The consortium behind the Maine Aqua Ventus demonstration project has reportedly decided to stop investigating the Port Clyde route as one of the preferred for the transmission link to the mainland. According to the local media, Maine Aqua Ventus has given up on this route due to concerns raised by
The jacket foundation for a Siemens Offshore Transformer Module (OTM) has been loaded onto a barge destined for the Beatrice offshore wind farm, after undergoing final preparations at BiFab’s yard in Fife, Scotland.
Abu Dhabi-based Masdar and Norway’s Statoil have signed a collaborative agreement to analyse data from the Batwind battery system designed to store energy generated by the Hywind Scotland floating wind farm.
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult is seeking to partner with a UK-based university to accelerate electrical infrastructure research and development activities relating to offshore renewable technologies.
A barge loaded with two gravity-based foundations (GBFs) for the high voltage station of the 605MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm has arrived in Koge, Denmark, Blue Water Shipping (BWS), the port agents for the project, told Offshore WIND.
ACE Winches is currently working on the Beatrice offshore wind farm project located in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland.
Poland could have 4GW of installed offshore wind capacity in the Baltic Sea by the end of 2030 and 8GW by the end of 2035, according to the Foundation for Sustainable Energy (FNEZ).
J. Murphy & Sons is currently installing the onshore portion of cables that will connect Orsted’s 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm to the UK grid.
Tideway B.V., part of DEME Group, has shared a photo of the DP2 Accommodation and Walk-to-Work (W2W) vessel Normand Jarstein working on the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm.
TenneT’s offshore grid connection systems connect a total capacity of 5,332MW of offshore wind energy to land and have thus met more than 82% of the Federal Government’s expansion target that envisages 6,500MW of offshore wind by 2020.
Swan Hunter has secured the Norther offshore wind farm export cable storage contract for Van Oord.
High voltage engineering specialist, EDS HV Group (EDS), part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has been awarded a contract to complete cable termination and testing work at the Hohe See offshore wind farm by cable manufacturer Zhongtian Technology Submarine Cable (ZTT).
The topside for the Rentel offshore substation left the Saint-Nazaire Port last night and is now sailing to Belgium.
The 2,660t topside for the Merkur offshore substation was lifted yesterday, 11 January, from a transport barge to the Oleg Strashnov heavy lift vessel, which is expected to install it on its foundation today.
