There are no local content requirements in offshore wind tenders in the Netherlands because the Dutch government sees competition as key to achieving cost reductions, Ruud de Bruijne, Project Manager Offshore Wind Energy at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) said during the Offshore WIND Con
Offshore wind farms in combination with meshed offshore grids and cross-border interconnectors, powered by appropriate regulatory frameworks, can largely contribute to energy security in the European Union.
Lancashire-based VolkerInfra has signed a multi-million-pound contract with Ørsted to install 360 kilometres of high voltage onshore cables for the 1.4GW Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm.
Northern HeliCopter GmbH (NHC) has received an order from Petrofac Ltd. for transport flights/crew changes to the BorWin3 gamma platform.
Vattenfall’s two new offshore wind farms, Vesterhav Syd and Vesterhav Nord, will be the first in Denmark to be directly involved in stabilising the electricity grid and thus the power supply, the Swedish developer said.
The grid operators TenneT, Gasunie Deutschland and Thyssengas have put forward detailed plans for coupling the electricity and gas grids and advancing Germany’s energy transition.
Van Oord has won a contract to install inter-array cables on Ørsted’s Borssele 1 + 2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea.
Northland Deutsche Bucht has awarded Danish-based Semco Maritime with a 5-year service contract for the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea.
EDS HV Group has completed its scope of work at Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), also known as the Aberdeen offshore wind farm.
TenneT has awarded the Oldenburg-based LMR Drilling GmbH with a contract to carry out the horizontal directional drilling (HDD) sea defense work for the Hollandse Kust (zuid) offshore grid.
The BorWin gamma topside has been installed onto its jacket foundation at the offshore site in the German North Sea.
Innogy’s Green Bond Committee has decided to reallocate proceeds of its inaugural Green Bond from renewables generation projects to grid projects.
The BorWin gamma topside is currently being prepared for installation onto its jacket foundation in the German North Sea.
UK energy market regulator Ofgem is opening a tender for owning the electricity transmission links to three offshore wind farms: the 1.2GW Hornsea Project One, the 714ME East Anglia One, and the 588MW Beatrice.
