SouthCoast Wind, the developer of an offshore wind lease area off the coast of Massachusetts, has started discussions with this US state’s representatives and utilities to terminate its existing Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) citing ”material and unforeseen supply chain and financing cost increase
Tersan Shipyard has held a keel-laying ceremony for Acta Marine’s second construction service operations vessel (CSOV) NB1121 which is being manufactured in Turkey. Tersan Shipyard is building two DP2 CSOVs for Acta Marine which will be powered with methanol and MDO/HVO. The Dutch vessel owner signe
Hydrogen production technology with the direct seawater electrolysis method has been tested at Xinghua Bay offshore wind farm in Fujian, southeast China. According to reports by the Beijing-based state-run foreign-language news channel, CGTN, this world’s first test to produce hydrogen by in-situ di
NKT has announced that it is finalising the power cable contract for the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland. For NKT, the order is expected to have a value of more than EUR 120 million (more than EUR 110 million in std. metal prices) and will comprise the design and production of [&hel
OX2 and Port of Raahe have agreed to cooperate in the construction and operation of the Halla offshore wind farm in Finland. The cooperation would involve the passage of parts of the Halla offshore wind farm through the Port of Raahe after offshore construction starts which is planned to commence by
On 2 June, BlueFloat Energy announced that the company had secured contracts for four (floating) offshore wind project sites in the Philippines and thus entry into the country’s offshore wind market. These are Wind Energy Service Contracts (WESCs), or Offshore Wind (OSW) Service Contracts (SCs), tha
SSE Renewables has awarded Stowen Clean Energy with a five-year framework agreement for ad hoc services for the Beatrice offshore wind farm in Scotland. Stowen already has agreements with SSE for ad hoc services for the 504 MW Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm. The UK company says that adding the B
The Correll Group – Cable Installation & Power Services Division has been awarded a contract by Asso.subsea to deliver the offshore pull-ins and termination & testing of 66 kV export and inter-array cables for the Vesterhav Nord and Syd offshore wind farms in Denmark. The Vesterhav Nord and Syd, bei
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend; RVO) has invited tenders for integrated ground models (IGMs) and geotechnical interpretative reports for the Nederwiek Noord and Hollandse Kust West VIII offshore wind farm zones. The work will help inform the preliminary foundation de
ABB has secured an order from China’s Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore to deliver an integrated bridge-to-propeller technology for Havfram Wind’s two new NG20000X-HF wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs). ABB scope comprises four Azipod electric main propulsion units with a total propulsion power of
The installation of the last batch of wind turbines is now underway at the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm in the Netherlands after the vessel Wind Osprey picked up the components in Rotterdam last week. This weekend, Vattenfall said via social media that the components for the last turbines
Amper Group, through its subsidiary Nervion Naval Offshore, has been awarded a contract to construct and assemble wind turbine jacket components for the 496 MW Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm in France. Nervion Naval Offshore’s scope of work involves the prefabrication of metallic components su
ESB and Ørsted have signed an agreement to jointly develop a portfolio of up to 5 GW of offshore wind and complementary green hydrogen projects in Ireland, with the first of these offshore wind projects expected to compete in the next Irish auction, ORESS 2.1. The agreement also marks Ørsted’s entry
At the beginning of May, Balmoral presented a scour protection solution that could replace rock dumping and is set to potentially cut costs by up to 70 per cent when compared to this conventional method. In an interview with offshoreWIND.biz, the company revealed that the initial concept behind its
