German energy company Uniper and compatriot steel manufacturer, Salzgitter AG, have concluded a cooperation agreement with the aim of Uniper supplying the SALCOS project in Salzgitter with green hydrogen at competitive conditions for the production of climate-compatible steel. The cooperation is foc
German energy company RWE has won an operations and maintenance (O&M) services contract for the London Array offshore wind farm, in which RWE holds a 30 per cent stake. Under the ten-year O&M contract, the company will start delivering services for the offshore wind farm in early 2023. According to
Metec Group (Metec), a South Tyneside manufacturing company, has been awarded a six-figure offshore contract to supply and install a 30-year cathodic protection system for what’s set to be “the largest offshore wind tower factory in the UK”. The company will produce around 400 sacrificial anodes for
French transmission system operator (TSO) Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (RTE) has invited tenders for insurance coverage of works to be performed on the grid connections for the Dieppe-Le Tréport and Yeu-Noirmoutier offshore wind farms. The tender, launched on 16 February, is divided into three
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland; RVO) will open a tender for morphological and scour assessment of the IJmuiden Ver Wind Farm Zone in March, according to a prior information notice RVO issued on 14 February. The successful candidate will conduct a study into
UK-based engineering and construction company J. Murphy & Sons (Murphy) has been awarded a multi-million-pound contract for onshore civil works on the export cables for both the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm and 1.2 GW Dogger Bank C. Although the two large-scale offshore wind farms are being built
Iberdrola and DP Energy have appointed Royal HaskoningDHV together with Mott MacDonald to lead the production of an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) for the Inis Ealga Marine Energy Park project offshore Ireland. The 1GW Inis Ealga Marine Energy Park is located off the South Coast of Ir
Fugro has won a contract by Ørsted to carry out geotechnical site investigations at the Hornsea Three and Hornsea Four offshore wind projects in the UK. The site investigations will include downhole cone penetration testing (CPT), seismic cone penetration testing (SCPT), downhole sampling and high-q
SSE Renewables has called on the Irish Government to expand its renewable energy ambition and increase its current 5 GW target of installed offshore wind energy by 2030. Speaking at the Irish Renewable Energy Summit at Croke Park, Dublin, the company’s Director of Development Maria Ryan said the off
Iberdrola will invest more than USD 10 billion in the development of three offshore wind complexes in Massachusetts, the Spanish energy company’s CEO, Ignacio Galán, told the Governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker. During the meeting, Galán also explained the company’s growth plan in the United St
A consortium comprising McDermott and Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute and C-EPRI Electric Power Engineering (GEIRI / C-EPRI) has been awarded a contract for offshore and onshore converter stations for the German BorWin6 offshore grid connection which will be delivered by TenneT to l
Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy is seeking input from the industry and the interested parties on the elements relevant to the draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the country’s first offshore wind project. Lithuania plans to start the auctioning procedure for a 700 MW offshore wind project
Neptune Energy and RWE have signed a Joint Development Agreement to develop a green hydrogen project which will use offshore wind energy for the production of hydrogen in the Dutch sector of the North Sea and an existing pipeline to transport the hydrogen to land. The project, called H2opZee and sup
Empire Offshore Wind has awarded the engineering consulting group, COWI, with a contract to deliver a turnkey design for the wind turbine foundations for the Empire Wind 1 and 2 projects off the coast of Long Island, New York. This is COWI’s largest offshore wind engineering contract in the US to da
