Heerema Marine Contractors has secured a contract with Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine to transport and install the HVDC offshore converter platform for the Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK. The platform will be fabricated at Sembcorp Marine’s yard, while Heerema’s semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipn
The 300 MW Zhuhai Golden Bay offshore wind farm in China has been fully connected to the grid. The project comprises 55 MingYang MySE5.5MW turbines, which can survive a super typhoon of 17th grade, the turbine supplier said. MingYang added that it had delivered all the turbines in a record-breaking
Transmission system operator TenneT has launched a qualification system for construction work on 2 GW high voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore platforms. The scope of this qualification system covers the Dutch offshore platforms, topsides and jackets, including auxiliary systems, together with th
CWind, part of the Global Marine Group, has completed its inter-array cable pull-in and termination and testing campaign at the Kriegers Flak offshore wind project in Denmark. CWind used walk-to-work vessels Island Diligence and Island Crown to conduct 72 inter-array cable pull-ins and termination a
Germany’s Amprion Offshore GmbH has started the bidding process for the awarding of converters and cables for DolWin4 and BorWin4 offshore grid connections. The wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dortmund-based transmission system operator Amprion expects to award the contracts in summer 2022. The 900 M
Energinet has issued a tender seeking floating lidar measurements for the areas where the Danish energy islands and accompanying offshore wind farms are set to be built. The tender is divided into four lots, with the first two concerning atmospheric and oceanographic measurements for project areas i
French power cable manufacturer Nexans has signed a preferred supplier agreement with Empire Offshore Wind LLC to connect the Empire Wind offshore projects to the New York State’s onshore grid. The turnkey projects cover the full design and manufacturing, as well as the laying and protection of over
Prysmian Group and RWE Renewables have finalised the contract for the export cable connection of the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm, worth more than EUR 200 million. The contract, which follows the preferred bidder agreement from November 2020, includes the development of the turn-key high voltage
The consortium of GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and Sembcorp Marine has been awarded the full contract to supply a high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system for RWE’s 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm. Located in the North Sea 195 kilometers off the coast of the North East of Engla
Visser & Smit Hanab has laid and tested the onshore HV cable connecting the transformer station and HV substation of the Windpark Fryslân nearshore wind farm in the Netherlands. Approximately 23 km of 110 kV cable was laid from Breezanddijk through the Afsluitdijk and along the A7 motorway to Bolswa
Orient Cable has won a contract to provide dynamic cable for an offshore wind project in China which will connect a floating wind turbine to a fixed unit. Ningbo Orient (NBO) plans to use one 35 kV dynamic cable to connect the 5.5 MW floating wind turbine to the fixed-bottom turbine. The plan is to
The remaining seabed preparation works at the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind project are set to recommence at the beginning of April, after the winter pause. The vessel Sartor will carry out the remaining boulder relocation operations in preparation for the installation of inter-array cables in the
The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) has granted a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need to the South Fork offshore wind farm’s export cable, which will make landfall at Beach Lane in Wainscott and then run to the Cove Hollow Road substation in East Hampton, where
Amprion Offshore has submitted the documents for the public planning procedure for the Exclusive Economic Zone section of the DolWin4 and BorWin4 offshore grid connection systems in Germany. The application documents contain a pre-design of the planned platforms and take into account the installatio
