Ørsted’s two new offshore wind farms in Changhua County, Taiwan, have passed the preliminary review of the Environmental Protection Agency. The wind farms’ Environmental Impact Statements (EIAs) were recommended for approval by the EIA committee on 8 June, the same day Copenhagen Infrastructure Part
DEME Offshore’s installation vessel Orion has installed the first of 28 monopile foundations at the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. Manufactured by Steelwind in Germany, the foundation will carry the wind farm’s substation. It has a length of 110 metres, a diameter of 9.5
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ (CIP) new offshore wind project in Taiwan, called Taichung Fengmiao, has obtained the recommendation of approval by Taiwan’s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) review committee. This is according to an update shared on social media by a Senior Director at Copen
Belfast-headquartered Ridgeway has secured a contract to supply Rockbags, also known as Kyowa Filter Units, for cable protection for the 480 MW Saint Nazaire wind farm offshore France. Saint Nazaire – an offshore wind farm being developed in the Loire-Atlantique region of France and owned by EDF Ren
For the first time ever in the renewables industry, special collars were installed around the monopile foundation at the seabed level on RWE’s Kaskasi wind farm offshore Germany. The ‘collared monopile’ is a design based on a RWE patent. The new technology is expected to provide additional support f
KfW IPEX-Bank, together with Crédit Agricole CIB, Banco Santander, S.A., Mizuho Bank, European Investment Bank (EIB), and the Danish Export Credit Agency (EKF), has decided to finance the 30 MW Eoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) floating wind project offshore France. KfW IPEX-Bank is the f
Vestas has signed a firm contract and conditional order with EnBW for the delivery of wind turbines for the He Dreiht offshore wind farm, and has contracted Cadeler to install 64 of its 15 MW units at the project site in the German part of the North Sea. The contract with Cadeler is also a […
Seagreen 1 Limited has selected Seaway 7, the Renewables & Heavy Lifting business unit of Subsea 7, as a preferred supplier for the Seagreen 1A wind project offshore Scotland, with the final contract expected to be valued between USD 500 million and USD 750 million. Seagreen 1A lies adjacent to the
The first of the 11 Siemens Gamesa 8.6 MW wind turbines that will make up Equinor’s Hywind Tampen floating wind farm has been installed at the construction site some 140 kilometres offshore the Norwegian coast. The turbine had sailed away last week from the Wergeland’s base in Gulen in western Norwa
Ballast Nedam has contracted Marine Coordination Services BV (MCS) to support their foundation construction activities for the nearshore part of the Windplanblauw wind energy project in Flevoland, the Netherlands. As part of the project, 24 wind turbines will be installed in two rows in the IJsselme
Ørsted and ATP have signed an agreement with GlobalConnect to make the Nordsøens Energiø (North Sea Energy Island) a backbone in the future digitisation of Northern Europe and attract large-scale digital investments to Denmark, according to the Ørsted-ATP consortium. The partners will work together
OW Ocean Winds has confirmed a capacity reservation agreement with Spain’s Navantia to build two jacket-type foundations and the associated piles for the substations of two offshore wind farms in France. The two wind farms are the 496 MW Iles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier and the 496 MW Dieppe Le Tréport.
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will conduct an environmental review of US Wind’s offshore wind project in Maryland, the first proposed wind energy project offshore the state’s coast and the tenth offshore wind review of this kind initiated under the Biden-Harris administration. The
Star of the South, Australia’s first offshore wind project, has appointed Charles Rattray as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), commencing in August 2022. Charles succeeds Casper Frost Thorhauge, who served as Star of the South CEO for two and a half years until March 2022. Erin Coldham is currently act
