ABL has been contracted by PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) and Ørsted to provide marine warranty survey (MWS) services to support the offshore construction of the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea. ABL’s scope of work covers the marine transportation and installation of the 107
The joint venture between SSE Renewables, TotalEnergies and PTTEP has signed an agreement with a consortium of Equitix and Kyuden Group to sell the offshore transmission assets of the Seagreen Phase 1 offshore wind farm in Scotland. The Seagreen 1 transmission assets transmit electricity from the of
Netherlands-headquartered Fugro has been awarded a contract for soil investigation services for Parkwind’s Blue Mackerel offshore wind farm in Australia. Fugro will execute offshore geotechnical investigations to support the Blue Mackerel project being developed by Parkwind, part of JERA Nex. For th
CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) has started the 2025 installation campaign for the 1 GW Hai Long offshore wind project in Taiwan. The 1,022 MW Hai Long project comprises two offshore wind farms, the 518 MW Hai Long 2 and the 504 MW Hai Long 3, and is being developed in three phases. Hai Long 2 is
Ocean Winds, a joint venture between ENGIE and EDP Renewables, has secured an electric business license (EBL) for the 1,125 MW Hanbando fixed-bottom offshore wind project in South Korea. The license has been granted by the Electricity Regulatory Commission under the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and
Ventus Energy has secured two contracts with Ocean Winds to support its Scotland-based offshore wind farms, Moray West and Moray East. The first contract, awarded in September 2024 for Moray West, spans an 18-month period and includes operations and maintenance (O&M) for the offshore transmission ow
Italy’s Saipem and its compatriot Divento have signed a collaboration agreement for the application of STAR 1, Saipem’s proprietary technology for floating offshore wind, in support of the 7 Seas Med and Ichnusa Wind Power projects. The companies will focus on the two projects with the aim of suppor
On 27 February, a turbine at the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project was struck by lightning. The GE Vernova Haliade-X 13 MW turbine had previously experienced a blade failure in July 2024. In July 2024, a blade from one of the GE Vernova’s Haliade-X turbines detached, which resulted in debris washi
Yunneng Wind Power, the joint venture that built and owns the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan, has inaugurated the 640 MW project at a ceremony held at the Santiaolun Beach & Water Park in Sihu Township. After the first turbine was connected to the Taiwanese grid in 2021, the wind farm reached i
Finnish wind energy service provider Arenso and Utilitas Wind have signed an agreement for cooperation on the 1.2 GW Saare-Liivi offshore wind project in Estonia. Arenso was assigned to prepare a basic design for the offshore wind project. The work was launched in February and is planned to be compl
The Colombian government has received nominations for 69 sites from the companies that pre-qualified last year to participate in the country’s first offshore wind tender. The area nomination procedure, whose deadline was 31 January, allowed the pre-qualified companies to propose sites to be evaluate
Construction activities on the Scottish Inch Cape offshore wind farm are scheduled to start this April with construction work within the project’s export cable corridor. According to a Notice to Mariners from the project team, the work will commence with operations at the export cable landfall site
Jan De Nul will deploy its heavy-lift vessel Les Alizés for the monopile installation at the Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland. The company was announced as one of the project suppliers at the beginning of this year as ESB and Red Rock Renewables reached financial close on the 1,080 MW Inch C
Australian company Wind With Purpose (WWP) is proposing to build a 2.5 GW offshore wind project, called Catalpa Offshore Wind Farm, southwest of Garden Island, Western Australia (WA). The developer, which recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with an Australian joint venture for low-ca
