Dajin Heavy Industry has produced the first three monopiles for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm, the company said on 16 June, a few days after CNOOD-Wenchong Heavy Industries (CWHI) announced it had completed the first monopiles from the batch it is delivering for the 1 GW project in Scotland. Daji
The offshore substation topside built for the 496 MW Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm has arrived in Le Havre, France. Designed and built by Atlantique Offshore Energy, the Chantiers de l’Atlantique division dedicated to marine energy, the substation topside was transported by Greenbarge 1 to Le
The operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the 1 GW Danish offshore wind farm Thor is nearing completion. On 12 June, RWE and Danish construction company Østermark Entreprenørforretning held a topping-out ceremony for the new building located at Thorsminde port. The O&M base is expected to be com
China’s CNOOD-Wenchong Heavy Industries (CWHI) has completed the manufacturing of the first monopiles for the 1,080 MW Inch Cape offshore wind project in Scotland. The monopiles are 11.5 metres in diameter, up to 110 metres in length, and have a maximum weight of 2,300 tonnes. The first cutting and
The operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the 488 MW Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farm is now fully operational. Located on Yeu Island, the O&M base for the Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farm was inaugurated on 6 June. The facility will support the performance and reliabil
The Delaware State Senate has passed a bill which would allow US Wind to continue planning its onshore substations for the Maryland offshore wind project in Delaware’s Sussex County, whose council denied US Wind the permit last year. Senate Bill 159, introduced in the Delaware Senate on 21 May and d
The 1 GW Hai Long offshore wind project, jointly developed by Northland Power, Gentari, and Mitsui & Co., has produced its first power, marking the successful energisation of the project and connection to Taipower’s grid in Taiwan. The milestone comes ahead of schedule, initially planned for the sec
Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) and LS Marine Solution have signed a preferred supplier agreement (PSA) for the 1 GW Haesong offshore wind farm in South Korea, which COP is developing on behalf of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). Under the agreement, LS Marine Solution is the preferred s
The first floating wind turbine for the Éoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) project in France, developed by Ocean Winds and Banque des Territoires, has been assembled at Port-La Nouvelle ahead of its installation at the project site located 16 kilometres offshore Leucate and Barcarès. The 1
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind has submitted a request to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU), seeking that the existing offshore renewable energy certificate (OREC) order, issued by the NJBPU in 2021 for 1,509.6 MW of generation capacity at Atlantic Shores Project 1, be terminated. The
The Maryland Department of the Environment’s Air and Radiation Administration (ARA) has issued an air quality permit-to-construct, New Source Review (NSR) approval, and Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) approval to US Wind for its offshore wind project off Maryland, which received federa
Statutory consultation for the Dogger Bank D offshore wind farm will open on 10 June, as the co-owners of the project, SSE Renewables and Equinor, are working towards applying for development consent. According to information on the UK Planning Inspectorate’s website, the application for a Developme
TGS is conducting a geophysical survey at the site of the Green Volt floating offshore wind project in Scotland, one of the Scottish INTOG round winners and projects planned to provide electricity to oil and gas platforms. The seismic vessel Ramform Vanguard has mobilised from Aberdeen and is schedu
NKT, using its vessel NKT Victoria, is scheduled to start installing the export cable for the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm in the UK this month. The vessel is expected to mobilise from the port of Karlskrona in Sweden on 14 June and work on the East Anglia Three site 24/7, conducting
