Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has issued a call for pre-qualification to bid for the construction of wind farms in six areas off the Danish coast. A maximum of 200 MW could be proposed for each area, except the one off the island of Bornholm, where a project of up to 50 MW is planned. The country aims
German offshore wind farm, Alpha Ventus achieved 16,582 full capacity hours and generated 994.9 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity from 2011 to 2014, thus exceeded the generation forecasts by around seven per cent. According to the operators, EWE, E.ON and Vattenfall, the wind farm production for 2
SMart Wind’s application for Hornsea Project Two has been accepted for examination by the UK Planning Inspectorate. The Inspectorate now has approximately three months to prepare for the examination, during which residents will be able to register to become an interested party on the application. Th
RES Offshore has followed up the successful installation of the West of Duddon sands (WoDS) offshore met mast with a contract to carry out the operation and maintenance (O&M) of the met mast and equipment for the next 5 years. The mast was installed in August this year at the 389MW West of Duddon Sa
UK Government has approved the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck A and B wind project, expected to support up to 900 green jobs in Yorkshire and Humberside and millions of pounds worth of investment in the UK’s economy. The project will include up to 400 wind turbines, around 130km off the coast of the East R
Today the crane vessel Rambiz, towed by the Multratug 4, arrived at the Dutch port of IJmuiden. Here it will pick up the OHVS for installation at the Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm, some 23 kilometres off the coast. Installation will take place in the next few days depending on suitable weat
Electricity has been generated and fed into the German grid for the first time from the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 1. Trine Borum Bojsen, Managing Director of DONG Energy in Germany and responsible for Wind Power, said: “Borkum Riffgrund 1 is our first German wind farm and we’re more than h
DC Netz BorWin3 GmbH has awarded a contract to N-Sea Offshore Wind BV to undertake unexploded ordnance (UXO) surveys at BorWin3 site. Specifically, the work covers surveying of the seabed to help the identification and removal of undiscovered ordnance along the cable route of BorWin3. The planned Bo
Cofely Fabricom GDF SUEZ has been awarded two long-term framework agreements for the Provision of Mechanical and General Electrical Services and Major Works and Repairs for the Lynn and Inner Dowsing offshore wind farms operating 5km off the Lincolnshire Coast. With operations based out of Grimsby D
The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide GBP 51 million backing for the GBP 352 transmission link to the second largest wind farm in the world. The Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm, located in Liverpool Bay, eight miles off the north Wales coast, will produce enough electricity to cater for
RWE Innogy and Statkraft have signed an agreement to jointly develop the Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm, off the east coast of England. The deal will see Statkraft take a 50% stake in the UK wind farm, which has an expected capacity of up to 900MW. The development and construction phases will be de
Italian cable company, Prysmian Group, has been awarded a EUR 60 million contract by Iberdrola for the Wikinger offshore wind farm. Under the contract, Prysmian is responsible for the design, manufacture, installation, burial, termination and testing of total 81 km of 33 kV submarine cables connecti
MarineSpace Ltd has recently been awarded the contract by London Array Ltd to produce the Year 1 Post-Construction Environmental Monitoring Annual Report for the London Array Offshore Wind Farm. Environmental issues have been a key focus of this project from the EIS stage to date, and publication of
MPI Adventure has installed the first of eighty Siemens 3.6MW turbines for E.On Renewables’ Amrumbank offshore wind farm, located 35 kilometers to the north of the island of Helgoland. “We are confident that we will soon be able to feed electricity generated by the first turbines into the public gri