Vestas has received a wind turbine order for the Shinan-Ui offshore wind project, which marks the company’s first offshore wind order in South Korea. The 390 MW Shinan-Ui will be built off Jeollanam Province by a consortium consisting of Hanwha Ocean, SK Eternix, KOMIPO (Korea Midland Power Co., Ltd
Dominion Energy has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s stop-work order issued on 22 December that directed all major US offshore wind projects under construction to pause while federal agencies review alleged national security risks, AP and US media report. In its complai
Ørsted has signed an agreement with Cathay Life Insurance, and its affiliate Cathay Power, under which Cathay will acquire a 55 per cent ownership stake of Ørsted’s 632 MW Greater Changhua 2 offshore wind farm. Located approximately 50–60 kilometres off the coast of Changhua County, the Greater Chan
The US Department of Interior has paused the leases and suspended construction at all large-scale offshore wind projects currently under construction in the United States, citing ”national security risks identified by the Department of War in recently completed classified reports.” The five projects
Van Oord, which recently started installing monopiles at the Ecowende offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, will soon deploy two pieces of equipment that allow monopiles to be installed using vibration technology and minimise noise disturbance for underwater life. The technology will be used during
The business alliance formed by Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables has completed the manufacturing of 45 monopiles for the East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm, developed by Iberdrola in the UK North Sea. The Navantia-Windar consortium is delivering 45 monopiles for the 1.4 GW East Anglia Thr
Ocean Winds, the 50:50 joint venture owned by EDPR and ENGIE, and Allianz Global Investors have completed the transaction through which Allianz acquired a 20.25 per cent stake in the îles d’Yeu & Noirmoutier offshore wind farm in France. The global investor bought the minority stake for an equity va
Four transformers and other high-voltage power equipment necessary for power transfer to the Polish national grid have been delivered to the construction site of the onshore substation for the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm, being built by a joint venture of PGE and Ørsted in the Polish Baltic Sea. Th
Ocean Winds has launched an offshore wind and metocean measurement campaign for its High Sea Wind project in Gippsland, Victoria. The campaign, led by TGS and using an EOLOS floating LiDAR buoy equipped with advanced sensors, will collect wind, wave, current, and environmental data in the High Sea W
The 100 MW Hanlim Offshore Wind Power Project in South Korea has been commissioned, according to the news from the country’s Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment (MCEE), which attended a completion ceremony on 15 December. The project is built in the waters off Suwon-ri, Hallim-eup, Jeju, and
The UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero has granted a Development Consent Order (DCO) for the Five Estuaries offshore wind farm, owned by a consortium led by RWE. Five Estuaries is a proposed extension to the existing, operational 353 MW Galloper offshore wind farm in the UK and i
Star of the South, said to be Australia’s “most advanced offshore wind project”, has submitted its Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for approval, the primary environmental approval required for the project to proceed. According to the developer, this comes off the back of a few other milestones
Dajin Heavy Industry has cut the first steel for the monopiles for the BC-Wind project, a 390 MW offshore wind farm that Ocean Winds is set to build in Poland. The company has been contracted to manufacture and deliver 27 monopiles and 27 transition pieces, with the delivery scheduled for 2026. For
China’s CNOOD-Wenchong Heavy Industries (CWHI) has shipped the final eight XXL monopiles for the Scottish Inch Cape offshore wind farm, completing the delivery of all 32 monopiles it was contracted to produce for the project. The last batch has departed CWHI’s Qinzhou yard aboard the COSCO Shipping
