Knud E. Hnsen has presented a new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) design in its Atlas series, which can carry four 14 MW wind turbines. The Atlas A-class WTIV is specifically dimensioned for transporting and assembling wind turbines on top of pre-installed foundations. The foundations, which
Turkey’s Cemre Shipyard has bid farewell to the service operations vessel (SOV) Wind of Hope. Ordered by Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA), Wind of Hope’s first assignment will be on Ørsted’s 1.4 GW Hornsea Two off the UK, which will be the world’s largest wind farm once completed. The vessel will opera
Ireland-based offshore engineering consultancy Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) will be providing geoscience advisory and engineering consultancy services for the Baltica 1 offshore wind project in Poland. Under a contract with the developer PGE Baltica, GDG’s scope of work for the offshore wind f
Following the replacement of the main crane on its jack-up vessel Wind Orca, Cadeler has decided to do the same on Wind Osprey, which is currently installing wind turbines on the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK. The company contracted NOV to upgrade Wind Orca with a new and improved crane
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has selected Ramboll to assist with the offshore geotechnical soil investigations for future offshore wind farm areas. The investigations will take place in five future offshore wind farm areas covering 86 locations in the GermanExclusive Econ
Wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa and Poland’s Grupa Przemysłowa Baltic have signed a Letter of Intent to work together to further the Polish offshore wind power industry. The recently enacted Offshore Wind Act calls for the development of 5.9 GW of offshore wind capacity in the Polish Baltic
TotalEnergies has teamed up with the consortium between Green Investment Group (GIG) and Renewable Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG) to bid in the ScotWind offshore wind leasing round. GIG and TotalEnergies have been partners in the offshore wind sector for a while now. In February, they secur
Poland’s Energy Regulatory Office has awarded a contract for difference (CfD) to the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind project. Baltic Power is owned and developed by Poland’s PKN Orlen and Canada’s Northland Power. Under the 25-year contract, the project will receive payments covering any negative
Parkwind has reached financial close on the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm, its first project in Germany, which now officially enters construction phase. Belgian offshore wind developer said the project raised about EUR 570 million of debt from a group of nine lenders. The lenders are KBC Bank, Be
WindEurope has called for a Europe-wide landfill ban on decommissioned wind turbine blades by 2025. Europe’s wind industry actively commits to re-use, recycle, or recover 100 per cent of decommissioned blades, WindEurope said. This comes after several industry-leading companies announced plans for b
The registration for Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2021 is now live! The event, to be held on 26th & 27th October in Amsterdam RAI, the Netherlands, will attract thousands of offshore professionals and hundreds of exhibiting companies. Go to registration.offshore-energy.biz to register. Of
The recently established NorthWind research centre in Norway launched its activities on 16 June with its first General Assembly. The update comes some six months after the Norwegian government announced it would invest NOK 120 million (EUR 11.3 million) in a new wind power research centre, one of wh
Export cable burial works are set to soon commence at the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind project in the UK. The burial of the first export cable is due to begin in the week commencing 21 June, with burial of the second cable planned to begin week commencing 19 July 2, at the earliest. [&hellip
SSE Renewables and Hi Def Aerial Surveying have completed a 24-month aerial survey programme as part of the proposed Berwick Bank and Marr Bank wind farms offshore Scotland. The survey, consisting of 300 hours of flight time, across 5,000 square kilometres, seven times the size of East Lothian, is b
