The European Commission has cleared, under the EU Merger Regulation, the creation of a joint venture between Mitsui & Co., Osaka Gas, and a subsidiary of RWE AG, all three established in Japan, to develop a 684 MW offshore wind project in Japan. The Commission concluded that the notified transaction
All 21 wind turbines at Vattenfall’s Vesterhav Nord (North) offshore wind farm have delivered the first power and the 176 MW project is now connected to the Danish electricity grid. However, the blades on a single unit have been temporarily taken down for repairs after sustaining damage during the p
CrossWind, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, has received a Project Certificate from the UK-headquartered Lloyd’s Register (LR) for the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. LR was invited to provide an independent assessment of the project in accordance with the
Boskalis’s offshore energy division saw 50 per cent of its revenue coming from offshore wind in 2023, according to annual results the Dutch dredging and offshore construction specialist released on 7 March. Company-wide, Boskalis reported a 20 per cent increase in revenue and a 150 per cent higher n
The first geotechnical seabed surveys for TotalEnergies and SSE Renewables’ 500 MW Seagreen 1A offshore wind farm in Scotland have been completed. Phase two of the geotechnical works is expected to commence later this year and should take around two weeks to complete. Seagreen 1A lies adjacent to th
Corio Generation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Power Generation Joint Stock Corporation 3 (EVNGENCO3), a subsidiary of Vietnam Electricity (EVN), to collaborate in preparing long-term strategies for offshore wind project development. The MOU between Corio, a portfolio company o
France-headquartered Nexans has completed the offshore export cable pull-ins for both offshore substation platforms at the 882 MW Moray West wind farm, located in the Moray Firth in the northeast of Scotland. The cable-laying vessel Nexans Aurora took advantage of a recent period of favorable weathe
Ailes Marines, an Iberdrola subsidiary, has achieved a milestone by initiating power production from half of the wind turbines at the 496 MW Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France. The commissioning of the project is gradual and will continue until spring 2024, said the developer. Located 16 kilo
The rights to the gravity tripod offshore wind foundation developed by the UK company Offshore Wind Logistics and Construction (OWLC) have been put up for sale following an appointment of administrators who initiated an accelerated sale of the business. OWLC says its gravity tripod foundation can de
The UK government has revealed the budget of over GBP 1 billion (approximately EUR 1.2 billion) for this year’s Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 6 (AR6) with the majority of it, GBP 800 million (around EUR 936 million), earmarked for offshore wind. The Department for Energy Security a
Equinor and Polenergia have awarded RockWave a contract for subsurface data reprocessing for the 1,560 MW Bałtyk 1 offshore wind farm in Poland. The contract scope involves the reprocessing of sparker ultra-high resolution seismic (UHRS) data to create an optimised subsurface image. The new data wil
EOLOS Floating LiDAR Solutions has been awarded three of the four lots in the Dutch government’s tender for wind and ocean site assessments at two new offshore wind areas. This is the largest single project award for EOLOS to date, according to the Spain-based company, which recently also secured a
Elia, through its subsidiary WindGrid, has acquired a 35.1 per cent stake in the US company energyRe Giga, a subsidiary of energyRe, the co-developer of the 2.4 GW Leading Light Wind offshore wind project in New Jersey. The transaction, which closed at the beginning of February, is worth USD 400 mil
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has signed a preferred supply agreement with LS Cable for the supply of offshore and onshore cables to Feng Miao 1, the company’s third offshore wind project in Taiwan. Under the agreement, Korea-based LS Cable will supply offshore export cables, inter-array
