An EOLOS floating LiDAR has been deployed at the Dunkirk offshore wind site off France, where the Éoliennes en Mer de Dunkerque (EMD) consortium will build a wind farm of up to 600 MW of capacity. The consortium between EDF Renewables, Enbridge and Innogy-RWE awarded EOLOS with a contract for turn-k
Sif has secured a contract with Van Oord for the fabrication and supply of monopiles for the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project in the Netherlands. Sif will manufacture 70 TP-less monopile foundations and store them at its Maasvlakte2 facility in Rotterdam in 2022-2023. “We are grateful for
Nexans has begun onshore work for the installation of underground cable that will connect the Seagreen offshore wind project to the grid in Angus, Scotland. Once finished, the 19 km cable will reach from where the project makes landfall in Carnoustie to a new substation currently under construction
The Yangjiang Nanpeng Island offshore wind project in China has been fully connected to the grid. MingYang Smart Energy installed the last of its 73 MySE5.5MW hybrid-drive turbines at the 401.5 MW wind farm at the end of November. According to the company, just from 1 to 16 December the team achieve
Dominion Energy has submitted a Construction and Operations Plan (COP) to the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. The COP includes information about the construction, operations and conceptual decommissioning plans for the wind
German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has granted planning permission for the 342 MW Kaskasi offshore wind farm (officially known as Kaskasi II). Kaskasi II is the first offshore wind farm in Germany to receive planning permission under the new offshore wind law (WindSeeG), following
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has invested in the development company 7 Seas Med, which has been developing a 250 MW floating wind project off the coast of Italy, in the Sicily Strait. CIP, Nice Technology and 7 Seas Wind Power have joined forces to develop the wind farm, for which 7 Seas
GE Renewable Energy has secured a preferred turbine supplier contract to provide its 14 MW Haliade-X turbine for the third phase of the Dogger Bank offshore wind project. The 14 MW Haliade-X is an upscaled version of the 13 MW unit which will be installed at Dogger Bank A & B, and Dogger Bank C [&he
RWE Supply & Trading and Ineos have entered into a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the Northwester 2 offshore wind farm in Belgium. RWE signed a long-term PPA with project developer Parkwind last year with plans to sell the electricity and guarantees-of-origin to its large industrial an
The Netherlands-headquartered Ventolines has signed on as the offshore wind expertise partner for the Mayflower Wind project in Massachusetts. Ventolines will provide transport and installation expertise on the substation, foundations, inter-array cables, and wind turbines. The Dutch company has als
GE Renewable Energy has placed an order with the joint venture of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs and Tidal Transit for two crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. The joint venture LD Tide selected naval architects MAURIC to design the CTVs and French shipyard OC
RWE Renewables has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with E.ON UK for the electricity produced by the Humber Gateway offshore wind farm in the UK. E.ON UK will offtake 100% of the project’s electricity from 2022 until 2035, which also includes the Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs). The
EnBW has awarded Bureau Veritas with the contract for project certification of the He Dreiht offshore wind project in Germany. Bureau Veritas will be responsible for certification of the turbines and foundations in accordance with the requirements of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH
SAL Heavy Lift’s MV Lone is currently transporting nine monopiles from the Netherlands to the Akita Noshiro offshore wind project in Japan, the company reported via social media. SAL said it had been entrusted to transport the heaviest monopiles with weights up to 883 metric tons and lengths over 78
