The three-phased Hai Long offshore wind farm in Taiwan has reached several key offshore construction milestones over the past few months, including the installation of the jacket foundation for the offshore substation at Hai Long 3. There are now also 108 pin piles installed at 36 wind turbine locat
Japan-based Sumitomo Corporation has acquired an equity stake in EEW Offshore Wind Holding, one of three new holding companies EEW Group founded to organise its business more efficiently, according to the German foundation manufacturer. According to EEW Group, Sumitomo’s stake has been in commercial
The 50th monopile foundation has been installed at the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project site off Virginia Beach in the US, according to Dominion Energy. The developer said on 12 August the 176-turbine project was on schedule to reach the goal of having 70-100 monopiles installed during
Mingyang Smart Energy’s OceanX, the world’s largest single-capacity floating wind platform according to Mingyang, has sailed out of Guangzhou, China, and is heading towards the Qingzhou IV offshore wind farm in Yangjiang, Guangdong, where it will be installed. The floater is a dual-turbine V-shaped
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has signed a preferred supplier agreement (PSA) with Equinor for floating foundations that will be installed at the Firefly/Bandibuli offshore wind farm in South Korea. Korean media reports SHI announced on 7 August the company had signed a PSA with Equinor. According
RWE and TotalEnergies have entered into an agreement under which TotalEnergies will acquire a 50 per cent stake in RWE’s OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. TotalEnergies said it would use its share of the electricity from the 795 MW OranjeWind to produce green hydrogen. The new partne
The consortium of Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables has been awarded a contract to deliver 21 monopiles for Iberdrola’s Windanker offshore wind farm in Germany. The transition pieces (TPs) for the Windanker foundations will be delivered by Windar under a contract the Spanish manufacturer sig
The first monopile for the Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark has been completed at Dajin Offshore Heavy Industry’s Penglai facility in China. In April last year, RWE selected Dajin Offshore and EEW SPC to deliver 36 monopiles each, together with secondary structures, for the Thor offshore wind farm
Dutch offshore wind foundation manufacturer, Sif, will be using a new welding technique in the production process of XXXL monopiles in its new production halls on the Maasvlakte, Rotterdam. The Cold Wire Tandem-Twin Narrow Gap SAW (CWTT-NGSAW) process is said to make welded joints stronger and welde
Ramboll has been selected as the foundation designer for the Gennaker offshore wind project in the German Baltic Sea, owned by Skyborn Renewables. Under the contract, Ramboll will be responsible for developing the basic and detailed design of 63 monopile foundations supporting Siemens Gamesa’s SG 14
A consortium comprising some of the world’s leading offshore wind developers and Tier 1 suppliers have initiated a joint industry project that aims to commercialise a new foundation connection technology developed by the Netherlands-based company C1 Connections. “With the increasing size of wind tur
Heerema Marine Contractors has demonstrated a noise reduction of 24 decibels (dB) during installation work at EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany, where the offshore construction specialist employed a noise mitigation spread with equipment supplied by IQIP. The Netherlands-based Heerema M
Norwegian service provider to the oil and gas industry, Archer, is taking over its compatriot Moreld Ocean Wind (MOW), a floating wind engineering and technology company. Once the acquisition transaction is completed, MOW will be renamed Archer Wind. Archer acquired a 100 stake in MOW through an agr
Equinor and Polenergia have signed reservation agreements with the consortium of Sif and Smulders for the manufacturing of 100 transition pieces (TPs) for the Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III offshore wind projects in Poland. The developers, through two of their joint venture companies (each for one project
