The installation of the wind turbine jacket foundations is soon to commence at the 450 MW Neart an Gaoithe (NnG) wind farm offshore Scotland. Ten three-legged jacket substructures will be installed onto pre-installed piles at the NnG construction site, located some 15 kilometres off the Fife coast.
French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, located between 12 and 20 kilometres off the coast of the Guérande peninsula, where he will inaugurate the country’s first commercial-scale project of this kind. At the beginning of this month, the last of the tota
French cable maker Nexans has finalised a second US-based contract with Ørsted and Eversource to supply the export cable system for the Revolution Wind offshore wind farm. Located more than 15 miles south of the Rhode Island coast and 32 miles east of the Connecticut coast, the project will connect
Jones Bros Civil Engineering has installed approximately 117 kilometres of onshore high voltage direct current (HVDC) cables for the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank offshore wind farm. The Dogger Bank project, which is being built in three phases A, B, and C, is the first offshore wind farm in the UK to use HVDC
EDS HV Group (EDS), a subsidiary of James Fisher Renewables (JF Renewables), has been awarded a multi-million-pound contract to provide high voltage support services at the Formosa 2 wind farm offshore Taiwan. EDS will support the management of the high voltage network and the electrical safety duri
Vos Prodect Innovations (VPI) has been awarded a contract by Twentsche Kabelfabriek (TKF) to supply cable hang-off systems for the Hollandse Kunst Noord (HKN) offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. VPI will manufacture and deliver the low cable hang-off system to secure the inter-array cables in the
Spain’s Naturgy and Equinor have unveiled the 200 MW Floating Offshore Wind Canarias (FOWCA) project located in the maritime area of eastern Gran Canaria. The FOWCA project, which would be connected to the Barranco de Tirajana substation of Red Eléctrica Española, will be developed using semi-subm
DEME’s installation vessel Innovation has completed the initial campaign to install eleven monopile foundations at Dogger Bank A, the first of three 1.2 GW phases that comprise Dogger Bank Wind Farm, and now pre-mobilisation is underway for Seaway Strashnov to continue with the construction work on
NKT is set to produce the HVDC power cables for the Dogger Bank C offshore wind project using low-carbon copper, representing the world’s first. The initiative is expected to reduce the carbon footprint of the cables by more than 35 per cent. The low-carbon copper cathodes are sourced from the Bolid
A set of wind turbine towers for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France has arrived in Brest on board the Rotra Mare vessel. In Brest, the towers will undergo final outfitting ahead of installation in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc in the English Channel. The towers are being delivered by Haizea Bre
Certex UK has won a contract to provide statutory inspection and maintenance services of Balance of Plant (BoP) equipment at the 1,075 MW Seagreen offshore wind farm in Scotland. The framework agreement, won via tender, is for three years, plus a two-year extension. In this case, BoP includes detail
Switzerland-headquartered Partners Group has agreed to sell a 20 per cent stake in the 731.5 MW Borssele III & IV offshore wind farm to Swiss Life Asset Managers on behalf of its investors. Borssele is a fully operational offshore wind farm located 55 kilometres from the Port of Vlissingen in the Ne
German offshore wind developer EnBW has contracted the Netherlands-based UXO consultancy company NjordIC for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) expert services for the He Dreiht offshore wind farm project in Germany. The company will provide EOD expertise and UXO consultancy during the upcoming UXO s
Bluepoint Wind is the official name of the offshore wind project that Ocean Winds East (OW East) plans to build in the New York Bight, the developer announced on 15 September. Ocean Winds East, a joint venture between EDP Renewables and Engie, won the lease area in Central Bight for USD 765 million
