GE’s Grid Solutions business and HSM Offshore Energy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to partner on further AC offshore wind substation projects in Europe and beyond. The companies said the MoU was a response ”to the increasing demand for turnkey delivery of offshore high-voltage subs
Belgium-headquartered DEME has revealed that the “revolutionary” offshore installation vessel Orion officially joined its fleet. The vessel arrived last month at DEME offshore base near Vlissingen in the Netherlands after sailing out of Bremerhaven, Germany. Orion is equipped with Liebherr’s Heavy L
Colombia’s President Iván Duque and Minister of Mining and Energy, Diego Mesa, launched the country’s Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap on 3 May at an event in the city of Barranquilla, whose waters will become the home of the first offshore wind farm in Colombia. The objective of the roadmap is to build
Edda Wind’s Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (CSOV) Edda Breeze has sailed out to perform sea trials, said Astilleros Gondán S.A, the Spanish shipyard that built the vessel. The CSOV, the first of five vessels Astilleros Gondán S.A is building for Edda Wind, left the Eo estuary this weekend fo
Equinor and BP have selected a consortium between Van Oord and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) for subsea rock installation works for their Empire Wind 1 and Empire Wind 2 offshore wind farms in New York. The consortium plans to start operations at the offshore wind farm sites in the mid-2020s, wit
Ørsted and Star Energy Corporation (SEC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Taiwan Cogeneration Corporation, have switched on the two onshore substations for the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan. Following the first power in late April, the eneregisation of the 900 MW onshore substat
UK-based Offshore Design Engineering Limited (ODE) has been selected as the Owner’s Engineer for Vena Energy’s 384 MW Yokji offshore wind farm in South Korea. Under the two-year contract, ODE will provide a range of services including basic engineering, wind turbine generators (WTG) package support
Spanish company EOLOS Floating Lidar Solutions has been selected by the Lithuanian Energy Agency to perform hydrometeorological measurements to support the development of the first offshore wind farm in Lithuania. Under the tender requirements, EOLOS will deliver the services within 15 months from t
Dublin-based Gazelle Wind Power (Gazelle) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Vienna Consulting Engineers ZT GmbG (VCE) to support its 2 MW floating wind pilot project in the Canary Islands. Under the MoU, VCE will provide design services, including load capacity determination, inspe
Ersg and Taylor Hopkinson have been selected to supply personnel to work on the Moray West offshore wind project in Scotland. The two companies will supply temporary staff for the lifecycle of the project. “After a competitive tendering process, ersg are ecstatic to have been declared one of two exc
Washington-based All American Marine (AAM) has won a contract to build a research and hydrographic survey vessel for Geodynamics, an NV5 company, that will be used in the offshore wind market. The R/V Shackleford, named after the southernmost barrier island in the Cape Lookout National Seashore chai
UK-headquartered OPITO and National Offshore Wind Institute (NOWI), based at Bristol Community College in Massachusetts, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which could support thousands of new jobs in the growing US offshore wind market. Under the MoU signed at the IPF conference in New
U-Ming Marine Offshore Company Limited (UMO) has acquired two secondhand crew transfer vessels (CTVs), UMO Mistral and UMO Scirocco, and completed their reflagging. The company, a joint venture between Taiwan’s bulk shipping company U-Ming Marine Transport Corporation and Denmark’s World Marine Offs
UK-based investment company Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) has struck a deal to acquire a 7.75 per cent ownership interest in the Lincs wind farm offshore England. According to ORIT, the acquisition is expected to be completed in the second quarter of this year once the needed consen
