Inch Cape Offshore Limited (ICOL) has picked the Port of Dundee as the pre-assembly and marshalling site for the construction of the 1.1 GW Inch Cape wind farm offshore Scotland. The agreement will see turbine blades, towers, and nacelles being delivered and pre-assembled at the port’s renewables hu
The 111th and final jacket foundation has been installed at Ørsted’s 900 MW Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan. The jackets have been installed by Heerema Marine Contractors’ heavy lift vessel Aegir, which completed the foundation installation on Greater Changhua 2a in May and the
Prysmian Group has developed and tested its first 525 kV extruded subsea full cable system for High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) applications. The company said that this innovation in cable technology will enable a massive increase of the maximum transmission capacity of bi-pole systems up to more
Seacat Services has taken delivery of the first of two BARTech 30 crew transfer vessels (CTVs) from marine engineering consultancy BAR Technologies. The handover took place at BAR Technologies premises in Portsmouth where the vessel was officially named Seacat Columbia by Seacat Services founder Ian
Greencoat UK Wind has completed its acquisition of a net 12.5 per cent stake in the Hornsea One offshore wind farm in the UK, currently the world’s largest offshore wind farm in operation. Greencoat announced the signing of an agreement to acquire the stake on 16 May 2022 and said the buy-in will be
China-headquartered Goldwind has kicked off construction of a 1,600-tonne offshore wind installation vessel. The vessel boasts the largest variable load capacity and turbine storage capacity in China and can optimise the construction of offshore wind projects with different foundation types in the d
Initial surveys of the area that the Lithuanian Government designated for the country’s first offshore wind farm have shown that the seabed there is suitable for the development of this type of project. Geophysical and geotechnical investigations of the seabed are being carried out by Geobaltic and
Van Oord has installed 24 out of 62 jacket foundations for the 496 MW Saint-Brieuc wind farm offshore France. The installation of the jackets started on 1 July, while the first four units were placed on the seabed a few weeks later. Meanwhile, Van Oord’s vessel Aeolus continues with pre-piling work
The Taiwanese Government plans to launch a tender for 100 MW of floating wind capacity later this year and invite developers to propose their demonstration projects. The floating wind projects will be selected next year and must be completed and commissioned in 2026. The applicants will submit propo
An offshore geophysical survey campaign will soon start at the Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 located off the Wicklow coast in the Irish Sea. The goal of the survey is to provide site investigation information to facilitate the development of the Arklow Bank Wind Park. Work is anticipated to start at
The international renewable energy company DP Energy has unveiled plans for five separate offshore wind projects in Australia after the government introduced more supportive policy for the sector. These five areas are off the coast of Warrnambool in Western Victoria, Wonthaggi and Port Albert in the
“K” Line Wind Service and Penta-Ocean Construction (POC) have entered into an agreement on future collaboration on vessel management in the offshore wind sector. Under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the companies plan to draw on their expertise in each respective area and management resource
SSE Renewables and its ScotWind partners, Marubeni Corporation and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have officially named their up to 2.6 GW floating wind project offshore Scotland for which the companies won the rights in the recent ScotWind auction. The offshore wind farm is called Ossian,
DEME Offshore and Havfram have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly offer construction services to the offshore wind farm sector in Norway, starting with projects to be selected through the upcoming lease auction for the Sørlige Nordsjø II area. The companies say they plan to play a
