Half of the monopile foundations are now in place at the Thor offshore wind farm site, as Jan De Nul’s heavy-lift vessel Les Alizés installed the 36th of the project’s total 72 monopiles on 15 July. “With Thor we are constructing Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm to date. Reaching halfway in the
The first section of the export cable for the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm has been pulled ashore, making landfall at Bawdsey in Suffolk. NKT, which is supplying and installing the export cable for the project under a turnkey contract secured in 2022, started working on East Anglia Th
GHD has been appointed to lead the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and approval process for the 1 GW Blue Mackerel offshore wind project, being developed by Parkwind, part of JERA Nex. GHD has a long-standing presence in the Gippsland region, having been part of the community and its infrastru
Van Oord has signed a contract with SPIE Wind Connect, part of SPIE, for the termination and testing of inter-array cables at the 315 MW Windanker offshore wind farm in Germany. Under the contract, SPIE Wind Connect will be responsible for the termination and testing of 21 61 kV inter-array cables o
Floating wind technology developer Gazelle Wind Power has entered into a strategic agreement with the Portuguese conglomerate dstgroup, which will see dstgroup’s corporate venture capital firm, dstventures, investing EUR 1.5 million in Gazelle. Furthermore, dstgroup’s steel engineering and manufactu
The first steel for Cadeler’s A-class wind farm installation vessel Wind Apex has been cut at the COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry shipyard in China. This milestone represents the start of the fabrication and construction phase. In May 2024, Cadeler placed an order for its third A-class wind farm insta
Ørsted has selected Steel River Quay on the Teesworks site on the south bank of the River Tees in the northeast of England as the construction base for the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm. Ørsted signed a lease agreement for up to 300,000 square metres at Steel River Quay, which will be used to collect
All 100 monopile foundations have been installed at RWE’s 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm site, located 195 kilometres off the northeast coast of the UK. The achievement concludes a 14-month foundation installation campaign carried out by Van Oord as part of a joint engineering, procurement, constru
The new cable-laying vessel (CLV) that joined Prysmian’s fleet earlier this year, Monna Lisa, has begun installing its first submarine cable at the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project site in the US, where Dominion Energy is building the country’s largest offshore wind farm. Dominion Energ
Fugro has secured a seven-year framework agreement with Irish transmission system operator (TSO) EirGrid to perform surveys for a project that will develop offshore electricity substations and export cable routes to connect Ireland’s future offshore wind farms on the south coast to the national grid
Vattenfall has selected Danish helicopter operator KN Helicopters for air transport to and from four of its offshore wind farms, two in Denmark and two in Germany. The contracts, which already started this summer, are estimated to be worth EUR 30 million (excluding VAT) in total. In Germany, KN Heli
Iberdrola has selected Norway-headquartered Global Maritime (GM) to provide marine services in support of operations and maintenance (O&M) on the 496 MW Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France. As part of this agreement, Global Maritime will deliver a range of marine services, including vessel ins
Taihan Cable & Solution has completed the installation of export cables for the 364.8 MW Yeonggwang Nakwol offshore wind project in South Korea. The export cable installation, covering two 28-kilometre lines and carried out by Taihan’s cable-laying vessel (CLV) PALOS, was performed in two phases. Th
The UK’s Planning Inspectorate has concluded its six-month Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) examination period for the Dogger Bank South (DBS) offshore wind farms, being developed by RWE and Abu Dhabi’s Masdar. Since the start of the examination this January, the Planning Inspect
