The contract includes the supply and supervision of ten turbines delivered in 3.8 MW and three turbines delivered in 4.0 MW operating modes.
Central Maine Power Company and Maine Aqua Ventus I have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for the Aqua Ventus demonstration floating offshore wind project. According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the parties signed the PPA on 9 December. It allows the project to sell its ele
DEME Group has completed the pull-in of two export cables of the SeaMade offshore wind project into Elia’s Offshore SwitchYard (OSY) platform. DEME’s cable-laying vessel Living Stone picked up the export cables for the 487MW project from Hellenic Cables’ facility in Soussaki, Greece, in mid-November
Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Vole au vent has installed the first turbine at the Northwester 2 offshore wind project in Belgium. Northwester 2 will comprise 23 MHI Vestas V164-9.5MW turbines, making it the first wind farm to feature this turbine model. According to MHI Vestas, all major turbine compo
Sif Holding has received an order from Eiffage Métal to deliver 80 monopiles and the primary steel for 80 transition pieces for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. Sif will manufacture the monopiles and store them at its MV2 facility, as well as deliver the primary steel for the trans
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is reviewing an application submitted by the Netherlands for the financing of the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project to the tune of EUR 500 million. Hollandse Kust Noord is one of three offshore wind areas chosen by the Dutch government to be developed by 2
Two US bird conservation groups have filed a lawsuit in a federal court over the proposed Icebreaker Wind offshore wind project in Lake Erie, Ohio. The Icebreaker offshore wind project will comprise six MHI Vestas turbines with a nameplate capacity rating of 3.45MW located some 10 miles offshore Cle
The UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has postponed the decision deadline for a Development Consent Order (DCO) related to Vattenfall’s 1.8GW Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind project. The Secretary of State originally had until 10 December to issue a DCO decisio
The Sevilla-based Tecade has completed the painting of the platforms and boat landings destined for the Beleolico offshore wind project in Italy. The Spanish company secured a contract in June by Haizea Wind Group to provide ten external access platforms, ten airtight platforms and ten boat landings
The 12-kilometer export cable delivered by Orient Cable has been connected to the offshore substation at the Daishan 4 offshore wind project in China. According to Orient Cable, 12km of the 220kV export cable was connected to the substation on 9 December. Furthermore, 35kV IAC will be laid in the fi
Wood has been awarded a new contract by Equinor to deliver modifications to two offshore installations in the Norwegian North Sea to connect electric power from the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm. Equinor’s project replaces energy generated by gas turbines with electricity from the 88MW floating w
Norway’s energy major Equinor has completed the acquisition of a 50 % interest in the offshore wind development project Bałtyk I in Poland from Polenergia. The Bałtyk I offshore location license allows for development of a wind farm with a capacity up to 1560MW of which Equinor will hold 50%. The co
The Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited (TRIG) and the Dutch pension investor APG have signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Merkur Offshore GmbH, the owner and operator of the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The two investors signed the agreement with a consortium comp
K2 Management is working as Lender’s Technical Advisor (LTA) on the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck A and B Wind Farms, two of the three projects which make up the Dogger Bank development. In September, all three wind farms, which make up the Dogger Bank development, were selected in the Contracts for Diffe
