Grupa Przemysłowa Baltic has started the fabrication of secondary steel elements for the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea. The first sheet of metal was cut at the former Gdańsk Shipyard and at the Energomontaż-Północ Gdynia S.A. plant to begin construction of mooring stru
The Scottish government has granted a consent order for SSE Renewables’ Berwick Bank in the UK, which, if fully developed, would become the world’s largest offshore wind farm. The Section 36 consent determination by Scottish ministers approves the project’s main offshore wind array in the outer Firt
French industrial gas supplier Air Liquide has taken the final investment decision (FID) to build ELYgator, a large-scale electrolyser in the Netherlands, which will be connected to OranjeWind, a soon-to-be-built Dutch offshore wind farm owned by a joint venture between RWE and TotalEnergies. The co
The consortium of Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables has shipped the first batch of jacket foundations from Spain for the 496 MW Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm. The first four jackets are currently en route to their destination in France. The four-legged jackets were manufactured at Nav
The first floating wind turbine has been installed at the site of the Éoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) project in France, developed by Ocean Winds in partnership with Banque des Territoires. Assembled at the port of Port-La Nouvelle in Occitanie, the first of the project’s three wind tur
The substation platform and jacket foundation for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm have departed from the Smulders yard in Wallsend, Newcastle, and are en route to their site off the Angus coast in Scotland. The Siemens Energy Offshore Transformer Module (OTM) and its jacket foundation sailed at sun
Dutch company IQIP has been awarded a contract by DEME to deploy its Hydrohammer IQ6 spread for Vattenfall’s Nordlicht 1 and 2 offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. IQIP’s Hydrohammer IQ6 spread will be deployed together with the PULSE technology, which is a noise mitigation add-on that uses
SeAH Wind has commenced commercial production for its inaugural project, delivering monopile foundations for Ørsted’s 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. The milestone was marked by cutting the first steel plates. This signifies the beginning of operations at SeAH Wind’s facility on Teess
Geotechnical surveys have commenced for the Lillebælt Syd offshore wind farm in Denmark, owned by TotalEnergies, European Energy, and Danish utility company SONFOR. In the coming months, a jack-up will conduct test drilling for the eleven turbine locations at the Lillebælt Syd wind farm site. The pu
Ocean Winds has entered into an agreement with Siemens Gamesa for the supply of 26 SG 14-236 wind turbines, which are capable of being boosted to 15 MW, for its BC-Wind offshore wind project in Poland. The companies have also signed a long-term service and maintenance agreement for the 390 MW projec
The first turbine foundation has been installed at Nordseecluster A, the first phase of the 1.6 GW Nordseecluster offshore wind development in Germany. The monopiles were shipped from the heavy-lift terminal in Eemshaven, the Netherlands, to the construction site in the German North Sea by Van Oord’
The jacket foundation and the substation topside have been installed at the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm site in Denmark. Following the jacket and topside’s sail-away from HSM Offshore Energy’s Schiedam yard in the Netherlands, the installation of the 2,600-tonne topside was executed offshore, with
Geotechnical survey work will soon commence along the North Falls export cable route and wind turbine array area in the southern North Sea. Mobilisation will commence on 3 August, with the survey lasting approximately two months. The planned survey is expected to conclude no later than 30 September,
The 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm has become fully operational, with Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney visiting Eyemouth on 24 July to mark the launch of the country’s newest offshore wind project. Located 15.5 kilometres off the coast of Fife, NnG is co-owned by EDF power so
The Salamander floating offshore wind farm has secured the offshore consent award from the Scottish government, granting approval to build and operate the project. The 100 MW floating wind farm, developed jointly by Simply Blue Group, Ørsted, and Subsea7, has been awarded Section 36 consent and asso
