The European Commission has reinvested a portion of unspent funds from the NER300 programme to support the 25MW WindFloat Atlantic floating wind project offshore Portugal. WindFloat will be the first offshore windfarm employing a floating semi-submersible platform to reach the pre-commercial stage f
Vattenfall has awarded Jan De Nul with a contract to provide a wind turbine installation vessel for the 605MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind project in the Danish Baltic Sea. The contract covers the supply of a wind turbine installation vessel for the transport of wind turbine components, and the suppo
Spain’s Navantia has started construction work on the 20 upper jackets for the Moray East wind farm offshore Scotland. The upper jackets, weighing approximately 460 tons each, will be built at the Navantia shipyard in Puerto Real. The first units are scheduled to be delivered in the fourth quarter o
Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Vole au vent has installed the first monopile foundation on the 219MW Northwester 2 offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea, Parkwind, the majority owner and the developer of the project, said. The first of the 23 foundations was installed at the site on 30 July, with
Innogy has kicked off a recruitment drive for up to 22 roles at its new Triton Knoll operations & maintenance (O&M) base in Grimsby, UK. Adverts for the new roles go live from Wednesday, 31 July, as the developer seeks to identify local talent for a range of jobs. The open positions being advertised
The first MHI Vestas 8.4MW wind turbine at the 269MW Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm has been commissioned and is delivering power to the German grid, Northland Deutsche Bucht GmbH said. “This is a great achievement for our Deutsche Bucht project,” said Jens Poulsen, Project Director of Northland
HRH Prince Charles of Wales officially opened the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Moray Firth, Scotland, on Monday, 29 July. Located 13 kilometres off the coast of Caithness in the North Sea, the 84-turbine Beatrice – the fourth largest offshore wind farm in the world – was completed in Jun
The European Commission has approved the support for six French offshore wind farms selected in the country’s first two tendering rounds. The projects include Courseulles-sur-Mer, Fécamp, Saint-Nazaire and Saint-Brieuc from the Round 1 tender in 2012, as well as Round 2 winners Dieppe-Le Tréport and
First Subsea Ltd has won a contract to provide platform mooring connectors to the Kincardine floating offshore wind farm situated off the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland. The company, part of the First Tech Group based in Aberdeen, has confirmed it’s secured the contract with Spanish developer and con
Jack-up vessel Seajacks Zaratan has installed the first of the 20 Siemens Gamesa 6MW wind turbines on the 120MW Formosa 1 Phase 2 wind farm in Taiwan. The project is located around six kilometers off the west coast of the Miaoli district in the Taiwan Strait, with water depths ranging between 15 and
The French Council of State has dismissed appeals against the concession permits allowing the Courseulles-sur-Mer and Fécamp offshore wind projects to occupy publicly owned maritime zones. The projects have a combined capacity of around 950MW and are being developed EDF Renewables, a subsidiary of t
The French Council of State has rejected appeals opposing the construction of the Bay of Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project being developed by Ailes Marines. Environmental conservation organization Gardez les caps and Nass & Wind, who competed in the tender for developing the wind farm, submitted th
Bibby HydroMap has taken the survey vessel SeaZip Fix on charter from Seazip Offshore Service. Rebuilt in 2015, the 42m DP1 Ice Class vessel will supplement the existing Bibby HydroMap fleet and will commence seismic survey operations on Hollandse Kust Zuid I & II in the Dutch North Sea on behalf of
Jan De Nul’s offshore installation vessel Taillevent has begun loading the first turbine components for the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) offshore wind farm. The 200MW TWBII offshore wind farm will comprise 32 Senvion 6.2M152 turbines installed at the project site some 40km north of the island
