Highland Wind Limited is pressing ahead with plans to build the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm (PFOWF), a 100 MW floating wind project offshore Scotland. Highland Wind is majority-owned by Danish fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through one of its Copenhagen In
Remedial work on the cable protection system (CPS) on inter-array cables at an offshore wind farm in the UK, owned by RWE, is set to start in the next couple of days, following the discovery of a defect CPS at several locations within the wind farm site earlier this year. This is an excerpt from [&h
South Korea’s LS Cable & System has secured a preferred bidder status for a KRW 200 billion (around EUR 145 million) contract to provide submarine cables for the Hai Long offshore wind farm in Taiwan. LS Cable & System was selected for the project by CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE), Taiwan’s first
Atlas Professionals has started recruiting Troubleshooters and Service Technicians for Vattenfall’s Operations & Maintenance (O&M) team that will be taking care of the Hollandse Kust Zuid 1-4 offshore wind farms in the Netherlands. Since the transfer to the wind turbines will be carried out by crew
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has issued a contract notice for two metocean campaigns at the IJmuiden Ver Investigation Area in the Dutch North Sea. Both locations will be further specified later on, RVO said. The data obtained from these metocean campaigns will be published by RVO and is
Construction works on the quayside at the Teesworks site, where GE Renewable Energy will build its manufacturing plant for offshore wind turbine blades, have started. UK contractor Graham has been appointed to work on the development of the new South Bank Quay, a 1.2-kilometre heavy-lift quay along
By Dario Mulazzani, DAVI Product & Market Specialist Wind Energy & Heavy-Duty Division Located in such a dynamic and extremely powerful element as the sea, foundations represent one of the main elements of any off-shore wind farm which typically accounts for over one-fourth of the total equipment co
GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X prototype in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has started operating at 14 MW. With this new milestone, GE Renewable Energy becomes the first industry player to operate a turbine at this power output, the turbine maker said. The Haliade-X 14 MW is an uprated version of the
Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) work on the onshore cable route for the Seagreen offshore wind farm have been completed, allowing for the installation of the electrical cables for what will become Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm. HDD has been used to insert ducting at eight locations alo
Nexans has won a contract with Parkwind to provide turnkey business continuity services to four of its offshore wind farms in Belgium. The Northwind, Belwind, Nobelwind and Northwester 2 farms are among the biggest in Belgium, with a combined installed capacity of 771 MW. Together, these four wind f
The consortium between Falck Renewables, Ørsted, and BlueFloat Energy, which is bidding in the latest ScotWind leasing round, has signed an exclusive Memorandum of Understanding with the community ownership organisation Energy4All to work on opportunities for Scottish communities to own a stake in t
The World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) has published a report for emerging offshore wind markets, leading them through key factors that led to the success of offshore wind development in established markets. Holding an unrealised potential of over 16,000 GW of technical
Equinor has decided to extend the preapplication period for its Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind farm extensions, off the Norfolk coast, and now plans to apply for the Development Consent Order (DCO) for the projects by early summer 2022, instead of this year. The developer said extending
DNV has been contracted to carry out Project Certification for the Codling Wind Park project, one of the largest offshore wind farms planned in Ireland. Codling Wind Park is a proposed offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea, set in an area called Codling Bank, approximately 13-22 kilometres off the Cou
