Ampelmann Operations, in collaboration with Siemens Gamesa, tested a cargo drone at the Hollandse Kust Nord offshore wind farm in the Netherlands this winter, with the drone successfully moving materials from a service operations vessel (SOV) to offshore wind turbines and back again. According to Am
Ocean services provider DeepOcean has completed trenching and survey operations at a US offshore wind project under a contract awarded by what it says is a global provider of engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI). DeepOcean’s scope of work included trenching and surveying of
RWE and Nordic renewable energy player Aneo have signed an agreement under which Aneo will acquire RWE’s Swedish wind energy activities, including the Karehamn offshore wind farm. Aneo, headquartered in Norway, is also acquiring RWE’s onshore wind development pipeline of 1.8 GW, its onshore wind far
Wind turbine installation on Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) has started with the first of the project’s 176 Siemens Gamesa 14 MW wind turbines currently being erected. Virginia-based broadcaster WAVY reported on 21 January that a wind turbine tower was being installed
EEW SPC has loaded out the first batch of monopiles for the Baltica 2 offshore wind project, being built in Poland by Ørsted and PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna. “Our operations at Rostock harbor provide a key logistical benefit to the project’s supply chain. As a non-tidal port, it allows us to execu
Wind turbine installation at EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany has reached the halfway mark with 32 of the total of 64 Vestas 15 MW turbines now in place, the developer said on 22 January. Cadeler’s installation vessel Wind Orca installed the first V236-15.0 MW wind turbine at the He Dr
The global fleet of offshore wind installation vessels could support achieving up to 400 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030, provided that additional vessels are ordered and deployed, alongside supportive market conditions, according to a scenario study by the Kuehne Climate Center. The study also
The Yunlin offshore wind farm has been awarded a DNV Project Certificate DNV-SE-0190, becoming the first offshore wind project in Taiwan to achieve this standard, according to the wind farm owner. The third-party assessment was applied to the entire project, including foundations, wind turbines, and
The Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm in Scotland is launching what the project owner says is the country’s largest seabird monitoring study, aimed at gathering detailed data on bird behaviour around offshore wind turbines. The 450 MW wind farm, located around 15.5 kilometres off the Fife co
Vard has delivered a new vessel built for Norwind Offshore, Norwind Maestro, which will be deployed on a German offshore wind farm. The new commissioning service operations vessel (CSOV) is built to the VARD 4 19 design and constructed at Vard Shipyards Romania, with final outfitting, commissioning,
SAFEEN Drydocks, part of Noatum Maritime and a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Ports (AD Ports) Group, has acquired full ownership of Astilleros Balenciaga Shipyard in Spain for a total consideration of EUR 11.2 million. The shipyard, which will be known as Balenciaga Shipyard going forward, has delivered a
RWE came out as the winner in a tender that Munich Airport (Flughafen München GmbH) opened last year, looking to award an offshore wind power purchase agreement (PPA). According to an award notice published on a European tender website on 15 January, RWE Supply & Trading and Munich Airport concluded
ScottishPower Renewables has selected Boslan, an Accenture company, to supervise the manufacturing and quality control of key components for the East Anglia Two offshore wind farm, including offshore and onshore substations, the platform’s foundations, inter-array cables, export cables, wind turbine
Turkey is looking to open its first offshore wind tender by the end of 2026 and could then see the first wind turbines installed off its coast by 2030-2031, the president of the Turkish Wind Energy Association (TÜREB) told Anadolu Agency. According to the TÜREB President Ibrahim Erden, the Ministry
The 66th and final wind turbine has been installed at Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farms in Taiwan. Full commercial operation of the 920 MW project, located 35–60 kilometres off the coast of Changhua County, is expected in the third quarter of 2026, following the commissioning of
