UK-based Enshore Subsea has secured three initial projects for offshore grid systems in Germany under a six-year framework agreement with French cable systems designer and manufacturer Nexans. Enshore Subsea is responsible for installing the Wadden Sea sections of the submarine cable system for the
A joint venture (JV) between Danish power cable manufacturer and installation firm NKT and Taiwanese cable company Walsin Lihwa has inaugurated Taiwan’s first offshore power cable factory. Operated by the JV Walsin Energy Cable System (WECS), the factory was inaugurated on Saturday, 6 December, in K
IWS Fleet, a subsidiary of Integrated Wind Solutions (IWS), has booked a new deal in its charter backlog for two of its Skywalker-class commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs), which are set to work throughout the entire 2027. With the new contract(s), the company has secured 830 days of add
Van Oord, using its installation vessel Boreas, installed the first monopile at the Ecowende offshore wind farm on 3 December. The project, a joint venture between Shell, Eneco and Chubu Electric Power, is being built off the coast of the Netherlands and is said to become the most ecological offshor
A consortium led by AGL Energy has discontinued feasibility studies for the Gippsland Skies offshore wind project and will surrender its feasibility licence for the proposed 2.5 GW development off Victoria’s Gippsland coast, Australian media reports. The move makes this the third project in the Gipp
The HSI consortium, comprising HSM Offshore Energy, Smulders, and Iv, has sent off the Jasmund offshore substation (OSS), which will connect the Windanker offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea to the German electricity grid. The 4,500-tonne OSS topside, measuring 48 metres in length, 33 metres in wid
Elektrownia Wiatrowa Baltica – 1, a project company set up by PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), has issued a contract notice for geotechnical investigation services for its 900 MW Baltica 1 offshore wind project. The work is planned to be carried out along the export cable route and in the offsho
Eolos Floating LiDAR Solutions will deploy a LiDAR at the Morecambe offshore wind farm site in the UK in the coming days, according to a recently issued Notice to Mariners. The LiDAR, expected to be positioned within the Morecambe project area on or around 8 December, is planned to stay on site for
China-based manufacturer of offshore wind foundations, Dajin Heavy Industry, and Briese Schiffahrts, a German operator of heavy lift vessels and owner of a terminal in the Port of Cuxhaven, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for offshore wind marshalling services at the German port. Sig
RWE and TotalEnergies have signed an agreement with ARC marine for the supply of 66 reef cubes, which will be installed at eleven wind turbine foundations at the OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. Foundation installation at OranjeWind will start in 2026, and once the construction
All 21 monopile foundations at the Windanker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea have been installed, according to a social media update posted by Iberdrola Deutschland. The work was carried out by Van Oord using the heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen, which installed the first monopile i
Cadeler took delivery of Wind Mover, the second of its two M-class wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) built by Hanwha Ocean, on 28 November, and the vessel departed the shipyard in South Korea on 2 December, according to the shipbuilder. Cadeler ordered the two WTIVs in 2021, with the first,
The Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm fed its first power into the German grid on 3 December, according to Ørsted, which owns the project together with Nuveen Infrastructure. Once fully commissioned, which is expected in the first quarter of 2026, the 913 MW offshore wind farm will become the la
Eolos Floating Lidar Solutions, together with the University of Stuttgart, Whiffle, TNO, Pondera, REdouble, and RWE Offshore Wind, has been selected for funding for a research and development (R&D) project that aims to advance 3D wind flow and wake measurements in offshore wind farms. Called SSwiFT
XOCEAN has been awarded a series of five-year contracts in the Netherlands, under which the company will deliver bathymetric survey services for six offshore wind farms. The agreements, coordinated by Eneco on behalf of the wind farm owners, are for Borssele 3&4, owned by the Blauwwind consortium; B
