The wind turbine installation at the SeaMade offshore wind farm was completed on 30 November, with the 58th and final unit erected at the project site located 50 kilometres off the Belgian coast in the North Sea. DEME, the EPCI contractor for the project, started installing the foundations in Septem
A consortium led by Atos has secured a contract to implement mission-critical communication solutions for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project in France. Atos will implement a full operational marine coordination center located in Pleudaniel, Brittany, to coordinate, monitor and document all traff
Denmark’s fully-developed energy island in the North Sea could provide enough green fuel to supply all ships and aircraft refueling in Denmark, a study by the country’s Ministry of Climate, Energy and Public Utilities shows. As reported earlier, Denmark plans to develop two energy islands, one in th
MHI Vestas has chosen Siemens Energy’s low-loss 66 kV distribution transformers for the 114 wind turbines that will make up the Seagreen offshore wind farm in Scotland. The fluid immersed distribution transformers, for which Siemens Energy said were designed to meet high efficiency requirements, wil
Poland’s Council of Ministers has adopted the draft bill supporting the development of offshore wind energy in the Baltic Sea. This summer, the Polish government published the revised draft offshore wind bill which would allow for 5.9 GW of capacity to be offered via Contracts for Difference (CfDs)
Igeotest Geoscience has completed the onshore, nearshore, and offshore geophysical and hydrographical campaigns, and an UXO survey along the export cable route for Prysmian on the Fécamp offshore wind project in France. The company is now mobilising equipment for a geotechnical campaign for the firs
The European Commission has awarded Saitec Engineering with € 2.4 million funding under the Blue Economy Window call. The funding will support the SATHScale project in bringing to market the SATH floating wind technology through scaling-up the prototype from the technology validation and demonstrati
Ørsted’s first offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, Borssele 1 & 2, has been fully commissioned. Located 22 kilometres off the coast of the province of Zeeland, the 752 MW project has now become the largest offshore wind farm in the Netherlands and the second largest operating offshore wind farm i
The SeaMade offshore wind farm is nearing completion with only three wind turbines left to be installed. Located 50 kilometres off the Belgian coast in the North Sea, the offshore wind farm will comprise 58 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW turbines, 55 of which are now in place. This is according to social med
German energy company EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG has issued a call for the turnkey supply of inter-array cables at the 900 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm. The scope of the contract includes the engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning (EPCI) of the inter-array cables. The as
Norwegian state-backed Export Credit Guarantee Agency GIEK is providing loan guarantees for contracts awarded to Aibel and OHT for the UK’s Dogger Bank A and B offshore wind project, for which Equinor and SSE have now reached financial close. Aibel has won a contract to deliver two converter platfor
Equinor and SSE have reached financial close on the first two phases of the Dogger Bank wind farm project, representing in aggregate the largest offshore wind project financing to date globally. The 3.6 GW Dogger Bank offshore wind project is divided into three 1.2 GW phases, Dogger Bank A, Dogger B
The last jacket foundation produced for the Moray East offshore wind farm at Lamprell’s yard in Hamriyah has now been unloaded from OHT’s Hawk heavy transportation vessel in the Port of Nigg. The vessel arrived at the Port of Nigg on 12 November with the last batch of ten jackets, completing its sec
The multi-purpose offshore vessel Olympic Commander has been contracted by JDR Cables to support a maintenance campaign at the Sandbank offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Equipped with a 28-metre Safeway Seagull walk-to-work gangway system, the vessel has been deployed to carry out the tran
