Star of the South is set to start detailed ground investigations along the project’s proposed transmission route on 4 April, shortly after completing two years of marine environmental surveys in Bass Strait, where the offshore wind farm is planned to be built. Investigations at approximately 180 sit
Vestas has received orders to supply wind turbines for three offshore wind projects, two fixed-bottom wind farms in Taiwan, and one floating wind project in France. The turbine maker has secured a 295 MW order for the Zhong Neng offshore wind project, located off the coast of Changhua County, Taiwan
The installation of wind turbines at the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire, France’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, is set to start in April. ”All the teams, at sea and on land, are mobilized to load the towers, nacelles and blades which will allow the installation of the first wind turbines at sea f
The topside of the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Beta offshore substation has been installed on its jacket foundation in the Dutch North Sea, TenneT said. The HKZ Beta topside was loaded from the transport vessel onto Allseas’ platform installation vessel Pioneering Spirit in the Alexiahaven. The Pionee
N-Sea Group has been awarded a contract for a preemptive repair on one of the four export cables of the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm off Wales. The Balfour Beatty Investments-Equitix consortium Gwynt y Môr OFTO plc has selected N-Sea to ensure the integrity of the export cable, with the company se
Croatian oil and gas specialist INA has started wind measurement campaigns on two gas platforms in the North Adriatic to explore the potential for the construction of an offshore wind farm. The wind measurement equipment has been installed on the Izabela Sjever and Ivana A gas platforms located betw
CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) has selected Century Iron & Steel Industrial (CIS) and Century Wind Power (CWP) as the preferred suppliers of jacket foundations, including transition pieces, for the 300 MW Hail Long 2A offshore wind farm in Taiwan. For the project, which is bound by localisation r
The total investment in the five floating wind farms Greenalia plans to build in the waters around the Spanish Canary Islands will amount to between EUR 800 million and EUR 950 million, according to the latest information from the developer. The company met with the Canary Islands’ Government on 30
RWE has awarded a contract to DHSS for logistics at the Port of Eemshaven during the installation phase of its 342 MW Kaskasi offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Under the contract, DHSS will support RWE with regard to vessel agency services, port logistics, and storage. Services will be man
Finnish company Ilmatar Energy Oy has established a subsidiary called Ilmatar Offshore Ab through which it plans to develop an offshore wind project in the province of Åland, where the provincial government has outlined an offshore wind development zone in the Gulf of Bothnia, named Sunnanvind. The
Equinor has awarded Havfram a contract for a transport and installation study on the 800 MW Firefly floating offshore wind project in South Korea. The scope of the study includes transport and installation activities offshore as well as the supply and procurement of the inter-array cables and the mo
The recently announced wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) for which Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine won a shipbuilding contract is now confirmed to have been ordered by Maersk, whose subsidiary Maersk Supply Service has just revealed that it signed a firm contract with a joint venture between Equin
Seaway 7 has won an engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning (EPIC) contract with EnBW for the inter-array cables for the He Dreiht offshore wind project in Germany. The scope includes the supply and installation of around 100 kilometres of 66 kV subsea power cables and respective ca
Protea, a global manufacturer of offshore handling equipment, has been selected by Aker Solutions as the supplier of two service cranes for the offshore wind farm project off the coast of the USA. The service cranes have a lifting capacity of one tonne and a radius of four metres, the company said.
