The US government’s offshore wind construction pause left a dent in GE Vernova’s numbers for the fourth quarter of 2025, which might get deeper if wind turbine works at the Vineyard Wind 1 site offshore Massachusetts are not completed according to the project’s current schedule. The US wind turbine
Jan De Nul has constructed and floated the remaining concrete structures for the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Energy Island at the Vlissingen site in the Netherlands. The concrete caissons are now at the Scaldia terminal, where they will undergo final works before being installed offshore this spring.
Cadeler has signed a preferred supplier agreement for the transportation and installation of monopiles and transition pieces at a large offshore wind farm located in European waters, the company said on 28 January, without disclosing the client or project details. Under the agreement, which is subje
The Australian state of Victoria will open an offshore wind tender in August 2026 for an initial 2 GW of capacity, Victoria’s Minister for Energy and Resources announced on 27 January. In December 2025, Australia’s Energy Ministers provided in-principle support for the Electricity Services Entry Mec
The Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) has launched a GBP 1 million (around EUR 1.2 million) funding competition to accelerate innovation in industrial foundations and substructures, and substations and electrical design. “Industrial opportunity in the UK offshore wind sector has never been gre
Kongsberg Maritime said on 26 January that the company would support a floating wind construction (FWCV) vessel by HANA Shipping “with a complete deck machinery package designed for demanding offshore operations”. The new 127-metre vessel is being built for the Ulsan floating wind projects in South
Government officials from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK are set to sign a declaration confirming the ambition to build 300 GW of offshore wind in the North Seas by 2050, and an investment pact with the offshore wind industry and transmissi
Ampelmann Operations, in collaboration with Siemens Gamesa, tested a cargo drone at the Hollandse Kust Nord offshore wind farm in the Netherlands this winter, with the drone successfully moving materials from a service operations vessel (SOV) to offshore wind turbines and back again. According to Am
EEW SPC has loaded out the first batch of monopiles for the Baltica 2 offshore wind project, being built in Poland by Ørsted and PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna. “Our operations at Rostock harbor provide a key logistical benefit to the project’s supply chain. As a non-tidal port, it allows us to execu
ScottishPower Renewables has selected Boslan, an Accenture company, to supervise the manufacturing and quality control of key components for the East Anglia Two offshore wind farm, including offshore and onshore substations, the platform’s foundations, inter-array cables, export cables, wind turbine
Smulders has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the jacket foundation that will support the offshore substation of the 600 MW Dunkerque offshore wind farm in France. Final assembly and delivery of the jacket will take place at Smulders’s French yard in Fos‑s
A 20 MW wind turbine was installed in the waters off southern Fujian, China, on 13 January as part of a research project. This is the first time a wind turbine with this output was installed at sea, both in China and in the world, according to China Three Gorges (CTG), which designed and built [&hel
The first batch of 15 fully commissioned transition pieces (TPs) produced by CNOOD-Wenchong Heavy Industries (CWHI) for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm has arrived in the Port of Leith, Scotland. The transition pieces were shipped from CWHI’s yard in China in November 2025 aboard the COSCO heavy-li
Vattenfall has started a tendering process that will award a EUR 3 million contract for blade repair services on three offshore wind farms that the company operates in Denmark and Germany. According to an early information notice issued on 8 January, interested parties can submit a request to partic
