Vestas has received an order to supply the turbines for the 29 MW Soc Trang 7 intertidal wind project in Vietnam. Soc Trang 7 will feature seven V150-4.2 MW turbines with customized towers placed on reinforced onshore foundations located in Soc Trang, a province in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietn
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has invited tenders for geophysical investigations and hydrographic surveys as part of the geological preliminary exploration in the N-9 wind energy area. Specifically, the sites to be surveyed within the area in the North Sea are N-9.1, N-9.3
Harvesting wind energy from far offshore has significant advantages. At the same time, it introduces many challenges and some unknown issues still yet to be faced. They are installed far from shore, in deeper waters, in the middle of harsh marine environments where local sea state conditions can ins
ProCon Wind Energy has won a contract to provide the electrical outfitting of the transition pieces for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. Under the deal with Eiffage Métal, ProCon is providing the installation and commissioning of the electrical scope for the transition pieces. The
Singapore-based Keppel Offshore & Marine has secured a contract an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a vessel which will work in the offshore renewable energy industry. The deal is valued at approximately SGD 600 million (around EUR 375 million). Aside from the contract an
Van Oord has completed the pull-in of the two export cables at the Alpha platform of TenneT’s Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) offshore wind project. The two cables have now reached the recently installed six-legged jacket foundation at the Alpha offshore substation. The installation started on 22 Septembe
Boskalis’ semi-submersible heavy transport vessel Fjord has set sail from Spain to the Netherlands carrying the first floating foundation for the Kincardine offshore wind project in Scotland. Fjord began its journey from Navantia’s yard in Fene on 7 October towards Rotterdam, where the turbine will
The first out of the total of 165 monopile foundations has been installed at the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm site in the UK, according to social media updates from Ørsted. The milestone comes around a week after the jacket foundation for the wind farm’s offshore substation was installed. DEME’s j
Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) has issued tenders seeking contractors for the cable and converter station engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) for the Celtic Interconnector between Ireland and France. The first tender relates to the EPC contract for the design, engineering, proc
The Ohio Power Siting Board has removed a requirement for the Icebreaker Wind project in Lake Erie to shut down its wind turbines during nighttime hours from March through November. Back in May, the Board approved the construction of the Icebreaker Wind project with 33 conditions, one of which was t
Siemens Gamesa and Boston-based startup Vinci VR have secured funding from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to develop Virtual Reality (VR) training simulations for the offshore wind sector in Massachusetts and the U.S. East Coast. The USD 124,670 grant will be used to create the first Global W
This article was originally published on our sister site Offshore Energy. t Marine engineering firm Apollo has completed a study for Bombora Wave Power verifying that mWave technology, when applied to a floating platform, can provide added value to large scale offshore energy projects. The study has
Akselos and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have won a CHF 1.2 million grant from the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse) to deliver a next-generation structural design and assessment tool for wind turbines. The grant is part of a project that aims to increase the computational capa
Swire Pacific Offshore is planning to list its subsidiary Swire Blue Ocean (SBO) on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The proposal to take Swire Blue Ocean public comes after the announcement of expansion plans, the company said. The subsidiary is also undergoing full rebranding and will be renamed Cadeler.
