Siemens Gamesa has awarded FairWind with a contract to assist on pre-assembly work on offshore wind turbines for the Formosa 2 wind farm in Taiwan. FairWind will be responsible for the pre-assembly of the towers for 47 SGRE 8.0 MW wind turbines, scheduled to start in March 2021. “This is an importan
Triumph Subsea Services has issued a Letter of Intent to InfraStrata plc for one firm and one optional Windfarm Development Vessel (WDV). Under the terms of the LoI, InfraStrata’s fully owned subsidiary, Harland & Wolff (Belfast) Limited, would be responsible for the build, assembly, and delivery of
Fugro has won three geotechnical investigation contracts for the 4 GW IJmuiden Ver wind farm zone in the Dutch North Sea. The contracts include seabed investigation, an extensive laboratory testing program, and the development of an integrated ground model. The fieldwork, which comprises seabed cone
The Finnish municipality of Korsnäs has approved plans for an offshore wind farm submitted by the state-owned enterprise Metsähallitus. The offshore wind farm is proposed to be built approximately 15 kilometres off the coast of Korsnäs, within a project area spanning some 180 square kilometres. The
IKM Subsea Singapore has won a contract to provide ROV services at an offshore wind project in Taiwan, the company’s first in the region. IKM Subsea Singapore secured the deal with Solstad and will provide ROV services onboard Solstad’s construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Baltic. The company’s
Cable-monitoring company Marlinks has secured a contract to provide cable depth and temperature monitoring for the Norther offshore wind project in Belgium. Both the wind farm’s export and inter-array cables will be monitored using Marlinks’ technology. The company said that its DTS-based technology
Teras Offshore, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ezion Holdings, has signed a deal worth USD 83.4 million (around EUR 68.7 million) for the transportation and installation of 31 9.5 MW offshore wind turbines at Taipower Offshore Wind Project Phase II (TPC Changhua Phase II). The contract was awarded by
French government has selected an area off Cotentin as the place where its eighth offshore wind farm will be built, and launched a competitive tender process with a plan to select a developer in 2022. French Ecological Transition Minister Barbara Pompili and Minister of the Sea Annick Girardin annou
Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has issued a tender for technical due diligence services and energy consultancy services for offshore wind, as well as solar and onshore wind projects. The services will be for various projects which are at different stages of development, for future generati
UK energy market regulator Ofgem has opened a tender round to grant two offshore transmission licences to connect the Moray East and the Triton Knoll offshore wind farms to the UK grid. The tender process will consist of two stages for each project, an Enhanced Pre-Qualification (EPQ) stage, and an
TenneT TSO GmbH has issued a tender notice for the design, manufacture, installation, and commissioning of the BorWin6 converter platforms. Located in the North Sea Cluster 7, the 900 MW BorWin6 is scheduled to be commissioned by 2027. The offshore grid connection will collect the three-phase electr
PGE Baltica and Ordtek have signed a contract to prepare a strategy that will define the methodology of dealing with the potential risk related to the presence of unexploded ordnance (UXO) at the Baltica 2 and Baltica 3 offshore wind project sites. In preparation for the construction of PGE’s offsho
Lithuanian government has allocated EUR 7.5 million to prepare for its first offshore wind tender and the development of the first 700 MW of offshore wind capacity in its part of the Baltic Sea. The funds will support environmental impact assessments and other studies and surveys to be carried out f
Aibel has awarded AEG Power Solutions with a contract for the supply of its Protect 8 UPS and Protect RCS rectifiers to secure power on the HVDC offshore converter platforms for Dogger Bank A and Dogger Bank B. AEG PS will deliver two Protect RCS 110TPRE1200 rectifiers, two Protect 8 inverters 60KVA
