Bladt Industries has sent off the last transition piece (TP) for the Vesterhav Nord offshore wind farm from its facility in Aalborg, Denmark. The company has thus delivered all TPs for Vattenfall’s Vesterhav Nord & Syd offshore wind project, 21 for Vesterhav Nord and 20 for Vesterhav Syd. Vattenfall
Vestas has won a 238 MW order from Hibiki Wind Energy for the supply of wind turbines for the Kitakyushu-Hibikinada offshore wind project, located off Japan’s Fukuoka prefecture. The order includes the supply and installation of 25 V174-9.5 MW wind turbines as well as long-term Active Output Managem
Van Oord’s heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen has installed the first of 50 monopiles for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany, owned by the Spanish energy company Iberdrola. The installation strategy for the foundations is based on the feeder concept, which involves floating the founda
RWE has selected the preferred suppliers for all the main components of its 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark, with agreements now in place for wind turbines, foundations, export and inter-array cables, and for the onshore and offshore substations. At the beginning of this year, the developer
Construction activities on the two offshore substations for the Hornsea Three offshore wind farm in the UK have kicked off at Aibel’s yard in Thailand. Ørsted, the developer of Hornsea Three, signed an EPCI contract with partners Aibel and Hitachi Energy for the two platforms in 2022. Under the cont
RWE and Northland Power have selected the Greek cable manufacturer Hellenic Cables as the preferred supplier of the inter-array cables for their up to 1.6 GW Nordseecluster development in the German North Sea, a cluster consisting of four offshore wind farm sites. Hellenic Cables will supply approxi
Sif and the joint venture between Equinor and Polenergia have entered into a capacity reservation agreement to supply 90 monopile foundations for the MFW Bałtyk II and MFW Bałtyk III offshore wind farms in the Polish Baltic Sea. Once finalised, this will be the first contract under the terms of the
Moray West Offshore Wind Farm, owned by Ocean Winds and minority shareholder Ignitis Group, has secured GBP 2 billion of non-recourse project finance and reached financial close, the developers announced on 21 April and said this was the first project from the UK’s Contract for Difference (CfD) Allo
The Dutch offshore access provider, Ampelmann, has revealed that the company will deploy a second E1000 gangway to assist with the construction of Equinor’s Hywind Tampen, the first commercial floating wind farm in Norway. An E1000 gangway was fitted to the offshore subsea construction vessel (OSCV)
Community consultations were launched for the Morgan, Mona, and Morecambe offshore wind farms to be located in the Irish Sea. The consultations will run from 19 April to 4 June and will be open to the local community and stakeholders. Throughout May, several events will be hosted across different lo
OW Ocean Winds Polska has announced that the company started geophysical and geotechnical surveys for its BC-Wind offshore wind farm in Poland. The surveys are being carried out by the British company Gardline Limited and they are planned to be completed in the third quarter of this year. OW Ocean W
Ossian Offshore Wind Farm Limited (OWFL) has finished 24 months of digital aerial surveys across the 3.6 GW Ossian floating offshore wind project site area, located approximately 80 kilometres southeast of the Aberdeenshire coast. The surveys were conducted by HiDef Aerial Surveying Ltd from March 2
The world’s first unmanned High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore substation has been installed at what will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank, off the UK. The substation is the first of three platforms, supplied by Aibel, to be installed at Dogger Bank, which is
PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna and Ørsted have chosen Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy as the supplier of wind turbines for its Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in Poland. The agreement covers the design, manufacture, delivery, transport, installation, commissioning, and service of 107 14 MW wind turbines
