Damen Shipyards Group has delivered a Fast Crew Supplier 1204 to Total Offshore B.V. Total Offshore will use the crew transfer vessel (CTV), named Swift, to transport offshore personnel to wind farms in the North Sea. Damen and Total Offshore signed the contract in early October. The FCS 1204 was re
South Korean cable manufacturer LS Cable & System has entered into a five-year framework agreement with Ørsted for the opportunity to supply high voltage export cables for offshore wind farms. Roe-hyun Myung, President & CEO of LS C&S, said: “The trend of investing in renewable energy will continue,
Enterprize Energy and Tractebel Overdick have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on delivering Enterprize Energy’s Energy Plus concept, which encompasses offshore wind, hydrogen and ammonia production technologies in a single platform. The cooperation will see the companies buildi
Ravenna-based F.lli Righini Srl has started shipping out jacket pile grippers built for the Neart na Gaoithe wind project offshore Scotland. F.lli Righini Srl has been contracted to design, fabricate, and test 168 jacket pile grippers for the 450 MW project owned by EDF Renewables and ESB. Located s
Maine Governor Janet Mills has announced a plan for the state to set up U.S. first floating offshore wind research array in the Gulf of Maine to advance new technology in collaboration with the state’s fishing industry. The state intends to file an application with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Ma
Seajacks Scylla has 28 jacket foundations to install at the Moray East offshore wind farm, before it wraps up one of the biggest offshore construction works on the project. Only this month (November 2020), the vessel has put in place 18 jackets, so the foundation installation is expected to be compl
Sunrise Wind has purchased a facility in Suffolk County, New York, that will serve as the regional Operations and Maintenance (O&M) hub the offshore wind joint venture between Ørsted and Eversource. Located in East Setauket, the Town of Brookhaven, the Research Way O&M facility will also be used to
The UK government aims to support up to 12 GW of renewable energy projects in the fourth round of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme. Set to open in late 2021, the Round 4 CfD auction will divide renewable technologies into three so-called ‘pots’. Pot 1 is reserved for established technologie
Dogger Bank Wind Farm developers, SSE Renewables and Equinor, have signed four agreements for power offtake for the entire output of the first two phases of the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Dogger Bank A and B. Ørsted and Shell Energy Europe have inked 15-year Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)
Ørsted has disclosed plans to develop South Korean offshore wind projects with a potential capacity of up to 1.6 GW off the coast of Incheon City. The projects will be located more than 70 kilometres from the main parts of Incheon City and have relatively shallow water depths at the target project s
NKT has entered into a Preferred Supplier Agreement (PSA) as the main contractor to deliver and install export cable systems on an unnamed European offshore wind farm. Under the contract, NKT will deliver and install high-voltage DC on- and offshore export cable systems for the project. The potentia
European Union’s Offshore Renewable Energy Strategy, published on 19 November and targeting as much as 300 GW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2050, also outlines the goal of supporting green hydrogen production. In anticipation of the launch of the new Renewable Hydrogen Coalition, it is ever
The 300 MW Zhuhai Jinwan offshore wind farm has entered the trial operation stage after the first MySE5.5MW wind turbines came online, MingYang Smart Energy said. In total, MingYang will deliver 55 MySE5.5MW units for the project, with the delivery now ”well on track”, the turbine maker said. The fi
A new concept for a floating wind turbine platform that aligns itself depending on wind conditions is being developed in Germany under the framework of the joint research project HyStOH, set up by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). The Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH
