Atlantique Offshore Energy has signed long-term maintenance contracts for three offshore substations its parent company Chantiers de l’Atlantique is building for three offshore wind farms in France. Chantiers de l’Atlantique reported on 27 July that its Marine Energy Business Unit, Atlantique Offsho
The Crown Estate has selected three floating offshore wind demonstration projects through its recently launched leasing opportunity for early commercial-scale floating wind projects in the Celtic Sea. The three projects have been proposed by two joint ventures, Offshore Wind Ltd (OWL), a joint ventu
The last wind turbine has been installed at the Dutch Windpark Fryslân nearshore wind farm, the world’s largest wind farm built in a body of fresh water. Now that the 89th and final Siemens Gamesa 4.3 MW turbine is in place, the installation platforms Sarens Soccer Pitch and Tom-Wim will leave the I
The Philippines’ Department of Energy (DOE) aims to collaborate with the Carbon Trust and the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) to unlock the country’s offshore wind potential. The DOE held a virtual workshop on 21 July to determine how the Philippine government and the wind industry could jointly w
The Sheng Ping 001 jack-up vessel, formerly Teras Fortress 2, tilted on 25 July while working at the site of China General Nuclear Power Corporation’s (CGN) wind farm off Huizhou, with four people reported missing, China’s media report. The vessel, carrying 65 people, tilted around 11 a.m. on 25 Jul
A joint venture between Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios and Flotation Energy has revealed its plan to apply for development consent to build offshore wind farms in Ireland, once the country’s new legislative framework is in place. Offshore Wind Ltd (OWL) plans to build one wind farm, called Greyston
TotalEnergies, through its Belgian subsidiary Lampiris, has signed a Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (CPPA) with Air Liquide for the supply of electricity produced by an offshore wind farm in Belgium. Under the agreement, TotalEnergies will supply the French industrial gases company with 50 GWh o
German offshore wind farms generated 11.49 TWh of electricity in the first half of 2021, some 16.3 per cent less than during the same time last year, when offshore wind turbines off the country’s coasts produced 13.73 TWh of electricity. The wind energy transmitted from the German North Sea to shore
RWE has signed a contract with the Danish software company Systematic for a marine management tool that the developer will deploy across its global fleet of offshore wind farms. Under the contract, Systematic will supply its software, called SITE, to manage vessel and personnel information, as well
China Three Gorges (CTG) Renewables has announced that its Shaba (Shapa) offshore wind project, currently under construction off the city of Yangjiang in Guangdong Province, surpassed an installed capacity of 1 GW on 15 July, making it China’s first GW-range offshore wind farm. Once fully built, the
Van Oord has signed a contract with Iberdrola for the installation of monopile foundations and the supply, transportation and installation of inter-array cables for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. The offshore construction specialist will deploy its heavy lift installation vessel Sva
Jan De Nul has completed the installation of all export cables for the 376 MW Formosa 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The company installed four export cables with a total length of 34 kilometres using its cable laying vessel (CLV) Willem de Vlamingh, which was able to position itself close to the b
Ocean Winds (OW) and Canary Islands’ renewable energy company DISA Group have partnered to jointly develop floating wind projects in the Spanish archipelago. “In the Canary Islands, the depth of the waters away from the coast makes it necessary to use floating wind technology, a technology in which
The China Three Gorges (CTG) Corporation is building two offshore wind farm installation vessels, one at CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding yard and one at China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) yard in Jiangsu. CSSC is building a 2000-tonne wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) for CTG and CMHI wi
