awarded Fugro with a contract to carry out a geoscience survey and subsequent data processing and reporting for a proposed pipeline route between Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) and Aberdeen Port.
Rotech Subsea has completed export cable de-burial and re-burial work at the Saint-Nazaire project, which is to become the first commercial offshore wind farm in France.
Seaway 7, the main Seagreen contractor, has contracted Van Oord to install scour protection around the 114 wind turbine foundations at the Seagreen wind farm offshore Scotland. The wind turbines for this 1.1 GW offshore wind farm located 27 kilometres off the coast of Angus will be installed on thre
RWE Renewables Ireland has applied for a licence to carry out further marine surveys at the site of the proposed Dublin Array wind farm off the coast of County Dublin and County Wicklow in Ireland. The application for a Foreshore Licence has been made to Ireland’s Department of Housing, Local Govern
A confidential owner of oil and gas platforms in the North Adriatic Concession area has contracted renewable energy consultancy Megajoule to install multiple wind Lidars at gas platforms as part of the company’s Low Carbon Development Strategy. Lidar ZX 300M will be deployed to begin taking measurem
Tekmar Group has secured a contract with Global Offshore to supply cable protection systems (CPS) for the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind project in Germany. Tekmar will design, manufacture, and supply its latest generation of TekTube CPS to protect the project’s inter-array cables as they transition fr
