Accelerating the development of robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) will be a significant enabler to reaching net-zero targets, according to new research from the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, which estimates that the global robotics market in the wind energy industry, both offshore an
Esvagt has taken delivery of the third and final service operation vessel (SOV) ordered for Vestas and delivered by Havyard in Norway. Esvagt NHST 149, as the yet-to-be-named vessel is known, completes a series of three vessels delivered over the last nine months that Esvagt had ordered at Havyard L
Ems Maritime Offshore (EMO), Vestas, and Parkwind have signed lease agreements for an operations and maintenance (O&M) building in the Port of Sassnitz–Mukran for Parkwind’s Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm. The building will see up to 40 professionals overseeing and maintaining the 257 MW project,
Construction works on the operations and maintenance (O&M) base for what will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank project, are expected to start this month. Announcing that the O&M base will be constructed and operated in line with the UK Green Building Council’s Ne
Manor Renewable Energy (MRE) has signed a contract to charter a new build crew transfer vessel from WEM Marine LTD to support its work supplying temporary power solution at the 1.4 GW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. WEM Marine LTD’s vessel, the WEM3, joined MRE on Hornsea Two in July 2021. The WEM3
Equinor will combine operations of the Dudgeon and Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farms off the Norfolk coast into one hub in Great Yarmouth. The Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind farms are currently operated from separate bases in Egmere and Great Yarmouth, respectively. The new setup wil
Siemens Gamesa has launched what the company describes as the world’s first wind turbine blade ready for commercial use offshore that can be recycled at the end of its lifecycle – the RecyclableBlade. The first six 81-metre long RecyclableBlades have already been produced at the Siemens Gamesa blade
JDR Cable Systems has adopted HIGHVOLT Prüftechnik Dresden’s Resonant Test System (RTS) for testing inter-array cables at offshore wind projects. The test system is purpose-built for post-installation testing of 66 kV offshore inter-array cables according to the international standard IEC 63026. T
Iberdrola has signed a lease agreement with the port of Sassnitz-Mukran for a new operations and maintenance (O&M) building that will serve the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm. The developer, which already has an O&M base there for its Wikinger offshore wind farm, said that the agreement delivered a
The developer of the 800 MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm is considering Tisbury Marine Terminal as a base for its operations and maintenance (O&M) activities, according to the latest documents available on the Martha’s Vineyard Commission’s website. Namely, the Commission is currently reviewin
21 of the 80 monopile foundations have been installed at the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire wind farm off the Guérande peninsula in France, EDF Renouvleables said. The turbine foundations are being installed by DEME Offshore’s jack-up vessel Innovation which installed the first unit at the site between 12 and
Ryder Geotechnical has completed site-specific assessment (SSA) at the turbine locations of the first two phases of the Dogger Bank offshore wind project. Ryder completed a geotechnical zonation assessment to classify the 190 turbine locations in terms of geotechnical risk to the upcoming jack-up op
UXOcontrol has completed the unexploded ordnance (UXO) identification and disposal campaign at the Hollandse Kust Zuid 3 and 4 offshore wind project in the Netherlands. The campaign, which ran from early February till July, saw a total of 1,350 targets investigated, with 19 being highlighted as UXOs
Deutsche Windtechnik has established an offshore wind maintenance business unit in the UK, following the same move the company did in the onshore segment in 2016. The German company’s new unit in the UK, Deutsche Windtechnik Offshore Ltd., began operations on 1 August and is managed as an independen
