Scotland’s strategy for increasing the share of local content in wind projects off its coasts, as well as for increasing Scottish content in projects in other markets, should be based on manufacturing, rather than installation, according to a report from the Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council (SO
Manor Renewable Energy (MRE) has signed a contract to charter a new build crew transfer vessel from WEM Marine LTD to support its work supplying temporary power solution at the 1.4 GW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. WEM Marine LTD’s vessel, the WEM3, joined MRE on Hornsea Two in July 2021. The WEM3
Akrocean has completed a one-year wind and meteorological and oceanographic (metocean) campaign for the Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark. The company retrieved its floating LiDAR from the project site in the Danish part of the North Sea earlier this summer and delivered wind and metocean data to t
TenneT’s Hollandse Kust (Noord) offshore jacket foundation is nearing completion at the Vlissingen yard of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG). With the roll-up completed, and the two-part cable deck now installed, the jacket is now entering the final stages of fabrication, SLPE, the designer of the jac
Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has selected RWE Renewables and EDF Renewables as the winners of the tender to develop up to 958 MW of offshore wind capacity across two sites in the North Sea and one site in the Baltic Sea. RWE Renewables placed zero-subsidy bids to develop offs
Spanish energy giant Iberdrola has announced three new offshore wind development projects in Taiwan with a combined potential capacity of approximately six gigawatts. The projects are named Da-Chung Bu Offshore Wind (大中部離岸風電), Guo-Feng Offshore Wind (果豐離岸風電) and Ju-Dao Offshore Wind (菊島離岸風電) and wil
Ørsted and Vietnam’s T&T Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to launch a strategic collaboration on offshore wind in Vietnam. The collaboration between Ørsted and T&T is said to bring together a multi-GW pipeline of greenfield offshore wind projects located off the coasts of the Bi
Singapore-based provider of mooring solutions Mooreast Asia has decided to diversify into the floating wind market and has, for this purpose, acquired an upgraded water-front facility in Singapore that will more than double its capacity. The company will use the new facility for components fabricati
By Siddharth Uppal, Product Manager Service & Installation at NKT Meeting our energy targets – the importance of subsea cables for offshore wind farms and interconnecting power grids Subsea power cables are critical infrastructure for the transmission of renewable energy globally. Growing demand for
The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) expects 2021 to be the new record year for new offshore wind capacity installed globally. Last year, 6.1 GW of offshore wind capacity were installed globally, a slight decrease from a record 6.24 GW in 2019. With China’s offshore wind sector rushing to install 7
The consortium behind the FLOTANT project has completed the validation of a dynamic cable concept for deepwater floating wind projects. As part of the dynamic cable scope, consortium partners Hellenic Cables and ITA have completed the design and engineering of a braided armor for the protection of t
A decision on selecting specific areas for further development within the Elwind offshore project could be adopted in early 2022, according to the Ministry of Economic of Latvia, which announced on 8 September that Hendrikson & KO and Pondera Consult were awarded a contract for a pre-feasibility stu
ABB and Aker Solutions have added offshore wind to a strategic alliance agreement the two companies signed in 2016 for seabed solutions for oil and gas. The updated agreement, which now also includes offshore fish farming, covers electrical and control for seabed solutions and offshore wind, power-f
Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) has acquired Fuinneamh Sceirde Teoranta (FST), the developer of the Sceirde Rocks offshore wind farm, in Galway, Ireland. Sceirde Rocks is a proposed 400 MW offshore wind farm, capable of generating enough energy to power the equivalent of up to 295,000 homes
