Star of the South, together with Federation University Australia, has launched the Fed Cadet Program to give a Fed Uni student the opportunity to work in the offshore wind sector while completing their degree. Star of the South, Australia’s first proposed offshore wind farm, will provide up to two d
France-based Akrocean has secured multi Floating LiDAR System (FLS) contracts in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Earlier in 2021, Akrocean and its Korean Partners Vision Plus and SA Offshore deployed two FLiDAR Systems in Korean waters for one year of wind and metocean assessment to secure the Elect
The Gwynt Y Mor offshore wind farm in the UK is set to undergo a pre-construction survey of its export cable corridor, following a series of export cable issues. Titan Endeavour will carry out the work, starting around 15 April and scheduled to take up to seven days, subject to weather conditions. T
21 out of the 114 Vestas V164-10.0 MW turbines have been installed at the 1.1 GW Seagreen offshore wind farm, Scotland’s largest and the world’s deepest fixed-bottom offshore wind farm. The turbines have been installed on all available 21 jacket foundations, and the installation activity will recomm
Shell and ScottishPower have signed option agreements with Crown Estate Scotland for their two floating wind farms that have a combined capacity of 5 GW. ScottishPower also has a third, bottom-fixed offshore wind project that secured seabed lease rights in the ScotWind leasing round. The floating wi
The Department of Energy (DOE) of the Philippines and the World Bank Group will virtually launch the country’s first Offshore Wind Roadmap on 20 April. The World Bank Group and DOE have worked closely to prepare this first-of-its-kind roadmap, which aims to tap the country’s 178-gigawatt offshore wi
Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore and Korean Register (KR) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) focused on floating offshore wind development in Korea’s East Sea. The two companies aim to share technologies, information, and experiences in the field of floating offshore wind farms in the E
The Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) has launched a series of online modules to support those new to the offshore wind industry by covering topics from project inception to decommissioning. The publicly available online modules explain how offshore wind farms are planned, the consenting process
Renewable Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG), TotalEnergies, and Corio Generation have signed an option agreement with Crown Estate Scotland for their 2 GW offshore wind project, West of Orkney Windfarm, which was selected in the ScotWind leasing round at the beginning of this year. “This is a
Tendering process for one of the offshore wind areas the Dutch Government planned to auction this year has been postponed and will be launched at a later time, with the specific timeline expected to be announced later this year. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our sister site
EDF Renewables UK and DP Energy have revealed more details about the location of their Gwynt Glas floating offshore wind project in the Celtic Sea, which could have up to 1 GW of installed capacity. The Gwynt Glas wider search area is 70 kilometres off the coast of Pembrokeshire and 45 kilometres fr
Smulders has announced that both parts of the jacket for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust (West Alpha) substation were upended at the Heerema yard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. The first part was upended last week, while the second one was upturned on 11 April. Assembly work is expected to continue with th
Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy have signed option agreements for their two joint projects selected in the ScotWind offshore leasing round, and another option agreement for a third project for which the partnership secured a lease in a consortium with Ørsted. The two leases secured by Falck Re
Fugro has won a contract with BP and EnBW to carry out a geotechnical site investigation campaign at the Morgan and Mona offshore wind projects in the Irish Sea. Fieldwork will run from May to September at the site located approximately 30 kilometres off the coast of North Wales and North West Engla
