After the installation of the subsea structure of the converter platform BorWin beta 125km off the coast in 40 meters water depth in 2013, the topside with a weight of app. 12,000 tons followed today. The tow with BorWin beta had reached the construction site on April 22 after about 24 hours of tran
Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has received a total of four applications from companies that wish to prequalify for construction and operation of Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm. The deadline for submission of applications expired yesterday at 1pm, and the Agency will now review the applications and expe
The federal loan guarantee for the Cape Wind offshore wind farm is still being contemplated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Cape Cod Times writes. The U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has confirmed that the case targeting a USD 500 million loan is “under active development”, but its ou
SSE welcomed the UK government’s announcement today that the Beatrice offshore wind farm project has been successful in securing an Investment Contract. The security the contract provides means SSE and its partner Repsol can continue to invest in the the engineering and procurement work required to
Dong Energy today welcomed the news that three of the company’s offshore wind farm development projects will be supported by Government-awarded financial investment decision (FID) enabling contracts. Henrik Poulsen, Chief Executive Officer of Dong Energy, said: “These awards represent the successful
Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (SOC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Siem Offshore Inc., announced today that SOC has been awarded the contract for the turnkey supply and installation package of the inner array grid cable system for the Nordsee One Offshore Wind Farm, a project developed by RWE Innogy
Twenty foundations have been installed so far at the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm, and the installation vessel Innovation is on its way back to the site with the fifth foundation batch loaded. The construction work is carried out according to schedule and with a very good performance, despite
40th AREVA Wind Turbine Installed at Global Tech I The construction of towers and nacelles in the North Sea wind farm Global Tech I is running in full gear: During the weekend the 40th AREVA Wind turbine has been installed. Siemens Bags BorWin3 Contract from TenneT Siemens has received an order from
With the departure of the installation vessel Innovation from the port Aalborg, GeoSea has recently started the 3rd foundation installation cycle on the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm. Innovation has loaded 5 large monopiles and transition pieces of the next installation cycle in the port of Aa
With its 1.4 GW portfolio of renewable energy power plants under contract, including 30% growth in 2013, EDF Energies Nouvelles through EDF EN Services, its subsidiary dedicated to the Operations & Maintenance activities, has become utilities’ key partner for such services in the French market. At t
Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: first turbines installed at Vattenfall’s DanTysk offshore wind farm. At the beginning of April, Vattenfall commenced the installation of wind turbines at its DanTysk offshore wind farm site. Now, a couple of them are up and waiting to fulfill their duty of powering
Since the construction on Vattenfall’s DanTysk offshore wind farm kicked off at the beginning of this month, the site has been crowded with vessels, massive components and workers. Vattenfall’s Holger Grubel wrote an update on the company’s blog, saying that the heavy lift vessel Oleg Strashnov, acc
EDF Energy has opened its Teesside offshore wind farm located 1.5km off the North East coast at Redcar. The plaque was unveiled today by EDF Chairman, Henri Proglio, and Energy Minister, Michael Fallon. “These projects show our commitment to investing in low carbon generation in the UK,” said Progli
All jacket pin piles have been installed at the Baltic 2 offshore wind farm, the project’s developer EnBW confirmed to Offshore WIND. Workers on the jack-up vessel Goliath have driven the jacket pin piles into the seabed. An important part of the work on the foundations is now complete, the company
