On 21 January, the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) granted an electricity production permit and issued an electricity production license to Vattenfall for the Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in Denmark. The permit is valid for 25 years from the time when the first electricity is delivered from the offsh
Smulders has produced its milestone 2,000th transition piece, destined for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. Smulders says it started with the production of the 2,000th transition piece this month, which is barely six years after celebrating the 1,000th transition piece. The milesto
Germany saw 32 offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of 219 MW connected to the grid in 2020, with no new wind turbines erected in the second half of the year, according to the figures published by Deutsche WindGuard on 21 January. In total, 1,501 offshore wind turbines with a capacity of 7,7
Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract with Wood to supply positioning and monitoring equipment for the Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm. Kongsberg will supply its DPS position reference system and Motion Reference Unit (MRU) for what will be the world’s largest floating offshore wind fa
Mott MacDonald has secured a technical integration and optimization contract for NortH2, the largest green hydrogen project in Europe. As lead technical integration consultant, Mott MacDonald will collate, evaluate and develop the potential technical solutions required to realize the project. The co
Ørsted has chosen Denmark-based Green Hydrogen Systems (GHS) as the supplier of electrolysis technology for the H2RES offshore wind-to-hydrogen demonstration project. The 2 MW electrolysis plant at the Avedøre Power Station will be built around GHS modular electrolysers powered by two 3.6 MW offshor
In 2020, Germany’s total offshore wind generation was 26.89 terawatt hours (TWh), of which wind farms in the North Sea generated 22.76 TWh and those in the German sector of the Baltic Sea produced 4.13 TWh of electricity. A year earlier, wind farms operating offshore Germany generated 24.16 TWh, wit
Cadeler’s wind farm installation vessel Wind Osprey has arrived at the Triton Knoll wind farm loaded with the first sets of MHI Vestas V164-9.5 MW turbines. The installation of the first wind turbine at the site some 32 kilometres offshore Lincolnshire, UK, is ongoing. Wind Osprey loaded the turbine
Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has secured a contract with Iemants, a subsidiary of Smulders, to construct the offshore transformer jacket for the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project. Construction, which will take place at the HFG Vlissingen yard, is expected to begin this month and be compl
Three biggest Polish energy companies, PGE, Enea and TAURON, have signed a letter of intent on cooperation on future offshore wind projects in Poland. According to the three companies, they recognise the value of the offshore wind energy sector in developing the economy and increasing the level of e
Ørsted is participating in the ScotWind seabed leasing round for offshore wind projects in Scotland. As part of this process, Ørsted has secured a 1.8 GW grid connection from National Grid ESO for use should it secure seabed rights following the leasing round. “Scotland has one of the most ambitious
Seaway Moxie is set to be deployed on the Beatrice offshore wind farm at the end of January for walk-to-work operations during an operations & maintenance (O&M) campaign at the wind farm, located some 13 kilometres off the coast of Caithness in Scotland. According to the wind farm’s latest Notice to
Crown Estate Scotland has opened the application window for the ScotWind seabed leasing round for offshore wind projects. From today, 15 January, registered developers are able to apply for seabed rights to build Scotland’s next generation of offshore wind farms. The closing date for submitting appl
Cloudberry Clean Energy and Downing LLP have signed the share purchase agreement (SPA) for the construction and ownership of a 100 MW nearshore, shallow-water wind farm in Lake Vänern in southern Sweden. In September 2020, Cloudberry acquired Scanvind2 AS, the holding company of the Rewind Vänern of
