The GE Vernova-Seatrium consortium has started work on the third offshore converter platform for TenneT’s 2 GW programme, having cut the first steel for the Nederwiek 2 platform, which will be installed in the Dutch part of the North Sea. The cutting of the steel was celebrated on 5 February at ship
Vattenfall has contracted Pfisterer for the supply of electrical connection technology for the Nordlicht 1 and 2 offshore wind farms in Germany. The German manufacturer of cable accessories said on 9 February that the contract value is “in the high single-digit million range”. Under the contract, Pf
Cadeler’s service and maintenance unit, Nexra, has signed a firm contract valued at more than EUR 20 million for the execution of an operations and maintenance (O&M) campaign in Taiwan, the company said on 9 February, leaving the client unnamed. The campaign, which will be performed across two offsh
Mammoet has completed the transport, load-out and mooring of the jacket foundation for the BorWin kappa offshore converter platform at McDermott’s yard in Dubai, UAE. BorWin kappa is part of TenneT’s 980 MW BorWin6 offshore wind grid connection in the German North Sea. The Dutch company has been sel
Ørsted and JERA Nex BP have applied for federal environmental approval under Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act for their Gippsland 1 and Blue Mackerel offshore wind projects, respectively. According to information on the Department of Climate Change, Energy,
The US state of Massachusetts and the Canadian province of Nova Scotia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deepen cooperation on offshore wind development, seeking to align planning, workforce training, transmission planning and supply chain development across the North Atlantic regio
China Three Gorges (CTG) has commissioned the 20 MW wind turbine recently installed offshore, the first turbine of this generation capacity to be installed at sea, according to the Chinese company. The wind turbine was connected to the grid and started operation on 5 February. The 20 MW model, which
Hanwha Ocean has secured an order from Ocean Wind Power 1 for a wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) worth KRW 768.7 billion (approximately EUR 444 million). Scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2028, the new vessel will be the first WTIV in Korea capable of installing 15 MW-class offshore
MacGregor will supply a 400-tonne active heave compensated (AHC) subsea crane for a new floating wind construction vessel (FWCV) that Jiangsu Dajin Heavy Industry is building in China for the South Korean company HANA Shipping. MacGregor is scheduled to deliver the crane at the end of 2027, with the
Vestas’s offshore wind turbine order backlog was worth EUR 10.1 billion as at 31 December 2025, according to the company’s annual report, which shows that for both onshore and offshore, the turbine order backlog amounted to 31,026 MW and a value of EUR 33.2 billion at the end of the year, EUR 1.6 bi
Google has entered into a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with EnBW for electricity produced by 100 MW of capacity at the 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany. The He Dreiht offshore wind farm is currently under construction about 85 kilometres northwest of the German island of Bork
RWE has signed a five-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the discount supermarket Lidl GB. The agreement, which has already begun, covers an annual electricity supply of 100 GWh from RWE’s Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea. Gwynt y Môr comprises 160 Siemens 3.6 MW wind turbines f
CAPE Holland, a Venterra Group company, has secured a contract with CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) to supply its CAPE VLT-640 Tandem Vibro Lifting Tool for the installation of pin piles for the offshore wind turbine and substation jacket foundations at the Fengmiao 1 project site in Taiwan. CDWE,
The Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has opened a public consultation on a draft ministerial order that will set the regulatory bases for the country’s first (floating) offshore wind tender. The consultation runs from 4 February to 24 February 202
