Ørsted and ATP, together with their partners Aarsleff, Bouygues Construction, and Van Oord, have presented their concept of a modular energy island for the forthcoming tender in the Danish North Sea. The Nordsøens Energiø (North Sea Energy) Island will be an island in constant development, even afte
Seaway 7 has won an engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning (EPIC) contract with EnBW for the inter-array cables for the He Dreiht offshore wind project in Germany. The scope includes the supply and installation of around 100 kilometres of 66 kV subsea power cables and respective ca
VCE Vienna Consulting Engineers ZT has been awarded a contract to install Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems on twelve TenneT’s HVDC platforms in Germany. On nine platforms, which are in operation, the installation of the SHM systems will be carried out offshore during operation, while for t
Boskalis has completed the transport of the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Beta substation topside from Dubai to Rotterdam using its semi-submersible heavy transport vessel Mighty Servant 3. The HKZ Beta topside is scheduled to be installed in the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm zone in the Dutch North Sea
PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna and Ørsted have issued a contract notice seeking engineering, procurement and construction services covering the onshore connections of the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 and 1 GW Baltica 3 offshore wind farms. The tender is divided into two lots and covers the EPC scope for the wind
The installation of the Hollandse Kust Zuid Beta offshore substation topside will not be affected by the damage the substation’s jacket foundation suffered in a recent collision with a cargo ship, TenneT said. As reported, the cargo ship Julietta D collided with the substation jacket and a turbine f
16.8 gigawatts (GW) of new commissioned offshore wind capacity was added globally in 2021, a 161 per cent increase compared with 2020, fueled largely by increased activities offshore China, according to a new report by research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). The scheduled end to China’s offshore wind
Electric transmission company LS Power Grid, a subsidiary of LS Power, has unveiled plans to bring power generated from New Jersey offshore wind farms into the state’s onshore electric grid. The company said the costs of its plan are between 20 and 50 per cent lower than the costs of competing propo
Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind, a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Green Investment Group (GIG), has scheduled an export cable corridor survey for the proposed 1.5 GW offshore wind project. The offshore geophysical survey will be conducted over a 3.5-month period, beginning on 26 March and endin
TenneT has awarded a consortium between Boskalis and Orient Cable (NBO) a contract for the Hollandse Kust West Beta export cable, which will connect the 700 MW offshore platform to TenneT’s onshore grid in the Netherlands. The contract scope comprises the supply and installation of two 65-kilometre-
A specially formed consortium between GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and New York-based BOND Civil & Utility Construction has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) contract to supply a digital onshore substation for Empire Wind 1 wind farm offshore New York, USA. Empire
Australian engineering company Worley has won a contract by Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine to provide engineering services for the construction of two offshore substation platforms for a wind farm project. Under the contract, Worley will provide detailed design engineering services and procure
French transmission system operator Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (RTE) has selected Nexans to supply and install the export cable for the 496 MW Dieppe – Le Tréport offshore wind farm. The contract, valued at around EUR 100 million, will see Nexans supply and install 47 kilometres of offshore a
After civil engineering company Roadbridge was placed into receivership last week, the developer of the Seagreen offshore wind farm and its Tier 1 supplier for onshore cable works, SSE Renewables and Nexans, are now working to identify if and how this would affect the project and on potential mitiga
