Navantia Seanergies has delivered the substation jacket for Ocean Winds’ 496 MW Dieppe le Tréport offshore wind farm in France. The jacket departed from the south dock of the Puerto Real shipyard in Spain and is heading to its destination on France’s Atlantic Coast. The offshore wind farm site is lo
Equinor and Polenergia have reached financial close for the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind farms in Poland, for which the joint venture partners secured two project financing packages of over EUR 3 billion for each wind farm, including ancillary facilities. The finance packages will fund the ca
French renewable energy developer Qair and Italy’s Eni Plenitude have formed a consortium to participate in the French AO9 offshore wind tender, which was opened in July 2024. At the start of 2025, the total capacity allocated via offshore wind tenders in France amounts to around 5.34 GW. With the i
The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill that, among other things, rescinds provisions from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that were set up to strengthen the domestic offshore wind supply chain and back the development of new offshore wind transmission infrastructure. Passed o
The jacket foundation and the topside for Dogger Bank C, the third phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, have been installed in the UK. According to the recent Notice to Mariners from the project, Heerema Marine Contractors’ semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir installed the jacket foundation
Cadeler has agreed to acquire a newly constructed jack-up wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) from Shanghai Boqiang Heavy Industry Group, which will be upgraded to support the installation of 15 MW wind turbines. The Boqiang 3060 vessel will be renamed to Wind Keeper, a name symbolising both the
The consortium behind Germany’s first offshore wind farm has decided to decommission the 60 MW Alpha Ventus and is currently developing a concept for an environmentally friendly dismantling of the 15-year-old wind farm with relevant authorities. The news about the Alpha Ventus consortium (EWE, RWE a
Heerema Marine Contractors’ crane vessel, Sleipnir, has installed the topside for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust West Beta substation platform in the Netherlands. The installation of the Hollandse Kust West Beta topside took place on 21 May, some 50 kilometres off the coast of Egmond aan Zee. From this aut
Developers are losing confidence in floating offshore wind, citing delivery delays, investment risks, and policy uncertainty as key concerns, new research from Westwood Global Energy Group (Westwood) revealed. Westwood polled 166 stakeholders across the global floating offshore wind value chain, inc
Galileo Energy and Hope Group have received an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) permit from Italy’s Ministry of Environment and Energy Security for the 1.1 GW Barium Bay floating offshore wind project. The joint venture partners said that this is the largest offshore wind farm to have achieved
All suction bucket jacket (SBJ) foundations have been installed at the Greater Changhua 2b offshore wind farm in Taiwan, being developed by Ørsted. All 24 SBJ foundations have been installed by heavy-lift vessel Aegir from Heerema Marine Contractors at the 337.1 MW Greater Changhua 2b offshore wind
The 96 MW Jeonnam 1 offshore wind project, owned by a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and SK Innovation E&S, has officially commenced commercial operation in South Korea. Copenhagen Offshore Partners, exclusive offshore wind development partner to CIP, has co-led proje
DNV has awarded the basic design certificate to BW Ideol for its floating wind platform that can support wind turbines with an output of 15 MW and beyond. BW Ideol says this certification marks a key milestone in the company’s industrial roadmap and confirms the technical soundness of the platform,
A consortium led by UK company Morek Engineering has unveiled a design concept for a new class of low-carbon installation vessel for the floating wind market, after the concept completed the first feasibility stage. The consortium, which gathers Morek Engineering, naval architects Solis Marine Engin
