Revolution Wind has begun delivering electricity to the New England grid, Ørsted, which owns the US offshore wind farm together with Skyborn Renewables, said on 14 March. The offshore wind farm comprises 65 Siemens Gamesa SG 11.0-200 DD wind turbines and powers Rhode Island and Connecticut. Once ful
Belgian offshore contractor Jan De Nul plans to install three subsea power cables and a fibre optic cable simultaneously on several upcoming offshore grid connection projects for TenneT, introducing what the company describes as the industry’s first such installation. The work relates to the BalWin4
Highland Council has granted planning consent for the onshore infrastructure of the Ayre floating offshore wind farm in Scotland, developed by French renewable energy company Qair. Qair acquired full ownership of the 1 GW floating wind project from its partners in the Thistle Wind Partners (TWP) joi
Germany’s RWE has completed the sale of the F.E.W. Baltic II offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea to PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), making the Polish utility the sole owner of the 350 MW project. The offshore wind farm is planned to be built around 50 kilometres north of the Polish t
As Sif Group announces the successful ramp-up of its Maasvlakte II facility in Rotterdam, reaching a target output of four monopiles per week, the role of manufacturing equipment has taken center stage. Key to this production milestone is the integration of four Davi heavy-duty plate rolls, engineer
Seaway7 is scheduled to start installing monopile transition pieces (TPs) at the Inch Cape offshore wind farm site in Scotland this month. At the beginning of March, the first jacket foundations for the project, which will comprise a combination of monopile and jacket foundations, arrived in the Por
RWE has placed a firm wind turbine order with Vestas for its 1,380 MW Vanguard East offshore wind project in the UK, shortly after confirming a firm order for Vanguard West, which will have the same installed capacity. For Vanguard East, Vestas will supply, deliver, and commission 92 of its V236-15.
The power purchase agreement (PPA) that Munich Airport awarded to RWE through a recently closed tender is for the German developer’s new offshore wind farm Nordseecluster A, according to a press release RWE issued on 10 March. As reported in January, RWE came out as the winner in a tender that Munic
Oriel Windfarm Ltd, a joint venture between ESB and JERA Nex BP, has awarded a contract to Fugro for a detailed geotechnical site investigation for the Oriel offshore wind project in Ireland. The work will inform the design and installation of foundations for 25 offshore wind turbines that will make
Palfinger has secured a contract to supply PF 200 fully electric offshore cranes for the Formosa 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. As part of the contract for Synera Renewables Taiwan (SRE), Palfinger will supply 35 units of PF 200 fully electric offshore cranes, each with a 7-meter outreach. They wil
The first wind turbine is now in place at the 1.1 GW Thor offshore wind farm site in Denmark. Thor will comprise 72 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-236 DD wind turbines, of which 40 will feature recyclable rotor blades, with 36 turbine towers to be manufactured with a significantly lower carbon footprint than
The 220 MW Kitakyushu Hibikinada, Japan’s largest offshore wind farm, commenced commercial operation on 2 March. Located in the Hibikinada Sea, off the coast of Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, the offshore wind farm comprises 25 Vestas V174-9.6 MW turbines, the last of which was installed in au
The first of the 95 GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbines has been installed at Dogger Bank B, the second phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK. This is according to the information in a Notice to Mariners issued by the project on 2 March, which states the wind turbine installation [&hellip
Ocean Winds has entered into an agreement for lease with the Crown Estate for a 1.5 GW floating offshore wind project, for which the developer secured a site in the Round 5 seabed auction last year. Offshore Wind Leasing Round 5, the UK’s first dedicated floating wind seabed leasing round, was launc
Jack-up vessels Wind Osprey and Wind Pace will start installing wind turbines at the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site in the UK around 18 March. Both vessels will mobilise at the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark, with first load-out for Wind Osprey expected on 15 March, while the first load-out for
