The UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has delivered a roadmap to improve ocean observation and enhance understanding of the potential impacts of expanding offshore wind developments on the marine environment. The Scoping an Offshore Wind Sustained Observation Programme report was commissioned
Ofgem is inviting tenders to own and operate electricity transmission links worth GBP 4 billion (about EUR 4.8 billion), connecting the Sofia offshore wind farm to Great Britain’s mainland energy network. Ofgem has opened the Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO) regime Tender Round 12, which invites i
Cochin Shipyard has started building a hybrid-electric service operations vessel (SOV) for North Star, which will operate at the He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany under a long-term charter North Star signed with EnBW last year. North Star and Cochin Shipyard cut the first steel for the new SOV
Geophysical survey operations and a static fishing gear survey are taking place within the Inch Cape offshore wind farm site and its associated export cable corridor from 19 February until the end of April. On behalf of Inch Cape Offshore Limited, a joint venture between ESB and Red Rock Renewables,
RWE, through a joint venture with the Irish renewable energy company Saorgus Energy, has submitted a planning application to Ireland’s An Bord Pleanála for the Dublin Array offshore wind farm. The planning documents were filed today, 26 February, by Bray Offshore Wind Limited and Kish Offshore Wind
Siemens Energy has selected the German company Pfisterer for the supply of turnkey cable systems for the BorWin4 and DolWin4 offshore grid connections in the North Sea. Pfisterer is in charge of implementing the entire 66 kV AC cable infrastructure between the gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) transfor
The Spanish Freire Shipyard has delivered a new maintenance support vessel, named Forth Constructor, to the UK-based Briggs Marine. Briggs Marine placed the order for the vessel in December 2022 and Freire Shipyard launched Forth Constructor and moved it to a “wet berth” at its yard in Vigo in July
Danish Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), on behalf of its fund Copenhagen Infrastructure V (CI V), has signed a transaction to take full ownership of the Morecambe offshore wind farm from Cobra Group and Flotation Energy, owned by TEPCO Renewable Power. The financial terms of the transaction
Dutch company Next Ocean is looking at a global reach for its technology that predicts waves and vessel motions minutes beforehand. Following a period of demonstration deployments of WavePredictor and the first vessels using it commercially, Next Ocean says it is witnessing the technology becoming s
EDF Renewables has booked a EUR 934 million impairment in connection with the Atlantic Shores offshore wind project(s) in the United States, for which EDF’s joint venture partner Shell also recently included impairment charges in its full-year 2024 financial report and said it was pausing its involv
Taylor Hopkinson has been awarded a quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) surveillance contract for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland. Taylor Hopkinson will support the fabrication and construction of Scotland’s 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm, being jointly developed by Red Rock
The Latvian Cabinet of Ministers has approved the 200-square-kilometre research site for ELWIND, an Estonian-Latvian cross-border offshore wind project. In response to recommendations from the Nature Conservation Agency of Latvia, the originally selected study area has been moved more than seven kil
Offshore service provider Ampelmann, Dutch Applied Scientific Research Institute (TNO), and offshore wind developer Vattenfall recently tested AI-powered cargo drones at Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms DanTysk and Sandbank in the German North Sea. Cargo drones can transport materials and equipment
Van Oord and Ecowende, a joint venture of Shell, Eneco, and Chubu, have signed a contract for the design, construction, and installation of Tree Reefs and Oyster Hubs at the Hollandse Kust West VI offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. Developed by Van Oord Ocean Health, these methods aim to natural
