The Crown Estate is setting up a new Supply Chain Investment Programme worth GBP 350 million (approximately EUR 410 million) to invest in the construction of new port and supply chain infrastructure that will support accelerated delivery of UK offshore wind projects, the UK seabed manager said on 17
RWE Offshore Wind has awarded two long-term agreements with Clarkson Port Services (CPS) to support the operations and maintenance (O&M) activities at its 1.6 GW Nordseecluster offshore wind project in Germany. The Dutch division of Clarkson Port Services will build a new warehouse facility in the p
The construction of the operations & maintenance (O&M) base for the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm has officially started with a groundbreaking ceremony at the Port of Utska in Poland. Representatives from PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna, Ørsted, the general contractor Doraco, and the contract en
Windar Renovables has laid the cornerstone for a planned offshore wind turbine tower factory in Szczecin, Poland. The facility is scheduled to go into operation in 2026 and will directly create 450 jobs. The factory will serve domestic and global demand and play a key role in supporting the Polish o
Work has kicked off on Belfast Harbour’s port investment project to create a new cruise and offshore wind energy terminal in Northern Ireland. According to Belfast Harbour, marine works are due to begin this week on the largest single capital investment project ever undertaken by the port, the devel
Construction has begun on the Princess Elisabeth Island, the world’s first energy island, in the Belgian North Sea, with the first two of 23 caissons already submerged at their final location. The work is being carried out on behalf of grid operator Elia Transmission Belgium by TM Edison, a joint ve
Construction work on LS Cable & System’s manufacturing facility for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cables in Virginia, the US, has started. LS Cable & System announced that its US subsidiary, LS GreenLink, had held a groundbreaking ceremony for what the company says will be the largest fa
Denmark-headquartered power cable manufacturer and installation company NKT has launched an integrated monitoring platform to safeguard offshore and onshore cables and support their continuous operation by identifying and mitigating potential threats, including fishing accidents and deliberate damag
CNOOD-Wenchong Heavy Industries (CWHI) has completed the construction of its flagship Qinzhou Yard in China, now one of the world’s largest and most advanced XXXL monopile manufacturing facilities in operation today, said the company. The new facility has an annual production capacity of 100 XXXL mo
Doosan Enerbility will build a factory for the production of Siemens Gamesa’s 14 MW offshore wind turbines in South Korea. On 11 March, Doosan Enerbility signed an Early Works Agreement with Siemens Gamesa that will see the company design and build a production factory in Changwon, South Korea. Siem
A consortium led by ArianeGroup, an industrial company handling liquid hydrogen (LH2) for space applications, has launched a new project to develop solutions for storing and using LH2 as an energy carrier for maritime transport. The solution will be integrated into a new zero-emission service operat
Dragados Offshore is planning to add a new production site with 400,000 square metres of space in Spain for the manufacturing of TenneT’s 2 GW offshore converter stations. The production site is currently being built in the southern Spanish coastal town of Algeciras (Campo de Gibraltar region). From
Elia Transmission Belgium (ETB) has decided to temporarily postpone the signing of the high-voltage direct current (HVDC) contracts for Princess Elisabeth Island due to the price increase for the HVDC infrastructure, according to the Belgium transmission system operator (TSO). Princess Elisabeth Isl
Innovation in wind energy has been one of the main pillars driving the upscale of the sector, enabling better components, larger and stronger turbines, faster and more cost-effective logistics, but what about its integration into tenders? Innovative approaches in tender designs can have a major impa
