Eight floating wind technology innovation projects that were winners in a Scottish Government-funded competition have announced the results of their 12-month developments. Each project received a share of the GBP 1 million fund along with industry guidance to undertake a range of activities, from de
The jacket foundation for the offshore substation that will be part of the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm is scheduled to be installed at the project site off France in August. This is according to the latest update from the jacket’s builder Rosetti Marino, which has just sent the structure on a 2
Fugro has introduced a new system that monitors mooring line fatigue on floating wind turbines, designed in a consortium between Fugro, AS Mosley and the University of Strathclyde, and funded by the Scottish Government. The mooring line fatigue tracker fuses the motion and position measurements of f
The US Department of the Interior has announced a proposed sale for offshore wind development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the New York Bight. This would be the first competitive offshore wind lease sale for the Biden-Harris administration. The proposed lease areas are located in shallow
RWE has begun construction of its 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm, the largest project currently in construction across the company’s entire renewables fleet. The official construction will start with onshore activities, which are also known as enabling works. UK firm Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK
DEME has installed the first drilled XL monopile at the Saint-Nazaire wind farm offshore France. This is the first time this technique has been used to install an XL monopile on an offshore wind farm. Although the first monopile foundations had to be conventionally driven, 73 of the wind farm’s 80 X
Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy put out several proposals for public consultation regarding the development of offshore wind in Norway on Friday, 11 June. The Norwegian government will start a process for awarding interested operators allocated areas as soon as possible, thus allowing them
Poland’s transmission system operator Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne (PSE) plans to invest around PLN 4.5 billion (around EUR 1 billion) by 2030 to prepare the grid for the electricity generated at future offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea. The investment will go toward substations and transm
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Blue Tern installed the 50th Vestas V164-9.5MW wind turbine at the Moray East offshore wind farm, marking the halfway milestone. The 50th turbine was installed at 22.40 local time on Thursday, 10 June. Last work on the turbine was completed at 05.14 on Friday, 11 Ju
Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) Offshore Wind Limited has appointed two Scottish-based businesses to construct its Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Base at Eyemouth Harbour in Scotland. Muir Construction, based in Inverkeithing, Fife, has been appointed to design and build NnG’s three storey, 1,040 square me
Transmission system operator TenneT has issued contract notices related to offshore grid connection systems in the German North Sea. In one of the contract notices, TenneT is seeking geotechnical and geophysical survey services at the BalWin platform locations. The contract covers the execution of g
TenneT and the joint venture of ENGIE Solutions and Iemants have cut the first steel for the Hollandse Kust (west Alpha) offshore transformer station topside. The joint venture partners and TenneT officially kicked off the steel fabrication for the Hollandse Kust (west Alpha) topside at the Smulders
Kongsberg Maritime has won contracts to design and equip two construction service operation vessels (CSOV/SOV) for the Norway-based shipowner Awind AS. The combined contract value is approximately NOK 250 million (around EUR 25 million). Destined for the offshore wind market, the new CSOVs will be b
Fully decommissioning an offshore wind farm is the least cost-effective strategy for owners of projects reaching the end of their lifespan, the latest analysis from ORE Catapult’s new joint industry programme shows. On the other hand, partial repowering of offshore wind farms, which involves install
