The Scottish government has granted a consent order for SSE Renewables’ Berwick Bank in the UK, which, if fully developed, would become the world’s largest offshore wind farm. The Section 36 consent determination by Scottish ministers approves the project’s main offshore wind array in the outer Firt
French industrial gas supplier Air Liquide has taken the final investment decision (FID) to build ELYgator, a large-scale electrolyser in the Netherlands, which will be connected to OranjeWind, a soon-to-be-built Dutch offshore wind farm owned by a joint venture between RWE and TotalEnergies. The co
The consortium of Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables has shipped the first batch of jacket foundations from Spain for the 496 MW Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm. The first four jackets are currently en route to their destination in France. The four-legged jackets were manufactured at Nav
The first floating wind turbine has been installed at the site of the Éoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) project in France, developed by Ocean Winds in partnership with Banque des Territoires. Assembled at the port of Port-La Nouvelle in Occitanie, the first of the project’s three wind tur
The substation platform and jacket foundation for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm have departed from the Smulders yard in Wallsend, Newcastle, and are en route to their site off the Angus coast in Scotland. The Siemens Energy Offshore Transformer Module (OTM) and its jacket foundation sailed at sun
ZTT Submarine Cable & System (ZTTSC) has secured a 500 kV submarine cable contract for Shenzhen Energy’s 500 MW Honghai Bay VI offshore wind project in China. The engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract encompasses 94 kilometres of 500 kV 3-core HVAC submarine cables
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has rescinded and de-designated all Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) on the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The WEAs are areas in the US federal waters that BOEM previously identified as suitable for wind energy development and, following a multi-stage proce
Vestas and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) have signed an agreement to work together through a study group to expand wind power in Japan and look into investing in local wind turbine production. In addition, Nippon Steel signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Vestas t
Prysmian has awarded two contracts to Next Geosolutions (NextGeo), one of which is in the Dutch offshore wind market, where NextGeo will carry out export cable route surveys for the IJmuiden Ver Alpha and Nederwiek 1 offshore wind sites. The second contract NextGeo secured with Prysmian is for the B
Dutch company IQIP has been awarded a contract by DEME to deploy its Hydrohammer IQ6 spread for Vattenfall’s Nordlicht 1 and 2 offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. IQIP’s Hydrohammer IQ6 spread will be deployed together with the PULSE technology, which is a noise mitigation add-on that uses
SeAH Wind has commenced commercial production for its inaugural project, delivering monopile foundations for Ørsted’s 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. The milestone was marked by cutting the first steel plates. This signifies the beginning of operations at SeAH Wind’s facility on Teess
Geotechnical surveys have commenced for the Lillebælt Syd offshore wind farm in Denmark, owned by TotalEnergies, European Energy, and Danish utility company SONFOR. In the coming months, a jack-up will conduct test drilling for the eleven turbine locations at the Lillebælt Syd wind farm site. The pu
The Government of Canada and the Province of Nova Scotia have designated the first four offshore wind areas to be made available for development, with a call for bids expected by the end of the year. Three of the identified areas are situated south of Nova Scotia’s eastern mainland, while the fourth
DNV and American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) have issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) for Wison New Energies’ w.TLP and w.semi floating offshore wind foundation technology. In June, the company’s W.TLP foundation, designed for 12 MW turbines, was granted AiP certification by ABS. Featuring a tension
