German vessel operator Opus Marine GmbH has held a naming ceremony in Cuxhaven for Allegro, a new Damen Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2710. Allegro is the first vessel of its kind to fly the German flag. Opus Marine will place the vessel within its existing fleet, consisting of six vessels for the offsho
Europe needs to invest EUR 6.5 billion in port infrastructure by 2030 to deliver the offshore wind expansion targets set out in EU’s Offshore Renewable Energy Strategy, a new report by WindEurope shows. These investments would pay back in just five years, WindEurope said. Europe is embarking on a hu
World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO) has announced the establishment of an Offshore Dispute Resolution Committee (ODRC), which aims to develop alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for the global offshore wind industry. According to WFO, the new mechanisms will be set up to resolve offshore wind proj
A major construction milestone has been reached at what is to be the largest operating offshore wind farm once commissioned. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our sister site Offshore Energy. You can read the original article by clicking on the link below:
Ørsted and TEPCO Renewable Power, through a joint venture company, have submitted a bid to the Japanese government for a wind farm off the coast of Choshi City in Chiba Prefecture. According to earlier information on the project, the Choshi offshore wind farm will have a capacity of 370 MW. TEPCO an
Floatel International has been awarded a contract for the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a project, the first for the company in the offshore wind sector. Under the contract, Floatel International will provide an accommodation vessel to support construction activities on Ørsted’s offshore wind farm in Taiwan
Enterprize Energy (EE) has signed a contract with PTSC G&S and Fugro to supply, install and operate a floating LiDAR at the site of the Thang Long Wind project offshore Vietnam. Fugro and PTSE will deploy Fugro’s SEAWATCH Wind LiDAR Buoy to collect detailed wind resource, meteorological, and oceanog
RWE has selected France-based RTE International as the technical consultant for HVDC systems at the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK. RTE International will assure the technical quality of the HVDC components for the entire work site. The electricity generated by the offshore wind farm will
Equinor has completed the acquisition of a site at the port of Łeba to serve as the operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the Polish Baltic Sea offshore wind projects. This makes Equinor the first developer to confirm an offshore wind maintenance port in Poland together with the joint venture pa
Ørsted and POSCO Group, one of the largest conglomerates in Korea, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen collaboration on offshore wind and renewable hydrogen in Korea. POSCO and its affiliates will apply the group’s joint capabilities to support the development of Ørsted’s 1
DNV has signed a non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with power cable manufacturer LS Cable & System to target emerging cabling opportunities in the offshore wind industry. The MOU comes in response to growing global demand for high-voltage, next-generation power cables with dynamic capa
Gondan Shipyard has launched the first of four commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs) it is building for Edda Wind at its yard in Figueras, Spain. The 88.3-metre CSOV, designed by Salt Ship Design, is the first vessel in the world to use electric Voith Schneider Propellers (eVSP) and has be
Consulting and engineering company Wood has been awarded a pre-FEED (front-end engineering design) contract by Simply Blue Energy for a proposed floating offshore wind farm located off the west coast of Ireland. The Western Star Floating Offshore Wind project aims to harness the wind power of the At
Two UK innovators have joined forces in a mission to develop a robotic solution for ensuring the integrity of bolts that hold wind turbines together. The new project brings together the six-legged BladeBUG inspect-and-repair robot for turbine blades and EchoBolt’s ultrasonic bolt inspection device,
