Ørsted and Eversource have signed a USD 86 million (around EUR 74 million) contract with Riggs Distler & Company for the supply of wind turbine foundations for the Sunrise Wind offshore wind project in New York. This represents the largest, single offshore wind supply chain contract award in New Yor
As the analysis of the seabed suitability for an offshore wind farm continues for the Hesselø project site, the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) is now searching for alternative areas for the second of the three large-scale offshore wind farms Denmark is planning to build under the Energy Agreement from 2
Seaway 7 ASA has been selected as a preferred contractor by Ørsted for the transport and installation of wind turbines for part of the Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms in Germany. The installation will utilise the company’s jack-up installation vessel VIND1, and the projects ar
DEME Offshore has installed 100 turbines on the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm, with 65 more of Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW units left to be put into place. The jack-up vessel Sea Challenger installed the first wind turbine at the end of May and in less than three months later the project had 50 wind turb
An issue with soft seabed conditions at the Hesselø offshore wind farm site is currently being investigated in relation to the framework set for the project and the planned (and currently paused) tender process, with one of the solutions now mentioned being the development of the second of Denmark’s
Cloudberry Clean Energy, a Nordic renewable energy developer and power producer currently working on a shallow-water wind farm in Lake Vänern in southern Sweden, is strengthening its offshore wind business and looking into opportunities for developing further shallow-water as well as “conventional”
RWE has completed all the major onshore electrical system construction works for the 857 MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm project in Lincolnshire, the UK. The works, which commenced in September 2018, involved laying 57 kilometres of 220 kV underground cable from the project’s landfall location ne
Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) has denied a Motion to Disqualify filed by Skipjack Offshore Energy, owned by Ørsted, against some of the proposals US Wind submitted in the state’s latest offshore wind application round. However, the process itself has not yet ended, as the Commission said
Aker Offshore Wind has outlined plans to utilise offshore wind underwater substations as part of its bids to develop major floating wind farms offshore Scotland. The multi-million subsea innovation would be developed, manufactured, and supplied in Scotland by Aker Solutions and provide major export
Jan De Nul Group has selected Remazel for the delivery of a fully automated monopile installation system for its new floating installation vessel Les Alizés, which will handle and install XXL monopiles. The system is tailor-made for the new vessel and ideally suited to work in challenging weather co
BlueFloat Energy and Falck Renewables, which have already partnered to develop floating offshore wind projects in Scotland and Italy, are now also exploring opportunities for building floating wind farms in the Celtic Sea off the coast of Cornwall and Wales. “The Celtic Sea offers great potential fo
Ørsted has selected Cadeler A/S as a preferred wind turbine installation vessel supplier for the combined Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 projects in the German North Sea. The award covers the transport and installation of a minimum of 48 x 11 MW turbines, which will be located adjacent to Ørsted
Uruguay’s state-owned oil and gas company ANCAP, together with the country’s ministries of industry and environment, has presented a plan for green hydrogen production powered by offshore wind, which could see a tender launched in a couple of years. Under the new H2U Offshore programme, ANCAP has ca
Ørsted plans to build a nearly USD 20 million emissions-free offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M) facility in west Ocean City, Maryland, USA. Located on Harbor Road, the facility will service Ørsted’s Skipjack Wind program and create up to 110 temporary and permanent jobs in the community,
