The HSI consortium, comprising HSM Offshore Energy, Smulders, and Iv, has sent off the Jasmund offshore substation (OSS), which will connect the Windanker offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea to the German electricity grid. The 4,500-tonne OSS topside, measuring 48 metres in length, 33 metres in wid
Elektrownia Wiatrowa Baltica – 1, a project company set up by PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), has issued a contract notice for geotechnical investigation services for its 900 MW Baltica 1 offshore wind project. The work is planned to be carried out along the export cable route and in the offsho
Eolos Floating LiDAR Solutions will deploy a LiDAR at the Morecambe offshore wind farm site in the UK in the coming days, according to a recently issued Notice to Mariners. The LiDAR, expected to be positioned within the Morecambe project area on or around 8 December, is planned to stay on site for
RWE and TotalEnergies have signed an agreement with ARC marine for the supply of 66 reef cubes, which will be installed at eleven wind turbine foundations at the OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. Foundation installation at OranjeWind will start in 2026, and once the construction
All 21 monopile foundations at the Windanker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea have been installed, according to a social media update posted by Iberdrola Deutschland. The work was carried out by Van Oord using the heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen, which installed the first monopile i
The Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm fed its first power into the German grid on 3 December, according to Ørsted, which owns the project together with Nuveen Infrastructure. Once fully commissioned, which is expected in the first quarter of 2026, the 913 MW offshore wind farm will become the la
XOCEAN has been awarded a series of five-year contracts in the Netherlands, under which the company will deliver bathymetric survey services for six offshore wind farms. The agreements, coordinated by Eneco on behalf of the wind farm owners, are for Borssele 3&4, owned by the Blauwwind consortium; B
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked a federal court to remand the federal approval of the New England Wind offshore wind project to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which issued it last year and now wants to conduct further review, according to a filing submitted on 2 December
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has awarded a contract to LSP Renewables for client representatives and marine coordinators for the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. For LSP Renewables, whose office in Taiwan secured the deal with CIP, this will be the third project on which the comp
The UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero has approved the Development Consent Order (DCO) for the Morecambe offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea, owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The seabed lease for the 480 MW project, proposed to be built approximately 30 kilomet
Installation of scour protection on wind turbine foundation locations at the Hornsea Three offshore site in the UK is set to commence in mid-December. The work will be undertaken by DEME using its rock installation vessel Flintstone, equipped with a fallpipe and flexible bucket system. The vessel is
Ocean Winds, a 50-50 joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has secured around EUR 2 billion in project finance and reached financial close for the 390 MW BC-Wind offshore wind farm in the Polish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Baltic Sea, moving the project into the construction phase
Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Energy and Clean Energy Capital, a subsidiary of Azerbaijan Green Energy Company, have entered into an agreement on the assessment, development, and implementation of an offshore wind energy project. Signed on 28 November, the Implementation Agreement involves an offshore wi
A vessel traffic survey is scheduled to start in the coming days at the Bowdun offshore wind farm site in Scotland. The survey is due to commence on 1 December and is expected to be completed by 15 December, depending on weather conditions, according to a Notice to Mariners issued recently by the de
