CS Wind UK has transported the second batch of wind turbine towers for the Beatrice project from its factory in Machrihanish to the Campbeltown harbour, both located on Scotland’s Kintyre peninsula, according to CS Wind UK’s social media updates.
Equinor and Masdar have installed the Batwind battery system at the Hywind Scotland floating wind farm, which represents the first ever battery for offshore wind.
Adwen will cut 260 jobs in Germany as a consequence of its integration into Siemens Gamesa, as well as due to the parent company’s global restructuring plans.
Equinor, formerly known as Statoil, has awarded Reach Subsea with a contract for survey and inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) works at Dudgeon and Hywind offshore wind farms, which Reach Subsea will execute together with MMT.
EEW SPC and Jan de Nul have signed a contract for the production of 20 monopile foundations for the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan.
UK-based high voltage engineering specialist EDS HV Group has set up operational bases in Lowestoft and Aberdeen, UK.
Ørsted has entered a three-year partnership with Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and will make a contribution of more than GBP 200,000 to fund running costs of lifeboats at seven RNLI lifeboat stations across the UK.
Enough offshore wind to match the power generation as a programme of tidal lagoons is currently estimated to cost at least GBP 31.5 billion less to build, according to UK Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark.
On 26 June, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources will hold a legislative hearing on a bill that would amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to provide for a leasing programme for offshore renewable energy.
The Netherlands-based BLIX Consultancy BV has revealed its role in the Taiwan offshore wind tender after Northland Power was announced as one of the winners.
Vattenfall, the developer of the Norfolk Vanguard and Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farms, has invited local businesses to register their interest in the projects and provide more information about what they can do, especially installing onshore electrical infrastructure.
APEM has commenced aerial wildlife surveys at Ørsted’s 573MW Race Bank wind farm located offshore North Norfolk in the UK.
Poland’s biggest oil and gas company, PKN Orlen, will sign a contract with a technical consultancy company for its offshore wind project in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea by the end of July, according to Rzeczpospolita.
Gardline Limited is conducting geophysical survey operations at Equinor’s Empire Wind offshore wind project located off the southern coast of Long Island, New York.
