On 8 July, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs published the Ministerial Regulation providing subsidy tender details for Borssele III and IV offshore wind sites, the Loyens & Loeff law firm has reported. The new regulation is similar to the one for the first Borssele tender, won by DONG Energy at
Senvion will use GC Rieber Shipping’s construction support vessel (CSV) Polar Queen to support turbine commissioning at the Nordsee One wind farm in the German North Sea. The vessel will provide transfer of personnel and cargoes, and will be fitted with a motion compensated gangway and boat landings
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up installation vessel Brave Tern has successfully mobilised in Esbjerg, Denmark, for the 30MW Block Island, the first offshore wind farm in US waters. Mobilisation included welding of large steel structures on deck to elevate and support the nacelles for the planned t
The UK-based ABS Group Ltd. has received a contract to provide project certification services to DONG Energy for the planned 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in Germany. ABS Group’s certification scope will cover project quality management and document review, as well as manufacturing ins
The UK Planning Inspectorate has set out a timetable for the examination of the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm application and issued procedural decisions made after the Preliminary Meeting, held on 28 June. The application was submitted by ScottishPower Renewables in November 2015 and accepte
EWE, the owner and operator of the Riffgat offshore wind farm in Germany, has confirmed to Offshore WIND that the export cable is repaired and that the wind farm has been back on the grid since 22 May. UK-based Dalby Offshore yesterday reported that its barge, ASV Pioneer, recently supported the suc
GE Renewable Energy has shared an image of two of the five Haliade 150 6MW nacelles ready to be loaded and start their journey across the Atlantic to the Port of Providence, Rhode Island, and become the heart of the first turbines ever to generate power offshore the USA at the 30MW Block Island wind
Piling work to install wind turbine foundations at the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm has recommenced this week, following the black bream spawning season coming to a close, E.ON said. 20 monopile foundations, each weighing between 500 and 800 tonnes depending on water depth, have already been ins
The cost of building and operating the 700MW Borssele 1 and 2 offshore wind farm is expected to be EUR 2.7 billion cheaper than previously estimated. Moreover, the wind farm will generate 22.5% more electricity than anticipated. Fierce competition between companies in the public tender to secure the
DONG Energy will build Dutch offshore wind farms Borssele I and II. The company won the concessions with an average bid strike price, excluding transmission costs of EUR 72.70 per MWh during the first 15 years of the contract. After that, the wind farms will receive the market price. Executive Vice
Hollandse Kust Zuid (South) and Hollandse Kust Noord (North) offshore wind zones, totalling 2.1GW of potential offshore wind capacity, have been selected for the construction of offshore wind farms by the Dutch government in an effort to reach the goal of 16% of renewable energy in the country’s ene
[Updated article] The 5MW wind turbine mounted on a floating platform, dubbed Fukushima Hamakaze, was installed at the site off Fukushima Prefecture on 20 July. The turbine left Sumoto port on Awaji Island on 2 July, according to a marine notice issued by the Fukushima Forward consortium. It arrived
The topside of the substation for Dong Energy’s 258MW Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm was installed on 25 June, Smulders reported. The substation topside and jacket left Engie Fabricom’s Hoboken yard in Belgium on 15 June. A consortium of ENGIE Fabricom and Iemants has been contracted by DON
London Array today marks three years of operation, after it was inaugurated on 4 July 2013 in Margate, Kent. In April 2013, the London Array broke the Guinness world record by becoming the largest wind farm worldwide. During the first full winter of generation, the offshore wind farm produced 1.5TWh
