Irish energy company ESB and Shannon Foynes Port, the company with statutory jurisdiction over all marine activities on the Shannon Estuary, have entered into a collaboration to develop the region into a centre for the deployment of floating offshore wind projects in both Irish and international wat
Parkwind and ESB, the developers of the proposed Oriel Wind Farm in Ireland, plan to continue working towards the delivery of the project despite it not being awarded a contract in the country’s first offshore wind auction. The two companies join SSE Renewables, whose Arklow Bank II also did not win
Jan De Nul’s new offshore wind installation vessel Voltaire has called Port Esbjerg after arriving from the UAE and before heading to the UK for its first assignment. Voltaire is so far the largest installation vessel to call the Danish port, where it will mobilise for work on Dogger Bank Wind Farm.
The first transition pieces (TPs) for the 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind project were transported last week from Smulders’ yard in Hoboken, Belgium, to Newcastle, England. At Smulders’ Newcastle yard, the company will do the outer welding, coating, and final assembly of the transition pieces. On beh
Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Avangrid which is building the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the US, has signed an agreement with the US company ThayerMahan for a pilot programme to deploy and test a secondary bubble curtain during the in
All pin piles have been installed at the Changfang & Xidao (CFXD) offshore wind farms in Taiwan, according to an update shared on social media by Dennis Sanou, CEO of the Changfang & Xidao Projects at Copenhagen Offshore Partners. The Taiwanese company CTCI Machinery Corporation (CTCI MAC) manufactu
Following Ireland’s Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Communications’ announcement of winners in the country’s first offshore wind auction, SSE Renewables, whose project did not secure a contract for renewable energy generation, said that it was still committed to the future delivery of its
Swedish developer OX2 has agreed with Ingka Investments to sell a 49 per cent stake in its three offshore wind projects in Finland with a total installed capacity of about 6,000 MW. The three projects are Halla, Laine, and Tyrsky located in the Gulf of Bothnia in the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone.
The first of 62 Siemens Gamesa SG 8.0-167DD wind turbines has been installed on the 496 MW Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm site in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany, some 16.3 kilometres from the Breton coast. The operation was carried out from the jack-up vessel Brave Tern of the Norwegian compan
Ireland has selected four projects with a combined capacity of nearly 3,100 MW in the first offshore wind auction under the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (ORESS 1). The four projects are the 1,300 MW Codling Wind Park owned and developed by a 50/50 joint venture of Fred. Olsen Seawind and EDF
Codling Wind Park has been provisionally announced by the auction administrator, Eirgrid, as a successful bidder in the first offshore wind Contracts for Difference(CfD) auction, ORESS 1, in Ireland. Codling Wind Park submitted a bid for 1,300 MW and the CfD award applies for the full capacity, the
Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm Limited (NnGOWL) has completed the cable layout for the first campaign of six inter-array cables and one interconnector between the two offshore substations (OSS) within the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm site in Scotland. The works began on Wednesday, 12 Apr
ESB will acquire a 24.5 per cent interest in Northland Power’s ScotWind projects, the fixed-bottom offshore wind farm Spiorad na Mara and the floating wind project Havbredey. Northland will retain 75.5 per cent in each project and continue to lead their development, construction, and operation. The
RWE and Northland Power have picked China-based Dajin Offshore as the preferred foundations supplier for their 1.6 GW Nordseecluster offshore wind project off the German coast. Under the agreement, Dajin Offshore will supply the foundations for all 104 offshore wind turbines, subject to the final in
