Vattenfall has contracted Swire Blue Ocean for the installation of the Siemens Gamesa wind turbines at the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farms in the Dutch North Sea. Using the wind farm installation vessel Pacific Osprey, Swire Blue Ocean will transport the various turbine components from the pre-assemb
Floatgen, the first wind turbine installed offshore France, more than doubled its power production in the second half of 2019 compared to the first semester, reaching an annual total of 6GWh. According to Ideol, the number was achieved because of a time availability exceeding 94.6% in the second sem
Van Oord has installed the first inter-array cable on the 731.5MW Borssele III & IV offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The cable, provided by Prysmian Group, was installed by the cable-laying vessel Nexus. Located 22 kilometres off the coast of the Province of Zeeland, Borssele III & IV will
The first MHI Vestas 9.5MW turbine at the Northwester 2 offshore wind project has delivered its first power. According to Parkwind, the turbine began supplying electricity to the Belgian grid over the weekend. Northwester 2 will comprise 23 MHI Vestas 164-9.5 MW turbines, the most powerful turbines
Polish energy company PKN ORLEN has begun the selection process for a designer of an offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. As part of the procedure, a technical advisor will be selected to prepare a preliminary offshore wind farm project, construction design, productivity analysis, and ancillary ana
STS Belgium is carrying out the cabling of the transition pieces for the Triton Knoll offshore wind project. STS is conducting the work at Smulders’ yard in Hoboken and at the Sif Maasvlakte terminal in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. To remind, Seaway 7’s installation vessel Seaway Strashnov arrived at
DEME Group has installed the first foundations at Ørsted’s Borssele 1&2 offshore wind project in the Netherlands. DEME’s jack-up vessel Innovation loaded the first set of monopiles at Sif’s facility on Maasvlakte 2 earlier this month and transported them to the wind farm. “The first monopile install
Teesside-based EEW Offshore Structures (Britain) (OSB) has loaded out the final transition pieces built for the Borssele 1+2 offshore wind farm. In total, EEW OSB manufactured and loaded out 35 transition pieces for Ørsted’s 752MW project in the Dutch North Sea. ALE Heavy Lift is in charge of transp
Siemens Gamesa has selected TMA Logistics to provide the storage and transshipment of wind turbines for the Windpark Fryslân nearshore wind farm project at its terminal in the Port of Amsterdam. Located in the IJsselmeer and some six kilometres off the Frisian coast, the 382.7MW Windpark Fryslân wil
The 112MW EnBW Albatros offshore wind project has commenced operations in the German North Sea. The EnBW Albatros project comprises 16 Siemens Gamesa SWT-7.0-154 turbines, the last of which was installed by Fred. Olsen Windcarrier in September. The 112MW offshore wind farm is located some 104km off
MHI Vestas and Global Wind Service (GWS) have completed the assembly of the last turbine for the WindFloat Atlantic project. The last of the three MHI Vestas V164-8.4MW turbines destined for WindFloat Atlantic was assembled last weekend on the quayside at the Port of Ferrol in Spain, GWS said. The p
The consortium has also cut the first steel for the electrical substation for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm at Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire.
DEME Offshore’s jack-up vessel Innovation has loaded the first set of monopiles to be installed on the Borssele 1+2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. Innovation loaded the first set of monopiles at Sif’s facility on Maasvlakte 2 in the Port of Rotterdam. DEME is in charge of transporting an
Seaway 7’s installation vessel Seaway Strashnov has arrived at the Triton Knoll offshore wind project site with the first turbine foundations. According to innogy, the vessel will begin installing the foundations as soon as weather conditions are favorable. Triton Knoll will comprise 90 MHI Vestas 9
