Moray West, an offshore wind farm in the outer Moray Firth, Scotland, has installed the first of 60 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD wind turbines. Supplied with “Power Boost”, each turbine can generate up to 14.7 MW output. The 882 MW wind farm is being developed by Ocean Winds. The pre-assembly activit
US utility Eversource Energy has finalized definitive documents regarding its previously announced agreement to sell its 50 per cent ownership stake in the 924 MW Sunrise Wind offshore wind project to Ørsted. Eversource will remain contracted, under a separate construction management agreement, to l
Vattenfall and BASF have agreed the sale of 49 per cent of Vattenfall’s Nordlicht 1 and 2 wind farms to BASF. Nordlicht is Vattenfall’s second major offshore wind project in which BASF is participating as a partner. In 2021, BASF acquired almost half of the shares in the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore
Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has revealed plans to build a nacelle factory and a logistic base for offshore wind turbines in South Korea in partnership with A.P. Moller – Maersk. The plan, part of a wider agreement, is dependent on the pace of market growth and awarded volume for Vestas, the com
EnBW and Wallaby Boats have christened the offshore transfer vessel Impulse in the port of Kappeln, Germany, as the vessel gets ready to service the Baltic 2 offshore wind farm starting in May. The two companies have jointly launched the ship which is equipped with a new type of suspension system sa
OEG Renewables, part of OEG Energy Group Limited, has entered the US offshore wind market after signing a multi-year framework agreement with Ørsted. The multi-year agreement gives OEG Renewables’ topside division exclusivity for all temporary power scopes Ørsted have during commissioning on their p
Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn, a joint venture between Plenitude (Eni) and HitecVision, have obtained the offshore planning approval for the Green Volt floating wind farm offshore Scotland. With onshore consent announced earlier this month, Green Volt has now received all its planning approvals and
BW Ideol and Holcim have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a feasibility study on supplying beneficial low-carbon concrete for the floating offshore wind industry, with particular reference to Scotland. BW Ideol and Holcim aim to collaborate on optimising the supply of the innovative co
Heerema Marine Contractors has signed reservation and preliminary work agreements with MFW Bałtyk II and MFW Bałtyk III, special purpose companies owned by Polenergia and Equinor, for the transport and installation of wind turbine foundations and an offshore substation. ”The subject of the Reservati
The government of Norway has signed a two-way Contract for Difference (CfD) related to the offshore wind farm project in the Sørlige Nordsjø II zone with Ventyr Energi, the winner of the recently held auction. Ventyr Energi, a consortium of Parkwind and Ingka Investments, won the rights to develop t
Australia’s Port of Newcastle could accommodate, with required investments, all stages of development of floating offshore wind projects in the Hunter offshore wind zone and across Australasia, a study commissioned by the port has shown. The 1,854 km2 Hunter offshore wind zone area has been identifi
RenewableUK, the Offshore Wind Industry Council, The Crown Estate and Crown Estate Scotland have published an Industrial Growth Plan, setting out how to triple offshore wind manufacturing capacity over the next ten years in the UK. The UK offshore wind industry already employs 32,000 people and each
Milad Sheikhi, Head of Sales and Business Development – Offshore Wind at Jumbo Offshore discusses the way forward for standardisation in offshore wind. Is regulatory restriction the way forward for offshore wind – or will a free market approach yield more rapid returns? With increasingly ambitious t
Lithuania’s National Energy Regulatory Council (NERC) has discontinued the second tender for a 700 megawatt (MW) offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea after receiving only one bid. The Law on Renewable Energy stipulates that there must be at least two tenderers for a tender to take place, Lithuania’s
