Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein has held the naming ceremony for Nexans’ new 155-metre-long cable-laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Electra. Based on the ST-297 CLV design by Skipsteknisk, Nexans Electra, ordered as the second vessel by Nexans at Norway’s Ulstein Verft, is an updated version of the sister ve
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has signed House Bill 67 (HB67), which introduces a measure focused on assessing workforce and training needs for the offshore wind sector and aligning workforce development efforts with its specific demands. The bill, which passed both the Virginia House of Dele
The State of Massachusetts has activated long-term contracts for the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm, securing fixed electricity pricing for 20 years and projected customer savings of USD 1.4 billion (around EUR 1.2 billion) over that period, according to the state government. The contracts, anno
North Star and Norwind Offshore have completed acquisitions of vessels from Edda Wind, finalising the split of the company’s service operation vessel (SOV) and commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) fleet. The two transactions follow Edda Wind’s announcement in March that it had entered into
Cadeler has completed mobilisation of its vessels Wind Ally and Wind Orca for foundation transport and installation work at the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm. The company said on 29 April that the recently delivered Wind Ally completed mobilisation in the Port of Rotterdam and has arrived at Teeswork
HEA Energy has secured a new offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M) contract in Europe, the company said via social media on 29 April, leaving the project and the client unnamed. The campaign, to be carried out at an offshore wind farm in the North Sea, is scheduled to begin in the summer of
RWE has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with UK construction materials supplier Breedon Group, under which part of the electricity supply will be provided by the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm. The agreement includes RWE delivering around 70 GWh of electricity per year to Breedon unt
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has awarded Fugro a geotechnical site investigation contract for the Fengmiao 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Under the contract, Fugro will deliver a full suite of geotechnical investigation services to support the design and development of the wind farm, wi
The final wind turbine has been installed at the Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier (EMYN) offshore wind farm in France, owned by Ocean Winds, the 50-50 joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE. This marks the completion of the construction of the 488 MW offshore wind farm, located 11.7 kilometres fro
EnBW has awarded framework agreements for subsea inspection services across its offshore wind fleet in the Baltic Sea and North Sea, with RS Diving Contractor selected for both of the two lots covering the company’s assets in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. The contracts, signed on 7 April, cover
EnergyPathways has launched Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for its compressed air energy storage (CAES) project in the East Irish Sea, part of the wider MESH energy development, with the facility designed to store surplus electricity from offshore wind farms and the UK grid. The CAES projec
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has reached agreements with Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind developers to voluntarily terminate their offshore wind leases in exchange for a total of USD 885 million (around EUR 756 million) that they paid in lease fees, which the US will return to the de
Jan De Nul has completed the installation of two export cables for the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm, being built by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) 35 kilometres off the coast of Taichung, Taiwan. The two high-voltage subsea cables, measuring 45 kilometres and 44 kilometres, have been inst
Fugro is set to begin a geotechnical survey campaign at the Caledonia offshore wind project site in May, following earlier geophysical investigations. According to a Notice to Mariners, the first survey vessel is expected on site no earlier than 9 May, with a second vessel scheduled to arrive from 1
