Cemre Shipyard has launched the first of the three service operation vessels (SOVs) currently under construction for MHI Vestas and Esvagt at its yard in Turkey. The vessels are of the Havyard 831 L SOV design and will service the Borssele III and IV offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, the Triton
Scottish energy company SSE has engaged practiced emergency responses and has adapted working arrangements to ensure the safety of the staff working on the Beatrice offshore wind farm during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 584 MW Beatrice comprises 84 Siemens Gamesa 7 MW wind turbines which have been in
The Port of Amsterdam will turn a dredging depot at the former Averijhaven into an energy port to serve as a base for the construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms. The port is carrying out the Energiehaven project in collaboration with the province of North Holland, the municipality of Ve
Ventus Marine’s service accommodation transfer vessel (SATV) Ventus Formosa has begun its charter on the Formosa 1 offshore wind project in Taiwan. The joint venture of PSA Marine and its Taiwanese partner Ta Tong Marine Group took delivery of the 36-meter purpose-built SATV earlier this year. Ventu
ScottishPower Renewables has awarded CWind with a contract for subsea work on the East Anglia ONE offshore wind project. CWind will provide subsea maintenance of the foundations and offshore substation, subsea surveys, corrective maintenance, as well as pre-engineering studies. The three-year contra
EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG has selected the winners of the framework contracts for periodic inspections and tests at the company’s four offshore wind farms in the German North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The tender for technical inspection and testing services is divided into two lots and it cove
C-bed and MHI Vestas have commenced a multiple offshore wind farm upgrade campaign at four European projects. The project includes the upgrading of turbines at the Burbo Bank Extension and Walney Extension projects in the UK, Borkum Riffgrund 2 in Germany and Norther in Belgium. C-bed’s DP2 walk-to-
WINDEA Offshore, together with its partner WP Systems, has tested the operation of the working platform SYSTEM terra for the repair of rotor blades at a Siemens SWT-3.6 offshore test turbine in the German district of Nordfriesland. The platform, which is used for maintenance and repair of rotor blad
High voltage engineering specialist EDS HV Group (EDS) has been awarded a three-year operations and maintenance contract for Vattenfall’s Blackdog Substation at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in Scotland. The scope of the contract will see EDS, part of James Fisher and Sons plc
Ørsted has signed a wharf lease and a 20-year operations and maintenance (O&M) lease with the Port of Taichung in Taiwan. The leased wharfs will be upgraded and utilized for the construction of the Greater Changhua offshore wind farms, and the O&M site will serve as the O&M base for Ørsted‘s Changhu
SSE Renewables has awarded Certex UK with a contract for the inspection and maintenance of turbines at the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm in the UK. Under the agreement for 2020, Certex UK is in charge of inspecting and maintaining 140 Siemens 3.6MW turbines. According to the company, eight dedi
Dutch energy company Eneco has selected Renewable Strategy’s software system, RSL Manager, to digitalize its offshore wind farm operations and maintenance tasks. The RSL Manager system enables Eneco to plan, track, and monitor its offshore activities across multiple wind farms off the Dutch coast, a
Ørsted and Eversource have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ThayerMahan to explore the provision of maritime wildlife monitoring and seabed surveillance services for the Revolution Wind wind project offshore Connecticut. The MOU with this Groton-based marine automation and monitoring
Renewable Strategy Limited (RSL) has deployed computerized maintenance management software on the Formosa 1 offshore wind project in Taiwan.
