The 25 MW Provence Grand Large, the first floating offshore wind farm in France and the wider Mediterranean, has been fully commissioned. The floating offshore wind project is owned by Parc Eolien Offshore de Provence Grand Large – a subsidiary of EDF Renouvelables, Enbridge Eolien France 2 S.à.r.l
The 488 MW Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier (EMYN) offshore wind farm has started supplying green electricity to the French grid, only a few weeks after the installation of the first turbine. Following a successful initial testing phase that began on 23 May, the wind farm’s first Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbi
RWE and Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) have closed a transaction worth approximately EUR 1.4 billion, through which NBIM has acquired a 49 per cent equity stake in RWE’s Thor and Nordseecluster offshore wind projects in Denmark and Germany, respectively. The developer and NBIM, which manag
A new bill that has been introduced in the Delaware Senate could bring US Wind’s plan to build onshore substations for its offshore wind farm(s) in Sussex County back on track. Introduced on 21 May and discussed by the Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee on 2 June, the bill would v
The French government and three offshore wind farms have signed amendments to their power purchase agreements (PPAs), allowing them to halt production during periods of negative electricity prices. The three wind farms that signed PPAs are the 500 MW Fécamp, the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire, and the 496 MW
CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE), using its heavy lift vessel Green Jade, has completed the installation of pin piles on Taiwan’s Hai Long offshore wind project, with jacket foundations for the project’s third phase to be installed next. The 1,022 MW Hai Long comprises two offshore wind farms, spli
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has extended the electricity production permit for the 23 MW Samsø offshore wind farm by ten years, the first such extension for an older offshore wind farm in Denmark. The electricity production permit for the Samsø offshore wind farm, built in 2002, was limited to 25
Poland’s Orlen Group has selected three local companies to explore the geological conditions of the seabed within the Baltic East offshore wind farm concession area in the Baltic Sea. A consortium of three companies, MEWO, Orlen Petrobaltic, and Geofizyka Toruń, will conduct geological engineering,
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has signed an agreement with ACEN, the listed energy company of the Ayala Group, to sell a 25 per cent minority stake in the up to 1 GW San Miguel Bay offshore wind farm in the Philippines. CIP said that the company and its Growth Market Fund II have sought a
Preparation work for the installation of the Hornsea Three export cable is underway with boulder and debris relocation, and a geophysical survey starting this month, following the completion of UXO clearance work. An installation campaign to replace blanking plates from the horizontal directional dr
The semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Thialf, the second-largest vessel of this kind in the world, has arrived in the US. The SSCV, which was deployed on oil and gas projects in the US several years ago, has now returned to the country to work on Equinor’s offshore wind farm in the federal waters
Heavy lift vessel (HLV) Seaway Alfa Lift, which recently completed the installation of transition pieces (TPs) at Dogger Bank B, has started the same work at the Dogger Bank C offshore wind site in the UK. According to the latest Notice of Operations for Dogger Bank C from Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the
The second scour protection campaign at the 496 MW Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm in France has been completed. The next step is the installation of the offshore substation, which is scheduled to take place in June. DEME’s Rollingstone vessel, mobilised since the beginning of March, has finali
Fugro will carry out an offshore geotechnical survey at the Morgan and Mona offshore wind sites in the UK, starting on or around 2 June. Using its geotechnical drilling vessel Fugro Synergy, the company will be drilling, sampling and coring boreholes throughout the array areas, with the works estima
