A consortium of Oldbaum Services, Pondera Consult, Whiffle and Deltares has completed the wind resource assessment (WRA) for the Hollandse Kust (Noord) wind farm zone. The assessment included determining the wind climate for the area and verifying it by using data from met masts and floating buoys w
Aqualis ASA, the parent company of Offshore Wind Consultants and Aqualis Offshore, has entered into an agreement to acquire the marine, adjusting, and offshore business lines from Braemar Shipping Services Plc in exchange for an equity stake in the group. The combined company will be named AqualisBr
The self-propelled jack-up Seajacks Zaratan has arrived in Taichung, Taiwan, where the vessel will transport and install wind turbines on the 120MW Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm. Zaratan will install all 20 Siemens Gamesa SWT-6.0-154 turbines on the wind farm in the Taiwan Strait in what is t
JDR Cable Systems has completed the termination and testing of east section inter-array cables at the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm. JDR conducted the work from the service operations vessel (SOV) Edda Mistral and will now focus on completing the western cluster of the 1.2GW project, which
Essen-based energy company E.ON reported EUR 211 million adjusted EBIT for its Renewables segment in the first quarter of 2019, a 23% increase compared to EUR 171 million adjusted EBIT recorded in the first quarter of 2018. The increase resulted primarily from an increase in output due to the commis
The second cable that will connect the Borssele Alpha offshore high voltage substation in the Dutch North Sea to the transformer station at Borssele has made landfall, according to TenneT. Boskalis Subsea Cables & Flexibles, former VBMS, and NKT are in charge of supplying, delivering and installing
The Massachusetts Baker-Polito Administration is allocating USD 721,500 in grants to six academic institutions and labor organizations to establish workforce training and development programs to support the state’s offshore wind sector. The awards, which include USD 200,000 from Vineyard Wind’s Wind
Singapore-based Keppel FELS Ltd has secured a contract from Ørsted to provide two offshore substations for the Greater Changhua wind sites in Taiwan. Valued at more than SGD 150 million (around EUR 98 million), the contract comprises detailed engineering, procurement, construction, testing and commi
This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Vimeo. For a long time, the development of offshore wind was little contested by other sea uses in the North Sea. Whilst there were objections from fishermen due to limiting their access to sea space and tourism re
Lithuanian state-owned energy company Lietuvos Energija has received initial interest from ten potential partners to jointly develop offshore wind projects in Lithuania and abroad. Lietuvos Energija initiated an Expression of Interest (EOI) process in February to find an experienced partner and join
Siemens has appointed BAM Nuttall as the main contractor to complete the civils work on the onshore substation phase of the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm project, in Lincolnshire. The contract will see BAM Nuttall complete civil and building works including foundations for the transformer, shunt r
The Copenhagen Maritime and Commercial Court has upheld Ørsted’s claim that it has the right to use the Ørsted name. To remind, the Danish offshore wind giant changed its name from DONG Energy to Ørsted in October 2017, following the sale of its upstream oil and gas business and the decision to shif
The topside for the Borssele Alpha substation has departed from HSM Offshore in Schiedam towards the project site in the Dutch North Sea. The topside will travel through the Nieuwe Waterweg and Hoek van Holland where it will enter the North Sea. Upon arrival to the project site, it will be placed on
German energy company EnBW reported an operating result (adjusted EBITDA) of EUR 118.6 million for its Renewable Energies segment in the first quarter of 2019, a 24.3% increase compared to the same period a year earlier. The increase in the segment’s adjusted EBITDA was driven partly by ”good wind c
