The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) is holding a workshop in October about the Dutch offshore wind farm zones, with focus on the Hollandse Kust (Noord) tender. The event will take place on 8 October at the RAI Amsterdam convention center during the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2019
Dutch offshore foundations manufacturer Sif opened a sales office in Tokyo, Japan, on 5 September. Te Roermond-headquartered company said that it has closely followed offshore wind market developments in Japan since 2015 and that it for that purpose teamed up with Japan’s Sato Tekko. The Japanese go
DEME Group’s jack-up vessel Apollo has installed 156 out of 309 pin piles at the Moray East offshore wind project in the UK, marking the halfway milestone. According to DEME, a pile installation template is being used, where three pin piles are stabbed into the seabed through the piling temple and t
The Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind project in Taiwan has generated its first power. According to Ørsted, 10 out of 20 Siemens Gamesa 6MW turbines have been installed at the project site, while six units began generating power. Prior to commercial operation, each turbine goes through a power generat
Dutch-based Corrosion BV has won a contract to provide corrosion protection systems for the wind turbine foundations on the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Corrosion will deliver Impressed Current Cathodic Protection (ICCP) systems for the wind farm’s 80 monopile foundations. The systems will p
DeepOcean Group is splitting DeepOcean UK into two entities, including DeepOcean Subsea Cables and a new division dedicated to its seabed intervention and trenching business. The company said the split will see the existing Cable Lay and Trenching division (DeepOcean CL&T) divided into a seabed inte
Innogy and RWE Supply & Trading have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Deutsche Bahn (German Rail – DB) for the supply of electricity from the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm. The supplied volume comprises 25MW, which is the equivalent of four turbines, representing 8% of the total product
UK-based cable protection specialist Tekmar Energy has received an order from Jan De Nul to provide its patented Tekmar Cable Protection System (CPS) TekLink® Mechanical Latch for the Changhua offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Changhua is the second wind farm to be installed in Taiwan located along the
More than 400 businesses have joined New Jersey’s Offshore Wind Supply Chain Registry since it launched less than five months ago, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) said. Businesses that have joined the registry run the gamut from construction/installation to subsea surveying, in
The U.S. National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium has selected the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to carry out a project focused on reducing costs and improving the economic feasibility of floating wind technology. NREL has been awarded USD 300,000 for its Shared Moori
Hanseatic Power Cert (HPC) has awarded the Merkur offshore wind farm in Germany with a project certificate. Arjen Schampers, the managing director of Merkur Offshore GmbH, the developer of the project, took over the certificate on 2 September. To remind, GE Renewable Energy completed the handover of
Austrian-based Aero Enterprise has performed its first offshore wind turbine inspection using the in-house developed helicopter drone AERO-SensorCopter. Back in July, Aero Enterprise carried out inspection flights around the offshore wind turbines some 70 kilometers from the German/Dutch coastline o
Ørsted has marked the completion of the first made-in-Taiwan transition piece mock-up with Sing Da Marine Structure (SDMS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Steel Corporation. The mock-up, fabricated by SDMS in Kaohsiung, has demonstrated that local suppliers are on track to prepare for delivery o
TenneT has entered into agreements with Ørsted and EnBW to use a grid connection concept on future wind farms in the German North Sea which will link the turbines directly to the converter platforms. Under the deals, Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund West 1 & 2 and OWP West, as well as EnBW’s He Dreiht offs
