Ørsted and MDE Consultants have signed a four-year framework agreement for the provision of personnel for Ørsted’s offshore wind farms in Germany. The wind farms include Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3, both located in the German sector of the North Sea. Under the agreement, which started on 1 Ma
Vineyard Wind has chosen DEME Offshore US for the transport and installation of offshore wind turbines at the Vineyard Wind 1 project site, located some 24 kilometres off Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. For the project, DEME Offshore US will team up with FOSS Maritime Company, a U.S. maritime se
RWE has awarded Van Oord with a contract to carry out the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) of the monopile foundations and the inter-array cables for the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm. Sofia is sited on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, 195 kilometres from the No
Germany’s Amprion Offshore GmbH has started the bidding process for the awarding of converters and cables for DolWin4 and BorWin4 offshore grid connections. The wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dortmund-based transmission system operator Amprion expects to award the contracts in summer 2022. The 900 M
WIKING Helikopter Service and Vattenfal have signed a contract extension for 24/7 Helicopter Emergency Rescue Service for the Sandbank and DanTysk offshore wind farms in Germany. Operating from its Base in Wilhelmshaven, WIKING Helikopter will continue using its high performance (Performance class 1
Northland Power Europe has extended the charter contract for the wind farm service vessel WINDEA Six with Ems Maritime Offshore (EMO) for a further five years. Northland Power chartered WINDEA Six in 2018 to transport service technicians and freight to the Nordsee One offshore wind farm, located 40
The UK-based company Geowynd has signed a contract with Ørsted for the provision of consulting and engineering services for the Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany. Geowynd will provide numerical analysis and advanced soil parameterisation for monopile foundation design at the Borkum Ri
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Siemens Gamesa has received a firm order from RWE to supply wind turbines for the 1.4 GW Sofia wind farm offshore the UK. Located 195 kilometers off the northeast coast of the United Kingdom on Dogger Bank, Sofia will feature 100 SG 14-222 DD wind turbines. Under the contract, Siemens Gamesa will al
Energinet has issued a tender seeking floating lidar measurements for the areas where the Danish energy islands and accompanying offshore wind farms are set to be built. The tender is divided into four lots, with the first two concerning atmospheric and oceanographic measurements for project areas i
The Netherlands-based Ampelmann has secured contracts to provide its offshore access systems for five undisclosed offshore wind projects in Taiwan. The contracts were signed in the first quarter of the year and include various Ampelmann systems to be used. According to the Dutch company, one of the
Ørsted has awarded Taylor Hopkinson with a framework agreement to supply contract personnel for its Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind projects in Germany. Under the deal, Taylor Hopkinson will provide personnel across a broad range of roles within the allocated lots, from construction
French power cable manufacturer Nexans has signed a preferred supplier agreement with Empire Offshore Wind LLC to connect the Empire Wind offshore projects to the New York State’s onshore grid. The turnkey projects cover the full design and manufacturing, as well as the laying and protection of over
Prysmian Group and RWE Renewables have finalised the contract for the export cable connection of the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm, worth more than EUR 200 million. The contract, which follows the preferred bidder agreement from November 2020, includes the development of the turn-key high voltage
