Dajin Heavy Industry has launched its first self-built heavy deck carrier designed to transport XXL components and equipment for the offshore wind, oil, and gas industries. The vessel is the first of four of the same type that the company is currently building, and could be the first in a fleet of 2
German renewable energy developer RWE has ceased the development of the Kent offshore wind farm in Victoria, a move that follows the Australian government’s recent decision to push back its first offshore wind tender. After close to a year of feasibility studies, RWE has decided to call off the deve
BOA and BrestPort, the company managing the commercial port of Brest in France, have decided to collaborate on the development of floating offshore wind turbine launching methods from port facilities into open water, as well as supporting the development of the related port infrastructures. Under th
Greenpeace UK has said it plans to take legal action against the Crown Estate, accusing the public body of “monopoly profiteering” from the auctioning of seabed rights for offshore wind projects, a system Greenpeace claims is pushing up energy costs and slowing Britain’s transition to clean power. T
The UK government has delayed a consent decision on the 480 MW Morecambe offshore wind farm, being developed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The statutory deadline for the decision on the Morecambe offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea was 23 October. According to Labour Minister for Ener
50Hertz has launched an EUR 11.7 million call for tenders for marine warranty surveyor (MWS) services for offshore wind energy projects in both the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. The German TSO is looking to award a framework agreement(s) for MWS services through four lots, with the contract for each
Njord Survey has signed a long-term framework agreement with 50Hertz for survey services that will support offshore wind development in the German Baltic Sea. Under the agreement, the Sweden-based offshore survey provider will deliver geophysical and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) seabed surveys, w
Steelwind Nordenham has loaded out the final three monopiles for Poland’s 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind project at its port facility in Germany. Over the course of 26 shipments, all 78 monopiles that the company produced were successfully delivered. The first of the monopiles was installed offsh
Ignitis Renewables has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Ocean Winds to acquire full ownership of the Curonian Nord offshore wind project in Lithuania. Ignitis Renewables, an Ignitis Group subsidiary, plans to acquire 49 per cent of Ocean Winds’ shares at a nominal price in the company devel
China’s Mingyang Smart Energy has announced plans to invest up to GBP 1.5 billion (approximately EUR 1.7 billion) in Scotland to create what the company says would be Britain’s first fully integrated offshore wind turbine manufacturing facility, which would provide up to 1,500 new jobs. The three-ph
Vattenfall is preparing an invitation to tender for the decommissioning of Alpha Ventus, according to early information that emerged on a European tender website. Meanwhile, the participants of the RAVE (Research at Alpha VEntus) initiative have kicked off finalRAVE, a sub-project with a focus on th
Singapore’s Seatrium has received a notice of termination regarding the construction of a wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) that was planned to be deployed on Equinor’s Empire Wind offshore wind project in the US. In March 2022, Seatrium’s subsidiary Seatrium Energy International (SEI) secured
Tokyo Gas has begun utilising a digital platform for offshore wind project development provided by Vind AI. The Norwegian technology company says that with its platform, developers can complete business cases for offshore wind projects more than five times faster. Vind AI’s platform supports develop
Remazel Engineering, a company of the Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri, has secured a contract for the delivery of a high-capacity rock placement system for Jan De Nul’s recently ordered subsea rock installation vessel (SRIV). Jan De Nul reported some ten days ago that it had ordered the new S
Ørsted will lay off around 500 people by the end of this year and a total of approximately 2,000 towards the end of 2027. Of the 500 employees who will be made redundant in Q4 2025, some 235 are in Denmark. The company said on 9 October that the move to reduce the number of […]
