Jan De Nul’s new offshore jack-up installation vessel Voltaire will have its debut on the 3.6GW Dogger Bank offshore wind farm in the UK. With a lifting capacity of over 3,000 tonnes and standing taller than the Eiffel tower, Voltaire is the largest of its kind in the world, Jan De Nul said. The Vol
US offshore wind developer Vineyard Wind has formed a partnership with Marmon Utility for the establishment of manufacturing capabilities at Marmont’s Connecticut facility producing Kerite cables to supply some or all of the inter-array cable cores for the Park City Wind project. The agreement will
EEW Offshore Structures Britain (OSB) has completed the load-out of the first six transition pieces built for the Borssele 1+2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The Teesside-based company will manufacture and deliver a total of 35 transition pieces for Ørsted’s 752MW wind farm. ALE Heavy Li
Swedish energy company Vattenfall and its partner Wallenstam have cancelled the Taggen offshore wind project in Sweden after the Swedish Armed Forces said no to the wind farm. ”Of course, it is regrettable that we are now forced to put down a large renewable energy project that we, together with Wal
Jumbo’s heavy-lift carrier has arrived at Steelwind Nordenham’s quayside to pick up the first four monopiles destined for the Yunlin offshore wind project in Taiwan. According to Steelwind, the Jumbo Jubilee arrived at the heavy-lift terminal Blexen, Germany, on 19 October and the loadout operations
Rostock-based EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH has received an order from Van Oord for the production of 89 monopiles for the 382.7MW Windpark Fryslȃn nearshore wind farm in the Netherlands. In total, EEW SPC will process over 19,000 tons of steel for this order between January 2020 and September
The first WindFloat Atlantic platform with the turbine fully installed has set off from the Spanish Port of Ferrol towards its final destination 20 kilometres off the coast of Viana do Castelo in Portugal. Once at the final location, the three floating structures –stretching 30 metres in height and
Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel Aeolus has arrived at the Sif terminal in Rotterdam to load the first monopiles for the 731.5MW Borssele III & IV offshore wind farm. The load out of the monopiles for the Borssele III & IV offshore wind farm is currently being prepared at the Sif Rotterdam ya
The first offshore substation transition piece and J-tube cage for the SeaMade offshore wind farm are on their way from Belgium to the Sif terminal in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, DEME Group said. The transition piece was loaded out at Smulders’ yard in Hoboken. Together with the foundation, which is
MHI Vestas has entered into a preferred supplier agreement with Seagreen Wind Energy Limited to supply and service up to 114 wind turbines for the Seagreen wind farm offshore Scotland. Seagreen Wind Energy Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SSE Renewables, was awarded exclusive development rights by
Equinor and the Snorre and Gullfaks partners have submitted updated development plans to the Norwegian government for the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm. The Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm will consist of 11 8MW wind turbines located some 140 kilometres from shore in 260-300 metres of w
Innogy has filed an application for further seabed surveys and the installation of buoy mounted equipment at the Dublin Array offshore wind project in Ireland. Innogy applied to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in September for a license under the Foreshore Act to enable the
Virginia-based Dominion Energy has received two key determinations from the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) regarding the design, fabrication and installation of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. Dominion submitted its Facility Design Report (FDR) and Fabrication and Ins
The first transformer station has been delivered to the onshore substation of the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK. The transformer set sail from the manufacturing site in Austria towards the Sutton Bridge port in Lincolnshire, from where it was lifted onto a trailer and driven 20 miles to
