Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Blue Tern has installed the final turbine at the EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm. The first of the project’s 71 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines was installed at the project site some 95km north of Borkum and 100km northwest of Helgoland in April. The 497MW Hohe
Iberdrola has entered into an agreement with Green Investment Group (GIG), part of Macquarie Group, to sell a 40% share in the East Anglia One offshore wind farm. Iberdrola will continue to be the majority shareholder with a 60% stake in the 714MW wind farm located offshore Suffolk in the UK. Accord
25 out of 33 MHI Vestas 8.4MW turbines have been installed at the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm in Germany, according to Northland Power. The company emphasized that the construction of the project is progressing according to schedule and is on budget. Deutsche Bucht produced first power to the
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Denmark is set to inaugurate Vattenfall’s Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm on 22 August. The wind farm will be officially launched with a reception at the Port of Hvide Sande, which will be used as an O&M base for the project’s 49 MHI Vestas V164-8.3MW turbines f
Jan De Nul’s cable-laying vessel Willem de Vlamingh has completed the installation of the export cables on the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Under the EPCI contract, Jan De Nul installed 17 inter-array and three export cables at the 120MW offshore wind farm. According to the compan
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Bold Tern is leaving the Port of Hull with the 19th loadout of turbines destined for installation at the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm. According to the company, Bold Tern has so far installed 71 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines at the project site some 120km of
Vattenfall has selected the Port of Hvide Sande as the operations and maintenance hub for the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in Denmark. Located on the Danish west coast, the port will be used as a base for O&M of the project’s 49 MHI Vestas V164-8.3MW turbines. Once Vattenfall establishes a facilit
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has awarded TECO Electric & Machinery with an EPC contract for the onshore substation of the Chang Fang and Xidao offshore wind projects in Taiwan. Under the deal, TECO will build the onshore substation, as well as provide the submarine cables which will tran
124 out of 174 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines have been installed and commissioned at the Hornsea Project One wind farm in the UK, a spokesperson from Ørsted told Offshore WIND. Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Bold Tern is in charge of installing 88 out of the 174 turbines, with A2SEA’s Sea Ch
Pipeshield International Ltd has loaded out the second phase scour protection for the East Anglia One offshore wind farm in the UK. Pipeshield manufactured and supplied more than 300 fronded concrete mattresses, which were loaded in stacks of six using the company’s high payload wet store bases. Usi
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Blue Tern has arrived in the Port of Esbjerg to load its final wind turbine components to be installed on the 497MW Hohe See wind farm in the German North Sea. The company’s second jack-up working o the project, Brave Tern, will soon arrive in Esbjerg to load the la
Jan De Nul’s jack-up Taillevent has started installing the first wind turbine on the 200MW Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) wind farm offshore Germany. Taillevent loaded the first three sets of turbine components at Buss Terminal Eemshaven prior to transporting them to the site some 40 kilometres
Tekmar Energy has signed a contract with Ørsted to provide Cable Protection Systems for the 1.4GW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. Tekmar will provide their patented Tekmar Cable Protection System (CPS) TekLink® Mechanical Latch for the wind farm, which when constructed will become the world’s larges
Jan De Nul’s offshore installation vessel Taillevent has left Eemshaven with a first load of turbine components to be installed on the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Taillevent is loading the turbine components at the Buss Terminal Eemshaven in sets of
