Ørsted has received planning approval for its Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm from the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). The construction of the 900 MW project, located 53 kilometres off the island of Borkum, will be carried out in parallel with that of the 242 MW Gode Win
The jacket foundation and the accompanying pin piles for the Seagreen offshore substation have left the United Arab Emirates and are en route to Scotland, Petrofac said. Petrofac is in charge of designing, supplying, and installing the High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) onshore and offshore sub
Swedish company OX2 has applied for a Natura 2000 permit for an offshore wind farm within the Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone off the coast of Falkenberg and Varberg. The permit application, which includes an environmental impact assessment (EIA), is handled by the County Administrative Board of Hal
EEW Korean Heavy Pipe Construction has signed the Exclusivity Capacity Agreement (ECA) with CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) to provide pin piles for the 744 MW Hai Long 2b and 3 offshore wind projects in Taiwan. Under the ECA, EEW Korean Heavy Pipe Construction will manufacture and deliver a total
The 487 MW SeaMade offshore wind farm was officially inaugurated at an event in the Hippodrome in Ostend, Belgium, on Wednesday, 20 October 2021. SeaMade NV, a joint venture between Otary, Ocean Winds, and Eneco, is responsible for the simultaneous development of both the Mermaid and Seastar offshor
Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has loaded out the jacket foundation for the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore substation in the Port of Vlissingen and plans to send the substructure off to TenneT at the end of October. The jacket, weighing 2,100 tonnes, was brought onboard a pontoon from the company’s
Glennmont Partners has signed an agreement with Ørsted to acquire a 50 per cent ownership share in the Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany. The divestment is subject to the final investment decision on the project and to obtaining project permit and merger and foreign investment clearan
Malaysian utility Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) has acquired a 49 per cent stake in the existing Blyth Offshore Demonstrator wind farm and a yet-to-be-built floating wind farm in northeast England from EDF Renewables UK. TNB acquired the stake in the Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Limited (BODL) through
The 50 MW Kincardine floating offshore wind farm is now fully operational, Kincardine Offshore Windfarm Ltd. (KOWL) said. Located 15 kilometres off the coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in water depths ranging from 60 metres to 80 metres, Kincardine is the largest operating floating wind farm. The p
Ørsted has submitted a Development Consent Order (DCO) application for its Hornsea Four offshore wind project to the UK Planning Inspectorate. The developer informed on 14 October that it had filed the DCO application on 29 September, after completing pre-application consultation. Ørsted started int
Buss Terminal in Eemshaven, the Netherlands, has completed the handling and load-out of the 165 monopile foundations for the 1,386 MW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. Over the last 15 months, Eemshaven served as the base port for the handling and load-out of the 165 monopiles and transition pieces. T
Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC), an AqualisBraemar LOC Group company, has been appointed as one of the owner’s engineers on the Hai Long offshore wind project in Taiwan. The company will provide technical advisory and coordination services throughout the development and construction phases of the 1
Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor and bp, has named Vestas as the preferred turbine supplier for the 2.1 GW Empire Wind 1 and Empire Wind 2 offshore wind projects in New York, USA. Vestas will provide 138 V236-15.0 MW turbines for Empire Wind 1 and 2, located 15-30 miles off the
The first offshore wind project to be built in Lithuania’s sector of the Baltic Sea could comprise wind turbines of up to 16 MW of capacity each, with a minimum of 43 units erected at a designated site approximately 29 kilometres offshore. The possible number and capacity of the wind turbines has be
