UK-registered Novastar Energy Holdings, a wholly-owned subsidiary of UAE-based HEA Energy, which bought three Seajacks vessels from Eneti in 2023, has secured a contract for Baltica 2, a 1.5 GW offshore wind farm being built by PGE and Ørsted in Poland. According to a contract award notice published
RWE has placed a firm order with Vestas for its 1,380 MW Norfolk Vanguard West offshore wind project in the UK, after the developer secured a Contract for Difference (CfD) for the project in Allocation Round 7 (AR7) in January and announced that the global investment firm KKR would become its partne
Boskalis has completed the preparation of 150 kilometres of inter-array cable routes at the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm site in Poland. In 2023, Boskalis was awarded a contract for the transportation and installation of export and inter-array cables for the Polish offshore wind farm, owned b
The newbuild vessel that Cadeler acquired from Shanghai Boqiang Heavy Industry Group last year is ready to start supporting wind turbine installation at EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany, after having completed a technical and visual upgrade. The Danish vessel owner announced in May 202
India and the UK have launched a taskforce that is said to provide strategic leadership and coordination for India’s offshore wind ecosystem. The country has also reportedly started working with the World Bank and KPMG on aspects of offshore wind project planning and financing. Kicked off on 18 Febr
ELWIND has signed a contract with Haskoning for the design phase of the joint Estonian-Latvian state-run offshore wind project in the Baltic Sea. Haskoning’s work will include layout optimisation, transmission grid studies and integration of site investigations and environmental assessment. The Dutc
Seventy wind turbines have been installed at RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK, according to a Notice to Mariners recently issued by the project team. The first of the project’s 100 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD wind turbines was installed in March 2025, and the work reached the halfway mark in
EEW and CS Wind have produced the first monopiles and transition pieces (TPs) for Vattenfall’s Nordlicht 1 offshore wind farm ahead of schedule, the developer said on 19 February. The monopiles are each up to 80.5 metres long and weigh up to 1,290 tonnes, while the transition pieces reach a height o
The US Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, filed a Notice of Appeal on 17 February in the case in which a federal judge ruled in favour of 18 states that sued the Trump administration over the sweeping ban on wind energy projects. In May 2025, seventeen US states and the
All monopiles have been installed at the site of the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm, being built by a joint venture between Orlen Group and Northland Power in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea, 23 kilometres off the coast of the Choczewo municipality. The project comprises a total of 78 fo
The vessel Seaway Aimery is laying inter‑array cables between wind turbines and the offshore converter platform at the East Anglia Three offshore wind site in the UK. The cable-laying vessel (CLV), which started the installation work in January, is supported by Seaway Moxie and will be joined by two
DEME has awarded Hellenic Cables with a contract for the supply of inter-array cables for the 390 MW BC-Wind offshore wind project in Poland, developed by Ocean Winds. Under the contract, the Greece-based manufacturer will be responsible for the design, engineering, manufacturing, testing, and suppl
McDermott has cut first steel for the offshore converter platform for TenneT’s LanWin1 offshore grid connection in Germany. The LanWin1 project will include an offshore converter station in the North Sea and an onshore converter station in the region of Wesermarsch. The platform will be delivered un
Offshore construction has begun on the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind projects in Poland, developed by Equinor and Polenergia, which will together have 100 wind turbines and an installed capacity of 1.4 GW. The 2026 offshore construction campaign will see the installation of 100 monopiles, tran
A new European project focused on offshore testing infrastructure for high-power floating wind turbines was officially launched at a kick-off meeting in Nantes, France, this month. The project is co-financed by the Interreg Atlantic Area programme through the European Regional Development Fund. Name
