SSE Renewables and RWE Renewables have commenced consultation on early proposals for the North Falls offshore wind farm, an extension to the existing Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm that is being developed in the southern North Sea, more than 20 kilometres off the UK coast. The developers opened
Two provinces of South Korea have decided to grant CoensHexicon, a joint venture between Hexicon and Korean company Coens, permission to measure wind conditions in a total of four offshore areas. The permission also entails a priority right to develop offshore wind farms within the areas, according
An incident involving wind turbine parts being dropped into the sea from the MPI Adventure jack-up vessel, deployed for planned maintenance at the Ormonde offshore wind farm, was first reported by OffshoreWIND.biz on 21 October. Coastal debris linked to the incident that occurred during major compon
KenzFigee has signed a contract with Iv-Offshore & Energy to deliver an electric hydraulic Ram Luffing offshore crane for the high voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore converter platform of RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm, to be built on Dogger Bank, 195 kilometres from the nearest point on the UK’
MingYang Smart Energy has secured a supply contract with PowerChina International Group for the 375 MW Ca Mau offshore wind project in Vietnam, currently the country’s largest intertidal wind power project. The Chinese wind turbine manufacturer will deliver 75 of its MySE 5.0-166 offshore wind turbi
Vestas is preparing to deliver the wind turbines for Japan’s Akita Noshiro offshore wind project in December, according to the latest update from the company, which has now manufactured all the blades, nacelles and most of the tower sections. Under an order received in the first half of 2020, Vestas
The operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm was inaugurated today (22 October) in La Turballe. The facility, which has 1,250 square metres, including 751 square metres of warehouse, was designed to be functional, innovative, and to have a lower carbon footprint
EDP has inaugurated the operations and maintenance center of the 950 MW Moray East offshore wind farm, which will now be controlled by this new infrastructure located in Fraserburgh Port, Scotland. This new operations and maintenance center will now manage this offshore wind farm, in particular by c
Jan De Nul’s intertidal trencher Sunfish has reburied a section of the export cable at Eneco’s Luchterduinen offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. For this purpose, Jan De Nul modified its in-house designed and fabricated intertidal trencher Sunfish and reburied the nearshore section of the cable t
A hub, three 61-metre blades, and blade clamping tool have fallen into the sea during major component exchange at the Ormonde offshore wind farm in the UK, with majority of the parts and tools now resting on the seabed and debris from one broken blade reported to be on the sea surface. The MPI Adven
BP and Equinor, through their joint company Empire Offshore Wind, have filed a request with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to postpone the deadline for putting their 816 MW Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm into commercial operation by a year and a half. In the request, filed on 13 O
Ørsted’s 1,386 MW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm, soon to be the world’s largest, has reached several significant construction milestones, with more to come in the coming days. All of the wind farm’s turbine foundations have now been installed, as well as the project’s offshore substation at the Nor
The Municipality of Ustka today (21 October) signed an agreement for setting up service facilities for two large-scale offshore wind farms at the Port of Ustka. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our sister site Offshore Energy. You can read the original article by clicking on th
Moray West, an offshore wind farm in the outer Moray Firth, Scotland, has selected Siemens Gamesa as the preferred bidder for the supply of offshore wind turbines. Subject to the award of a Contract for Difference in 2022 and Financial Close, the wind farm would feature Siemens Gamesa’s latest offsh
