The first floater for the Les Eoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) floating offshore wind farm has been launched at the Port of Marseille Fos in France. Eiffage Métal, Smulders, and their subcontractor Geodis, in coordination with Ocean Winds, launched the wind farm’s first floating platform
BorWin epsilon offshore converter platform, which will connect to EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm, arrived at its designated location in the German North Sea several days ago and is now being installed. The offshore HVDC platform, including the topside and the jacket foundation, left Dragados Of
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), on behalf of its fund Copenhagen Infrastructure V (CI V), has entered into an agreement to divest a 10 per cent stake in the 495 MW Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan to Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL). The transaction is subject to customary closing conditio
Ørsted has discontinued the development of the UK’s Hornsea 4 offshore wind farm in its current form. The developer said the 2.4 GW project has faced rising supply chain costs, higher interest rates, and increased construction and delivery risks since the Contract for Difference (CfD) award in Alloc
The installation of the offshore substation jacket foundation and topside for the third phase of the Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the world’s biggest offshore wind farm under construction, will commence soon. Heerema Marine Contractors’ semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Sleipnir will install the offsho
A campaign to gather more than two years of wind data crucial for the development of the Scottish Ossian floating offshore wind farm has been completed. Two floating LiDAR buoys (FLiDAR) have been deployed to survey the 858-square-kilometre site, 84 kilometres off the east coast of Scotland, since A
Shell and Google have signed a corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the electricity generated at the 108 MW NordzeeWind project, extending the life of the Netherlands’ first offshore wind farm. Shell NordzeeWind will continue supplying renewable energy to the Dutch electricity grid for almos
With the start of scour protection activities, the offshore construction work for the first phase of RWE’s 1.6 GW Nordseecluster wind project has commenced. The Nordseecluster A offshore wind farm is the first phase of the 1.6 GW Nordseecluster development that will be built north of the island of J
Ørsted has divested a 24.5 per cent stake in the 389 MW West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm to funds managed by Schroders Greencoat. The value of the transaction is GBP 456.1 million (approximately EUR 534 million) on a debt-free basis. The transaction closed on 30 April 2025. Ørsted will retain
Jan De Nul’s heavy-lift vessel Les Alizés has installed the first of 72 monopiles at RWE’s 1.1 GW Thor offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea. The monopiles were shipped from the heavy-lift terminal in Eemshaven, the Netherlands, to the Thor construction site located approximately 22 kilometres
More than half of the wind turbines at Dogger Bank A, the first phase of the UK’s 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, have been installed. So far, 52 of the 95 GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbines that Dogger Bank A will feature are in place, according to a Notice to Mariners from the […]
Equinor and Polenergia have secured the final environmental decision, issued by the Regional Director for Environmental Protection (RDOŚ) in Gdańsk, for the Bałtyk 1 offshore wind farm as the project is being prepared for auction in Poland in 2025. “This is an extremely important moment for the Bałt
The first of 64 Vestas V236-15.0 MW wind turbines has been installed at EnBW’s He Dreiht project site offshore Germany. Completed on 24 April, the project milestone also marks the first time Vestas’s flagship wind turbine has been installed at an offshore wind farm. “With the installation of the fir
Offshore construction has started at the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site in the UK, with the first of 95 monopile foundations now installed by the jack-up vessel Seaway Ventus. Standing at 83.89 metres tall, 10.6 metres in diameter and weighing 1,800 tonnes, the monopile also represents a
