Navantia Seanergies and Windar will manufacture 45 monopiles for Iberdrola for the 1,400 MW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm in the UK. The production will take place in Navantia-Windar’s monopile factory located in Fene shipyard, in A Coruña, Spain. The order will involve 900,000 hours over 15
Rock placement operations are set to start this month at Walney 1 & 2 and West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farms in the UK to stabilise several sections of subsea cables at the wind farms, both owned by Ørsted. The work will be carried out by DEME’s DP2 fallpipe vessel Rollingstone. At West of Dud
Heerema Marine Contractors, using its giant crane vessel Thialf, has installed 24 Vestas 9.5 MW turbines at the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in Germany. The installation of the three remaining units is now scheduled for Autumn. Offshore construction at the project site in the Baltic Sea began in
The Dutch-German transmission system operator (TSO), TenneT, has announced that the grid connection for the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm is ready for commissioning. Now the wind farm’s operator, CrossWind, can connect the 69 Siemens Gamesa’s SG 11.0-200 DD 11 MW wind turbines to th
SSE Renewables and Equis Development, a Singapore-based renewable energy developer, have established a 50/50 consortium for offshore wind development in Australia, where they now plan to submit a bid for a feasibility license for an offshore wind farm project in Gippsland. In a press release issued
An application to build the up to 4.1 GW Berwick Bank, the UK’s largest offshore wind farm, capable of providing enough electricity to power more than five million homes, has commenced determination, SSE Renewables said. Located roughly 38 kilometers off the East Lothian coast of Scotland, Berwick B
Ørsted has awarded NKT with a supply contract for the delivery of the high-voltage DC on- and offshore export cable system for the Hornsea 3 wind farm offshore the UK. For NKT, the final order has an estimated contract value of approximately EUR 500 million in market prices. The contract will compri
Ilmatar Offshore has been granted an exploration permit by the Finnish Ministry of Employment and Economy to conduct environmental surveys for a 1.2 GW offshore wind project in Finland. Ilmatar Offshore has identified a new 367 square kilometre offshore wind area in the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zo
Ørsted has taken the final investment decision (FID) on the 920 MW Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farms in Taiwan, moving them into the construction stage. Onshore work and fabrication of components will start this year and the project construction is scheduled to be completed by the end of
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has issued a tender for offshore geotechnical investigations at the Nederwiek Wind Farm Zone. The contracts to be awarded under the tender, which is divided into two lots, are valued at EUR 45.5 million in total. Through the first lot, RVO will award a contrac
Iberdrola has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Mercedes-Benz for its new offshore wind farm Windanker in the German part of the Baltic Sea. With the PPA, Mercedes-Benz Group has secured more than 140 MW of Windanker’s total planned capacity of up to 315 MW for its sites in Germany from 2
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its New Markets Fund, has signed 25-year Offshore Wind Service Contracts with the Philippines’ Department of Energy (DOE) for three offshore wind farms totalling 2 GW in capacity. The contracts make CIP the first company to venture on a 100 per cent
Enefit Green and Eesti Energia have entered into a purchase and sale agreement for a 1 GW offshore wind farm project in the Estonian part of the Gulf of Riga. The agreement will see Enefit Green acquiring 100 per cent of Liivi Offshore OÜ, the developer of the project, from Eesti Energia for nearly
The substation topside has been installed on the 450 MW Calvados offshore wind project in France, also known as the Courseulles-sur-Mer offshore wind farm. The operation was carried out by DEME’s installation vessel Gulliver more than ten kilometres off the coast of Nacre and Bessin. The substation
