Waters off Denmark’s west coast are now home to what RWE says is the world’s first offshore wind turbine featuring a CO2‑reduced steel tower and recyclable rotor blades. The 1.1 GW Thor offshore wind farm, currently under construction some 22 kilometres off the west coast of Jutland, will comprise 7
Installation of the first of 84 Siemens Gamesa 11 MW wind turbines is underway at the Sunrise Wind project site, located approximately 30 miles (around 48 kilometres) east of Montauk, New York. The installation vessel Wind Scylla, owned by Cadeler, arrived at the site on 25/26 March, according to th
Lindø Offshore Renewables Center (LORC) has inaugurated a new main bearing test facility capable of full-scale validation of wind turbine bearings for units of up to 25 MW. R&D Test Systems was in charge of the design, engineering, and delivery of the complete facility, while Schaeffler provided app
Vestas plans to build a nacelle and hub assembly facility in Scotland to support offshore wind projects in the UK and across Europe. The proposed factory would require a capital investment of more than EUR 250 million and is planned to manufacture nacelles and hubs for the company’s V236-15.0 MW off
Bilfinger has been selected to provide supervision services for the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind farms in the Polish Baltic Sea, developed by Equinor and Polenergia. The company’s scope covers supervision of the installation of offshore substations, wind turbines and more than 120 kilometres
CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE), using the vessel Sea Challenger, has installed the first of the 36 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 wind turbines at the Hai Long 3 project site offshore Taiwan. Hai Long 3 is the third phase of the 1+ GW offshore wind project that the consortium comprising Northland Power
Polish offshore wind tower manufacturer Baltic Towers has signed a cooperation agreement with Siemens Gamesa for the supply of the largest batch of wind turbine towers for the Baltica 2 offshore wind project in Poland, jointly developed by PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna and Ørsted. Baltic Towers was
The UK government will remove tariffs on a range of industrial goods used in offshore wind manufacturing in a move aimed at reducing costs for the sector and supporting the country’s targets. According to the Department for Business and Trade, tariffs on 33 industrial goods used in offshore wind wil
As Sif Group announces the successful ramp-up of its Maasvlakte II facility in Rotterdam, reaching a target output of four monopiles per week, the role of manufacturing equipment has taken center stage. Key to this production milestone is the integration of four Davi heavy-duty plate rolls, engineer
RWE has placed a firm wind turbine order with Vestas for its 1,380 MW Vanguard East offshore wind project in the UK, shortly after confirming a firm order for Vanguard West, which will have the same installed capacity. For Vanguard East, Vestas will supply, deliver, and commission 92 of its V236-15.
The first wind turbine is now in place at the 1.1 GW Thor offshore wind farm site in Denmark. Thor will comprise 72 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-236 DD wind turbines, of which 40 will feature recyclable rotor blades, with 36 turbine towers to be manufactured with a significantly lower carbon footprint than
The first of the 95 GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbines has been installed at Dogger Bank B, the second phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK. This is according to the information in a Notice to Mariners issued by the project on 2 March, which states the wind turbine installation [&hellip
Jack-up vessels Wind Osprey and Wind Pace will start installing wind turbines at the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site in the UK around 18 March. Both vessels will mobilise at the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark, with first load-out for Wind Osprey expected on 15 March, while the first load-out for
The installation of the first wind turbine at Ørsted’s Sunrise Wind project site in the US is expected to start soon, as Cadeler’s vessel Wind Scylla, which was installing Revolution Wind turbines and is now in port, is planned to deploy to Sunrise Wind next. According to a Notice to Mariners issued
