Eiffage, through Smulders, has been awarded a contract by the French transmission system operator (TSO) RTE to develop and build three substations for the Bretagne Sud, Narbonnaise Sud-Hérault, and Golfe de Fos French offshore wind farms. Overall, the engineering, procurement, construction, installa
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
RWE has awarded Semco Maritime with a framework agreement for the maintenance of German offshore substations. The agreement, commencing in September 2025, will continue through 2027 and includes a two-year extension option. Semco Maritime’s scope of work includes scheduled and unscheduled maintenanc
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
TenneT Holding has reached an agreement with APG (acting on behalf of pension fund ABP), Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), and the Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC to invest a total of EUR 9.5 billion in the German transmission system operator (TSO). The three institutional investors are
Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) has entered into an eight-year framework agreement with the German transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz to provide geotechnical seabed survey services for offshore substation development. Under the agreement, valued at multiple million euros annually over eight year
Glamox has secured contracts to provide connected marine lighting and light management systems for eleven offshore High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) converter platforms, being built for the Dutch/German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT. The contracts represent Glamox’s largest marine light
DEME Group has ordered a new offshore construction vessel (OCV) that will be capable of performing trenching, burial, and cable-laying operations and is set to have a methanol-ready propulsion design for future fuel flexibility. The OCV will be constructed by PaxOcean at the Zhoushan shipyard in Chi
Italian cabling giant Prysmian Group has completed the hull erection of its new cable laying vessel (CLV), bringing it closer to launch. The DP3 Alessandro Volta will be equipped with three carousels for a total load capacity of 19,000 tonnes, with the system of tensioners able to sustain a maximum
ELWIND, a joint Estonian-Latvian offshore wind project, has signed a contract with the Dutch company Haskoning to carry out a strategic cable and network configuration study for the planned offshore wind farm areas in both countries. The study will be conducted by Haskoning, together with its subsid
ZTT Submarine Cable & System (ZTTSC) has delivered the first batch of 500 kV three-core AC submarine cables for the Yangjiang Fanshi II Offshore Wind Farm in China. According to the company, the production process integrated smart manufacturing lines, industrial robots, smart warehousing, and AI-bas
Van Oord has completed the installation of 109 inter-array cables, which marks the conclusion of its full scope of work on the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK. Approximately 360 kilometres of inter-array cables have been installed and tested, connecting the wind farms’ 100 14 MW turbines t
Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 2b offshore wind project in Taiwan will be commissioned in the third quarter of 2026 instead of later this year due to a damaged export cable. The 300 MW offshore wind farm is part of the 920 MW Greater Changhua 2b and 4 project, currently under construction 35-60 kilometre
The first steel has been cut for the jacket foundation that will support the BalWin delta offshore converter platform in the German North Sea. The jacket foundation, which weighs around 13,000 tonnes, will be delivered under a contract GE Vernova and McDermott International signed with the German tr
