The first of two offshore converter station topsides, planned to be installed at the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK, is on its way to Europe following the sailway from Map Ta Phut, Thailand. The topside, completed by Ørsted’s Thailand-based team in partnership with Aibel and Hitachi Energy,
The final Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbine has been installed at the 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm in Scotland. The installation of the 54th wind turbine was completed in the early hours of this morning (7 April) at the site located some 15.5 kilometres off the Fife coast. The work was
On 7 April, The Crown Estate announced that the plans for a new generation of floating wind farms off the coasts of Wales and South West England moved a step closer as the leasing round for three sites in the Celtic Sea entered its final stages. Additionally, the companies bidding to build the proje
France will fail to meet its offshore wind installation target unless it streamlines permitting and creates a more favourable investment climate, according to new research from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). Despite carrying out numerous tenders since 2011, France
The ELWIND project has launched a tender seeking a contractor to carry out in-situ metocean measurement campaigns for offshore wind farms at Estonia and Latvia sites. According to ELWIND, the campaign must be done by a single provider for the two offshore wind farm sites of the ELWIND project. The s
The UK has granted development consent to Rampion 2, the proposed 1.2 GW extension to the 400 MW Rampion offshore wind farm in Sussex. The Development Consent Order (DCO), issued by the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero on 4 April, will come into force on 28 April. RWE signed a sea
SSE Renewables is undertaking a benthic survey within a prospective offshore export cable route at the Berwick Bank offshore wind farm site in Scotland. The survey work is being carried out by Natural Power, utilising the Windcat 20 as the survey vessel. According to a Notice from Mariners from the
The wind energy sector is experiencing unprecedented growth, necessitating advancements in the manufacturing of wind towers and their foundations. Manufacturers face challenges such as accommodating larger turbine sizes, enhancing structural integrity, and improving production efficiency. Faccin, a
Norway’s VARD has signed a EUR 113.5 million contract with Taiwan-based Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) to design and build an offshore subsea construction vessel that will be dedicated to performing work in the offshore wind and telecom sectors, with the contract also including options. The 121.3-metre-lo
GHD has been selected to provide the electrical front-end engineering design (FEED) for Ocean Winds’ Caledonia offshore wind farm in Scotland. GHD’s involvement includes evaluating two turbine designs and developing the FEED for key electrical components such as inter-array cables, the offshore high
Smulders has completed the first loadouts of the transition pieces (TPs) to be installed at the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland. The loadouts started in January 2025 from the Smulders yard in Newcastle, the UK. Each TP weighs 350 tonnes and is 27 metres high. According to Smulders,
Octopus Energy has acquired a 10 per cent stake in the 714 MW East Anglia One offshore wind farm in the UK, which was fully commissioned in 2020. Octopus acquired this latest wind farm stake from Macquarie Asset Management on behalf of Vector, Octopus’ offshore wind fund, which invests in fixed and
Bluestream Offshore, an OEG Renewables company, has been awarded a contract by Equinor and Polenergia for the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) of a corrosion protection system for the monopile foundations at the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind farms in Poland. The
CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) has completed the final international transportation and load-out of pin piles for the 1,022 MW Hai Long offshore wind project in Taiwan. EEW Korea Heavy Pipe Construction (EEW KHPC) was responsible for the production of 156 out of 219 pin piles for the Hai Long off
