The consortium between Denmark’s Semco Maritime and Vietnam’s PTSC Mechanical & Construction (PTSC M&C) has secured an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract with Synera Renewable Energy (SRE) for the offshore substation of the Formosa 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Following ext
The first batch of monopile foundations for the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind project in Poland has rolled off the factory floor. A total of 111 monopiles are planned to be installed at the Baltica 2 site, 107 for wind turbines and four for the offshore substation. The units are up to 100 metres [&
Ørsted has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South Korea’s steelmaking giant POSCO Group to explore a partnership on the 1.4 GW Incheon offshore wind project. Under the agreement, POSCO Group will explore supplying high-strength steel for offshore wind foundations and towers while coll
NjordIC has been awarded a contract to provide unexploded ordnance (UXO) consultancy services for the Zeevonk offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. NjordIC will provide a full range of UXO consultancy services, including the interpretation of geophysical data, supervision and support during UXO ide
Ørsted has chosen the Port of Tyne’s Tyne Clean Energy Park in South Shields as the marshalling base for its 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. The Denmark-headquartered Cadeler will use the 100,000-square-metre site to marshal secondary steel components for the offshore wind farm before
All 72 monopile foundations have been installed at RWE’s Thor offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea. The monopiles are around 100 metres in length and weigh up to 1,500 tonnes each. The units were shipped from the heavy-lift terminal in Eemshaven, in the Netherlands, to the Thor construction si
Synera Renewable Energy has signed a contract with CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) for the transportation and installation of 35 turbine foundations and the offshore substation, as well as scour protection works for the Formosa 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Among the fleet to be deployed by CDWE
Nexans has completed the final export cable campaign at the Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm in France, developed by Eoliennes en Mer Dieppe Le Tréport (EMDT), a joint venture between Ocean Winds, Sumitomo Corporation, and Banque des Territoires. The operation, which involves the installation of
Offshore construction has kicked off at Ecowende’s Hollandse Kust West Site VI offshore wind farm in the Netherlands with the start of eco-friendly scour protection works. Van Oord’s subsea rock installation vessels Nordnes and Bravenes have been deployed to install scour protection, which prevents
A consortium between TotalEnergies and RWE has won the Centre Manche 2 tender to develop a 1.5 GW offshore wind farm off the coast of Normandy, making it the largest renewable energy initiative in France to date. As part of a strategic review of its investment, RWE has expressed the wish to exit the
A US judge in Washington has cleared the way for work to resume on the 704 MW Revolution Wind offshore wind farm after granting a temporary injunction that lifted the federal stop-work order imposed in August. On 22 August, the US Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
More than two years after a fire caused damage, a wind turbine at the Scroby Sands offshore wind farm in the UK is being removed by RWE. In August 2023, turbine T06 at the 58 MW Scroby Sands offshore wind farm caught fire in the nacelle, with the fire extinguishing on its own. Work to […]
Finnish state-owned enterprise Metsähallitus has selected Arenso Oy to carry out the technical planning of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) programme phase of the Ebba offshore wind project in Finland. The planning work will commence in autumn 2025. Arenso is responsible for the early-stage
Cadeler has signed a firm contract with Ocean Winds for the transportation and installation of turbines at the 390 MW BC-Wind offshore wind farm in Poland. The installation is planned to commence in 2028 and to continue for approximately four months. Cadeler will deploy one of its O-class wind turbi
Installation of all 25 Vestas V174-9.6 MW turbines at Japan’s Kitakyushu-Hibikanada offshore wind farm has been completed. Back in February 2017, the government of Kitakyushu City selected the consortium of Kyuden Mirai Energy, Kyuden Corporation, Hokutaku Renewable Energy Service, J-Power, and Saib
