Former Petrofac CEO Ayman Asfari and colleagues have established Venterra Group Plc, a company providing services to the offshore wind industry, which acquired FoundOcean, Osbit, and Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG). According to a press release from the newly established Venterra, its mission is
RWE Renewables has awarded RINA with a contract for Cable Verification Services & OCP (Offshore Converter Platform) construction site quality assurance services for the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK. The offshore wind farm’s 220-kilometre export cable route will house ±320 kV high-voltag
Ørsted and Eversource, the developers behind the Sunrise Wind project in New York who awarded Siemens Energy and Aker Solutions with a contract to deliver the offshore wind farm’s high-voltage direct current (HVDC) system, said that this would be the first offshore wind project in the US to use the
Siemens Gamesa has installed the nacelle of its SG 14-222 DD prototype offshore wind turbine at the test centre in Østerild, Denmark. With a weight of 500 tonnes, the lightweight nacelle is said to enable Siemens Gamesa to safely utilise an optimised tower and foundation substructure, compared to a
Siemens Energy will supply the high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system for the Sunrise Wind project in New York together with Aker Solutions, which revealed it had won the contract in its third quarter results earlier today. For Siemens Energy, as well as for Aker Solutions, this is t
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) have entered into an agreement to further expand cooperation on a range of globally relevant investments, including projects contributing to carbon neutrality in the European Union, such as subsea interconnectors,
The consortium formed by wpd, Vattenfall, and BlueFloat Energy has revealed the name of the project it will bid with in the upcoming floating offshore wind tender for a site off the coast of Southern Brittany in France, for which the consortium prequalified last month. The proposed floating wind far
The minimum output of wind turbines to be used at the Hollandse Kust West Wind Farm Zone has been set to 14 MW each, according to Camiel van der Hout and Emelie de Wagt from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, who provided updates on the zone and the upcoming tender at [&helli
Aker Solutions has won a contract for the Sunrise Wind offshore wind project in the US, valued at more than NOK 3 billion (approx. EUR 309 million / USD 358 million). Under the contract secured with Ørsted and Eversource, the company will provide the high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission s
Heerema Marine Contractors, using the installation vessel Sleipnir, has installed both of the substations at Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm in the UK. After recently installing the topside of the project’s offshore substation (OSS), the vessel has now also put the Reactive Compensation Stat
The Dutch IJmuiden Ver Wind Farm Zone, which is set to house TenneT’s next-generation offshore grid solution with a capacity of 2 GW per connection, is likely to incorporate three instead of two 2 GW grid connection systems and have 6 GW instead of 4 GW of total installed offshore wind capacity. Thi
A joint venture between Spanish companies BlueFloat Energy and Sener has revealed plans for one of the first floating offshore wind farms in Andalusia, Spain. The project is planned to have an installed capacity of 300 MW and to potentially power green hydrogen production. Called Mar de Ágata, the f
Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy are set to apply for permission to develop a second floating offshore wind project in Puglia, Italy. After filing for authorisation of a 1.2 GW floating wind farm in the waters off Brindisi last month, the partners will now seek permits to install floating wind
Italian authorities have received an application seeking concession for a site in the Adriatic Sea, off the coast of Ravenna, where the Italian renewable energy developer AGNES, Saipem, and QINT’X plan to develop an offshore energy hub. The project comprises two offshore wind farms, a floating photo
