More than two years after a fire caused damage, a wind turbine at the Scroby Sands offshore wind farm in the UK is being removed by RWE. In August 2023, turbine T06 at the 58 MW Scroby Sands offshore wind farm caught fire in the nacelle, with the fire extinguishing on its own. Work to […]
Glamox has secured contracts to provide connected marine lighting and light management systems for eleven offshore High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) converter platforms, being built for the Dutch/German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT. The contracts represent Glamox’s largest marine light
The first offshore wind tower section has been produced at the new Baltic Towers facility in Gdańsk, Poland. The event was attended by Minister of Climate and Environment Paulina Hennig-Kloska, Pomeranian Voivode Beata Rutkiewicz, Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Mieczysław Struk, Mayor of the
Finnish state-owned enterprise Metsähallitus has selected Arenso Oy to carry out the technical planning of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) programme phase of the Ebba offshore wind project in Finland. The planning work will commence in autumn 2025. Arenso is responsible for the early-stage
ELWIND, a joint Estonian-Latvian offshore wind project, has signed a contract with the Dutch company Haskoning to carry out a strategic cable and network configuration study for the planned offshore wind farm areas in both countries. The study will be conducted by Haskoning, together with its subsid
Cadeler has signed a firm contract with Ocean Winds for the transportation and installation of turbines at the 390 MW BC-Wind offshore wind farm in Poland. The installation is planned to commence in 2028 and to continue for approximately four months. Cadeler will deploy one of its O-class wind turbi
Synera Renewable Energy (SRE) has partnered with Siemens Gamesa for the third time, selecting the company to supply 35 14 MW turbines for the Formosa 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The turbines will be provided by Siemens Gamesa’s industrial nacelle factory in Taichung, Taiwan. The wind turbine fou
ORLEN Neptun and Smulders have signed a contract for the lease of the Świnoujście Offshore Terminal in Poland. The terminal will serve as a service and logistics base for Smulders, where the company will store and assemble internal platforms for the Baltica 2 offshore wind project. The agreement inv
Dajin Heavy Industry has sent away the first batch of six monopiles that will be installed at the 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland. The first six monopiles have set sail from Dajin Heavy Industry’s Penglai facility, according to the latest social media post by the Chinese company. Daj
The first steel has been cut for the jacket foundation that will support the BalWin delta offshore converter platform in the German North Sea. The jacket foundation, which weighs around 13,000 tonnes, will be delivered under a contract GE Vernova and McDermott International signed with the German tr
Ocean Winds has selected P&Q as the main contractor for the onshore cable trench and Tele-Fonika Kable as the supplier of the onshore export cable system for the BC-Wind offshore wind farm in Poland. The scope of work includes the design, delivery, and installation of an approximately 8-kilometre on
The transmission system operators (TSOs), Energinet and 50Hertz, have placed a joint order with Siemens Energy for the construction and turnkey delivery of four converter stations and other technical components that will connect the Bornholm Energy Island project to the mainland grids of Denmark and
Japanese floating wind technology developer MODEC has received Approval in Principle (AiP) from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for its iTLP2-FOWT concept, a new generation of the company’s tension leg platform (TLP) type floating offshore wind foundation. In 2020, MODEC obtained AiP for the f
South Korea has awarded 689 MW of offshore wind projects in the competitive tender for fixed-bottom offshore wind organised in the first half of 2025, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) and the Korea Energy Agency (KEA) said on 1 September. Earlier this year, KEA announced that the t
SPIE Wind Connect, a subsidiary of SPIE Global Services Energy, has been awarded a contract for the termination and testing of inter-array cables for the Taipower Offshore Wind Project Phase II (TPC Phase II) in Taiwan. Under the contract awarded by Shinfox Far East Energy, SPIE Wind Connect will ex
