Construction progress at Meerwind continues at a rapid pace for main installation contractor Seajacks. New installation vessel ‘Zaratan’ has performed well over the winter months and looks set to install monopile number 60 out of a total of 80 this week. The final monopile is scheduled to be install
Today, the 36th wind turbine will be connected to the grid at the Anholt offshore wind farm, which will bring Denmark’s connected offshore wind capacity to 1 GW, the Danish Wind Industry Association announced in a press release. This milestone cements Denmark’s central position in this field and lea
Danish giant, Dong Energy, has confirmed that they are planning to extend the Walney wind farm located off Barrow, reports BBC. The wind farm currently consists of 102 Siemens’ 3.6MW turbines, totaling to 367.2 MW of power. The application for additional 120 turbines is expected to be submitted by M
A full nine months before its final completion, BARD Offshore 1 is already by far the largest and most powerful German wind farm on the high seas. The 40th of a total of 80 turbines belonging to the 5-megawatt-class and located around 100 kilometres off the island coast of Borkum has now been connec
DONG Energy is exactly halfway in the wind turbine installation project at Anholt Offshore Wind Farm. On Wednesday 6 March 2013 at 14.43, the installation vessel, Sea Jack, had lifted the tower and the nacelle in position on turbine F26, which is positioned at the northern end of Anholt Offshore Win
The beginning of the month of March has seen the crane vessel, Stanislav Yudin, launch the transportation of tripods from the offshore terminal in Bremerhaven BLG to the Trianel Wind Farm Borkum. The vessel has been transporting two by two of these up to 900 ton and 60 meter high tripods to the cons
The UK Planning Inspectorate received an application from E.ON Climate and Renewables for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm project on March 1st. A couple of months ago, E.ON decided to temporarily withdraw its application for the Development Consent Order in order to tackle some remaining issues voice
As the construction work starts on the third and final phase of the Thornton Bank project, we are bringing a video on the project’s last two phases, published on C-Power’s website. The 2nd and 3rd phase of the C-Power project are the industrial phases following the 1st phase, which is considered as
Following the successful commissioning of the second phase of the C-Power offshore wind farm (Thornton Bank Offshore Wind Farm) in late 2012, EDF Energies Nouvelles is announcing the start of construction work on the third phase of the project with 110.7 MW in capacity. Built in Belgium by the partn
EDF Energy Renewables reported on February 18 that six turbines have been completely installed ahead of commissioning and a seventh tower was awaiting the addition of its blades on the Teesside Offshore Windfarm. The MPI Adventure, a large six-leg jack up vessel designed to transport, lift and insta
Medium voltage cables are successively being installed at the Global Tech I offshore wind farm where 17 foundations were already installed. 80 wind turbines will be connected with the submarine power cables to the transformer station. A special cable-laying vessel CS Sovereign is performing the layi
Specialist contractors working for Forewind will drill three boreholes near the proposed landfall location for the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck export cables this week to understand the soil strata and geotechnical information of the site. The three boreholes will be drilled on arable land approximately
In March 2012, the Danish Government entered into an energy agreement with several other political parties from the Danish Parliament. The agreement secures the needed investments for a further step to improve Denmark’s production of renewable energy. By the agreement the parties have decided to ini
Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL), the joint venture partnership formed between SSE Renewables (75%) and Repsol Nuevas Energias UK (25%) has today been granted Planning Permission in Principle by The Moray Council’s Planning and Regulatory Services Committee to develop the onshore transmission w
