The renewable energy consultancy OWC has been awarded a contract to provide cable engineering support to the Green Volt floating offshore wind farm in Scotland, developed by Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn. OWC’s scope of work includes cable engineering for both offshore and onshore cables. The subsea
Vattenfall has signed a contract with EMS Maritime Offshore (EMO), under which EMO will build and lease an operations and maintenance (O&M) base in Eemshaven, the Netherlands, to Vattenfall for its Nordlicht offshore wind farms in Germany. According to the offshore wind developer, an advantage of th
Ørsted and the UK-based drone operator Skylift have launched what Ørsted says is the largest drone delivery programme ever attempted to offshore wind sites, with over 550 flights to more than 400 turbines at four UK offshore wind farms: Hornsea One and Hornsea Two on the east coast, and Walney 1 & 2
Connecticut officials say they have been left in the dark about why the US federal government suddenly ordered construction of the Revolution Wind offshore project to stop, even as billions of US dollars, hundreds of jobs, and counted-on grid capacity hang in the balance. “If there are issues to dis
Belgium-headquartered G-Tec has won a contract to conduct a geophysical survey for ELWIND, the Estonian-Latvian cross-border offshore wind project. The company, under a contract worth a little over EUR 3.6 million, will perform a geophysical survey and ground model development for the ELWIND offshor
We are pleased to share a milestone in the important collaboration between Davi and GS Entec in the wind energy sector: the successful completion of the Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) for the two massive plate rolling machines ordered by the Korean company. The FAT took place a few weeks ago at our
Denmark’s NKT has finalised the installation of a 320 kV high-voltage DC (HVDC) power cable system at the 900 MW BorWin5 offshore grid connection in Germany. The pull-in work to the offshore platform was carried out by the company’s NKT Victoria vessel. NKT was responsible for the delivery and insta
Denmark’s Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities, the Ministry of Transport, and wind turbine manufacturer Vestas have partnered to reduce operational emissions and costs by enabling the use of autonomous drones for inspection and maintenance at offshore wind farms. The new partnership seeks to p
[NOTE: This article was updated on 27 and 28 August with statements from Oceantic Network and US Wind.] The US Department of the Interior (DOI) will seek to cancel its approval of the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) granted to US Wind for its 2 GW Maryland Offshore Wind Project last year. In
Mitsubishi Corporation has decided to withdraw from three offshore wind projects in Japan for which the company secured sites in 2021. In December 2021, consortia led by Mitsubishi Corporation’s subsidiary Mitsubishi Corporation Offshore Wind were selected to develop all of the projects offered in J
The Australian government has issued preliminary feasibility licences for three offshore wind projects in the Bunbury zone off the coast of Western Australia. Declared in September 2024, the Bunbury offshore wind zone covers an area of 3,995 square kilometres and has the potential to generate up to
The initial section of the first export cable for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm has left the Port of Blyth and is currently en route for installation off the coast of Scotland. The cable-lay vessel, CMOS Installer, has left the port with the 28-kilometre section of the 220 kV, three-phase export
Ørsted has finalised contracts for vessels and helicopters that will support the construction of the 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. A newbuild service operation vessel (SOV), Esvagt James Blythe, currently under construction, is one of ten transportation vehicles that will work on th
Palfinger Marine has been selected to supply more than 100 fully electric fixed boom service cranes for the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in Poland, developed by PGE and Ørsted. A total of 107 fully electric fixed boom service cranes will be installed on the service platforms of each turbine,
