Italy’s renewable energy agency Gestore dei Servizi Energetici (GSE) has awarded a 30MW near shore wind project off Taranto with a 25-year fixed price tariff. Belenergia S.A., the developer of the Beleolico 30MW offshore wind farm, secured the tariff at a maximum price of EUR 161.7/MWh, a 2% decreas
French cable maker Nexans has awarded its compatriot, Bardot Group, with a contract to supply buoyancy modules for the power cables of Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating wind farm. The 30MW floating wind farm, located 30 kilometres off the coast of Peterhead, will be operated by Norwegian o
One of the General Elecetric’s (GE) Haliade turbines installed at America’s first offshore wind farm will be out of action at least until the second half of February, according to a statement issued by Block Island Wind Farm’s Fisheries Liaison, Elizabeth Ann Marchetti. The wind farm’s turbine numbe
S-2000 Hydrohammer Hammers Formosa 1 Monopiles Into Seabed IHC IQIP informed its S-2000 Hydrohammer was used to install two monopiles for the first two Formosa 1 offshore wind turbines in Taiwan. Danes Developing Drone UXO Hunter Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has teamed up with compatriot dr
UK-based engineering support services company Babcock has deployed its floating LiDAR (light detection and ranging) technology to provide offshore wind data to the proposed Aberdeen offshore wind farm, also known as the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC). Babcock’s floating LiDAR syste
Prefabrication work on three substations for DONG Energy’s 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm is well under way, Danish offshore structure construction specialist Bladt Industries reports. Each substation will weigh 2,800 tons and the first unit will be delivered during the first half of 2
Vattenfall and the Danish minister for Energy, Utilities and Climate, Lars Chr. Lilleholt, have signed the concession agreements for the offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak and the near shore wind farms Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd. The signatures became possible after the Danish Parliament on 19 D
Denmark’s Bladt Industries has welded together the first pieces of what are to be jacket foundations which will support 30 wind turbines at the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm off Scotland. The first x-braces and upper A-frames for the four-legged jacket foundations have been welded at Bladt’s Lin
ScottishPower Renewables has awarded the Peterborough-based Royal HaskoningDHV with an GBP 8 million contract to carry out environmental assessments for East Anglia ONE North and East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm projects. The contract is said to be one of the largest of its kind in the offshore wi
The first crew transfer vessel (CTV), the Severn Provider, departed from the Galloper Offshore Construction Base in Lowestoft on 19 December. The Damen Twin Axe CTV’s departure was part of the preparation ahead of offshore foundation work starting at the 336MW wind farm being built off the coast of
The Government of Sweden has decided not to issue a permit to Blekinge Offshore AB for the construction of an offshore wind farm in Hanöbukten. The government ruled that the wind farm is proposed to be built in a strategically important practice area for the country’s Armed Forces. Blekinge Offshore
DONG Energy has entered into an agreement to sell 50% of Race Bank, a 573 megawatt (MW) UK offshore wind farm project, to Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 5 and Macquarie Capital, the principal investment arm of Macquarie Group – with equal interests. As part of the transaction, DONG and Macqu
MPI Offshore’s wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) MPI Enterprise has completed the installation of 18 6.2M126 Senvion turbines at the Nordergründe offshore wind farm in the North Sea. After installing all of the 18 foundations at the site, the MPI Enterprise erected the first wind turbine at th
New York labor unions, civic and environmental organizations and elected officials hosted a rally outside of Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) to show their support for what is to be the nation’s largest offshore wind farm ahead of LIPA’s expected vote to approve the project. Located off the east e
